Bathroom Dilema

The Atlantis Quadrant

The Atlantis is from Traditional Bathrooms 4 u

The April Identiti2 from Bella Bathrooms

I have a dilema:

I have been staring at shower enclosures for the past 5 days and I am bathroomed out!!

I have been looking for and offset quadrant 1000x800 in chrome at a cheapy cheap price. Ideally I don't just want the sodding glass doors I want the shower tray included - ease of purchase all in one place please and these are the two showers I have come up with the above.

They are both good deals:

Atlantis Quadrant Shower Enclosure = £389 (inc VAT) Tray + riser kit
Power shower suitable
Magnetic closing
Concealed fittings
Wetroom compatible
Top cover caps
Adjustable wall profiles
6mm toughened safety glass
10 year warrantee

The April Identit2: = £401.99 (inc VAT), Tray and riser kit

1850mm High
800mm x 1000mm
45mm Slim line stone resin tray included
Optional easy plumb kit including legs and panel
Enclosure Finish: Polished silver
6mm Kite marked British saftey glass
Stylish handle
Fully concealed fixings
Lifetime Guarantee

Help me out - which one do you prefer?

Weekend recap...

Well fellow bloggers and google lurkers. Happy Monday Morning....

The weekend was fabulous and it's such a shame that it's Monday again! So I'm surfing the net, catching up with the news, looking at facebook and getting myself in order to start the week and do some work.

Weekend News:

Saturday a lovely friend of my popped over for lunch and due to the over indulgence of alcohol (on her part) we had a relaxed lunch in the flat and caught up with all the gossip. 4 hours later the Don arrives back from London we say our goodbyes to my couchmate and get ready for the CG and BM joint birthday celebrations and BBQ.

I slapped on a little eyeliner, fluffed up the hair and we jumped into the car and zoomed up to London. It had been raining all day and we were a little confused to how we would BBQ in the rain.
Never fear, where lamb and bbqs are in the same sentence Albanians become most resourceful and had put up a plastic sheeting to shield us. There was a buffet of salads, meats and then for afters the most amazing cakes!! ooo yummmmy!

The BBQ was a success but sorry to say I departed to the girly baby room where it was warm and dry about 10pm. CG and BM little cutie baby was being looked after by Grandma and the whole conversation seem to revolve around babies.... and nothing bad was said. I was left with a positive feeling of excitement for October (bit different from last weekend).

The Don having gossiped with the boys/men/women of warm blood that could stay outside came in around 1am. We said out goodbyes and I drove carefully home... pootling at a very slow speed due to being rather tired and cosy warm... I was accompanied home by the soft snores of the Don!

Sunday was a lazy day where we slept until nearly noon!! (very unusual) and popped up to Pizza Express for Sunday Lunch (thank goodness for the buy one get one free voucher I found on the net). We came home and watched movies all day...

The Don showed me his cooking skills and how to make pasta bake which was very yummy and I made an accompaniment of avocado salad.

Today I can't stop yawning and think I will have to write a list to motivate what I need to do for the rest of the day. As you may know (re the previous post) my pregnancy brain has kicked in and my memory is terrible! I wonder from room to room and forget what I am doing there. Drinks get left where I made them.
Things get half done....

Well at least now I have the excuse before I was just told it was blondness...

Who, what, where?

Well pregnancy hormones have a lot to answer for. I have been waiting for a hair appointment for the past fortnight, my stylist was ill last week and I made an appointment for this week. Today!

My memory is absolutely pants at the moment and I completely wrote down the wrong time. I now have to wait until next week for an appointment with a different stylist as H is on her hols.

The Don has just called up and and I have had to check what visas he will need to travel the long way though Europe to Albania.

He will need:

• 1* schengen visa
• 1* Bosnia and Herzegovina transit visa
• 1* Croatian transit visa

I remarked and said he could go through Serbia, I don't think he was a huge fan of this idea from his reply. So they will be doing the usual trip through:

France

Switzerland

Italy

France, Belgium, Germany or Switzerland and onto Italy. Where it's motorways all the way to Bari. He seemed happy with this which is good.

Sunset in Porto Santiago

Sunset in Porto Santiago
Originally uploaded by A Country Wife

Thought I may try and play with a picture everyday and post it to you guys to commentt on.
This was taken in Porto Santiago in Tenerife. It's my first attempt at sunsets and I quite like it.
I am still getting to grips with Elements and think I may have to do a course because it may be quite cool to be able to turn the clouds purple ha ha.

Beachy Paradise Anyone?

pic from Michael Anderson

Do you ever just want to run away and hide?

Preferably on a beach somewhere, a place where there are no phone lines, no emails, no bills and absolutely nobody around you?

I am having one of those days, actually it's been a month of wanting that!

Don't get me wrong it has been interspersed with days where I am extremely happy and content. Those days I think are the ones at the weekend where I'm not worried about 'things'. They're the days I don't have a sense of guilt, a sense that:

a) I'm not working hard enough

b) I'm not nice enough

c) I'm not doing all that I can

d) I'm eating too much

e) I'm not fit enough
f) I need to hoover
**** ooohhh cycle of guilt how do I get rid of you?*****

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On a different note:

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I went to my friends engagement party over the weekend, why do women insist on telling you all the bad shit that goes on once you have given birth?

To all you Mums out there, please only depart with the positive stories, or be prepared stories...

Please don't tell pregnant women all the things that go wrong. It gives the sense of impending doom rather than joy!

Maybe I should have extracted myself from that conversation but, I'm far too polite ....

The party was lovely, it's great to see people so happy. There was dancing, cake, cheesy music and friends that I haven't seen in ages. They were very happy to see me and hugged and arrhed over me. It made me remember actually a lot of people like me and really the list above is a load of bollox and really I should be a happy bunny....

Now I better do some work before the guilt kicks in.

***New mantra for the week:

"I'm a happy bunny, happy, happy.... people like me.... I'm a good person"...

Fantastic Photos

Whilst surfing the net and news I found these fantastic photos of Madonna.

Doesn't she look fantastic?

She seems to have a touch of the Material Girl about her...
For the full article in the Telegraph click here

The Daily Blurb and a bit of Randomness!

Thank goodness that work has finished at a civilised time. Yesterday I didn't stop really until bedtime. The VAT deadline was yesterday and I had to check the last year and a half's submissions hoping that I could tweak the final one in line with what is owing etc.

I managed to go through the last years and then submit the last 2 (a day late); fingers crossed that even though it's a day late we won't get any late charges.

I will have to appeal if we do get a charge...

Anyways I'm nearly done on the VAT front, I have to write to the HRMC tomorrow which should get us all up to date and waiting for a cheque.

Then all I have to do is figure out how to update Sage and fix the input errors made last year as I set us up with the wrong scheme... I do like Sage but it seems to throw up more problems than ever.

Enough about work... I'm reading Twilight again! **sigh**

Today is Orange Wednesday, unfortunately I booked a job at 6.30pm for the Don so he's still in London ... we won't be going to the cinema today :(

I have not left the pc all day except to raid the fridge and kitchen for bad things to eat (VAT does that to me)... and it's so hot outside.

I 'm going to do a bit of a clear up and then I'm going to put my get fit video on so I don't feel so bad about all the junk I have eaten today...

Boyo had moved.... The bump has not only increased in size with some rather beautiful stretchmarks appearing but has moved up....

For the last few days I have been wondering if I have developed a spasm in my ribcage and diaphragm!! Nope it's boy practicing his back flips and kicks.

He gave the Don a vicious bum jab the other day... Horrah...