Starbucks goes to the cinema.....

Starbucks and Bobby sitting in the same seat at the lovely Greenwich cinema, through a particularly scary trailer!

We saw Brave, which was great as i LOVE pixar and i felt human again for a while as it was quite a classy place and i managed to do something mostly about me, not her. Starbucks woke up and avidly watched the end of the film from my lap which was nice also. It was the 'Big Scream' club which costs £1 to join for a year and then you can attend special screenings which are quieter and have the lights on low. Everyones baby cried a little as they settled to sleep at some time, but it was calm and the only thing missing was popcorn (i'll get some next time). With 4 films showing a week for mums and babies i think this might become a regular thing!

The mascot trail

I am a competitive person. I have now realised that my working lifestyle has previously offered opportunity for competition (how quickly can i open the stack of empty brown boxes whilst looking for the hidden bottle of water- 8 seconds), but has also kept me safe from other competitive temptations.

Ali at my mothers group (yes i now attend a mothers group- not so rock and roll as i used to be) has managed to photograph 10 (well 9 and one inflatable) Wenlock statues. Mascots of the Olympic games (Wenlock and paralympian Mandeville) have been painted uniquely and placed around London. Usually i want to try and find all the things like this (there have previously been uniquely painted phoneboxes, eggs, elephants) but have not even started as i knew that i would never be able to find a significant number without giving up all my freetime. However, now free time is in abundance. And Ali has already photographed 10, can i beat her.....

The maps of where they all are is here and i only have until the 9th of September to find them all!!!

Wenlock at the tate (Ali's pic)

Mandeville near the tower of London (Ali's pic again)

Haircutism

Does anyone else worry about farting during a haircut? What would you do, own it or be British and both politely pretend to not know the obvious?

Yet again i look like Nicky Clarke (every haircut without fail!). Pregnant Nicky Clarke.

My hairdresser thought i was pregnant. Yes, my pregnancy weight lingers, and to compound it all onto my manic-depressive self esteem, she thinks i am pregnant. On the way home, with my new haircut making my neck 5 degrees cooler (phew) and limiting the amount of hair tugging i can suffer at the ever so small, but strong hands of Starbucks, i thought i looked younger and fresher. On the tube one guy stepped aside and allowed me to get on the tube before him, nice, and once on another stood and offered me his seat, brill. I assumed that he must be foreign, probably American as this is pretty unheard of for a 20something Brit. Feeling chuffed i accepted and sat. It wasn't until i go off that i noticed it was the 'priority seat' for the disabled, elderly and yes... pregnant women'. Its hard not to be paranoid about his motive now.

The diet starts.... well no time soon as i am still breast feeding. But once I'm not, it will.

THE pirate party

I never have party's, but since two of my goals in life are 1) throw a party and 2) dress up like a pirate then why not combine the two. Since i am now a 'stay at home mum' i had plenty of time to make pirate themed items.

 Starbucks helping with the balloons

In addition to the balloons, i tied the curtains with rough rope, brought some chocolate parrots to hang against them, and tried to dress the room as grand yet Caribbean as possible.

It is obvious that i like desert much more than any other part of a meal, evidenced by pineapple and cheese on a stick (or mini sword) for starter, Jamaican Beef/Chicken/Vegetable patty, plantain and rice for main, and then..... cakes, peanut butter chocolate, chocolate moose and fruit salad for desert!

The cakes, Shark infested water with two elephants on desert Islands

 

The room set up for 'The pirate council meeting' in the 'Jolly Roger Inn'

 Xss the Cabin boy and Starbucks the skeleton

 

Peanut butter creation (white chocolate, mlik chocolate and peanut butter) - deadly.

 

The pirate boat fruit salad. Hard to carve without a sharp knife

 

Great effort put in by all, Honestly dressed as 'Anne Bonnie'.

 I got a murder mystery game off the Internet which was great at helping with suggestions for setting the room and food. It suggests that you eat a course of food, then listen to a quick summarising track on the CD, followed by some scripted dialogue and some scripted (or "say in your own words") questions and answers. They had some great characters to dress up as, and some BRILLIANT one liners during the read dialogue discussions, and it was a laugh, however