Spread your wings and fly away

Took the dogs to the vet for their annual check up and boosters. that is one booster each and booster for kennel cough as well (as they go into kennels while we are away).

Now our previous dog used to come with us everywhere. Where we went he came too, course we never went abroad and it was always to a seaside town because he loved the sea and he loved playing with the kids or going on long walks through the countryside.

However oneof our dogs gets quite car sick and taking two dogs on holiday is not feasible. After losing out beloved dog, I really didn't want another one because nothing could replace Gaz in my affections, but hubby and the kids begged and pleaded and due to some cock up with one of the kennels we ended up with two dogs. Yes they are great, I love them dearly, but they aren't the type of dogs I wanted, they are definately the boys and Nig's dogs.

So we consider ourselves pretty responsible dog owners and they are treated like dogs. They aren't allowed on the furniture, they aren't allowed in the kitchen when I am in there, not allowed to jump at people and not allowed to lick people's faces. We always clear up after them when they are out, nothing worse than people who let their dogs crap and don't clear it up.

So being responsible we take the dogs for their annual check up and boosters. They are quite happy to go into the vet, wagging tails and greeting anyone who will pay any attention to them.

Greyhounds are notorious for having bad teeth. They are fed on slops and muzzled when they are training. Our grey is no exception to this and despite brushing his teeth, giving him plenty of dental chew sticks and other such niceities his teeth are bad. How bad was revealed when the vet took a look at them. Poor thing has an abcess and his gum is receeding. I know he has lost two teeth this year, but we were told to expect that, greys do tend to lose their teeth.

So he is on antibiotics for the abcess and when we come back from holiday he will have to be booked in with the doggy dentist to see if they can save the remainder of his teeth.

I come out a lot poorer than I went in with a bill for over £100, £40 of which was the antibiotics!!!!

Credit card has certainly taken a bashing this month!

Now to look for his documents to see if dentistry is covered by his pet insurance!

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Not getting very far with the cleaning, youngest keeps getting in my way and demanding attention!

Where is my eldest child when I need him to supervise his brother lol!!!

Aggghhhhh

Obesity 'contagious', experts say

Having a friend, sibling or spouse who is overweight raises a person's risk of being obese too, US researchers say.
They said data on more than 12,000 people suggested the risk was increased by 57% if a friend was obese, by 40% if a sibling was and 37% if a spouse was.
They argued this showed social factors, such as the body sizes of other people, were important in developing obesity.
Experts said the New England Journal of Medicine study was not conclusive as other hidden factors could be to blame.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of California, in San Diego, looked at data collected over 32 years as part of a heart study.
Participants gave personal information, including their body mass index, and the names of friends who could be contacted.

'Causal relationship'
The authors were able to map social connections including both friends and family members.
The effects were generally larger between people of the same sex.
And their analysis suggested that the links could not be solely attributed to similarities in lifestyle and environment, for example the impact of friends existed even where friends lived in different regions.
Author Professor Nicholas Christakis said: "It's not that obese or non-obese people simply find other similar people to hang out with.
"Rather, there is a direct, causal relationship. What appears to be happening is that a person becoming obese most likely causes a change of norms about what counts as an appropriate body size.
"People come to think that it is OK to be bigger since those around them are bigger, and this sensibility spreads."
Moral support
Dr Richard Suzman, director of the National Institute of Aging's Behavioral and Social Research Programme, said the finding could have important implications.
He said: "This seminal study breaks important new ground in showing how social networks may amplify other factors and help account for the dramatic increase in obesity across the [US] population."
Dr Ian Campbell, medical director of charity Weight Concern, said it was no surprise that people who are obese tended to be friends with others who were obese, but that the fact that the link was more important between friends than siblings was "very interesting".
He said this suggested that social factors were even more important than physical ones in obesity.
He added that, on the positive side, if overweight people had friends who were obese, they could offer moral support to help each other lose weight.

'Speculation'
But Professor Andrew Hill, of the University of Leeds, said it was purely speculation to suggest that people's body images change because their friends become obese.
And he said it was important not to forget things which are known as key factors in obesity, such as diet and exercise.
"The statistics may be meaningful, but in real life this is not very helpful to people who are overweight.
"We don't have an understanding of what is really causing the relationship - it might be very complicated."

Well that is alright then.

My nose is peeling, an even worse look than it being burned!!

The sun is shining brightly again, all is right with the world.

Or it would be if I didn't have stomach cramps, and hayfever!

Ah well, can't have everything going smoothly I suppose that is too much to expect.

Won't be sitting here all day and blogging in between chatting to various people on MSN. Thanks to those that I did chat with yesterday, made me feel a lot happier especially after having a conversation with a friend that was feeling a little down.

Today I am going to blitz the house. I will give it a good clean and then set to on the conservatory where Nig seems to have dumped half of his tools that he doesn't need on the van right now. Not having that, I need my sewing room back lol!

Have a good day everyone

hugs xx

As I am really annoyed with this blog.

There I am posting a comment, or at least trying to, on Adamantixx post. Hit the send button and get the following message:

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Now you usually get this if you haven't signed in, so I go back to check And I am signed in. There is nowhere to put a validation code and no where to put my email or name. I AM SIGNED IN! so after several attempts I give up and go to another blog where I am logged out and must sign in!

Come back to my own blog and I have to sign in again.

This is really driving me mental now

Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bugs bite ha ha

Far away in the tropical waters of the Caribbean, two
prawns were swimming around in the sea, one called
Justin and the other called Christian.

The prawns were constantly being harassed and
threatened by sharks that inhabited the area. Finally
one day Justin said to Christian, “I'm fed up with
being a prawn; I wish I was a shark, and then I
wouldn't have any worries about being eaten.”

A large mysterious cod appeared and said, “Your wish
is granted.” Lo and behold, Justin turned into a
shark. Horrified, Christian immediately swam away,
afraid of being eaten by his old friend. Time passed
(as it invariably does) and Justin found life as a
shark boring and lonely. All his old friends simply
swam away whenever he came close to them. Justin
didn't realize that his new menacing appearance was
the cause of his sad plight. While swimming alone one
day he saw the mysterious cod again and he thought
perhaps the mysterious fish could change him back into
a prawn. He approached the cod and begged to be
changed back, and, lo and behold, he found himself
turned back into a prawn.

With tears of joy in his tiny little eyes Justin swam
back to his friends and bought them all a cocktail.
Looking around the gathering at the reef he realized
he couldn't see his old pal. “Where's Christian?” he
asked. “He's at home, still distraught that his best
friend changed sides to the enemy and became a shark,”
came the reply.

Eager to put things right again and end the mutual
pain and torture, He set off to Christian's abode. As
he opened the coral gate, memories came flooding back.
He banged on the door and shouted: “It's me, Justin
your old friend, come out and see me again.” Christian
replied, “No way man, you'll eat me. You're now shark,
the enemy, and I'll not be tricked into being your
dinner.” Justin cried back “No, I'm not. That was the
old me. I've changed.........I've found Cod. I'm a
Prawn again Christian

Nig popped in to see my mum today as he was only working round the corner. She was busy tending to Nan so he had a chat with sister and her partner. He says Nan isn't looking too good.

She took to her bed 2 weeks ago and hasn't moved since. The Occupational health team have now given her a Ripple mattress so she won't get bedsores, and a hospital bed - one that moves up and down so that it is easier for the careworkers - which means that there isn't anywhere to sit apart from one chair in the living room, makes it a bit difficult if we all go down to see her then.

kitchen is very tiny and there is no other room.

I fear mum may be getting depressed about all this, in fact I know she is struggling to look after Nan but she is not going to give in and consider putting Nan in a home, even for respite care.

Not sure what to do, hell there is nothing I can do Mum has to make the decision. All I can do is be here on the other end of the phone when it gets to much for her.

"He came to know the pleasures of women when he was bred to the finest stock"

Oh great, Nig is watching Conan the Barbarian again for the millionth time

I was doing garden work last weekend and my wife was about to take a shower. I realised that I couldn't find the rake. I yelled up to my wife, "Where is the rake?"

She couldn't hear me and she shouted back, "What?" I pointed to my eye, then I pointed to my knee and made a raking motion.

Still my wife wasn't sure and said "What?"

I repeated the gestures. "Eye - Kneed - The Rake."

My wife replied that she understands and signals back. She first points to her eye, next she points to her left breast, then she points to her bum, and finally to her crotch.

Well, there is no way in hell I could even come close to that one.

Exasperated, I went upstairs and asked her, "What the hell was that?

She replies, (scroll down…)

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Eye - Left Tit - Behind - The Bush

1st woman: Hi! My name is Wanda
2nd woman: Hi! My name is Sylvia. How'd you die?
1st woman: I froze to death.
2nd woman: How horrible!
1st woman: It wasn't so bad. After I quit shaking from the cold, I began to get warm and sleepy, and finally died a peaceful death. What about you?
2nd woman: I died of a massive heart attack. I suspected that my husband was cheating, so I came home early to catch him in the act. Instead, I found him all by himself in the den watching TV.
1st woman: So, what happened?
2nd woman: I was so sure there was another woman there somewhere that I started running all over the house looking. I ran up into the attic and searched, and down into the basement. Then I went through every closet and checked under the beds. I kept this up until I had looked everywhere, and I finally became so exhausted that I just keeled over with a heart attack & died.
1st woman: Too bad you didn't look in the freezer. We'd both still be alive.

disappeared while my back was turned?

and why does this stupid thing keep logging me out all the time, it is driving me mad!!!!

blog.co.uk please sort it out, getting fed up having to keep signing in all the time to here and to my friends blogs!!!!!!

Simon had a dig to do today.

He turned up at summer school to find that most of his friends were doing some computing work and his teacher asked him if he would like to do a dig instead with another student, so he said yes.

After almost a days dig he has unearthed a few Roman coins and what looks like part of a leather sandal so he is well chuffed.

Then as he was retuning to base, he noticed that some old bikes were being dismantled and put into a skip, one of which had a lovely seat on which is very padded, so he brought the seat home.

It is now on his bike ready for me to ride, on the promise that when I get my own bike I can have the seat.

Bless him

So be warned

School trousers for eldest son (waist size 28ins, inside leg 32ins)x2
School trousers for youngest child x 2
School jumper for youngest child x2
underwear for eldest
underwear for youngest

Oh good now have school uniforms all I have to do is put their names inside that can be done later. Oh just remembered youngest needs a new school coat! Could do with a couple extra jumpers but have to order them from the school as they have the school badge on now, no more getting away with cheap grey jumpers from Asda!

Eldest is in last year of school, so only replacing trousers for now, they were difficult to get - thank heavens for Primark who actually do 28in waist trousers! he only has a 26ins waist and is nearly 6ft tall!!

Fortunately both children have white shirts that fit so don't have to worry about that too much.

Just shoes to get really and will leave that until I next get paid, anyway it is better no chance of them growing out of them before the start of school in September!

Tell me what do children do with their underwear? I know youngest can never find pants because they never end up in the wash, just under his bed until either myself or his father has a fit about it, but when sorting out the ironing basket the other day so that they could take anything that didn't need to be ironed straight upstairs, I came across pants for eldest child that had age 11-12 in them - he is 15 !!!! Asked him how he still got into them to be told that they still fit! - hence buying some today for him, can't send the lad out in pants that say 11-12 years, whatever would the hospital think if he got run over (as my mother would say)

So school shop just about over for another year. Feels strange having a child that is in his last year at school, I don't feel that old, I am still in my 20s in my head lol

It was lovely this morning as the alarm went off, knowing that i didn't have to go into work. Of course, hubby had to swear and spoil it because the traffic report told him that getting to the office was going to be a nightmare as part of the M25 had been closed off due to a lorry spreading its entire load of glass bottles across the road.

