Spread your wings and fly away

Well so far I have mugged hubby and stolen his sat nav from him. Today I brave the roads and drive son to Llanbyder, where we will spend the night here before we head ten minutes up the road to Lampeter to view the University tomorrow. I have so much to do I am debating taking my laptop with me so that I can try and match up what I wrote yesterday for my coursework to the various standards that I have to meet! Once that is done will only have another 7 forms to waffle on

Left hubby to fend for himself, with a reminder to pick up our other child from his nans on his way home from work tomorrow - of course I could do it on the way home but it all depends on what time we finish looking at the university and how long it takes us to drive home.

Thanks for your help with that laptops yesterday, I bought the one he wanted in the end, a bargain at Argos and had to travel to Harpenden to get it as well as they were the only store that had any in stock!! It is a Toshiba, very basic compared to what is out there at the moment but he only needs one to get on the internet with and do his coursework on. Have seen quite a few that I fancy to replace my desktop which is on a major go slow. I have scanned it for everything, fixed the registry, deleted obsolete programmes, updated, etc etc and it is still slow. Not sure what else to do now so any help with that will be grateful. Mind you it is rarely used, only when I need to print something off and once I get my wireless printer I will not need that so much Once eldest gets his laptop, it will probably be youngest using the desktop anyway so not too bothered if it is slow or not. One day I will replace it.

Right enough waffling on, I have to have some breakfast, shower, get eldest out of his bed and pack before we head out on the roads and brave the day.

Have a good one everyone

Last 10 pence

A father walks into a restaurant with his young son..
He gives the young boy three 10p coins to play with to keep him occupied.

Suddenly, the boy starts choking and going blue in the face....
The father realises the boy has swallowed the coins and starts slapping him on the back..

The boy coughs up 2 of the 10p's but is still choking.
Looking at his son, the father is panicking, shouting for help.

A well dressed, attractive, and serious looking woman, in a blue business suit is sitting at a coffee bar reading a newspaper and sipping a cup of coffee.

At the sound of the commotion, she looks up, puts her coffee cup down, neatly folds the newspaper, places it on the counter, gets up from her seat and makes her way, unhurried, across the restaurant.

Reaching the boy, the woman carefully pulls down his pants; takes hold of the boy's' testicles and starts to squeeze and twist, gently at first and then ever so firmly.. tighter and tighter !!!

After a few seconds the boy convulses violently and
coughs up the last of the 10p's, which the woman deftly catches in her free hand.

Releasing the boy's testicles, the woman hands the coin to the father and walks back to her seat at the coffee bar without saying a word.

As soon as he is sure that his son has suffered no ill effects, the father rushes over to the woman and starts thanking her saying, "I've never seen anybody do anything like that before, it was fantastic. Are you a doctor? "

'No,' the woman replied.

I'm with the Inland Revenue..'

Wednesday already half way through the week. The day so far dawns with a slight drizzle in the air despite the weather man announcing on the radio this morning that it should be at least 20 degrees out there.

Hmm we will see.

Yesterday popped round to see a neighbour and had lunch, a good friend and well meaning who has a few problems and it has been far too long since we have seen each other. Her daughter was there with her eldest son (aged 3) and new son of 11 weeks. Nice seeing them all and catching up for a few hours.

Then off to see my hairdresser and apologise for Friday - I forgot I had an appointment and she kindly fitted me in yesterday for a quick trim. Decided going to go as blonde as I feel next time

Shopping and pricing up laptops came next, as it will be eldest's birthday soon and I said he could have one for his 18th. Most come with Vista though at staples they are giving out vouchers for a free upgrade to Windows 7. My laptop and desktop are both XP so debated upgrading them though they were trying to sell me Windows 7 for £100 telling me I would need to buy 2.

Think I will pass on that one.

Looked at the Toshiba's was talked into buying a Compaq. Listened to the sales patter, told him I will think about it and walked out. Looked on the internet and found a Samsung that I like and the price was right as well. Still undecided.

Anyone know anything about Acer laptops?

Any suggestions recommendations? I won't by Dell had one of those and had nothing but problems with it.

Right onwards and upwards as they say better get a move on and do something constructive

Have a good day x

Just something else we will have to pay for. There is a petition as well if you think it is unfair.

