so we have had a busy weekend already! So far today tim have been sorting the huge pile of stuff in the garden by burning it in our new incinerator, although by the end it looked more of a large bonfire rather than a contained fire...! the garden has now got so much more space as all the stuff tim's parents chopped down is gone! it's fab!
And I have been preparing and painting the first coat of paint in our pink and purple stripy room. It is really starting to look nice, it needs another coat and I need to sand then paint the ceiling and skirting boards. It really will look fab when it is finished.

Tim has been doing the loft hatchm making it smaller so we can do the bathroom. Tim is going to build a new stud wall and we aremaking our loo and bathroom into one bigger room. It is going to look great when it is finished. So much is happening in our house at the moment I can't keep up, I think it will really start coming together soon, the best bit of all will be finally putting in carpet but I think we are a long way off that yet.
Half term has been great. I saw my guernsey girls last weekend, then spent the week doing planning and decorating the hallway. Then helen came to visit and we went bridesmaid shoe shopping and she got to see my house and meet the kittens. Then yesterday I went down to Leamington to visit my old school friends which was lovely, and I also had my hair cut!

Here is our garden now! How much wider does it look with all the brambles and stuff cleared!?!

well, I am having tonight off then tomorrow it is work, work, work again getting ready for monday! I did some planning this week but not half as much as I should have. So will have to really knuckle down tomorrow...!


chat soon, Gemma x

Guernsey Girly weekend!

Above is kath, Katie, Hannah and me in our gross pink dining room, I had them all to visit this weekend to show them my house, meet the kittens and to catch up on all our news! It was so lovely to see them and we had a fab time exploring my area a bit more. We spent last night drinking cocktails, watching girly movies, eating chinese take away and playing articulate! Good fun!!
Below kath and hannah on one of our walks, was such a sunny gorgeous weekend!


Below is one of the many houses in Derbyshire I want! Smack bang in the middle of the country side!!

Below is Carsington Water, it's only 20mins drive from our house and is so beautiful.



Me and einstein
Hannah and einstein, he is such a ladies man!!!

My cocktail fountain I got for my leaving present when I left Milverton, it was so much fun although the malibu, vodka, gin, blue curaco (or however you spell it) mixed with cranberry, pineapple and orange juice did make it a muddy greeny brown colour... tasted fab!
It lights up too!!!
we practised with water first, looks more appealing than my snot green concoction but wouldn't have been as tasty!

Katie and Tracey, I miss them soooooooooo much.....
Below are my babies on thier climber thing, they now sleep at the top together!

Katie's little girl Pheobie, she was so well behaved at our hosue seeing we sat and chatted for four hours or so, she amused herself with the boys.



I had my lovely old school friends visiting this weekend, we had a lovely saturday full of gossiping and chatting about my new school and Milverton. Not sure now the perfect school ever exists, Katie and Tracey are still having same old issues back there and I have different ones with my new school. I guess it's all experience!! I suggested we set up our own perfect school just the three of us, oh and my friends Laura and Fi can join in too of course!!! what a giggle that would be...

Tim and I also took our kittens outside for the first time ever! Was scary, didn't take any photos as I was too busy being an overprotective mother and panicking about them going over the fence!

here are my photos!

BYE XXXX

spending money... oops!

Ok so our beautiful kittens were growing out of thier kittn scratcher because they kept jumping on it and it would fall on them. So I went out and bought a huge cat tower thing! Look how tall it is compared to their old one... so naughty spending that much money on cats but hey! They love it! Because they are siamese=y we are hoping they will climb this rather than our curtains.
Einstein on the left and Oscar on the right, looking very handsome!
So I have had the best week at school so far. It is going really well and am feeling like part of the team now. Everyone is lovely and I like my class even if there are a few interesting characters!
Looking forward to the weekend and seeing my friends Katie and Tracey from my old school. Will be good to have a gossip and find out what's been happening at Milverton! They will also get to see my house too and the kittens of course!

bye, gemma x

HONEYMOONS!!!!!!!

I am so excited, Tim and I booked our honeymoon yesterday. We are going to Croatia for a week from the Wednesday after the wedding. That means we have a few days after the wedding to do fun stuff in guernsey with any friends or family over there still! We are thinking of going to herm for the day after the wedding for a realxing day of playing in the sea and chilling out on Belvoir bay, if the weather is ok that is!!!

So we are flying to Dubrovnik and staying in a hotel 20 mins bus ride from the city. We are going to chill out at the hotel lots, it has a lovely bar and restaurant, a secluded beach 5 mins walk from the hotel and boat trips to nearby islands. We may hire a car one day and go into the mountains too!

It is so nice to now have a holiday booked to look forward to after the wedding, I don't want to get so excited about the wedding day and it be over and done with really quickly then feel sad, now we have a romantic honeymoon to look forward to afterwards it makes the whole thing last so much longer!!!!

So it is now Friday and I have that lovely Friday feeling where I can drink wine, relax and not wake up early in the morning. I also have an exciting day tomorrow as I am going to have my first wedding dress fitting. I wish my Mum could be there with me but it is so tricky with her being in Guernsey. Never mind, I am going to book to go over in May to do lots of fun wedding things then!

I had better scoot now, just wanted to share our exciting news xxxx