sugar craft week 1

I Started my sugar Craft course last night and we made some roses out of fondent icing

as you can tell I got a lot better as the evening went on, next week we are making roses on wires but I have to go shopping first and buy some flower paste and some wires and and some tools.

I can't wait.

job update

They told us the new structure of our new group - and which group would face redundancies

Most of it was fairly obvious - minus 1 manager, minus 1 scheduler, minus 1 Work group leader , 2 from enabling, and 3 from data analysis.

Yes 3

None from Process, 3 from Data analysis

There is only 5 in our group - so my chances are now less than 40% that I will keep my job.

I say less because we have a person that has 'specialist 'skill sets which means that although his job is on the line he has a slightly better chance of keeping it.

They are sending out some other jobs for different parts of the company tomorrow so I will be applying for them.

Wrong

So all is well, work is busy and we even taken on some temporary staff it looks like tings are settling down after last years shenanigans.

WRONG...

Today we were told, despite meeting all targets and working really hard this year, they need to get rid of more people. grr

I now have about 20 % - 25 % chance of losing my job, but what I feel is worse than that is 30 days of not knowing and no guarantee that they won't do it again next year!

watch this space!

Lego Guinness

Guinness, the Lego cat.
It is in James May Lego house (which may be knocked down)
It is on the BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8266896.stm

Not Helpful...

but cute!

I may get the silly root out before Christmas.

Failed!

It my Sister's birthday next weekend, but since they are away next weekend we went to her and John's new flat this weekend.
Being prepared I went into town on Friday and got her a Wii Beach sports for her birthday.
they only have a few Wii games so I thought this would be a safe thing to buy...
Fail!

They already have that game

Since, we are going to discover Cheltenham town center anyway we decided to swap it for something else...Lush bath bombs :)

Cheltenham is a very nice town and we look forward to going back there soon.

Stu's tuesday challenge - one million giraffes

Stu's challenge for this fortnight was to make a giraffe, take a picture (for Stu's challenge) and submit it to http://www.olahelland.net/giraffes/ and to Stu.

This Bloke has been challenge to collect 1millions giraffes by 2011 - you have to make a giraffe and send him the image - you can't use a computer or any store brought items (which is a little hazy)

here is my giraffe made from modelling clay that I've had in my house for ages (don't think it counts as store brought?)

if you fancy a go, you can submit your giraffe to the link above.

2nd Anniversery

Wayne and I have been married for two year (yesterday The 9th).

We had a lovely evening with some Pink Fizzy! while we exchanged Cotton gifts (a shirt for Wayne and a spotty top for me) and opened cards, (Wayne put sparkly Hearts in mine) thanks everyone. We then went out on a unplanned food crawl. We started in Fifty for Tapas - yummy! and then we went to the Unicorn for pudding and finished the night with diet Irish coffee (no cream)

We had a lovely, relaxed evening and it was a nice chance to talk and reminisce about the last two years and talk about the future.

Heres to many more anniverseries

Too Early

Don't the supermarkets realise it is only september...they haven't advertised any of the halloween stuff yet.

baking ...

I have been baking some its for Joanne's first big day tomorrow (her christening).

I have made some Ham and veg quiches and Bira Birth which is a welsh tea loaf. It tastes a little like Christmas cake :)

All the cooking has made me realise that I need a better oven as the gas one we have does not have a constant heat.

I hope people like it tomorrow.

Raglan Castle

On the way back From Wales we thought that we would make a little stop at Raglan Castle which is near Monmouth. It is the ruin of a Castle from the 15th century (House of Lancaster, House of York and the Tudors).

It saw the War of the Roses through to the civil war and was abandoned when the war ended and left for Ruin.
It was great fun to look around and had lots of little passageways and a vaults. It also had a great tower, which was octagonal in shape.

There was also multilingual warning signs which were very amusing...

We then travelled back home, went shopping and cooked an awesome Chinese in Stu and Helen's kitchen and then played Trivial Pursuit...A game I am rubbish at! It was fun though.