tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74195333300598751482024-03-05T20:33:23.009+00:00Florence and RosePippin Lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00925297507974597887noreply@blogger.comBlogger184125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419533330059875148.post-83028552052715806112013-02-08T15:05:00.000+00:002013-02-08T15:05:04.968+00:00Here we go........................xIt's started........................................<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pippin-Lane/415086295225984" target="_blank">PIPPIN LANE</a>.....<br />
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<br />Pippin Lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00925297507974597887noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419533330059875148.post-17538143642956577462013-01-28T22:24:00.002+00:002013-01-28T22:24:54.609+00:00Fairy greetings.........................x<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">And Happy New Year you lovely lot! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I feel like this year, is the start of some magical happenings down at the cottage. Something is stirring, awakening, growing...................something quite exciting, something new, and something shared.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">There is a reason I have been quiet in bloggy land for a while now. It's because of the something.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I can't give you a date, or anymore chatters on the something. Just this...................................you will be the first to know.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I balance the something, with my other day jobby. So let me leave you with a little picture of a fairy post box I made for some little people.....to post their secrets, their wishes, their worries, and hopes and dreams....</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Speak soon.....N x</span></div>
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Pippin Lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00925297507974597887noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419533330059875148.post-38961892039615489712012-12-23T19:26:00.000+00:002012-12-23T19:26:07.644+00:00A Christmas message..................x<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Wishing all Florence and Rose readers........old and new.........a most wonderfully special sparkly time. Thankyou so much for all you comments, emails and support the past year. I think I may bow out over the festivities, to take a breath, relax, giggle and eat with my beautiful family. And look forward to re connecting with you all in the new year.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">May your Christmas be everything you hope it will be, spent with the important people you love, enjoying their company over a glass of something sweet.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I always feel so grateful at this time of year, for my lovely lot. And you guys are part of that, so thankyou again.................and.....</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">The chances of actually getting a decent photo on here for you guys, is becoming sooo tricky.....though I do love these cold, dark, wintery nights.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">As I type today, the bumblebee's are on their way to the Grandparents with the Q. They are all having a sleepover, 'cos it's ladies night here tonight.....ooooooh I say........food, giggles, wine, snowballs, secret Santa's....I am ridiculously excited. I did a little dance and a clap. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">How far are you all with your Christmas prep? Apart from having mini seizures every day trying to find little bumblebee a perfect- but- within- budget- rocking horse.....I'm nearly there...really? Naaaahhhhhh.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Add cellophane and ribbon..........mine sold for a whopping £10. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Like every other super mummy out there, I'm not content with juggling my work/home/social balls in the air.....I have to add some more.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We've had a few crazy months here at the cottage I don't mind telling you, I'm looking forward to the holidays.......to pop my slipper clad feet up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We may have discussed candy stripes, gingham table clothes, twinkly lights, perfect home baked goods. We may also be having a "special" meeting, to plan..........that's just how we do it......</span></div>
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Pippin Lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00925297507974597887noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419533330059875148.post-90823914105407759712012-11-19T13:42:00.000+00:002012-11-19T13:48:38.899+00:00I love it when a project comes together.........x<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Is it a year.....really.......a year ago? That I began my favourite fabrics blanket? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Gosh, I had such high hopes, thinking the beauty of the fabric would carry me through it. As well as buying a few quilting books...." I can do this I CAN. " </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I started because I wanted a snuggly quilt on our bed. Our bedroom is so super cold in the winter, I thought, in my madness....that if I created a blanket, picking out all my favourite fabrics, that not only would \I be warmer, but warmer with a smug smile on my face. Basking in the glorious colourful loveliness that would be the bed quilt.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Oh I hand stitched the whole of the patchwork.....oh yes I really did. So that does make me feel proud, though.....I'm not sure I can even bear to tell you this....so I shall have to whisper........