Monday 29 November 2010

Grace in Small Things: 206 of 365


  1. Firm announcement that we’re not buying another system


  2. Neil and Mark chatting to me


  3. Wrapping up the first lot of Christmas presents to go for this weekend


  4. Brushing Bertie and him purring and quivering like a tart


  5. Organising our trip up to London, baby!


Grace in Small Things: 205 of 365


  1. Tea being super delicious


  2. Lottie giving me her fudge bar


  3. Bertiface and Esmecat being so very pleased to see me


  4. Jeanette bringing me back a bendyman from her course


  5. Wrapping up in my snuggly fluffy dressing gown


Grace in Small Things: 204 of 365


  1. Buying my little wooden seahorse from the man in the craft market


  2. Snuggling with Mozz


  3. Esme in her box balanced on top of the bookcase, hehe


  4. Hoovered house


  5. Making a brief start on the Christmas shopping.


Grace in Small Things: 203 of 365


  1. Feeling good in my new LBD :o)


  2. Delicious meal – the beautiful calves liver and the astounding pistachio soufflĂ© – never had one of those before!


  3. Sexy Mozz in his 3 peice suit


  4. The drink I had perched on a stool in the restaurant


  5. Snuggling in bed with a Mozz in the morning


Grace in Small Things: 202 of 365


  1. Disaronno and cranberry juice


  2. Sarah saying she liked my jeans


  3. Chris not leaving me behind


  4. Text from my mum


  5. Smiling at.. .(I can’t read my writing, or remember what I was smiling at – but it seems I was smiling. Hurrah!


Grace in Small Things: 201 of 365


  1. People asking me things


  2. People being nice


  3. Catching the train home an hour earlier than expected


  4. Holding Mozz’s hand on the walk home


  5. Lovely pregnant lady on the train next to me


  6. Nice guard telling me where the quietest bit to sit in the train was


  7. My sister coming over for soup and TV


  8. Feeling good about me for my own sake


  9. Kissing Mozz off of the train



Sunday 21 November 2010

Grace in Small Things: 200 of 365


  1. Getting off the train – escaping after a long while!


  2. Discovering a power socket on the train


  3. Esme snoring on my lap as I worked at the table


  4. Soaking in the comedy bath in the hotel with a glass over the plug trying to stop the water escaping out


  5. Fixing TUP with Gary’s help – just very glad that it’s sorted!


Grace in Small Things: 199 of 365


  1. Garry asking for me for help, and me actually helping!


  2. Escaping work early


  3. Buying an LBD – I think my first since I was 16. I look awesome. Possibly.


  4. Bertieface’s attentions


  5. Laying in bed, all warm


Grace in Small Things: 198 of 365


  1. Mozz’s body


  2. Kids loving tea


  3. WI meeting – lovely company


  4. Being potentially asked out to a quiz by other people!


  5. Feeling briefly like I belonged somewhere


Grace in Small Things: 197 of 365


  1. Curled up on the sofa with Mozz and Bertie purring loudly


  2. Esme snuggles after much miowing to demand it


  3. 2nd unassisted roast dinner!


