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eyespy reading Originally uploaded by fuzzydragons What are you reading now. I read a lot. I usually have more then one book going at a time. It all depends on what I feel like reading. You have got chicklit (none this time) for the times when I just don't want to think :p your mysteries when I want to think and the odd which is pretty much everything else I read :p I started reading Sunset Song but I just can't get into it. I'm going to try again but probably wont finish it. I don't waste time on a book if it doesn't grab my attention within a few chapters. There are so many books out there that I could be reading why spend time reading ones that I find boring and dull? *side note* When Mr.F was a kid and saw a sign for the Gibbon centre , he wondered why there was a centre for Grassic Gibbons (what are Grassic Gibbons?) in Scotland ;p (in all fairness he says he didn't know about the author at the time) More Eye Spy here

cupcake Originally uploaded by fuzzydragons My new favourite blogs :) I have so many blogs that I like reading it is hard to choose between them :) This weeks theme was chosen by One Red Robin I'm trying to keep my feeds at a certain number (less then 200) but its not looking like I'm going to :p *stands up*"Hello my name is Jen and I'm addicted to reading blogs" *grabs a cookie and sits down* So here are a few blogs I enjoy reading :) Its so hard picking only a few blogs :) Food blogs. I can look at the pretty pictures and drool over the kitchen tools :p (yes its sad that I pine for a proper standing mixer :p) Bakerella Cake Journal and of course for a laugh Cake Wrecks Animals: Dermott Ginger Cats :) Zoo babies various: kaslkaos :) Fluffy Flowers From Japan with Love Futuregirl Final Girl lots to read :D And a cupcake! I felt like baking so thought cupcakes would work. But now I have a lot of icing lol and Mr.F doesn't like icing :p

everyday in May #2 Originally uploaded by fuzzydragons "In Knots" Copyright Jennifer Rose Phillip ink on stonehenge ACEO For Sale Here Day 2 :) I forget how much I like using ink until I start on an inked piece. I really need to do more ink work, maybe start a big pointillism piece. I loved doing that in school. I just get a rhythm going with making dot after dot, time seems to fly by. Go through a lot of pens though so would need to find my plastic quill pen so I dip the ink instead of using a pen (which can lose the tip point). I would love a feathered quill, not sure if I would use one but would be nice to have anyway :) Small flower :) first one this year to bloom that we planted. Now only to wait for the rest to play catch up. I think I will not be happy until I break a leg :/ I took a flight in the back, landed pretty hard. Knocked the wind out of me. Scraped my chin pretty good and bruised both palms. Messed my knee up too. Jeeze complain complain :p I am surprised no...

So I was going to go up the hill to get some more pictures but instead we spent the time cleaning up the flat so we had room for these :) From Mr.Fuzzy's grandmother. They are at least 30 years old but there is nothing wrong with them (and the price tag was in one of the drawers. £215, no idea what that would be now) So now we have room to put the lead crystal glasses that we got for the wedding without them being broken. They are really nice and we just didn't want them to get dropped or hit. We actually have more room in the living room now that things are either on these shelves or in the cupboards underneath. We also got some nice wine glasses and a wine decanter, neither of us drink alcohol, but we can put anything in them and they are really nice and I think if I want to try to draw a few glass still lifes they would work well. So this month posting pictures I only missed 2 days which isn't bad :) Was nice seeing everyone's photos and finding new blogs to read

Desperate Dawg and Desperate Dan in Dundee. Was out for a walk today but didn't have the camera which was a good thing because by the time I did get home I was soaked to the bone from the sleet. So these are photos taken in Dundee. Hasn't really stopped since. And I managed to fall onto our rose hedge and got a thorn (about an inch long prickly bastard) into the side of my hand :/ where my sixth finger was. Journal my mom sent me. Really nice. Almost too nice to use. So to continue the photo fun a bunch of us are going to post a photo once a week, posted on Monday :) Mr Fuzzy here, to brighten your day and to make you all go "Awwww!" here is a photo of Mrs Fuzzy aged just under 2 years old on her favourite holiday in 1982....blast from the past!! Yes I am evil >:) (no proper devil icon sadly), but she has seen some worse photos of me (worse as in you DONT want to see them if you want to keep your lunch :P ) Isnt she cute and ickle? ;-) All together now Awwwwwwww...

