It’s been a busy few months for me, getting ready for Christmas, working a lot (we have two new staff members in our department, a lot of changes and training going on), spending time with my family and house hunting! House hunting has been an ongoing task at the moment – Artur and I are looking at moving home early in the year after being in a rented property since…
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Reaching My Goal Weight with Weight Watchers – I’m a Gold Member
I’ve been traveling a lot lately mostly to VW shows throughout the UK (so my 2012 travel goals is going well 😉 ) .  But it meant I hadn’t been to a Weight Watchers meeting in 5 weeks or found the time to blog! Tuesday was my first weigh-in since beginning of August. Last post I talked about the goals I set in 2012 and how I was getting on with them.…
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Travelling to Paris by Motorbike
This past weekend my boyfriend and I made a last-minute decision to go on a road trip to Paris! And since it was a bank holiday weekend we both had three days to play with. Instead of using my car, we decided travelling to Paris by motorbike would be a great new adventure for us. We started our trip early Friday morning with a 3-hour journey to The Channel Tunnel…
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2012 Goals Mid Year Review
At the beginning of 2012, I made a list of goals I wanted to achieve this year. So as we’re now over half way through the year, I thought I’d have a look at whether I’ve stuck to those goals and how they’ve changed! 2012 Goals Review Goal set: Cook and Bake more often I have baked a few novelty cakes and some classic recipes, like a Victoria Sponge, but…
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Bitten 3 – UK True Blood Convention
This past weekend was my mum’s big 5-0 and, as she’s a big fan of the television show True Blood. I decided to surprise her with tickets to Massive Events 3rd True Blood convention: Bitten 3. Although I did end up having to tell her we were going so she could book the time off work. But I did manage to keep her ticket type –Â Standard, Silver or Gold…
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Cologne and the Rise N’ Shine Convention Germany
If you’re a long time reader you’ll know that I’ve been to a fair few conventions over the years. But never abroad. That was until my friend Sarah – who I met through the Hallowhedon events – invited me to come to the Rise N’Shine convention in Cologne. Germany! Which was not only my first convention abroad but also my first holiday with friends. Cologne itself is a very beautiful…
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24 hours in Gdansk and Sopot – Poland
Last month I took my first trip alone, on a plane, to Poland! Honestly, I was really nervous about the trip, having never traveled alone before. But especially because I don’t know much of the language (other than hello and goodbye), although Artur assured me most people would understand what I said if I spoke to them in English and, most did, though it took a few attempts. We had…
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Motorbike cake
One of my goals this year was to bake more often and I’ve been trying my hand at novelty cakes recently. My first attempt was a snooker table cake for my friends birthday, followed by a penguin design for Christmas last year. Both were simple sponge cake recipes with fondant decorations. The motorbike cake (shown below) was made for Artur’s birthday back in May and is my latest novelty cake.…
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Lifestyle Goals For 2012
Happy New Year! 🙂 I hope everyone had a great Christmas. Ours was fairly quiet – we had Christmas Day and Boxing Day at my parents, exchanged gifts, and ate way too much food! So the usual then, lol… Doesn’t everyone over indulge at Christmas though? Like previous years, I decided to start the year off by writing down my goals for the coming year, although some of these won’t…