Blue Skies And Sunflare

Blue skies and sunflare I spy

A sign of a good day and a week to come 

I'm back taking the sort of pictures that I'm known for for.

Being in the countryside is where I feel most at home , being stifled inside my heart and soul can not room.

Saturday I couldn't get to to lagoon I've been meaning to go to and that made me cuckoo.

Oh but Sunday my euphoric rise the rain of love in cloudy wintry skies.

Ensuring A Bit Of Me Time

It is wall to wall sport I have to report in this house , football and rugby and come summer there will be cricket , if there was international tiddly winks I am pretty sure that would be on the television as well . Don't get me wrong I do like sport but when on occasion it feels like an episode of 24 , though if Kiefler Sutherland was to appear I might perk up.

The sports 'widow ' aspect doesn't just stop there as my husband is secretary for the football team and also for the rugby team , and many an evening I'll find a football manager on my doorstep needing a form, not Aresene Wenger not just yet !

Then there is the washing of the kit , football , rugby and ooh do do much mud , my son has on occasion washed his own boots and I probably do it more than he does but I'm not fussed he's a good boy. He never gets into trouble and to and I will miss the sport and mud when he is at university but don't tell him that!

Mmmm miss the mud ....

My son is very good at his sport , in the past he has had football trails but it is a very competitive world so he is now just content with playing sport and so much so he is studying GCSE sport at school and wishes to have a career in sport. He had thought about teaching but now he is thinking of going to university after A levels to study sports science , perhaps some of that will involve how to get mud stains out of football and rugby kits!!

Even the cat ' Jack Black ' has got in on a bit of me time , he isn't allowed to sit on the new sofa and is trained to go to his box. His old box to be honest was a bit of a hovel but what with moving being quite awkward at the minute due to a volatile housing market it seemed impossible. Thankfully I was able to gift the box in which the Pamper Parcels items came in to Jack. So he has gone from hovel to penthouse in one fell swoop.

Mr T is an avid Derby County fan and apparently uttering the words:

"Will there be any more goals?"

Will cause the  opposition to score , Ooops sorry Mr T and Derby County FC and they were playing the deadly rivals Nottingham Forest , double ooops !

When I go to watch my son play sport always make sure I make good use of my time whilst my son is warming up before the watch and my husband is nattering to the other dads about football ,rugby etc. I go and take pictures that is another part of my making sure I have have me time and I go and take pictures , I love my countryside landscapes and it is a subject I have become known for and  I go awfully shy when they tell me that I am good. I made sure that I had my Burts Bee lip balm that came in my Pamper Parcels box to protect my lips from the elements , there is nothing worse than having chapped lips I tell you.

Sport will always be part of this family in some way or the other , we are off to Washington DC in August and I hope we can catch some American sports when we are out there , and I bet my husband and son will get competitive in the pool as well. I will of course be escaping for that essential bit of me time.

Disclosure Thank you to Betfair and Pamper Parcels for the opportunity to have a bit of me time.

Silent Sunday January

The Lyrical Tryst

You can make the world smaller , you can do this magic , not alas with a Harry Potter wand but with your camera or smart phone . I find it amazing that what I capture with my minds eye , if the picture is right before my eyes then I know when I take my camera to it then 9 times  out of 10 then it will work. Taking pictures is really my salvation it keeps me calm , I will go on what ever adventures I choose if I want to have tea and scones on a field I will , I will adventure and no one can stop me.

You can really get caught up on getting the perfect shot , this is where I relay on how I feel I get awful fidgety if I haven't been out to capture my world around me. You don't have to photograph your every move this is indeed true just a few pictures can capture the mood and then you can go about your day.

My randomness is what allows me to have adventures , it is what enables me to interact it is the backbone of my life and I can't and will not be any different. 

Labels why must we be labelled always ?!

I'm being more positive ( hang on have I just labelled myself)

The one thing I am finding now I'm calmer is the lack of politeness in people  a human necessity perhaps this has been fished out of people as if they are in a game of operation. Constructive criticism can be a lyrical literal tryst , but one we accept wether we agree with or not.

If you need me I'll be here cloud watching.

Red Wine Herby Infused Gammon

Gammon is one of those foods I never really give much thought ,but when I spied a half price offer whilst shopping with Ocado I thought why not, at worse I could slip into a Shirley Valentine movie and talking to the wall while serving egg and chips ( albeit  with the edition of gammon)

Ingredients 

Chateau Neuf 1978

Any red wine will do ~ the whole bottle 

2 bay leaves

12 pepper corns ( I used mixed peppercorns )

Tea spoon ginger

Method 

Pour the wine into the slow cooker , add the herbs and obviously the gammon 

I left mine on high for about 7 hours 

The result was a crimson gammon that I was able to pull apart