So tell me, what is it about facebook that is so addictive?!! I have spent the best part of 12 hours the last 2 days "fiddling" around with it and I still haven't had enough! I should have been doing the first assignment of my certificate in sport qualification but was distracted, indefinitely on Sunday. Must try harder, this will never do.
On a positive note I did run 7km this morning before work!!! Great North Run training is going well me thinks. If anyone wants to sponsor me they can... I am raising money for the MS Society. Pledge online: www.justgiving.co.uk/kathrynfrench
Monday, 30 July 2007
Monday, 2 July 2007
Is it just me?!!
I spent the day at home today... had lots of plans, things to do but ended up "pottering" about. Achieved next to nothing, except moving paperwork from several piles to be filed to just one. Did a bit of laundry and put some stuff away but nothing in relation to the to do list I had chalked up at the start of the day. What I really meant to do was sort out all our honeymoon pictures and finish off the scrapbook/journal from that and the wedding day!
Maybe I'm just not very organised. Maybe I am too easily distracted. Maybe, secretly I was hoping Andrew would do all the things I hadn't when I get in from work later! Maybe that's wishful thinking - LOL!!!
Will be posting some stuff about the honeymoon soon - just to say it was the most amazing holiday I have ever had!
Maybe I'm just not very organised. Maybe I am too easily distracted. Maybe, secretly I was hoping Andrew would do all the things I hadn't when I get in from work later! Maybe that's wishful thinking - LOL!!!
Will be posting some stuff about the honeymoon soon - just to say it was the most amazing holiday I have ever had!
Sunday, 1 July 2007
He's all mine....
Wow, what a day!!! SO much happened - some planned, some a surprise but it was all wonderful. Getting ready was absolute mayhem as a result I think from taking such a relaxed start to the day. The photographer arrived to take some pictures then time just melted away... we got dressed headed down to the waiting car (surprise number 1 organised by Andrew's boss - a Bentley). Waived off the bridesmaids and my Mum before Dad and I made a slow trip along the road to the church. I was early and caught everyone off guard!!! No way I was gonna be late - I was too excited! As we rolled up outside the church the bells were peeling (surprise number 2 organised by Andrew's Mum and Dad) which started me crying!
Dad, as tradition dictates, escorted me up the aisle. When we get to the top Andrew turns to me and say "cor, you look nice" - his usual chilled out self. We sang a hymn I wobbled though my vows with Andrew trying to stop me from crying (tears of joy or course) and then we were married. I couldn't believe it we still had 2 hymns, the sermon and the register signing to go!!! Having met the vicar a few times and after the hilarious rehearsal we should have realised that the vicar would remain slightly mad for the actual day... He went on for ages, luckily neither Andrew or I noticed we were too busy giggling like newly weds - funny that.
We left the church to the sound of the bells and headed for more pictures around the back of the church, confetti and a pelting with rice!!! Then to the reception venue for speeches and food, dancing and cake, fireworks and champagne, then finally to bed. Definitely the most amazing day of my life. If you find "the one" grab on with both hands!!
If you want to look at more pictures log onto www.myshoot.co.uk. Look for Mr & Mrs French, the ID is FRENCH, the password is T55X.
3 Hen Nights?!!!
I know it's been a while, so there is plenty to say. I shall break it up into "events". So story one... my Hen Nights!
