wingeing again

Hi all.

I am so looking forward to the weekend. I will be off for 5 days as I am having an extra day off.

my winge..... For some reason, my carpel tunnel syndrome is really playing up. my hands are locking up lots which means I cannot do any fine work at all at the moment. I can barely hold things like a book or a magazine without my hands locking. I cannot even contemplate a knitting or sewing needle.

I am hoping to manage the sewing machine this weekend so I can finish the spare room. I cant wait to share it with you. other than this I have nothing much to report. Working hard, coming home tired, eating and going to bed.

having turned the heating off I am now turning it back on as its cold.....down south we do not have the snow unlike my Scottish friends,. who had lots of very pretty snow. I have a busy work day ahead tomorrow, but am looking forward to the evening. LSP is coming home and we have the weekend ahead.

all by myself.

LSp is away in Scotland and I have been here all by myself.

well me, 2 dogs, 1 gerbil and a barely here daughter.

I have come to realise 1 thing. I miss her so much.

We have been together for 15 years and we are apart for 1-2 weeks per year. So I should be used to it by now. I am not.

Silences are more silent when you are in a room on your own. I am very comfortable with silence. I can sit in silence with someone else in the room for a long time. it is hard having the silence of having no one else there.

we do a lot of things together.

I drag her round lots of shops she hates. I hate going on my own, I want her view, her perspective even when I know she will disagree.

I cant imagine life apart.

and when she gets back we have 5 days together.  Bliss. x

In other news. I will not be watching Titanic in 3D although I would like to sneak a bubble machine in for when the ship sinks.

Yes I think strange/cruel thoughts like that sometimes. After watching the woman in black I though how funny it would be to hide in the cinema, (dressed as the woman in black) and then when it was getting super scary to just stand in the corner of the cinema.

happy Tuesday everyone.

1st of the month

ok lets start with the bad, last month I failed to get my monthly make done or complete the photo challenge. my swaps are ready for posting though!

Ok lets crack on and start April.

I don't like change so will have to get used to this new blogger.

This morning on Facebook I proudly announced that I was going to undertake my first pole dancing lesson.
1 person believed me. (Apil fool)

Archer's and pottering occurred once I had woken up. (The Archers radio programme not the drink). I had a disturbed night as the dog had woken me up in the early hours of the morning. I have no idea why? he had been to the loo and had a drink before bed, he just got it into his head that he needed another wee.

Yesterday I did not achieve much as as I was in a bad mood. (I think its ok to have a bad mood day sometimes) Now LSP is away which may account for some of my bad mood.

So Today my besitie took me to Marlborough for a shop, lunch and visit to the friend who had her baby last week.

 I took the big camera. (as LSP has taken my charger to Scotland) This was good as I was able to do some nice photo's of the baby and my Bestie's lovely daughter.

For the blog, I took some photo's of Marlborough.

Now I was in Charge of the buggy whilst our very important small person insisted on being carried. I need to remember that when I stop to take a photo, the buggy does not automatically stop! yes it did wander a few times.

Now, Marlborough has a new addition since we were there last.

Little bit of Cath....yes I did. x 

gerbil madness

ok still no photo's. not just the backup driver so need to take a look at it.

yesterday we had a nice day, having brunch and touring the antiques shops and garden centre.
when we came home there was some planting up to do and also we had to clean out the gerbil

it is always a challenge as gerbils are both quick and messy.

now our Tiffany (yes the gerbil is called Tiffany) is not tame.

she is a wild beast, a small white beast, If you put anything near her she will bite it, this can be a nut, seed or finger, she does not mind. so in order to clean her out you have to wait until she is asleep. lift off the lid and as soon as she pops her head out pop her exersize ball and get the lid on.

simple.

no not simple, yesterday she developed the vertical leap.

I took the lid off.

She sprang out.

we then chased her around for 5 minutes. LSP quickly got the dogs out of the room, oh yes they would given 1/2 the chance.

eventually I managed to drop the ball on her, lsp held the ball in place while I quickly cleaned out the cage.

when it was time to put her back. I panicked.

Tiffany ended up in the cage with her ball. we then had 10 minutes of me trying to get the ball out.

so we have ordered a new cage, one with lots of rooms so we can separate them off. and avoid the jumping gerbils.

(oh yes my friend finally gave birth to her baby at 3.45 on Sunday morning. a 9lb3 oz baby boy)
(my other friend went into labour 2 weeks early and had an 8lb 4 oz baby boy this morning.)
(I have one more friend with a couple of weeks to go)

lots of baby's around.
hope you had a happy weekend,

pink and blue.

Wow,

spring has sprung, the grass is rizz, I wonder where the birdies is.

ok, no lovely spring pictures as I cannot upload anything. I am currently backing up my computer.

I used proper girly logic when looking for a back up driver. I chose a pink one.

Why?

I figured it would be the most simple. Now is that a good or a bad thing. In fact it is very simple. Probably the black one would have been simple as well.

While everyone was enjoying the sunshine, we had some pre-arranged things booked in. like getting the level's checked on the car, doing the shopping, getting hair cuts. etc

I had the washing on the line, fluttering in the breeze. so at least the washing had a chance to make the most of the good weather.

we have an exciting day ahead of us tomorrow so I am looking forward to tomorrow nights blog.

tonight i will be having an early night tucked up with the kindle, (yes i have a kindle)

I am so lucky it was a just because present form my LSP. I have (ok LSP has) downloaded lots of free books, I asked for some classics. so I am reading Grimm's fairy tales at the mo.

oh yes before I go, why pink and blue.
pink for my backup and blue for my toenails.
(yes I have blue toenails)  1st time ever.
cant wait to get back to my normal stacks of photo posts.
hope you all had a good day.

(oh and my friend still has not had her baby, her contractions stopped. however she started again and went to delivery at 3.30 we are waiting for news)

Hiccups.

Tonight I have been texting my pal, who is currently in labour. hopefully it will not be much longer until she is cradling her new baby in her arms. She is now having contractions every 4 minutes so will only be a few more hours (hopefully) She is having a baby of approximately 9lb. 

We do not know what she is having, we know its a baby, but she has not wanted to know the sex. I think she is having a girl, but who knows.

Today was a fab day but busy. so glad its the weekend now. although it will be a busy weekend as well.

I went shopping today for some easter pressie's and bought 3 lovely pretty dresses for 3 special little girls. (cant put the pictures on as their mummies might see) they are to young for lots of chocolate.

ok so Hiccups.

how do we cure hiccups?

Tonight LSP had hiccups.

So I said, I will give you a pound if you hiccup again.

silence.

This works most of the time. It works with adults and children (but not baby's or animals)
The best one is when I was at a supermarket and the checkout operator was hiccuping and I said to her I would give her a pound if she hiccuped again. and she didn't.

Hope you all have a fab weekend.
(ps, small children especially boys when they find they cannot hiccup will pretend)
(and no its not a pound for each time you hiccup afterwards)

I am now waiting for the text to say that the new baby has arrived.

charity shop shopping..

Now I am often disappointed with the charity shop shopping in my nearest town, but I had a great shop the other day. (the mollie makes was not from the charity shop)

1 blouse, 3.99

I love harris tweed, this tie was only 99p

This was my best bargain. an intact coronation beaker for £1 

yes £1, the cheapest I have seen on ebay was £7.50

the butter knives were a bit more pricey at £10. 

but look they have never been used. 

   it was a great shopping trip.