Fuzzydragons

I must be crazy to do this right now. So much to pack up, so much to get transferred over to the new place, so few boxes in this town :p hmm who would have thought its so hard to find boxes to pack up stuff? I have a month to do it, but want to get out of here as soon as possible (and need to have everything packed up before the 14th as I have a mini break after that). Anyone want to help with the packing? Will supply candy and hell, the booze of your choice (just don't throw up on the carpet).

yellow daffodils Originally uploaded by fuzzydragons Is it sad that I am only now figuring out how to use the different modes on our camera? :p 2 years later and I find that I can pick only certain colours to photograph. Neat effect that I will probably over use :p I have said before that because we were not in this flat last year we really have no idea what is planted where. So its a really nice surprise when flowers start popping up. These are not on our side of the drying green, they run all along and stop when our part starts. odd. We are the only people in the building that actually use the drying green to dry clothes. And with the wind blowing strongly like it is today, often a few socks go flying :p We planted a bunch of daffodil bulbs but they haven't blossomed yet :/ but the hydrangea is growing more shoots and limbs :D Probably wont flower this year because we moved it but it should next year. For More eye spy people go here :)

Someone who had the flat before us must have loved snowdrops because there is a row of them by the rose hedge and there are all kinds over the whole of the lawn. Not going to complain as they are really pretty when they come up :) And Mr. Fuzzy discovered some barbed wire in one of the hedges o.0 who puts barbed wire in a hedge? So its going to have a meeting with an angle grinder soon (the wire is just dangerous) And the paths that were fixed are crumbling now. Good thing we just rent because this flat is a money trap :p The path in the back we will probably just end up fixing ourselves as it will be a lot quicker then getting the council to. Hey I get to use a sledge hammer to break the broken stuff up more (ok maybe not, dont' think I could even lift one lol) Punk rocker dove with a mohawk :p What do you want?!? Stop taking pictures and bring me more food please! These doves have been back everyday for the last 2 weeks. Not sure which one is female or male. I am really glad that...

just kidding, but he can cook pretty well. So he thought he would share some of his successes with you all on a blog, here is a link to the first recipe. Something hot to ward off this freezing weather....brrr! Tuna pasta bake with pepperoni and cheese

The little black spec is a hot air balloon from Virgin Balloon Flights (yes another bearded company :P and to think he almost called the first company "Slipped Disc Records" instead of Virgin Records, bit off-putting me thinks). You would never get me on one of those no matter how much you paid me :p I'd be afraid I would fall over the side. Or what happens if you have to pee?? :p My father-in-law made us a bird table out of some left over tree limbs. Looks really good and sit perfectly fine on the lawn. I did think that it might take a few hours for the birds to notice that it was there and that it was a free buffet. But nope. Less than half an hour and they started to show up. Little Robin. Very small compared to the Robins I was use to seeing. Hopping all over the place, and hanging from the little hanging bird feed we hung up. Indigestion from eating too much and hopping around? :p These 3 were fighting over a spot on the tables, but also keeping an eye out for roam...

So 2 videos of the flat. The first a walk through once all the wallpaper was taken off and the second the flat finished. (yeah as usual I swear like a pirate, ok not that bad but it slips out a few times. I should probably be worried professionaly about posting video where I swear, so apologies. It just slips out and I don't have any audio editing programs :/) Kinda cool seeing how different it looks now compared to how it looked when we got the keys.

Mr Fuzzy here here are some shots of what the flat looked like when we moved in....yeah someone had taste issues, apologies to anyone who actually has wallpaper like this and likes it....but Mrs.Fuzzy and I both hated this stuff with a passion. Mrs.Fuzzy will be back tomorrow to reply to comments etc she has a migraine :( Hmm choc brown paint doorframe and half painted door....stylish :P If smoking does this to a ceiling, imagine what it does to your lungs....yuck (the white part isnt painted, it was wiped with a bleach soaked mop.....) Hmm what lurks in the sea of grass.....O.o Arr mateys I thinks I spots a drying green o'er yonder....maybe :-S Mr.Fuzzy and family members :-) with the ugly living room wall paper (grandmother, me, brother and his fiancée) Carpet that would have been considered gaudy in the 70's Wouldn't using real varnish have been easier than using this varnish effect crap? (Would have been easier to remove than this junk too :| ) Bathroom with stained f...

