What Ho

So what am I doing today? I am at work as usual, and have just come back to my desk following a mosey around town and then a quite tasty philadelphia roll. The bread was a bit stale so I put it in the microwave for a few seconds. . amazing how that always works. So far in the sales I have just bought two dresses, from Warehouse, one was £13.50 and the other was £14.99. God I love a bargain. One is a long satiny dark blue patterned halter neck maxi dress and the other is a black knee length evening dress that is like ruched satin with lots of silver beads around the neckline. Interested?? This blog is supposed to be the minutiae of my life you know.

The very sweet girl I work with has today announced that she is pregnant, which is lovely. She is a tiny thing, think Kylie-esque, with no meat on her bones at all and she is beginning to develop the faintest little pot belly. It's all very cute. My boss eyed me swiftly and asked if I was preggers as well, but I am not. I think he thought I would be the one to get up the spout first, but I know I still want to wait a while. There's no rush.

Since we got back to Guernsey I have been oh so lazy so there's not really much to tell you. Working.. shopping... hacking apart the Christmas tree and putting it into bin sacks... watching all the Christmas TV we recorded, that's about it really. I've been cooking a lot of fish - Guernsey skate, whiting, king prawns, nummy.

So while we were away, we caught up in Winchester with the lovely Katy G who is getting married in 2 1/2 weeks time. Can't wait for the wedding and incase you're wondering I am thinking the black spangly dress perhaps, with a silver bag and shoes. We met her and Jan for lunch at the Wykeham Arms, and also saw her family as we stopped for a cup of tea at their house later on. We also had a night out in Winchester, with my sister in law Holly and her friends who all work at the Hotel du Vin. It was a bit weird going for a night out there, to my old haunts from when I lived there when I was 18, but it was good fun, I just felt really old seeing the Art students doing what I used to do!

Southampton was mainly seeing Nick's family and chilling out, I had a cold and had to sleep for a couple of days there. We spent New Year's Eve in Steve's fantastic bachelor pad house that is the coolest house, complete with pool tables, funky disco lighting and fireworks. I borrowed a brown suede minidress from Nick's Mum that I wore with some hideously flower power trousers and a headband. Nick went as a 1970's cowboy cop, I'm not really sure what he was supposed to be.

Swansea was just lovely, I really enjoyed spending time with my 5 1/2 month old nephews. They were farting, pooing, burping, laughing, little things and I wish we could have spent longer with them. So cute, and also so identical, although you can tell them apart as Ro is bigger than Ralphie at the moment. Suzi & Simon were well, and now their house is finally finished (they built it from scratch) they have a gorgeous home to bring up the boys in.

We only spent one night in Kennerleigh, Devon, as Nick was quite ill and had to sleep, so we didn't go to the House of Marbles, we will have to save that for next time.

All in all, I ate far too much food and spent far too much money over Christmas, but I think that's what it's all about eh.