So here I am on half term, awake at silly hour and up and about already. Feel crap as well full of a cold and not in a good mood, plus eldest is being a right pain in the backside and if he doesn't watch it will find soap in his mouth to wash it out and hopefully will learn not to talk to me like I am a piece of shit! I am sick of it now.

Yesterday was because I failed to photocopy his passport - hang on a minute wasn't he here all day under my feet and doing sod all, why, if he knew he needed a photocopy, didn't he go and do it? Am I a bloody mind reader!!

Needless to say silence is golden at the moment. I doubt I will see him before I go out and meet up with my friend later for lunch, then I will be getting my hair cut so at least we won't be able to speak to each other for a while.

Hubby tried his hardest to get me to speak to eldest after I blew up at him, but at the moment I am not in the mood, that was the second time yesterday he spoke to me like that and I am not having it. He is a great kid normally but sometimes those hormones drive me nuts!

Youngest is spending the week with his nan so all is quiet here. Nig has gone off to work, I got up early and made him a cuppa before he left, it gives us half and hour of each other's company.

I have a spot come up on my hand, it is very painful and have no idea why. My hands are in water most of the day lately so can't be because they are dirty!

Managed to clear the ironing yesterday, going to start on the housework today and make sure that everywhere is de cluttered again. Amazing how much builds up during term time! Everywhere is such a mess so will probably take me all morning to tidy back to it's former glory. Once that is done, and I have come back from friend's house, hairdresser and shopping I can relax and then do some more coursework. I have a date for my assessment and want to get most of it out of the way before the next day on my course, the last one before the assessment!

Right enough waffling on and being miserable, have to crack on and start cleaning this house!

Have a good day xx

I have just finished playing monopoly with the boys and Nig.

I won but only because I completely bankrupted my youngest child, therefore he is now sulking in his room because I, apparently, am not fair.

Problem is I like to play games properly. I follow the rules to the letter. I built up the sites I bought, built on them, charged rent etc, is it really my fault then if you owe me £450 in rent and can only pay my £20? Of course I am going to make you mortgage your property and if that then means you have no cash then tough!

Life is like that, you can't have it easy and at 11 he should know that. Turns out that as well as all my properties and the amount of cash I had I won by a fair few thousand and was the richest person on the board, now if only life was like that!

Eldest son got the job at the local Beefeater tavern. Turns out they want bar staff and so he isn't working in the restaurant as we first thought. At the moment he is working behind the bar in the restaurant then when he is 18 (in a couple of weeks) he can then work in the main bar. He had a trial period yesterday and enjoyed. He isn't working there again until next Saturday and then he has to tell them that he can't work the following Saturday as we are having a family meal to celebrate his birthday - fittingly in the restaurant there!

It is fitting that he should work in the place where he first learnt to eat with a spoon. When he was a young child we used to go there once a month and he sat in his highchair wanting some ice cream when they gave him one of them long knickerbocker glory spoons and it was with that he learnt to feed himself. Up until them he struggled with baby spoons and used his hands.

We still pop in and out of there, going there for family meals celebrating birthdays etc. Obviously we have been to other places as well but that is the one place we usually end up, so having him working there now is quite funny really.

Right have to go now and sort some bits and pieces out and take some more tablets. Why do you end up with a cold when it is holiday time!

Have a good evening x

It has been a long week. Ok fair play I only actually worked three days, but they felt like I had worked 6.

Monday I was on a course where we discussed how to fill in a form from 9.30-3.30 - ok slight exaggeration but we have to fill out a form with as much detail as possible for the assessor and most of the lesson was learning about what to put on the form.

Tuesday to Thursday working - felt like I had to put 5 days work into 3, not helped by a teacher having a sulk because I refused to dress up in 1940s dress for their VE day celebrations (don't ask had a lot to do with the topic they were doing!). Giving me a few hours notice of this is not going to get me to take part and dress up for it, anyone who knows me knows I need at least a month to plan these things

I have my assessment date set for the 11th of January, just have to clear it with the headteacher and the teacher who are both going to be interviewed by my assessor.

