Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Our Random Little Day Out #2

These are some pictures I am uploading here for someone (that isn't on Facebook to see)! They're from the other day when we decided to go on another walk, which was meant to last 10 minutes. We were gone for nearly an hour & a half, lol.


We found a really great pebble beach (that Tats found it hard to walk on, lol) & sat there for half an hour just throwing the pebbles into the sea... then we went to the Royal Charter Memorial. The Royal Charter was a ship that had sailed from Melbourne & was on the way to Liverpool when it was hit by Hurricane winds in 1859 - 400 people died, even though the ship itself was close to the shore, the winds were against them. Charles Dickens even visited Anglesey to visit this spot & stayed in a nearby Pub.

Just thought I'd give you all a small history lesson there :) To read more on the Royal Charter just click here. Going to sound geeky here, but I've always been interested in local history (which Anglesey & Wales/UK has a lot of) & shipwrecks around the area I live!

Oh & did I mention we have been having glorious weather the last few days! A reminder of what is (hopefully) to come this summer :)

Monday, March 08, 2010

Our Random Little Day Out #1

On Saturday, Dave & I decided we wanted to go walking somewhere different plus maybe see a movie or go out for dinner. In the end we did all three & more! We ended up going to Llandudno around 4pm, but the next showing of the movie we wanted to see (Alice in Wonderland, 3D) was at 9.30pm. So we needed to kill a 'few' hours, lol. We ended up not driving home, but just walking around everywhere instead...


It looks pretty miserable, but it wasn't. I kept telling Dave it was going to rain (especially before we walked to the end of the pier - above), but it never did in the end :)


Haha, I secretly wanted to go on that ride! We went into this cheesy arcade in the end, where we found those 10p machines - & they kept falling out on their own. Below - some very old advertisement (I think it was put there delibarately - because no way they would leave something this old up, lol).


Dave & I at the end of the pier, before we headed off for our Costa Coffee's. Please ignore Dave's pout & my windswept hair, haha.


It was about 7pm & we still had some time to kill, so we found this Italian restaurant 'Cassanova' & decided to head inside. I didn't think we'd get a table, but we got the best one in the house. I kept saying it was like Valentine's day again! The meal was fantastic & I'd definitely go back there again!


After this, we went along to see Alice in Wonderland, which was also fantastic, especially in 3D! I'd definitely recommend seeing it. Then at midnight we drove home & that was the end of our long, random day. Oh, & incase your wondering if Tatty was okay on his own for all that time, he was just fine, sunbathing.


Friday, March 05, 2010

Springtime Gardening

I haven't been feeling too well these last few days so it was nice to be outside all day today in this sunshine we've been having. I actually managed to wear just a t-shirt & catch a slight tan, which is strange this time of year. But as soon as that sun disappeared, it sure went a lot cooler. I am currently underneath my snuggie writing this!


Front garden - where the grass has turned mostly into moss, so it's more like a carpet!


The back garden, where I was weeding the rockery (above) & my vegetable/herb patch round back of the house. I managed to fill the whole green waste bin (which if you don't know how much that is, is a lot)! Now is definitely the best time of year to do it though & I'm glad I've managed to get most of it done. However, along the way there were a few encounters I could have lived without... like a huge centipede that crawled out from underneath a plantpot, yuck - I hate them sooo much! Then there was this:


I was clearing the dead leaves then I stumbled across this. The first thing I did was run into the house & shout Dave saying I'd found a dead turtle. When I first saw it I honestly thought it was a dried up, dead, decomposing turtle. It looked horrible & had no eyes, plus the shell looked so real because it was made out of wood or something... Inside, it had rotted away into a white powder which I assumed was just rotten turtle. Then we found a metal plant pot attchment for the top of the shell, so we knew it was a garden ornament, but how freaky is that??

Also, I'm not very happy with a certain Chihuahua at the minute. He's been doing his 'whoopsies' as Dave & I call them ON the patio (you can see the little dark spots on the 2nd photo). Now, he never used to do this last year at all - it'd always be on the grass... I'm guessing because I hadn't cut the grass in a looong time (not at all over winter) he probably didn't want to go into the long, wet, cold grass - Chihuahua's are very fussy with anything wet - well, mine is anyway. He hates the sea, rain, puddles or any kind of water that isn't in his bowl. I'm going to make sure this stops though, because I wasn't happy at all today when I accidentally stood in one...


