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Listen up, 5th March 2010 shall be Guest Post Day.
Guest posting is a great way for you to put your writing in front of a new audience and gain new readers, it’s a tried and tested technique in increasing a blog’s audience – and it’s fun too!

Here’s how it will work;
1. Submit yourself by leaving a comment on this post with your blog name before midday on Monday.
Update: Please use keyword ‘aqua’ in comment so that I can find any entries that go to spam. Ta
2. Return here …

The actual name for this dish is ‘Chicken stuffed with mozzarella wrapped in Parma Ham with italian tomato sauce and seared asparagus’ which is a bit of a mouthful and way too long for the title box in wordpress. I made this for lunch on Wednesday and was gloating on twitter so I thought I’d share it with you.
The Sauce
The sauce can be used as a pizza base, pasta sauce or with chicken so my advice is to make a batch like I did.
Ingredients
2 x Cans of chopped tomatoes
Hand …

Most days are a mixture of busy, hard, fulfilling, quiet, happy, sad, angry, hopeful, but occasionally, very occasionally there is one day that is the perfect day, it does’t happen often and when it does you need to savour it.
On this day you wake up and feel rested, food tastes a little better than usual, and your hair miraculously looks great with minimal effort.
You visit the shops and all the clothes you try on make you look slimmer, younger, funkier and they’re all on offer, you …

In the last part I mentioned that my being made ‘redundant’ (code for; we don’t want some sick person to deal with so we are going to find a get out clause that can’t get us into trouble) was actually a positive turning point in my life.
I reflected on the jobs I’d had, where my real passions lay, and decided to take a 30% wage decrease to work in a nursery. I enjoyed working with the children especially thinking up creative activities for them to do. I worked …

I’ve been thoroughly enjoying watching the Winter Olympics, I usually watch the figure skating and sometimes the curling but this year I’ve discovered some new events to watch including snowboard cross (a-mazing) and skeleton.
The athletes are truly awesome but on at least three occasions the commentator has referred to a female athlete as a ‘pin up girl’. Apparently Lindsay Vonn is the pin up girl of downhill and Melissa Hollingsworth the Canadian pin up girl of the winter games. Is it only me that thinks this …

So my lovely husband offered to make me a meal for my birthday over his long weekend off, but rather than suffer the mess I ‘persuaded’ him that a supermarket dine in option might be worth a shot. Of course he agreed quickly realising that this would merely involve him switching on the oven and removing foil.
Tesco had a deal on that included a main course, a side, a desert and a bottle of wine for ?9, however I noticed that at the bottom of the chiller in the …

We’ve lived in our house for over two years now, we were fortunate when we moved in that there were no major jobs needing doing to the interior. Unfortunately the same could not be said for the garden (front and back) though not a jungle they were definitely a little unloved shall we say, and I’m ashamed to say that they remain so.
You see we meant to work on the garden during our first summer in the house but the weather was so poor we barely made …

This post written for the Writing Workshop under prompt one – “Write an honest description of what you look like right now”
I’m slouched on the sofa, on my feet are what can only be described as faux eskimo boot slippers (Tesco ?8) which have been *cough* lovingly chewed by the puppy . Moving up, a pair of dorothy perkins black ‘long shorts’ reveal white stubbly legs. I have my hurley top on from America, it’s not the image I had of myself wearing it, in my head …

*No animals were harmed whilst taking this picture

We picked up our new puppy last Saturday which means she’s been with us a week as I write this, although it seems much longer!

She’s sleeping though and is almost completely toilet trained now. She’s very energetic and boisterous, although I think that’s partly because we’ve been unable to take her for walks yet – she’s due to get her booster injection in the next week so by the beginning of March we should be able to take her out and get her some proper exercise.
After much deliberation over …