Do you know any good Chick Flicks?

As there is very little chance I’ll ever be invited to another girlie movie night, as I moaned the entire time during Shopaholic, I’ve decided to have a Girlie Movie Night around my house in a couple of weeks and am looking for DVD suggestions.  Here is my list so far, courtesy of my Twitter friends.  Have I missed any?

  • The Proposal with Sandra Bullock (@clairey67, @atko, @EmmaC_73)
  • Remember Me or 27 Dresses (@MNTwilightMom)
  • The Holiday (@PennyAW)
  • French Kiss, Just like Heaven or Sweet Home Alabama (@DarkFridge)
  • Marley & Me, My Sister’s Keeper, (@flossiebella)
  • An Officer and a Gentleman, Terms of Endearment, The Goodbye Girl, or Green Card (@Winstonita)
  • Freaky Friday (@AndyBasildon)
  • Dirty Dancing (@ecjc, @Freesia13)
  • Pay it forward, City of Angels or Just Like Heaven (@blossom101)
  • Maybe Baby (@beachhut81)
  • In Her Shoes. Shall We Dance (@Freesia13)
  • Mama Mia, What Woman Want or Moulin Rouge (@AndyBasildon)
  • Brief Encounter (@Welshracer)

Local Pub Crawl

Just in case I ever need it, trying to work out an alphabetical pub crawl…..stumped on a few!

Alban Arena?

Bar 62

Cock

Duke of Marlborough

E

Farmers Boy

Goat

Hare and Hounds

Inn on the Park

Jolly Sailor

King Harry

Lower Red

Mokoko

N

O’Neill’s

Peahen

Q

Rose and Crown

Snug

T

U

Verulam Arms

White Hart Tap

X

Ye Olde Fighting Cocks

Z

Picture Puzzle: The Answer

Thank you all for taking part.  I hope you enjoyed.  The answer of course to the Picture Puzzle was

Photo Credit

Canada!

More about the pictures (including photo credits) and some interesting Canadian Trivia

    • Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump was used by Canadian First Nations People to kill buffalo by driving them off the 10 metre cliff, hence the name.
      • Poutine (pronounced Poo-TEEN) is a French Canadian dish consisting of French fries, cheese curd and gravy.  Don’t knock it till you try it.
        • Hôtel de Glace is the first ice hotel in North America, which is built every January and disappears in the spring it’s located on the outskirts of Quebec.
              • Yonge Street is the longest street in the world at 1178 miles long!!!
                • Wasaga Beach, in Ontario, is the longest freshwater beach in the world.
                  • This could be disputed but the Zipper was invented in Canada.
                    • Canada’s only desert, it’s only 15 miles long but is home to the Endangered Western Rattlesnake.  They’ll catch the snakes and put them in a ‘snake hotel’ so you can have a closer look.  No thanks!
                      • Lacrosse shares the title as Canada’s National Sport alongside Ice Hockey of course.


                        Fancy Dress Faux Pas!

                        Last week I made a little faux pas during #fancydressfriday. As usual, late Thursday night I was busy throwing together a last minute outfit for the competition.  I posted the picture Friday morning and left it up to my followers to have a guess.  I had loads of guesses from Figs to Oreo cookies.  @toddylass quickly came up with the correct answer, which was the lost TV Remote.

                        I didn’t think another thing about it until about an hour before the competition when @helen_b pointed out that on her iphone I looked like a Giant Vagina (she used much more colourful language)!  OMG she was so right and she wasn’t the only one who thought this!  My unpolluted mind hadn’t clocked it.

                        What do you see?

                        This week I’m going to be much more careful and may have my outfit vetted first.

                        Laughed so hard I nearly wet myself….no seriously!

                        p1010086Prior to having my daughter I used to be a bit of a camel when it came to the loo.  Now, I can’t even make it through washing the dishes!

                        Coughing and sneezing terrifies me and laughing, Oh my god!  I narrowly escaped a very embarrassing moment a few months back when walking home from the pub with my husband.  A giggling fit ensued, I can’t remember over what, but I quickly tied my jacket around my waist, sat down on the pavement (very busy road), used all my powers of concentration and what’s left of my pelvic floor muscles to stop myself, which made us laugh even harder!  I don’t know how, but I managed to make it home.

                        This isn’t a conversation that I’ve had with many mums. However, over a few beers around the campfire last summer, my sister, cousin and best friend started sharing their stories; one never goes on the kids’ trampoline without a panty liner and the other wears them to her son’s soccer games as she’s too scared to cheer him on without one, which resulted in even more laughter!

                        I know all about exercises and gizmos that help but I don’t think I’ll be going down that route.  As my daughter continues to develop into quite the character I find myself laughing more now than I ever have and I guess it’s a risk I’ll have to take.

                        I wonder if they do Huggies in an Adult Size 12.