A Taste Tip

When your friend visits and brings you a yummy pull apart loaf there are a couple of questions you should probably ask. I didn’t.
A few hours after 2paw left I was feeling peckish so I thought I would have a bit of bread and jam. I ripped a lovely lump off the loaf and spread it liberally with raspberry jam. Then I took a huge bite…think crocodile and gazelle.
It tasted odd….very odd…quite horrible actually but I chewed and swallowed while trying to think of reasons why it tasted so bad.
But here is the real bit of stupidity…while considering possible solutions to the mystery I took another bite…think T-Rex jaws. And then it hit me …it was a garlic pull apart loaf.
Let me just assure you that garlic and raspberry are NOT complimentary flavours.
I know people like an odd assortment of tastes together but if anyone offers you garlic and raspberry jam offer to chew your own toenails instead.

Additional “twilight zone” happening in my house this week.

It looked wrong….sooooooooo wrong to see 2 paw knitting with purple. The earth has shifted on its axis!!!!!!!!

I expect The 4 Horsemen very soon.

Stockholm Syndrome

It started out as a kidnapping I admit it but......... Paul and Dr Who are having too many exciting adventures here, and now they don't want to be released.
They have buddied up to solve mysteries and battle evil in our universe. They are an unlikely couple but I am much happier that my husband has ditched the Pop Tart in favour of a mature (OLD) sensible MALE side kick. If I have to go and carry out my own essential duties for the planet then I am glad he has found a helper with less in the chest department and none of the distracting bleach blond hair.

Here are some photos from the last few days....you will see why they are reluctant to leave!!!

Here are the boys relaxing between adventures with a quick game of Egyptian Cat Noughts and Crosses.

Attack Of the Giant Otter

Normally a playful, friendly animal Otters that have been genetically tampered with become vicious and dangerous and have to be dealt with by the dynamic duo!!!

First The Dr tries wrestling with Tarquin ........................................

unsucessfully......................................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

but together the boys saved the day......yay.

So here they will stay keeping us safe and sound.

Nooooooooooooooo

I am not ready.
It can't be true.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I need another week of holiday.
I really really neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed another week.
i don't want to go to Qmap day.
And just to make it clear...teachers didn't demand extra Pupil Free Days and I bet 99.99% of us would rather be in class tomorrow than at QMap day(or snuggled up in bed).
I am about to do my marking....hence the detour into Blogland.....more avoidance..if I was a pupil in my own class I would be getting the "procrastination is no solution" speech by now!!!!! I am also about to go through the work samples for tomorrow meetings, planning for the next fortnight (apart from the pirate ideas...thanks amandaj for the www of extra pirate amusements. Some of the kids have been to the Egyptology and Dragonology stuff last term)and may be clean the bathroom first .....yep true to form I will be doing the school stuff at midnight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2paw...why are you reading this instead of being a technological genius???????????????????????????? Get the ABC tuned in you geek.

Avast Ye Land Lubbers

Ahoy maties.
Arrr poor timing we do have for Talk Like A Pirate Day. Had it been this time next week a lovely time I could have had with the bilge rats at school. A right bunch of little pirates they are.
As it is The Capt'n is considering a wee piratical digression away from all that is Holy (ELs) and a bit more keel hauling and treasure seeking like. Horn pipes will be danced and loud cries of aye aye Capt'n when instructed to tote that barge and lift that bale...ooops into a musical not to the Carribean. The Jolly Roger will be flown and a few eye patches,hats and hooks may appear.
Arrr...feeling all ready to set to sail and pillage (ie...make them clean out their tubs) and read Piratology. I will make battle plans and find the whip...the bosuns mate will be allowed to punish any naughty pirates....Arrrr Jim lad.
Or AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH if Jim is the Lad being punished.
Shiver me timbers. Our grub will be salted pork and weevil bread. I wonder if 2paw can cook weevil bread....I know she can do hard tack
Yo ho ho and a bottle of Brown Bros Crouchen. Time for my grog ration.
I can see some fun with this....(sssshhhhhh can't have fun at school- it is against the law of ELs...all must be serious and worthy. Well Johnny Depp is worthy of a good oogling over and that will have to count for something!!!!!!)
Land ho .... am going ashore to negotiate with Capt'n Hornblower.

The 4 Seasons of Star Wars Quilt (part 1)

And now for all the crafty people out there….no I haven’t done any knitting but I have finished the embroidery on what is now The4 Seasons of Star Wars Quilt. It was the 4 Seasons Quilt but it has been renamed to celebrate the re-re-re-release of the original trilogy. These are some of the early outtake scenes that even George Lucas couldn’t put into the latest fan bleeding effort.(but yes…I will be buying them )

Here is R2D2 and C3PO lost in the sandy valleys of Tatooine looking for Obi Wan

I am sure George would rather these had been kept secret as you can imagine…..trying to make Hawaii into Tatooine just because it had sand was a big mistake…..so off to somewhere less comfortable to film…Tunisia .


This Clone trooper was blasted off his land speeder thingy in the frenetic chase through the Forests of Endor. (ignore the fact that he is from the wrong trilogy all you Star Wars tragics out there)
Similarly the Hamptons in Autumn is all very pretty but it wasn’t really an effective stand in for Endor.

Battled with Blogger.
Blogger won.
Rest of post to follow in a part 2.
Sigh

The 4 Seasons Of Star Wars (part 2)

Continued........
Yoda practises his lightsabre skills and communes with The Force by candle and star light on a far distant planet in the Dagobah System.