Today I start the half term. So far I have met with youngest son's form teacher to discuss various reports that have been done on him by outside agencies and how to deal with him when he gets frustrated and upset. It was a useful exercise despite my reservations, and she is happy with his progress which is good.

I have arranged lunch next week with a neighbour whom I have been trying to catch up with all year! We both are busy people and it has been difficult to get dates in our diary.

Waiting to hear from another friend if she wants to have lunch sometime.

What I should have done is blitz the mess in this house and restored it to calm and tidiness, done the ironing, cleaned the bathroom and the kitchen. Needless to say I fed myself and am now on here.

Just one other thing before I go. As much as I hate the party and the views they represent, I did watch the BNP, namely Nick Griffin on Question Time last night rather than go and do the weekly pub quiz. Now I didn't have a problem with him being on there, after all his party is getting votes from somewhere and over the years they have been growing. So I watched and felt at the end of it that Nick Griffin is not as stupid as people are thinking. I firmly believe he knew the fuss it would cause. He knew that it would be a slanging match against him. He knew he would not be able to answer questions without having people braying at him or shouting him down. He knew the fuss it would cause and consequently the fall out that will be all over the papers, the internet and aired on the radio. What does this do? It gives advertising to what is essentially a party that is racist there is no denying that.

They do have supporters, a lot of whom will tell you that they are not racist and that they are only voting for them because no other party is listening to them. Hubby, in the course of his work this week, met 5 families, none of which were 'indigenous Britains' to use a quote used by Nick Griffin last night, but they all had one thing in common they are going to vote for the BNP. 2 Asian, 3 African/Caribean/British (what ever the politically correct term is now days), were saying this which is scary. They gave their reasons, hubby argued against them but he did say to me afterwards that he could understand how they were feeling, hearing their stories and how they felt they were being treated. They are disenchanted, disillusioned and felt that they were not being listened to. Who do they turn to? They felt the BNP was the party that promised them what they wanted, forget the fact that if they were in power (God Forbid) then they were not likely to be able to live their lives in the way they do now because of the colour of their skin.

Which raises the question: How many other people feel the same way that these people do? How many feel that there is no other option?

Ok so there could be more people who will refuse to vote, what does this achieve, because you may refuse to vote, main political parties get less voters, which could lead to more support going to the BNP or a hung parliament where they can have a say as well just because of the amount of votes they have.

It can happen.

As much as it kills me to say this, because I for one will never vote for them, but yesterday, with all the heckling, today with all the uproar and fall out from yesterday, listening to people phone the radio station and texting them, reading various comments posted on the net, I fear that Nick Griffin got what he wanted out of this.

Support.

It wasn't the most organised of programmes yesterday. People tuned in to listen to policies, to hear how the other parties were going to deal with NG's claims. The only person that talked sense was Sayeeda Warsi, the only person who managed to conduct herself with decorum, to face NG and look him in the eye and tackle him. The others were shameful, not answering questions, using diversion tactics and downright rude. What people saw was a lynch mob. The panel was weak, Dimbleby, another man I despise, was more so. It was shameful and I fear that those people out there that are dillusioned, ill educated, apathetic, will, on that performance, look to NG as being bullied, will listen to his propaganda and believe it. They are the ones who will stupidly give him the sympathy vote.

I really hope I am wrong but I fear the day will come when they will get enough votes to have a say, they have, rightly or wrongly, gaining support.

I will not vote for them, never will. I can only hope that all those that do not ever vote, will do so, come the next election, even if it is for a party that will never get anywhere, because the only way we can stop these cretins from gaining support and getting more votes is if everyone made a stand and voted. We need to stop them.

Right I am getting off my soap box now and will try and do some housework

Bob Hill and his new wife Betty were vacationing in Europe... as it happens, near Transylvania. They were driving in a rental car along a rather deserted highway. It was late and raining very hard. Bob could barely see the road in front of the car. Suddenly the car skids out of control! Bob attempts to control the car, but to no avail! The car swerves and smashes into a tree.