</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">When it came to cutting it into shape ready to attach wadding, backing, and edging.....I got...errr....very scissor happy ......what should have been a double duvet sized blanket........became....somewhat smaller. humpfffff.....The patchwork brick effect was popped in the sewing table.........for a year, or perhaps more. The shame kept it there.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">There was no colour theme. I simply chose fabrics I loved, Cath kidston, Liberty, Clarke and Clarke, vintage, french.......they all went in. I suppose I wanted that granny look. The one where, when they made a patchwork, it wasn't to colour co -ordinate, it was to just use what fabrics they had to hand.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I think it's perfect for feet up, cup of hot chocolate ( with cream AND marshmallows ) and a film.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">P.S If you have not done so already, please hop over to the lovely Jools at <a href="http://sewsweetviolet.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/giveaway-better-late-than-never.html" target="_blank">SEW SWEET VIOLET</a> she is having THE.BEST.GIVEAWAY..............EVER!!! xxx</span></div>
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Pippin Lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00925297507974597887noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419533330059875148.post-31470104137817229832012-11-10T18:26:00.000+00:002012-11-10T18:26:08.513+00:00And by the way...........x<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Today has been one of those gorgeous Autumn days, a splash of Christmas decoration shopping, and a wander round Stourhead gardens. A brisk walk, ooohing and aaaahing at the changing colours of the leaves, finding cutesy little cottages we want to live in, giggling at daft swans bobbing bottoms up in the lakes......mittens on, red noses. Perfect.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I love my home, I truly do, but just sometime I have a freak out. With two growing girls, space is a huge issue.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">As parents we compromise all the time...in this house we go a little further. The bumblebee's have the big bedroom of a 2 bedroomed cottage.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">It makes sense. They have more "stuff " than we do. They make more mess than we do.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">So we are tucked snuggly into a teeny tiny bedroom..............whilst they can play at starfish on their bedroom floor. Tis what we do innit? Anyway...their room...ahhhhhhhhh their room, is ever so lovely if I do say so myself. Though, we still struggle with storage, and always will. That's the choice we made in buying this house, so don't feel bad for us, it's fine, we are happy!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Desk storage was needed. Hours go by when those crazy girls sit there playing schools, writing storys, doodling............but they needed MORE space ( what's new? )</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Such a cute little space. I can't tell you how grown up they feel, and how much better is that, than going to Ikea ( I'm not knocking it, I'm it's biggest fan.....Example. Popped in to LOOK at Christmas wrapping paper.....spent £70 ) and having a shelf like everyone else?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">A birthday has been and gone at the cottage. 9.........how did big bumblebee grow to be 9?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Of course every little girl deserves a special present. A friend, a pal, to share their most secret secrets with, to whisper long into the night, to cuddle and preen, to gaze at and love....forever.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">So along came Talulla doll.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Made perfectly, sprinkled with love, she came from a magical kingdom far far away. She crossed seas and countries she had never seen before.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">To get here, her home. To her 9 year old Talulla, to be loved and looked after, and played with and snuggled up with in bed, every. single. day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">She drank green tea from ditsy teacups, ate shortbread and flicked the crumbs to the floor for Sethy dog. She even applied more rouge to her lips, and smartened her hair, ready for the grande meeting with her new best friend.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">On 27th October, in a hotel in the Cotswolds, an eager new 9 year old awoke with hair danced in by the fairies, sleep filled eyes, and a sweet smile upon her face.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">There was one present sat on a chair, that she gazed at longingly, wondering what delights lay inside, for she knew this was a special present. Her parents had said so. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">So she slowly but deliberately undid the yellow satin ribbon. She forcefully but carefully opened up the floral wrapping paper at each end.........</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Talulla and Talulla dolly have been inseparable ever since. That day though, that 9th birthday day, they skipped, held hands and cuddled their way along the pavements of Broadway, kicking yellow, brown and rusty fallen leaves. They marvelled in astonishment together, at the beauty of the village Snowshill, and meandered round the country house we stumbled upon.....an adventure...the first of many together.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Talulla dolly was made by the wonderfully talented and beautiful Tracey over at <a href="http://tracynko-motile.