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Watching the wee man cruise round the livingroom wondering how he can get so far so fast when he is only crawling more or less commado style..carpet surfing!
He is fast....
Washed all the balls in the ballpit..nearly a thousand of them...Iona and a taking off a nappy incident caused that work:eek:
Hubby won a dinner out voucher on friday(£50)..yet to know where!
His workmates apparently appreciated my day baking on thursday for the coffee morning on the friday....they want more baking as a usual occurance!
Going to have to con/persude my mum and dad to have the kids for that!
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LOL! They want more baking- I bet they do!!
What is going on?
The main road to work has had roadworks on it for over a week and the queues are horrendous.
So I bypass it using country lanes.
I get to the motorway and drive to Maidstone. They've closed the slip road onto the Chatham road so I have to drive a mile and a half back into Maidstone, round a roundabout and out again- jams all the way.
Coming the other way I see a 3 mile tailback from the top of Bluebell Hill (very haunted place) so go home via country lanes in twice the time.
This morning I drive back the same way- just in time to find the guys putting up bollards etc - they already have the lights working.
So How do I get home tonight and what the poodles is going on?
Is it a conspiracy or something?
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That's the paperwork done for today - at least the work stuff.
I still want to write a couple of emails though.
My bicycle has helped me today.
For years I rode with drop handlebars and my neck cocked at a weird angle.
As I grew older I found that after a long ride my head felt it was going to drop off- so I changed my bike- but no matter what I did I was leaning forward on my hands and still having to cock the neck.
I sussed what the problem was though - British handlebars that are not Randonneurs or racing bars are all straight. That stops you or at least inhibits you from sitting upright - which I prefer these days because of a bad back.
So in Italy I noticed that they are not fashion victims and they have old style handlebars that are swept back. In this country black ones to match my bike have proved impossible to get hold of. So in I went and asked the old lady who ran the shop for a pair of Manubrios.
They are on my bike and the straights have been given away.
What a difference! No cricked neck, sitting upright and able to see - and pedalling is easier with all my weight directed downwards onto the pedals.
So I have just ridden a few miles round the block and cycling is a pleasure again.
Watcha doing?
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Watching the Japanese GP (recorded it earlier).
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Been painting boxes to make cars...face painting...potty training (trying to get Iona to wear pants)..watching hubby untangle a puppet on strings..
Thinking about removing the real cobweb from the front porch tommorrow (if im brave enough as I dont do spiders) so I can hang up the fake ones:lol:
And get horace and pals down...halloween spider, tombstone and a witch Lauren says looks like nanny (its got dark hair):lol:
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Battling with Windoze 7.
My laptop fellover recently so I have had to get it replaced, spent most of this evening removing all the crap from new machine that Microshaft put on for free(?) to slow your machine down to make you think you need to go out and buy a new 'up to date one'!
Windows 3.11, what was wrong with that? It did what you wanted it to do.
Progress....pah!
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Just finished a roughly 12 hour day's work in front of the computer (not counting the cooking, cleaning and washing)
This workin from home lark can be a real HOOT sometimes :roll:
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I have just killed Dr Herman Lovegod from Hong-Kong. He was a strange fellow by all accounts - but did he deserve to die?
On the whole I think he did, so I wiped his existence from the face of the earth without a further thought. Numbers are not everything.
Can one be arrested for virtual murder. For liquidation of a fiction?
Not yet.
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No more spurious or dubious characters have appeared on the petition, but after Dr Lovegod I shall keep my eyes open.
Last night was quite dramatic. I was heading down a long straight road and we came into a wide part where ahead was a slight hill. There was a line of headlights coming down the hill; my wife was not looking, but as I was driving, my eyes were straight ahead. There was a car three vehicles in front of me and it turned right into the path of the oncoming traffic.
There was no way that the lead car coming down the hill could avoid it and there was one hell of a prang right in front of me - bits flew everywhere.
We all stopped, hazards going and expected the worst - but no - a very shaken lady got out of the car that had been coming down the hill and a rather elderly man out of the one that had turned into her path. How that happened I do not know and it's a tribute to modern car design. But we had the ambulance, the police and the fire brigade, statements etc.
And got home a lot later than we thought - and very hungry.
Now I am sitting going through the Atkins Heritage report on Dounreay with a green highlighter and a red pen - very interesting it is. I have read it before, but now I'm being critical on detail.
Watcha doing?
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Hardly stepped out the house since the weekend as the weather is awful, and we have all been full of the cold the last few weeks...as soon as one recovers the next succumbs to it.
Its me that is feeling headachey and with a sore throat now...Euan is at the snotty/grotty stage..Iona has a cough...Lauren is over it...hubby yet to get:eek:
We had to open a new bottle last night (calpol)
Oh and waiting in anticipation for my order from brandalley to be sent out...hopefully the dresses fit (if not my sis will score)
They might fit as this feeling awful thing has stopped me eating and I think I must have lost weight...
