For some reason, today, I am just bursting with ideas for my sons 7th birthday.
He wanted a Harry Potter themed party last year but I could not get anywhere that could accomodate what I wanted to do (have things stuck to the walls/ceiling etc... so this year I want to get super organised.
My friend gave me a website for cheap wands, but at around £10 each, its more than I want to pay for each kid. Going to stick with an idea from the web - when I find the site I will link back to it, chopsticks, glue gun, paint and beads/gems.
I'm planning on making a pináta, with some string attached and they have to perform spells to get it to open.... i'm thinking of making it like the Boggart in the cupboard when Professor Lupin gets the moon.
Sting attached to paper candles and hung over the food table.
Wall to walk in that looks like the brick wall for platform 9 3/4, using old sheet and some paint. Hang this up on the door to the party.
Most wanted poster to have your picture taken in. Bit like a Photo booth thing.
Each child will go home with a Spell Book.
The kids will be split into houses.
Unsure yet if they are going to earn points throughout the day
Unsure yet on how long this is going to last, that may be dictated by price of venue.
Venue - Newark Castle/Fort Matilda train station - need to call and see if they would accomodate us, if yes how much for. If not then back to the thinking board.
Activities
Potions Class - mentos n coke, vinegar n bicarb type experiments.
Herbology Class - grow cress seeds or something similar.
Defense Against the Dark Arts - Boggart Pináta
Quidich - using balloons and hola hoops
Friday, 13 September 2013
Wednesday, 4 September 2013
Juice diets
Whats it all about?
Think I am slow on the uptake of this 'fad'.
I read a great wee blog called Truely Madly Kids and one of the bloggers blogged about her attempt at the '5lb in 5 days' app by Jason Vale. Since reading her 5 days, it got me thinking; I really need a kick start for my fitness. I was unable to do Tough Mudder due to my face having a golf ball growing out the side due to a dodgy tooth resulting in some bone loss from my jaw and an open wound where the tooth was removed. In a way it was a god send, as I knew I was not at a reasonable level of fitness for Tough Mudder, in another I was gutted, as I still wanted to try it.
Back to the juicing. I ordered his Slim for life book and could not read it. I don't like his style of writing. I then bought his Ultimate Fast Food book, and I could read this one better. Some bits I glazed over, but his thinking is similar to mine.
Don't count calories - anything can make you fat if you do not move, and processed foods are destroying us (he doesn't say this, but their is 2 whole paragraphs on a study done on cats, that is basically telling us this same thing).
I got out my 7 nearly 8 year old juicer last night and juiced 3 organic carrots, 3 little apples, and a few strawberries, and it was delicious (I added some coconut water, just because I think their is a lot of good stuff in coconut water).
Today at work, I juiced 1/4 pineapple, 1 apple and 1 kiwi for breakfast. oh and added some coconut water.
And it tasted good.
Today at lunch time, I went to Boots the Chemist and weighed myself. I haven't weighed myself in possibly years.
I found out 2 things.
1st; I have shrunk. the machine digitally measures how tall you are. I am now 5 feet 4.1 inches. I have always been 5'5. Always. Not now. Now I am 5' 4.1 or 1.63m
2nd; I weigh 12 stone 12lb. or 82.1kg
Lets make that 3 things. My B.M.I is 30.9.
I officially weigh more now than when I was over 8 months pregnant.
My slip also advises that my ideal B.M.I. is between 18.5 and 25 which equates to 7st10lb (49.1kg) to 10st6lb (66.4kg). From personal experience, 7 stone anything is too skin and bone for me, my best is from 8 stone to 9 stone, it is when I look my best. Long term goal is to get to 9st.
Looks like that gym membership is closer to being purchased, but at nearly £40 a month, will I use it enough to justify the price?
Think I am slow on the uptake of this 'fad'.
I read a great wee blog called Truely Madly Kids and one of the bloggers blogged about her attempt at the '5lb in 5 days' app by Jason Vale. Since reading her 5 days, it got me thinking; I really need a kick start for my fitness. I was unable to do Tough Mudder due to my face having a golf ball growing out the side due to a dodgy tooth resulting in some bone loss from my jaw and an open wound where the tooth was removed. In a way it was a god send, as I knew I was not at a reasonable level of fitness for Tough Mudder, in another I was gutted, as I still wanted to try it.
Back to the juicing. I ordered his Slim for life book and could not read it. I don't like his style of writing. I then bought his Ultimate Fast Food book, and I could read this one better. Some bits I glazed over, but his thinking is similar to mine.
Don't count calories - anything can make you fat if you do not move, and processed foods are destroying us (he doesn't say this, but their is 2 whole paragraphs on a study done on cats, that is basically telling us this same thing).
I got out my 7 nearly 8 year old juicer last night and juiced 3 organic carrots, 3 little apples, and a few strawberries, and it was delicious (I added some coconut water, just because I think their is a lot of good stuff in coconut water).
Today at work, I juiced 1/4 pineapple, 1 apple and 1 kiwi for breakfast. oh and added some coconut water.
And it tasted good.
Today at lunch time, I went to Boots the Chemist and weighed myself. I haven't weighed myself in possibly years.
I found out 2 things.