I'm not a religious person, only been to church for a wedding (not ours) and a few funerals. Don't believe in god (but don't have a problem with people that do unless they start preaching at me. hmm I think next time they come to the door I will just do what the old guy did upstairs. Open the door and as soon as they start preaching close the door. ok so he slammed the door but I think he might have gotten his point across. Mr.Fuzzy just told them never to come back :p loudly. We've tried being nice, but they are not listening) But I do like looking at churches. Not all, but a few of them just have such a calming feeling to them and are nice to look at. I would love to live in a converted church but I can't imagine that one would be cheap to heat. There was one for sale in Dundee but not in the best area (had a operational graveyard in the back. Which would have been cool. People asked if I would be worried about ghosts. Only if they egged the glass :p) St.Margaret...

There is some work being done down town. To make the side walks bigger and to get rid of the garden bed to replace it with benches, plus a few other things. Hey maybe next Xmas the Xmas tree lights might not suck because they might actually get around the back of the tree. Lots of people did complain about the lights, because they were such an embarrassment. Access office. I really like the round build. Good to know? :p Well at least nothing is spelt wrong. Even though what there would be to misspelt I have no idea, but wouldn't be surprised :p This weeks Scottish word: 1. byke Answer to the last word: 1. joco means to be happy

Another rainy cold day. The birds look fed up with it too :p Not much food left on the table now lol I have to try to remember there are shelves above my desk now or you might be getting a blog post from the hospital :p hmm haven't had stitches in my head yet. Stitches in my thumb though when I cut it with a mat comb for dogs. That hurt and with having von willebrands it took a few hours to stop bleeding before we thought I should go get stitches. All I really remember is mom's partner taking the stitches out for me in the bar :p Its odd that I can remember that it was a black miniature poodle's tail I was trying to de-mat but can't seem to remember what I did this morning :p

Really icy today so more past pictures to post (sorry again). Here are some pictures from around Forfar. Even though I haven't taken that many photos, I am trying really hard to keep taking & posting photos of this area so people can get an idea of what things look like :) Steeple in town taken from the one of many graveyards in town. I really like this graveyard. Its very small, and there are a lot of old stones. Even though it is pretty much right down town, its very quiet. Steeple was erected by the people of the town and it is attached to the East & Old church (an amalgamation of the East Church and the Old church (which it was previously long ago) Interestingly and some might say typically, when the Steeple Bell arrived from Sweden (a gift from ex-pats) Dundee tried to claim, saying it was "too good for Forfar", threw the silver bell tongue in the River Tay (thus robbing the bell of its intended sound) anyways read more here (Mr Fuzzy says Forfar should have...

I wish the sky was this blue today, but the weather was really odd. Lots of rain and fog in the hills. No snow though. The blue sky was seen in Arbroath Abbey in 2005. Was a gorgeous day, lots of sun and the sky was blue all day. The graveyard is huge, there is more to the right and left. Some of the tombstones have really detailed engravings on them. Mr.Fuzzy went up some stairs and took this. Mild fear of heights so I wasn't going up there :p Towards more of the ruins. There is more beyond this area, but its in even rougher shape. But the place is really old so I'm surprised its in this good of shape Inside one of the buildings, but I can't remember which one though. And the cliffs in Arbroath which people do fall down occasionally. Can get pretty windy around there, but on a good day its a nice walk :) Hopefully go for a walk tomorrow and actually take a picture instead of using ones I already have taken. The weather has just been really wet, too wet for the camera :/

Candle holder holding a blue (dyed probably), crystal. It just fits in my hand so its a pretty nice size. I use to have a huge clear quartz crystal but I left it in Canada. Mom stole it from a time share meeting :p so she can have it back. She figured it was all right to take after sitting there for hours listening to them prattle on :p And Mr.Fuzzy thinks that a shrink would lock me up for laughing at a person getting ripped apart and eaten. But really its funny! How can you not laugh when its a sheep doing the eating? :p (made us both really miss NZ though :/)

