Now I’ve adequately played around with the appearance of my blog, I’m going to carry on updating you with the tales of my bank holiday weekend!

Sunday, I was up early again, very tired… to head of to my favourite shopping location, Bicester village! I was glad to see they have built a new car park there, so no longer do you have to weave in and out of the cars parked on the footpath! We had gone with the intention of pricing up Mulberry handbags… you see its mum’s birthday next month and I had said I would contribute to the cost of one as her birthday present! However, from being £147 in the January sales, they had shot up to in excess of £300, mum decided she definitely didn’t want one. We had a great browse around the shops, I got a nice Burberry cosmetic bag for £5… bargain, and priced up some nice watches… I’m unsure though as to whether I should save for a fashion watch (Fendi) or a real watch (Tag)… there is only £100 in it, so I guess really I should try to go for the Tag, however with Paris at the end of the month, Italy next month and Australia coming hot on the heels of that, not to mention Christmas and birthdays, I think it might be a long time before I can save up for that watch… not to worry, I have a nice watch so it’s not urgent!

During the course of our browsing, mum managed to find her favourite label, wheels and dollbaby. We found her this fab outfit, a black pencil skirt and kind of 1950s pink polka dot top, it was an absolute bargain, so we snapped it up, I have yet to wrap it but that is her birthday present! I think she is looking forward to wearing it when we all go to Birmingham for her birthday next month! Anyway, we continued with our browsing, I didn’t see an awful lot I wanted to buy this time (highly unusual for me) but mum bought quite a lot before we head off home!

We spent the night in watching Cape Fear with Bailey… it was nice to have a relaxing evening after the previous hectic day.

Bank holiday Monday yey!!!! We didn’t have to be up as bright and early as the previous days; we were going to the Cotswolds, so only a short drive! This time it was Peter, me and mum… (3 days of non stop going for me). First we head off to Stow, we had both dogs but unfortunately we hadn’t timed it well and as soon as we alighted the car we were pelted with rain… however, on the bright side, this did allow me to wear the new Michael Kors boots I had bought in Birmingham the week before, see every cloud has a silver lining! We weren’t long out of the car (and into the rain) when my friend Sharika called… I knew she had been on holiday to Trinidad with her boyfriend, but it turns out she had some good news. Gav (that’s her boyfriend) had proposed to her while they were away! They are a lovely couple; I think they will have a wonderful marriage! They are getting married in 2009 in Tobago… and I’ve been asked to be a bridesmaid! How exciting is that? Of course that means even more saving now… I wonder what the chances are of me winning the lottery between now and next month? Lol. It seems having gone through a wedding drought of late, I am now being asked to be bridesmaid at more than one wedding… I am excited!

Back to Stow… where there was a horse fair taking place and subsequently the whole village was filled with Gypsies… the shops weren’t really staying open as a result so it wasn’t long before we got back into the car and made our way to Bourton on the Water… the sun had started to come out too which was a bonus! It was lovely to spend the rest of the day there, Bailey went in the shallow river chasing ducks, mum went in and out of gift shops, and Peter and I went to the is fab classic car museum! I’m hoping to get a classic car next year, people keep trying to tell me I shouldn’t trade in my 2005 model car for a 1970s MGB, but they have so much character, what a fun little car?! I’m going to go to the classic car shows first and make sure I can fit in one (I’m a big lass you know) but then, who knows, next summer I could be whizzing by in a classic sports car… cool hey?

The bank holiday was drawing to a close, and to say it had been busy and exciting would be an understatement… exhausting though… I’m still in recovery I think!

I got bored with my old look, so I thought I would change my image a little... cool hey?

Well folks, I don't usually sit here and post blogs so late as almost 11pm at night, so please excuse any mispellings (although not sure what my excuse is usually)... I just thought that seeing as I am on here experimenting (with success I might add) that I would tell you about my busy, but exciting day!

We were all up this morning at stupid o'clock to travel the 4 hour (3 hour if you believe the AA route map) drive to Portmeirion in North Wales. Portmeirion, really can only be described as a village of folly! It is where the 1960s series, the prisoner, was filmed and is based on an Italianate design. I visited on a school trip (around 10 years ago now) for my photography course, and it was quite magical, so with Peter's latest photography project being on the subject of 'phantasmagorical' we head off there, with his daughter who, god bless her, had to be dressed up almost gothinc, like a menacing grudge type figre, and his son, whom I was going to teach the basics of photography to (just like I had done with Peter over a year ago). Anyway, despite the tremendous drive and few misdirections (my fault ) we finally got there with plenty of light to spare and started snapping happily... well almost happily, Peter, the crazy tart, had decided to experiment (it seems we are all in an experimental mood today) with Infrared film... well sooner him than me it seems he has put a terrible amount of work into this project, and the ideas were just fabulous! We toured the entire site, the village, the dog cemetry, the japanese water garden, the beach and utilised each area wonderfully... now I am excited to see the outcome of my pictures, because it is such a long time since I took anything really! I'm looking forward to seeing John's pictures, because I want to see if I'm any use as a photography teacher... but mostly I'm dying to see Peter's pics, I've never been brave enough to try to use infrared, so can't wait to see the results... could be wildly exciting!

On the way home, we were all walking along the beach (Sarah had just been photographed in one of the lagoons) when we stumbled upon the craziest looking (thankfully dead) jellyfish! I've since discovered it to be a blubber jellyfish (oh the joys of google) but it was huge compared with what I'm used to seeing on our English beaches... is this a sign of global warming perhaps? I currently think everything is a result of or a contributor to global warming, but hey, this dude was one large jelly, I wouldn't fancy coming face to fact with one of those while paddling in blighty!

Right, well I hope you enjoy my blog at this ungodly hour... I'm off to catch some zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzs, night night!

I am experimenting with trying to upload music videos onto my blog... so I thought that I would start with our song, that is Peter and my song... its our song because it's the first song we ever danced to, so lets give it a go!