So after he sorted out an alternative route, made his adorable wife (my words not his) a cup of tea, he heads out with my road map to battle his way into work.

Kids are upstairs, one is supposed to be showering and getting ready to be dropped off at summer school, the other is just supposed to be getting washed and dressed, though I have a feeling this isn't happening hmm shall do the cruel mother act in a minute and disconnect his DVD as no doubt he will be watching one in his room - Madagascar I think by the sound of it!!

The sun is shining. Plans include having to pop to the shops, pay some more money into the account and go and get some food for the week, though I am a little loath to do this for reasons I documented yesterday. I will at some point sit in the garden and soak up the rays of the sunshine, under the now erected gazebo, and stitch I think, though I really think I should at least vacuum the living room first

It is on days like this I miss being by the sea, sitting in the garden is not the same

Have a good day

hugs xx

Watching Bon Jovi on telly this evening, on VH1 Classic.

Pure heaven

As AJ has already done this, I will apologise for knicking his idea.

Right, after CJ's top 100 movies as voted for by us I thought I'd try a little something, here is the list but modified for me, italics mean a movie I've seen, bold are movies I own on VHS or DVD.

1 Monty Python's life of Brian
2 Amelie
3 Dogma
4 Donnie Darko
5 Ocean's 11 (New Version)
6 Trainspotting
7 Withnail and I
8 V for Vendetta
9 Shrek
10 Star Wars
11 American Beauty
12 The Bourne Identity
13 The Sixth Sense
14 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
15 Serenity
16 Sliding Doors
17 Brokeback Mountain
18 The Truman Show
19 Anchorman
20 LOTR: Return of the King
21 Pulp Fiction
22 The Mummy
23 Shaun of the dead
24 Topsy Turvy
25 The Crow
26 The Usual Suspects
27 Alien
28 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
29 The Lady Vanishes
30 Grosse Point Blank
31 Breakfast at Tiffany's
32 Terminator 2
33 Chocolat
34 Saw
35 Blade Trinity
36 Down With Love
37 LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring
38 Ferris Buellers day off
39 Hoodwinked
40 Just Like Heaven
41 Moulin Rouge
42 Pitch Black
43 Van Wilder: Party Liaison
44 LOTR: The Two Towers
45 Rain Man
46 Dirty Dancing
47 Empire of the Sun
48 Grease
49 Monsters Inc.
50 Shakespeare in Love
51 Monty Python and the Meaning of Life
52 Runaway Jury
53 Armageddon
54 Hero
55 Master and Commander
56 Walk the Line
57 2001: A Space Odyssey
58 Hercules Returns
59 Rebecca
60 Sleeper
61 The breakfast club
62 Back to the future
63 Batman Returns
64 Blade Runner (Directors Cut)
65 Deconstructing Harry
66 In and Out
67 Manhatten Murder Mystery
68 Shooting Fish
69 Star Trek iv: The Voyage Home
70 Some Like it Hot
71 Ten things I hate about you
72 L'Homme du Train
73 The Consequences of Love
74 Annie Hall
75 Knight's Tale
76Logan's Run
77 Sahara
78 The Passion of the Christ
79 Much Ado about nothing
80 The Sound of Music
81 Wizard of Oz
82 Educating Rita
83 Remains of the Day
84 Streetcar named Desire
85 The Cat and the Canary (Bob Hope)
86 The Shipping News
87 Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire
88 Coffee and Cigarettes
89 Sleepless in Seattle
90 The English Patient
91 The Net
92 Evolution
93 The Wedding Singer
94 Godfather part 2
95 Goodfellas
96 Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
97 Bulletproof Monk
98 Casino
99 Fried Green Tomatoes at the whistle stop café
100 Hable con ella (Talk to her)

Fridays usually are spent food shopping.

I go with my shopping list an idea of what I have to buy, the essentials remain the same and I add to it.

Usually it is:

4x6pints full fat milk (yes you did read that right)
1x4 pint skimmed milk (alternate Fridays, it is only a two pint)
2 loaves white bread
1 loaf brown bread
fruit
veg
meat
sandwich essentials
fruit juice

to which I will add to this anything that may be needed that we have run out of, i.e. toilet rolls, spices, etc etc.

Every Friday I do this, then by tuesday I usually have to get more full fat milk, more bread.

Now the only people who drink full fat milk is hubby and the kids. I don't mind buying that much, they do drink a lot, yes, but by the time they have had their cereal in the morning, and the odd glass of milk and the amount that Nigel drinks keeps the milk industry alive and kicking I tell you. I have skimmed milk always have done. I would love to get them to drink that or semi skimmed and I have tried but they will not touch it, even if that is all I buy, murder would be commited, so I let them be.

So this Friday, I don't go shopping because I am in Suffolk on a mini blog meet. Friday morning there is 1 6pinter left in the fridge.

Saturday, no shopping because what with running around in town and goingout with a friend there wasn't a lot of time to do a full shop.

This morning there is barely enough for Nigels cuppa in the bottle.

So let me think about this for a minute. Two boys, one man drink milk. they all go to the fridge, take bottle out of the fridge, open up the bottle, pour a glass of milk out, put the lid back on the bottle, put it back in the fridge. Why the hell did it not occur to them that as there wasn't a lot they needed to go to the fricking shop and buy some?

Am I really the only person that can go shopping for Christ's sake!

Oh and to top it all was there any bread to make toast with this morning?

Noooooooo!

Makes me soooo mad, I am not the only one that lives here

It is over

His blogathon has come to an end.

Well done hun.

Sleep well, and sweet dreams.

Hugs xxxx

Come on now, he is on the last stretch

Go Paddy! go Paddy! go Paddy

You are a star

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He is still going, go and support him NOW!!!!!!

Well done Paddy we are all proud of you

Cloudy outside, hoping it will clear up and we get some sun, getting used to having sun and not rain now lol!

Yesterday evening was lovely. I love going up and choosing my food, helping myself, a little bit of this a little bit of that, trying out new dishes, deciding what I do and don't like.

Then there is the company of a good friend where we can discuss our lives, our problems and sort the world out, put things to rights over a drink of diet coke, or in her case mineral water (we know how to live you know).

The drive home, a cup of tea, still talking, still laughing (well that is me as if those who have met me don't know that already) and discussion on our holiday next year and what we are going to do - we are going together again as we had a fab time last time we went.

Then home by 11.30 where I fell asleep on the sofa watching a film. Eldest son sent me to bed later on and I collapsed and slept through until 7 this morning, when I dragged son from his bed to get ready for swimming training and made a cup of tea for hubby who was taking him.

Blissfully quiet now, my time to catch up with posts, youngest having a bath and no doubt will play the playstation for a while to keep out of my way until I have had another cuppa and feel human again.

Oh isn't life fun!

Right need to get changed, put some make up on and make myself look pretty, or at least presentable!

Off to here http://www.thearoma.co.uk/ with a friend to catch up on gossip and news of what is happening in each of our worlds at the moment. Been so long since we have been out together to do this, I am sure we will be gone a while

Hope everyone is having a good evening, keep looking and giving support at
http://bloggingforamy.blog.co.uk/ and hopefully I will see you later

Hugs xx

To remain calm, to keep smiling, to ignore

BUT

If he calls me 'Rudolph' just one more time, I may just have to kill my husband.

Factor 50 I had on my face, nose and arms and my nose still got burnt!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Thank you

It was fun

It was hot

I got a burned nose

But the highlight was meeting some wonderful people from blogland, and in my most favourite place by the sea - what more could a girl want!!!

21/2 hours of driving with the lovely Louisa, pointing out which way I should be heading each time we saw the road name we should take. Poor girl the fact that she had to put up with my driving to get us there and back, listen the the ramblings of an 8 year old who doesn't make sense at the best of times, plus the music tape that was playing away, it is a wonder she doesn't decide to give me a clear berth in the future, but I have to say, she is very lovely, very quiet and not how I imagined her to be, BUT behind those sparkling eyes is a girl who you know can probably take on the best of them and a giggle that is infectious. Thanks for everything yesterday hun, I probably would have got lost without your willingness to direct!

So after meeting Smichen and her family, and of course the delectable Austin Lance, we headed off to the beach in search of sea, sand and sun.

The sun did shine, we had clouds, we had wind but it was reasonably warm. we played with the kids on the sand, we watched them as they took to the sea, we paddled (well Smichen and I did when we weren't being soaked by her adorable three year old) and we sat and talked.

Slowly everyone else began to arrive, we ate our picnic and then retired to the pub for a drink, before heading back to Smichen's holiday home and sat soaking up the last rays of the evening sun, chatting and snacking, laughing and joking before heading of on our own separate ways.

A perfect day.

I can't end this post without saying a thing or two though about the people I met.

Austin Lance - So funny, is not serious about anything, and showed concern about the noises my car makes (which didn't happen on the way home at all!). Oh and you get huge great big bear hugs off this man as a way of a greeting, which was nice and welcoming.

Molty - Great guy, felt so comfortable with him all the time and it did truly feel like I had known him forever. Air of mystery about him with his shades on, but when he takes them off he has gorgeous eyes. I was so pleased to meet him at last

Fatale - As she came over the dunes I knew immediately who she was and she was everything I imagined her to be. A very funny down to earth woman, she had me in stitches everytime and I am so glad she came, one person I have been wanting to meet all this time and I am so glad that I did at last. I hope that I will see her in the future as well, she is really a great person.

Maddogs - If you could have heard the discussions going on - he won't come, yes he will he is on his way..... and yes he appeared, and is really a great bloke, down to earth and easy to get on with. Highlight as everyone was taking pictures on their digital cameras, he gets out this massive one which had to be admired - now how do I tell hubby I want one too? So glad to have met you and yes we will definately be friends

Louisa as I have already mention, is great, has a glint in her eye and though she doesn't say much you just know that she is thinking it Thank you again for everything yesterday

And finally

Smichen- someone else that I thought I had known forever. She and her family are fantastic people, good for a laugh and know how to have fun. Her children are gorgeous, and her youngest is very cheeky and his eyes are full of mischieve as children should be. Her hubby is great for putting up with us all gatecrashing their holiday, but they made us all feel welcome. Thank you hun for everything it was a fantastic day.

A great day for all of us that were there and one that I will remember. Hopefully we can all do it again sometime

The sun is shining yippeeeee!

so my bag is packed, my route worked out and off I head to the sea and to meet up with some lovely people from blogland.

So excited!!!

Have a great day everyone and see you later

Alerted to this by another website, thought I would post here to draw peoples attention to it.

Taken from http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/epsomnews/display.var.1558300.0.no_heroes_in_my_backyard_residents_fight_guest_house_for_servicemens_relatives.php

Neighbours have launched an offensive over proposals to convert a £1.7million property in Ashtead into a guest house for relatives of servicemen wounded in Afghanistan or Iraq.

Battle lines have been drawn since the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association (SSAFA) sought planning consent to adapt the six-bedroom home in Grays Lane.

The charity thought residents would look kindly on its application because of the sacrifices made by soldiers recovering at the nearby Headley Court military rehabilitation centre.
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For 60 years the flagship centre has supported reservists whose injuries require more dedicated care than NHS hospitals can offer.

But that failed to stop about 100 local people objecting to the proposed alterations, which include fitting a wheelchair ramp.

Their main complaint was that increased noise and traffic would "ruin the special character and appeal" of the private lane.

Other criticisms were that the families "would not be welcome" and that their arrival could destroy the "unique charm" of multi-million pound properties.

