Hello – anyone still out there??

Well, where to start – it seems I have become somewhat lackadaisical (I love that word!) in my blogging posting of late (I can’t really call what I do blogging, not sure why?) and so am back with a flourish to announce that I am going to try my bestest to post more frequently, at least five four three times a week.

Well let’s catch up shall we?

It’s been all go in the LannyLee household lately, we’ve been on a mission to decorate since we had our 1-year assessment from the house builders and had all the annoying little cracks in our plaster work patched up. We have been given the green light to decorate and so have jumped in with gusto to find the perfect shade of paint to go with the wallpaper we had bought, and to find a suitable shade of red for the kitchen, as we have some funky, not to mention cheap and cheerful plates that we are basing the colour scheme of the kitchen on. We eventually settled on Moroccan Red
and there’s enough left to even do the downstairs loo. (well there is a recession on, waste not want not!) We have chosen a colour called Mushroom for the bedroom, living room and landing, (I’d link to the colour on the H0mbase website, but I can’t seem to find it) luckily there was an offer on 3 for 2 on all tins of 2.5L so we managed to get six tins of paint for £45 (which my mum gave us the money for), even better we managed to get two for free as despite pre-ordering and paying in advance for the five tins the muppets at said DIY store managed to put them on the shelf and consequently sold two of them. Cue Lanny getting very annoyed and an extremely apologetic service manager offering to refund the two tins and urgently re-order them – score! Six tins of paint for £21.98, brilliant!

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Oooh, before I forget – does anyone have a good pea and ham soup recipe (I’m looking at you Stephie ), the only ones I can find seem to be for pea soup with ham added and that’s not what I want. If you do please e-mail me lannylee_diaryland at hotmail dot com – thank you.

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I finally got around to using the lovely spa voucher N got me for my birthday way back in January and since it had to be used by December the 1st I though I’d book it for last weekend. It was at the lovely Bannatyne health centre in Peterborough and came with 2 all day passes to the gym facilities including the steam room, sauna and swimming pool etc, so while I went off for a lovely back massage N did a little workout and we both enjoyed a nice Jacuzzi and swim for the rest of the afternoon, it was much needed and we both came out feeling relaxed and refreshed, which then allowed us to tackle painting the kitchen, though not alas the downstairs loo – baby steps people, baby steps, I’m not bloody Carol Smillie!

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We had a brilliant day in our office for Children in Need, we were going to have the usual “if you give us a quid you can come in your own clothes” type thing, however one of the guys in our logistics team said that if we raised £200 between our three offices he’d come in for the day dressed as a women. So everyone said they’d give whatever they could, however me being a bit skint (what else is new) I said I’d bake some cakes to sell and the proceeds could go towards it, I asked for suggestions and ended up baking: Lemon drizzle cake, brownies, flap-jacks and chocolate cornflake cakes. The last two were specially requested as we have a girl in our office who is gluten intolerant and I didn’t think it was fair to make all this yummy stuff if she couldn’t have any, plus everyone likes a good cornflake cake, don’t they??

The cakes went down a storm and at 25p a go I managed to raise about twenty quid to go towards to final total, so all in all we raised £430 – not bad and we’re trying to get the company to match it, but I won’t hold my breath.

Well I think that’s enough for now and I promise to be a bit more frequent with the posting.