Two weeks tomorrow

THE social event of the year...

I can only apologise for my uselessness at updating this blog but the last 6 months have been crazy. Ever since about November life has been a blur. Sometime in autumn I had to stand down as Restoration press officer just because there was no time. for anything. And it's not strictly all been the fault of the wedding. The other w word has been rather getting in the way of having fun: Work. It's a good job I enjoy my job at Leukaemia CARE as it's rather taken over my life recently.

A couple of saturdays ago I had an absolutely fantastic time out though, with absolutely no thought of work at all. It was my hen do. I'm attaching my photos from the night. We met up at the Regency hotel, Solihull, me mum Danielle Laura Milly Lisa Emma Teresa Hannah Emily and Becky. We went swimming and used the sauna steam room etc and generally relaxed in the daytime. ooh it was lovely! Then we got ready for the evening (it's been ages since me and the girls got ready for a night out together and it was great!) and drank a few glasses of cava (yum) and went downstairs to meet the girls arriving for the evening

Over for the night was Al's mum Fran, Jess and Pauline, Libby and Claire, Annette, Becky; in total there were 18 of us! Sadly a few girls couldn't make it but still it was a fab night!

Feeling extra special I got given a memories book full of photos, a bottle of champers, and a pink fluffy flashing cowboy hat (the last one courtesy of my mum..!)

Christmas Fun Run

Christmas Fun Runs took place in aid of Leukaemia CARE in early december, really putting me in the Christmas spirit!

The rest of december flew by with preparations for Christmas and then, at the last minute, I got Alex's cold; disaster! Well not much of one, actually in the end I was fine for Christmas day but it did mean I missed the midnight service on Christmas eve, which was a real shame because that usually makes me UBER Christmassy!

A few of us went out for our works Christmas party in Worcester, which I'd never been out in before. I stayed at Nicky's house and met her four cats and her dog Brian. Had a good night all together - ended up not taking a photo of anything except her cats though!

The office party was officially on the last friday before we all broke up and it was a real hoot. As you can see we wore hats, played games and eat very well indeed!

The next day, the saturday, we drove over to see my parents. Alex and I carried all our presents with us and mum cooked an astronomically large turkey and we drank wine and played Trivial Pursuit. It was a lovely, Christmassy, family evening and good fun.

Good ideas I came across

Wow, so if you're feeling far from 'carbon neutral' and getting married like me, you might be interested in these MarryMe/CarbonNeutral Wedding packs!
Going to research world-friendly cars for the poorer end of the market - think they've got any for people like me or just for flash b####rs?

Dad's birthday

A few weeks ago, on the 19th October, the big day itself, we celebrated dad's birthday.
We surprised dad and mum (I do like planning surprises) with a get together. We were met by auntie Shelagh, uncle David, Graham, Alex, uncle Bob and auntie Sheila. I think the birthday boy had fun!

And today we move one step closer to the Christmas Fun Run... Being held in Worcester, Dagenham, Gloucester, Stevenage, Evesham and Stalybridge(?) it'll attract thousands of fun runners raising money for Leukaemia CARE. I'm helping to organise it. (more info at http://www.xmasfunrun.co.uk/)