Oh & if there are any gardeners reading this... does anyone know whether I need to cut the old Hydrangea flowers off the actual plant, or do they just drop off naturally? I can see the new buds growing on each branch, but the dead flowers just look ugly!


Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Dave's Birthday Plans

So, Dave's birthday isn't until May 13th, but we have already planned what we're doing for it. Dave's even already planned what he's getting me on my birthday (in September) apparantly, lol.

We noticed that Travelodge have their sale on at the minute, £19 a night rooms if you book in advance. We looked around for places in the UK that we haven't visited yet. We were actually disussing the other night that when we move away in the future - we want to make sure we've visited all of these 'tourist hotspots' in the UK & all of it's great cities. We decided that Edinburgh, Scotland was definitely one of these places.


When Dave was a small child, he lived up in Scotland for a short time & he actually has some memories of a few places he visited. He's always said that he'd love to go back there & as for me, I've always wanted to visit there too... I'm a little worried I won't understand the accent, but as long as Dave does the communicating we'll be fiiine. So as a present from Dave's parents, we've booked to go in May for 3 nights. The train ride is going to be long but fun too. I love having something to look forward to!

Oh & in other news: Dave's website 'BespokeBioinformatics.com' is finally up & running. I said this the other day, but he wasn't quite finished with it. There are still a few things that need to be changed (GoDaddy banner) & he's still adding some new stuff, but he has actually written the website from scratch using html & css (no templates) which is pretty impressive! :)

Monday, March 01, 2010

7465th Reason why I love us...

Because we drive 20 miles just for that perfect pizza :)


(Okay so we went to see Dave's parents too) but La Gondola in Holyhead do THE best pizza... & this is coming from a person who has had tasted real pizza in Florence, Venice & Rome :P However, Dave says Pizza House (Bangor) comes a very close 2nd, lol.

So we were going to go out for Sunday Lunch yesterday but we ditched that idea to see Dave's parents & eat the above! Since Monday's are my Sunday's - we're having a roast dinner tonight instead. Oh & we're also thinking of going to see 'The Wolfman' this Thursday - does anyone know if it's any good? I love Anthony Hopkins in whatever he's in, so I'll peobably be pleased anyway!

Oh & is it really the 1st of March already...? I'm gonna have to start buying my Easter stuff in huh? I remember last year, I sooo wanted a Wispa easter egg & never got one in the end because the day after, they'd completely taken all the eggs off the shelves. I am going to make sure I get one (or two) this year!

Sunday, February 28, 2010

XBOX 360!


As you all know I've been after an XBOX 360 for a while & today I finally picked one up!

The bottom end model (Arcade) is priced at £140 & doesn't come with much at all. So, I turned to Ebay & the other day, clicked on 'nearest first' & there was one right in my town! I asked the guy how much he was hoping to sell it for, to see if I could just 'buy it now'. He said he was looking for at least £160 - the reserve price. I did have money in my bank account but I wanted to only use what was in my Paypal account which was £132.97, lol.

I kept a close eye on it & bid on it anyway... then put my highest bid at £132.97... I didn't think I'd win, because this was a 60GB model, with 2 wireless controllers, 8 games, headset & in excellent condition. Some very similar packages were going for a lot more with less (& crappier) games.

Then I actually won it for £126.10! An absolute bargain according to some friends of mine that already own XBOX's. My brother said I could sell some of the games (there's 3 I wouldn't mind selling) & make most of the money back, lol. The games I love are the Call of Duty games, especially Modern Warfare 2 which was included! My brother gave me his wireless adapter to buy my Xbox Live Gold account, so now I'm all ready to start gaming! If anyone reading this has an XBOX, you'll have to let me know your gamertags! :)

In other news: Dave decided he wanted to go out to dinner lastnight, so we went to my favourite restaurant, Jade Village for my favourite kind of food, chinese... & Dave's website - Bespoke Bioinformatics - is going Live some time today (Sunday 28th). Yes I am blogging past midnight. I'm wide awake & waiting for him to finish watching TNA wrestling - which is growing on me.