the happy little world of miss ktp!

A few weekends ago when the sun was still in the sky a close family friend got married. I've known Helen since I was tiny & after a glass of wine (or two) I was proudly saying that I knew Helen cos I'd worn most of her cast-offs (which is pretty true & some of them I still wear now!) & if I was carrying on the tradition I could have borrowed her dress too! The wedding was in a lovely little church in the Cotswolds which was close (read next door!) to where the groom's granny lived. It was so pretty but also rather chilly seeing as we were sat near the back & they left the door open for the whole service! Brr! Helen looked stunning as her dad walked her up the aisle as a Miss & Pete walked her back down as his Mrs. Seeing as we've grown up together it's lovely that Helen & I are both getting married this year & we got engaged around the same time too. As well as confetti, people threw lavender which smelt amazing but it did get ev

I apologise now if you've never read a Terry Pratchett (though if not why not?!), in particular Reaper Man cos this post's going to seem very random! I love taking a break from my other books piled up waiting to be read to grab the next Terry Pratchett in the list. His books are brill & are written in such a great way I sit there on the tube giggling away. They're also perfect pocket or small bag size which is even more of a win! At the moment I'm ploughing my way through Reaper Man & each time I walk past the shopping trolley that downstairs so thoughtfully hang their socks off to dry (don't even get me started!) it leads me to think about Ridcully, the Bursar, the Archchancellor & the Dean fighting off all the trolleys in Ankh-Morpork (told you it was going to get weird!). I was a little bit nervous to take the trolley round Asda last night in case it came alive & we swore in surprise & in turn that created a swarm of black shiny bugs a

Welcome to the world's first P-P Darts Championship. While at Jill & Keith's over Easter in between rubbish tv we decided to have a game of darts.  I've never really played darts before so I took my ever-so-professional darts-stance & threw my first practise shot & ended up with a bullseye! In your face! The competition had begun.... It was quite good fun apart from all the maths involved! Thankfully Keith was on hand to work out my score for me. It came round to my go later on & all I needed was a double 4. Seeing as I hadn't really aimed my other darts anywhere in particular & it seemed to be working ok I threw my dart & hoped against all odds it would land in the double 4 & that's where it went! Ooooosh! Every one, including me was in shock & we decided to call it a day seeing as Match of the Day was about to start. If only Bullseye was still on telly, I could have won us a speedboat or something equally useless! Ttfn

This rock chick has a very dark past, a dark & cheesy past that is. I'd managed to keep my dirty little secret locked away for years, 10 years to be precise, that was 'till at the end of last year it was unleashed into the open once more....STEPS had reformed! When I was younger 'obsessed' was an understatement when it came to this cheesy pop band & now the stalkerish beast had been released & this time it was easier what with the use of twitter & facebook to find out what they were up to. Now forgive me if I'm scaring you a bit but on the 12th April Michelle & I were able to re-trace our steps (ahem excuse the pun) that we'd taken in November 2001 & see STEPS at the NEC in Birmingham once more. There were signs everywhere warning me to stay calm & remember where my music loyalties lie but I was being sucked in rather rapidly to that fuzzy pink & glittery world full of dance routines & shouting 'oooh oooh' at every

A few weeks ago Adam & I headed down to South London to see the 158th Oxford Cambridge Boat Race. I've always wanted to see the race rather than watching it on the tv & thankfully our new office has a balcony that looks over the river just near where the race ends. In my mind we'd have a lovely romantic relaxing picnic on the balcony & watch the world go by, instead it was cold & blustery so we sat in the office with x-fm on full blast, singing along, eating hot cross buns with a cheeky drink & waited for the race to start. We (well Adam) made good use of our time & mounted the covers for our Order Of Service, every thing's coming on nicely now! The balcony gave us a perfect viewing spot & we didn't have to share it with anyone else. Perfick! The other offices were having little parties too. Downstairs the young, the old, the furry & non-furry came out to cheer along the rowers.... ....upstairs had a family day out too

A couple of weeks ago while there was still sun in the sky mum, dad, Colin & Sue came over to visit. We started off by going to the Lucian Freud exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. I'm loving the fact that there are so many great exhibitions on at the moment, 2012 is definitely London's year! The exhibition was a bit too busy to enjoy it properly but I really loved learning about Freud's way of painting & how it developed over the years. I must say though I loved his earlier work the best. Once we left the gallery we headed to Highgate to visit the cemetery (it's really picturesque & lots of famous names are in there including Karl Marx, don't worry we're not all closet goths!). Armed with our Lumix's dad & I started to click our way round the park next door. I finally got to try out my new polarising filter too with some rather lovely results. We got to the cemetery about 4:30 all ready to get some lovely afternoon sun shots t

I know I said it before but yes I'm back again! Work's been going really crazy. I've had loads of wedding stuff to plan. We've been to lots of lovely places & Adam&I have both been under the weather. Well I'm using my sick day today to line up lots of lovely posts to brighten your days over the next week so hope you enjoy! Hope you didn't miss me too much?! :P Ttfn x

Sorry for the dad joke I just couldn't resist! Hope y'all had a lovely Easter either with family, friends or mountains of chocolate! We managed two out of the three so can't be bad! Ma&Pa got us Easter eggs with the wedding countdown on (as if we could forget!) Sunday we went to Adam's parents & just relaxed. It was just the R&R we needed. They treated me to a Kinder Egg & I whiled away the time making my jigsaw & nibbling the choc. We gave Jill&Keith a box of Dairy Milk & then helped them along the way with eating it. Today we're seeing my side of the family & then it's back to work. Argh! Where did that long weekend go?! Ttfn x

Here's a little wedding related 'currently' post while you sit in front of your computer with a warm hot cross bun & a cuppa in hand. Obsessing over: The wedding!!! I know people talk about baby brain but if I'm this bad when planning a wedding then goodness knows how I'll be with sprog in tow! Most of the time I love having these little ideas ticking away in the back of my mind but it would be nice once in a while if at work I didn't suddenly think about the perfect table cloth. Working on: Getting all the bridesmaid outfits sorted. In the last week of so we've come on huge leaps & bounds which is great, at least they have dresses & shoes in the pipeline cos at the start of March they'd have been walking up the aisle nude which wouldn't have gone down too well! Thinking about: The dreaded budget which we may have gone over! Yoink! I'm off to nab a lottery ticket for tomorrow in hope this may all change! the tape measure mum