Nakitt
A tale of love conquering the whole world…

We did a lot of things today and it was heeeeeaps of fun! We woke up at 8, ate breakfast in bed whilst watching TV. Nathan then played Gran Turismo and I fell back to sleep until around 11. We went round to my parent’s, ate soup for lunch and lots of strawberries for pudding. The men had pineapple and mango too, but I don’t like their textures. We then hung around for a while, I glossed up some sausage rolls with egg yolk and sat in the Sun which was so hot.

It was my Grandpa’s 84th birthday party today. His real birthday is tomorrow, but he wanted all the family around for tea time. We all went up and it was manic. My eldest cousin Andrew was there, and he and Nay always hit it off, so they got chatting away. Libby always likes to beat him up, so she was at him with a rusty garden spade which was thoroughly dangerous! My two much younger cousins also came around, one in a Minnie Mouse costume; but I never play with them, they’re horrible.

This is my Granny. Everyone says I look like her, but I don’t think I really do.

It was very sad. I took this photograph of Grandpa and his birthday cake and as I clicked to review it, I saw a photo of an old man looking back at me. I looked back at him and really did see how aged he was, and it made my heart sink. He then turned to me and said, “I hope I’m around for a little bit longer..” So I said, “God yes, 20 years at least please!” So he smiled. He and my Granny are always counting down to the day they’ll lie on their death beds. Ever since I was tiny, they have told me that they would never see my 10th birthday, my 18th birthday, the day I get married, the day they become great-grandparents, the day I get good at my career. But I want to let them see it to prove them wrong. I never want to grow old and wake up every day waiting for death to knock on the door.

Then we walked out of their house right into the fun fair. It’s an annual fair which comes every year, but it’s so over priced and I really hate the people who run it. A few years back they broke into my Grandparent’s house. Then a few years later, I saw one of them in my Grandparent’s garden; I have never screamed and run so fast in my life! They disappeared over the fence and no one believed my story of a hairy man watching me from a holly bush! But I know he was real. Scary old man. Libby met her friends at the fair, so they ran off whilst Nay and I supervised from a distance. The Sun was beating down on us and I broke out in some horrible rash on my leg from the grass, so now I look like I have bloody meningitis.

After the fair we returned home in our horribly sticky car. We decided enough was enough, we didn’t want to be seen in some disgusting car which looked like it had been dipped in syrup. So Nathan got out the sponge and scrubbed to his wrist’s delight whilst I sat inside and dust-busted the carpets and seats and wiped down all the insides. We finished and were absolutely pooped out. I don’t think either one of us wants any form of supper, we just need an early night with the window wide open. I can’t believe how hot it’s gotten again. It rained all last week and now the Summer seems to be setting in. Oh yes! Summer time begins on Nathan’s birthday and I have finally found him the bestest present of all time. I can’t stop chuckling over it just to wind him up. Poor man, I really do kill him. I love him really. <3

I took this photo in Calais but never got round to putting it up. So here it is now. [:

Nathan and I are both feeling absolutely shattered today. Yesterday was busy, busy, busy and it feels like we’ve hardly slept a wink either. But neither of us are complaining, we’re just having a quiet day and may go to the fun fair this afternoon. But we may go on the weekend, depending on how we’re feeling.

The windscreen wiper snapped off our car yesterday which is a pain in the arse. We have to park underneath a tree every night and it deposits sticky stuff all over the place; the majority being on our car. It doesn’t aim for any other car parked underneath it, oh no, it aims specifically for our’s as I’m convinced it is out to get us. That evil tree. Anyway, yesterday morning I was washing the windscreen and one of the wipers started to make a horrible noise, so I turned it off and it went flying! I kept having to remind myself that it was snapped and I mustn’t turn it on. But then we were waiting for a car to turn across us and I managed to stall as we were on a slope, and as I turned the ignition back on, I bumped the wipers on so we had this metal thing scrape right across the glass making a nail-down-chalkboard noise. It was most unpleasant. So this weekend I think we need to drive off to Halfords and get it fixed. I may pick up some other bits and bobs whilst we’re there. I’d love to invest in a Tomtom sometime. But even those are scary as people always submit stories of how they got led to cliff edges because of those navigation systems. What’s with that? That’s not cool!

Oh yeah! Nathan said he’d buy me a Tiffany’s ring for our wedding so we spent lunch time on their site. I’m positive I found my perfect one. [: I’m so excited and happy and eeeeh!