  4. Lovely text from Dadu


  5. Paying a chunk extra off of credit card and debt to mum and dad


Grace in Small Things: 196 of 365


  1. Lottie bringing me coffee in the morning


  2. All my family playing Kinect


  3. Team Mozz in the Kitchen


  4. Esme snuggles and face licks in the bathroom


  5. Having a semi clean house!


Grace in Small Things: 195 of 365


  1. Lunch with Lovely Liz


  2. Playing on the Kinect thing with the kids all together


  3. Mozz being all sexy in his 3 piece suit


  4. Music on the Radio and singing along


  5. Lottie helping with tea


Grace in Small Things: 194 of 365


  1. Curling up with Mozz on the sofa watching a chick flick to cheer me up


  2. Mozz pouncing – on demand, hehe


  3. Mozz tidying up when I came in and couldn’t face it at all


  4. Ninja chat with Ben


  5. Lovely email saying what a brilliant job Tony and I had done


Grace in Small Things: 193 of 365


  1. Giggling with Mozz on to the new Kinect thing


  2. Tea being quicker and easier than I had thought


  3. Lie in in the morning


  4. Esme coming to see me working


  5. Dropping Lottie off at her friend’s house


Grace in Small Things: 192 of 365


  1. Oli and Lottie in town just being them


  2. Giggling in Montezumas – part mischief, part pure loveliness


  3. Little catch up with Saffron


  4. Delicious sweetcorn chowder with tortillas and cheeeeese


  5. Being told that I have made a significant contribution to the uni over the last year, and that I am good.


Grace in Small Things: 191 of 365


  1. Oli’s looking after me when I was having a massive coughing fit


  2. Oli giving me chocolates :o)


  3. Writing things – actual documentation!


  4. Lottie hugging me and saying that she loves me


  5. My new top fitting well


Monday 8 November 2010

Grace in Small Things: 190 of 365


  1. Sleeping curled up on the couch with Bertie


  2. Terribly exciting episodes of Spooks


  3. Oli coming back from camp and being cute and grown up and tired and young all in one go


  4. Mozz looking at me like he loves me


  5. Not hurting as much as I expected to :o)


Grace in Small Things: 189 of 365


  1. Nipping in and out of the yard like a pair of ninjas and cracking on sharpish first thing


  2. Cold crisp sunny day, with mug of warm coffee sat on the tail of the van, feeling good about things


  3. Absolutely brilliant awesome display with SO much adrenaline and brilliant-ness and we were just fabulous. Fabulous.


  4. Feeling tired but happy – content that I did a good days work and was appreciated by all the other lads as one of them, not just some bit of fluff


  5. Being bought a burger by the lovely PTA lady that tasted absolutely divine over the sulphur


Grace in Small Things: 188 of 365


  1. Tony looking after me and making sure I was ok - including being a human sheild when one of our fireworks went a bit awry


  2. Massive adrenaline rush after blowing things up


  3. Lovely compliments, about both me and my work


  4. Sitting contented in the pub with Tony, still buzzing, and a glass of wine


  5. Coming home to a warm bath and a relaxing bubbly soak after a hard days work, feeling tired and content


  6. Meeting Tony's owl!


Grace in Small Things: 187 of 365


  1. Jack walking me back to the metro out of choice to make sure I was ok


  2. People being lovely to me


  3. Writing up notes on the plane and feeling business like


  4. New hairclips


  5. Being at home and feeling like I was tucked under a calm, warm blanket


Grace in Small Things: 186 of 365


  1. Seeing my nice Doctor


  2. Drinking coffee in the sunshine with mum


  3. Bertieface trying to stow away in Oli’s Bergen


  4. Oli getting all grown up


  5. Esme all over mum


Wednesday 3 November 2010

Grace in Small Things: 185 of 365


  1. Sorting out HTML email. This is nerdy but pleasing.


  2. Upgrade now ticked off list – one less thing to worry about


  3. Delicious tea


  4. Esme snuggles


  5. Jack being nice


Grace in Small Things: 184 of 365


  1. Mozz’s body.


  2. Mozz’s buttocks


  3. Telling the kids long words and introducing them to music


  4. Tea being tasty, delicate and unusual


  5. Mozz Hoovering


Grace in Small Things: 183 of 365


  1. Very long lie in


  2. Exciting book


  3. Seeing my sister and her being nice and smelling like home


  4. Sitting on the same sofa as Mozz


  5. Seeing house opposite’s pumpkins on the step all lit up and glowing


Grace in Small Things: 182 of 365


  1. Having a Mozz who will go to get the car to fetch me home from town


  2. Less childish than usual behaviour in Primark from Mozz


  3. Delicious tea I did not make


  4. Nero’s. For so many reasons.


  5. Bertie stealing my seat and flirting outrageously with me


Grace in Small Things: 181 of 365


  1. Being sent back to bed by the Doctor – felt like it was ok to go because I had been sent by someone in authority!


  2. Fruit salad – felt like being little again


  3. Reading new book in the bath


  4. Clean pyjamas all soft on my skin


  5. Cats looking after me with little worried furry faces (yes, I’m aware I'm a crazy cat lady)


Grace in Small Things: 180 of 365


  1. Neil checking up on me on MSN


  2. Esme snuggles


  3. Being warm at home


  4. Trip to Hampshire Wardrobe and all the excited ladies there reminding me of how things used to be


  5. Nice chat with my sister over a cup of herbal tea and a cheesey muffin


Grace in Small Things: 179 of 365


  1. More compliments on the lovely shoes


  2. Mozz pouncing


  3. Esme snuggles


  4. Feeling less ill than yesterday


  5. Chance to catch up with Gary in helpdesk


Grace in Small Things: 178 of 365


  1. Mark’s kindness going upstairs for me to get my brolly so I didn’t get wet outside


  2. Relief of getting loan car in time before the garage shut in face of adversity


  3. Nice survey man


  4. Overly relieved DHL courier man


  5. Relief of heat pads


Grace in Small Things: 177 of 365


  1. Spending time with Beci – so lovely to see her and be just the same after all these years


  2. Spending time with mum and dad for a cup of tea and feeling safe and warm


  3. Bracknell Tyre and Battery being exactly the same after all these years – felt nice to be back there!


  4. Mum saying that she’d do my curtains


  5. Pretty sunlight glinting on the Thames and swans gliding by