NEW POST!
I have been thinking about what to write lately and I figured why not personalise it a bit more.
So as a sub blog I will add little diary post-its about things in my life and if you want more details you will have to continue reading or ask for more haha.
How to begin? well can't go wrong with an orgininal...
Dear Diary,
I have decided to start a diary/blog. For the first time in nearly all my life might I add.
I tried a secret diary once when I was about 12 but when you have 4 sisters and a brother that all live in the same house and decide to hunt through your bedroom to find your secret diary and then read it out loud to your siblings that can't read, you kind of give up on the diary idea.
So the 26th April brought me closer to getting over this horrible infection I have coursing through my chest, and since I wasn't sick today it was twice as good a day as yesterday.
Also got to go shopping - YAY- it was a small trip to Tescos but i got a few bits for the house to help keep it clean and tidy.
Highlight of my day was getting Gilmore Girls season 6 through the door today; 2 episodes down already! Going round mummy's and losing several games of cards and watching Glee with my lovely sister Kip.
Lowlight of my day was not being able to find my tweezers so am going to have to go into work tommorow mono-brow style.
So my lovely diary blog - until i find something semi-remotely interesting! - Enjoy :D
Clarey XxX
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
Saturday, 16 April 2011
Spring Madness
So Easter is just around the corner and in every shop i walk past there are easter eggs stacked to the roof. My mouth starts watering and and i start dreaming of chocolate for a week!
But is it all just over-egg-xaggerated?
In my opinion no? i don't think we cultivate the true festiveness of easter in the UK. I know many people that see Easter as a day when they don't have to work so they go out clubbing for the bank holiday weekend instead.Others treats it as a family time, where we will have a nice sunday dinner followed by over indulging in chocolate and then watching a festive film. We will sporadically remind the younger children that they only have easter eggs because Jesus came back to life on this day and then the day is through.
But shouldn't we really celebrate this? Take USA for example and the effort they put in. They gather as communities and paint eggs and then hide them around the neighbour hood for easter egg hunts. In New Orleans they have Mardi Gras festival in celebration of Lent. Easter day in USA has also been a popular wedding day in the country. Many couples in USA tie nuptial knot on this day as this day is considered to be auspicious.
Yes they have the commercial side of Easter too where Easter eggs are sold by the wicker basket with soft toys and flowers, wrapped in reams of cellophane and a huge ribbon attached to the top - but it is cheaper in the USA too buy items like this.
When you have local supermarkets selling eggs in boxes for £1 it just makes more sense to buy them when our country is in such a penny piching state, but it doesn't mean that we can't celebrate Easter.
Although Easter is based on the christian belief that Jesus rose from the dead on Easter sunday, you don't have to be a christian to celebrate Easter. Easter's true meaning is the celebration of new life, the start of a new season and in general a fresh start for those who chose to accept it. So bring out those new year resolutions that you gave up on after a week, and give them another go. Why not take up a new hobby? or just enjoy the lovely weather and maybe paint some boiled eggs and hide them around the garden and watch the kids go crazy looking for them.
Or alternatively you can go and watch Hop. The new easter film featuring a misunderstood easter bunny who just wants to be a drummer! The film is Hilarious with Russell Brand's witty EB, and James Marsden's good-for-nothing but misunderstood Fred pairing up and trying to find their way in life. Alongside them we see an evil Easter chick and a loving Easter Bunny dad voiced by Hugh Laurie. The humour is suited to both adults and children and you don't have to pay the excessive fees for 3D either.
So i wish you all a happy - not to sickly - Easter!
Let me know what you got up to!
Clare
But is it all just over-egg-xaggerated?
In my opinion no? i don't think we cultivate the true festiveness of easter in the UK. I know many people that see Easter as a day when they don't have to work so they go out clubbing for the bank holiday weekend instead.Others treats it as a family time, where we will have a nice sunday dinner followed by over indulging in chocolate and then watching a festive film. We will sporadically remind the younger children that they only have easter eggs because Jesus came back to life on this day and then the day is through.
But shouldn't we really celebrate this? Take USA for example and the effort they put in. They gather as communities and paint eggs and then hide them around the neighbour hood for easter egg hunts. In New Orleans they have Mardi Gras festival in celebration of Lent. Easter day in USA has also been a popular wedding day in the country. Many couples in USA tie nuptial knot on this day as this day is considered to be auspicious.
