Tank Driving.....

Yesterday i went tank driving... well I didn't actually drive a tank, hubby did though, but I did ride on one which was great fun!! I'll explain more....

As those that have read my blog before will know, my hubby was 50 in May (we went to florida for his birthday... going back there in 3 weeks and 3days - not that I'm counting. For his birthday I bought him a Tank Driving Experience. Due to him breaking his wrist in June and weather and work committments we eventually got to go yesterday.

Off we set yesterday morning down to near Winchester in Hampshire to a place called Juniper Leisure. My friend Cyd came along for the ride too. I was a bit nervous only cause you are never sure what to expect and is it going to be worth the money etc.

Well he had to be there for 1pm, so we arrived thee in plenty of time, got him signed in, Cyd and I had to pay £10 each as spectators but for that money we got a couple of rides on tanks and endless tea, coffee, cake and biscuits.

We had a safety talk first and then he was told that he would be driving 4 vehicles, an 'abbott tank', an armoured personal carrier, a chiefton tank, and a quad bike.

Here he is driving the 'abbott' and the 'APC'

This is Cyd and I ontop of a tank being driven around the course. That was great fun but not so good on your back.

This is a pic of Gaz next to the chieften tank which he drove. While they were driving this the spectators sat up on top of the tank which was great fun apart from the fact that the this tank only went backwards and forwards so going forward was great, but going backwards, the exhaust fumes were horrible... As you can see from the picture of Cyd and I.

The only thong thats Gaz didn't enjoy very much was the quad biking. he wasn't that confident on that but he still did it and got very very muddy doing it.

All in all we all had a great afternoon of fun and most of all Gaz enjoyed his pressie.

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My Anniversary

Well yesterday (9th) was my 15th wedding anniversary. Where have those years gone? :-)
I had a beautiful card from my hubby. Love him lots. Spent the day at work and then went out in the evening ... not with hubby though, a freind of mine had bought theatre tickets to see the new David Essex stage show, 'Fun at the Fairground'.

It was a great show, david has aged a lot, well he is 61 now, but his voice, both speaking and singing, hasn't changed. The show has all his old hits in although not all sung by him.

It was a great night though and enjoyed catching up with my friend. Thanks Hevs.

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Another year older!

Well it was my birthday on Thursday (2nd October,) another year older, but I had a great day relaxing at home, lots of nice pressies.

In the evening we went up to London with Cyd and Fel to see 'We Will Rock You'. It was gary's and my birthday pressie to Cyd & Fel but we went up on my birthday.. We arrived in London at about 5pm having driven up to Gatwick and then getting the Gatwick Express up to Victoria.

We then got the tube to Oxford Circus and then walked down to Tottenham Court Road stopping on the was at Pizza hut for something to eat.

Gaz and I had already seen the show about 7 years previously when it had just started. Both Cyd and Fel are great Queen fans and they had wanted to go and see i for ages.

The show was fab!

On the Friday we went to the Isle of Wight to our caravan. When we got to the caravanb I was very upset at the state of the van was awful. There was a big hole in one of the side panels where someone had obviously hit it with a ball. Gary went to the office to see about it and they didn't know about it, strange really when the caravan was supposed to have been cleaned prior to us going over there. I was very angry and will be writing to the park's head office.

The weekend, apart from that was great and a good rest, for those of you that know me you know how much I love the Island. The weather was awful but who cares!

I am now back and it's back to work tomorrow.. but now only 5 weeks to Florida!!!!!

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Oops!!...

Have been neglecting my blog for a few weeks. Not that I haven't been idle, just haven't had time to complete this,

Well I haven't made any cards since my last posting, just haven't had the time.
I have been busy at work and in my spare time I have been knitting and updating my website www.ubeautycrafts.com
E-bay have decided to up their shop charges to over double what they have been and I am not prepared to pay that for the privilidge of having a shop. So it's trying to update my website and start to advertise that.

