BBC2 - Goodbye!

Again this time has been such fun!!! Thanks to all that played and took the time to comment on my blog! Thanks to Jean who organised it so fantastically the hints were fab!!!!

I will NOT be playing next time, and I am sticking to my word this time, as I go back to college on the 9Th of September and as it is the next level up, I will have more course work to do!!!!

It was really nice meeting you all, and I will keep you in my blog lines account and pop into you every now and then!!!

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BBC2 - Funny Vacation Story!

We are just back from our camping trip!
We really enjoyed it even though ....

It rained 3 days out of the 5, we were covered in mud, our airbed had a leak and we couldn't fix it as the ground was to wet to bring it out of the tent to find the leak, so we pumped it up every night but by morning we might as well of been sleeping on the ground! Skye changed colour from white to muddy brown! We were running out of clothes!!! Chloe and me rode the biggest roller coaster to date! We got the video, all 40secs of it!!! Which is sooo funny, will try to convert it to U-tube so I can post it here!!!

We had a lot of laughs, some fantastic days out even in the rain!!!!

I will be posting pics in a few days time, as I have a lot of editing to do!!!!

TFL
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BBC2 - 5 Fav movies and 5 Fav tv programmes

WOW this was a hard one, and I have lots more that I could add, these are no means all of my favs and not in order but they are the first ones that popped into my head!

Movies

1. Top Gun
2. Dirty Dancing
3. Footloose
4. 10 Things I hate about you
5. and all of Harry Potter

TV Programmes

1. All the CSI series
2. Cold Case
3. Desperate Housewives
4. Heroes (just started watching)
5. Will and Grace

TFL
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BB2 - Costumes the girls wore for halloween!

We don't celebrate Halloween as much in this country as they do in the US. But the girls have dressed up and gone trick a treating!

This first photo is of Chloe when she was only 7 years old!

This photo is of Chloe and Aimee in 2005!

TFL
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BBC2 - Draw a house

Based on your drawing and the 10 answers you gave this is a summary of your personality:
You are sensitive and indecisive at times. You are a freedom lover and a strong person. You love your house and family. You are a gifted artist as well. Once you have a problem, you need a friend with you. Your life is always full of changes. You are very tidy person. There's nothing wrong with that because you're pretty popular among friends. son.

When it comes to love, you shut yourself off. It's difficult to win your heart because you have decided to keep your feelings deep inside. You see the world as it is, not as you believe it should be.

You added a flower into your drawing. The flower signifies that you long for love. We also see that you are sensuous, sexual, and privately passionate. You don't think much about yourself.

Spent a little more time on this one!!! LOL

To play CLICK HERE!

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BBC2 - Five songs that I like to hear

I am a huge Bon Jovi Fan so and I love all their ballads so my list consists of

Thank You For Loving Me



Bed of Roses



Never Say Good Bye



Born to Be My Baby


I'll be there for you LIVE

PS Jon Bon Jovi was born to wear jeans, mmmmmh!!!!

or even no jeans!!!!

TFL
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BBC2 - Three Favourite Quotes

This was a hard one, as I have lots of fav quotes. I managed to pick 5


A child fills a place in your heart you never knew was empty"

May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields,
And until we meet again,
May God hold you
In the palm of his hand."

There are good ships, and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea.
But the best ships are friendships, and may they always be.

A red sky at night is a shepards delight
a red skyin the morning is a shepards warning

May you be rich in blessings, poor in misfortune,
Slow to make enemies, quick to make friends.
But rich or poor, slow or quick,
May you know nothing but happiness from this day forward.

As you might of guessed some of the sayings are Irish sayings!!!

TFL
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BBC2 - Five Favourite Links

I love visiting these blogs, call to them if you get a chance!

Tracey

Bean-Sidhe

Micayla

Melissa

and

Elisabeth Bell

TFL
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BBC2 - Tell a funny cooki8ng story!!!

Sorry but I really don't have a funny cooking story, boring I know!!!!

TFL
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BBC2 - Recipe for my favourite casserole or crockpot

Beef and Vegetable Stew with Parsley Dumplings

This is my family's favourite dish in winter time!!! I usually make a little more and then use it the following day by making a savoury beef pie from it!!!


It's an ideal dish for a slow cooker/crockpot. The dumpling dough can be prepared in advance but it's best to prepare it just before the dumplings are put into the stew. The potatoes will disintegrate some if you put them in at the start, so ideally you will put them in about 10 minutes before you put in the dumplings - or just leave them out, since you'll have plenty of carbs from the dumplings.

• About 450g-500g / 1 pound beef for stew, cut into large cubes (a cut like chuck that has some fat in it, nothing too lean)
• 3 large onions
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 large bulb fennel
• 1-2 celery stalks
• 4 large carrots
• 2 medium boiling type potatoes
• 2 bay leaves
• dried or fresh thyme - a couple of sprigs, or about 1 Tbs.
• small bunch parsley
• 2 beef stock cubes
• 2 cups red wine
• 1 400g / 8 oz can crushed tomatoes
• water, salt, pepper
• olive oil

For the dumplings:

• 3 cups regular all-purpose white flour
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• a bunch of parsley
• 2 Tbs. butter
• 1 cup (or so) low-fat milk, or soymilk

Suggested equipment: a heavy enamelled cast-iron pot such as a Le Creuset with an oven-safe lid, OR a slow cooker/crockpot; a food processor.

Peel and slice the onions. Chop up the garlic roughly. Take off the tough green part of the fennel and slice roughly. Peel and whack up the carrot and the celery.

