the happy little world of miss ktp!

Well the sexy part ain't true but the rest of it is! Yuck! At least it means you get lots of space on the train if you blow your nose just as people are getting on at stations! Had a lovely time at Brandon's party on Saturday & most importantly my baking went down really well. So well infact people were convinced it had been bought from Waitrose! Not Tescos, Waitrose! Get in! Also got lots of great photos that I'm getting through slowly & one mum was interested in getting some photos done & took my business card so here's hoping. Adam & I stayed over till Sunday when it was actually Brandon's birthday & he had his card shown on CBBC! Lisa had drawn Bob The Builder for him & sent it in. I always wanted to have my card shown on there so was pretty jealous! Maybe someone will do it for me this year for my 27th?! We headed off for a Whetherspoons breakfast (still no black pudding! Grr!) & dosed ourselves up on cold & flu tablets. At 11am ...

Wow it feels like it's all been happening the last two days. Thursday I wasn't feeling too great after catching a minging cold (think it must be an e-cold cos most of the bloggers I follow have one too!) so decided it wasn't fair to go to jive & pass it around. Instead I planned a lovely evening of letter writing & baking for Brandon's party all followed by a nice deep bath. None of this actually happened though cos I locked Adam & I out of the house! Yoink! I assumed (you know what they say about assuming?! Well they're right!) Adam had his keys cos he was in the coal shed so I went to join him shutting the front door behind me. We then stood there Adam in shorts & t-shirt, me in my pjs, none of us had phones or money or anything! We knocked at the house downstairs to see if we could borrow a phone & a yellow pages for a locksmith while Adam tried to rememer his parent's number. Thankfully for our wallets Adam remembered it & at 9:10pm, ...

Since Isabelle (Adam's neice) was born I've really enjoyed taking photos of her & Brandon together. Every time we go round to Nick & Lisa's my camera's always in tow with an empty memory card & fully charged battery & I end up clicking away all afternoon. I tend to regret my enthusiam a little bit when I'm faced with so many lovely snaps to go through & edit down enough to fit on a disk, but the feeling of seeing how happy these stills of the 2 of them having fun makes their mum, dad, grandma & pa makes it so worth while. As proud parents & grandparents do they've been showing my photos around to friends who've been asking about me & if I'd do other people's children too. So with a bit of help from Adam I've got some business cards printed from Moo & now I'm ready & raring to go! ~ The top shot I love, the way Isabelle's hand rests on Brandon's neck as they share such a sweet big bro & l...

Just got to the end of another long weekend, May's always the best month for extra days off & I'm not impressed we've got to wait till August now for our next bank holiday. Boo! Straight after work on Friday (after getting the windscreen repaired) we headed off to stay with Lisa, Nick, Brandon & Isabelle. After arriving & discovering 2 tv shows called "cupcake wars" & "diners, drive-ins & dives" (which are now all on our sky plus!) we crashed on the sofas.  We were due to head to Clacton-on-Sea on Saturday but the typical British weather got the better of us so we headed down to Wetherspoons for breakfast & to plan the day ahead. As well as the crappy weather the other mega problem was the lack of black pudding with the Full English - Nick & I eventually got over it but it took us time. It was touch & go for a second! Our first stop off was the local bowling alley. We paid for 2 games but they lasted for hours cos we had ...

I know ales usually have odd names like tangle foot, black rat, hobgoblin....but I've finally found one with the most appealing name ever! Gotta love the Royal Wedding for providing us with names like this! roaming reporter KtPx

That would be me! I was going to post earlier but it would have just been garbled words & the ramblings of a mad woman! Before I go into details I just wanted to introduce Sidney another dog around our offices! Aint he lovely?! Yesterday after work I headed home for a few hours before it was time to go out again. Now I know this is fairly normal practice for most people but since living in London I always go straight out from work & then the night ends earlier to get the last tube so it felt really weird to not be heading somewhere straight away. Adam & I made dinner & watched the Apprentice before getting in the car & driving to Kingston to see the wonderful Frank Turner. Until yesterday morning we didn't realise how late the gig was, we were expecting to go out for dinner, have a sing song at the gig & be on our way home by 11pm! But no! The doors didn't even open till 9pm & Frank wasn't on stage till 11pm! Yoink! The gig was at a place ca...

Had a meeting in town this afternoon & once it finished I wandered down to Selfridges to have a nosey. On my way I gave Art a call & we had a good catch up about everything & tried our best to put the world to rights. When I arrived at the shop I stood just inside the side doors & carried on with our conversation. While I stood there I was shocked how many people couldn't figure out the doors. They were just manual old school doors that you push/pull to open but that seemed far too radical for today's shopper, they want automatic! So many of them walked up so their noses were almost touching the glass & they stood there waiting for the doors to open, when nothing happened they looked up as if to check the mechanism & still waited. It either took them a bit longer to think about actually trying to push the door or someone else would come along & push another door to go through & then the original person would slip through too as if they might not ...