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Well that was an interesting day.
The boss was obviously in a bad mood. He called me in for a talk and started shouting at me.
So I shouted back at him - but louder.
We shouted at each other very noisily for about 5 minutes and he left.
I quite enjoyed it really - quite cathartic.
I'm a mild mannered chap really - I think a good shout does you good. Maybe that's why he did it.
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firstly i'm fighting really bad cramp in my foot!! :lol:
also i'm trying to chill myself out a bit and not stress about my driving test in the morning! hope i can sleep tonight :lol:
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I am seeing my boss at 1pm on Thursday for a talk. He shouted at me that he wanted to see me then. So I shouted back and asked if he wanted to see me to have a shout or a talk?
It may be that we shall have another shout.
I am in high hopes that I will be dismissed- and if that happens my wife says she will be getting a bottle of champagne.
The sort of job I do, I do not really wish to resign yet for it has too many unfortunate effects. But if he chooses to sack me then it is his problem.
But I think we shall just bellow at each other very loudly and reach some sort of compromise.because he's already done what I wanted him to.
My wife has gone up to London with my step-grand-daughters who are staying with us. I am supposed to be learning lines for a panto - but it gets so boring.
I think I know most of them.
Watcha doing?
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Paiting a witch on the livingroom window and a pumpkin on the window in the lobby!
Still trying to work out how to get it to say happy halloween from the outside while doing the writing on the inside without too many back to front letters!
Going into work tommorrow with a letter to say im coming back!
Apart from that nothing too exciting...nursery runs...nursery halloween party on thursday and a coffee morning for nursery on friday...
Kids have a better social life than me:lol:
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Trying to make pork pies but making a blooming mess instead.
Be warned, hot water pastry is not as easy to play with as it first looks :(.
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Spent the day (3 weeks into a new part time job) picking litter from the main road verges, the last mile or so for the time being, whilst trying not to be killed by various motorists and boy racers who seem to view my high vis coat as a target. One hero in an Evo 8 replica had just passed a lorry flat out and had so little control when he braked for the 40mph speed limit, from about 100mph, he actualy swerved to the wrong side of the road as he was passing me :eek:
I am trying out what I thought were less stressful jobs [lol]
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Miss Veda Munro, my form teacher in the huts at the Miller - which are still there- loved Kathleen Ferrier. I remember her playing this in class when I was 7 - so in 1960.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjvHg...eature=related
She was right - it is rather special and always makes me think of Miss Munro.
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This half-term business is expensive. Today we took the girls down to Hurstmonceux where the Royal observatory is and they had a go on lots of we scientific experiment stuff that they have there. Very interesting but not cheap.
On the way back we called in at Battle and looked down the hill to imagine William and his Normans charging up it to conquer England and be nasty to everybody.
Is it my imagination or didn't the Anglo-Saxons get on a lot better with the Scots and Welsh before the French came busting in and started to try to take over everything.
Anyway - I'd forgotten how much it all costs - so all you parents out there have my sympathy.
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I am getting old,
Why?
Because I'm tired.
We went up to London for a day out yesterday, just herself and me.
She had never been up the Monument so we got off the train at London Bridge and walked over there.
311 steps up and 311 steps doon were nae problems. We did not stay up there long because it came on to rain as we were on the viewing platform.
So then at the bottom was a wee shop selling walking equipment and I had a look at their GPS for cyclists. But they only had the very expensive touch screen ones or the cheapo gray scale ones - and not what I was after at all.
Then to Covent garden where crowds milled in swarms and mists of people- ye gods but there are many many folk in the world.
To John Lewis in Oxford street where I bought a coat - a minor miracle this, because it fits. When you are my size this is an event, believe me, so next time it rains I shall make like Chief inspector Japp.
After Marks and Sparks at Oxford street, with aching back and feet a plate of calamari and then pasta at a spaghetti house and we got a direct bus to the Albert Hall.
The main event, we thought, was Carmina Burana, but before the interval
it was Saint Saens' Organ symphony- they cut loose on the great organ and it absolutely drowned out the Royal Philharmonic - what a sound!
Then Carmina Burana was fantastic.
Out to the suburbs where we had parked - and I drove home by 12.20am.
But I am knackered - age is a terrible thing.
Days in London are an occasional treat. And shall remain so.
Watcha doing?
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Wondering what to do with the 30 bags of goodies I made up for the bairns guising (or not as the case) ... :(
really dissapointed as I made an effort...the bags had sweeties(chocs, mashmallow things and general gutrot), a ball, some stickers, peanuts, pack of crisps and a satsuma in...
The porch was decorated...spooky music was playing...
Windows decorated...
And no one came.....
Why do I bother??