Status Update
Posted by: The Bitch on: September 18, 2009
I am still here, but things are a bit hectic at the moment, CB has left her little London home and is commuting every day from Kent…
…She will be back (with a vengeance) once she has somewhere to once again call home!
xxx
OK I Might Have Lied…But It Was Unintentional!
Posted by: The Bitch on: August 19, 2009
OK, OK, I know I said that I promised to be a better blogger, post more often, blah blah blah – but “real world” stuff got in the way, but let’s not go into that, it’s dull…
…What isn’t dull though is that since my extended period of absence from this blog, I have been sorting my little house flat out, and being ruthless (no I haven’t got another alter-ego), getting rid of all the junk I have accumulated/using up crafty supplies that I bought on past ebay adventures…
…by knitting up a cushion (in case you couldn’t guess from the picture)!!!
I’m Still Here!!!!
Posted by: The Bitch on: July 23, 2009
It has been over a month since my last post (and excuse for not posting), and here I am again with yet another excuse!
Redundancies are finally over, and I have now been off work for two weeks and three and a half days (it’s only midday at the moment)…
…I have been crafting, and will be posting my crafty exploits over the next few days, I intend to be a much better Crafty Blogger and actually do some blogging now!
I just needed a bit of a break, which I got (sort of)…
…The Boy took a much needed break from work, to spend the first two weeks of redundancy with me, and we did lots around the house (watch these posts) and also cycled to Babbington House in Somerset…
…For those of you missing my writing oh so much, you can read my review of Babbington House here
Until the next post x
An Excuse, Some Crafty Reupholstering and a Picture of My Cat
Posted by: The Bitch on: June 2, 2009
It’s been a while since I last posted, and I have tonnes of excuses as to why I haven’t been posting, the first excuse is that The Boy buggered off to Monte Negro, and took the camera with him (that was three weeks ago!) – but he is back now, and I have photos, so no more excuses!
Whilst he was in Monte Negro, I took it upon myself to reupholster our dining room chairs, we got our lovely Macintosh (not The Renee Macintosh, think G-Plan, circa 1970) table and six dining chairs from Ebay for about £400 including delivery from Stockport to London, and a nice man to help me carry it all up our three flights of stairs (we live on the top floor of an old Victorian Council Block, so no lifts here!) – The Boy was conveniently working!
Anyway, I got my fabric from Ikea, it was dirt cheap – I think we paid about £15 in total for enough fabric (plus enough to make a mistake, and a fair amount left over) to cover all six chairs! I also bought some fabric to tidy up the underside, but once I had staple-gunned (£22 from Ar-goose) the fabric down, the finish was lovely and tidy, so going to save the lining
material for something else!
13 Beautiful Little Words
Posted by: The Bitch on: May 12, 2009
Your application is one of the first four so that will be accepted.
I did it, I took the plunge and feel great!! I tried to get to work on time
today, so that when voluntary opened, I could get my email in at 09:00:30, but I spent 12 mins looking for my keys (normal) and broke my mac a little this morning, so as from 09:10(BST) I am now jobless, but very VERY happy!
Instead of Writing My CV…
Posted by: The Bitch on: May 7, 2009
…I know I promised not to bang on about the big R, but for some reason today, I felt a bit down, I think it is the scary thought of waking up one day and having nowhere to go or nowhere to be, it will be the first time since I was 19 that I haven’t had a full time job…
…Strangely enough, this morning, I somehow stumbled upon Kind Over Matter, the pictures cheered me up, and I’m not normally into that mushy, motivational shite
, but today, I really needed it…
…The thing that really grabbed my attention was that Kind Over Matter are into card dropping which involves leaving a card with a message somewhere in a public place for someone to find…
…This inspired me, and cheered me up, I have heard of this sort of thing before, knitters making toys and leaving them for people to find. It got me thinking, if I were to find a card, it would make my day and make me smile, I want to do something like this, there must be are loads of people out there in my position (and worse)…
…If you fancy giving someone a little smile, you can download pre-printed cards and fortune cookies from Kind Over Matter’s Download Section
I also found 241543903 which when put into googles image search you get a load of images of people with their heads in freezers – genius!
Oh and the 2 on my numerical key pad seems to have stopped working
Lucky Number 7
Posted by: The Bitch on: May 5, 2009
Sooooo…..