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">PIXIE</a> if you are new to her blog, pop her in your favourites. Shes a good giggle, and perfectly poetic writer, has the most cutsie little girl, and a very pretty house. Plus, you might just spy a few of Talulla doll's friends over there.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Happy Wednesday to you all xxxx </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Do all women struggle with what to buy a man? I have a rule, unless you have hundreds, perhaps a thousand to spend ( gadgets, technology ) you will struggle. BIG TIME. Though every now and then, a little gem will show itself to you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">My Dad's birthday is fast approaching. The bumblebee's will always make something from them, little fingers busy busy fiddling over a creation. This year? Hama bead brooches. Done!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">There's a company, a fantastic beautiful collection of printed images they sell. Wallpapers, napkins, t-shirts, and hankies!!!! "That's it" I cried, my fishing fanatic of a Father shall have some posh hankies wot have pink fish on 'em.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">It's birthday season at the cottage. Dad has been crossed off the list. Then it's my Q, then Nanny, then Talulla ( and a few of her friends too )....one has to be super organised.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">*A wicker basket sits on a shelf full of various birthday cards and wrap at all times.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">*Next to the card basket is a larger multi coloured basket, containing an assortment of gifts ( I buy all year round for Christmas, Birthdays, Easter, it's the only way! )</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">*If I see something at the shops......I buy. Simple. So I never run out of presents, there's always something for someone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">*Clear out. When one of the bumblebee's has a birthday coming up, we have a sort out, disguised usually in a room change around. Toys are given to charity shops, if they have not played with it in the last month, it's a goner. ( Unless it has meaning, or is very special ).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Me - " bumblebee's, your bedroom is like a pig sty, lets sort it out"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Bumblebees - * big sighs * " ok, can we dance too? "</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">First they danced to Olly Murs and One Direction whilst making fairy decorations for their door, I know, I know, I will cry if the blue tac makes any marks.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Ok, thoughts gathered. Laptop on ...errrrr lap, feet snuggly curled to the side, cushions in comfy positions ( too many and I start wiggling uncomfortably like a bored child, not enough and my bottom goes numb. )</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Tis the season for wellies and warm cardigans, it's amazing just a few weeks ago we went on the same walk, though this time, even the bumblebee's noticed all the changes. Those slight little things that move us on into Autumn. The chill in the air, the fields being harvested, dappled fading sunlight, berries ripening, wild flowers drying.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">So, dog owners. I was literally driving myself crazy...crazy ... crazy ....crazy, Our lovely, but smelly and hairy ( P.S whatever happened to seasonal hair shedding in dogs? You know the summer coat, then the winter coat???? It's all frigging year round in this house ) dog dog Seth is such a tinker. You've all seen Marley and Me? THAT is our dog. It really is. These days though he's more chilled and enjoys constant Nanna naps in the sunshine.....IN OUR ARMCHAIRS!!!!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">My bargain, Laura Ashley armchair, yup just the one ( you know sometimes in teeny tiny houses, we can obsess over storage and space and not having enough of it, and think we have to fill every inch of each room. And actually we have a lovely huge vintage sofa fit for four bottoms, and so one beautiful armchair was needed. ) .......it was an ex display, has a few little scrapes but nothing dreadful...."whooppeeeeeeeeee " I said to the Q, " I love youuuuuuu " I said to the Q......she came home and happy as larry we've been ever since.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We have done more than walks and buying chairs. We have frogs in the pond, and are still painting and restoring the sash windows. We have settle back into school life ever so swiftly, and making a roaring trade selling the chicken eggs out in the lane........</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">What else? well there's plenty. I have a lovely little project up my sleeve. One that I've been working on for a few weeks now. When the time is right, I promise to share. Pinky promise.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Guess what? It's FRIDAY tomorrow. Happy Friday to you all xxxxxxxxxxxx</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Hummm ok , well I'm sure you all have your own ideas, but let me just share a few of mine with you ( feel free to add to these )....</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">You know he/she is your best friend when......</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">* They ask how your day went, and they really actually mean it. Theyre not just making conversation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">* They can finish your sentance, or give you a look, and in that one look, you KNOW you are both thinking the same exact thing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">* That bitch has your back.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">* You can tell them your most precious secrets, and that's what they stay as.....secrets.