Its been a strange day.

I did get some housework done, thanks to some skilfull negotiations and delegations , making sure the kids had plenty to do. The only trouble I got was from eldest child who wasn't too keen on cleaning the toilet until I pointed out that he uses it as well and makes more of a mess that he was cleaning it or else, giving him the rubber gloves and cleaning equipment that I keep for it and telling him to give it a good scrub!

Bless him he managed to hoover as well though I will have to redo the bits he missed tomorrow - I want to pull all the furniture and hoover under them anyway so that should keep me busy for a while.

Youngest was in charge of cleaning his bedroom, sweeping the dining room floor and the floor of the conservatory. He attempted to clean the bathroom floor but got more disinfectant on himself and the floor took on the appearance of a swimming pool that it was easier to do it myself in the end.

i have three bags of shredded paper and dusted in the dining room before heading out to my friends house to pop the card in for her sons birthday. I intended only staying an hours, four hours later after several cups of tea and good natter, I make it home to find Nigel had come home and done some gardening in my absence - good one job less for me

He also cooked dinner, chicken and chips nothing special, which has given me an upset stomach again

I have a mark on my left hand that is itching like mad. It is a lump with what looks like 4 pinpricks in it and as I said it is itching like crazy. I have no idea where I got it from either!

The weather has been glorious here. 3 loads of washing on the line now waiting to be ironed at some point this week. Hoping for a good day tomorrow got another couple of loads to do that I would like to get dry before I start on the boil wash, my poor washing machine will think that I am overworking it lol!

For now I am heading off to bed after catching up on what I have missed today.

Have a good evening and see you tomorrow

GORDON AND THE DONKEY

A young man named Gordon bought a donkey from an old farmer for £100.00.

The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day, but when the farmer
drove up he said, "Sorry son, but I have some bad news... the donkey is on
my truck, but unfortunately he's dead. Gordon replied, "Well then, just give
me my money back."

The farmer said, "I can't do that, because I've spent it already. Gordon
said, "OK then, well just unload the donkey anyway. The farmer asked, "What
are you going to do with him?" Gordon answered, "I'm going to raffle him
off."

To which the farmer exclaimed, "Surely you can't raffle off a dead donkey!"

But Gordon, with a wicked smile on his face said, "Of course I can, you
watch me. I just won't bother to tell anybody that he's dead." A month later
the farmer met up with Gordon and asked, "What happened with that dead
donkey?"

Gordon said, "I raffled him off, sold 500 tickets at two pounds a piece, and
made a huge, fat profit!!"

Totally amazed, the farmer asked, "Didn't anyone complain that you had
stolen their money because you lied about the donkey being dead?"
To which Gordon replied, "The only guy who found out about the donkey being
dead was the raffle winner when he came to claim his prize.
So I gave him his £2 raffle ticket money back plus an extra £200, which as
you know is double the going rate for a donkey, so he thought I was great
guy!!

Gordon grew up and eventually became the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and no
matter how many times he lied, or how much money he stole from the British
voters, as long as he gave them back some of the stolen money, most of them,
unfortunately, still thought he was a great guy.

The moral of this story is that, if you think Gordon is about to play fair
and do something for the everyday people of the country for once in his
miserable, lying life, think again my friend, because you'll be better off
flogging a dead donkey.

Ok so we aren't a newsgroup but considering what has been going on here lately thought it was appropriate anyway lol!!!

Have a good day

Well I have just managed to prise myself from my lovely comfortable bed to greet the morning lol!

It is beautiful out there today, sun shining and making my canary sing loudly along to the music that is coming from the computer speakers!

I plan on doing a lot this morning, and I have to pay my friend a visit as well as it is her son's birthday today. I slept well for once, Nigel was on a high after coming home from football and said that a good time was had by all. He was disappointed that we ordered pizza and hadn't saved any for him, well kids and I were having a pizza party while watching Friends on the telly and some crap film that was so bad I really can't remember what it was called lol!

So today, washing needs to be done and hung out, rooms need to be dusted and hoovered, my bedroom needs to be sorted and paperwork needs to be sorted through and shredded. Conservatory needs a good clean as well, but think about that after I have dealt with the paperwork I think.

Right better make a start on it all, no good sitting here all morning lol!