THE OFFICIAL HEN NIGHT: Of course me + a night out cannot begin without the all important bottle or two of Smirnoff Ice (well seems to be the case at the moment anyway!!!). Slapped on some paint and twizzled my hair a bit, the girls arrived and off we went on the town. We started with a very civilised dinner at a restaurant called Mu Mu, champagne cocktails, lots of wine, the obligatory gay waiter (these posh places all seem to have one), mixed in with some delicious food and plenty of laughing. Once we had our fill we moved onto the bar where these was another hen party, but they unlike us so-fist-tea-cats, they had L plates, balloons, net curtains and all that other crap that goes with hen nights. Not my style, and luckily my mates listened... this time!!. We tried to steal some balloons, no idea why, they weren't having none of it and rather than start a fight (they were proper rough) I buckled and gave them back - stroppy moos! We headed for the club I had selected to which we had VIP entrance, a private booth for 10 people and our own waiter. Told you we were sophisticated! They even threw in some sweeties. So we drank some more and danced a bit, got hit on by some mingers which we had dealt with by our waiter - well, they gate crashed our booth so I had to flex my hen muscles by complaining. Then suddenly it was very late so we summoned our carriages and headed home for cups of tea, toast and then bed.
BOWLING: The girls and boys from work took Andrew and I out for bowling. Sadly I had forgotten how truly bad at bowling I was. Had I have known I would never have subjected myself to the embarrassment! Luckily they had a bar, unfortunately they mad me worse... some people are just born to sports others of us are better off cheering from the sidelines.
QUIET DRINKS WITH THE GIRLS THE NIGHT BEFORE: The night before the wedding I headed into town to have my nails done and had promised the girls I would meet then for a drink (or two) at around 5pm. Dutifully I headed over there to collect them and head to the pub. Sadly I forgot to brief them on my fear of hen party dressing up... So they presented me with a set of red sequined horns, tail and bow tie!!! The worse thing about it was I was wearing a red cardigan and red shoes so it all looked like we'd planned it together. So I walked through town dressed up as a red devil, people in cars hooting their horns at me. Not really the look I was going for but I had a great laugh anyway!!!!
So that was the pre-wedding celebrations. Bring on the wedding....
Sunday, 6 May 2007
Party on Wayne....
Well that's another birthday out of the way... but boy did the celebrations last! They started Friday night with a nice dinner at home and some champagne with the lovely Andrew. Saturday saw the arrival of Andrew's stag activities, my Mum and bestest friend from school, Kelly.
Saturday started with breakfast and present opening with Andrew. He then headed out for the day to go quad biking with the lads. Mum arrived, queue more present opening then we "popped" into town to get David fitted for his wedding suit and buy Mum's final Mother of the Bride outfit accessory - the all important handbag. We did a bit of traipsing, but soon found a perfect bag. Although we did look like shoplifters, taking the bag outside to daylight to compare it against the outfit... several bags later we decided on a lovely satin, scrunched, dark maroon (and a bit brown), clutch bag. Not a very good description I know!!! We even got a discount due to a small (and I mean almost pin prick size) mark on it... I pushed Mum to ask for money off if they didn't have a new one out the back. They didn't, and the result? A huge 25% discount!!! She's good. This is a new phase of mine to blag discounts at every given opportunity... Bought some new shoes in the sale, they were £35 reduced to £15 and I blagged another 10% off!!! To some it just comes naturally I guess....
Shopping done, we headed home to find Kelly and Will had arrived. Andrew was also back so we had lunch, drank copious amounts of tea. Then the boys got ready and went out for a Thai dinner and plenty of beer! We headed to the shop to select our tipple for the evening. Then we got a Chinese and settled in for the night. Chatting, monopoly and MTV were added to the mix and after 24 bottles of Smirnoff Ice, a Chinese and some popcorn we were drunk, full and had the giggles - we had a brilliant time!! Midnight came and went and the boys rolled in at just after 1am, at which point we all wobbled to our respective beds.
Sunday morning some were nursing hangovers (well Andrew anyway) which were soon fixed by the arrival of my Dad and little brother Martin, who had been at the Stag do the night before. Obviously that meant even more present opening! I am so spoiled... and I love it!!! We decided to have an impromptu BBQ, and to smoke out the neighbours by lighting up the chimnea (which to be honest has never worked particularly well - but still be persist). Once the meat bit was out of the way we melted marshmallows on sticks summer camp stylee until we felt sick! Then everyone headed off home, leaving us to wash up!