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">* Good, bad, ugly...........they might not agree with you, or any decision you make, but they will always be there, with a cup of tea and packet of chocolate biscuits.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">* If you look back, over the years........all those memories shared. They will always have a little piece of you in their heart, and vice versa.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">* You would literally stand infront of a bus for them....no question.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">* There is no nonsense, no agenda, no bitching, no point scoring, just friendship.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">My bestest has it all. Can I give you one example?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Ok, the bestest knows I've a bit under the weather. Firstly can I say she always calls ( though we live miles and miles apart, sorry again, because I'm guesing I've told you that before too ) just for a check in.............Secondly the lady knows of my new jobbie ( which I think she is more excited about that me hehe ) Thirdly....I recieve a message...." Keep your twinkly eye out for the postie "......hummmmmmmmmmm thought I, what is she up too?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">She only went a got a </span><a href="http://www.misterrob.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #38761d;">Rob Ryan</span></a><span style="color: #38761d;"> Nattie Noodle bag all for me..........perfect for work she tells me. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh don't you love a bestest?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">So you know I filled that baby up right away, just to go and do the food shop.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">What do you do with two bumblebee's, a daddy, a pile of wood , a snoozy dog, and a handful of gardener's twine?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">WHY, make a woodland den of course!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">A few weeks ago, I had a LIGHTBULB ( said in the style of despicable me ) poor old Q groaned. Every now and then, I get a bee in my bonnet about something.....and I go on and on and on and on, and then I start what ever the bee in my bonnet is, with all the good intentions of doing it all myself. The Q knows, he just knows, that there is no waaaaaaay I'll ever finish the bee in my bonnet. He knows, that he will finish it. Every time, always.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Well, quite often after having a bee in my bonnet, I'll change my mind. And decide on something else. Another bee in my bonnet.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">One sunny afternoon, Q heard me hacking and sawing at the lilac tree in the garden, I had decided it had got far too big, and I had grand ideas of making a rustic cottagey fence out of all the wonky branches.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Hummmmmmm.........the Q had to finish off the sawing, my arm started to ache, and I needed a cup of tea.....</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Anyway the fence idea was far too silly even for me, after all that sawing and hacking, there STILL wasnt enough wood. So.....................................................you know what it's like....that bloomin wood was piled in a corner of the garden for yonks and yonks.......UNTIL.......</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">One sunny weekend..........I started a den............it began with three branches and some twine.....</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Both bumblebee's couldnt resisit a day being Peter Pan's lost boys, building their own hideout, just for them and their secret adventures in whatever magical land they wandered to.....</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">You'd better believe it that the Q muscled in and got involved. We are ever so lucky to have girls that love to get their hands dirty. They love digging, and climbing, and wearing their wellingtons. But you know, this was one bee in my bonnet that Q relished getting involved in, ooooooh I don't think I've ever seen him have such a good day. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">1. You don't need to spend a fortune in the holidays to have a good day.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</span>Pippin Lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00925297507974597887noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419533330059875148.post-16001366595027288602012-08-10T11:44:00.000+01:002012-08-10T11:44:03.701+01:00There's no place like....Laaaaandon x<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">My bestest messaged me....'post, post, post '...............so here it is. My latest post. Hehehehe!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"> The bumblebee's are upstairs, giggling and playing with their little pal. Radio 2 is playing ( Claudia Winkleman ) and Blur, Girls and Boys is blaring............The sun is out. All is well.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I think I've spoken many times about mine, ahem, flowers, GREEN, chocolate, tea, dresses, shoes, Pearl Lowe, Mrs.Weasley, and on and on....</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">But here's a new ( well old ) one from the little one. Dorothy..............Ah yes, she lives, breaths, all that has sparkly red shoes and gingham dresses!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Can you imagine her little face, can you, CAN YOU...when we tell her....we are off to London.. ( not to buy heat magazine oh no ) the the London Palladium, to watch THE WIZARD OF OZ ??!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">So what show next? Any suggestions? Q is keen to watch more, so strike whilst the iron is hot, and all that.....</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"> Anyway, everytime we are in Laaaaaaaaaandon, we literally have to drag little bumblebee home. She tells us quite honestly, that when she grows up, she will live in a city. She likes the smells, the heat, the people and the tube.