A blogger at Rest

Twas the night before  Friday and nothing stirred in the house

Except for a blogger tapping on a keyboard listening to Classic Fm 

Surveying all around her the blogger did declare all is calm and all is settled 

Not a review item in sight hurrah I do say 

Then the review  flowers did she spy with her perfectly capturing instagram moment content collecting eye

Though bereft of life they be

Capturing them in the soliloquy of time reflection is a necessity

So you see with us bloggers it isn't always a look at me reaction


Just the chance to write is food enough thought for me

Slow Cooker Shoulder Of Lamb

Firstly before the lamb recipe :

The mews at 10 ( somewhere in the world ) 

Firstly I lost my bobble hat then found it but it's a very sad bobble hat as the cat has had a further go at it ~ sigh sad times if I can't be a bobble hat superhero as the bobble ( Pom Pom obviously stores my super powers which isn't colour coordination.

All hail Rollie is back in the bottom of the cat bunk bed , he just need a warm mat so he can warm his paws , you know when the weather is right if he's outside .

Ingredients 

Shoulder of Lamb 

Chunky carrots 

Any other veg 

3 whole onions 

1 teaspoon paprika 

 I whole clove of garlic ( remove obviously before dishing out stock unless whizzing into soup )

1 tablespoon mixed Italian herbs .

1 litre of lamb stock 

Method 

There's not really much of a method to this , I could make this method more exciting by doing some juggling but I can't juggle so that's a no to that then. Basically combine everything and leave in the slow cooker for  about 6 hours on slow . Please don't put a bobble hat in the slow cooker the bits will get stuck in your teeth .

You can be super clever and whizz up the stock for soup.

The Hitchhikers Guide To Blogging

Every so often bloggers are inclined to declare " I'm giving up packing up my blogging toys "and disappearing into a puff of social media smoke.

Blogging has pretty much changed since I arrived on the scene some 5 years ago (well nearly 5 years ) . Blogging has got slicker, meaner, nicer, more niche , compartmentalised , more diverse and so many other adjectives ,I'll have to get my thesaurus out. I'm more than likely to drop said thesaurus on my feet those causing a injury , I kid you not I'm likely to do this.

The Off Day Catalyst 

I pretty attributed the catalyst of this situation to the toast I had yesterday , how I hear you cry can the humble piece of toast cause a cataclysm of events , well the shade of toast can do this .

When you place your toast in the toast in the toaster you have expectation and high expectation of  that :

 1 Your toaster will do the job .

2 Your toast will be the appropriate shade of ermmm toastyness to launch you upon your day whatever that may entail ( yesterday I was chief men pants buyer )

3. If I had , had happy toast like I did a few weeks ago , this indeed could be a very different blog post , I could be clutching an Oscar instead.

I think it's just a blogging stumble and tomorrow the toaster Gods will favour my blogging fortune , I think historians need to look back and see if toast has caused any wars.

Blog Me Like You Do

I do , I do love blogging .

It's very hard not to compare yourself to others at time , I have never succumbed to the green eyed blogging monster , I'm not that type of person . Blogging isn't a distraction technique of the Emperors new clothes with me what you see is what you get . I'm not one either for blogging praise in fact if I'm praised in any shape or form it has me running for the hills .

Blogging has provided me many wonderful opportunities of which I'm  .... grateful , I think I hope I'm a refreshing blogger ?! everytime I write a blogging grammar fairy dies , apologies if my grammar makes you twitchy .

I have been blogging as mentioned nearly 5 years , I'm one month short of this anniversary , I've never huff puffed ( unpaid journalism ) or caused a stir on mumsnet, though be still my beating hard I had a post on Gnome knickers re tweeted. This was a post about Gnome knickers ( people who steal Gnomes )

Perhaps if I had written the blog post with the title Game Of Gnomes that will have pulled the punters in  ? who knows ?

Not Giving Up 

I will conquer and blog on , at times I feel blogging is to commercial and I want my fluidity to show and not have review after review . I want my naivety back I feel as if I have opened the blogging Pandora 's box / reviewed it and pimped it within an inch of its life !

I'm currently topping up my tea levels.

Infact I've turned some offers of late including someone asking me to pay into their crowdfunding business of their item. In return I'd get the item and something tongue away > yet I have to pay ?!! how cheeky and rude ! . 

Breathe.

Breathing allows the yearning to blog to come back and it's own my terms it's not like I'm going to go extent like the dinosaurs for example the poor T -.rex couldn't even type no wonder he roared all the time he couldn't clap his hands at the dinosaur tea party !

" If you're happy and you know it , clap your hands "

Blogging has got so clogged it's certainly not as simple as it was and I just want the simplicity to come back just tad, I feel as if I need a Hitchhikers Guide to Blogging with the words :

"Don't panic "

Emblazoned on the front .

I'm not going any where but if I don't shake it up and say how I feel,once in a while I'll implode.

So I'm staying blogging and so is the cat .

Where The Brave Will Tip Toe

Where the only the brave will tip toe :

1.Helping the teenager through a crisis .

2.Readying the teen to visit Aushwitz . 

3. Ringing up a dentist and actually booking an appointment for June ( not for  a person a person but in June ) it will be the first time I've been in years . I half suspected that one day my gnashers would be staring at me through a glass but there's a glimmer of hope that I can keep my own gnashers a little while longer. I come from a long long line of glass containing gnasher owners ,I'm hoping I do break that tradition .

4. I went to choir again , I was hiding in a corner with a cup of tea as I find the idle chit a chatter thronging to my head , I simply can focus . I really wish upon my heart of hearts I could have ear muffs inclosed public places which the throng of noise reverbs through my lug holes. Ironic yes I am in  a choir and there's singing noise but that chit a chatter noise buzz sets me on a social fight or flightb( more flight )

5. Tea my tea levels are just right at this very nano second .

Tea is where the home is ...

Just a Simple Hello

Hello from the other side , I must have meowed a thousand times .

Ninja Cat ( Rollie ) update :

This week red carpet isn't in as Jack( the stupid one)? went nuts after a flea treatment .

Also the 40 pouch selection of posh cat food , we no longer like after 2 pouches.

I will no longer sleep in the bottom half of the cat bunk bed , out the bunk bed on top of the bunk bed but no in it.

I will bite toes .

I will stop on the stairs and swipe as you walk by ..

You'll know the weather is warmer when "I " decide I'll stop out .

The sink "is " my other choice of where I sleep .

Don't even think you can trim my claws ...

I do like the bee dangly cat toy ~ I will demand you entertain me.

Isn't it a miracle cats can type ....