Moments later, Bob shakes his head to clear the fog. Dazed, he looks over at the passenger seat and sees his wife unconscious, with her head bleeding! Despite the rain and unfamiliar countryside, Bob knows he has to get her medical assistance.
Bob carefully picks his wife up and begins trudging down the road. After a short while, he sees a light. He heads towards the light, which is coming from a large, old house. He approaches the door and knocks.
A minute passes. A small, hunched man opens the door. Bob immediately blurts, "Hello, my name is Bob Hill, and this is my wife Betty. We've been in a terrible accident, and my wife has been seriously hurt. Can I please use your phone?"

"I'm sorry," replied the hunchback, "but we don't have a phone. My master is a doctor; come in and I will get him!"
Bob brings his wife in.

An older man comes down the stairs. "I'm afraid my assistant may have misled you. I am not a medical doctor; I am a scientist.. However, it is many miles to the nearest clinic, and I have had a basic medical training. I will see what I can do. Igor, bring them down to the laboratory."

With that, Igor picks up Betty and carries her downstairs, with Bob following closely. Igor places Betty on a table in the lab. Bob collapses from exhaustion and his own injuries, so Igor places Bob on an adjoining table.

After a brief examination, Igor's master looks worried. "Things are serious, Igor. Prepare a transfusion." Igor and his master work feverishly, but to no avail. Bob and Betty Hill are no more.

The Hills' deaths upset Igor's master greatly. Wearily, he climbs the steps to his conservatory, which houses his grand piano. For it is here that he has always found solace. He begins to play, and a stirring, almost haunting melody fills the house.

Meanwhile, Igor is still in the lab tidying up. His eyes catch movement, and he notices the fingers on Betty's hand twitch, keeping time to the haunting piano music.. Stunned, he watches as Bob's arm begins to rise, marking the beat! He is further amazed as Betty and Bob both sit up straight!

Unable to contain himself, he dashes up the stairs to the conservatory.

He bursts in and shouts to his master:

"Master, Master! .....

The Hills are alive with the sound of music!"

(I am soooooo sorry...... But you really should've seen that one coming)
What did you expect...it's free from a demented old friend on the Internet.

My name is Faffajane and I will no longer tolerate online stalkers or trolls.

I will not feed their fire by responding to their comments or posts except in three ways:

1. I will choose to delete their offending comment if I can
2. I will ignore their comments/posts on another blog
3. And then, I will move on.

I will not give them blogging space or another thought for there are many other people here that deserve my energy and attention.

May this blogging community regain its blogging spirit and take back this community from stalkers and claim it as their own.

If you believe this as well, then copy and post this on your blog with your user name.

Happy Monday to you all.

Well if I wasn't so cheerful I would go slightly mad, but that is really impossible due to the fact I am mad enough already to qualify for being slightly mad!

I know what I am waffling on about anyway.

Spent the weekend in Wales as eldest wanted to have a look around Aberystwyth university which he was really impressed with. We stayed with family though the drive up there was really bad due to motorways being full of idiots who managed to crash their cars thereby closing off vast sections of motorway or getting caught in the roadworks which no one was working on - and that really makes my blood boil!!

Anyway a journey that usually takes four hours max ( though I can do it in 3) took 6 and a half hours to do, needless to say I was only too glad to open the wine bottle when I got to my aunts though I don't recommend walking around universities with a hangover, particularly ones that are on hills with lots of steps to climb or lots of hills to walk up!!

By 12noon I was craving sugar in a massive way!

Still he liked it and changed his mind (again!) over what he will study, just got Lampeter to visit in a couple of weeks and hopefully he will make some sort of decision. Mind you he is going to defer a year due to wanting to do another A level but wants his offers now if that makes sense.

The village where my Aunt and uncle live, had an Oktoberfest on Saturday so we bought tickets (though aunt is on the organising committee and encouraged us to) and went along. It was really funny, lots of people dressed up in costumes, two blokes dressed as Women and were hilariously funny! We had a good evening out, pity it was so cold.

Talking of cold, which it seems to have got very quickly, on Saturday before we headed to the uni, we had lots of frost to clear off the car, it was at least an inch thick! wasn't expecting that and wasn't impressed but boy it was cold there.