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">'Hummmmmm we'll see' I always say.......But I already know, that she's a city girl at heart. I know this because I see her little face in the back seat, and the huge sigh she sighs when we enter Bristol, or Bath, or indeed London.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Have you missed me? Have you, have you, have you???????</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">It feels odd, having been away from here for so long, but I'm back, after a nice rest...... ready for our chatterings. Thank you too, for the lovely messages you sent ( you lovely lot ) seeing if all was well. All WAS well, nothing awful has happened.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I just lost my voice for a while back there, things got a bit busy, one day blurred into the next...you know?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We were lucky enough to go to "orchestra in a field"....set in the Abby grounds in Glastonbury, big bumblebee wanted to go so, so much. She had done a little workshop thingy with Charles Hazelwood with her violin. The man is incredible. Such an inspiring character, his musical brilliance and energy for music is catching. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">The weather held until the evening, when in time with a rousing piece of orchestral wonderfulness, the heavens opened.....We stayed though, it was just too brilliant not to.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">The bumblebee's also found these fellows <a href="http://www.flyingseagull.co.uk/" target="_blank">THE FLYING SEAGULLS</a> have you heard of them? They travel through the summer months across the country from one festival to the next, treating our little people to adventures of pure imagination, joys and many many belly giggles! Yes, indeed ....they rolled up in their rather fine gypsy painted truck, popped the back down to make the stage, and that was it...........everyone, and I mean EVERYONE was absorbed. Never have I seen such enthusiastic storytellers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Not only that, but these dapper chaps don't take a wage. they travel to deprived parts of Europe....and beyond, to help children from those place smile.......open up.....and have fun.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">PLEASE visit their website and support them in anyway you possibly can......fabby dooooo da x</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">A good book. <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Snow-Child-Eowyn-Ivey/dp/0755380525/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337087563&sr=8-1" target="_blank">THE SNOW CHILD</a> try it, if you are partial to whimsical grown up fairytales and fables.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Big bumblebee had an after school weaving club. Every time I walk past her colourful weave...I smile.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">My four happy smiley things...........xxx</span></div>Pippin Lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00925297507974597887noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419533330059875148.post-74229391050777970682012-05-14T20:23:00.000+01:002012-05-14T20:23:20.085+01:00This weekend....x<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">......we visited the old cinema in Lyme ( should have dressed a la 1920's for the day )</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">And taking long warm walks when the sun is setting, being humbled and comforted by our surroundings and the people we love........I find the weekends, if you let them, can run away from you. They can be all consuming, busy busy spent in the car....going here there and everywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">This weekend has been just for us. For the bumblebee's, for the Q, and for me. Didn't the sun this weekend make you excited for the summer? Forget the washout today, my mind is on long summer days, sandals and painted toe nails, hair up and sunglasses, ice-creams and holidays, beach days, happy days, perfect days.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Happy Monday xxx</span></div>Pippin Lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00925297507974597887noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419533330059875148.post-44089644297499588162012-05-08T09:56:00.001+01:002012-05-08T09:56:43.905+01:00The tale of a sink...................x<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #38761d;">At the cottage we had both of those things, sprinkled with a bike ride, a walk, swimming, games, and The Voice ( such a good show, the bumblebee's LOVE it )</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Since, ummm errr forever I have wanted to get rid of our awful stainless steel sink. But you know, a good sink seems really expensive. So the kitchen had to make do with a splosh of pink paint, and some cheap Ikea door handles. However, never underestimate the power of a woman!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">The washer on the kitchen taps has been being naughty for some time. A man would replace the washer for 50p right? A woman, will drags her children and husband to three different stores, proclaiming to NEEDING a new kitchen, and while we are at it a kitchen conservatory is really whats called for.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">She knew what she was doing. Because her real reason for wandering around so many stores, walking round the kitchens, asking where the nearest conservatory shop is this.......</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">A new sink would seem a bargain compared to an extension. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">That was her aim.