Budding Artist? Maybe Not

As well as all of the cake GO and I took part in an art class.  Using acrylics we painted a landscape, it was a step by step approach.  While I enjoyed myself, GO panicked and worried that it wouldn’t look right.  As much as I reassured him that he should relax and go with the flow he got moodier.  Finally he relaxed and his picture turned out to be quite lovely.  Will he do it again?  I’m not sure but I will give it a go.

Not to standard

When I explained to GO what the cake show was all about, cake making and an international cake decorating competition, he was not too impressed.  When we arrived however and he saw the standard of the cakes he was blown away.  

The show itself was a combination of people selling  or showing their cake related wares.

It’s taken ten years

It’s taken ten year but GO now wears pjs/grubby bums.  For years he’d just sit around like the dad in the Goldbergs just in his undercrackers. Now he has a selection of lounger wear that he pulls on.  It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy when he’s wearing them because it means he is home and won’t be leaving anytime soon.  It’s the little things. 

Here come the birthdays

Hello November

Happy Halloween

It’s that time of the year again, let’s get ready for trick or treaters. 

1. Turn off the lights
2. Mute the TV
3. Hide behind the sofa
4. Don’t speak until they’ve gone

I can’t handle sugar filled children in the holidays.

But I’m on holiday

It sounded like a request but was in actual fact an order.  “Let’s all come in on Tuesday and get the classrooms sorted!”  Again picking up the pieces for someone else’s failure.  I dragged myself in having collected the car from GO at work.  Full of cold and feeling cruddy I arrived and began the Great Pellon chuck out.  As bad as I felt there is nice feeling knowing that the room is ready and all I need are a few new displays.  I am a bit perved about being asked to do work during the holidays as I don’t get paid, I will chase that up.  I’m also not going bust my arse doing paperwork which I have left at school anyway.  Rant over, sorry.  Onwards and upwards.

Scary Tea

As a back to work treat I made a Halloween tea.  We had unicorn horn soup (Chantennay carrots), pumpkin couscous, bloody fingers (hotdogs), and eyeballs (potato balls).  For desert I made Halloween Bark.

Charming

GO went to Manchester to a book signing, the guy is a bit of a non entity.  He is “famous” for playing tricks on people on Facebook and had actually written a book.  “It’s something to do!”  Was GO’s reasoning behind it, what he didn’t say was that he bought a copy of the book on Amazon (and then had to buy  second copy in the bookshop).  The best part of the whole experience for me was when the cheeky  tit sent me this message.  I actually laughed out loud!

Hauntedish Autumn

GO sold it to me as a haunted house in the middle of the Lancashire countryside.  I bought myself a Halloween skirt and some pumpkin accessories, as it got closer anxiety kicked in.  I don’t like being scared and am very jumpy as it is.  So he did a bit of digging,  “oh, mm?”  “What?” I asked.  “I think it’s aimed at kids, so probably won’t be too scary.”

It turns out, it wasn’t scary at all, the scariest part was finding a parking space.  It was a perfect autumn afternoon, chilly but sunny.  

We went on the ghoul and ghost trail, warmed ourselves by the fire and had the chance to carve a couple of pumpkins.  It was a nice afternoon, very colourful. I enjoyed watching GO carving his pumpkin, he usually tells me what to make and just watches so it made a nice change.