French Marigold (Early flowering due to being forced in greenhouse) Yellow / White Dahlia Anemone Dahlia closed flowerhead Sparaxis Calendula (Marigolds are part of the Calendula genus...crappy trivia of the day from Mr.Fuzzy :P ) Some of Mr.Fuzzy's flowers that he has grown this year (well the calendula's popped up of their own accord) The ants on the Dahlia are eating the blackfly that would eat the Dahlia so the ants can stay :-) [the ants go marching 2 by 2 hurrah, hurrah]*artist dancing here* (yes it is scary >> Mr.Fuzzy) I actually do still draw the supplies are just buried in boxes :P and today I demolished half the living room by tripping and falling, including a fold out tray table that had survived 23 years in Mr.Fuzzy's grandparents attic. Yes I'm a klutz :P [she oblitersquated it....a cookie for anyone who knows which TV show thats from and which character said it >> Mr.Fuzzy]

So the original plan for the flat bathroom was just to paint it white, but we were just looking around tile shops (cause really what does one do on a Sunday with nothing to do and no money to buy anything?), and a lot of the walls were painted dark solid colours. So after seeing how well that looked we decided that white would be too light and we needed some colour in the bathroom. Now pink and purple were out, everyone did not just spend the last 2 weeks getting rid of the ugly lavender colour so that we could put more up. Yellow and orange were too bright (even though I still say that the colours would have looked good in the bathroom, it might have been a little sore on the eyes to go from the blue living room to a room of solid yellow though). So how about Aqua? YES! :P So once the undercoat dries on the walls, they are going to be painted a nice aqua colour. Which should be fine; tan/brown for the hall, blue for the living room, white for the kitchen and maybe white for the bedro...

So our front yard needs a lot of work. You can almost get lost in the grass :p Sorry for the large image, blogger is not letting me upload any pictures Mr.Fuzzy did manage to cut about 3/4 of the front lawn and use weed killer to try to get rid of the weeds that are almost as tall as I am in some places (well maybe not that tall, but they are still a good size), before his allergies got the better of him and he had to stop. The drying green in the back is going to need a lot of work too. There is no huge rush to get the yard cut, but it would definitely make the place look better and get rid of the kids (hopefully). It does actually seem like one thing after another keeps going wrong with this flat. The new discovery is that the bathroom light is not wired properly. So back to the council tomorrow as no one thinks it is safe to use the bathroom light. And I decided that I need to design an image to use on a packaging header to staple to my bags that hold prints and stuffed dragons. I t...

So I loved these kind of cookies/biscuits that I could eat in Canada. The jam ones are the best :) Some food I can get here, and other stuff can't find at all and refuse to pay £7 to get a small box of cereal shipped here. But Mr Fuzzy bought these; Picture found somewhere online (I like this towel though :) ) Tea cakes, these are Tunnocks Tea cakes but you can get different brands. They taste almost the same. The marshmallow is a little sweeter and I can only eat one. But it is another food that is close enough to something I am use to eating in Canada. And I had thought I knew the difference between a biscuit and a cookie but now I am more confused then ever :p Wagon Wheels taste different here (or maybe they always tasted like that and I have just forgotten), and you can't get Jos. Louis here which is a shame, but chocolate on the whole does taste better. And why after 2 years of being in Scotland I had never had a tea cake before I have no idea lol The cleaning of the fl...

squash of doom , originally uploaded by fuzzydragons . will be demanding blood soon ;) I thinking this is close to 5 feet tall considering its not much shorter than I am lol. (Anyone else think that "Killer Squash of Doom" would make a cool E Movie? (yes it would be so bad as not to qualify as a B Movie) >> Mr Fuzzy) And we have tomatoes. I don't even really like tomatoes and we have over a dozen plants :p And the flat doesn't have any wallpaper now, but now there are other problems so not really sure when they will be fixed. We found out today that the flat actually wasn't ready to be offered to tenants (no really? Considering the work that everyone has been doing these last few days, who would have thunk it ) Miscommunication somewhere but its been sorted. Just going to take a few weeks probably until we can move in, but the flat is still ours even though it might take awhile for us to get into it.