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I had booked the bumlebee's into a make and bake session at a local cafe, which just happens to be an old railway carriage! Superb........they made cheese and onion pasties, whilst the grown ups sat, drank tea, and gobbled up savory muffins.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">These are what childhood memories are about. Sitting in a carriage, making pasties, slurping juice, and playing in the vegetable garden. Well worth the £8.50....as we grown ups actually had an unbroken conversation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Most evenings, before I go to bed....I sort my outfit for the next day. I suppose I've always quite liked this aspect of being a girl. Mixing colours, textures, adding necklaces, shoes, hairbands..........</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">The men, just don't get it......how could they, why would they?! Though I do have friends too that think I'm mad loving fashion, craving a cardigan/blouse/pair of shoes. And that's ok too........though please don't frown upon my jumpsuit, because the next time I see you....I will just wear a brighter one....hehe.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Over the years I have come across many famous women I think just have my style sooooo right. I love them for it, wanna be them so much and actively seek out a similar dress or bag......sad? I don't know about that, BUT I know what I like, and here are some of the women I think are my fashion icons. ...Though, I know they carry off outfits far better than I ever could, there's no harm in dreaming of having Kate Moss's legs or her suede knee boots.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I think right now, at 30 years old, I am comfortable with how I look, what I wear, perhaps I just don't give a s**t anymore, about what people think. Actually I think that's it, I don't care. Each to their own I say. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I think little bumblebee has sneaked her mouse into school, as she;s not in her house....or is she being a bad mouse? Hummm.......</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Guess I should toddle off, I've got moshi monster cupcakes to make before work this afternoon.......yes you heard right, MOSHI MONSTER CUPCAKES......I may have overstepped the simple make a few cakes for the cake sale mark. Who cares, I'll me one coooool mum hehe xxxx</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Firstly thank you so much for all your lovely words of wisdom r.e big bumblebee's trip. Update....she's on her way home, and I might just pop with excitement!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">One cheerful plant pot, especially on rainy days like these.xxxxx</span></div>Pippin Lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00925297507974597887noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419533330059875148.post-34081768416241272202012-04-23T19:41:00.000+01:002012-04-23T19:41:00.514+01:00Here and now.......x<br />
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Are my blog posts becoming too sporadic? I really don't mean for them to, I mean I had the little blip with the camera battery thingy last week ( don't ask, that thing has a wicked spiteful criminal mind....I swear it plots against me.).......I hope I'm back on track. I.AM.BACK.ON.TRACK..........cross my heart.<br />
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To be honest with you I'm feeling a bit weird. The big bumblebee has gone off for a school residential, first one ever, EVER....and I feel lost without my little pal to chat with. But that's nothing compared to what little bumblebee is feeling. She's really feeling it. I understand what great friends those two are. Really and truly.<br />
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So anyway lets push that to back back of my mind...........and focus on some great material I've had stashed away for....errr...years. I got round to making little bumblebee a music bag all of her own. It's so easy for the young ones in a family get given hand me downs ( WHICH B.T.W I have no problem with at all ) but now and then, they want things of their own.<br />
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1. If she's happy.<br />
2. Has she even got there safely ( of course the school would have notified us had anything gone wrong...move on ).<br />
3.Did that coach journey make her feel sick? There's nothing worse than travel sickness is there? Urghhh then that would put a dampener on the arrival....<br />
4. Q still hasn't done the washing up from dinner, how long do I leave it before I nag/ask him to get on with it.<br />
5.Did I pack enough clothes, I'm not sure I did ( you see the teachers made it clear the children HAD to carry their own luggage, so parents must be sensible.....arghhh should have put an extra pair of skinnies in..but seriously the size of some of those suitcases - they were bigger than the kids! At least I try to hide my "helicopter parenting" !!)<br />
6. What if she has a nightmare and forgets where she is, or just gets scared, she will NEED me.<br />
7.Must exercise, I ate about 5 cheese straws today 5 I said 5.........feeling really guilty, and bloated. Bloomin cheese.<br />