1st; I have shrunk. the machine digitally measures how tall you are. I am now 5 feet 4.1 inches. I have always been 5'5. Always. Not now. Now I am 5' 4.1 or 1.63m
2nd; I weigh 12 stone 12lb. or 82.1kg
Lets make that 3 things. My B.M.I is 30.9.
I officially weigh more now than when I was over 8 months pregnant.
My slip also advises that my ideal B.M.I. is between 18.5 and 25 which equates to 7st10lb (49.1kg) to 10st6lb (66.4kg). From personal experience, 7 stone anything is too skin and bone for me, my best is from 8 stone to 9 stone, it is when I look my best. Long term goal is to get to 9st.
Looks like that gym membership is closer to being purchased, but at nearly £40 a month, will I use it enough to justify the price?
Friday, 30 August 2013
Christmas List 2013
To be added to until Christmas
Lyle
Big boys bike (Deposit paid) Just to wait til christmas and collect his.
Helmet
Bike Pump
Bike gloves
Bike repair kit that goes under your seat
Robo fish
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Costumes (made one for halloween. see here)
Wii games x 2 - Lego Harry Potter years 1-4 and 5-7
DS game - Lego something or other
Rio
Mum and Dad
Still Game tickets and night in hotel room. - chipping in with Sister and Brother
Great Granda
Lauren and Steven
Cinema Hamper
Odeon Vouchers,
2pairs of 3d glasses,
Popcorn
DVD
Share bags of sweets
Gary
Breaking Bad
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Me
Bike (money getting paid in when over that side of town)
Helmet
Bike Gloves
Bike repair kit that goes under your seat
Foods
Hamper Ideas
Nuts
Tea sets - tea, biscuits, mugs.
Cinema Night at home
Advent Ideas
Pantomime tickets
Christmas Eve Elf
Colouring in book and pens
Lyle
Robo fish
Rio
Mum and Dad
Still Game tickets and night in hotel room. - chipping in with Sister and Brother
Great Granda
Lauren and Steven
Cinema Hamper
Odeon Vouchers,
2pairs of 3d glasses,
Popcorn
DVD
Share bags of sweets
Gary
Me
Bike (money getting paid in when over that side of town)
Foods
Hamper Ideas
Nuts
Tea sets - tea, biscuits, mugs.
Cinema Night at home
Advent Ideas
Pantomime tickets
Christmas Eve Elf
Let me explain a bit here. I have never had any real
Traditions for Christmas, other than the tree goes up the weekend AFTER my
birthday. After having Lyle, I read that others done a Christmas Eve hamper
that consisted of things to do like a DVD to watch etc. So I started ours with
new pj's and a new toothbrush, a short Christmas DVD, some dry cookie mix
with instructions on how to make cookies for Santa and the reindeers, some magic reindeer food to sprinkle outside and now a key to get in.
I started this when he was 3, his dad had him and dropped off a really sick boy on christmas eve (gave him dairy). soo much that at half 5 he asked to go to bed, burning temp and not interested in opening his present the elf left him.
When he was 4, I wrapped the box up and left it on his bed, at 6 pm i sent him up to get his jammies and the excitement that came from the room was amazing! he came running down with these new christmas jammies, and a film saying the elves left it. He even brought me down new jammies that the elf had left for me!
Last year he asked me if I thought the elves would leave new jammies for Gordon, so I bought Gordon a mans set of pj's, and Lyle was excited when he got stuff for all 3 of us to do.
2 x toothbrushes - toothbrush heads as we both got electric toothbrushes.
2 x Christmas PJ's - Spiderman Onsies, mum bought and is giving for the Xmas Eve Hamper
Christmas DVD
Cookie Mix
Popcorn
Recent Politics
Syria, it's a bit of a touchy subject just now.
Personally, I have not been following this as closely as I should have. But I am glad that the UK has decided, for now, not to get involved.
The problem we have, as outsiders looking in, is that we only hear what we are allowed to hear. We do not have any evidence (yet) of who done what. What if we went in, all guns blazing, and brought down a leader who did not use chemicals on his own people, when in fact it was the 'rebels'? Same rebels who were counting on Western Intervention to further them.
On the other hand though, who IS going to go help all the innocent people who are being chemically wiped out?
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69552000/jpg/_69552038_69552037.jpg
Personally, I have not been following this as closely as I should have. But I am glad that the UK has decided, for now, not to get involved.
The problem we have, as outsiders looking in, is that we only hear what we are allowed to hear. We do not have any evidence (yet) of who done what. What if we went in, all guns blazing, and brought down a leader who did not use chemicals on his own people, when in fact it was the 'rebels'? Same rebels who were counting on Western Intervention to further them.
On the other hand though, who IS going to go help all the innocent people who are being chemically wiped out?
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69552000/jpg/_69552038_69552037.jpg
Monday, 22 July 2013
She May Not Leave
By Fay Weldon, is a little gem of a book.
It had taken me a while to get into it, the style of writing is not what many authors now use, only after you have read the book do you realise that all the clues have been right in front of you.
I am now going to go find some more from her.
It had taken me a while to get into it, the style of writing is not what many authors now use, only after you have read the book do you realise that all the clues have been right in front of you.
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