Five Minute Fridays: Loud

After finding the blog http://thegypsymama.com/ through my friend Claire's blog http://www.countrymouseclaire.com/ I decide to join in with her Five Minute Friday blogging.

The idea is to write for a straight five minutes on a topic and this week it is LOUD.

Loud.

Sometimes I feel if I shout louder than the person I who is shouting at me I'll win the argument. I have been shouting when I lose my temper for years now but I instantly regret it. I regret the ugly words that come out and only come out if you shout loud. I try to stay quieter now when I feel angry and that means my loudness stays inside which means the things I don't mean don't come out.

If I am loud the raise in volume can bring a raise in temperature I don't mean. I think it is best to stay quieter nowadays. Maybe it is a sign of growing up?

I think I am still loud in situations where there is fun. That kind of loud of laughter bubbling and overflowing is a good type of loud. I guess I have two types of loud: my angry loud and my laughing loud andf they are very distinct from each other. The fact that the angry loud is more controlled is a good thing (except when it gets loud in your head cos there are lots of thoughts swirling around- sometimes then a good stomp about to loud music helps then) and the fact I can laugh loudly is a good thing.

STOP.

Wow. That is a whole lot of babbling!

Dumplings and Nails

It is funny how sometimes the foods you hate turn into the home comforts you can't wait to eat and enjoy lovingly making.

I used to dislike mince and dumplings with a passion. Now I adore them! Mind you I was a very fussy eater when I was little. Mushrooms, 'raw' (i.e. unmelted) cheese, tomatoes, any form of fish/sea food that wasn't fish and chips or fish fingers. Now I list these foods as some of my favourites. Cos I actually tried them and fell in love.

However there is still one thing I will not eat. How do I like my eggs in the morning? None existent please. I cannot stand an egg. I *can* eat an omlette or quiche but would prefer not to. It is something that really annoys me cos I wish I could.

Do you have any introductory egg recipes?!

Also on the nail front, I have put some falsies on. Pretty pink ones, but I can't decided if they look silly or not. I've cut and filed them down so they aren't talons but I can't tell if I am a falsie girl or not. I'll give them a couple more days and see how I feel!

Back to the island

Yesterday my dad, the boy and I walked over to my favourite place in the world. Holy Island. I love the place and helped out at a summer camp there and can't wait to go back this summer.

It is a tiny island that is off the North East coast of England, known as Lindisfarne or Holy Island it is where there was priory (well still IS a priory but it is a bit in ruins) and the monks who wrote the Lindisfarne Gospels completed them. It is where a whole load of famous Northumbrian saints resided, has a castle, the most beautiful beaches, DEVIL'S DROP! (a huuuge sand dune you can roll down- although you should be prepared to feel very sick and dizzy afterwards!), a myriad of birds and wildlife. You get the most stunning views of Bamburgh too. If you are ever driving up the coast to Edinburgh go! It is fabulous.

Holy Island is cut off from land by the tides twice a day so we had a very early start to make sure we could walk across the exposed sand and get back in time! After bacon sandwiches cooked on the beach and with wellies on we started to follow the posts in the sand that guide the way across the causeway. We encountered the first watchtower which is there for people to climb up if the get caught out by the tide. My legs hurried up a bit at this point. Walking along the sand on a beautiful spring morning, knowing that hours before there had been sea was such an amazing experience.

We got to the island after me playing about with seaweed and generally being a goofball and went to the most gorgeous cafe (www.pilgrimscoffee.com) It was so lovely and we cosied up the the log fire for tea and scones. Afterwards we explored the island before heading back before getting stuck.

The distance is VERY deceptive cos it is so flat and halfway back I was starting to get a little tired but a bit of shell collecting spurred me on. A snooze in the car and the rugby on the telly was the perfect way to end a gorgeous morning walking in a stunning part of the North East to my favourite place in the world.

P.S. Do bacon sandwiches ever taste better than being cooked outside with hunger being the best sauce?!

Hello Sunshine :)

Looking out of the window and seeing fluffy clouds and blue sky AND knowing it isn't freezing out there makes my heart soar. I look back at the post I did nearly two years ago and I feel exactly the same. Crocuses make me grin like a silly loon, the snow drops are still going strong (they have been since January in our garden!) The million birds that have suddenly appeared in our garden. We always have lots of birds but in the last week the population appears to have doubled!

I love the birds in the garden. It is a bit of a secret passion of mine to sit and watch them with a cup of tea. The clumsy wood pidgeons, the pretty blue tits, blackbirds, chaffinches and my favourites the long tailed tits. The long tailed tits fly around in groups so if you see one you know there will be more nearby. We get slightly less regular visitors such as the nuthatch, woodpeckers (and thankfully even rarer the sparrowhawk!) It is a wonderful priviledge of living so close to the countryside that I can look out the window and see such a beautiful array of birds.

What is your favourite bird?

*Peeks around*

I'm amazed this blog is still here! After speaking to the gorgeous Emily at the weekend it made me wonder if my old blog was still there and it is! Only two years later... I looked back at a way old post about all the things I decided to do in 2010 and do you know what? I didn't do enough of them. So here's to running round my blog, dusting it off and here I go again.

I have been ill after Christmas and it sucked. It was stressful and worrying. Now I am getting lots better and feeling stronger and more like my old self. I think this blog will be a good place put my thoughts and ideas down now I am on the road to recovery.

Hello Sunshine

How lovely is Spring at the minute?! I know everything is behind cos of the weather but I simply love the light and little flowers and being safe in the fact it is only going to get more wonderful out there! Fantastic.

I can't believe I am 21 in just over a week. It seems so grown up! Then a week later I am going to Morocco (I also somehow have to fit 7000 words worth of essays and a project into the next two and a half weeks... Oh my goodness. Thankfully two of the longer essays aren't due in until mid May but I'd like a head start on them!)

It's about to get very busy indeed and I'm going to throw myself right in to the deep end with work. Even though that is scary I also am so excited for all the fun and giggles that are going to occur too- I can't get too wound up about working when there is so many good times planned!

Nyom!

I adore the olives stuffed with chillies you get in Waitrose but they are expensive.

So, I open my fridge get out my hot chillies, green and black olives from Aldi and make me own.

I am currently in heaven and for half the price!