Popped to Sainsburys for a little something, tried to be healthy & go for a yoghurt but ended up at the chocolates. I gave myself a limit of 50p so I'd just get summit small & was about to start bitching that there's nothing apart from a Freddo that's under my budget when I spotted this beauty! Cadburys Cream Eggs, the beast of all chocolates for half price! This is the best Monday ever! Well it wasn't just the chocolate that determines it is the best Monday, I got a tweet from Putney Daniel saying he's coming over to England soon. Woohoo! Let's hope the good times keep on coming! roaming reporter KtPx

Next week we'll have been in our little house for a year & I can't believe how much we've got done! Keith (Adam's dad) came round today to do some more work on the bathroom & cos he's staying the night we all walked down to wetherspoons for tea. It was just like last year when we didn't have a kitchen & so ate out every night. The only difference was we weren't covered in paint & dust! As we walked home I turned round & saw this lovely view behind me. I love living on a hill with sights like this (except when wearing heels as dsicussed before!). roaming reporter KtPx

Well looks like it wasn't true after all but if the world was going to end I started my last day in the best way possible - Adam brought me McDonalds breakfast in bed! Yum! He's the best when he does these little things for me! We then had a lazy day made up of cleaning, watching tv & building Lego models! The Sun had been giving out free models with their papers last week so we decided to build them. They were slightly more complicated than I'd thought but fun all the same! We now have some new additions to the games room. Two of Adam's mates came round this afternoon/evening for a catch up which was fun. I did my (what has now become) signature stir fry which was rather scrummy & then we just all sat & watched crap on tv. It was quite nice to veg out with everyone & talk about anything & everything, a bit like it used to be at uni with everyone round. I've missed evenings like that. Ah well I'm pretty glad the world didn't end cos every...

Finally all our beautiful Gaslight Anthem prints by El Jeffe are up on our walls. I love seeing them everyday. This print is the most recent & we've only just got it back from being framed. It's in our lounge & we managed to find the old picture hooks & chains to hang it up with so it looks great! These two designs are from the band's last two UK tours & are in our bedroom above the bed. It's great to be able to put actual artwork up cos I'm so used to being in rented accomodation where you could put photos up with blutac if you're lucky! Now we're just waiting to sand down the wood in the hall & on the stairs then we can hang our Gilbert & George's up! It's turning out to be Gaslight Anthem Friday (which I'm not complaining about!) cos their newest video has just been released, it's ace & the boys look fine, so take a gander here ! x x x

Finally we've got some rain! Random comment I know but I can't remember the last time it rained properly. Ok this isn't big fat drops of rain (which I love listening to when it hits my umbrella!) but it's still pretty wet out here. Sometimes I love evenings like this, when the light's getting dim, the air's quite fresh & I'm standing on the station platform listening to the rain hit the roof (I don't love hearing that the train's getting more & more delayed at the first hint of rain though!). Hopefully won't be too much longer.... roaming reporter KtPx

As well as posting on my blog more I've also been drawn into the wonder that is Pinterest.  It's a virtual noticeboard where you can 'pin' anything that you like/inspires you to different themed boards & it's brill! I didn't want to post anything about it until I'd built it up a bit more but here's my little page ! I love having somewhere where you can keep everything that you like the look of rather than emailing to yourself & not doing anything with it. *ahem!* If you like gathering & hording things like I do then this is the place for you! It lets me have lots of little noticeboards everywhere without cluttering up our house (much to Adam's joy!) so happy pinning! x x x

Last week this lovely proposal video was doing the rounds & I can't seem to get it out of my head - it's so sweet & had me blubbing away at the end (though I was watching it with Adam so tried my hardest not to look like a soppy cow!). I have no idea how (or if) I'm going to get through the wedding with my makeup still intact, I feel as if I'm about to well up every time I think about dad walking me up the aisle! Yoink! The day after, an interview with the guy who'd done it was also posted, he deserves a medal for creating this masterpiece as well as keeping it such a secret from his now fiance! Love it! x x x

We spent a long weekend at mum&dad's this weekend & one afternoon we headed to a woods near their house for a walk. When I was little we used to come here for our Sunday afternoon walk pretty much every week. Back then I used to moan it wasn't interesting enough & I was bored but now that I'm used to the hustle & bustle of London this wood is bliss! It was really nice to wander round with Adam & chat about stuff with pretty much no distractions. I'd love to start going for walks together on Sunday's together with no phones, just us. I've not broken this idea to Adam yet! We found a little puddle that I got carried away with & thought it looked like a little fairy pool so we added my bear keyring in case he wanted to go for a dip too! It's always nice to get back home after a weekend away & just crash. We tried (& failed!) to get an early night especially as I'm hoping to jive 3 times this week, also it...

Can't believe how long it is since I blogged last! Shocking! It's only a couple of days but it feels like weeks! Yesterday I was treated like a princess (I know it should be every day right but hey a girl can't have it all!). I went to claim one of my prizes from the wedding fayres - a makeover & photoshoot.  I was actually quite nervous about what I wanted & if I'd be good enough & know where to put my feet, arms, head, etc but I didn't need to worry. I was ushered into the first room where I had my makeup done. It felt really weird to have more than a bit of eyeliner & mascara on! They sprayed my face with foundation, did my eyes, blusher & painted my lips red (not had that done since I was in a dancing show when I was little!). This was when the celeb lookie-likie comparison started & I was compared to Billie Piper! I had it quite a lot all afternoon (from the people at the studio & from mum, dad & Adam!) which didn't bother m...

Yesterday we headed up to Oxford, unfortunately it wasn't for a jolly, we were going up to Art's sister's funeral. She passed away mid April from complications due to a fall from an Epileptic fit while living in Ireland, she was in her mid-twenties. We all met at the crematorium in Oxford & the turn out was huge, it was standing room only.  The rest of Art's mates, Adam & I were all crowded into the observation balcony upstairs cos there were no seats left downstairs. The celebration of her life was so touching with inputs from her family & friends who did so well to keep it together while talking.  She was so young & will be greatly missed that's for sure. Afterwards the wake was held at a nearby pavilion with lots of veggie food (all of Art's family & lots of his friends don't eat meat but there was the odd real meat sausage roll doing the rounds, shh!! It was quite funny cos during the talks about Jane's life it turned out that she...