YOU'RE WELCOME

One of her co workers had just made a remark that the French song recording sounded like a bee trapped in a bottle...

Radio 4 news hit by giggling fit

Green is a familiar voice to Radio 4 listeners Green's laughter

Hundreds of listeners have contacted BBC Radio 4 after newsreader Charlotte Green dissolved into giggles while reading a bulletin on Today.

She lost control after playing a clip of the oldest known recording of the human voice.

Poor girl!

Beauty is a little confused at the moment, whenever she says Thank you for something, we say You're Welcome.However,she is now convinced that You're Welcome also means Thank You and instead of saying Thank you, she says You're Welcome and just can't be convinced to say Thank You again.
After 5 years of no speech, You're Welcome is fine by me.

ART FOR ART SAKE

So what do you think of the new poster on Fiona's door?
Inspired by the words of Steve from Bloggertropolis, when Fiona saw it she laughed and she loves it and she allowed me to put it on her door!
Fiona has also spent all day sorting out her bedroom.....!

This afternoon I watched the film Ring of Bright Water and Beauty was fascinated by the ottter, too fascinated in fact.I hadn't noticed her leave the living room and suddenly I heard hysterical squeaking.....she had got inside the piggy hutch and she was pursuing the pigs. They were not amused!



The piggies are a lot tamer now and the brown piggy Chunk is a lot more confident and I have to stroke his paws in the morning to get him to take his paws off the wire door. He stands on his hind legs with his paws on the wire when I come along to feed him and if I opened the door he would tumble out. A lot tamer but still twp.

I watched the final episode of Ashes To Ashes, answers but no conclusion but the good news is a new series. Brilliant, after Life on Mars being but one series long I wasn't expecting another series of Ashes To Ashes , so a nice surprise.

BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK

It is nice to have a slower start in the mornings but today Beauty went out for the morning with her child minder to see the fishes and reptiles at the Garden Centre and the early start was definitely worth the effort.However, Beauty is part of a government research project(nothing to do with autism though) and this morning the researcher will be coming to the house to update information......so no peace for the wicked!

BEAUTY'S ARTWORK




Yesterday, Beauty and Fiona spent approximately 2 hours playing together!
Not only did they cover my study wall with pictures that they did together but they also covered the garden path and wall with chalk pictures.

BEAUTY'S ARTWORK







Definitely a better artist than her mother.


THE CONTINUING SAGA OF FIONA'S ROOM.....

SHELVES






DESK




FLOOR



SHELVES.....PERFECT.
FLOOR AND DESK A MESS.....CONSTANTLY.
WHY?
ANY IDEAS?

EASTER HOLIDAYS

The best part of the holidays is the slow start to the day.
Beauty of course gets up just as early, usually before 8am but as long as she is changed, fed and watered and allowed to watch videos or play on the computer, then I am allowed a much slower start to the day and the painkillers have a good chance to kick in.
Beauty watches her videos on a small portable combi TV and whenever I leave her at the moment to do anything, she then turns over the TV and watches the video upside down!
And of course she still watches the VIDEO on rewind and fast forward.....WHILST UPSIDE DOWN!



WHAT A SWEETIE!

FIONA.....YOU ARE SO OFF THE TEAM!

NEW TACTIC.....when Fiona refuses to clean her bedroom, she is off the team!
That means no lifts in the car AND I will go into her bedroom and sling out any rubbish that I find.BUT.....what is rubbish to me maybe treasured possessions to her..... OOPS!
I have also threatened to draw mouths on her Hello Kitty collection.....Meeow!

