Sunday Catch-up ~Moving Week

Awww man, I'm really not in the mood to be typing a catch up today, i think I need a laptop so I can play at the other house rather than having to type everything while I'm at Dads & so easily distracted. I was really busy today too so pretty tired! I also realise i've already missed at least one feature I would usually include in the blog around this time of the month which is pretty annoying, so I'm not sure if just to go on a little break until I have internet in the new house. What do you think?

My week started with the hype over the blood moon, but having not long got back off holiday I was getting tired pretty early and didn't manage to stay up past 1 :x However luckily I woke up about 4.30 randomly so I got this photo in my sleepy state then went back to bed!
Sadly the following day my degu Dash passed away, poor little thing. Understandably I was pretty upset.

Face had a couple of days off after that and hired a van so we could move our heaviest stuff to the new house. It was hard work! I mean, obviously, but I think actually harder was trying to pack stuff, I gave up in the end on trying to sort and just packed everything :x

A few days later I went to help Dad clean out the degu cage and we ended up spending far more time outside playing with fire than planned...or even intended XD It was fun though. Sometimes you just have to enjoy the moment. Or maybe that's my procrastination talking.

Today I went to a camera fair in Wolverhampton and spent far, far too much. Even though I had intended to under the excuse reason of 'home decor' ;p After we left we decided to try out our new purchases and the lovely weather with an explore around West Park.
Well, that was some of my week, how was yours?



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Catchup Sunday ~Days

So there's not much to say about this week. I didn't have any time off until Saturday, and I didn't really get out, though not for trying!

On Monday Face finally had a morning off and I wasn't in till the evening so we went up town where there as this massive inflatable thing up for the bank holiday. It was called 'Architects of Air' and was all lit up inside and just something unusual to look at. It sounded really interesting from all the adverts on Facebook and that but when we got there the queue was just full of parents and their young kids and it kinda put me off. I'd got the impression that it was for anyone to see but been left with more of a feeling of childishness. Bleh.

I've got a pumpkin that's set in the garden! I'm really excited about it XD I took this photo around Wednesday, and it's already grown bigger! I think I'll show you more around the garden on Wednesday as not we're coming into autumn quite a bit is changing and slowing down.

I couldn't resist posting this photo, even though it's blurry. Aren't these boys just so cute?! x3

Saturday was finally the day of the Kast Off Kinks, tickets I'd bought for Dad for his birthday. It featured actual members of the band and of course they played all the top tracks. I'm sad and I don't care xp They even played one of my favourites- Days <3 And of course Waterloo Sunset! Dad seemed to really enjoy himself which of course was the point of the whole thing x3 It seems ages since I went to a concert so it was awesome to do something different too.
Did you have a good week? Get up to much?



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Sunday Catch-up ~Random Happenings

Another week gone by already. I can't believe how fast this year is going! And still no true signs of summer, I think I'm going to have to give up on it and just look forward to autumn ;p Anyway, instead of looking too far ahead shall we look back on the week I just had?

Earlier in the week we went to visit Face's parents, they are getting their garden remodelled and their dog Brandy is playing the 'poor pup' role by sitting in the muddy areas and chewing on bits of stick he can find...even though he has plenty of fine toys XD

The garden is getting on now and we've got many, many tomatoes to eat XD Some are better than others but they're all good. Earlier in the week we had a massive fry-up where these guys were the star of the show, I'm looking forward to a few more ripening up x3

My day off was a pretty nice day, with a little bit of sun here and there. Dad wanted to go out and I suggested we head out to Sutton Coldfield to hunt for more of those owl sculptures. We ended up having a really good day looking around an area I'd not been before and we found all the owls but one! In a visitor center was this fox, all posed with the other stuffed animals. Apparently he was road kill, poor thing.

You can tell the year is getting on when the rowan berries start to appear, but they look good anyway, right?

Face's parents have both had new cars recently and so they've given us this car to help us move! It's an estate so I won't have to keep trying to wodge things into my car XD And it's super fancy in the mean time too, at least it seems it! It has a large glass roof, many different electronic features and even a 5-cd changer XD It's pretty cool!
Have you had a busy week too?



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Sunday Catch-up ~Art Week

Well, it's been a good week, and I've got a few photos to put up for a change :]

I had a bunch of night shifts this week which was great for doing whatever I wanted in the daytime, with just a bit of extra sleep-in time XD So one evening, Dad & I went on a little drive around to enjoy the evening and stopped at the Telford Steam Railway for a while. There was even a gent who worked there just doing a couple of things to one of trains and he let us in for a closer look and told us a little info about the place, how cool was that? x3

Another week, more pretty lilies x3 These yellowy ones are the only ones of their type in the garden.