A very successful birthday and stag weekend! This weekend (12th) sees the long awaited Hen Night.... Antics to follow!!
Saturday started with breakfast and present opening with Andrew. He then headed out for the day to go quad biking with the lads. Mum arrived, queue more present opening then we "popped" into town to get David fitted for his wedding suit and buy Mum's final Mother of the Bride outfit accessory - the all important handbag. We did a bit of traipsing, but soon found a perfect bag. Although we did look like shoplifters, taking the bag outside to daylight to compare it against the outfit... several bags later we decided on a lovely satin, scrunched, dark maroon (and a bit brown), clutch bag. Not a very good description I know!!! We even got a discount due to a small (and I mean almost pin prick size) mark on it... I pushed Mum to ask for money off if they didn't have a new one out the back. They didn't, and the result? A huge 25% discount!!! She's good. This is a new phase of mine to blag discounts at every given opportunity... Bought some new shoes in the sale, they were £35 reduced to £15 and I blagged another 10% off!!! To some it just comes naturally I guess....
Shopping done, we headed home to find Kelly and Will had arrived. Andrew was also back so we had lunch, drank copious amounts of tea. Then the boys got ready and went out for a Thai dinner and plenty of beer! We headed to the shop to select our tipple for the evening. Then we got a Chinese and settled in for the night. Chatting, monopoly and MTV were added to the mix and after 24 bottles of Smirnoff Ice, a Chinese and some popcorn we were drunk, full and had the giggles - we had a brilliant time!! Midnight came and went and the boys rolled in at just after 1am, at which point we all wobbled to our respective beds.
Sunday morning some were nursing hangovers (well Andrew anyway) which were soon fixed by the arrival of my Dad and little brother Martin, who had been at the Stag do the night before. Obviously that meant even more present opening! I am so spoiled... and I love it!!! We decided to have an impromptu BBQ, and to smoke out the neighbours by lighting up the chimnea (which to be honest has never worked particularly well - but still be persist). Once the meat bit was out of the way we melted marshmallows on sticks summer camp stylee until we felt sick! Then everyone headed off home, leaving us to wash up!
A very successful birthday and stag weekend! This weekend (12th) sees the long awaited Hen Night.... Antics to follow!!
Saturday, 14 April 2007
Happy Birthday?!!
I knew he was up to something, just couldn't figure it out. But all became clear on Thursday night....
Andrew had sent me a text during the day requesting that we go for a walk after tea. Not so unusual for us except I knew I would be late back from work as I was going to the gym and by the time we had tea I knew it would be pushing 8.30pm. Nether the less I agreed, the evening had cooled off a lot but it was still quite balmy.
No sooner had I put my fork down Andrew utters "come on then, get your shoes on". Obligingly I follow orders, shoes and jacket on, plates in the kitchen ready for a leisurely stroll around the block. Not so... Andrew pushes me out the door, grabs my hand and starts marching! At this point I'm starting to wonder what this is all about. "Slow down - there's no rush" I say, shortly followed by "why are we going this way?" as we head across the grass to the car park. Then Andrew stops dead between 2 cars, fiddles in his pocket, the side lights flash on a car, then quiet as a mouse he says "Happy Birthday, my love". He did it again... just like the engagement, I was gobsmacked!!
I am now the proud owner of an MPV - a Citroen Xsara Picasso and it's purple! A very sensible choice you may think. Well I am getting married, we are planning a family (not immediately put I'm a planner what can I say), and the Polo was/is getting very tired. I've been out in it today, and the things I have learnt are:
- VERY sensitive accelerator pedal/clutch (stalled it quite a few times, thank goodness Andrew was out working and wasn't there to ridicule me)
- it's much smaller than you think it is when parking in Supermarket car parks (I ended up more out of the space than in as I wasn't sure how big my nose was).
- it makes me fell tall. How did I manage all these years stuck down at gutter level in a car?!!
- now I own one I realise everyone else has them too!