One letter writer even objected on security grounds, suggesting the hostel could become a terrorist target.

The "nimbyism" stunned the SSAFA, which is waiting for Mole Valley District Council to consider the case on August 1.

Spokesman Athol Hendry said: "We were genuinely taken aback and hugely disappointed by the amount of hostility. It has been proven that having family support is an important part of the healing process, and there is a huge need for a facility such as this.

"The objectors clearly don't understand what it feels like to have your life changed in a second by a bomb blowing up in Basra."

Roger Bennett, planning officer for Ashtead Residents' Association, insisted villagers were sympathetic to the case and supportive of how Headley Court rebuilds lives.

He said: "The actual house is situated in a very narrow lane, and we are just worried about traffic congestion because access is not suitable."

There is a website http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/epsomnews/display.var.1558300.0.no_heroes_in_my_backyard_residents_fight_guest_house_for_servicemens_relatives.php
which has all the residents reasons on it for why they don't want the hospital in their area, as well as links to the planning application and the online petition if you are interested in signing.

Personally I have because I think it is appalling and some of the reasons are incredibly laughable.

Thanks

Just for a change it is bucketing down outside, that fine rain where you get soaked through to the skin just by walking the few metres from the car to the house.

Today I went shopping, in town, mainly to get some money out but got a lovely skirt as well as some snacks for tomorrow. Then spent the afternoon round a friends house setting up her email account, installing Antivirus for her and generally sorting out her computer. General chit chat with sign language and lots of moving of heads and lip reading so that the children could not hear what we were talking about, as you do. Note to self - we need a night out without the kids!

So now I am catching up with what I have missed today thus far and praying for decent weather for tomorrow. According to three weather websites it is supposed to be sunny but cloudy, so fingers crossed the weather will be reasonable - though I will see for myself when I look out of the window.

Annoyed that I couldn't get a pair of cropped trousers while in town, so dilema is do I wear jeans or a skirt tomorrow lol

Dark and murky outside, doesn't look like it will be a good day out there at all.

More rain no doubt.

Sorted out finances for the next couple of days, pay day tomorrow thankfully thent he usual round of trying to stretch it to the end of the following month

Must pop into town today as well and see if I can get a couple of bits and pieces then work out the route, though despite hubbies help I think I have is sussed now, it came clear as I tossed and turned in bed last night. I am sure the hormones are really out of zinc, one minute I was hot and throwing the covers off the bed, then next I was cold and trying to bury myself, all the while having a song going round my head and thinking of routes!

I would swear I was going mad if I wasn't mad already

Have a good day

The moon is trying its best to peak out from the clouds that surround it, but as yet it still remains covered in a blanket of grey. the sky isn't clear at all tonight which is a shame and apart from the fox howling for its mate, the world outside is quiet and still.

So for now I leave you as I retire to my bed and read for a while

Tell him that when he is going into town in a couple of weeks to celebrate a friends birthday you will act as a chaperone!!

The air was blue.

He argued, I am nearly 16.

I told him there will be girls in the party he is with and he needs a chaperone.

He is not impressed at all.

I just love being a parent sometimes

bored.

Read lots of blogs, read a few emails, answered comments.

Son is glued to Kerrang.

Other son is in bed.

Hubby reading HP

Dogs asleep.

Bored.

Should do some sewing but cant' be bothered.

Should do some exercise, can't be bothered.

highlight of evening was the Gazebo collapsing and scarring the dog that went running up the small garden into the fence

Fortunately he is ok, and hubby and son reassembled the gazebo.

Probably will collapse again though

Today I receive five invites to be a friend.

2 have never posted a blog

1 has no blog at all - it came up as unknown

2 have a blog but they are trying to promote either diet pills or diet surgery

All have been denied.

Then a personal email from someone:
Hello dearest

Its really a pleaseure to come along your profile on www.blog.co.uk Iam **** by name and 23years old good looking young girl and in saerch of an opposite partner.This is why i have decided to contact you on this site so that we can establish a good relationship and also get to know each other. Your age,race and religion is never a problem to me,all that matters is true love.
Kindly contact me on my e mail ***@***
so that i can tell you more about my self.
Hope to hear from you soonest.

Sorry but I like men my dear, not into women at all, and I am married but you would know that if you read my blog at all wouln't you?

Sorry no can do, write a blog or comment on other peoples don't expect me to answer and be friends because you sent me a personal email, it doesn't work like that

Ann Bradley tagged me with answering these questions below and, after answering, I have to pass them on. Answers should be honest (or, at least, funny)!

Q1. There are crumbs in your bed. What kind of cookies do those crumbs come from?
A1. white chocolate and cranberry cookies

Q2. You are sitting on the toilet brushing your teeth cos you are hungover as normal. What got you that drunk?
Wine, always the wine

Q3. You have been dumped. What comfort food do you grab?
cake, biscuits, chocolate oh and a bottle of wine

Q4. Your wife/husband has annoyed you off so you decide to go have an expensive gourmet meal on his/her credit card. What do you order?
Gourmet? Something from the French restaurant I suppose - French onion soup, Beef Bourginon and profiteroles

Q5. Sitting in church and you have a book/magazine tucked inside the hymn sheet. What is it?
Cross stitch magazine

I tag Molty, classicrockchick, dieing to be thin, emmairvine and green mum, that is if they haven't been tagged already

A skinny little white guy goes into an elevator, looks up and sees
this
HUGE black guy standing next to him.
The big guy sees the little guy staring at him, looks down and
says:
"7 feet tall, 350 pounds, 20 inch private, 3 pound left testicle,
3 pound right testicle, Turner Brown."

The white man faints and falls to the floor.
The big guy kneels down and brings him to, shaking him. The big guy

says, "What's wrong with you?"

In a weak voice the little guys says," What EXACTLY did you say to
me?"

The big dude says, " I saw your curious look and figured I'd just
give

you the answers to the questions everyone always! asks me.

I'm 7 feet tall, I weigh 350 pounds, I have a 20 inch private, my
left

testicle weighs 3 pounds, my right testicle weighs 3 pounds, and my

name is Turner Brown."

The small guy says, "Turner Brown?...Sweet Jesus, I thought you
said,
"Turn Around"

Addictive, still trying to work out how they do this

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/games/magic-gopher-central.swf

Don't feel well, says youngest as he comes through the door after being at his friends house.

Why enquired I

Have a cough, he says and proceeds to cough as loud as he can falsely.

Oh dear says I think you may have to go to bed with that one, don't want it to get worse do you?

Amazingly he has made a full recovery

Two Irishmen were standing at the base
of a flagpole, looking up at it.

A blonde walks by and asks what they
Are doing.

Paddy: "We're supposed to find the
height of this flagpole, but we don't
have a ladder."

The blonde took a spanner from her
purse, loosened a few nuts & bolts,
then laid the flagpole down.
She got a tape measure from her
handbag, took a few measurements and
announced that it was eighteen feet and
six inches and walked away.

Mick: "Ain't that just like a blonde
Paddy:
We need the height and she gives us
the length."

A frog goes into a bank and approaches the teller. He can see from her nameplate that her name is Patricia Whack.

"Miss Whack, I'd like to get a £30,000 loan to take a holiday."

Patty looks at the frog in disbelief and asks his name. The frog says his name is Kermit Jagger, his dad is Mick Jagger, and that it's okay, he knows the bank manager.
Patty explains that he will need to secure the loan with some collateral.

The frog says, "Sure. I have this," and produces a tiny porcelain elephant, about an inch tall, bright pink and perfectly formed.

Very confused, Patty explains that she'll have to consult with the bank manager and disappears into a back office.

She finds the manager and says, "There's a frog called Kermit Jagger out there who claims to know you and wants to borrow £30,000, and he wants to use this as collateral."

She holds up the tiny pink elephant. "I mean, what in the world is this?"

(you're gonna love this)

The bank manager looks back at her and says...

"It's a knickknack, Patty Whack. Give the frog a loan. His old man's a Rolling Stone."

(You're singing it, aren't you? Yeah, I know you are........)

Never take life too seriously! Come on now, you grinned, I know you did!!!
Have a lovely day.

Useful information video coming up!

GIRL'S DIARY
Saturday 5 February 2005
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Saw him in the evening and he was acting really strangely. I went shopping
in the afternoon with the girls and I did turn up a bit late so thought it
might be that.

The bar was really crowded and loud so I suggested we go somewhere quieter
to talk. He was still very subdued and distracted so I suggested we go
somewhere nice to eat.

All through dinner he just didn't seem himself; he hardly laughed, and
didn't seem to be paying any attention to me or to what I was saying. I just knew
that something was wrong.

He dropped me back home and I wondered if he was going to come in; he
hesitated, but followed.

I asked him again if there was something the matter but he just half shook
his head and turned the television on.

After about 10 minutes of silence, I said I was going upstairs to bed. I put
my arms around him and told him that I loved him deeply. He just gave a
sigh, and a sad sort of smile.

He didn't follow me up, but later he did, and I was surprised when we made
love. He still seemed distant and a bit cold, and I started to think that he
was going to leave me, and that he had found someone else.

I cried myself to sleep.

BLOKES DIARY
Saturday 5 February 2005
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England lost to Wales. Gutted. Got a shag though.

There were two Catholic boys, Timothy Murphy and Antonio Secola, whose lives parallel each other in amazing ways. In the same year Timothy was born in Ireland , Antonio was born in Italy . Faithfully they attended parochial School from kindergarten through their senior year in high school. They took their vows to enter the priesthood early in college, and upon Graduation, became priests.

Their careers had come to amaze the world, but it was generally acknowledged that Antonio Secola was just a cut above Timothy Murphy in all respects. Their rise through the ranks of Bishop, Archbishop and finally Cardinal was swift to say the least, and the Catholic world knew that when the present Pope died, it would be one of the two who would become the Next Pope.

In time the Pope did die, and the College of Cardinals went to work.

In less time than anyone had expected, white smoke rose from the chimney and the world waited to see whom they had chosen.

The world, Catholic, Protestant and secular, was surprised to learn that Timothy Murphy had been elected Pope!

Antonio Secola was beyond surprise. He was devastated, because even with all of Timothy's gifts, Antonio knew he was the better qualified.

With gall that shocked the Cardinals, Antonio Secola asked for a private session with them in which he candidly asked, 'Why Timothy?'

After a long silence, an old Cardinal took pity on the bewildered man and rose to reply. 'We knew you were the better of the two, but we just could not bear the thought of the leader of the Roman Catholic Church being called ' Pope Secola'.

Was the question I was asked this morning, by hubby as he walked into the living room.

Receiving a blank look, he asks the question again adding on Friday on to the end.

Light dawns, and excitedly tell him where I am off to, and who I am meeting.

"Yes" he says, "I know all that but have you worked out your route yet?"

Er no.

So there he is pouring over the road map working out a route, three different ones, A14, A12, then it changes and I am on the motorway only for it to change again because he knows I can find my way to Bury St Edmunds and I just need to turn here - then he proclaims "Bloody awkward to get to, may have to look it up on the AA, see you later" and off to work he goes.

I have already looked up the route I am going to take, it is one that I am vaguely aware of so should be easy, hopefully, shall run it past him later tonight though I am sure it will not be good enough, he will want to find a better route so will spend what time he has reading the road map and trying to confuse me with his directions

I am off to the seaside on Friday, and I am excited. I will get there. There may be a few phonecalls because I got lost but I will get there

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In other news, the weather is bright and sunny at the moment, but the radio tells me we are in for more rain. Decision is do I put the washing out in the hope that it stays sunny?

