Bunting

Less than two weeks till Tilly’s wedding, I still have so much to do.  I did though this evening make the bunting.  There are meters and meters of it!!  Yellow, two greens and hessian.  Tilly wanted all the flags put together in a random sort of way??  Random??  I don’t do random, I like things orderly in regimental styley!!  But after throwing them on the floor and trying to do them just in the order I picked them up it worked quite well, only two of one green and one of the other green and a yellow were left at the end so I must have coped quite well in the randomising at using them equally along the length.  On getting them mixed up right, there a few of one colour together but only one lot of three which I didn’t notice till I had sewn it.  I just hope Tilly likes it. 

Tomorrow I have a maths exam, it is all down to luck now I just hope I know the answers to the questions.  A bit like a quiz really, I either will know or I won’t know the answers to the said questions.  Fingers crossed that I get through as I haven’t had time for any revision tonight and the bunting was my priority.  We will be going over the maths in the morning so all I can do is pray.  So wish me luck and I will be back soon x

Oh Dear!!

Oh dear are the words for it!!  I had an interview for Waverley School today for a  Teaching Assistant’s position and failed miserably!!  I really let myself down.  OK so the interview was scary – Headmistress and two (yes two) Assistant Headmistresses.  My mind had gone to mush and there was absolutely no relevant interesting information within!  They must have thought I was completely barmy and had not learnt anything from the time I have been volunteering there.  I am so cross with myself, I just hope they realise it was nerves and not that I really am a numpty.   The Head rang me this afternoon to let me know that I hadn’t made the grade (oh dear again).  So no good crying over spilt milk, I will just have to apply again and prepare better, I didn’t prepare really at all for the interview, and you know the saying ‘fail to prepare and prepare to fail!’ 

The other problem in my life is the house, the  one that I had totally fallen in love with…  The Surveyors report came back saying that it needed at least £20,000’s worth of structural work doing, that is another ‘oh dear’ in my life.  If the vendor won’t let us have a reduction in price to accommodate for that then we will have to think again and probably look for another house.  So that is all for now, enough of my whinging and whining for one day, I am going to bed, tomorrow is another new day and I am going to visit friends and have a lovely day.  Goodnight all x x

Wedding Outfit

Yesterday was a great day.  I hate clothes shopping but I really did have to bite the bullet and go shopping to get an outfit for Tilly’s wedding.  Mel came with me and we had a day out in York.  I tried so many outfits on, part of the problem was my shape!!  None of us are the shape designers think we are, my problem is that my bum is tooo big for the top of my, my shoulders are too narrow, my rib cage is too small (even a doctor once commented on that!) my legs are too fat– should I go on?  Normal really, we all have a list of things we DON’T like about ourselves and NOT a list of things we do.  Mel loved one of the outfits – a straight dress (which yes was a bit tight over my bum so I would have had to starve till the wedding) but it did have a little jacket with it that evened me out a bit.  The problem with that one though was the price £400 and then there would have been the hat and shoes etc to get, me thinks a little too pricey.

Outfit so far.  Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to find a hat to go with it.  I would really love a green one to bring out the green in the dress, plus the wedding party are wearing green, the bridesmaids are wearing green and the men are wearing green cravats.

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School Volunteering

Today is Tuesday, a lovely day though I am unable to start my day as I usually do with a walk for Oly.  Oly is our lovely Dalmatian.  He has lived with us for over two years now and is very much part our family.  He came as a tiny frightened puppy but soon took over the house!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Still at the breeders

First Walk  in the big outside world with Daddy and John

Hi Dad x

 

Oly playing in the snow with Dan (you can just make him out Oly)).

I volunteer at the local primary school (Wavell Community School) on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s which is great fun.  Years ago I wondered why people wanted to work with all those small people??  Now I think it is great.  They are so interesting and have so many ideas about life.  I am aiming to be come a Teaching Assistant so am also doing a course to become one.  The first course has been to be quite honest been boring and I don’t really seem to have been taught a lot.  Course two starts in September and am looking forward to that, though I have been told that a lot of schools won’t employ you until you have completed the third course??  I do know that a course three starts in the autumn and am going to see if I am able to do that instead – I do know that one of the Teaching Assistants at Wavell has only done course three.  Will keep my fingers crossed as it does seem to be a waste of time .

 Wavell Junior School Entrance

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Not Long to Go!

Not long to go now!!  It is so scary, after spending nearly thirty years as the wife of a UK soldier the time is looming when we have to leave.  I will be so sorry to go, it has been an incredible journey, so many friends made, postings enjoyed and within that time we have been blessed with two amazing daughters who have always shown us nothing but love and respect, we love them both more than words could ever express x

                              Stephie and John       Tilly and Dan

Youngest daughter Stephie is married to John and they have been happily married for nearly a year (27th October 2012) and Tilly is marrying Dan in less that five weeks (27th July 2013).  Both the boys are lovely, we are so very lucky that our girls have found good men to spend the rest of their lives with.

 

Our journey began in our first little home together in Balham, London.  London is great whilst you’re young but I wouldn’t want to live there now.  We had two more postings there but I tell you about them later.  After Balham it went like this: Caterham UK (we lived in Kenley) Nathalie was born here, then Hong Kong (Stanley Fort) Stephanie was conceived here (so she should have made in Hong Kong stamped somewhere on her bum), then Pirbright UK (Stephanie born here) then Cyprus (Belangaria) then London UK (Chelsea Barracks) then Germany (Munster, Bentheimweg) then Sandhurst UK (Fort Narrion) then Germany (Munster, Gronauweg) then Sandhurst UK, (Range Ride) then Germany, again (Munster, Muckermannweg) then London UK, London for the last time (Putney, West Side Road) then Brunei (Kuala Belait) then Nottingham UK (Northfield Crescent) then Nepal (Jaulakhel, they don’t have street names in Nepal) and here we are in our very last quarter in Catterick Garrison UK (Rawlinson Road)  phew, what a journey and a lot of packing boxes that has been!!  I wish I had photos of all of the places we have lived but no, I never have been very good at organising photos but hopefully that will change when we live in our forever home – wherever that might be???

 

 

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