Win Tickets To Barton Under Needwood Steam Rally And Family Festival

Here is a quick little competition to win 2 pairs of tickets to the Barton Under Needwood Steam Rally and Family Festival.

 The competition will close Monday 10th  July and the tickets will be posted out to you in due course.

"The committee of the Barton Under Needwood Steam Rally and Family Festival were proud to present The Midlands Air Ambulance with a cheque for £5,000, the proceeds of the 2016 event held at Needwood Rise Farm near Barton Under Needwood. We'd like to thank everyone who attended last year's event for their support and hope they will join us in 2017 when we will, once again, be raising money for The Midlands Air Ambulance.

This year's event will take place on 15th and 16th July at Needwood Rise Farm DE13 8AP, near Barton Under Needwood just a few minutes off the A38. All profits will, again, be donated to The Midlands Air Ambulance. All the organisers are volunteers who spend their valuable time putting the event on. Please see our website for details."
http://www.bartonsteam.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/bartonsteam/

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Curried Baked Cod With Spinach Rice

Sometimes you want a restaurant quality meal at home but without the expense of going to a restaurant and it is possible ! recently I've been working on my food presentation skills . I mean you know when you've been watching to much Masterchef when your husband says

" I'm ready for you to plate up now "

Ingredients 

Piece of cod or other such suitable fish enough for 3 /4 

Mild curry powder

Mango Chutney 

Lime leaves 

Method 

Now I'd run out of foil so I created a sort of steam bag with steam parcel with baking parchment.

I rubbed the cod with the mild curry powder , adding some mango chutney and added some Lime leaves .

This was Baked in the oven at 180c for about 25 minutes , whilst this was cooking I prepared some Spinach rice .

I just prepared some normal Basmatic rice then stirred in some Spinach it really is that simple .

Forged In Fire

When your shunned by own father it is very hard , hard to move on hard to see other families laughing and joking and having fun. It's always been that way even when I did had a father in my life because I felt I should have been a boy , never feeling good enough for my dad , I have to be careful as he is still living but he doesn't care and never will. Sometimes with families there is no olive branch there can be , never will be it's not worth trying , I have no brothers and sisters and quite frankly I wouldn't want to gave had a sibling to endure what I did. I really always do try and see the best in people but that's how I am forged.

Forged

I am forged in fire you can say , if my mother had gone to a woman's refuge I think my life would have taken a much safer and easier path. Forged to take control of my emotions and not cry and this is something I still have trouble with as to cry then and sometimes now to me was a weakness of emotion. There was no social services for me no teacher I could turn to I was muddled up through my GcSes and A levels  , violence should never be part of anyone's life. If I am upset I have to reset and this can take days , I'm conscious that people don't what to read sad from me I'm not here for people to either have empathy or feel pity.  

Coping 

I am coping everyday of my life by putting all of my trouble in a box but otherwise how would I cope , I've my own family to take care of just the three of us. To me my son has one grandad my husband's dad and my own grandad his great grandad was more of a grandad to him than my own dad was . I'm not here to rubbish people but I don't talk about my dad now I just don't have a dad it is as if he is aur brushed out of existence . You might tell me to try again but no I take take personal threats against me lightly and knowing what I grew up in I'd rather just let it be.

Hoping 

You see I'm hopeful for the future ooh not with my dad I'll let him be a miser of his own stony cold heart , I am hopeful for me for the love I have to give and for my family unit just the three of us . Putting down emotional roots is what I'm doing and I've never done that before in my whole life , you'll laugh when I tell you that when my parents were divorcing my dad wanted custody. Custody you say why that's natural to want custody but wait the custody wasn't for me it was for the cat!!!!

So you see I am forged in fire but with a heart of love .

"The moment I stopped living up to everyone else's expectations.

 

I lived up to my own ."

The One Where Alexa Tries To Break Me

I love my social media I really do but sometimes it has a side to it I don't like , the side where it can be directorial imposing the latest social media rules onto you . I mean I don't vlog I have dabbled yes but it's not a medium I excel in even though I'm quite quirky when I do it . You see blogging and social media gives me the confidence to do stuff I ordinally would not to. I blog in my own way , I tweet in my own way , I Facebook in my own way I do things by own way , I'm not against advice ~ advice which is constructive.

I learnt many years ago to my cost that everyone is not a social media luvvy and that's ok there is enough of us blogger s, vloggers and social media gurus to make the world go around . I do what I do and you do what you do simple as .   

I'm trying to get to Alexa to listen to me and it isn't working.

" Alexa play Butterfly by A~ Ha "

Alexa " Here's Butterfly by Cliff Richard "  

No Alexa play " A~ Ha Butterfly "

Alexa " Here's a medley of songs by Wolf Alice "

" Alexa Noooooooooooo"

Who is Wolf Alice ?

"Alexa play A~ Ha Butterfly "

Alexa " playing the lost boy in New York Simon and Garfunkel "

Arrrrrgh

I have patience of a saint I truly have after all as I grew up in the 1980s and owned a Spectrum 48 K< Rich.

Owning a Spectrum 48 K you learnt patience by loading the games onto your Spectrum 48 k you loaded the tapes whilst listening to that distinctive sound only made by loading Spectrum games. 

What ever you do if you own a Alexa don't ask it to sing to you ...

I'm not sure who is young to break first me or Alexa ...

Life's all about Fluffing Your Pillows

Life is all about fluffing your new pillows !


Only day ago I was trying to get to sleep and Mr T was snoring but snoring just at the point when I was trying to drift off , now I snore myself I have been told but I seem to snore later on. On the night in question I just had enough and just went off and went downstairs. Snoring can have a real impact upon your life yesterday I was like a functioning zombie. I as a snorer there isn't really a lot I can take  as I have asthma but Mr T we are trying the various snoring sprays and so far they really are not doing a great deal.

Change your sleeping height

Pillows for me always seem to die and I don't really like to spend to much money on them as I know I will have to change them at some near point. I have to sleep with 2 pillows and the though of sleeping on £30 pounds of pillow did seem like I was kamikaze with my money. W had decent pillows on the top ones we had got from Costco and for 2 pillows it was a good price , I can't remember what exactly but it didn't break the bank. We decided on some firm pillows from Sainsbury's Silent Night ones that were £15 each to put on the bottom in conjunction with the pillows that were ok , one night in it seems to have worked I am not hailing a miracle or anything.

I do think it is important to have a comfortable sleeping height , of course you don't have to have 2 pillows do there is where a deep pillow would come in. I saw a pillow at the supermarket that I had never seen before and it was a heigh adjustable pillow which seemed amazing and that might be the one to go for if you like the one pillow perhaps.


Make sure you're hydrated 

It's essential to drink enough in the day , I try try try not to drink to much tea before bedtime and stick to water or cordial but tea is my weakness I just love it so so much.

Try a Pillow Spray 

I'm trying at the moment a pillow mist from Avon and so far it seems to be working I mean I'm not going to sleep for a hundred years like sleeping beauty ....  You just spritz your pillows and top your quilt before you go to bed and you'll be slipping into a slumber in no time.