Plans for today after dropping eldest off at summer school is to blitz the house by cleaning it - if I am not back on here then please send out the emergency services I am buried under rubbish accumulated by children and hubby that hoard. Today I will chuck out and clean all that rubbish that they think will come in useful but I know will just sit there - it will begone!!!!

Have a good day

Well today has been eventful.

The sun shone so four lots of washing got done and hung out on the line.

My account received some money so that the mortgage could be paid this month.

The Harry Potter book was read and thrown down in disgust.

I hear gasps emanating from HP fans.

What can I say. IT could have been 200 pages less than it was, as usual it waffled in the middle and lost track of the point of the book. The usual hype of who was going to die, didn't do it justice in fact just caused disappointment that they were pathetic characters except one and his death was really insignificant.

The ending was very, very poor.

How long did it take JK Rowling to write this book and like the rest it disappointed!

Hubby is now reading it and from the groans emanating from the bathroom where he is in the bath he is finding it hard going.

The only good point to it is it doesn't waffle on for five chapters about what happened before, who HP is and what his attachment is to He who must not be bloody named! In fact it takes up where the last book left off so if you haven't read the other books you may be a bit lost as to what is going on, but believe me it is a blessing that it didn't do that, another 200 pages of dwiddle would not have made your reading pleasure bearable.

And before you ask, no I probably couldn't have done better, or if I had i probably wouldn't have got as much money as JK Rowling did for her books and good luck to her for doing so. The only thing that HP did was to get children interested in reading books.

sorry but I still think Enid Blyton was a better children's writer that Jk Rowling will never rival in my eyes

One benefit to it being wet outside........ I stayed in and did the ironing!

All four huge baskets of it!

Kids and hubby will be happy they now have some ironed clothes to wear though I did point out that I wasn't the only person who could pick up a bloody iron!

Fell on deaf ears though again!

So now going to relax and open the book and start reading to see what all the fuss is about.

I may be gone for some time - wish me luck!

I really hope this appalling weather clears up.

Fed up with the rain.

Fed up with hearing about the floods.

Feel very sorry for everyone caught in it but getting increasingly annoyed that our government are not helping.

Early draft document suggests that they will go ahead with building on flood plains - WTF!!! One of the new builds that are on stilts because they are on a flood plain was one of the first to be flooded out!!

Oh and stop and think for a little while. Last time the areas were affected was due to snow melting and having nowhere to go which is why they flooded back in the 1940s. This time it was due to heavy rain hitting ground that was already saturated.

More houses being built in areas that rarely flooded before now. Makes me wonder if building more houses is likely to increase flooding because before there was somewhere for water to drain away freely whereas with more housing there will be nowhere for rain to drain away to.

Yes I know about sewers and drains, but they get built up over time. In ground with no obstructions water can drain away when it hits the ground. If there are now houses in the way where will it go to?

Makes you think a little doesn't it?

Ok so we need more houses - here is a radical idea instead of building out of town shopping centers or retail estates (we now have three retail estates a couple of miles from each other each having the same shops on them), build houses there instead. So they may be in 'industrial' areas but surely that would be a better alternative?

May be the government should look into this afterall they keep blaming global warming - well the earth has heated up and cooled down on a regular basis since it first formed. There are things that can be done to prevent this, there are ways to help these people affected by the floods, yet so far very little has been done and all I have heard so far is one agency blaming another. That is not going to help all those people in central England now is it?

First thought this morning as the alarm went off - Thank the lord I haven't got to get up.

Second thought was - Damnation got to get eldest to Summer school.

So there I was, bleary eyed and bushy tailed, hobbling downstairs to make a cup of tea to wake me up at 6.25 this morning. Hubby grumbled as he removed himself from the covers of our warm bed and headed into the bathroom while I pottered around down here. Eldest finally emerged, showered and dressed, and ready to make his sandwiches.

He is going on a live dig today so had to be at the park in town early to be picked up and taken to Butser Ancient Farm http://www.butserfriends.org.uk/index.html then the rest of the week he will be studying Archeology in town nearby so will not have to get up so early!

This is the third year he has been doing this and he really enjoys it, in fact it has made him more determined to sturdy Archeology when he leaves school. Also he has made a lot of friends on this course and looks forward to meeting up with them each year.

So today just me and the youngest to entertain who will be bored to tears because he can't go out, as it is raining, and isn't allowed on the gamecube or playstation. Anyone would think he didn't have a bedroom of toys the way he goes on about it! the truth is he has so many he can't make up his mind what to play with - might make him do some school work instead if he keeps on wingeing! wicked mum aren't I?

Thankfully it is the summer holidays and I really don't mind being off work for the next six weeks. Yes the kids will drive me crazy but then again I haven't got to get up and run round like a maniac every morning either! Ask me in a couple of weeks how I feel though and I may tell you something different

1.gluttony - habitual eating to excess
intemperance - the quality of being intemperate
greediness, hoggishness, piggishness - an excessive desire for food
rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity, edacity, esurience - extreme gluttony
2. gluttony - eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins)
overeating, gula
deadly sin, mortal sin - an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace; theologians list 7 mortal sins

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After eating one of my many boxes of chocolates and feeling gulty for savouring their heavenly pleasure, let alone feeling slightly sick, I decided I was a greedy fat cow who should have know better.

Till I took this quiz:

Quiz: Are You a Glutton?

You scored 4, on a scale of 0 to 41. Here's how to interpret your score:
0 - 10
Spiritually, you might be a bit too thin.
11 - 21
The angels won't have any trouble hoisting you to heaven
22 - 31
Have you heard the saying, "Less is more?"
32 - 41
The diner in hell has a corner booth reserved for you.

http://www.beliefnet.com/section/quiz/index.asp?sectionID=&surveyID=182

I feel so much better now

Have a brilliant day hun.

hugs

xxxxxxx

The sun is shining, the washing is in the machine - fingers crossed that I can get it dry before the rain comes

Nothing much planned today just me and the youngest around for now. Simon went swimming training at 8 this morning, Nig dragged himself out of bed to take him and he is then going off to work with his dad for the day so may take advantage and get on with some ironing.

Then again I may not lol.

have a good day

Think I should go now, been sitting here blogging, and listening to some fantastic music. But been on here too long now, so going to sign off and spend some time with the family

Have a good evening

A wealthy man was having an affair with an Italian woman for several
years. One night, during one of their rendezvous, she confided in him
that she was pregnant. Not wanting to ruin his reputation nor his
marriage, he would pay her a large sum of money if she would go to
Italy to secretly have the child. If she stayed in Italy to raise the
child,
he would also provide child support until the child turned 18. She
agreed, but asked how he would know when the baby was born. To
keep it discreet, he told her to simply mail him a post card, and write
"Spaghetti" on the back. He would then arrange for child support
payments to begin.

One day, about 9 months later, he came home to his confused wife.
His wife said, "Honey, you received a very strange post card today."

"Oh, just give it to me and I'll explain it," he said. The wife handed
him the card and watched as her husband read the card, turned white,
and collapsed.

On the card was written: "Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti. Two with
meatballs, one without! Request bread..."

Four married guys go fishing:

First guy: "You have no idea what I had to do to be able to come out
fishing this weekend.
I had to promise my wife that I will paint every room in the house
next
weekend.

Second guy: "That is nothing, I had to promise my wife that I will
build
her a new deck".

Third guy: "Man, you both have it easy! I had to promise my wife
that I
will remodel
the kitchen for her."

They continue to fish when they realized that the fourth guy has not

said a
word.

So they asked him. "You haven't said anything about what you had to
do
to
be able to
come fishing this weekend. What's the deal?"

Fourth guy: "I just set my alarm for 5:30 am. When it went off, I
shut
off
my alarm,
gave my wife a nudge and said, "Fishing or Sex?"

She said, "Wear sun-block."

"I should get my sabre out"

"Let me, it feels so stiff"

And hubby is watching this supposedly innocent film on TCM with the kids?

It is still raining!

So fed up with it being wet all the time.

No summer at all.

Read on another site that we will not be getting a summer at all, it will be wet all the time.

Another site says that we will be getting summer in September/October! Great just in time for when I go back to work!!

Last one I promise

Trot off into town this morning.

Did the usual, paid money in, swap money over, had breakfast.

Then the dreadful family photo.

Now let me take you back a couple of hours.

Laying in bed I had in my minds eye what I was going to wear when I decided on this outfit which I purchased sometime ago : (that is not me in the photo BTW).

So got out outfit except I cannot find the black top that goes under the shrug. I have every cupboard out, all clothes on the bed and I am getting frustrated by the minute. Hubby being his usual unhelpful self asking me questions such as Is it in the ironing basket? No because if you ever take any notice at all of anything I wear you will know that I haven't worn it to put it in the wash let alone iron it!

Ok then is it on a hanger in your wardrobe? Oh let me think how many times have I looked there and not found it!

Ye you can imagine the rest of the conversation, it got heated, I got frustrated and this wasn't helped when I went into youngest child's room to find that the shirts I ironed and put on a hanger are now on the floor!

So Hubby sends me off for my shower to cool down, and I decide reluctantly on a black maxi skirt and a dark pink top.

Off we head into town and have our photos taken. Great fun considering I was dreading it as I hate having my photo taken. The photographer and her assistant put us all at ease, taking pictures of us in various poses which caused a lot of hilarity to the point where the rest of the photographers came in a put in their tuppence worth and enjoying fun. I have to admit we do tend to laugh a lot as a family, Nig and I are dreadful at winding the kids up embarrassing them - well if you can't do that what is the point of having children lol - they should all be embarrassed of their parents at some point

So it is over now, and we see the results in two weeks to decide what we want to buy plus a free photograph as well

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It was sunny here earlier and warm but now dull and overcast, looks very much like rain.

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Came home from town, annoyed that my copy of Harry Potter hasn't arrived yet and even though I thought the others were crap I like to read it before my eldest gets his hands on the copy!

Then, son finds the card from Royal mail that they tried to deliver it but it wouldn't fit through the letterbox! No that is why you put it over the fence which you have done with every other parcel you try to deliver you idiots!!!!!

So can't collect the book until Monday now as the post office is now closed

Wanted to read it this weekend so that Simon could then get his hands on it and I have the peace and quiet to read it now, not on Monday AARRGGGHHHHHH!

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Last day of term finally arrived yesterday, and I recieved 6 boxes of chocolate, 2 bottles of wine, a tatty teddy with 'best classroom assistant' written on it and a necklace with matching earrings.

Chocolates are now beckoning to be eaten though I am currently resisting - no doubt my children will help me with them, the wine will be consummed over the following weeks - a glass or two here and there will not hurt the diet surely?

For now I tend to relax. The ironing beckons to be done, but I am made of stronger stuff and will ignore it for now

No really I don't want to go.

Staff meal, end of term bash, one person has pulled out so there is a vacancy. several people been on at me about going, I have given various reasons why I am not.

End up saying yes today, so now I am going.

Not in a sociable mood.

feel very down.

nothing to wear.

Damm it!!!

From the local paper:

Abbie Brandon, the two year old surrering from Cockayne Syndrome, has lost her fight for life.

Her devastated parents, Matt and Misti are still in shock after their daughter's sudden death.

She had developed pneumonia and septicamia after catching chicken pox form her four year old brother.

Matt said "It was too much for her little body to cope with. We'd taken her to the Luton and Dunstable Hospital because her breathing didn't sound right. They checked her over and were thinkgin about transferring her to Great Ormond Street. Misti rang me to tell me they were working on her really hard, but I arrived about five minutes too late."