I feel a road trip coming on - who wants me?!!!
Andrew had sent me a text during the day requesting that we go for a walk after tea. Not so unusual for us except I knew I would be late back from work as I was going to the gym and by the time we had tea I knew it would be pushing 8.30pm. Nether the less I agreed, the evening had cooled off a lot but it was still quite balmy.
No sooner had I put my fork down Andrew utters "come on then, get your shoes on". Obligingly I follow orders, shoes and jacket on, plates in the kitchen ready for a leisurely stroll around the block. Not so... Andrew pushes me out the door, grabs my hand and starts marching! At this point I'm starting to wonder what this is all about. "Slow down - there's no rush" I say, shortly followed by "why are we going this way?" as we head across the grass to the car park. Then Andrew stops dead between 2 cars, fiddles in his pocket, the side lights flash on a car, then quiet as a mouse he says "Happy Birthday, my love". He did it again... just like the engagement, I was gobsmacked!!
I am now the proud owner of an MPV - a Citroen Xsara Picasso and it's purple! A very sensible choice you may think. Well I am getting married, we are planning a family (not immediately put I'm a planner what can I say), and the Polo was/is getting very tired. I've been out in it today, and the things I have learnt are:
- VERY sensitive accelerator pedal/clutch (stalled it quite a few times, thank goodness Andrew was out working and wasn't there to ridicule me)
- it's much smaller than you think it is when parking in Supermarket car parks (I ended up more out of the space than in as I wasn't sure how big my nose was).
- it makes me fell tall. How did I manage all these years stuck down at gutter level in a car?!!
- now I own one I realise everyone else has them too!
I feel a road trip coming on - who wants me?!!!
Friday, 6 April 2007
Any special requests?
So my boss said to me on Wednesday, "you're getting married next month!" the result was me freezing on the spot and looking somewhat gobsmacked - so I am told. Having recovered from my weak knees I realised she was right. I've been so busy counting off the weeks (7 to go...), that I completely forgot that it really is just around the corner.
To help me on the way though I now have Hen Events as opposed to a Hen Night... It all started with wanting to go to London. Lou & Kelly have organised something top secret which I am told will be right up my street/my cuppa tea/etc. I.E. no "L" plates, fake net curtain veils, or plastic willies! I thought I would so something local too as it could be expensive for some and others have children to worry about so a night away would not be the most relaxing for them!!! So that gave me 2 Hen nights... Now work have organised something for me (and Andrew too), which brings me up to 3!!! Anymore partying and I'll be too tired to get married. Don't get me wrong - I am not complaining, it's really great having lots of people help me celebrate my impending marriage. Better get some wine in to start practising... Told you the "never again" feeling would wear off!!
Jane - your comments have been both amusing and reassuring, thank you!
Mark - as it's Easter this weekend I can definitely talk about chicks without anyone getting the wrong impression. As for the beer and footy - I drank some last night and watched the "highlights" of the Man U game on the news! Does that count?!!
To help me on the way though I now have Hen Events as opposed to a Hen Night... It all started with wanting to go to London. Lou & Kelly have organised something top secret which I am told will be right up my street/my cuppa tea/etc. I.E. no "L" plates, fake net curtain veils, or plastic willies! I thought I would so something local too as it could be expensive for some and others have children to worry about so a night away would not be the most relaxing for them!!! So that gave me 2 Hen nights... Now work have organised something for me (and Andrew too), which brings me up to 3!!! Anymore partying and I'll be too tired to get married. Don't get me wrong - I am not complaining, it's really great having lots of people help me celebrate my impending marriage. Better get some wine in to start practising... Told you the "never again" feeling would wear off!!
Jane - your comments have been both amusing and reassuring, thank you!
Mark - as it's Easter this weekend I can definitely talk about chicks without anyone getting the wrong impression. As for the beer and footy - I drank some last night and watched the "highlights" of the Man U game on the news! Does that count?!!
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