They were able to use forced perspective and all sorts of camera trickery to make sure that Yoda appeared bigger than the candles in his cave but this early picture is from a time when Industrial Light and Magic was just getting the hang of CGI.

Han Solo battles with mysterious flying creatures attacking the Millennium Falcon. And WHAT the Art Department were thinking when they created the attacking creatures and supposedly marshy and dank landing area, I don’t know. Apparently, according to behind the scenes gossip, quite a few people got the sack when this series of shot was shown to the producers and directors. The Big Wigs were in from the studio at the time talking about budget over runs and completion dead lines. It took a lot of fast talking to convince them not to cancel the entire movie there and then.

So there you go The 4 Seasons Of Star Wars.

MacBeth Hath Murdered Sleep

Well he did if he was the one operating the jack hammer at 8 am !!!!!!!!MacBeth is an unlikely name for a jack hammer operator I will grant you but there you go. Here is me …all vampire hours and snuggled up against the dawn (yes 8 am is the dawn when you are a vampire. (did you know that 4 am doesn't exsist unless you creep up on it from the left side...going clock wise that is) and then the noise started.
Bastard.....and 4 weddings and a Funeral.
It went on for a couple of hours …then I was able to go back to sleep till a more reasonable hour…..well I got up in time to go for afternoon tea at 2.30 pm.
Cajun Atlantic salmon for breakfast…yummy.
Sorry…maybe it wasn’t a jack hammer I could hear. Perhaps it was grinding teeth and angry thudding fists on kitchen tables peopled by people for whom the idea of a gigantic sleep in is a far distant memory!!!!!!
TOO BAD.
I now have new ear plugs…you won’t get me twice you evil, jealous witches.

And Suzi...I WILL NOT BE LURED TO THE DARKSIDE. Giles a
is a bit of an old woman I will grant you, but knitting lessons in the library just doesnt cut it . I know you think that constantly bombarding me with the suggestions of fluffy mohair and hemp and the new Knitty magazine will break me down but let me say just these 3 words KNITTED DISH CLOTHS and I am sure you will see that I will never succumb. My underwear and towels will be ironed and the devil will be skating to work before I join the dark side of knitting!!!!!!!!!
Sorry ...I will never be your knitting padawan learner -sharp pointed sticks or not.

Piratology

September 19th- International Talk Like A Pirate Day

Thanks to Suzi for the link to find my pirate name. (and if I had listened to 2paw I would be able to make Suzi's name a link to her blog coz apparently that is what you do in Blogland. I think I put my fingers in my ears and went blah blah blah when she was explaining that process) She might fix this later. What is the point of a PA if she expects you to do everything for yourself???? I will dock her pay!!!!! (no...don't need to dock her pay....Suzi is a clicky link)

I failed to be able to copy the fancy looking bit off the website but here is my result. (no doublt 2paw could get it to work...girly swot she is)

My pirate name is:
Bloody Mary Vane
Every pirate lives for something different. For some, it's the open sea. For others (the masochists), it's the food. For you, it's definitely the fighting. You tend to blend into the background occasionally, but that's okay, because it's much easier to sneak up on people and disembowel them that way. Arr!
(www.piratequiz.com )


See what happens when I have time on my hands?????
It is like buses. No posts for days and days then they all arrive at once!!!!

The Vampire Emerges

I have solved the problem of needing an afternoon nap. It is remarkably easy. Wanna know how???? (get missiles ready)
DON'T GET UP UNTIL 1 PM !!!!!!
It works a treat...it is nearly 3.30 pm and I don't feel tired at all!!
Yes...it is day 2 of the holidays and I have reverted to vampire hours again. I wasn't going to but I think it may be a genetic imperitive. When I shared a house with 2 night shift workers it was a perfectly logical thing to do ...and lets face it...in my family the idea of 'normal sleeping hours' is a flexible notion at best. Work forces me to adhere to a more conventional arrangement but once to holidays come round I can't seem to help but stay up half the night and sleep half the day.
No, I don't go up in flames if I go into the sunlight...although my peaches and cream complexion (well....ruddy and wrinkled ) tends to sunburn easily and merlot is a very acceptable blood substitute. There is only one neck on which I desire to nibble ...and his ears ( and a few other bits perhaps)
So what are my holiday plans???? Doing it now...... lie in bed watching my new husband at work , sleep, read, eat, potter on the internet, look at the list of jobs..and then ignore it. Good plan?? It is working so far.
So to all of you out there muttering ...bloody teachers .... too many holidays...GET STUFFED.
They are your kids...you had them...you can look after them for a few weeks...I'm busy!!!!!!!!
TTFN

Ransom Paid...Limoncello Returns Home

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Breath a sigh of relief readers....Limoncello is on its way home .
The ransom was delivered by a hottie...not the requested one but a kidnapper can be too choosy.
Warning shots were fired before the prisoner emerged, shaken but relatively sober (ie..not drunk!!!! he he he ) .
Limon was led away by 2 friends wrapped in the obligatory space blanket to be checked over by medical staff ...well...sniffed like crazy by 2 labaradors not quite medical staff I suppose.
A spokesperson for Limon said that while freedom was all it had dreamed of during the long days of captivity and testing, it was developing a sneaking suspicion that it wasn't going to a safer non alcoholic place!!!!!!!