tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17592724495305648272024-02-07T11:01:32.625+00:00Today is going to be the best day ever.......Heidi Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17114359075929802767noreply@blogger.comBlogger711125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759272449530564827.post-34703050894035744932017-05-22T17:24:00.001+01:002017-05-22T17:24:42.410+01:00Now and Forever, Through my Veins<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XvaSmDUfzKI" width="560"></iframe><br />
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<br />Heidi Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17114359075929802767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759272449530564827.post-6181491156389560522015-12-29T06:38:00.000+00:002015-12-29T06:38:00.350+00:00MullBarry Wine!<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Mull stuff day </b>- I had some mulled wine at several points this week and also spent a fair amount of time mulling things over!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Listen to Barry White day </b>- believe it or not Barry White never recorded a Christmas song, or not one that I can find anyway. And if it's not Christmas it's not playing in December!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Be horizontal day </b>- This could have been a couple of days this week, largely due to medication wiping me out and making getting out of bed a challenge at times, luckily when I did make it downstairs to be horizontal on the sofa all day I had my new Amazon fire stick to play with. Otherwise I fear I may have succumbed to a bit of Mr Kyle!</span>Heidi Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17114359075929802767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759272449530564827.post-31853557260930690842015-12-14T09:12:00.002+00:002015-12-14T09:12:32.678+00:00Six Slippers!<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Slippers appreciation day </b>- I realised this week that I don't wear my many pairs of slippers enough - not all at the same obviously, I only have 2 feet. So I've made it my mission to wear them more - instead of waiting until I can't feel my feet and notice that they're starting to turn blue!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Tell people you have a six-pack day</b> - The only six pack people would believe I had would be of the alcoholic variety! Which makes me sound like I have a problem - which I don't. Well I do but not with alcohol. Or with any other substance abuse. Never mind - I'll quit while I'm behind haha!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That nice Mr Matthews bought me a gingerbread letter to Santa which came with red icing so I could write my own message to him so I got on with that first...</span><br />
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<br />Heidi Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17114359075929802767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759272449530564827.post-21425459842094761182015-12-02T07:47:00.000+00:002015-12-02T07:47:43.819+00:00November Mission - The Results!<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nope, I don't even remember having a biscuit this month and I know I definitely didn't dunk one!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My secret weapon though is this wonderful book which Anna bought me for a previous biscuit related challenge! It has a whole section on dunking, I won't spoil it for you but I will say that if ever I were to feel the urge to dunk I'd definitely go for the Australian Tim Tam Slam method!</span><br />
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Heidi Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17114359075929802767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759272449530564827.post-74384256610237288852015-12-01T07:22:00.000+00:002015-12-01T07:22:38.697+00:00December Mission!<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My final challenge before graduating in the school of greatness is to </span><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><em><span style="color: red;">B</span><span style="color: orange;">E </span><span style="color: lime;">T</span><span style="color: cyan;">H</span><span style="color: blue;">E </span><span style="color: purple;">P</span></em></strong><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><em><span style="color: magenta;">A</span></em></strong><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><em><span style="color: red;">R</span><span style="color: orange;">T</span><span style="color: lime;">Y</span><span style="color: cyan;">! </span></em></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To bring peace, light, fun and board games to every occasion</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To remember nibbles, flowers and a bottle of wine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To never be empty-handed and always be full-bodied</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To show them all how sherry is drunk and presents are opened with true grace</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To be truly grateful for the bath salts and the jumper with dangly bits on the front and not internally grimace at all</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To open my heart to all that has been and all that is yet to come</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To be the </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><em><span style="color: red;"><u>D</u></span><u><span style="color: lime;">E</span><span style="color: red;">C</span><span style="color: lime;">E</span><span style="color: red;">M</span><span style="color: lime;">B</span><span style="color: red;">E</span><span style="color: lime;">R </span><span style="color: red;">Z</span><span style="color: lime;">E</span><span style="color: red;">N</span><span style="color: lime;">M</span><span style="color: red;">E</span><span style="color: lime;">I</span><span style="color: red;">S</span><span style="color: lime;">T</span><span style="color: red;">E</span><span style="color: lime;">R</span><span style="color: red;">!</span></u></em></strong>Heidi Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17114359075929802767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759272449530564827.post-62273590845853189072015-11-30T08:20:00.002+00:002015-11-30T08:20:54.233+00:00Those were the parties!<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Perfect a party trick day</b> - I confess that I didn't get around to doing this one, however I was impressed at Kevin's party trick of matching the <a href="http://lebistrotpierre.co.uk/locations/harrogate" target="_blank">Le Bistrot Pierre</a> cheeses to people at Bernie's birthday celebration!