"I told you so...."

Yesterday, Jo finished her job at Kier. So to celebrate we had a take away curry (I'd hoped we could have gone out for one, but that's another story...)
It was lovely! Our cat was very interested in the curry and looked longingly at the feast in front of him.
Jo spent most of the time pushing the cat away whilst i back handed him the odd bit of sauce, topped off with a nice bit of chicken i saved him at the end - he lapped it up! All the while Jo was telling me off saying that he would be sick and if he is, i would be cleaning it up.

Now the sharp readers amongst you can probably see where this is going - sadly i didn't see where i was going (or should i say treading!)

This morning i got up and made my way to the kitchen and in my sleepy state i didn't see the little presents on the floor - i stepped, bare foot into piles of cat sick, not once but twice!

"I told you so" said Jo from the bedroom. The cat was curled up in the spare room and gave me a look as if to say "you gave me curry last night and I've been up all night puking - crank!"

After clearing up eight piles of sick i vowed never to give the cat curry again.

Sorry cat.

Happy Birthday!!

Can we all stand and sing a rousing rendition of happy birthday to my blog - 1 year old today.

I hope that it will continue and not die out like other blogs out there.

Camping Holiday

Just spent a long weekend in the lake district with the Kinsley's. It was really good fun.

We bought a new tent just before going away so we were trying that out for the first time - and the K's picked up a bargain of a tent on ebay.
So we all tried our best to put the two tents up as efficiently as possible (trying to look like we've done hundreds of times before) there were lots of people on the site so we knew that some people would be keeping an eye on what we were doing!

4 quick photos of the weekend (for those who can't view Flikr)




We enjoyed a day at the zoo.








Our two wonderfully assembled tents!











Beautiful sunsets













But it was fairly cold!







i'm looking forward to the next camping trip! anyone else up for it?!

Easy Rider

Following on from Lloyds blog....

What Classic Movie Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

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why send me that!

Now i'm not a fan of spiders - in fact i can't stand them. so why on earth would someone want to send me this in an email?!

(thats a full size dinner plate....)









A true story and its source was the Australian Quarantine Inspection
> > Service in Adelaide.
> > A bloke and his family were on holidays in the United States and went to
> > México for a week. An avid cactus fan, the man bought one-metre high,
> > rare and expensive cactus there. On arrival back home Australian Customs
> > said it must be quarantined for 3 months.
> > He finally got his cactus home. Planted it in his backyard, and over
> > time
> > it grew to about 2 metres. One evening while watering his garden after a
> > warm spring day, he gave the cactus a light spray. He was amazed to see
> > the plant shiver all over, he gave it another spray and it shivered
> > again. He was puzzled so he rang the council who put him on to the state
> > gardens people. After a few transfers he got the state's foremost cactus
> > expert who asked him many questions. How tall is it? Has it flowered?
> > Etc.
> > Finally he asked the most disturbing question. "Is your family in the
> > house?" The bloke answered yes. The cactus expert said get out of the
> > house NOW, get on to the front nature strip and wait for me; I will be
> > there in 20 minutes.
> > Fifteen minutes later, 2 fire trucks, 2 police cars and an ambulance
> > came
> > screaming around the corner. A fireman got out and asked "Are you the
> > bloke with the cactus?" I am, he said. A guy jumped out of the fire
> > truck
> > wearing what looked like a space suit, a breathing cylinder and mask
> > attached to what looked like a scuba backpack with a large hose
> > attached.
> > He headed for the backyard and turned a flame-thrower on the cactus
> > spraying it up and down.
> > After a few minutes the flame-thrower man stopped, the cactus stood
> > Smoking and spitting, half the fence was burnt and parts of the gardens
> > were well and truly scorched. Just then the cactus expert appeared and
> > laid a calming hand on the bloke's shoulder. "What the hell's going on?"
> > he says. "Let me show you" says the cactus man. He went over to the
> > cactus and picked away a crusty bit, the cactus was almost entirely
> > hollow and filled with tiger striped bird-eating tarantula spiders, each
> > about the size of two hand spans.
> > The story was that this type of spider lays eggs in this type of cactus
> > and they hatch and live in it as they grow to full size. When full size
> > they release themselves. The cactus just explodes and about 150 dinner
> > plate sized hairy spiders are flung from it, dispersing everywhere. They
> > had been ready to pop. The aftermath was that the house and the
> > adjoining
> > houses had to be vacated and fumigated: police tape was put up outside
> > the whole area and no one was allowed in for two weeks.