Later on in the week I went with a friend to see 'Hiroshige’s Japan', an exhibit in the Wolverhampton Art Gallery. I'm not sure if I was allowed to take photos...but it didn't say I couldn't, so? Aha. It was worth the look anyway, although it wasn't a large collection. I learnt a bit about wood-block printing and got a lot of wanderlust. This was one of my favourite paintings, showing a man riding his horse into a small village in the snow.

I'm not sure if you can see what's going on here, but basically Face and I took a drive after winning a table on ebay xD When we collected it we hadn't measured the car or the table so it was kinda pot luck as to whether it would fit or not. As you can see, it did! Juuuust. I have a rather small Daihatsu and it still managed to get a full size table and 4 chairs in the back XD Now the challenge is to find somewhere in the house to put it until we move into our place.

Today a friend and I met up in Wolves and went to check out a little car display at Bantock House. There were only like 6 old cars there, all of this type (I don't really know what you would call this kind of spoke-wheeled car) but we had a look and got some photos.

Later we went onto Birmingham and spent hours mooching around the place looking for these owl sculptures that'd all been painted by different artists in varying themes. It was a lot of fun, I like collecting and I like mooching around, so this was my kind of day! We found just over 30 in the centre of Brum, which I'll tell you more about another time :] We then went on to have all-you-can-eat sushi for tea, where we rolled out from about an hour and a half later. OMG sushi is so filling x.X
I hope you had a good week too? Sadly I'm back on a normal shift pattern next week but hopefully I'll find more fun (& cheap things!) to do x3



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Sunday Catch-up ~Tuesday Edition

Aha I suck, I'm sorry. Would you believe I've had the last two days off and still managed to skip my posting schedule? I'm sure if you know of my mastery of procrastination you can :x
It's not that I had an amazing week full of interest, but since I already had all the pictures edited up for this post I thought I should actually post them :x

Well, I'm still pretty obsessed with these lillies...I think I'm going to have to put some money aside to buy more next year XD I've got some white and yellow ones coming out now too x3

On Tuesday we went out with some friends to Southwater for dinner. The town looks so good now they've done it all up. I'd hoped to get a picture of it in the dark with the building lights shining across the lake too, but the nights are still long as we left too early XD Next time then!

On this day Dad and Face were both out andso I did some stuff here and there and then decided i needed to get out of the house for a while. I went for a drive and suddenly thought to check on this field that a couple of years ago was coated in massive poppies. Yeah...I missed all the big poppies (check out my instagram for that shot...) but all these little poppies were cropping up at the edge of the field x3

Well, this is getting to be quite a flower-themed post, isn't it? I was about to go out the other day and noticed that the bees are loving our lavender plants at the moment. I was really trying for a shot of a bee flying but it just wasn't happening, so there's this one instead x3

Driving back from my friends house on Sunday, I was just in time to catch this sunset x3 So gradual!
Well, that was it for last week, did you have a good week?



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July Photo-a-Day ~Week Three

Ohhh, so over the weekend I was crazy busy and like a dork I had nothing pre-written so here we are with an amalgamated Monday weekend post!
I thought as I didn't take many photos at all last week that I would put together Saturday's July photo challenge and Sunday catch-up :x So lets start:

A Forest Path
This one was taken out near the wrekin and although I'm sure this challenge is sort of planned to make me get out more and take more photos I was so busy this day I literally just drove to this spot to take this photo. Hmmm.

An Oak Tree
I would've liked to find an oak tree with some sort of interesting history or something, but while I was driving down a country road the view took my interest, and then I saw this tree. It's nothing special, in fact there were a lot of oak trees down this lane, but that's kinda what struck me- it's very british, I think? x3

Front Door
A simple one here, I was going to see if I could spot someone else's pretty front door, but I ended up going with our own XD

View From the Top of a Hill
Another view from a drive I took earlier in the week. The weather was really nice this day in between two rainy days, and really clear too as I looked from the top of a small hill out near Little Wenlock.

Clouds
Self explanatory this one? Although pretty normal, I thought the clouds this day were quite picturesque.

Free Shot
I hadn't realised it was quite this time f year, but the wheat is turning golden already. The year is going by so fast ;d
Well, only one more week left of this challenge! I'm not sure what I'm going to do for August quite yet, if anything. Any ideas you'd like to see?



