Run out of charge

I think its time I got some new rechargeable batteries for our camera. I just went to take some photos of the hat and wristwarmers I've knitted and yet again there was no charge left in the batteries even though they were on charge all day saturday they just won't hold their charge any more. They are very old though and have been used a lot so I suppose they must have come to the end of their life now, it does say they can only be recharged so many times and we have had them a few years and taken a lot of photos with them so I suppose it had to happen sonne or later.
Did any of you see 'Come dine with me' from barnsley yesterday? I watched it and it was quite funny seeing people from your own town on tv. They do seem to have barnsley accents but none of them are very broad (at least not yet) and they don't sound too much like they're thick as pudding either yet which is how we usually sound on tv. I'm not taking to the wine and food snobby one yet, Phil I think his name is, he's getting on my nerves already but so far the others haven't yet.
Hubby nephew and I all watched the beginning where they showed shots of barnsley to spot where they were we spotted the alhambra centre which is our small shopping centre in town and also the town centre shopping streets. It looked like Milly Johnson was in Dodworth Library looking at her own books and I think the shop where Verene was shopping in for her menu was Cannon hall farm shop. I'll be watching the other episodes with interest and watching my fellow barnsley fuerrk too.
Got some power in the batteries now so heres some photos of my aran hat and wristwarmers including a very bad photo of me wearing the whole set including the scarf I knitted before.

Modeling is not my forte lol

Come dine with me comes to Barnsley

Next week from monday to friday at 5pm the channel four tv programme 'Come dine with me' is from barnsley. Author Milly Johnson who wrote books such as 'the yorkshire pudding club', 'spring fling' and 'the birds and the bees', is one of the diners. Other diners are a beautician and singer named Verene Farrell a couple of businessmen Paul Hoyle and Phil Davis and Careworker and part time drag queen Christian Whiteley-Davis. I can't wait to see it and hear what the voice over man has to say about them all as I think he's one of the funniest bits of the show.

It'll be interesting to see if the diners have barnsley accents like mine lol. Quite often people interviewed on tv who come from barnsley either have no accent at all or sound as thick as pudding so Hubby and I cant wait  to hear what these five sound like.  We'll also be keeping a lookout to see if we recognise any of the places they shop at or visit.

A good old workout of the jaw

Bonjour ma petit bloggerrrrrrrrrrssssssssss
Ok thats enough of that I might have took french at school but I cant remember it and its no good pretending I can. I was just trying to think of a  more interesting way to say hello.
Hope everyone is well and happy out there in blog land, I'm not too bad today. I seem to have spent quite a lot of today talking,  a favourite pastime of mine as you might have guessed. First off I chatted with Eily online at lunchtime before I went into town to the shop which stocks some of my jewellery where I spent a happy couple of hours chatting to Jan who owns it. She's moving shops next week so I went to pack up my jewellery and drop off some new stock ready for her reopening  next week so although I was there on business it gave us a good excuse to have a chat while I was there.
Hubby picked me up from there when he'd finished work and brought me home where I rang mum for a chat while our dinner was cooking. Then after dinner hubby and I went to visit his sister and brother in law for a couple of hours and yes you guessed it , talked some more. Phew my jaw has had a workout today. I think chas & dave must have wrote that song about me you know which one I mean don't you.....
Cos you won't stop talking    

Why wont you give it a rest.

..............

with your excessive talking

your becoming a pest

......

rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit

Talking of workouts I started a new 30day workout challenge on the wii today. I finished my last one on tuesday and then had yesterday as a rest day as suggested by the wii, I like to do as I'm told especially where resting is concerned lol. I'm quite proud of myself for finishing my first 30 days as I'm not one for sticking to fitness things normally (Yay well done to me lol)

This time I've moved up a level on the intensity from low to medium. I wasn't sure I was ready to move up a gear to be honest but I managed todays workout without too much more huffing and puffing than usual. Could I possibly be getting a little fitter do you think???? Its is a bit harder on medium than low, you have to do more of each excercise but don't be too impressed I'm not talking marathon training levels here, its quite tame for anyone with a bit of fitness about them, but for people like me, well its enough for now.

Come on Andie keep it going

Right well theres enough rabbiting from me now its time to say au revoir et bonne nuit

Bin busy crafting

Hi bloggettes I'm back. I've not been on the computer much in the last few days as Ive been busy crafting.

The shop that sells some of my jewellery is moving premises next week so I'm going to go in later this week and pack up my jewellery ready for the move. While I'm there Jan (the shop owner) and I thought a change of jewellery would be a good idea so I'm going to take some new pieces in and bring the old ones home.We like to change things over every few months then customers arent seeing the same pieces all the time. I decided to get my beads out on Monday for a play and made a few new pieces to take along with the others I'll choose from my current stock.

Glass bead set

Glass bead drop set



Red ribbon silvertone bracelet





Silvertone star charm bracelet



Wood disc set

Chiffon ribbon & glass bead set















I've also been knitting lately, I finished a scarf last week and then moved onto a hat and some wristwarmers/fingerless gloves all knitted in the same cream aran yarn and stitch pattern. I haven't taken any photos yet so Ill add them later. I got the scarf pattern from a book I bought ages ago and then found a hat and wristwarmer pattern and adapted it to include the same stitch pattern as the scarf. Its a sort of holey diamond pattern.



