This week I have gotten behind again....

Well, it has been a busy old week, and then some, and as you can see from my last post I have been ill again - but I'm getting used to it! So since I last posted I have been in the throws of the craft market season, and it has gone well, apart from one anyway, which was a total dead loss! I have been at Tweseldown Race course, Selborne and Petersfield over the last couple of weeks, below is a really rubbish pic of what I have been selling. College is still uber busy with millions of folios to get through - I will do a separate post on those and pick out some of the best pages for you all to admire - because as usual they are a clever old bunch, I will be sad not to see these guys through to the end. Did I mention that we might have our baby by March? No? well we just might...... Excited? Oh yes. Terrified? You bet yer life I am!!!

Tweseldown

At the very same fair I found this fella, why is he significant? well, he is also adopted isn't he? I am hoping that he is going to be of some help to us, and be a support for baby Bicknell - Ivan (Mr Bicknell) was most disappointed that there wasn't a marmalade Sarnie under his hat!

This was a nice surprise - a lovely postcard from my girls in Falmouth - I am pleased to report that they all seem to be loving life down there - although Rachel should take better care of her fingers....

OUCH!

On our annual Christmas shopping trip to M&S ( an excuse to go out for an evening and gossip) Mum and I were impressed with the make-over that the Camberley branch has had, including these very right-on changing facilities - Ivan (Mr Bicknell) will be pleased - although I have to get him into M&S in the fIrst place!! 

The Christmas shopping has begun.....

I made some robins

Roger my neighbour who did the Selborne show with me found a better use for one of my tea cosies!

The lights were good and I hear that Father Christmas was out and about!

I mentioned that Baby Bicknell might arrive early in the new year - we have sent off all our final paper work now, which took agggeess to complete, but it is at last done and I can begin to let myself  get excited - we even test drove a pram today! Part of our dossier was a bit of a photographic record of who we are and who is close to us - this is what we sent......

Catch-up stuff....

I can't believe it. No sooner do I finish my latest batch of antibiotics, but I wake up with another sore throat and stuffy nose - am I ever going to be well for longer than a couple of days? It doesn't help of course that my students are dropping like flies and sniffing and coughing their way through the week, but for crying out loud, enough already.

So I am still slowly catching up, a few things need to be recorded for posterity I think......

1. Obama gets to serve a second term - well thank heavens for that! We can all breath again for a few years.

2. Big Bang and Two Broke Girls are back - so at least Thursday nights can be a cheery beacon in an otherwise miserable week of marking and reference writing.

Couldn't resist this!

James Arthur is pushing all the right buttons.....

Christmas is well and truly on its way, you always know when there's a proper good John Lewis ad....



I can also stalk glee via youtube trying to piece together what happens in season 4, while I wait a whole year for it to come out on dvd.....



A bit out of date now all of this, but like I say, it had to go on the blog!