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Apparently Kevin himself is the Fourme d'Ambert (rich and creamy apparently!) and I'm the St Marcellin (nutty - although personally I think it's more to do with young and tender) and Ray's the Tomme de Savoire (I daren't even comment on this!) - Ray did get his revenge by saying that the Saint Maure could apply equally to either Kevin or myself as we both seem to be companions to many white wines!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">How very rude! And totally unfounded of course...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Those were the days day</b> - Some day these will be the days we'll look back on and remember as the 'good old days' - a scary thought lately!</span>Heidi Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17114359075929802767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759272449530564827.post-68438920035264832992015-11-23T07:22:00.002+00:002015-11-23T07:22:44.325+00:00Parsnip Appreciation!<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Parsnip appreciation day </b>- I used to really, really dislike parsnips. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But then I also couldn't stand bacon until my Dad made me bacon sandwiches when I was about 5 or 6 and was really poorly having just come out of hospital - I can still picture him walking in the room with the plate of quartered butties, I don't think I've every tasted anything so good (except maybe cream crackers smothered with Primula (ham or prawn) and then topped with thinly sliced cheddar)! And I used to refuse to eat spaghetti so while everyone else was tucking into spag bol I just had the sauce with cream crackers, I also wouldn't eat any of the tuna kedgeree type dish we used to have except for the tuna so used to sit for ages picking tuna flakes out of rice!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Happily I grew out of all these strange dislikes and now enjoy bacon, spaghetti and all of the tuna, egg and rice dish!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyway, I digress. Back to parsnips...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rather than doing the usual roast parsnips I made some <a href="http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/74610/crisp-honey-mustard-parsnips" target="_blank">crisp honey mustard ones</a> which were delicious and also some<a href="http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1736/parsnip-hash-browns" target="_blank"> parsnip hash browns</a> which were surprisingly very good (thanks to John's grating skills!)!</span><br />
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Heidi Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17114359075929802767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759272449530564827.post-8604776668373095742015-11-16T11:45:00.000+00:002015-11-16T11:45:55.086+00:00Don't worry, get mashed!<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Mashed foods day</b> - I didn't even manage any all week! The BBC have some good ideas though and it is getting to the time of year for good old comfort food...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Don't worry about anything day</b> - This goes against my nature but I really did try! This reminded me though of the time Bernie and I were leaving a concert (Billy Ocean or Michael Bolton I think) and, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rather than get caught up in the crazy rush of cars trying to get out of the car park at the same time and getting nowhere fast, we just sat comfortably waiting with the windows rolled down and 'Don't worry, be happy' belting out at full blast - much to the amusement of the other vehicle owners in our proximity :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No, I don't mean singing - although that would have been very entertaining! After incorrectly guessing Peter Cetera as the singer for every single end-of-movie theme we've seen recently (I think he's seen Karate Kid ll too many times - interesting fact time though...Glory of Love was originally written as the closing theme to Rocky lV apparently) he was finally right when it turned out to be Peter Cetera and Cher at the end of 'Chances Are'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The recent viewing of 'Only You' sparked a nostalgic journey through cheesy 80's movies including 'Chances Are' and 'Maid to Order'. Oh dear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But seriously, how on earth could you confuse the Powerballad King (Mr Bolton himself) with Peter Cetera? Having said that, there's no denying Mr Cetera's skill either - in fact I think I need to stay away from YouTube, I've just spent an inordinate amount of time unintentionally listening to one 80's powerballad after another!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found an "authentic" online tarot card reading at<a href="http://www.tarot4me.com/" target="_blank"> tarot4me.com</a>, which sounded exactly like the sort of reliable and credible source I was looking for...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I particularly liked that my card to "describe situations that are currently helping or interfering with my progress" was '</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Fool' and the advice was to "look out for those that think they know what they are doing but really have no idea." I don't need to look out for them, they seek me out with little or no encouragement. On a daily basis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It seems my 'Present' card is 'Judgement', "If I get things right then everything will turn out in my favour, if not then there may be problems ahead." Well duh. Apparently the 'Future', being 'The Sun' card means a happy period for me though so I guess maybe that means I'll get things right?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When it comes to my 'Goal' it appears that 'The Moon' means that there are forces working against me. Would that be all 43 of them or just the usual "treachery, deception, and unknown danger." it portents?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When it comes to 'Myself' my card is 'The Star', basically I'm awesome and the future is bright. No surprise to anyone that one then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My 'Outside Influences' over which I have no control are represented by 'The Tower' card, apparently "this is not a very nice card when associated with the devil or death" - I only have 2 cards left to turn over at this point...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And wouldn't you just know it - my 'Inner Self' card is indeed 'The Devil'.