….First post of the week commencing April 05, not really sure how to post about this, but I think the picture speaks volumes.
…I knew this was coming, but this time around, we are looking 40% of our departments work force, due to the low page/ad count of our magazines, I’ll try not to bang on about it too much here, but keeping positive, so far….
This will be the seventh time that I have been through the redundancy process in five years, and am thinking lucky number 7
get out of the game now and find something else whilst I still have my looks and a good metabolism.
Image from Recently Laid Off
My First Dress Pattern
Posted by: The Bitch on: April 30, 2009
Ever since I saw Practical Polly’s version of this dress, I have been dying to make one for myself, yesterday I finally gave in and ordered said pattern from Ebay!
I can’t wait until it arrives, I tried to buy it from a UK seller (to try and be eco-friendly and cut down the patterns carbon footprint
but when I found out it was cheaper to buy it from America and ship it over (by about a pound), I gave in and ordered it, I figured the plane would have flown over here anyway, with or without my pattern – hey come on, since I found out that the credit crunch wasn’t a new low fat cereal I have had to make serious cut backs!
I even have fabric that I found in my Dad’s linen cupboard, so if this all works out, I am going to have a gorgeous 50’s
style dress for a tenner! woohoo!
Ahhhhhh….Stringray!
Posted by: The Bitch on: April 29, 2009
Seeing as I mentioned Stringray in my last post, and I need to look busy and important, I thought I might as well post about it.
Stringray is a great little pizza place, located at the City Farm end of Columbia Road, and The Boy and I have been coming here for years. They do have a range of specials, which are good, and changed fairly regularly, but what people really come here for are the amazing pizzas!
Pizzas start at £4.95 and go up to a very expensive £6.95, for the money, this is an amazing deal, the pizzas are massive, freshly baked in the pizza oven, with a gorgeous thin crust, and at the moment, their chilli oil is beautiful – I could make out rosemary, thyme and lots of lovely little chillies (not priks).
Back in our youth
The Boy and I used to order a garlic pizza bread (with cheese) to share as a starter and then a pizza each, taking the left overs home for lunch breakfast the next day…
…We have since learnt our lesson (our metabolisms are not what they used to be) and now practice restraint by going for a garlic pizza bread followed by a pizza to share, our bills normally come in at the £30 mark, including a bottle of house wine and maybe a cheeky pint of Peroni each!
Service is friendly and efficient (if it’s backwards day) – ok, that’s unfair, there are two girls waiting all the tables, and it gets packed in there, especially in the summer when people are spilling out onto the street, both the girls have been there for as long as I have been going (about four years), and always seem to be working, so they have a right to be stressed – I am going to rephrase and say service is informal
.
Check it out, we love it! If going in the evening, I would highly recommend booking, especially since summer is peeping round the corner, it will be ram-a-jammed
most nights, or if you are in the area, grab a takeaway pizza (prices are the same as eating in) and take it over to London Fields or Viccy Park!
I couldn’t find a decent picture of Stringray so I got the one above from this blog
Excuses, Excuses, Excuses…
Posted by: The Bitch on: April 29, 2009
It’s been a while since my last post, as I took a looong weekend (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday) to be precise, The Boy and I had planned to :
- Paint the hallway and do the skirting boards
- Buy a new bag for The Boy to use on his shiny new bicycle
- Buy a staple gun and re-upholster the dining room chairs
- Go to Alton Towers
- See my Dad who’s home at the moment with my baby brother
Instead, we decided to fight all day Wednesday, so achieve anything at all, ended up having a beer in the park and eating at Stringray on Columbia Road.
On Thursday, we set out on the bikes to buy The Boy a new bag, we were planning on just going to Spitalfields, but nobody had the bag he wanted – in yellow, so we ended up going to Covent Garden, then heading home via Burys – ended up having more beers in the park, having some dinner, then doing nothing in the flat – again, although we did manage to get a staple gun so I can do the dining chairs.
Friday we ended up going to Alton Towers – which was brilliant, but took up the whole day, oh and I got put on the car insurance – vrrrruuuum vrrrrrummm!
Well you get the picture, these are my excuses for:
- Not posting
- Not doing anything too useful or productive
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