Five Among Friends - Round Three

It's time for round three of the Five Among Friends series, I'm discovering some great new blogs because of this.  This week's questions were posed by the lovely Dawn of Dawn's Disaster.

1.  Who is the person that made you do the dumbest thing? What was it?
Gosh I find this a really hard question to answer, I don't feel like anyone has ever MADE me do something stupid.  Of course I've done stupid things in my life, but I don't feel like I can blame anyone else for those things, just myself.  My old school friend Jen and I used to get up to some tricks, we were very young and silly, I can remember we once decided to go out to the cinema during a thunderstorm and we ended up getting accidentally stuck in her car where the river overflowed onto the road.  It was pretty scary and pretty stupid to have driven straight into it.  We were rescued by a very kind lady who pushed us nose to bumper up the hill with her car!

2.  What was the FIRST job you ever had?
My very first ever job was working for a local florist. I had to unpack big boxes of carnations that had been flown over from Holland, separate them into bunches of five, chop them to a uniform length with flippin great cleaver on a chopping board over a bin, then put them into a plastic sleeve and into a new box.  There was no such thing as Health and Safety in those days. You should have seen that cleaver and that wobbly old bin!

3. When do you relax and how do you do it?
If we've got an evening at home, Mr Husband and I like to snuggle up on the sofa and watch something on TV or that we've recorded.  We love anything dramatic, a crime drama, Game of Thrones, anything along those lines.  We have to get all the toys and baby stuff our of our living room so I feel like it's a grown up space, then we can kick back and relax together.

4. Where was your most memorable date? Who was it with?
My first ever date with Mr Husband was a pretty memorable one.  He was so polite!  We went to a pub for a drink together and talked and got on really well.  The only problem was by the end of the evening I had no idea if he actually liked me, or if he just thought I was reasonably ok.  I had to pretty much order him to kiss me, he said he didn't want to be too forward, ahhhh!

5. Why do you blog?
So many reasons, but I suppose the main one is to record and capture our lives and the little things as they happen.

This week's questions are brought to you by: Dawn from Dawn's Disaster.

Please check out these great friends!

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3.	Dawn's Disaster	10.	The Dauntless Tales
4.	Lady Lund	11.	Nugget on a Budget
5.	Secret Obsession	12.	Confessions of a Mommyaholic
6.	My Mom's a Whack Job	13.	CREATE WITH JOY
7.	Dream Brite	14.	Following the Biscuit Trail!

Silent Sunday - 30th June 2013

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A portrait of my children, once a week, every week in 2013.

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So this week I'm sharing a lovely picture of Biscuit struggling a little with a toy tractor on a day out at the farm, it was freeeeeezing!  Still, she made the best of it, even though pedals apparently are not her friends!

Wiggles caught in her favourite pose.  She's been doing a lot more sofa cruising, using it as a safety net so she can practice standing up without holding on and perfecting her balance.  Here she's slung poor Herman the teddy bear to one side, ditched him in favour of adventure, and she looks particularly cheeky about it too!

Post Comment Love!!

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Currently.....#21

Hello darlings!! How has your week been so far? Mine has been strange, Mr Husband has been off work all week, which has been lovely, but it's made my head think that every day is a Saturday!  No bad thing that....

If I had a list if favourite bloggers Ot and Et and Harvesting Kale would be on it! Why? Well one of the many reasons would be Currently! I thought I'd shake it up a bit, today I'm going to plump for a more visual version of Currently. So I have been...

Eating: 

I made the behemoth of cakes. It was huge, seriously massive. And fattening. And goooooooood......We were eating this Mother Hubbard for DAYS!

Drinking: 

This puppy. In my favourite glass. It's got a spiced Christmassy taste, but deliciously cold it works in summer too. Summer, ha! When's that due?

Watching: 

Image courtesy of Channel4.com

A new French supernatural drama on Channel Four "Les Revenants" or "The Returned". It's just my kind of thing, it's creepy and twisty and I am a bit obsessed with it right now! Oh and Mogwai have written the soundtrack! I am desperate to know how it turns out....

Reading: 

Biscuit's school books! She loved this book. Fin, the bad lad broke into a scout hut and stole a laptop. She read the word laptop!! He got his comeuppance, he ended up in jail sobbing. Hahaha!