<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">It represents that my "</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">actions are motivated by negative influences such as temptation, addiction, greed, lust or power. Alternatively, I may be the victim and suffer from lack of control, subordination, weakness, and now find myself trapped in a situation I never intended to get into." Yep, that sounds like me, all of it ;-)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My final card 'The Outcome' is 'Temperance', which seems to imply that "w</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ith patience and moderation my future will stabilise and I can look forward to a time of happiness and harmony." It does also warn though to avoid friends or family upsetting this harmony with their problems.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So all in all as long as I avoid the forces working against me, treachery, deception, unknown danger, those who don't know what they're doing and friends or family with problems then everything should come up smelling of roses. Simples.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">...you too can teach yourself to read tea leaves <a href="http://www.tasseography.com/stepone.htm" target="_blank">here</a>. I say "too" but perhaps this is misleading - my attempt was such an abomination that I couldn't even bring myself to photograph the resulting mushy mess. If my cards are anything to go by I may have just sealed my fate by not doing this right as per the 'Judgement' card presiding over my 'Present'. Bring forth the forces of treachery, deception and unknown dangers - not quite the fabulous tomorrow I was seeking!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And I'm still waiting to get my email from <a href="http://www.ali-ina.com/voyance/v3_7ca_alisha/" target="_blank">Alisha</a> who claimed she was going to "get to work right away and send my revelations that nobody has ever been capable of revealing to me before now"...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Call me a cynic but I strongly suspect that every single person using this completely free service may find that they've arrived at just the right time as she was right in the middle of a Numerology session. In fact a number probably appeared when they arrived.Number 7. Immediately, she may see a brunette whose name starts with the letter M...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No joke, between all our diaries (social butterflies that we are - haha, I wish, it's mainly been because of work!) it's taken literally months to sort something out. However, last week I was absolutely determined so gave a list of dates and suggested that we either consider a night we wouldn't usually socialise on (Monday) or give up altogether!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The impossible became a reality last Monday when we all had a lovely evening together over lamb stew, a few bottles of red, Trivial Pursuits and several hands of Scabby Bitch (it's a card game!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And then we decided to take ourselves off to the Pine Woods for the <a href="http://www.pinewoodsconservationgroup.org.uk/events/halloween-walk" target="_blank">Halloween walk!</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now we've walked through the pine woods before in almost dark conditions (against my better judgement) and I swore I'd never do it again - not to mention the bizarre things I've seen in the daytime - yet, at my suggestion, we found ourselves wandering over to see what it was all about! It wasn't quite what either of us was expecting, we thought it would be a group walk through the pine woods and that there'd be spooky things along the way (like when they did the scarecrows along the path) but it was nothing like that and we left, having walked 'the walk' in just over 5 minutes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After a look around the gift shop at <a href="https://www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/harlow-carr?utm_medium=cpc&gclid=CjwKEAjw8NaxBRDhiafR-uvkpywSJAAxcl6fkallc1kfGVoAYUuWjLjrKCQKwaN4qyGHxCd84flebBoCVWHw_wcB" target="_blank">Harlow Carr</a> John gave me the option of heading to Charlie's via the safe and well lit main road or to take the eerie and terrifying route through the pine woods proper (by now it was approaching true darkness). In a fit of what can only be described as madness I opted for the latter. By the time we were halfway through it was pitch black, my death grip on John's hand had cut off the circulation to his fingers, and by the time some idiot on a bike, with no lights, came up behind us I was ready to drop to the floor, curl up in a ball and scream my lungs out (which wouldn't take long)!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After a couple of much needed drinks at Charlie's it was time to head home (via the safe and well lit main road) to watch suitable Halloween entertainment with plenty of trick or treat goodies (I always buy some and no-one ever knocks - waste not want not haha!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And then I spent half the night awake and terrified just waiting for it to get light so I could get up!</span>Heidi Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17114359075929802767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759272449530564827.post-69067141778339996912015-11-01T08:40:00.000+00:002015-11-01T08:40:03.410+00:00November Mission!<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It looks like, despite the title which had me raring to impress with my, as yet undiscovered, karate chopping moves, this months challenge revolves around more biscuits. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And to make matters worse it appears the to achieve success I must perfect the art of dunking (on the rare occasions I consume a biscuit I am <b>not</b> a dunker).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, in my quest for <span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><b>extreme success</b></span>, <span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><b>complete happiness</b></span> and <b><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">global world domination</span> </span></b>needs must! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fortunately I have a secret weapon in my ninja arsenal...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...watch this space...