2 Lovely Things In.My.Home...

SO, thought I would play this game again... I haven't done in a while... have linked up on Kass's blog. Cuz she's cool.

2 things I love around my home... Hmmm. I had a think and I was in the kitchen at the time and I thought. Feck! I love most things... Right... What's nice or meaningful or something and close to snap...

So I found this...

I bought this when I lived with Lar and Zod. It signified everything about how we felt about living in Dulverton Palace and it still holds true now. I never thought I would be as happy as I am living with either Lar & Zod or just Lar. So its nice. And its a really cute thing.

And I absolutely LOVE this...

My Hello Kitty toaster. I love it because I love Hello Kitty, like loads, and I also love it because the boy got it for me and it shows that he knows the kind of shit I like and I thought it was really sweet and thoughtful and I really didn't expect it.

There you go. Enjoy.

ps. you should buy a Hello Kitty toaster because when it toasts it toasts Hello Kitty into the bread.

Which is awesome.

Oh... On the subject of toast. I had toast for breakfast. Oh toast. Loveeeee you.

2 Things We Loved Around Our Old Home....

System's down at work... again.... so....

I was feeling a little bit nostalgic after doing my "2 Things Around My Home" thing... Because we have just moved on from Dulverton Palace... Which at one point was the place where dreams were made! SO many happy memories and nice things that went on. Lots of laughter. Lots of late night giggles. Lots of silly TV watching. Lots of shared dinners. Lots of parties.

But alas... Once there was 3. Now there are 2. Booooo. Although I still love living with Just Lar its just different.

NYE 2009 Dulverton Palace

I dont think there has ever been a bigger collection of pratts. We actually really did laugh ALL THE TIME. Zod made honk honk noises to clear her ears and made totally un PC jokes. Lar encouraged late night dancing to Mcfly singing into hairbrushes after only half a can of cider whilst the boy was asleep on the sofa. I was the queen of dramatic entrances... Waltzing into the lounge in drunk tears exclaiming Bonjourrrrrrrrrrr. To a room full of Lar, Zod and Lars "boyfriend" who I had not met. So to make up for this I disappeared off to the kitchen and and piped his name on a cupcake and presented it like a cat. hahahahahah.

(You had to be there.)

2 Things we used to love around our old home....

Bernard

I rescued Bern. From a sordid life in a charity shop. For 50p. Yeah thats right. 50p And brought him home to the girls. Zoe thought he had fleas. Lar loved him like her own. He lived in the fireplace. He came into his own at parties.

Lar & Bernard ~ A Love Story

For Christmas I Wanted A Real-Life Donkey.

Denied (thanks folks) ~ This Would Have To Do

Classy David Hasslehoff Toilet Seat Cover

A lovely Christmas present from Laura. I know not where she got this from. Its truly horrendous. But truly Amazing at the same time. Laura. Where did you get this.

Zoe Liked To Sit On His Face.

Just so you know. Donkeys and Davids are for life not just for Christmas so these pair are now safe and sound in Luther Vandross Heights.

Zoe has defected to live with her boyfriend. She gave us custody of them. Her boyfriend Dave wasnt happy about there being another Dave in her life. She visits often.

Dulverton Palace

Remember how I have moved house and blah blah blah.

Well. When we moved, like you do when you're a nice law abiding citizen etc, we cleaned the old house top to toe to make sure we didn't get rinsed by the Estate agent and lose our deposits etc.

Now. There is no love lost between me and my housemates and the shits that are Kingswood. (in case you are thinking of renting through them... I wouldn't bother...) They are a bunch of useless fecks that have never once helped us with anything.

You know ringing them to say the toilet is leaking. No one ever came to fix it.

Hello Kingswood... the shower only runs just off cold. Its the coldest winter Britain has seen in time. Can you help? No one ever helped. About 16 calls later they send a man. Yeah I cant believe you have been showering in that. That's a disgrace. It must be your boiler. I will talk to your agents and get them to send a boiler man.

Never. To. Be. Seen.

Kept calling. In the end just gave up and thought fuck it. And moved out.

So imagine my dismay when yesterday, in quite a chipper giggly mood despite having not even 3 hours sleep I receive this on email from my housemate who has scanned it in so I could see it knowing fore well I would hit the roof....

OH MY GOD.

Such C****. (Sorry. But to be fair sometimes that word is called for.)

Obviously you readers don't know the ins and outs of our inventory or the state of the house or really what we're like but I would just like to say.... in case you are bothered....

I never once slept on that mattress in my room. The front room. I brought my own.
The marks on the top of the fireplace and stuff are all on the inventory.
We cleaned the floors and skirting when we left. WITH MOPS. Let alone just swept.
The tiles were all loose when we moved in. Old fashioned tiled hallway. On inventory.
We have a letter from them saying its OK to replace the green sofas as long as we leave the new ones(red ones) the old ones were disgusting.
The dining table the landlords sister came and took. The chairs that were around it were in the kitchen. The one he said was left outside was already out there.
There's no rubbish under the stairs. Whatever is in there is what was already there.
The bulbs in the kitchen weren't all working in the first place. I remember asking my dad to put new ones in because they were so high up and he said it'd be cheaper to not bother. Cuz they're halogen down lighter things and I think there were about 20.

The mark on the ceiling in my room is from when it rained loads and the roof leaked so I rang them and they sent their man around. and he sprayed this stuff on it and he it looked a bit er...grey? and he said he could re paint the whole room but that would be a pain and asked if I was bothered that there was a mark and I said no. So he said he would just leave it.
Why would we cover an air vent? There should be no scuffs really and definitely no blu tack marks because no one was in that room!?It was spare.
Cobwebs? You get done for cobwebs these days!?!!
The bathroom the floor is wood painted white and we have been there for 2 years and it started to peel where you got out the bath. It was also worn around the loo where the loo was leaking and I had rang and rang for them to fix and they didn't so Dad put sealant round it and it didn't work.

Obviously cleaned all the bathroom before leaving.
No rubbish in the front garden!?? back garden a bit weedy but you know.
Zod cleaned out both fridges washed insides and took out all shelves and stuff and washed. Washed the drawers in the freezer.
I even cleaned all the extractor thing (which wasn't cleaned when we moved in) so they can swivel if they say the kitchen wasn't cleaned.

Oh my. Its made me so mad. Why do estate agents always try to rob you when it comes to your deposit. Is this how they make their money on rentals because in my experience it bloody well seems so. Like Lar said really, if you think about it, you may as well not bother with cleaning or removing shit you don't want when you leave the property because they always do this. I know its money and we need it because we are in no way minted but for the hassle you go through to make sure everything is in order like they ask you.

Bring it on Kingswood. I'm ready for a fight.

All is festive in Bitsy's world...

So I made Peter Schmeichel into an angel for the boys tree. Because this is what I do... Make cute things for people I love.

BUT.. Nothing will beat the original and best... Zippy. Coming out to play at Dulverton Palace for the second year running...

This is how pretty our lounge looks like... and totally beats the boys if there was a real fire... so he wins there but still. I got radiatorssss! In yo' face!

This was the boys. But it did it no justice... the picture of ours is better because Gabby took it with her Ipod phone. My phone/camera anything is shit so it comes out like this.... or I have to take it with flash. And then its shit.. But its still lovely to go there and sit by the fire with the tree and stuff. Gorgeous.

Got festive at work...something to do...

Me & Burt getting festive with the pink tree..

So thats how its been of late.

Merry christmas and all that.