The other day I saw, what I can only describe as one of the funniest things from a TV show in, well…. forever. The Slow Chicken Dance from New Girl just about made my day.

Take a look at the youtube vid of it below. Or if you don’t want to ruin the episode for yourself then start watching NEW GIRL  starring Zooey Deschanel immediately. It is too cute.

With 2012 fast approaching, here are a few new inspirational or cool/cute images to take a look at. Please share & re-blog x

As you can tell, I wasn’t exactly able to come up with a witty title for this post. So I stated the obvious! lol. Here are a few pics of the Christmas related food I made, either as gifts or to use up leftovers etc. Enjoy!

Chocolate Toffee Popcorn Xmas Bark, ready to be broken up and bagged.

Little gift bags of the Toffee Chocolate Popcorn Bark!

Cranberry & Pistachio cookies ready for the oven!

Food on the Christmas Day table. Pigs in Blankets, Roast garlic chicken breasts, roast potatoes, carrots, sprouts, yorkshire puds, roast beef and stuffing. We had so much leftovers lol.

Spanish omelette that I made for lunch yesterday. Made using eggs (obviously!) leftover gammon, tomatoes, cheese, onion, pink peppercorns, cracked black pepper and parsley. It was delish!! Served with greek salad.

I’m sure there were more food related pictures from this Christmas but I can’t seem to find them on my office pc right now so I’ll update if I come across anything!

So much has happened over the festive period here that it would be impossible for me to sit and create a blog post about them all! Instead I’ve opted for the easy way out, showing you all some boring pictures from the family album over Christmas. I’ll also post a couple of food pics in a separate post.

Hope you all had a great Christmas and that you are all looking forward to what 2012 may bring!

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We have my daughters gifts under the tree on Xmas eve, her opening them, the Christmas table with my mum trying to do a normal smile and not look mental, my nephew playing with my daughters new Toffee the Pony and the final pic is of our dog Zac’s Christmas present, a new food bowl lol. Thrilling stuff!! 

On December 6th 2011 we attended the 2011 Alfie Boe tour at Bristol Colston Hall. What an amazing event!

Regardless of whether or not you are a fan of classical music, you needn’t worry. Alfie delivers a wide range of songs to suit everyone and his astounding voice takes each one and makes it his own, in his beautiful and charming way.

I came along with my husband, mum and 8yr old daughter so I can definitely vouch that people from all age ranges will enjoy the show! Alfie has a natural, friendly and easy-going stage presence that instantly makes you feel right at home. Despite the venue being very large, things felt surprisingly intimate. There was much laughter as Alfie joked with the audience and the orchestra and everyone was certainly in high spirits all the way through the performance.

Alfie Boe has an instantly recognisable voice; it is simply breath-taking. It is shown off to its absolute best potential on well chosen tracks from both of his albums and of course a little treat for all the Les Mis fans out there.

Highlights of the show for us had to be the stunning ‘Bring Him Home’ which brought the whole audience to tears and to their feet for a rapturous standing ovation. We also loved ‘Tell me it’s not True’ and a very beautiful, festive rendition of ‘Have yourself a Merry little Christmas’ which really did get everyone into the Christmas spirit!

There was much singing, dancing and some audience participation at the end and somehow my 8yr old daughter even ended up on stage with another younger audience member during the final song. She got a hug and a kiss from Alfie (which made her whole night!) and danced along happily alongside him. What a guy!

In short, if you are looking for an evening of entertainment, a voice that will leave you absolutely blown away and a fantastic atmosphere then get yourself to one of the amazing Alfie Boe tour dates linked in full HERE . You WILL have a blast!

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It is 3am and I’m writing this as I’ve just posted a pic of my Christmas tree on my tumblr account and thought really I should probably post it here as-well, seeing as how this place is being a little neglected at the moment. I AM going to be better at updating.

So; yes, we put the tree up at the weekend. I just know it is going to start annoying me before Christmas is here but right now it looks so full of twinkle and festive cheer that I can’t help but find myself a little mesmerised by it.

The bottom left of the tree needs a few more red bows adding to balance the effect, it looks a little bare down there compared to the rest of the tree. Yes, I’m a bit OCD with the Christmas decor!

Things have been manic as usual around here. Work is still busy (I’m not really complaining, I actually like having projects on the go and a target to be working to) and the online women’s mag I’m editor of is really starting to get swamped with PR requests and last minute features that need to go live. On top of this, the winter sickness bug kindly decided to pay a visit to our household yesterday and left its mark on my 8yr old daughter, who subsequently left her mark in vast amounts all over our bathroom floor. Bless her, sometimes you just have to sit back and let nature run its course and let your body rid itself of the toxins. This was one of those times!

Thank goodness (after a night in my bed and a day of napping on the sofa) she now seems to be much better. As a mum, you naturally just wish that you could do something more for your child when they are suffering. So frustrating!

Life with the Fibro, several chronic auto-immune issues and random sleep problems are making the winter months a little harder for me as usual, but I think I’m managing the balance of work and rest a little better than last year and haven’t burnt myself out as much just yet. I’ve even managed to get myself a nice little treadmill regime back again. Baby steps.

Once again I have been rubbish at blogging and posting any daily inspiration pics. Here are three that I quite liked this week. I’ll post more soon!

As always, I claim no rights to these images, copyright remains with original owners. 

It’s time to light the lights….

It’s time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet show tonight!

I’m loving the new Muppets O.P.I nail polish collection. They are full of glitter and metallics and look really festive.

My absolute favourites from the collection have to be ‘Designer De Better’ a stunning metallic. ‘Gettin’ Miss Piggy With It’ a fab glittery red and ‘Excuse Moi’ a glitter filled pink.

I’ve been playing around with these and think that the combination of ‘Designer de Better’ and ‘Gettin’ Miss Piggy With It’ over the top is the perfect festive Christmas design for your nails. Not too over the top bit full of Christmas sparkle!

Available from Lena White and QVC both individually and in mini sets which would both be great for Christmas gifting this year! Get them while you can.

Soooo! On November the 3rd TNO (look it up on the about page if you have no idea who this is) and I had our 7yr anniversary! Where the heck did that creep up from??

He had to work for most of the day/evening but when he came home he had brought back champagne, flowers and all the ingredients to make what he dubbed ‘The Pizza of Loooove’  catchy, no?

I’m impressed that he made it for us even though he was tired from work and still feeling slightly under the weather. I am lucky. Also a little spoiled.

You can look at the pizza of loooove below. It was super tasty!

Here’s a couple of action shots for you below lmfao. Check out the ‘Mezzaluna’ action of the herb chopping there. I was impressed, I love that thing. More on that soon.

I haven’t posted any inspiring pictures here for a while so here you go, a few pictures that I find inspiring, cute or cool. Hope you are all keeping well and enjoying the Autumn weather!

 As always, all rights below to their original owners/creators.