Yes they have the commercial side of Easter too where Easter eggs are sold by the wicker basket with soft toys and flowers, wrapped in reams of cellophane and a huge ribbon attached to the top - but it is cheaper in the USA too buy items like this.
When you have local supermarkets selling eggs in boxes for £1 it just makes more sense to buy them when our country is in such a penny piching state, but it doesn't mean that we can't celebrate Easter.
Although Easter is based on the christian belief that Jesus rose from the dead on Easter sunday, you don't have to be a christian to celebrate Easter. Easter's true meaning is the celebration of new life, the start of a new season and in general a fresh start for those who chose to accept it. So bring out those new year resolutions that you gave up on after a week, and give them another go. Why not take up a new hobby? or just enjoy the lovely weather and maybe paint some boiled eggs and hide them around the garden and watch the kids go crazy looking for them.
Or alternatively you can go and watch Hop. The new easter film featuring a misunderstood easter bunny who just wants to be a drummer! The film is Hilarious with Russell Brand's witty EB, and James Marsden's good-for-nothing but misunderstood Fred pairing up and trying to find their way in life. Alongside them we see an evil Easter chick and a loving Easter Bunny dad voiced by Hugh Laurie. The humour is suited to both adults and children and you don't have to pay the excessive fees for 3D either.
So i wish you all a happy - not to sickly - Easter!
Let me know what you got up to!
Clare
Traditional Easter Baskets that the USA often share.
Painted eggs to be hidden for the hunt.
The meaning of Easter..... A new start!
EB the misunderstood bunny who just wants to be a drummer!
The evil Carlos and EB's dad.
Saturday, 9 April 2011
Mmmm Sorbet!
Dearest Blog reader,
So nice of you to start this journey with me. I hope that you find my random rants or intelligent ideas as captivatring as they often seem in my head.
This first blog i would like to dedicate to my friend Laura! For not so long ago my B-E-A-U-tiful friend created her own blog. bellalaurabella.blogspot.com. it inspired me to write about things i am also passionate about or even maybe educate others from my own crazy little world.
There is no theme to this blog and all ideas and opinions are welcome!
So sorbet... unbelievably you find it in the ice cream section of most super markets! This should be forbidden - when i shop for ice-cream i despise nothing more than looking over and seeing sorbet. It just sits there reminding me that i have an unused gym membership and an ever expanding waistline.
However today for the first time I picked up 2 tubs of sorbet. For me it was goodbye Ben and Jerry's delicious baked alaska, so-long chocolate fudge brown, adios to cookie dough and hello to my new buddies lemon and raspberry sorbet!
Thats right! The skinny inside of me has convinced me to give up all that induces endless sugar comas. Some people call it dieting - i call it lent! I'm not overly religious but after 13 pancakes i figured it wouldn't hurt to try.
My verdict : sorbet is nice! its not creamy, or marshmallowy and doesn't come with chocolate caramel chunks! but its sweet, sometimes tangy and best of all its basically fat free! It even comes in a tub so it looks like ice-cream.
... and that ladies and gentleman was the first ever Manky Monkey blog
So nice of you to start this journey with me. I hope that you find my random rants or intelligent ideas as captivatring as they often seem in my head.
This first blog i would like to dedicate to my friend Laura! For not so long ago my B-E-A-U-tiful friend created her own blog. bellalaurabella.blogspot.com. it inspired me to write about things i am also passionate about or even maybe educate others from my own crazy little world.
There is no theme to this blog and all ideas and opinions are welcome!
So sorbet... unbelievably you find it in the ice cream section of most super markets! This should be forbidden - when i shop for ice-cream i despise nothing more than looking over and seeing sorbet. It just sits there reminding me that i have an unused gym membership and an ever expanding waistline.
However today for the first time I picked up 2 tubs of sorbet. For me it was goodbye Ben and Jerry's delicious baked alaska, so-long chocolate fudge brown, adios to cookie dough and hello to my new buddies lemon and raspberry sorbet!
Thats right! The skinny inside of me has convinced me to give up all that induces endless sugar comas. Some people call it dieting - i call it lent! I'm not overly religious but after 13 pancakes i figured it wouldn't hurt to try.
My verdict : sorbet is nice! its not creamy, or marshmallowy and doesn't come with chocolate caramel chunks! but its sweet, sometimes tangy and best of all its basically fat free! It even comes in a tub so it looks like ice-cream.
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