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Feed some ducks Day - </strong>I dutifully intended to set off in search of them at the Valley Gardens with a bag of bread crusts I've been saving (I've been freezing them - I wasn't going to feed them mouldy bread!) but unfortunately it absolutely tipped it down the one day I was free and, whilst I have a healthy degree of commitment to many of the challenges, I just wasn't prepared to venture out in torrential rain!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact there's only one thing the weather was good for - ducks!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At least I did better than last year when I ate duck instead of feeding it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Be ridiculously nice to your partner Day - </b>I've been much nicer than usual (not that I'm not usually nice to him though!) since he's stopping smoking this month and I don't want to drive him to taking it back up again! So, he's had more texts than usual and a sandwich and drink waiting for him (with a supportive post-it!) when he's got home from each late shift!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Wear a hat Day - </b>I have quite a few hats and would probably have already started wearing some by this time but as it's been unseasonably warm so far this month they've stayed where there are! However, it's been very cold indoors of an evening so...</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jump out of something Day - </b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">???</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Learn about Pandas Day - </b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4 challenges in one week and, let's face it, the other 3 didn't stand a chance when one of them involved learning about pandas!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I already know a lot about them (like the fact that they have S shaped penises - which may well explain the reproduction difficulties ha!) so decided to use this day as the perfect excuse to hop on a train to Edinburgh (as you do) and go and see a live one for the first time!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now anyone who knows me will know that I have a huge collection of panda themed 'stuff' (a large amount of which is regrettably packed away at present), and there's not a room in our home where at least one panda can't be found. Not to mention the </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2 small, and discreetly placed, panda tattoos I have.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I took a few photos of some of the pandas round the house (after just doing the lounge and kitchen I thought it best to stop!)...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eventually I'd like to go to China to visit a panda sanctuary but in the meantime this is the next best thing, and was something there was no way Bernie was going to let me do without her being there to witness it! So off we trotted to <a href="http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/" target="_blank">Edinburgh Zoo</a> to see the Ailuropoda Melanoleuca.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, by my reckoning I managed about 16% of a duvet day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which means I was 84% naughty by not achieving the challenge in full.</span><br />
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<br />Heidi Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17114359075929802767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759272449530564827.post-62166473028757389142015-10-01T07:22:00.000+01:002015-10-01T07:22:10.166+01:00October Mission!<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, October's Mission is...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gazing into the future of contemplating my full potential, taking the helm on my ship called destiny (my ship would not be called destiny - my ship would be called) and taking charge of my tomorrows!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The dream Job, dream person, dream house (and dream cheeseboard) are all within reach.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I must first imagine them, think like a crystal ball, look into the cards, the tea leaves, my heart and design a </span><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><em><span style="color: red;">S</span><span style="color: orange;">P</span><span style="color: lime;">E</span><span style="color: cyan;">C</span><span style="color: blue;">T</span><span style="color: purple;">A</span></em></strong><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><em><span style="color: magenta;">C</span></em></strong><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><em><span style="color: red;">U</span><span style="color: orange;">L</span><span style="color: lime;">A</span><span style="color: cyan;">R </span><span style="color: blue;">T</span><span style="color: purple;">O</span></em></strong><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><em><span style="color: magenta;">M</span></em></strong><strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><em><span style="color: red;">O</span><span style="color: orange;">R</span><span style="color: lime;">R</span><span style="color: cyan;">O</span><span style="color: blue;">W</span><span style="color: purple;">!</span></em></strong>Heidi Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17114359075929802767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759272449530564827.post-41743904892625470862015-09-30T08:02:00.000+01:002015-09-30T08:02:56.962+01:00September Mission - The Results!<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This month was definitely a success, in a month where my mission was basically to make things I made all these things and had a wonderfully creative month!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...I got all creative thanks to the adult (no, not that kind of adult) colouring book which Bernie bought me for my birthday (very good for therapy and relaxation apparently)...</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">made </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a mess (what's the saying - you can't make an omlette without breaking some eggs? Well you also can't make chocolate peppermint slices without getting melted chocolate everywhere or Christmas decorations without getting glitter everywhere!)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I learnt the previously unknown (to me anyway) fact that such a thing as a broccoli donut exists (<a href="http://team-yellow.com/2013/09/13/koreas-dunkin-donuts-introduces-the-broccoli-donunt/" target="_blank">Korea's Dunkin' Donuts sells them</a>) and I found a <a href="http://www.scratchmommy.com/broccoli-cheese-bacon-donuts/" target="_blank">recipe to make my own broccoli, bacon and cheese donuts</a>! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sounds wrong I know, but they were actually just like crustless quiche :-)</span><br />