Today I have been on my course, head buzzing with forms I have to fill out (yes more forms) and standards I need to fill. Must make an appointment with the Head teacher for my assessment date as well. Not looking forward to it but it has to be done to get the status that I need if I want to move on. Apart from teaching, which I don't want to do, I have no where to go if I want to advance in my chosen profession (if you can call it that). This will be it I think for a while may look into becoming a family worker or something, who knows, need to get through today first.

Please keep fingers crossed for good outcome tomorrow, son has first job interview, part time with Beefeater pub nearby so any hints and tips for interview questions/answers welcome.

Right that is all for now, hope you are all well and thanks for reading the waffle

Hugs

How do these people survive?

ONE

Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets.
I asked for a half dozen nuggets.
'We don't have half dozen nuggets,' said the teenager at the counter.
'You don't?' I replied.
'We only have six, nine, or twelve,' was the reply.
'So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?'
'That's right.'
So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets
(Unbelievable but sadly true...)

TWO

I was checking out at the local Woolworths with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those 'dividers' that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed.
After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the 'divider', looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it.
Not finding the bar code, she said to me, 'Do you know how much this is?'
I said to her 'I've changed my mind; I don't think I'll buy that today.'
She said 'OK,' and I paid her for the things and left.
She had no clue to what had just happened.

THREE
A woman at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly.
When I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM 'thingy.'

FOUR
I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car. 'Do you need some help?' I asked.
She replied, 'I knew I! should have replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?'
'Hmmm, I don't know. Do you have an alarm, too?' I asked.
'No, just this remote thingy,' she answered, handing it and the car keys to me. As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, 'Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries. It's a long walk....'

FIVE
Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, 'I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?' 'Just use paper from the photocopier', the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five 'blank' copies.

SIX
A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, the kid had eaten ants. The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and he should be fine, the mother says, 'I just gave him some ant killer......'
Dispatcher: 'Rush him in to emergency!'

Life is tough. It's even tougher if you're stupid!!!!

It has been a busy week. Two nights of parents evevings, a Governor's meeting and tomorrow,after work, eldest and I are off to Wales for the weekend as he wants to visit Aberystwyth university!

We will be staying with my aunt and the village will be hosting am Octoberfest so Saturday will be fun

I am feeling tired though. The countdown for halfterm has started and I have, as always lately, a ton of work to do so it will be a late night again then!

Not felt like blogging for a while but hoping once things settle in my world, I will get back to it again, after all the nights are drawing in depressingly, there is a nip in the air and winter approaches. I have seen some spectacular sunsets, just wish I had my camera on me at the time

Anyway better go and fill out another form of evidence!

Take care

I didn't know what to write for Blog Action Day, till I heard a song on my MP3 player, which gave me this idea.

Enjoy!

There is procastinating and there is just sheer avoidance. Yesterday I avoided doing the coursework that so badly needs to be done before Monday week, bearing in mind I will be away next weekend so unable to do it then and at work all week.

Today I have done some ironing, eaten some bacon rolls, signed in checked emails, checked on here, read a few posts and messages, looked on facebook and still the file of paperwork is sitting here waiting for me to fill in and lessons to write about. I haven't done any planning either!

Right going to do some now.

No really you can't stop me, I am going to do it - look I have got the folder out of the bag.

Right now I am going to make a cup of tea in order to help me concentrate and perhaps a packet of crisps

I don't do politics or religion mainly because I like to keep my thoughts to myself and respect everybody's right to choose who or what they want to do/vote for.

However I have to say this:

Why give Obama the nobel peace prize?

Does anyone else think that it makes a mockery of the whole thing?

What has he done, did I sleep through it? Or does becoming the first black president of the USA qualify you to get this award?

I am sorry but I do think that it is outrageous, in the same way as I think it is outrageous to award film actors, soap actors and sportsmen in the Queens honors list.

For all your comments on my last FO post. That was so kind of you all. Sorry I haven't replied, work was busy and I am bogged down with coursework as well.

Normal service will be resumed once I have seen the end of the tunnel

Hugs x

Says the card from the DWP, how kind of them to send one to my nan for her birthday!
The official one from the queen came this morning on Nan's actual birthday.

The party went well, everyone had fun and the birthday girl was glorious! She doesn't understand what all the fuss is about but she had a good day anyway and thankfully the rain held off, we could sit in the watery sunshine and enjoy!