Abbie was taken to Keech Cottage where the Brandons stayed with her. "We were able to say good morning and good night to her every day" Matt said. "Everyone has been wonderful. Now she is in her casket. We came home on Sunday and that was really hard. We didn't want to hide everything and tidy up her toys. We've kept her bedroom just as it was to enjoy the space. We both feel in limbo. It's so strange not having her here. She gave so much joy and made such an impact in her short life. She even taught us a few lessons. Her sensory co-ordinator said Abbie was one of the first patients to be used in a new staff communication initiative and Abbie proved that it did work."

Cockyane syndrome is a rare inherited disorder in which people are sensitive to sunlight and have short stature and the appearance of premature ageing. It is named after Edward Alfred Cockayne (1880-1956), a London Physician who specialised in hereditary diseases of children. To find out more about the support for sufferers, visit www.cockayne-syndrome.org.

This girl has been mentioned a few times in the local paper and as you do I sympathised with all concerned and moved on. This was until I joined this blogging site and began to read more about the condition thanks to Juzzy and his dealings with one very special little girl called Amy.

The more I have read on this condition and about Amy, the more I have wanted to help all children that have this condition. That is why I am asking you to give your support here , if you haven't already done so.

Please support Paddy with his Blogathon, to help him to raise some money for a very, very good cause.

Thank you.

please go and give your support at this site for a fantastic cause:

http://bloggingforamy.blog.co.uk/

Thank you

having to keep logging in everytime I come to my page or go to post a comment on a friends page!

It is really beginning to bug me big time!!!!

In a zoo in California , a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately,
Due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny
Size, they died shortly after birth.

The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health,
Although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused
The tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate
Another mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve.

After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there
Were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians
Decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother
Of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only orphans" that could be
Found quickly, were a litter of weanling pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in
Tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger. Would they become cubs or pork chops?
Take a look...you won't believe your eyes!!

Isn't it a shame that the rest of the world can't get along?

Dawns.

It is muggy.

It is dark.

It is very very very wet.

There is water coming from the sky (just for a change) and it is coming down very very hard.

They say we could have at least two months worth of rain in one day - great so at some point that should be two months without?

I doubt it.

Nothing more to say really

Husband walks into Ann Summers to purchase some see-through lingerie for his wife.

He is shown several possibilities that range from £50 to £150 in price, the more see-through, the higher the price.

He opts for the sheerest item, pays the £150 and takes the lingerie home.

He presents it to his wife and asks her to go upstairs, put it on and model it for him.

Upstairs, the wife thinks,

"I have an idea. It's so see-through that it might as well be nothing.

I'll not put it on, do the modelling naked and return it tomorrow and get a £150 refund for myself".

So she appears naked at the top of the stairs and strikes a pose.

The husband says, "My God ! It wasn't that creased in the shop".

His funeral is on Thursday.

At last it is here. The last working day for me for 6 weeks - hip hip hooray'!

Ok I am popping into work tomorrow but only to say bye to the class who are moving up to Year 6 so I will no longer be with them, in fact I am moving to year 4 next term which will make a change and will be different.

5.30 this morning and the sun was shining, the birds singing and all was right with the world. Now there are big black clouds in the sky and the temperature has dropped slightly, the sun is trying to peak through but don't hold out any hope for a good day.

Ah well, never mind we might get some summer this year then we might not!

Eldest not in school today. His school is having a sports day all day and he has been put down for tennis. Neither of my children like sports and Simon begged to stay off so Nig has taken him to work with him - annoying because I need him to move a few boxes at work! Ah well never mind, will have to get a child or two to move them instead!

Right better go and have some breakfast, phone my eldest in sick, and then get ready for work. Have a good day

This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital.

It was sent by a medical doctor.

Make sure to read what is in the closing statement AFTER THE POEM.

SLOW DANCE

Have you ever watched kids

On a merry-go-round?

Or listened to the rain

Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?

Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down.

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won't last.

Do you run through each day

On the fly?

When you ask How are you?

Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done

!

Do you lie in your bed

With the next hundred chores

Running through your head?

You'd better slow down

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won't last.

Ever told your child,

We'll do it tomorrow?

And in your haste,

Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,

Let a good friendship die

Cause you never had time

To call and say,"Hi"

You'd better slow down.

Don't dance so fast.

Time is short.

The music won't last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere

You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,

It is like an unopened gift....

Thrown away.

Life is not a race.

Do take it slower

Hear the music

Before the song is over.

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Dear All:

PLEASE pass this mail on to everyone you know - even to those you don't know! It is the request of a special girl who will soon leave this world due to cancer.

This young girl has 6 months left to live, and as her dying wish, she wanted to send a letter telling everyone to live their life to the fullest, since she never will.

She'll never make it to prom, graduate from high school, or get married and have a family of her own.

By you sending this to as many people as possible, you can give her and her family a little hope, because with every name that this is sent to, The American Cancer Society will donate 3 cents per name to her treatment and recovery plan. One guy sent this to 500 people! So I know that we can at least send it to 5 or 6. It's not even your money, just your time!

PLEASE PASS ON AS A LAST REQUEST.

Aren't there just times when you would just love to do one of these?

http://www.subversivecrossstitch.com/index.html

I can see one or two I would love to do

Gonna resist though

Just for AJ as he needs more posts to read

A married couple was on holiday in Jamaica.

They were touring around the marketplace
looking at the goods
and
such
when they passed this small sandal shop.From inside they
heard the shopkeeper with a Jamaican accent say,"You
foreigners! Come in. Come
into
my humble shop!"
So the couple walked in.

"I have some special sandals I think you would be interested
in,"the Jamaican said to them. "Dey make you wild at sex."

Well, the wife was really interested in buying the sandals
after what
the
man claimed, but her husband felt he
really didn't need
them,being the "sex god" that he was.

"How could sandals make you into a sex freak?" the husband
asked

the shopkeeper.

Just try dem on, Mon," the Jamaican replied.

After some badgering from his wife, the man finally gave in,
and
tried
the sandals on. As soon as he slipped them onto his feet, he
got this
wild
look in his eyes ... something his wife hadn't seen in many
years!

In the blink of an eye, the husband grabbed the Jamaican,

quickly
bent
him over a table, yanked down his pants, ripped down his own
pants,
and
grabbed a firm hold of the Jamaican's hips.

At which point the Jamaican began screaming,

"YOU GOT DEM ON DE WRONG FEET, MON! YOU GOT DEM ON DE WRONG
FEET!"

10:00 PM news

Bob, a handsome dude, walked into a sports bar around 9:58 PM . He sat down next to a blonde at the bar and stared up at the TV.

The 10:00 PM news was coming on. The news crew was covering a story of a man on a ledge of a large building preparing to jump.

The blonde looked at Bob and said, "Do you think he'll jump?"

Bob says, "You know, I bet he'll jump."

The blonde replied, "Well, I bet he won't."

Bob placed a $20 bill on the bar and said, "You're on!"

Just as the blonde placed her money on the bar, the guy on the ledge did a swan dive off the building, falling to his death.

The blonde was very upset, but willingly handed her $20 to Bob saying, "Fair's fair. Here's your money."

Bob replied, "I can't take your money, I saw this earlier on the 5:00 PM news and so I knew he would jump."

The blonde replied, "I did too; but I didn't think he'd do it again."

Bob took the money......

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BAR BET

A Cajun walks into a bar with pet alligator by his side.

He puts the alligator up on the bar. He turns to the astonished patrons.

"I'll make you a deal. I'll open this alligator's mouth and place my manhood inside. Then the gator will close his mouth for one minute. Then he'll open his mouth and I'll remove my unit unscathed. In return for witnessing this spectacle, each of you will buy me a drink." The crowd murmured their approval.

The man stood up on the bar, dropped his trousers, and placed his Johnson and related parts in the alligator's open mouth.

The gator closed his mouth as the crowd gasped. After a minute, the man grabbed a beer bottle and smacked the Alligator hard on the top of its head.

The gator opened his mouth and the man removed his genitals unscathed as promised. The crowd cheered, and the first of his free drinks were delivered.

The man stood up again and made another offer... "I'll pay anyone $100 who's willing to give it a try."

A hush fell over the crowd. After a while, a hand went up in the back of the bar.

A Blonde woman timidly spoke up.......

"I'll try it - Just don't hit me so hard with the beer bottle!"

I love this

Rt Hon David Miliband MP

Secretary of State,

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA),

Nobel House
17 Smith Square
London SW1P 3JR

16 May 2007

Dear Secretary of State,

My friend, who is in farming at the moment, recently received a cheque for
£3,000 from the Rural Payments Agency for not rearing pigs. I would now
like to join the "not rearing pigs" business.

In your opinion, what is the best kind of farm not to rear pigs on, and
which is the best breed of pigs not to rear? I want to be sure I approach
this endeavour in keeping with all government policies, as dictated by the
EU under the Common Agricultural Policy.

I would prefer not to rear bacon pigs, but if this is not the type you want
not rearing, I will just as gladly not rear porkers. Are there any
advantages in not rearing rare breeds such as Saddlebacks or Gloucester Old
Spots, or are there too many people already not rearing these?

As I see it, the hardest part of this programme will be keeping an accurate
record of how many pigs I haven't reared. Are there any Government or Local
Authority courses on this?

My friend is very satisfied with this business. He has been rearing pigs
for forty years or so, and the best he ever made on them was £1,422 in
1968. That is - until this year, when he received a cheque for not rearing
any.

If I get £3,000 for not rearing 50 pigs, will I get £6,000 for not rearing
100?

I plan to operate on a small scale at first, holding myself down to about
4,000 pigs not raised, which will mean about £240,000 for the first year.

As I become more expert in not rearing pigs, I plan to be more ambitious,
perhaps increasing to, say, 40,000 pigs not reared in my second year, for
which I should expect about £2.4 million from your department.
Incidentally, I wonder if I would be eligible to receive tradable carbon
credits for all these pigs not producing harmful and polluting methane
gases?

Another point: These pigs that I plan not to rear will not eat 2,000 tonnes
of cereals. I understand that you also pay farmers for not growing crops.
Will I qualify for payments for not growing cereals to not feed the pigs I
don't rear?

I am also considering the "not milking cows" business, so please send any
information you have on that too.

Please could you also include the current Defra advice on set aside fields?
Can this be done on an e-commerce basis with virtual fields (of which I
seem to have several thousand hectares)?

In view of the above you will realise that I will be totally unemployed,
and will therefore qualify for unemployment benefits.

I shall of course be voting for your Party at the next general election.

Yours faithfully,

Nigel Johnson-Hill

Discussion at work today where we were talking about things that we miss that we used to be able to get or go to when we were younger.

My first one that everyone seemed to agree with , was C&A. I miss C&A. For those of you who have no idea what this was, it was a shop that sold clothes at a reasonable price and was mainly good quality as well.

But I have just found the website for it so now going to have a browse!

Anything that you miss?

Taking the dogs for a walk, where hubby gets splattered with grass and mud while I laughed at him.

Why?

Laddie decided to do his 'business' in the bushes. Nig, because we are responsible dog owners, goes to clear and tries his hardest to find it amongst the bushes, when Laddie decided it would be fun to dig for England using his back legs, thus covering Nigel in grass and mud!

Nig not impressed, but I thought it was funny and I swear I saw a smile on both dog's faces - perhaps they planned it

It is warm out there, in fact it feels quite hot. Definately going to be another muggy night I think.

Had a school dinner at school at lunchtime - beef pie, peas, boiled new potatoes, and chocolate cake for dessert and it is repeating on me. It was quite nice, definately an improvement, but a bit confused by the vegetarian option - fish pie. Thought this was rather strange as I know many vegetarians that don't eat fish.

