365 - 178 Pink is gone...

Finally blogger has let me upload pictures again, the past two days it didn't want me to. So I'm a bit behind.


Big Monkey has decided she doesn't like pink anymore. At all. So we've started a de-pink-ification process. I started by painting the former pink peg board green and blue. I also changed the colours for her board for keeping hair clips. She has decided to grow her hair again so hopefully the clips and its holder will see a lot more use again.


I'm pleased that she has chosen different colours for her room. I don't mind pink but I prefer other colours a lot more. I always hated to go into shops when she was smaller with all the girls clothes all pink and sparkly with no choice of any other colour. Not even white. Thankfully that has changed now a little bit, there are other colours but still a lot of pink. I often bought some boy's jumpers for her or jeans but generally boys clothes tend to be very drab and ugly here.

365 - 177 Little Monkey is a Big Monkey really

Last week Little Monkey decided that he is a really big boy and he doesn't want nappies in the night anymore. He hasn't had a nappy since he turned 2 but in the night he still wore one. Today was the very first morning the bed was dry when we got up.

365 - 176 Summer Fridge disaster

Today was really hot and sunny. Really hot but still no reason I thought for the fridge to behave like a freezer and freeze half of the food in there. If you didn't know this before, salad should not be frozen. Neither should mayo, cucumbers and a host of other things. Daddy Monkey had to go and buy some more meat for the BBQ because the chicken drumsticks didn't look very appetizing. It might have been frozen but neither as fast nor as cold as in a proper freezer. To say I am not very happy with my fridge right now is an understatement. Especially when I discovered the exploded milk bottle hidden behind the frozen bag of rocket. At least the bottle didn't break the frozen milk only lifted the foil lid, ran down the glass and formed a memorable sculpture and connected itself to the jam jar (frozen of course too). Inside the bottle: a lovely big milk ice cube. Yum!

Here a lovely frozen cabbage, not good for freezing like this.


Other than an impromptu fridge cleaning session we had a relaxing day with the Monkeys running amok with the water hose.

365 - 175 Organizing

Now that I got my room back all newly decorated I want it to look neat and tidy. I took all the magazines apart that I had accumulated over the past 5 years and only kept the pictures and articles that are of interest to me. These I put into two folders and a spiral book. Now Mrs Wookie thinks that I won't look at these anymore than I did at the magazines. But I figure even if I don't I can always throw them out at my next big clear out. Maybe I do need to challenge myself to take out a folder and pick something to do every week?




I tried to keep it really simple, techniques to try out and photography and photoshop tutorials in the folder, nice pictures in the spiral book. At first I tried to come up with a detailed system on where to put the pictures but then I just glued them into three categories, colour, handmade books and everything else. Nice and simple. Then I added a label on the outside and an index for one of the folders. Of course as soon as I thought I had finished it all I found another magazine folder hiding upstairs pretending to be business magazines. Now I have to get those into the folders too, so I'll see immediately whether my system of sorting or lack thereof works.

365 - 174 She's back

We are really happy to have our Big Monkey back.


Today we picked up Big Monkey after her trip. I really missed her, it was rather quiet without her chattering. She had an amazing time though, she went fencing, built a shelter out of twigs and branches, abseiled from really high up, made up a poem and told it to all her school mates in front of the camp fire. She fed ponies and goats and generally enjoyed herself thoroughly. Her teacher promised photos to look at. I can't wait although I shall be very scared seeing her climbing all the way up a wall as high as the first floor. I don't do heights, so the thought alone has me sweating.


The Monkeys spent the afternoon harvesting carrots and watering the plants.

365 - 173 Painting the front door

Decisions, decisions... What colour to choose?

365 - 172 Big, Big Monkey

Big Monkey is away on a residential trip in Wiltshire for two nights.


Her room is all empty except for a lonely dragon and a rabble of stick insects (I don't know whether that's the correct collective noun, stick insects don't feature much in these collections.)It's awfully quiet with only one Monkey scrambling around. He tries his best though...


We miss her, we haven't heard anything of her so she must have a good time. We presume. And hope. She's just so little still, of course she would roll her eyes big time at me saying that. They grow up so fast, don't you agree?