8. What if she gets lost? Falls down a hole, or well, or looses her way in the woods ( not sure there are woods there )...........and I never see her again?<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">One battery charger for the camera missing. If found, please pass it on, I have so much to show you, but somehow somewhere.....the charger for my camera is missing..........Do you think I may have put it in a "safe" place? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">But I am thrilled you are all still here, and I so love you little comments, they cheer my day!!x</span></div>Pippin Lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00925297507974597887noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7419533330059875148.post-26604017871641595842012-04-16T13:33:00.000+01:002012-04-16T13:33:29.836+01:00So far....just lately......x<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD88TjK_YW13Eo4PZSHVk7slP4ily7rrupHWfHhA-X8IFP-2UvRVtmyrhjaPL3dTx8oHLJrmhUbiu4xkFEzjL5ZDdkkVHMWyCFi7RZo8pjcMW1xnnBVLryK8cd6sOz_BhPQfiVSOkdj0H-/s1600/IMG_9029.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD88TjK_YW13Eo4PZSHVk7slP4ily7rrupHWfHhA-X8IFP-2UvRVtmyrhjaPL3dTx8oHLJrmhUbiu4xkFEzjL5ZDdkkVHMWyCFi7RZo8pjcMW1xnnBVLryK8cd6sOz_BhPQfiVSOkdj0H-/s640/IMG_9029.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">So I'm not quite ready to let go of the hanging Easter decorations, how do we feel about this? I think I probably need to go shopping for something less Eastery to hang on my branches still???? Things have been quite busy, and there's not been much time for any making or doing....which I feel quite sad about, hence perhaps why I want to keep the decorations up! You see I've been doing bits of work, which I hope to continue and up the hours on it too.....but how do we do the balance thing, can someone please tell me the secret?????</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">I feel like I still need to have a few projects on the go, but by the evening I am shattered.......though to keep mildly sane, making and doing is a must....hummmmmm..... shall I always be pondering this??!!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Anyway I am happy to announce that this morning I have had time to faff, change about, bake and stuffs and tings........Including taking pictures of our ( the ladies of the house ) new obsession....paper chains....</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">We love them..........notice they're all in the bumblebee's room because Q would be a bear with a sore head if they invaded the rest of the house....and I'm sure they keep making little baby paper chains and multiply over night.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">And would you look at that!!!!! The produce sign has been out about 20 minutes and some eggs have sold already! ( there were lots in there I assure you.......).......money made goes to the bumblebee's piggy banks ( Q thinks it's to pay for the chicken food, pah.......no way,not with my girls around hehe)......</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">So happy Monday, happy back to school week, and happy ooooh there's blossom still on the tree's day...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">In other news..............it's all pinkin pink at the mo here. Starting with a little jobbie I was wanting to get on with errrrrrr since the day we moved in the cottage some three years ago..... the coal bunker. Right firstly, I didnt want to get rid of it, too much hassle, mess, and it's quite a good storage thingy....so you know the drill round these parts by now....It had to be painted right? Out came the Annie Sloan, bita red, bita white, and oooooh a nice pink evolved ( Q still raises his eyebrows at it as he walks past it )....I like it......ever so.......</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">I hope not, have just bought some more PINK paint......yippeeeeeeee I squeal leaping up and down like a frog on a lilypad.......</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">( actually the kitchen just needs refreshing, tis already pink don't you know.......but this time it's called HOT PANTS........these companies know me so well " right bigwigs, lets name our paints funny names like top banana and hot pants....that Nattie down in zummerzet will lap it up.........this is what we must do"....and they did didn't they?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">I must admit to having had quite a lovely week so far. And now what is that you say? Eastertime?CHOCOLATE? ......Here's the thing.........I LOVE chocolate, it's quite possible I have a problem actually. So I will be eating vast amounts of the stuff, and no apologising about it either. Lifes to short don't you think, to not allow yourself some naughties every now and then?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">I also made some hot cross buns today too. My first shot at these...ever. Though I usually like my baking to be quite quick because I either. 1. forget about things in the oven etc and 2. get bored. With these ( recipe on bbc good food website ) I literally breadcrumbed up the flour and butter then whacked everything into my bread maker to proove.......no cursing the flipping room temperature ( or people opening and closing doors )....no cursing the dogs for jumping up and eating the dough ( they do this alot, any food, even cake cases, nothings safe........little tinkers actaully they usually get called something else, not fit for here ) easypeasy..........</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">....Or you could just go down to the supermarket and grab 2 for </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">£2....ahhhhh but then, you wouldnt have wonky crosses, or perfectly warm buns drizzled with golden syrup ( putting on my best Marks and Spencers advert voice) sliced and spread with butter...oooooh I say!!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Will the Easter bunny be hopping about your garden, leaving chocolate eggs for lucky finders keepers.........</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Will you, like me, have chocolate smeared around your chops now until you see sense, or at least until will power kicks in? ( WHAT is that by the way....will power, I'm not sure I've even heard of it before...)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Here the Q's will be spending Easter Sunday gobbling chocolate, drinking tea, depending on weather playing board games/dog walking/bike riding, eating yorkshire puds...........and feeling full.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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