Dry off the beef cubes thoroughly with a paper towel.

Heat up your heavy stew pot if you are using that, or a sauté pan/skillet if you are using a slow cooker. Heat up some olive oil, and brown the beef cubes. Take out the beef, add a bit more oil if needed, and put in the onions and fennel. Sauté until limp and a bit browned. You want to scrape off all the brown bits from the meat while you do this. Put in the garlic, and the carrots.

Put the beef back in, and add the wine. Scrape the bottom with a spatula so all the brown bits are melted into the wine. (This step is absolutely crucial to ensure that the stew has maximum flavor.)

If you are cooking this on the stovetop: Add the can of tomatoes and the herbs. Add enough water to come up to about 2 cm / 1 inch or so above all the veggies, and add the stock cubes and the herbs. (You can use canned stock if you like but since there is so much goodness in the veggies and beef and wine and so on anyway you can just use stock cubes.) bring the pot up to a near-boil (that means it's bubbling moderatly, not rolling), then lower the heat until it's just simmering, and continue to cook with the lid on.

If cooking in the oven: Preheat the oven to 150°C / 300°F. Follow the instructions above. Once the stew is hot, put the whole pot with lid on in the oven.

If using a slow cooker: add the liquids and herbs and stock cubes as above, and follow the manufacturer's instructions.

Cook for at least 2 hours, longer if you like up to about 6 hours. (The longer you cook it the more the veggies will melt.) Occasionally check the pot and add a bit of water or wine if it's drying out.

In the meantime, peel and cube the potatoes and put them in a bowl of water.

About an hour or so before the end of cooking (or dinner time), dump in the potatoes.

About 40 minutes before dinnertime, prepare the dumplings. Mix together the dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking powder). If you're going to mix by hand, chop up the parsley; if using a food processor just cut it up very roughly.

Put the dry ingredients in the food processor, and add the butter. Process until the butter is completely integrated (it will look a bit grainy). Put in the parsley, and continue processing until it's all chopped up and green. Add the milk through the feed tube while pulsing. You'll get a lumpy looking dough that's more or less all mixed together - no need to continue until you have a ball of dough.

If mixing by hand, rub the butter into the dry mixture with your hands until it looks grainy, add the chopped parsley, then slowly add the milk while mixing with a fork.

At this point, fish out the thyme twigs and bay leaves from the stew, and season with salt and pepper.

Form small balls of dough with your hands (flouring them if needed) and drop into the stew. Cover the pot and cook for an additional 20 minutes minimum (up to about 40 minutes).

This feeds 4 hungry people as a one-dish meal or more if you add things like bread and a salad.

TFL
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BBC2 - Something funny a child said!

Aimee has a lot of her own sayings, but the one that makes me smile the most is This is when it's cold and I say to her, "I want to cuddle you so you can make me warm again" and she replies "Don't take my warmneist"

I have always liked this photo of Aimee and hopefully it kinds of represents what I have just wrote! This photo was taken on the 11th October 2006 so she has recently turned 3

TFL
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BBC2 - How I rate as a 1930's Housewife!!

40 As a 1930s wife, I am Poor Take the test!

I don't and to be honest I don't want to, lol!!! Much too independent!!!!

BBC2 - Did you ever give up on something and ....

learned a lesson. What did you learn?

I am one of those people that won't give up on anything, I will always try and work something out to make it work, whether it is an object, a problem, scrapbooking or people!!!

I have been thinking and thinking and I can't come up with something that I gave up on!

But I have learnt there are some people that no matter how hard you try they always seem to let you down again and again!!!

Tfl
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BBC2 - Favourite Children's books

I would read anything I could get my hands on!!!!

But my favourite books would have to be Enid Blyton Famous Five books.

Chloe has received these series of books for Christmas and birthday presents through out the years and has a lovely collection of them now.


And very recently it would have to be the Harry Potter series of books which I bought for Chloe to read (wink)!

TFL
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BBC2 - 3 Favoutire one hit wonders

Saturday Night - Whigfield



I'll be there for you - Rembrants



Teenage Dirthbag - Wheatus



TFL
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BBC2 - Fav Talk Show

I used to watch Oprah, Sally Jessy Raphael (sp?), Ricky Lake, etc. Oprah would of been my favourite!! I don't watch a lot of TV now, since I have found crafting, the forums I visit, and all the lovely and inspirational blogs that I check into!!!

TFL
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BBC2 - My Blog Candy Giveaway!

EDITED SEE ABOVE!!!!!!!!!!!

Well ladies today is my day for the blog candy give away (sorry this is just for BB2 players), so if you have posted a comment from today August 15th and tomorrow 16th, you are in with a chance to win some embellishments and a few other little things from my stash!!!

Good luck, I will be drawing the winner tomorrow and will post here, on the message board and pm the winner!!!!

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BBC2 - Post a photo of anything!

My girls!!!



Here they are looking for grasshoppers!! I love seeing the two of them enjoy something simple like I did when I was their ages!

TFL
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BBC - Tags

Here are 3 tags that I have made for different swaps!

I haven't taken a photo, I used my scanner, that's why the background it white rather than black!!!! Sorry if it looks blah!!!!

TFL
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BBC2 - 5 tools I can't live without!

That would be ....... my tool box, lol

Okay the 5 top tools I need to have are:

• Pencil
• Ruler
• Craft Knife
• Double-sided tape

• Pokey tool

(I use it to make holes for brads)

TFL
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