Did ask what was available if you were a vegetarian that didn't eat fish and was told that there was salad except the salad was in small bowls ad consisted of a couple of cherry tomatoes, a lettuce leaf and about 3 slices of cucumber. I am quite disgusted by this and going to put in a complaint as it is not right that they charge £1.75 per child and £2.65 per adult for this. Must look into the food policy tomorrow to address this.

This is beautiful

A night full of dreams, some good, some not so good.

Good ones were with family and friends, the not so good ones involved planes crashing!!

So there I am tossing and turning, not being able to settle after the last dream and not feeling too great - hot one minute cold the next. Duvet went on and off so many times, pillow turned, up to go to the toilet and try to decide if I want to be sick or now (which I wasn't but still have that muggy feeling) and a blocked nose which meant I couldn't breath properly and no matter how many times I blew it, It wouldn't get unblocked!

Taken my nasal spray this morning which has helped a little, but the hayfever is definately bad this year, don't suffer this much usually!

So this morning I am feeling tired, sick and all I can think of is how much work still has to be done and so little time to do it in.

Oh and why when you buy a top for work, try it on in the shop and it looks ok, only to put it on when you need it to find it is totally unsuitable? Why did I not notice how see through it is?

Fortunately I have a camisole to go under it for now which is good so no one should complain about me wearing inappropriate clothing hopefully!!

Right better go and make some lunch and get ready for work!

Have a good day

hugs xx

Found on Ananova

Germany to launch Death Channel

A round-the-clock television channel devoted exclusively to ageing, dying and death is to be launched in Germany.

Eos TV will feature documentaries about graveyards, televised obituaries, tips on finding a decent retirement home and even how to install in-house stair lifts.

Wolf Tilmann Schneider, 51, a former TV producer, has joined forces with Germany's funeral association to launch the 24-hour, seven days a week channel on cable television and the internet.

He said: "More than 800,000 people died in Germany last year. Multiply that by four and you have a rough estimate of the number of relatives affected.

"They will be our target audience. We are convinced that Eos TV will attract viewers."

The channel aims to capitalise on the changing demographics in a country that has one of the lowest birth rates in the world.

Last year there were almost 150,000 more deaths than births, and an estimated 2.1 million elderly people were receiving professional care.

Viewers who tune into Eos TV can expect to be entertained by documentaries highlighting the beauty and tranquillity of graveyards both in Germany and abroad.

"It may come as a surprise, but older people really enjoy visiting cemeteries - not just to mourn, but for their peace and quiet," Mr Schneider said.

Just taken my sandals off and my feet are black where the dye has run and coloured them when it rained earlier.

It isn't a pretty sight.

Just thought I would share

My feet didn't get through to Meno's mugly feet competition

I know they are bad but still : http://faffajane.blog.co.uk/2007/07/15/meno_s_feet_competition~2638058#comments

Woke up with blocked up nose, which is now running, eyes gunky and now streaming, itchy throat and ears - great hayfever. I hate this muggy weather, not only does it make sleeping difficult but it also makes my hayfever worse.

Looking out of the window this morning and I see that there is beautiful sunshine. The weather forecast is for thunderstorms later, we have sports day so part of me wishes this will be so, I have too much to do without having to stand and organise children in their teams. Anyway feeling the way I do, standing out on a field, eyes streaming and nose running doesn't appeal somehow.

I know I sound like a miserable cow this morning, but believe me I am not. In fact I am in quite a good mood, only two more working days after this one for me to go and then I am on my holiday, that is something to really look forward to. Plans are to spend time sorting the house and the ironing out and then I can sit and sew to my hearts content!

Right better go and get myself sorted ready for work later. Now what shall I wear? skirt, trousers or a dress?

Hmm decisions decisions

Victoria: I got an anonymous letter.

David: Yeah, who from?

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What's the best way to make a pair of trousers last?

Make the coat first

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A police officer was escorting a prisoneer to jail when his hat blew off.

"Shall I run and get it for you?" asked the prisoner obligingly
"You must think I am stupid" said the officer
"you wait here and i'll get it!"

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A scuba diver was 20 feet down under the water and saw a man without any breathing equipment at all. The man without the gear went down 20 feet more and the man with the scuba gear followed him.
He kept following him until they reached the sea bed.
Now the man with the gear is confused, so he takes out his waterproof chalk and board out of his bag and writes:

"How do you stay down here without any gear?"

The man without the gear takes the chalk and replies:

"I'm drowning, you idiot"

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If a dictionary goes from A -Z, what goes from Z to A?

A zebra!!

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A vicar is walking down the street one day when he notices a boy trying to press a doorbell on a house across the street.

However the boy is very small, and the doorbell is too high for him to reach. After watching the boy's efforts for some time, the vicar decides to help.

He crosses the street, walks up behind the little fellow and placing his hand kindly on the child's shoulder, leans over and gives the doorbell and solid ring.

The child looks over his shoulder and grins.

"Nice one Vicar," he says, "Now run for it!"

One day a very old lady said to her very old husband, "Norman, will you please go to the kitchen and get me a bowl of icecream? And why don't you write that down so you won't forget?" "Don't be daft, woman, " said the husband, "I can remember a bowl of ice cream!" "Well," said the wife "I'd also like some strawberries on it. You'd better write that down, because you know you'll forget" "Don't bbe silly," replied the husband " A bowl of ice cream and some strawberries. I can remember that!" "Ok, dear, but I'd like you to put some whipped cream on top. Now you really need to write that down now. You'll forget" said the wife "Come on now, my memory's not that bad!" said the husband. "No problem, a dish of ice cream with strawberries and whipped cream." He came back from the kitchen 15 minutes later with a plate of bacon and eggs. The wife took one look at the plate, glanced at her husband and said. "What happened to the toast?"

A girl called her friend and said

"Please come over ahd help me, I have this really difficult jigsaw puzzle and I can't work out how to start it."

The friend asked, "What is it a picture of?"

The girl said, "From the picture on the box I guess it is a tiger"

The friend heads on over to the girl's house. The girl lets her friend in the door and shows her where she has the puzzle spread all over the table.

The friend loks at the pieces for a moment and then at the box, and then the pieces again. She turns to the girl and says,

"First, no matter what I do, I'm not going to be able to show you how to make these pieces look like that tiger.
Second, I think you should relax, have a cup of tea, and put all the Frosties back in the bos"

Muggy, warm and airless this morning. Really bad downpour earlier and sports day has been cancelled until tomorrow but just looked up hte weather forecast and it doesn't look hopeful.

Spent today moving boxes and helping out generally. Lots of things to be done, only 3 more days to go before my holidays yippeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Right better sort out some more paperwork lol!

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Mr Cadbury and Miss Rowntree met on a Double Decker, it was After Eight.

She was from Quality Street , he was a Fisherman's Friend.

On the way they stopped at a Yorkie Bar, he had a Rum and Butter, she had a Wine Gum.

He asked her name, "Polo, I'm the one with the hole" she said.

"I'm the one with the nuts," he thought! Then he touched her Milky Way.

They checked in to a hotel, and went straight to the bedroom. Mr Cadbury turned out the light for a bit of Black Magic.

It wasn't long before he slipped his hand into her Snickers and felt her Cream Egg.

He fondled her Flap Jacks then he showed her his Curly Wurly and Tic Tacs.

Miss Rowntree wasn't keen to have any Jelly Babies, so she let him take a trip down Bourneville Boulevard via her Party Ring. He was pleased as he always fancied a bit of Fudge. It was a magic moment as she let out a scream of Turkish Delight.

When he pulled out, his fun size Mars Bar felt a bit Crunchie.

She wanted more, but he needed Time Out, however, he noticed her Pink Wafers looked very appetizing. He did a Twirl, had a Picnic in her Sherbet Dip and finished off by giving her a Gob Stopper!

Unfortunately, Mr Cadbury then had to go home to his wife,Caramel.

Sadly, 3 days later his Magnum lolly started to drip. It turned out Miss Rowntree had been with Bertie Basset who had Allsorts!!!

Inspired by CJ here

This was really difficult, because like AJ, I have a lot of films that I watch over and over again and they are quite a range of genres as well. So here goes:

1) Breakfast at Tiffanys - Audrey Hepburn as Holly golightly always manages to make me smile on a cold wet afternoon

2) The Mummy - Just love watching this film, good casting

3) Armaggedon - always the same bit I cry at

4) Sahara - 2005 version with Matthew McConaughey

5) Knight's tale - two of my favourite actors in this and the casting is great - again never fails to raise a smile

6) The Bourne identity - Watched it so many times can almost tell you what will happen next

7) Lord of the Rings Trilogy - See above

8) Bullet proof Monk - just makes me laugh, lighthearted as well as serious

9) Evolution - Stupidity, humour and will never look at Head and Shoulders shampoo in the same light again

10) Blade trinity - Just really enjoy it

Course I have to mention that I also like Pirates of the Caribbean, pride and Prejudice, Frailty, Transporter, Kingdom of Hearts and Toy story

That is me, hot.

hubby commented on how red I looked.

no I haven't been in the sun, for some reason, today of all days, I decided to make a very very hot curry!

Not a good idea, now very very hot

Had the most amazing thunderstorm here earlier and the rain came down so hard that the patio flooded, it could not drain away quick enough.

Thunder storm hasn't cleared the air at all though it is still muggy outside

From Urban Dictionary

1. Samantha

Usually a name for a person that is a walking Goddess. Gorgeous to the maximum, fun to talk to, easy to befriend with a sexy booty. Often pulls off the innocent act but she gets around.

Damn, that Samantha is too cute for words.

I can live with that

Nothing for Faffajane - not listed yet, perhaps I should do my own

here

This fellow is looking to buy a saw to cut down some trees in his garden.

He goes to a chainsaw shop and asks about various chainsaws.

The dealer tells him, "This chainsaw here is fantastic, it will cut down 100 trees in one day."

So the man takes the chainsaw home and begins working on the trees. After cutting for several hours he's still cut down only two trees.

he gives up.

The next day he gets up at dawn and cuts all day, but he stil only manages three trees. He is really fed up.

The next day the man takes the saw back to the dealer and explains the problem. The dealer, baffled by the man's claim, removes the chainsaw from the cas. The dealer says, "Hmm, it looks fine."

Then the dealer starts the chainsaw's engine up and the man says,

"What's that noise?"

CHICKEN AT A CHINESE RESTAURANT
A couple go for a meal at a Chinese restaurant and order the "Chicken
Surprise".

The waiter brings the meal served in a lidded cast iron pot.
Just as the wife is about to serve herself, the lid of the pot rises
slightly and she briefly sees two beady little eyes looking around before
the lid slams back down.

"Good grief, did you see that?" she asks her husband.
He hasn't, so she asks him to look in the pot. He reaches for it and again
the lid rises, and he sees two little eyes looking around before it slams
down. Rather perturbed, he calls the waiter over, explains what is
happening, and demands an explanation.

"Please, sir," says the waiter, "what you order?"
The husband replies, "Chicken Surprise."
You're going to love this....................

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"Ah... so sorry," says the waiter, "I bring you Peeking Duck.

There we are my dear, a picture of my feet.

Not very good

I have very dry feet which need copious amounts of moisturising hence the skin peeling on one of my toes. I also have a couple of blisters from the shoes I wore yesterday - the one pair that I wear without any problems at all normally, so my feet are looking in pretty bad shape at the moment!

This week has been hectic as I documented in an earlier post this week. Not a lot of time to myself and very little time to catch up with posts on here either, for which I am sorry if I haven't managed to comment or say hi recently.

