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Back to the gym

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I finally decided it’s time… to go back to the gym.  I did start running after I had baby G but I over did it and got injured and got really unmotivated.  I am feeling just fine, a little bigger than I used to be before baby G but again it’s ok. But I am not as strong as I used to be. And I need to be ready to chase after the boys and carry at least one of them if needed to be…. So I rejoined my old gym. And on my 1st day on the way in I bumped into one of the trainers. It was nice he is one of the really nice people and was very supportive!  Week one I only managed to once for a class. It was fun! And hard. And I really felt my muscles that I didn’t feel in ages!  Week two I did two days class and just worked out by myself. I love spin classes but I did really well at it and the entire body was hurting for days. Save to say I need tk get some protein to help me with recovery.  Even after this little efforts I feel more energetic and feel like body is changing already. I am booked for
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Snoopies

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School holidays for us are usually intense. No school no structure can be a little challenging. But it is always changing, and never the same. But work this time was also intense!  So we walked a lot!  We searched for Snoopies! They were joyous ones we met. Egg liked high-fiving them and giving them a boop on the nose. I enjoyed taking the pictures of amazing work of the varieties of artists. They also made me think of snow dogs we had a while back think about 6 years ago. So Egg was a same age as Gray now. Awww  But what makes me sad it that now they are fenced off or removed all together due to vandalism…  Who are these people who want to attack Snoopy?! And why?! Would this be the young folks who after lockdown cannot cope? Should we be paying more attention and give them care they need?  But then who were people who prepared for and vandalised Bute park? …. Anyway I digress and… it’s a about art. And fun.  Well I do hope we will have more of these trail in the future. Despite the d
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Junking. Alone time

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I remember some on internet saying that once the lady ha f a baby she never felt alone. It’s lovely feeling, but it can also be exhausting… and I really needed to get away. With holidays and well everything I went out..   This is what I got me and the boys. The bag is from Jaeger and it’s lovely! I really couldn’t leave it. I might chuck it on vinted. But I think I will keep it for time being. 
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Busy hands. Calm mind

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With world being what it is I find it really hard to keep my mind in order….  So I have started again sewing. I mean I always had plants to see but no time like the present right.  Oh and it really helped to keep my hands busy and mind in check. Just like one of the pods said once.  And I made a self drafted skirt, toile of trousers and actual trousers. And I even entered two sewing challenges!  I also have one more project cut out and ready to be sewn up. All super tidy too, I am very proud of myself.  There were ups and down to the whole sewing things.  Skirt was fun work out. But not quiet how I envision it but I am pleased with results. To make it I just pinned it together and walked around to make sure I will be able to walk in it. Top tip there. Then I cut the rectangles to size and figured out how wide I want the waist band. It was a little too long though and my sewing machine or fabric didn’t like the gathering stitch so I had to do it by hand. And here is the result. I even d
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Film vs tv shows

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Every year I get a new diary/calendar and at the back I like to write down films/shows/books I watched and read or audiobook.  And last year I noticed that I watched a lot more shows rather than films. Back in the day when I had a memberships  card to the Cineworld I watch a lot and very different films… now films feel like an effort. And if the end what if you don’t like it? And you have wasted a perfectly good evening. And with series you can (well most of us) dip in and out as we please and even abandon them all together. I only finished true blood recently same with lost girl, they weren’t available on streaming services I had and I lost interest for a bit too… but I gave up on game of thrones and Big Bang theory all together.  Well not only that but tv shows quality is so good! Take Witcher for example? Great. I vaguely remember polish version form 80-90s it was not that this good! Or wheel of time which I have started but don’t feel the urge to continue watching…. But it’s like m
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Life

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Well poop on the stick!  This didn’t work out as well I hoped. I guess since blogging for me it’s just … I don’t know what anymore I don’t do it as often and as regular.  And well life, kids and trying to maintain some kind of normality. Basically I have no excuse rather than a lack of motivation. But in this few weeks I …  -Drunk gin with girls and they made me watch Fleabag. All of it in one sitting. I felt very uncomfortable, but it definitely has incredibly funny moments. Over all I did enjoy it but I will not watch it again.  -I have been to Bristol for an afternoon tea hen do. And realised I haven’t been talking much with the future bride. We are chatting more often now and I did message other friends who are in the same county but we have seen each other or spoke in ages!  Never really been to Bristol properly. Might escape again soonish!  - I finally went to the cinema. I haven’t been to cinema since I went on my birthday in 2019 to see knives out. Great film by the way. I saw
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Daria and the stitches… fail!

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Oh I feel so poo…  I had this grand plan on making my own clothes from vintage and second hand fabrics….  Well anyway back in August I cut out the pattern from simply sewing magazine of Aisling Blouse by Jennifer Lauren. But it just sat there. Well we didn’t have house back together and well with all the building work it’s surprising  it’s going as well as it is!  But I digress…. So I have started just to realise that I didn’t cut the second piece of the collar and didn’t do interfacing.  And as I was fusing the fabric I realised that I seems the make the seem allowance… free patterns in magazines are great but they have so little details and for inexperienced sewers like me it’s proving to be a bit difficult!  Anywho I struggled with collar and facings but I did fix and redid it again! Collar looks sharp but the top itself is way too small. And I have no idea what happened.  Or maybe it’s because I had to adjust the darts on the fabric…but then how else would you adjust the darts….  I
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