Children in Need 2016

Hey. The past couple of days have basically been filled with baking. And bears (both Pudsey and those adorable brown bears on Planet Earth 2!). Put those things together (excluding the back scratching bears) and what do you get? Yup a repeat of last year and the year before that etc.

    We have been on the big Pudsey biscuit baking challenge thing again and this year we have raised -drumroll please - WAY OVER LAST YEARS TOTAL AND ITS STILL RISING!!

Our biscuits are just that good ;) I will tell you the exact figure tomorrow along with more random chat about stuff and nonsense, Children in Need, my old baseball boots which I have drawn on with permanent marker and the most amazing YouTube series in the world that I cannot believe I only just discovered! Like what? Where have I been to have missed this FOR SEVERAL YEARS?! Huh. What have I been doing with my life?! ;D Anyway I'll leave you guessing what I'm talking about with two clues - New Zealand teenagers and Shakespeare. Cue fan-girling squeal.

If you haven't yet donated to Children in Need in someway or another, please do it now. It is the most worthy cause I can think of, so please, give to Children in Need so children all across the UK can have a happier future. And/or buy somebody's baking cause I speak from experience when I say, a lot of hard work and icing sugar went into them.

How to avoid Christmas till the 1st of December

Cos come on, blow-up Santa's in October? Seriously. I love Christmas but it does get dragged out.

1. Lock all things Christmassy in a tall cupboard, that is unreachable except with a very tall ladder and/or several chairs, and give the key to a trusted person until the time is right. Preferably you could use an attic if a spare one is at hand.

2. Boycott all shops with their Christmas stock out all ready. This basically means everywhere except the pet shop and....actually there isn't anywhere else that isn't doing Christmas yet. Looks like you are spending the next couple of weeks in the rabbits company. No one said this was going to be easy.

Note: This method means you won't be able to buy an advent calendar. I repeat, no one said this was going to be easy.

And yes, I did just re-use a photo from last year and stuck a big red cross through it.
Shh don't tell.

No one told me it was Halloween!

Hi. I'm really truly sorry for the gap but I just felt like I didn't have anything interesting to write about and even if I did I didn't have enough time. So yea. I'm sorry. I'll try not to let it happen again. It probably will happen again but I'll try not to. New month, new goals. November here we come!

To be honest I sort of forgot it was even Halloween, it was just a normal day, sleep, work, dance, repeat. I didn't dress up, didn't eat any candy or scare any innocent people.... I did have pumpkin soup though. That counts for something right?!

I'm running a Halloween party for the girl guides on Thursday so wish me luck for that! Urgh trying to control "just turned double figure girls in a massive hall where the temptation is to run around yelling".... I am dressing up as a black cat with Jess as a dog - who said twin costumes were dead?!

I cut off the sleeves of an old black top and made a thumb hole, to serve as fingerless gloves and will be wearing my beloved metal cat ear headband to top off an all black outfit, purple nails and a bit of makeup (still working out whether using an eyeliner pencil is the best way of making whiskers or if I should just go with black face paint!).

So yeah. Just a little update, be back tomorrow with a new post xxxx