Learning:

To relax a little! Because Mr Husband has been at home this week we let Biscuit scoot on her scooter to school. Usually she isn't allowed her scooter on the school run because I can't manage a scooting child and a buggy. But because we could each concentrate on one child we decided to give in to her pleading and give it a go. She was so, so pleased! Above we have a picture she drew of her scooting look at that smile!! I think we figured out that we needed to unwrap the cotton wool a bit....

Next week: Loving, Craving, Missing, Listening, Wishing.

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Catching up......

Do you ever meet up with friends and find yourself stumped when they ask "So....what have YOU been up to?" I feel like that a lot! Despite the fact I know we've had a busy time lately I'm struggling to remember a lot of what we've been doing to keep you up to date! But here are some of the highlights:

It was Biscuit's school fete a couple of week's ago, which she adored! She had a go in everything there was to offer, nail painting, face painting, the art table, grown your own sunflower. She even won Mummy a bottle of plonk of the tombola, happy Mummy! Wiggles and I were papped enjoying the fun by a local photographer and friend: 

The allotment is going well, it's that wonderful pre-fruit stage where you can see its all forming, but not quite there yet. Mmmmm....fruit! 

Last weekend we were supposed to be joining in with our village's midsummer picnic, but sadly I was poorly and couldn't go along. Instead Biscuit went with her grandparents and had a marvellous time dancing to the live band by all accounts! Bit gutted I didn't get to watch her...

We visited my MIL & FIL last weekend, when I was all better, they are lovely and we don't get to see then enough! I'm really looking forward to visiting my Sister in Law in the school holidays. It's going to be lovely to catch up with her too, she hasn't even met Wiggles yet!! Dear, dear!!

My lovely friend Impressive E gave birth to a beautiful baby girl two weeks ago, henceforth to be known as Tig. She had a pretty horrendous birth that involved a complicated C-section, five hours in surgery, interventional radiology and a uterine stent.  Not fun. Not fun at all. My poor chum was amazingly looked after by the hospital, but as you can imagine wasn't in great shape after all that. She's gradually getting better, getting used to having a tiny new baby again and all that goes with it. Poor love is shattered and we're all trying to do as much as we can for her to make life a little easier. Tig is a darling though and very much worth it. She makes me hideously broody!! 

Coming up we have Craft Fairs, BBQ's, Farm Parties, Meet the Teacher Evenings, School Concerts, Sports Day, a cocktail night, a history walk, a visit to the Harry Potter exhibition and a Music Festival to name but a few things! 

Happy days indeed. Hope yours are happy too!

Love, love,  

Meet Mary!

Hello to you! 

I hope you've all had fabulous weekends? Today I am turning my hand to something a little different and I have my first ever guest poster, something I'd like to start doing every now and then, it strikes me as such a nice friendly thing to do, like a "Meet my friend....." conversation when you bump into people. In my mind anyway! So I'd like to introduce you to lovely Mary, with whom I have swapped blogs for the day! How exciting! Do head over to her fabulous blog to have a read! 

Over to Mary...

Hello everyone! :) I'm Mary and blog over at Secret Obsession. I live in a humble small town in the Philippines. I'm currently in my senior year of college. My blog is a documentation of the things I do in life together with experiences, some inspiration and anything that floats my boat. I'm glad to be here at Kate's blog today! :)

1. How long have you been blogging? 
• About more than a year already. I started blogging on Tumblr in 2012 and decided to move to blogspot just this April. :)
2. What kept you blogging all this time?
• I guess that would be the need to share and express my sentiments. And the #1 reason I'm still blogging is my readers!
3. When you started blogging, what came in to your mind?
• Before, I never really knew what blogging is. Before I formally started a personal blog, I've signed up with different blogging platforms without any idea of what to do next. Hahah. When I entered tumblr, I guess I sort of got the idea. I read several descriptions stating that 'this is my online diary where I post...' and I said to myself, 'Hm let me try this.' Since then, I fell in love with blogging, expressing myself on the internet, interacting with wonderful strangers, reading other people's blogs and reminiscing moments through my blog posts!
4. How did you come up with your current blog name?
• Secret Obsession is not just a couple of words. They describe my hobby that is blogging. :) Yup, my blog is my secret obsession and I'm the only who knows it. I guess it's better that way since I'm not too confident about letting other people read my thoughts - not even my parents! :D
5. For you, what is blogging?
• For me, i guess the most basic definition of blogging is letting your voice be heard through your blog. It is simply an expression of oneself. It is both an emotional and creative outlet. Blogging is a fun way to make friends, learn about people and places and the things there is to learn about life and everything in between!

Thank you for having me on your blog Kate! :)