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Heidi Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17114359075929802767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759272449530564827.post-33316509440430791062015-09-21T08:22:00.000+01:002015-09-29T22:55:35.790+01:00Funny weird pineapples!<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Notice small things Day - </b>Sometimes I fail to notice big things! I am making a conscious effort to focus on the small things though (every day) - and be grateful for them.</span><br />
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<b>Recover from weird phobia Day - </b>I've been trying to recover from my phobias for years haha! I seem to be doing this backwards - rather than getting phobias and recovering from them, the older I get the more I find there is to be afraid of!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm ok with spiders though, don't get me wrong I don't <i>like</i> them but when it comes to dealing with them in the house I'm definitely the man! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This also applies to spiders in cars. When Bernie came to pick me up from the hospital after my nose op (can you believe it's been a year?!) she drove me home with an increasingly blood soaked bandaged face and deposited me at home with John. About a minute later the doorbell rang and it was Bernie asking for John's help (I thought she'd pranged the car as she'd driven away), when neither of them returned I grew concerned and hobbled downstairs (I was still wobbly from the anesthetic) to see what the problem was.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They were both stood there looking tentatively into Bernie's car for the spider she'd seen as she'd driven away and which she was unable to continue her journey home with. I knew that John was the last person who'd be able to help with an emergency of an arachnid nature so I ended up rooting around in the drivers area to turf the uninvited passenger out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I unsteadily extracted myself (and spider) from the car and turned around to face a cowering Bernie and John with a glass containing my eight legged captive in my hands and </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">what looked like a blood soaked giant tampax taped to the middle of my face just as some poor chap walked past.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I dread to think what he made of the bizarre scene in front of him but by his concerned "Is everything alright here?" I assume it didn't look good.</span><br />
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<b>Be thankful for pineapples Day - </b>I do not like pineapples. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And people who put pineapple on pizza are just wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also don't like digestive biscuits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...combine the two, add some squirty cream and a cherry and you have a surprisingly good dessert (I know, it just sounds so wrong - even to people who like pineapple and digestives)!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My mum used to make these when we were kids and everyone loved them!</span></div>
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<b>Tweet something amazingly funny Day - </b>That would be this blog, obviously.</span>Heidi Orangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17114359075929802767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759272449530564827.post-87883000844617775722015-09-15T08:11:00.000+01:002015-09-15T08:11:14.280+01:00Weird lovely dancing!<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Develop a weird phobia Day - </b>I have enough existing phobias to be going on with without creating any more haha! Among my existing phobias are;</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">anything to do with eyes</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my ankles being touched</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">scary movies (and books)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">leaving the house somedays ha!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">daddy-long-legs</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">triple grate type things (they're not grates but I have no idea what to call them) on pavements</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">driving</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">swimming</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact not just swimming - putting my head underwater. At a recent (and first) visit to the fabulous <a href="http://www.turkishbathsharrogate.co.uk/Pages/home.aspx" target="_blank">Harrogate Turkish Baths</a> (gift vouchers are always welcome if you're at all inclined!) John fully immersed himself in the exhilarating plunge pool and suggested I do the same. I threw him a horrified expression and told him I couldn't possibly do that, when he asked me why not I earnestly told him that I couldn't breathe underwater. Apparently neither can anyone else.</span></div>
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<strong style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dance to work Day - </strong><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't dance to work, so, I'm going to make it up to you by sharing this beautiful video (yep, it made me just a tad weepy), you lucky things you (don't worry - it's not a video of me line dancing I promise!)!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, my name (along with thousands of others to be fair) will be going on a journey to Mars!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Courtesy of NASA I'll (in name only) be hitchhiking a ride on a silicon microchip aboard the Insight Mars Lander when it launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, in March next year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This mission, the first of its kind, is dedicated to investigating the interior of the planet. It will place a seismometer on the surface of the planet to measure quakes and learn more about the planet's interior using seismic waves and will also use a self-hammering heat probe to burrow deeper than ever before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I admit it - when I searched for this I did find myself dancing along to it, I'm sorry.</span><br />
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