I am the zookeeper!

I have joined the Scrapagogo girls  having used several of their kits and am now a subscriber. There are a few friendly faces there - Hi Vicki, and loads of  cheery support. 

I am so glad I joined!

I uploaded this LO, made using the September Soiree kit and have had such good feedback it has really cheered me up.

Second day at work in the new regime yesterday was slightly better than the first. Not quite so hectic but still the new people are a bit odd! Had to bully some of them into saying hello and telling me who they were!

I am working the late shift today, so a little bit of time to play before I go in, but I really don't want to go. There are some things I need to do co's I completely forgot yesterday (not like me) but am not going to be home til very very late and will miss my evening snuggle with BM as he will be tucked up in bed asleep by the time I get home. How rubbish is that?

Catch you later bloggers.

xxxx

Squirrel watch!

I have been very true to Dolittle form recently.

 I have always enjoyed watching the squiggles in the back garden and the way they use the trees and fences as their own speedy highway. Often there are about 5 or 6 of them racing around jumping from tree to tree.

This year I decided to help them out and have bought a huge bag of nuts for them to feed on. I put them in a big pile on the patio and throw a few into the grass and then sit and watch them come and eat and bury them away.

It's very relaxing and great for practising my photography skills. They are gradually coming closer and closer, reducing my need for my zoom lense. I am hoping to feed them by hand one day like the cheeky little squiggles in Hyde Park.

Monday blurb!

Nothing much to report today.

Yesterday was spent loafing, a wee spot of shopping and even some housework which was long overdue got done too!

A nice relaxing Sunday,  busy doing nothing in some fabulously sunny weather.

Today however was not so nice.

It was my first shift in the new regime and I have to say that so far I don't like it! Apart from being ridiculously busy, I was on my own and none of the new people in the office were particularly chatty or seemed to want to get to know those of us who have remained.

Suffice to say that I came home and fell asleep on the sofa and didn't even photograph the LO's that I made over the weekend! Instead I will leave you with a card that I made. I forgot to use my new punch on it but I think my efforts are getting better - must be all the inspiration you lot give me?

xxx

P.S Hello to Judith, welcome to the Zone.

Lure of the Pally?

I had to go, I couldn't help myself! 

Despite the flood of stash that has recently graced my letterbox, scrapagogo delights and online wins (most of it several weeks late) I still  couldn't resist the lure of Ally Pally!

BM and I got up quite late, had yummy bacon sandwiches and then decided it was too late to head off to the zoo, so set off up to north london to spot the croc wearers and other crafty folk.

Why is is that crafters are generally such lovely friendly people, but put them within 100 metres of a craft show and they turn into evil ill -mannered monsters?? I was pushed out of the way so many times and had people stand right in front of me when drooling over stash that I really lost my patience and didn't scour the stalls as much as I should have. Still managed to secure a healthy number of new die cut papers though, which  I (heart) sooo much and BM even kept his promise and bought me another new Martha Stewart punch!!! 

We returned south of the river on the tube while I jealously eyed up other crafters bulging totes and trolleys and collapsed happily on the sofa. No sooner than I started to rummage through my haul when the doorbell rang and as far as BM was concerned, the best pizza box of all arrived!!!

xxx

Quality time!

Hurray!

It's the weekend at last!

I survived my course and even have a sad little certificate to prove it!!

Can't say I learnt anything new, but there were some very entertaining speakers from within our organisation who do jobs that are far sexier than mine, and they were very interesting to listen to!

Have got a whole weekend to play now and spend some quality time with Big Monkey. We are in the town house this weekend so there are vague plans to visit London Zoo/Regents Park with my camera for a play and maybe I might even manage to take BM and his credit card to Ally Pally on Sunday.

Who knows? 

 I plan to start the weekend this evening with a bottle of wine, a chinese take away and maybe even some scrapping as I haven't managed any for a few days and am suffering withdrawal symptoms!!! Also the postie seems to have got over his reluctance to visit my letterbox and I have had a few stash parcels in the last couple of days so lots of rummaging and sorting to do. I might even get round to a spot of housework, but I doubt it, too many fun things to do first!!

Enjoy your Friday evening!

xxx

Time for change!

This isn't the sort of photo you will see of me very often. A) co's there aren't many, and B) co's I try not to mention what I actually do at work, even if I do moan about doing it quite a lot!!!!

Today, the unit where I have worked for two years began a new phase. We have changed our name and working methods, and in the process have lost about a third of our workforce and increased our workload about tenfold!!! 

I am sure eventually the change will be a good thing, but am very aprehensive about the next few months and the stress and workload it will involve. (Part of the row with BM last week!!)

It is also the reason for being on a training course this week as all staff have been told to go on it before we go live - which was today!

As I travelled home on the tube from Hendon I thought about the last time I had

 a big change in my current career. It was when took off my uniform for the last time and went to the unit I am on. It was a really big deal for me at the time, co's I loved my time in uniform but joined the 'Job' to do what I do now. Big Monkey was his usual thoughtful, wonderful

 self and helped me celebrate the end of that era with choccies and a cheesecake! I remember being a bit scared about the future but excited at the same time. 

This time however I have to say I am filled with concern and trepidation. 

So what did I do?

Went and got all my hair chopped in a funky new style, that's what!!

Just hope I can make it look this good in the morning!

xxxx

Precious moments!

Have been absent all weekend working on one of the most scary awful hideous crimes that I think I have ever worked on, which also included some hours that were also fairly awful and hideous too!

Have been home in the wee hours of the morning and up again shortly after to resume the necessary liaisons that my role requires.

No time or energy to blog hop or post and so have read about everyone's fun weekends today through the matchsticks propping open my eyes. 

Am on a training course this week - more about that later in the week,  but hopefully will be able to catch up on sleep and even get some scrapping done as we finish quite early in the afternoons.

This LO is all about our visit to Paignton Zoo where we were lucky enough to see the four six month old tiger cubs that had been born there. Sadly, the day after we went one of them died. I wanted to document the fact that we had been lucky enough to see them, and what a precious moment it was. (You must realise by now how much I love tigers!!!) 

Life is short and sacred. 

Treasure those precious moments - oh and don't forget to scrap them!

xxx