Spread your wings and fly away

I have tried to read several bog posts today but Firefox is obviously being affected by the warm weather as it keeps coming up with the message:

Firefox can't find the server at (insert blog name)

Not very helpful really, perhaps it should try harder

.......no more

This Victorian Pier in Weston Super mere was destroyed by fire this morning. Firefighters are still continuing to battle with the flames which can be seen for miles around the area.

The Grand Pier at Weston-super-Mare was one of the last of the great seaside piers to be built. It was opened in 1904 to complement the Birnbeck Pier in Somerset and to cope with the huge numbers of people that would descend in Weston, during the summer months.

In its early years there was a 2,000 seat pavillion where oper, music hall, ballet and boxing was performed. Unfortuntely the pavillion was destroyed by fire in 1930 and did not re-open until 1933 when a funfair replaced the theatre.

The entrance to the pier was redeveloped to provide shops and amusements in 1970 and in 1974 the pier was granted Grade II listed status.

A bowling alley, a two storey funhouse and a Ferris wheel were added in 1993. More recent additions have included an indoor go kart track and a climbing wall.

Quite sad really to see yet another pier in our country, destroyed by fire.

Got up

Drank some tea

Thinking about breakfast

Shall I shower first?

what will I wear today?

Must do some housework.

These tablets are making me swell.

I usually swell when it is hot, I have a fair amount of fluid retention that drinking lots of water hasn't manage to dispel desite being told it would help. I swell naturally when I have PMT just one of those things we women put up with every month.

However yesterday it was so bad I had to remove my wedding ring. My fingers resemble pork sausages at the moment and the ring was feeling very tight. This is the first time I have had to remove it in 18 years. I feel naked as a result! It is depressing me - why? At the end of the day, it is just a symbol, a symbol we are married. Nigel never wears his, mind you having seen his brother dangle out of a loft because he caught his ring on a nail and nearly had his finger removed I can understand why Nig doesnt' wear his, especially in the trade he is in. But I feel as though part of me is missing. I feel sad.

Hoping the swelling goes down when I stop taking the tablets, only a few more days to go and then I can put my ring back on again. In the meantime I will keep drinking that dammed water!