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Sunday? Catch-up ~Thursday Edition

So, being the terrible person I am I didn't get to type up my Sunday catch-up, even though I found time to edit the photos for it. It's now Thursday and the guilt has overridden my procrastination and so here I am, to at least share the photos I took even though I didn't do that much last week.

    So, Tuesday was my second day off in the week and as both Face and I had it off I finally managed to convince him to go to the safari park with me! (I need someone to drive so I can take photos or I'd probably go by myself tbh ;p). Even though it rained a bit when we were in the walk-about bit of the park we still had a really good day and I got to take loads of photos, woop x3 So I've already already told the story of the African wild dogs so I thought I'd focus on the other animals/dinosaurs for these pics x3
I really liked this one I got through the wires of the cheetah, did you spot the other cheetah lurking in the background? Meerkats are probably like my second favourite zoo animal so I got a ton of cute photos of them too, I would've liked to have seen the lemurs too but we were out of time by the time we got there. Something for next time I suppose.

On Friday my Graze box came, and it has the cutest box for summer. I like how they put so much effort into their design. Everyone around me knows how easy it is to sell me something in appealing packaging (and small tubs tbf...I'm a sucker for marketing) x.X

On Sunday I did a 13 hour shift and felt bad about not getting many photos this week, but as I was lamenting this the sun set and there was this beautiful sunset. I quickly popped outside while the others worked on to get this photo. I'm a terrible coworker sometimes :x So I'd ask how your week was usually but lets face it, we're well into this week! Well, I hope the remainder of the week is good to you, it's nearly the weekend x3



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Sunday Catch-up ~Tiki Tours Galore

Another week gone already? It's been busy, but I'll let you know more about that another time :]
In the mean time, what did I get up to this week? Well, Monday I went to help our sister hotel set up their till banks for a new promo we have starting. No one there knows how to program the tills and so I get the privilege, but to be fair, I don't mind xD It's something I enjoy doing anyway and being the needed person is fun too x3

Tuesday was a work day, so without much time to myself I just dossed around the house and played with the pets :] The gerbils are getting so much bolder now! They are mostly fine with the lid of their tank opening now, and even come out to get sunflower hearts x3 I'm so proud!

Wednesday was a busy day. Dad and I were supposed to going out to Derby for an arranged flight he got for Christmas, but the weather wasn't quite right so as I was up and I'd managed to get the day off we went out for a tiki tour anyway XD
Dad suggested Llangollen, his go to spot for days out, and I usually try to steer him into something else cause it feels like we always go there XD But I thought that I've not been there for a while now so away we went. We had a really good day too! We checked out all the usual spots and yeah the weather wasn't always at it's best but we had a good day exploring and seeing what we could find x3

Dad managed to rearrange his flight for Friday, which luckily I already had off work. We set off pretty early and ate some breakfast sandwiches in the car on the way there x3 Dad's Christmas present was a 30 minute microlight flight and he seemed to really enjoy it! He saw some good countryside and got to try an experience he'd not done before.

The flight gave him an idea of what to explore next and we headed to a local town he'd flown over...and the name slips my mind. It was a lovely little town though, but we weren't parked in a great spot so moved on to look at a place called Dovedale. It was very similar to some Shropshire beauty spots, but of course it's always fun to explore somewhere new x3

We moved onto a beautiful proper English village called Ilam then. This is the kind of place people imagine when you talk about England I think, just look at it! There was also a national trust manor house there which we checked out, as the gardens were free to get in X3 The sun was out in full strength by now though and it was really sapping our energy, so we headed back to the river that ran through the town and found a nice shady tree to sit under- where we promptly fell asleep for 20 minutes XD

On our way back towards home we spotted a random car park in the middle of nowhere, so out of curiosity we went to see what it was about and found this massive ex-train tunnel! We were not expecting that XD It was a good way to finish off our day of exploring though x3

Today was our local area's funday. It's always quite a small affair, but I love that they put the effort into putting it on, even though we haven't always got the best reputation as an estate :x It started out raining but luckily brightened up to give them a lovely day for a fete-like event x3 After me and Dad were done checking it out, we went cherry hunting around the estate. It always astounds me that people don't realise that cherries off a tree are the same things they buy in the shops, but I'm glad as this way I get to eat them all! (Okay I'll share with Dad & Face ;p) This year has a bumper crop going on too so I'm soon going to have more than I can manage I think XD
Have you had a good week? Get much exploring done? ;3



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