Yesterday didn't get any better either.

First thing we were all dolled up to the nines and headed off to a photographic studio to get a family portrait done. Quite simple you would think, except when i arrived at the town centre I found I had lost one of my earrings - this in itself should have warned me of what was about to come.

After hunting down similar pair of earrings and purchasing them (wasn't going to be photographed without), we headed to the studios, which, when we got there, were closed. Consulting the time onour watches, we were a little early so decided to find somewhere to have some breakfast as none of us had eaten yet.

So far so good, all went well, no one had managed to spill anything onto their outfits and stain clothes, so feeling good we went back to the studios which were still closed and locked up. Never mind, thinking photographer was just running late, we meandered through the stalls outside and had a browse through the wares they were selling, keeping one eye on the studio in case a door should open. It never did.

15 minutes after our appointed time, Nig phoned up the photographer to ask where he was, when a heated discussion ensued.

Photographer: But you cancelled

Nig: no I didn't

P:Yes you did in the week and I have taken on another commision now at a school ballet contest

N: Not my problem I didn't cancel at all, in fact we were all too keen to be photographed

P: Let me check, yes Mrs Henley phoned on Thursday to cancel

Nut our name isn't Henley it is ...........

P: Oh sorry wrong name and day, would you like to reschedule?

N: No thank you think you are making all this up and have let us down quite badly, it is appalling service and we will not be using you.

And so it went, I was fuming - seems to me he was offered a better paid commision and decided to take that instead just by the tone of his voice on the phone, the no care attitude.

So we browsed round the shops and found another studio inside Debenhams and we have booked in there for next week - they did offer to squeeze us in after hearing our tale of woe, but wasn't in the mood now

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Came home and hubby needs the holiday paperwork so he can fill out his holiday sheet. Problem is though I can't find it. This time of year for paperwork it is a nightmare. It is piled up on the table, threatening to fall over, but haven't got time to sort through it to deal with it. So we spent a few hours sorting through a number of items and shredding those we don't want, when I realised that I have shredded a couple of very important documents that I need next week. Not a good move and no way I can get copies, really don't need this at the moment.
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A friend emailed me earlier in the week with news of something she was taking part in. She was chatty in the email, but reading between the lines things are not good at the moment, something she denied when I emailed her back and asked. Yesterday I got a detailed email from her telling me what really was wrong. After 16 years of marriage her husband has walked out. There was no argument, no other woman, no reason that she could think of at the time for him to do this. They had a good marriage as far as she was aware, yet he just packed up and went, no note, nothing. Naturally she is devastated, she now knows why he has gone, and it isn't for me to document it on here, but to say I was shocked to the core, hence my post yesterday.

Why do bad things happen to good people?

Right enough of this depressing post, today is a new day, the sun is shining for now and I have a ton of things that need to be done today, so for now, I will sign off and wish you all a good day.

hugs x

But

fuck

fuck

fuck

fuck

fuck

and this is from someone who rarely swears.

That is all I have to say on the matter, normal service will be resumed soon hopefully

Trying to put the performance I taped the other night onto video.

It is at times like this I had an editing suite.

The cacorder that keeps playing back in mosaic is still doing it and that is the one that can be connected to the pc to edit - however the film is absolytely useless and not working properly so not much point in doing that.

The other camcorder that is old has done a pretty good job but unfortunately because its battery decided to die half way through a song, it isn't a good copy of the performance.

So there I was trying to get the good bits from one film and join it to the good bits of another film.

Did it work?

Did it heckers like.

So now I am only going to tape the performance filmed on the old camera and be done with it. There will be a gap in performance but it is the best I can do

I now know the words to all the songs the children sang though I have played it back that many times

For his birthday, little Patrick asked for a 10-speed bicycle. His
Father said, "Son, we'd give you one, but the mortgage on this house is
$280,000 & your mother just lost her job. There's no way we can
afford
it."

The next day the father saw little Patrick heading out the front door
with a suitcase. So he asked, "Son, where are you going?" Little
Patrick told him,

"I was walking past your room last night and heard you telling Mom
you
were pulling out. Then I heard her tell you to wait because
she was coming too. I'll be damned if I'm staying here by myself with a
$280,000 mortgage & no bike!"

A man called home to his wife and said, "Honey I have been asked to go fishing up in Canada with my boss & several of his friends. We'll be gone for a week. This is a good opportunity for me to get that promotion I've been wanting so could you please pack enough clothes for a week and set out my rod and fishing box? We're leaving from the office & I will swing by the house to pick my things up." "Oh! Please pack my new blue silk pajamas." The wife thinks this sounds a bit fishy but being the good wife she is, did exactly what her husband asked. The following weekend he came home a little tired but otherwise looking good. The wife welcomed him home and asked if he caught many fish? He said, "Yes! Lots of Salmon, some Bluegill, and a few Swordfish. But why didn't you pack my new blue silk pajamas like I asked you to do?"

(You'll love the answer...)

The wife replied, "I did. They're in your fishing box..........

Makes a change from the blonde girl joke we usually get lol

The very first ever Blonde GUY joke..... And well worth the wait?

An Irishman, a Mexican and a Blonde Guy were doing construction
work
on
scaffolding on the 20th floor of a building.

They were eating lunch and the Irishman said, 'Corned beef and
cabbage!
If I get corned beef and cabbage one more time for lunch, I'm
going to
jump
off this building.'

The Mexican opened his lunch box and exclaimed, 'Burritos again!
If I get burritos one more time I'm going to jump off, too.'

The blonde opened his lunch and said, 'Bolognaise again! If I get
a bolognaise sandwich one more time, I'm jumping too.'

The next day, the Irishman opened his lunch box, saw corned beef
and cabbage, and jumped to his death.

The Mexican opened his lunch, saw a burrito, and jumped, too.

The blonde guy opened his lunch, saw the bolognaise and jumped to
his death as well.

At the funeral, the Irishman's wife was weeping.She said, 'If I'd
known
how really tired he was of corned beef and cabbage, I never would
have given it to him again!'

The Mexican's wife also wept and said, 'I could have given him
tacos
or
enchiladas! I didn't realize he hated burritos so much.'

Everyone turned and stared at the blonde's wife. The blonde's wife
said,

'Don't look at me.
The idiot makes his own lunch.'

Yes life has been a little hectic lately, but managed to find five minutes to catch up

So what has been happening in Faffa's world?

Various goings ons connected to work and life in general really. Tuesday was spent at the school production as son was in the choir, where I was asked if I could record it. So had to go along again on Wednesday and film it though this was a little difficult as I have one camrecorder that when it plays back it either goes to the blue screen or the picture has the occasional mosaic pattern on it. So after reading the instruction booklet, off I traipse to the local camera store to buy a head cleaning kit and some new tapes and follow the instructions to clean the head. Put new tape in, do a few minutes recording and then play it back - mosaic pattern appears sporadically again. So I redo the above procedure and it keeps happening, by which time I am getting annoyed.

The instruction booklet says it is normal but it is very annoying all the same. Any ideas? the camera is Samsung VP-D361 http://www.samsung.com/uk/products/camcorder/dvc/vp_d361xeu.asp?page=Specifications

Anyway I digress. We dug out old camcorder and tripod as this is a lot heavier than the Samsung one, and took that as well as the new one to film the play in the hope that what I don't get on one I will get on the other

So filming went well till about half way through when the battery on one of the recorders died, even though it had been charged, so we fiddled about trying to change batteries during the 'critical' bit of the play. Eventually though we managed to get it filmed.

Should have left at the end of the show, but son volunteered to help tidy away and help the lighting engineer (oh yes it was all very professionally done) take down all his cables etc and dismantle the stage. AT 10.30pm we finally left, shattered and aching after standing around for so long.

Thursday, work then go to Parent's evening for my eldest. Great fun. Sit there being told by every teacher how quite he is, what a great learner he is, how bright he is, how well he is doing - great but I already knew that tell me what we can do to help him get good marks in his GCSE's next year so that he can achieve his ambition, but apparently he is on line for getting As in all of his GCSE as long as he is prepared to put a little extra into his work - he will have a busy summer holiday then in preparation lol!

Today will have to go into work later - I know it is Friday - but we are going to do some juicing of fruits so I am taking my juicer in The kids will love it.

So there is a brief synopsis of me being away, if you have managed to read this far congratulations!!!

Hugs x

Before I dash out of the door again.

busy week, busy life, not enough hours in the day and definately no 'me' time at the moment. Will catch up with you all once I have some time

Hugs for now

xx

Two children, two children who are different to each other.

one is academically minded the other one struggles.

No surprises then that their school reports are so, so different.

One tells me that my child is wonderful, always smart, on time to lessons, always does some high quality work, always has the right equipment, always does what he is told to do without question and hands things in on time. In all subjects he is expected to get good grades, in all subjects he produces very good work and has some good ideas. Teachers are very pleased with him.

The other one tells me my son needs to try harder, is struggling, needs support and though he has friends and has settled in well it is obvious that he is not achieving as he should.

Could they be so different?

The only thing that is the same in both reports is that they are polite, helpful and willing to learn!

So I am doing something right then

This is truly inspirational, please look at the link below

http://cjcphoto.com/can/

I woke this morning with a smile upon my face. A lovely dream where I was able to talk to family members and friends that are no longer with us in the flesh, where my problems were shared, where I was able to see that things will be ok.

Meeting this afternoon with the Head, hopefully to tell me where I will be next year. Yesterday I was feeling a bit panicy(sp) about it all, today I am calm so perhaps my 'talk' did me good - and yes I did talk in my sleep as well, apparently hubby was listening in to something that made no sense to him

He is in a far better mood this morning as well. We hugged last night and talked through everything that had bothered him over the past few weeks and what happened to him yesterday. Nothing is as bad as it first seemed and he was able to look at it all calmly so peace is restored once more in our little household.

Observation: Why does my eldest insist upon having his school bag on him when he is making sandwiches?

In other news the sun is shining and today is another day. It promises to be a good one and as long as no one upsets this equilibrium, all will be right in Faffa's world

And sweet dreams to you all

hugs xx

Here is my character - Prudence

Why so many women have issues over there bodies and what they look like when comments like this are made:

judging by these pictures she does more than just sing about candy. Like eat it! See what I did there? Because she has a song called "Candy" but then I said that she also eats it. Because she's fat.

Here is the full story.

http://thesuperficial.com/2007/07/mandy_moore_mexico_bikini_pict.php#comment

I have spent today listening to a variety of people talking at us about nothing in particualr. In fact the total course was a load of rubbish, could have done better myself.

Afterall who really wants to know how many groups are currently up and running, how many people/children have accessed them and how wonderful they all are?

Sorry but I wanted to learn about how to do something in particular, not listen to a bunch of people pat theirselves on their back for a job not particuarly well done.

Wasn't even an evaluation form so that I could write down what I thought of it!!!

In other news, Hubby not a very happy man so have to look forward to an evening of him moaning and groaning about his dreadful day now.

oh joy!

Yes it is Monday again, another start to another week.

Not long to go now to the holidays yipppeeeee!

On a course today in MK, so will have to be sharpish at dropping son off at school, dashing around picking people up before i join the motorway chaos. Mind you should be esier as i am going north and most of the traffic will be going south.

busy week ahead as well, not enough me time, but keep counting those days until I break up!

Sunny at the moment, though they say it will rain - no surprises there then

Have a good day everyone

Through blogland to take my mind off how I am feeling and couldn't help but notice how many blogs have nothing on them. so many out there that have been set up and are blank.

Why?