Fell asleep last night before I put a picture up yesterday, sorry. Took a picture of this pigeon who is still stealing the peanuts (and eating them whole, pig :p), but at least he is getting fed, and not just eating garbage. And never turn your eyes away to get a look at what I think was a female goldfinch because as soon as your guard is down, the pigeons will take advantage and attack. I swear the finch and the pigeon are partners in crime. Quick distract her with a bit of colour and than BAM! See how fast it moves! Kinda like the scene in Jaws. Sneaks up on you and before you know it your missing a leg (and have to wash all the bird crap out of your hair. worse then blood :p) Unititled Copyright Jennifer Rose Phillip Almost finished the coloured Allsorts. hmmm, I'm torn. I like how big the candies are but wish the yellows were a bit brighter. They might look brighter once the black is darkened. The candies do look a little odd floating in mid-air, once the container is finished ...

The weathermen were right 2 days in a row. Rain, sleet and then snow today. The reflections on the palm fronds are the snow settling. It didn't last long, but it was pretty while it did. Little bird trying to stay out of the snow and stuff his face. There was probably more then 2 dozen birds on the table and ground at one point but they were moving around too fast for me to get a good count. A few squabbles with the Black Birds trying to steal the peanuts from the Sparrows but everyone took off when the pigeon showed up again :p This weeks Scottish word: 1. joco Answer to last weeks word: 1. tassie is a cup which B.T.Bear (esq.) guessed correctly

Ok so its not really a mystery but I do wonder how it ended up in a hedge. Not that hedge, the one that was by the kitchen window but is now gone. When Mr.Fuzzy's grandfather was trimming the hedge, this was in the middle of it. Was very odd to find. Either some one tossed it in the back or they lugged the car parts through the building (my bet is on the neds chucking it). So now it sits in the ground infront of the huge hole that the brats on the street made *angry face* I think it will stop most people from climbing through the hole :p But thankfully the brats haven't been back after more then a month yelling at them to "piss off" The problem was since this flat had been empty for 3 months there was no one here to tell them to get off the lawn. The cops were called on them once (wasn't us, it happened before we moved in). They think they can do what ever they want because their parents tell them that they are "special" and can do no wrong. Yeah they ar...

We are supposed to get sleet or snow tomorrow, so that might be why the clouds were going around in circles. But at least it didn't rain today :p

After spending the last 3 days inside because the weather was crap I thought screw it I'm going for a walk. It didn't look like it was raining that hard, a light mist at most. Yeah well by the time I got to Mr.Fuzzy's work I was soaked :p Whats an umbrella? :p I would love for it to snow because at least then it looks pretty for awhile. The wet roads just look dirty, muddy and oily (and would it kill people to clean up after their dogs?!?!). Normally you can see the hills in the distance but the fog (haar. I sound like a pirate when I say this lol) is hiding the view. I'm waiting for a clear day to go back up the hill to try to get some more picture up there and some of the dyke for Leslie. But if it doesn't look likes its going to be a nice day, I'll just have to go up one day its not raining. I would def. fall down the muddy hill in the rain :p It is really cool when you see the fog rolling down the hills and mountains. Like it has a mind of its own. I think i...

Peanutbutter, white strawberry chocolate, milk chocolate muffins :D Diet be damned! (these plates are starting to show a bit of wear, but they have lasted a long time before we got them and have lasted longer then the new plates we bought. Next set of plates we get, def. going to try to go to a charity shop to get) Untitled Copyright Jennifer Rose Phillip Small update on the Allsorts. I'm going to have to go over the whole of the black background with a purple and black pencil to try to get rid of that scratch. Which is only problem because the paper won't match the other 2. Short blog post today :/

View towards the steeple downtown. The sun was going down and it was getting a bit cold. We were going to take some pictures in the graveyard by the steeple as lots of the tombstones are a hundred years old (or more), hopefully some time this month. I think now that I'm trying to find things to take pictures of I am noticing a bit more around town. That and this door is usually closed :p Different door step. There is another mosaic step by where those glass paviers are but its covered with a matt to protect it. Not sure what people might say if I lift it up to take a picture :p Tina sent me this lovely card and keychain for my birthday. Thanks! :D