Beetlefeet's Blog

Looks like I managed to post the last blog twice. Ah well, I am a bit dozy. I know that

This weekend was nice. I went on Eurostar for the first time. Very nice and very relaxed. We went to visit baby Lena who is very sweet and looks like her daddy when she cries. A very proper wee princess.

We managed to successfully navigate our way around the London tube, catch a bus to Oxford and also not miss any trains on the way back. Not bad eh? I would never have thought it. The last time I was in London was about 10 years ago. I still don't think much of the place and I hope that I don't have to go back for a loooooooooong time.

No yarn shops in Aynsham but I did managed to finish socks for Lieke to match her mum's. Roeliek was very pleased and now wants to learn to knit herself. I'll teach her in a week or so when I have time to breathe again.

The guys lost with the Rugby. I don't know how the girls done but I'm sure I'll find out today sometime. Hmmm that's about it for this post. Off to do something usefull now.

While browsing through my favourite websites and blogs I came accross someone who had done a 5 things list. That made me think that I should do mine so here goes

10 years ago:
Working for the Pru while studying nights at Uni

5 years ago:
Arrived in NL

One year ago:
Was getting excited about going home

5 Treats I really like
Autumn
Baked Ham made by my Mum
Scrumming
drinking tea then eating chocolate and letting the choc melt in my mouth
Drinking Carmalite Tripel with my mate Ange

Songs I know the words to
Fairies in Boots - Black Sabbath
Break my rusty chain - Sound Garden
White Christmas - Bing Crosby
Calafornia Dreaming - Mama's and Papa's
All songs from the Sound of Music

5 things I would do with a few million Euros
Pay off all my friends and familie's mortgages and cars etc
Travel to lots of places
Open a faffing shop with my friends Sarah and Cindy
Leave my job
Buy Frank a Brewery in Belgium

5 Places I'd run away to
Home to Scotland
The mountains in Germany
The mountains in Canada and the States
My friend Mess in Oz
Somewhere where it snows at Christmas

5 Favourite TV programs
Eastenders
Flog it
Charmed
Sex and the City
Room 101

5 Favourite Toys
car
teddies
digi camera
knitting sticks
wool (although Im not sure the last 2 can be classed as toys)

While browsing through my favourite websites and blogs I came accross someone who had done a 5 things list. That made me think that I should do mine so here goes

10 years ago:
Working for the Pru while studying nights at Uni

5 years ago:
Arrived in NL

One year ago:
Was getting excited about going home

5 Treats I really like
Autumn
Baked Ham made by my Mum
Scrumming
drinking tea then eating chocolate and letting the choc melt in my mouth
Drinking Carmalite Tripel with my mate Ange

Songs I know the words to
Fairies in Boots - Black Sabbath
Break my rusty chain - Sound Garden
White Christmas - Bing Crosby
Calafornia Dreaming - Mama's and Papa's
All songs from the Sound of Music

5 things I would do with a few million Euros
Pay off all my friends and familie's mortgages and cars etc
Travel to lots of places
Open a faffing shop with my friends Sarah and Cindy
Leave my job
Buy Frank a Brewery in Belgium

5 Places I'd run away to
Home to Scotland
The mountains in Germany
The mountains in Canada and the States
My friend Mess in Oz
Somewhere where it snows at Christmas

5 Favourite TV programs
Eastenders
Flog it
Charmed
Sex and the City
Room 101

5 Favourite Toys
car
teddies
digi camera
knitting sticks
wool (although Im not sure the last 2 can be classed as toys)

Hi I'm Jules. I've been thinking about starting a web log for a while now but realised that I was never very good at keeping a diary when I was little so I'm probably going to be crap at this too.

I live and work in the Netherlands and have a cute wee flat which I share with my gorgeous boyfriend and my bunny. She's just a recent addition to the family. No kids however we do have a rather large collection of bears. Sorry I'll rephrase that. I have a rather large collection of bears.

One of my hobbies is making teddy bears. I don't do that on a very regular basis anymore but ususally only when my friends have babies. There is rather a lot of them expecting at the minute or have just had them so I'd better get busy again. Im busy with one at the minute for Lena. She was born in August and is getting a nice white bear. I still have to finish the bear but that has to be done by Thursday evening at the latest. I'll get there though.

Another hobby is rugby. This year I'm not playing as I have an ankle injury. I will be playing again towards the end of the season though. That's after the weightloss and fitness fairies have been and waved their magic wands over me. Fingers crossed

A few folk think that the combination of me playing rugby and making bears is wierd. Well I'll make it wierder. I knit too. I love knitting socks and things and I'm even a member of a couple of internet mailing lists. On the needles at the moment are wee socks for Lieke. Next is slightly bigger socks for Jan. In between finish the jumper for Berni and the jumper for me and and and. My stash gets bigger every weekend I think.

I've also just started a sort of knitting club at work. Some eegit called it a 'Knitting Circle' I just have such a heckel on that term. Anyway we've decided to rename it a 'Chicks with Sticks' We're still pretty small but its growing.

Actually I love anything to do with handarbeit as the germans call it. Everything crafty from quilting to making cards etc.

That's about it for the first blog. Hopefully the next one will be a bit more interesting. I've attached a photo of me in my best rugby pose. Please note that its a Köln shirt I have on. My own team AAC play in white with a blue strip. White for a rugby strip! Must have been a man that thought of that one