 My mum came over for a visit yesterday and brought her knitting so we sat watching a dvd and chatting while we clicked away with our needles. I finished my last wristwarmer off  for the diamond set and then started a pair of flip over mittens for my niece. I saw the pattern in simply knitting a while ago and fancied having at go at them and then mum told me my niece Gemma wanted a pair. She wants them in cream to go with her new aviator jacket so I started them yesterday.



Today Im supposed to be pricing up my jewellery for the shop and doing an inventory list for jan and myself so we know whats in the shop but as yet I'm still playing around on the computer. Tut tut andie, bad I know but I seem to have quite a bit to catch up on as I havent been on much lately.



Well I better go and get on with something, the inventory and price tickets wont wait forever. I think I'll probably have lunch first though as I'm getting a bit peckish.





Guess how much is in the box ANSWER

Hi girls, its saturday and guessing now closes for how much is in the box. Thanks for taking part and all your guesses.

The total is £199.32

What a whopping amount eh girls We did it in two lots as originally we were going to cash the voucher at the checkout for to pay for our shopping but when we got to 90 odd pound and we still had a lot of coins left we decided it would be way more than our shopping total. So we did two seperate lost of vouchers and cashed  in for cash at the customer service desk.

Here's a photo of the two vouchers that we had which combined together makes £199.32

 

The closest answer is   £196  by Chrissys for cards
Well done   Chrissy xx
To claim your prize : Just pop onto my website http://www.prettyjewellery.co.uk/ Choose the pair of earrings OR bagcharm you would like as your prize, click add to basket, click go to checkout, and then click pay by cheque option (obviously I won't be expecting a cheque as its a free prize, but using this option means you can let me know what item you want and where to send it) then just add your name and address in the boxes on screen and click send order. Once I've recieved your order I'll post your prize out to you . It should be quite simple to do but if you have any problems you can message me on busymitts or via my website contact us page.
Thanks all for taking part and Chrissy I hope you enjoy your prize x

Eyup lasses here's a bit on a translation fo yer

For those of you that didn't understand them all here's a bit of a translation of the local sayings in my last blog.
Gi or faffing abart----- Give over messing about
That bairns badly-----That child is poorly (ill)
She's got monk on------She is sulking (grumpy)
Al do it missen------ I will do it myself
He's not back'ard at cumin for'ard----- He is not backward at coming forward (he's a pushy person)
Ow do----- How are you? said instead of hello
Mi mam played pop-----My mum told me off (got angry)
Hes a rum'n ----- He is cheeky ( a bit of a character)
Mam can i ev sum spice-----Mum can I have some sweets
Wer yer born in a barn/field----- Were you born in a barn/field, said when someone has left the door open and you want them to close it
Tyke----- Yorkshire person
See we aren't that hard to understand in these parts lol.

Mother is not impressed.

I showed my mum saturdays blog yesterday and she was not pleased with how I had started it, "I didn't bring you up to talk common like that" She said.  Its true she didn't, her and my dad were very definate that we would speak properly. Its not that we were posh because we weren't ,we lived in a council house and my dad was a miner and my mum a housewife but mum and dad didnt want us to be common.
I had a friend who used to come and call for me to play and out and as I answered the door she would say "A tha laking?" If my dad was home he used to say "No but she might come out to play" it made me and my friend laugh but I would never have dared use the phrase 'a tha laking' myself.
I did speak quite nicely at school but after 13 years working with the public and speaking to people who were broader in their accents and sayings than me I picked up more and more of it and as an adult without mum and dad constantly monitoring how I spoke I gradually got broader in my accent and speech. Mind you besides local accents and saying I heard a LOT of swear words and abuse at work too but I try not to use those lol.
I'm not bothered really I don't think its exactly common more local, I think I just talk with an accent and dialect thats local to where I'm from. I quite like an accent and local sayings myself, when I go places I love to hear locals talking and I love hearing or reading friends use their local sayings, like when moe says 'wee hen' I imagine her saying it in a lovely scottish accent and Jo from wales I imagine says 'lush' like stacey from the tv series gavin and stacey and then theres Eily who sounds a bit like a lovely female version of peter kaye and has some brilliant sayings "eyup mi old prater" lol.
My sister doesn't have a local accent as she married and moved  down south in her early twenties and then a few years ago moved just over the border into scotland so she has a sort of hybrid accent that has bits of allsorts in it.  She tried quite hard to lose her yorkshire accent when she moved down south and stopped saying words like 'aye' and slowed down her speech considerably like the people around her did. When she said words like yessssssssssssttttttttteeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrdaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy you could almost nod off and wake up athe next day and she'd still be saying it. Now she's in scotland she's speeded up a bit again and is now back to saying 'aye' which I find quite funny.
I love it if she has a scottish friend come over while we're visiting, quite a few people in their village are incomers like my sis but I like hearing the local accent. My niece is going out with a local boy and when we met him for the first time I went "Ooh hes proper scottish"  and the first time I heard one of their friends say "och aye" I nearly shouted  out "the noo" as we tend to think all scottish people say "och aye the noo" or at least I do lol.
I do try sometimes when I go to different places to talk a little more properly and not yorkshire as I know some people won't understand me but it does have a tendency to slip out without me realising.
Here's a few yorkshire sayings and words, do you know what they mean?
Gi or faffing abart
that bairns badly
shes got monk on
al do it missen
hes not back'ard at cumin for'ard
ow do
mi mam played pop
he's a rum'n
mam can I ev sum spice?
were yer born in a barn/field?
tyke
Reight am off nar so na night, tek care on yersens xxx

toby tyke the  towns football mascot