Spread your wings and fly away

Quiz night is cancelled due to illnesses, people not able to get there, and people being on holiday.

Oh well lets see if I can persuade hubby to take me out instead!

Quiz night looms and before we can go we have to wait for the garage to phone to tell Nig to come and collect van - hopefully they managed to replace the break pads!

Not much got done int he way of housework afterall, but I have made room in my wardrobe for the mountain of clothes I ironed1 There are quite a few bags of clothes to go to the clothes bank tomorrow.

In other news, hubby has decided that we will go and watch POTC on Saturday, then eldest gets a message from his friend asking him if he will go with him to watch it on Sunday - great thinks I, one less child to pay for

Cruel mum that I am I know, but he is 15 and never goes anywhere so it will be nice if he actually does go out with a friend for a change!

Right better go and smarten myself up

It really is beginning to piss me off big time.

Sure at first people get sympathies, no one wants to suffer the loss of a child, but the media circus that surounds the McCanns is getting vastly out of control.

There was I watching the telly the other day and an advert comes on about Madeleine and her being missing - isn't it enough that it is being discussed daily on the telly/radio in the newspapers and everywhere else? If you had listened to the news yesterday you would have been forgiven for thinking that the only thing going on in this vast world of ours was the fact that the McCanns were meeting the pope, the fact that a butterfly landed on Mrs McCanns's arm, and the photo they gave to the pope of Madeleine (please pass me the sick bucket!)

These people were negligent, there is no other word for their behaviour!

So there I was today looking through my emails and yet again another email poster is in my inbox about Madeleine which I delete rather than pass on because it is getting too much when one of my friends has sent me this:

The Vatican states that the Catholic Church condemns as gravely evil acts, both IVF in and of itself, and stem cell research performed on IVF embryos." – an treatment that the McCanns have gone through TWICE, and Pope Benedict himself stated in June last year “The human being has the right to be generated, not produced, to come to life not in virtue of an artificial process but of a human act in the full sense of the term: the union between a man and a woman".

In July of last year, the Pope even suggested anyone involved in the creation of an embryo ex-vitro which would be frozen or discarded should be excommunicated from the Catholic Church. The Pope cannot possibly ignore this. He has been very vocal on the subject and even sabotaged a referendum in Italy on it and yet here he is meeting them and giving them a blessing.

I am not against anyone having IVF treatment. There are rules that all religions have that I am against or do not agree with. However if you are head of a church and you have these rules then stick by them. All this makes me sick!

Sorry but this just shows how hypocritical the church, religion is, (and I apologise to any Catholics offended by this but really there are so many of you that do not agree with some things in your own religion is you are honest now) and how publicity seeking, self centered, smug and nauseating the McCanns are.

Sorry just needed to rant!

EDIT: The email came from a Deacon in the Catholic Church who is not very happy with all this at the moment!

6.30 hubby brings me up a cup of tea, which I drink then go back to sleep when he goes of to work, taking eldest son with him.

8.30 youngest comes upstairs with my phone which apparently has been bleeping! Read message, replied and then snuggled down again.

9:00 Post arrives, so does youngest who brings it upstairs - catalogues for you mum he says

So I wearily get out of bed and get dressed and read through catalogues before throwing them out while having my breakfast.

Have housework to do today hence me not getting washed yet,(though I did shower before I went to bed) once done will do exercises then get showered for this evening.

Quiz night tonight and under strict instructions to text friend if we get stuck because she is feeling left out as she has to go away today and was at the airport when she text me.

So one member of group missing, not good when we are so useless at the questions anyway