I’ve decided what to do for Nathan’s birthday and I am thoroughly stoked. I think it is a very good plan and I can’t wait to do it all. Unfortunately for him, he’s going to have to put up with my secretive self and gleeful giggles for just over a week now. I just need to buy him presents. I wanted to get him a macbook, but they seem to be a tad out of my budget right now, so I guess I’ll downsize and find something just as good. Hmm.

We also found the most amazing place the other day. We were walking through all these trees and came out onto a massive lake/pond. I really want to get in sometime and take a million photographs, but it is protected because of wildlife until July 31st. So come August 1st, I’ll be waiting in the bushes for everyone to vanish before I strike! I want to try and do a water series and make it look all misty and cold, that means Nathan will be getting wet again. But I will be too, so we’ll just have heaps of fun!

Anyway, this was just a blog to update on our busy lives right now. I think we’ll go for an afternoon snooze later. So tired! That is all for now! Over and out.

I have just finished a whole day’s work putting cases together for the puppie’s owners. I am absolutely pooped! I’m pretty happy with the way they came out. [:

I have ordered 100 DVD cases today which should be here either tomorrow or Thursday, so when I get more work, I can make more pretty packaging. Gosh, I now realise how much effort goes into making things look appealing!

A little while back we met my Godmother’s new puppy called Prudence. Yesterday we got the honour to go and photograph her and her little puppy friend called Moccasin the golden dachshund. We drove down to Dorking and thankfully the rain managed to hold off for us for the 2 hours we spent with them. They were so, so sweet… and very energetic! I’ve never photographed anything like puppies before but it was heaps of fun and kept us really fit!

I now have a party event booked for July which I’m thoroughly looking forward to! Looks like things are beginning to lift off for me (or so I hope at least!)

I really have not much more to report on. Nathan is bogged down with work but is making amazing progress every day. His immense concentration is enough to cause an earthquake. Speaking of which, yesterday morning South London saw the most incredible storm. Turns out it blew over to Suffolk and developed into this! It made the ground shake and woke up several towns at 6am. Everyone was talking about it all day long. So much for sleep-in’s, ey!?

Nay and I have been to France and back, and it was super-duper nice, even if it was kind of cold and windy compared to home! We got heaps of shots, drank coke and even went to hang on a beach; which we pretty much had all to ourselves.

Now we’re back in the UK which has turned cold and windy too! We seem to have brought the weather back with us. I hope it warms up again for the weekend, we were just getting used to 3o degrees of bliss!

This Sunday we’re off out of London for a few hours in the afternoon for my little puppy photoshoot. I’m so darn excited. I love puppies, I love photography, but putting them together just screams trouble to me! I think we’ll be able to control them and I’m so determined to get some great shots in. I think we may smuggle one of them home for us!

We’ve been very slowly moving things out of our flat for when we get to July and take the final things. I think we’re both dying to get out of there away from our bizarre land-lady, but it’ll be sad to say goodbye to our first little place together. I guess it’s only up from here then!?

Our tadpoles that we saved back in March have got pretty funny looking legs poking out of their fat bodies. We had to clean them out a few weeks back which was awful. We had to fish out about 200 dead bodies which was disgusting and really sad. So now all the survivors are manic and need constant food; they’re so fat I’m scared they’ll explode.

We have come to the conclusion that this plane is a hoax. We (well, me mainly) believe that the makers of Lost have gone and started a real life version to keep all the fans happy until the beginning of Season 6. So the people of that flight are all alive and well on an island with polar bears, boars and dharma folk. We are all made to believe they are dead until a few months later when 6 of them rock up (which we shall call the French Air 6) and they’ll spend 3 miserable years drinking themselves to death trying to figure out why they’re not happy.

Then a man who looks too much like Mr Clean (pictured above) will rock up and tell them that they all have to go back to save the island and their friends. Well, I guess that is what I wish to believe as I don’t want to believe everyone is dead. It is such a mystery that part of me still hopes that someone is still alive out there to tell us all what happened. On a serious note, our hearts and prayers go out to the friends and families of the victims.

Nathan’s birthday is in 2 weeks time and I’m still wondering what on Earth to do. I know he wants to go ice skating but I want to be able to give him a surprise too! I thought of driving to Wales for the day, but I think that is a bit too ambitious seeing as it is a good 5 hours away, plus neither of us speak a word of Welsh. I’ll have to think of something a bit nearer and more fun to do then!

On that note, I think it is time to go grab some grub and then I have a whole pile of clothes to go and sort out and put into storage. Boring.

Peace out!