This year I’m taking two vacations – the first to Edinburgh leaving tomorrow for a week. Then when I get back I’m back for ten days and them I’m going to Disneyland Paris!! Yay!!!
It’s been a busy few weeks trying to get everything done at work to leave the bare minimum for everyone to cover for me.
I need a break.
So I will try blogging from my phone while I’m away. So watch this space looking for some photos.
Shanna.
As I pack for my holiday I don’t have to try and figure out how to manage to pack lots of books in a little space. I can take thousands of books with me in a itty bitty space. Got to love technology!!
Shanna
P.S I did try to take a picture but I just burnt my fingers making my friend a birthday cake. Ouch!!
Shadow Kiss by Richelle MeadSo today when my niece and nephew were visiting we built a castle of our blocks.
Complete with tower, princess and block dragon.
But unfortunately the castle got attached by a big red dragon.
But it was ok because we managed to scare him off with a ….
Sheep. My nephew informed me that that is the only thing they are scared of as he ran away.
And just because it’s cute.
Shanna xx
So we took my niece and nephew to the cinema this morning to see Kung Fu Panda 2.
It was good, but since I haven’t seen the first one before I left I asked my two year niece what happened in the first one and she informed me that he ‘kicked people’.
Anyway while we were waiting for the film to start I took a dodgy photo with my camera
The fact that it is a dodgy picture isn’t why i shared it with you. It’s the android app I used to take it.
It’s called Snapbucket, it’s a free app available here.
The app allows you to take pictures, it also allows you to share pictures on twitter or facebook but what is really cool is that it is provided by Photobucket and if you have a Photobucket account you allow it access and it will instantly upload the photos to your Photobucket account. What does that mean? Isn’t back up and no longer having to figure out how to get that picture off your phone and onto your computer as you can download it from Photobucket.
Here are a few other pictures I took with Snapbucket.
Shanna
So we’re reaching the end of the first week of Wimbledon. When I was a kid I used to sit and watch what I could when I wasn’t at school. Now I’m older I don’t have a lot of time to watch Wimbledon, (I will sit and watch the Grand Prix every weekend it’s on) but there is always something I remember (no not Cliff Richard entertaining while it was raining) but it was another event that was shown when it was rained out for the day.
It was the seniors playing – namely Mansour Bahrami playing. He has a great way of making tennis fun and enjoying the game and team him up with Henri Leconte.
So here is a video I found on YouTube of some of his best moments enjoy
Shanna.
So I’ve been catching up US version of So You Think You Can Dance. I’ve watched season 1-5. I was watching an episode where Melissa and Ade danced to This Woman’s Work and it reminded me that they had done that on the British version too. Which version do you like best?
Or this version by Robbie and Charlie
I personally prefer the Robbie and Charlie’s version. I don’t know if it is because I prefer the way it was shot or just the way it was danced. Isn’t there something so haunting about that song?
Shanna.
So what did I get up to at the weekend? I mostly stayed in. The fire is still burning they have it under control but it’s 5000 tones of old tyres. They say it will take weeks to put out as they have to knock a whole in the wall and pull out piles of tyres and put them out one group at a time. So big black clouds are still billowing and you can still smell the rubber burning miles away.
So while I was in I was watching videos on YouTube and some people were discussing the books they had just bought. Some of them sounded interesting so I got them on my Kindle (don’t you just love e-book readers you can get practically any book you want with a couple of minutes no driving to the store or waiting for the mailman.)
So this weekend I read…
Good book, although the ending was a little weird and since I’ve never really read any Edgar Allen Poe (honestly the only work of his I’ve heard of is The Raven and that’s because they had an episode with lots of Poe’s on Gilmore Girls) i missed some of the references.
I also read …
Jessica finds out she is really a Romania Vampire Princess who has been engaged since childhood to Lucius. Who doesn’t love a hot vampire who comes and wants to marry you. (He was even a little less annoying than Edward Cullen in places – why do vampire guys always think they know what’s best for you?)
So that’s what I spent my weekend doing.
Another book that recommended was Entwined which is a retelling of the Twelve Dancing Princesses (never hear of it) but I think I’ll save that for next weekend. I’ll go back to reading my Harlequin/Mills and Boon Romance novels which I can usually read in less than an hour when I’ve got time around work.
So what have you been reading lately?
Shanna.
(photos by my friend Gareth Jeffs)
So about 1pm yesterday a large warehouse which stores recycled tyres near where I work caught on fire. Thick black clouds of smoke have billowing ever since. They evacuated most of the estate, but they stopped at our road so we had to stay at work. They closed all the roads and the estate down so most of us had to find ways to walk home or walk far enough away that we could get a lift.
They still have 11 fire appliances and 50 fire-fighters there and expect it to still be on fire until at least sunday because as it is burning rubber it counts as chemical fire and they can’t put water on it (despite the fact that they closed the road so they can run giant hoses up it).
Pretty much everyone found a way to walk into work today but by the time we left they started saying the fumes are starting to get toxic. They can cause itty eyes, and coughs and are especially bad for anyone with lung or heart problems. I know the coughing is true as I only had to walk a quarter of the mile and I can’t stop coughing. So I’ve told my grandparents they can’t leave the house until it’s out (even though we live two and a half miles away you can still smell it. It doesn’t help that it keeps raining and there is a 30 mile an hour wind which the fire brigade are saying is making it worse.
Nothing where I work has been despatched for two days as the couriers we used are trapped in as all the roads leading to them are shut.
So here ends an eventful week where also on Wednesday the phone systems at work blew when the electrician tried to do a power test which meant we had to get everyone on mobile phones.
Next week can only get better right?
Shanna.
