Terrible News

Hello folks, well its a strange day today here in the NE of Scotland - on the bright side the sun is shining and it is gloriously warm, but there is an awful feeling of sadness, shock and disbelief  because of the catastrophic helicopter crash yesterday. My heart goes out to all the families and friends of the 16 people onboard the Bond helicopter from the BP Miller. I think just about everyone in the North East, and of course further afield knows someone who works offshore and this has really brought it all home how dangerous their work is.

Talk about getting in a flap!!

I'm usually pretty unflappable, I'm the one who, in a crisis, is the one calming everyone down and looking on the bright side. Not yesterday afternoon though.

It was a spectacularly sunny day here yesterday, it even got up to 20 degrees here - yes I know, that's pretty miraculous for the NE of Scotland, and believe me we were making the most of it. I dropped Willow at nursery and Faith and I went into the garden to play. I took my new pencils, paper stumps, baby oil and the new images I got from Dawn Marie outside with me and tried them out. Faith managed to get into the car for a wee while, but got bored quite quickly and came out to play on the seesaw swing.

All pretty non-panic-making so far....

Well at 3.15 I got Faith strapped into the car, locked the house and went to turn the ignition key and....... nothing!! Not even that lethargic wuh wuh wuh noise of a dying battery. So I thought, hey I'm a capable woman, I can bump start the thing if I just push it backwards out of the drive, but NO! that didn't work. So, called the school and told them I would be late for the kids - that was fine, they said they would grab Scott before he left the building and keep hold of Willow. Then I phoned the RAC and they told me they were quite busy in this area so it would be up to 2 and a half hours before they could send someone!!!! OMG!!

I then called the school back in a panic and got the new headmistress, who doesn't know me from Adam. I explained it all to her and she said it was fine, don't worry, she would be there til midnight anyway - so they could stay with her. Or if I was happy to authorise it, she would run them home as she is insured to transport kids. I can't tell you how grateful I was. She told me to get the kettle on, and she'd be round with them shortly. And right enough she appeared in her (so cute) lime green Beetle and the kids were highly delighted to have had an audience with the Head Teacher.

So.. today's job is to get her something nice for her kindness and to make a thankyou card for her.

And now I'm away to shout at the garage for selling me a crap battery in November and demand they replace it ASAP. This garage and I don't get on. I get the "useless, stupid female" treatment from them every time I have to deal with them. But that's a rant for another day lol

Sugar Bowl Challenge #7 - Spring or Easter

I'm going to try and have another bash at this challenge if I get time as I'm not too sure if I like this one or not. The theme this fortnight over at the Sugar Bowl is Spring or Easter, so of course it was the perfect opportunity to use one of the new Elisabeth Bell Spring designs - Chick-a-dee from Sugar Nellie. Sorry about the photograph once again, it was taken under the flourescent light in the kitchen, so not exactly ideal.

Image: Chick-a-dee from Sugar Nellie, coloured with promarkers

Cardstock: yellow, green and orange core'dinations, the yellow is sanded round the edges, the green is embossed using the paisley folder in the cuttlebug, and the orange is cut using the oval scalloped nestabilities in the cuttlebug and sanded.

ribbon: dovecraft