Ok so some may have just set them up and don't know what to write, others may have for some reason known only to themselves I suppose, but you take that trouble to design a blog yet don't use it. Of course there are those that just burn the blog at the touch of a button when things get out of hand, understandable really I suppose.

Ah well.

Hubby has emerged from his bath and is now watching Silent Hill. He is looking a bit prunish now, serves him right for spending so long in there and falling asleep

Not too sure if I want to be sick or not.

Hate feeling like this.

In other news, Nigel has broken his record for the amount of time he can be in the bath - he has been in there for 2hours 15 mins!!!

Yes you did read that right.

he keeps topping it up with hot water and is reading his book.

going to drown him in a minute if he doesn't get out of it soon!

Oh and the sun has disappeared and the rain has started again - oh joy of joys we haven't seen any of that for at least 24 hours was beginning to panic then

right going to lay down now and see if I can manage to get rid of this sicky feeling, perhaps a glass of water may help.

have a good evening

EDIT: He fell asleep in the bath while reading harry potter and the Order of the phonix to youngest child. Understandable really

You like to think of yourself as innocent, even though you're not!

You're comfortable in your own skin - and don't care to impress anyone.
http://www.blogthings.com/theunderwearoracle/

Says it all really

Dear Tech Support,

Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a

distinct slow down in overall system performance - particularly in the

flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under

Boyfriend 5.0.

In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs,

such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5 and then installed

undesirable programs such as football 1.0, NBA 3.0, Cricket 2.1 and

Golf Clubs 4.1.

Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes

the system. I've tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but

to no avail.

What can I do?

Signed, Desperate

______________

Dear Desperate:

First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while

Husband 1.0 is an Operating System.

Please enter the command:

"http: I Thought You Loved Me.html" and try to download Tears 6.2

and don't forget to install the Guilt 3.0

update. If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then

automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.

But remember, over use of the above application can cause Husband

1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0 or Beer 6.1.

Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download the Snoring Loudly Beta.

Whatever you do, DO NOT install Mother-in-law 1.0 (it runs a virus in

the background that will eventually seize control of all your system

resources).

Also, do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend 5.0 program.

These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.

In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program but it does have limited

memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider

buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We

recommend Food 3.0 and Hot Lingerie 7.7.

Good Luck,

Tech Support

Just a quick fleeting visit as I am supposed to be clearing a cupboard that is full of junk, but Nig has taken eldest son to the swimming pool so I am allowing myself a 5 minute bread

Where has the weekend gone? it is flying past, just like the weeks that have gone by.

Yesterday was hectic. We celebrated our wedding anniversary, 17 years now - doesn't time fly when you are having fun, and we took the kids to see Shrek the third (not as good as the first two)though still enjoyable, and then had a meal at a pub/retaurant which was nice though I have noticed their prices have gone up by quite a bit - perhaps it is because they are no longer allowed to have smokers inside, and it was pretty empty as well.

We also treated ourselves to a new camera as well, 8mp one with an internal memory as well as a memory card.

Today has been a frenzy of having to catch up with shopping, housework etc. Nigel has an NICEIC inspection tomorrow and I am on a course so this week is pretty much as hectic as the one just gone lol.

right better get on with the tidying, though I will try and catch up with posts as well.

hugs xxx

Thankfully Friday is here again.

Despite being my day off work, will go in later for the assembly, our class were picked to do a drama sketch in front of the school and the girls involved in it, have written their own song so they need a little help fine tuning it.

Been to town this morning and got a few bits and pieces to get through the weekend. Anyone else feel that there are not enough hours in the day/weekend to get everything you need done?

Windy here today and dull, no sun at all which is diappointing, I prefer sun to dullness.

Son very very happy, or will be when he comes home. He found a group he hadn't heard of on the internet and dragged me over to listen to them. Their songs are a bit samey but are quite good, the guitar rifs are good as well. Anyway they have a new fan and I went out and treated him to a couple of their albums this morning to add to his now growing collection. Listening to the tracks they remind me of another group but cannot think who, no doubt someone will put me right.

Outside on a winter's night as the rain begins to fall
There's a chill in the air and the howl of the wolves’
While the rain beats at the door

Seven kings will ride on the wind up towards the mountains high
And the only sound that will break the air is the warrior's bitter cry

When the dawn of a new sun will see the day
And the strongest hearts grow old
And the warrior stands on top of the hill in the snow

Dark night with a glimmering light in the distance up ahead
In the forest they dwell with a mystery spell no one heard what once was said
And the eagle fly through the clouds while the earth bleeds dark and cold
When the voices of men will ring out again all creation shall unfold

When the colour of night will fade to light as the mysteries unfold
And the warrior stands on top of the hill in the snow

And we're standing one and all fighting till we fall
Hoping for a better day
Never giving in until we find the words, till we find the words to say
Until we find the words to say...

Burning starfire, shine in the sky
For the lives of great men, who stand by your side
When the night falls, on we still go
For no lost souls will live on forever

Midnight on the valley below still the horsemen follow through
There’s a forest that leads to the foot of the hill that inside the magic holds
Seven strong they ride on along to the place where sorrow lies
And the shadow of the night will no longer hide all their mysteries come
undone

When the dust of the full moon will see the light and the weakest hearts go cold
And the warrior stands on top of the hill in the snow

And we're standing one and all fighting till we fall
Hoping for a better day
Never giving in until we find the words...till we find the words to say
Until we find the words to say...

Burning starfire, shine in the sky
For the lives of great men, who stand by your side
When the night falls, on we will ride
For no lost souls will live on forever

And we're standing one and all, fight until we fall
Hoping for a better day
Never giving in until we find the words...till we find the words to say
Until we find the words to say...

Burning starfire, shine in the sky
For the lives of great men, who stand by your side
When the night falls, on we will ride
For no lost souls will live on forever

No lost souls will live on for...ever

Right better go and do some housework before I face this assembly!

As I burst out laughing at the title of the following email:

3 juicy tubes for £16.99

Eldest son has officially condemmed me for naughty thoughts.

Right better move and get changed now and off to work

The sun shone through my bedroom window at 5.30 this morning, all for 5 minutes, when the heavens opened again and now we have this dark cloudy sky overhead, not helping my mood at all.

Fed up with wearing trousers, but it doesn't seem right wearing summer skirts when it is raining!

PHSCE (personal health, social and citizenship education) week this week, so we are very much off timetable with lots of visitors coming into school to talk to the children. Yesterday was the Dog warden talking about how to look after a dog, what to do if it goes missing, clearing up after your dog when taking it for a walk. Funny story here, taking dogs for a walk last night with son, our Grey decided to do its business in the woods. Son gets out his bag and goes to clear up, BUT because the Grey has a thing about long grass, son couldn't find what he should be looking for, spent ages searching, then trod in it - he wasn't a happy son at all especially as I was laughing at him - poor thing

We also had a speaker from the train company to talk to the children about safety on railway lines - in other words how not to show off your fishing rod when there are electric lines around, and how not to play near the lines otherwise you will be killed.

We have some visitors in school in the form of chicks. We have watched them hatch, and now they are growing up. They are taken round the classes and one member of staff gives a talk about chickens and hens, how to look after them and shows the children how to handle them. I love this part as they look so cute and sweet and cuddly!

So today, not sure what we will be doing apart from healthy eating in MFL (modern foreign languages), the children will have a chance to act out their drama sketches (this years theme first aid) and then complete there Anti smoking/smoking ban posters and poems. I think the ambulance men are giving a talk as well, and the policeman giving a talk on good behaviour and drug misuse.

So not a lot of work being done really, but the children enjoy it a lot and it is something different to do. children learning through play and handling and having fun, as it should be.

Right better go and get ready for work now and get out of that door!

16 days and counting

Have a good day

Do I

BLog?
do some Cross stitching?
Watch telly and be sociable with hubby?
Do the ironing?

Want to create a new blog full of videos of songs I enjoy but cannot make up my mind what to call it.

In other news:

Better drag eldest out with me to take dogs for a walk before it rains again
Caught up with todays posts
This is really not worth reading really!!!!

Right signing off......................for now

According to a news report, Golden Grove Jr. High School was recently

faced with a unique problem.

A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirror leaving dozens of little lip prints.

Every night the maintenance man would remove them and the next day the girls would put them back.

Finally the principal decided that something had to be done.

She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man. She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the custodian who had to clean the mirrors every night.

To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required.

He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned the mirror with it.

Priceless!

Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirror.

There are teachers.... and then there are educators!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Big girl you are beautiful

Walks in to the room
Feels like a big balloon
I said, 'Hey girls you are beautiful'
Diet coke and a pizza please
Diet coke I'm on my knees
Screaming 'Big girl you are beautiful'

You take your skinny girl
Feel like I'm gonna die
'Cause a real woman
Needs a real man here's why

You take your girl
And multiply her by four
Now a whole lotta woman
Needs a whole lot more

Get yourself to the Butterfly Lounge
Find yourself a big lady
Big boy come on around
And they'll be calling you baby

No need to fantasize
Since I was in my braces
A watering hole
With the girls around
And curves in all the right places

Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful

Walks in to the room
Feels like a big balloon
I said, 'Hey girls you are beautiful'
Diet coke and a pizza please
Diet coke I'm on my knees
Screaming 'Big girl you are beautiful'

You take your girl
And multiply her by four
Now a whole lotta woman
Needs a whole lot more

Get yourself to the Butterfly Lounge
Find yourself a big lady
Big boy come on around
And they'll be calling you baby

No need to fantasize
Since I was in my braces
A watering hole
With the girls around
And curves in all the right places

Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful

Get yourself to the Butterfly Lounge
Find yourself a big lady
Big boy come on around
And they'll be calling you baby

No need to fantasize
Since I was in my braces
A watering hole
With the girls around
And curves in all the right places

Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Oh you are beautiful

Get yourself to the Butterfly Lounge
Find yourself a big lady
Big boy come on around
And they'll be calling you baby

No need to fantasize
Since I was in my braces
A watering hole
With the girls around
And curves in all the right places

Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Oh you are beautiful

Get yourself to the Butterfly Lounge
Find yourself a big lady
Big boy come on around
And they'll be calling you baby

No need to fantasize
Since I was in my braces
A watering hole
With the girls around
And curves in all the right places

Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful
Big girls you are beautiful

You excel at anything difficult or high tech.
In other words, you're a total (brilliant) geek.
It's difficult for you to find people worth spending time with.
Which is probably why you'll take over the world with your evil robots!

Your strength: Your unfailing logic

Your weakness: Loving machines more than people

Your power color: Tan

Your power symbol: Pi

Your power month: July

None of this is correct, I love being around people, and have no interest in taking over the world with robots!

At last. Glad he is safe and well.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6267928.stm

Did Anyone Ever Tell You,
Just How Special You Are
The Light that You Emit
Might even Light a Star

Did Anyone Ever Tell You
How Important You Make Others Feel
Somebody out here is Smiling
About Love that is so Real

Did Anyone Ever Tell You that
Many Times When They were Sad
Your E-mail made Them Smile a bit
In Fact It made Them Glad

For the Time You Spend Sending Things
And Sharing whatever You Find
There are No Words to Thank You
But Somebody, Thinks You're Fine

Did Anyone Ever Tell You
Just How Much They Like You
Well, My Dearest Friend
Today I am Telling You

I HOPE I GET THIS BACK
I believe that without a
friend you are missing out on a lot!!!

Don't be confused by friends and
acquaintances, there is a difference!
BUT, you have to send it right now!!
But don't just send it back, send it on to everyone..

Have a nice day, and I'm glad we are friends!!!

hope you had a good day.

hugs xx