The knitting was another story. If you can remember from a previous post, I was asked to knit a boloro jacket for my friends mum for a wedding she was going to in September, well talk about the 11th hour. The day before the wedding I was on one of the sleeves and still had one more to do, then I realised i would run out of wool. She had bought the wool from Southend so couldn't get it from there. Went intoi all the local wool shops (all two of them) - no luck, came back home and started going through yell.com. Came up with 4 shops in area I live in. Rang all of them - no luck, by this time in was 12.30 on the Friday and the jacket was needed for the folloing day at 1pm. To say I started to panic was an under statement. Then I had a light bulb moment. C&H Fabrics - so I rang them, yippee they had one ball of the colour and dye in stock.
I jumped into the car, zoomed into town, got my wool, came home and started knitting, and I continued to knit until 2am, only to find that when I layed the cardi out the sleeves were different sizes.

So I went to9 bed and got up at 7, undid one of the sleeves and re knitted it. I sewed it together and took it round for her to wear at 12noon! They were leaving for the wedding at 12.15pm.
NEVER AGAIN- well not for another 15 years.. lol

Well thats the update at the moment. Will try not to leave so long next time.

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New cards made today

Well new eyes bought my mojo back today and I have made a couple of cards for family birthdays. They aren't difficult cards, just quick.

This card on the left was done for my brother in law (surprise surprise!) . It is 2 decopuage cars on a white pearlescent card. I have used peel offs for the greetings and a peel off border.

This card has been made for my great nephew. He loves football. The card already had the windows cut out of it. I have put red handmade paper behind the windows and stuck it down. I then used gold football related peel offs and stuck them on. Then used a gold peel off greeting.

This is another square card . Green handmade paper was stuck on the card and then the golfer and golf bag are decoupaged and stuck on the card. Peel offs were used again. This card is for my friends brother who we are going up to see at the weekend.

All the cards were done very quickly and would have liked to have made more but my eyes were hurting.

Will see if I can make more tomorrow

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I can see.......

Yesterday was the big day for my laser treatment. To say that I was nervous was an understatement. I was out the nighyt before with some friends and I couldn't really enjoy myself as I had a real bad stressy headache. I woke up yesterday with a really bad tummy.. which I think was just the nerves. My appointment was at 9am and i arrived there with my hubby and good friend, Cyd. I felt ok but tummy was still playing up.

I had my consultation and they confirmed they could do the treatment (which was just as well as I already paid for it) lol. Well I had to wait for a couple of hours then as they were running behind. When they called me in for the treatment, I was taken into a room and asked to put on a lovely white hat. I was then called into the treatment room, laid down on the chair/bed and the treatment began. The whole process took about 15 mins and was pain free. The most painful bit (and this wasn't really painful just uncomfortable) was after the treatment when I git home. I found it very difficult to open my eyes so they tell you to rest on the day of the treatment so I went to bed for a couple of hours and when i woke up I was fine.

Eyes were a little blurry and I spent the evening closing them every now and again ans resting, my sight was still blurry.

I woke up thos morning to lovely clear vision, the first time in just over 30 years that I was able to see unaided...

I have been for my follow up appointment this morning and told I have 20 20 vision, they are healing fine. Need to just continue putting eye drops in and have another followup appointment next week.

It was worth every single penny.

Anyone who may be thinking of having it done - DO IT!

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I've done some crafting...

On Wednesday, my friend Pam http://peejays-ramblings.blogspot.com/ went for a Stamping Up demo/make & take, hosted by Joanne (Mainly Flowers). It was a small group but we had lots of fun and made a couple of cards and a cute little box. I haven't done a lot of stamping before, only at classes but I really enjoyed the evening and was inpressed with the Stampin up stuff. I could have spent alot of money..lol. I'd like to say 'Thank you Joanne for a lovely evening, & the tea & biscuits were great!
I will be getting my stamps out soon, honestly!

The evening went really quickly and we didn't leave there til about 10.30pmish. There was a brillient thunderstorm during the evening and the lightening when we drove home was amazing.

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