After less than 30 minutes in her bedroom, I managed to retrieve
21 (almost) empty pop bottles -
5 x 500ml bottles
6 x 1 litre bottles
& 10 x 2 litre bottles
27 plastic carrier bags in varying sizes
2 black bags of rubbish
1 green bag of rubbish

The worst part of the decontamination process was the fact that the rubbish and recycling were all mixed up together in various black bags and carrier bags! After a few minutes sifting through the gunge you suddenly think I AM SO NOT PAID ENOUGH FOR THIS!
The strange thing was that whilst you could not move across the floor for all the rubbish, the shelves that contained her Hello Kitty collection were pristinely clean!
It reminded me of the Environmental Health TV show where they found really yucky houses and had to clean them out,especially the old lady who had the immaculate sitting room but the rest of the house had dead carcasses of all her pets who she could not get rid of when they died!
Though I am pleased to say that the only animals that are not alive in Fiona's room are her Hello Kitty collection!

Beauty had a snot fest happening on Friday, she came down with a massive cold.It had to be Friday as that was the day of my Art exam,thankfully I managed to get SnoWhite to look after Beauty. I managed to finish my Art piece but I shall have to wait until August for the results.
My piece was called MY DAUGHTER'S DRESS HANGS HERE, obviously inspired by FridaKahlo but My Daughter's dress in the painting hangs on my kitchen wall not between a toilet and a trophy!

MY FAVOURITE SONG WHEN I WAS GROWING UP

A DOUBLE DOSE TO LOOK FORWARD TO!

Good news for Harry Potter fans......

Final Potter film 'split in half'

The Potter films have made around £2.2bn at the box office

The seventh and final Harry Potter novel will be adapted for the big screen in two parts, reports suggest. Producer David Heyman told the Los Angeles Times it had been impossible to cram Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows' 608 pages into a single movie








But for parents of Potter fans.....
Funny story- Anastasia was watching TV in Austria the other week when suddenly she started shouting to her boyfriend IT'S MY SISTERS! FIONA & ARIEL
Thinking they were on the phone , Dimitri wondered what all the fuss was about.
HOWEVER, it was the program about the Entertainer Shop that they had recorded quite a number of years ago now, being shown on Austrian TV!It was about the Christian guy who owned the Entertainer shop who wouldn't sell Harry Potter things because of the magic element and because he found the content 'unchristian' but sold Lord of the Rings things in his shop plus magic wands etc. He also sold WWE which many could say encourages violence, however, having been to a number of wrestling shows recently I would describe the show more like musical theatre! And don't get me started on BRATZ.....that is just wrong!

And then there was the time we went to Scotland to do a Press Pack for Newsround, so here is Ariel's 15 minutes of fame. Was that really 6 years ago? Ariel doesn't look much older at all.
She must take after SnoWhite who doesn't seem to have aged much in the last 10 years, SnoWhite has a passport photo which was taken 7 years ago and she looks exactly the same now. I was looking at a photo taken of me the other day that was taken when I was 37, 10 years ago, and in the photo I only looked about 25. I think that it might be genetic thing, something to do with red hair and pale skin.

Joyous sleep last night, Beauty slept through from 10pm until 8am.However, when that happens she usually makes up for it with a couple of interrupted nights sleep.
Fiona and SnoWhite want to get Beauty some posters for the bedroom wall, they are especially keen on getting some High School musical posters! Waking up to the grinning face of Zac Efron is not my idea of fun, that boy wears more mascara than I do!

WHEN THE WIND BLOWS

The house is strangely quiet( apart from the wind that is constantly buffeting the house)......Fiona has gone to visit Ariel in university so it just me, Beauty and the bunny and the piggies.I have even had a chance to get onto the computer without a fight! However, it will not last long as I have to pick Ariel and Fiona up on Friday evening.
Oh well!
Today I have been concentrating on my sketch book for my art exam, here are some 'exciting ' pages from the sketch book called

WHAT'S IN MY BAG?






the theme of my piece of work is INTERIORS.
I am going to do a painting of my kitchen but I am exploring other forms of interiors as well as interiors of buildings, hence the inside of my bag!
All I can say is WHAT A BORING BAG & CONTENTS, now what does that say about me?
I have been told you can tell a lot about somebody by looking at the contents of their bag.
All I can think it says is that my bag does not follow the usual stereotype that men have of women's bags.....you know, everything but the kitchen sink!



Another page from my book, I'm afraid it did not photograph well.
It is acrylics on canvas.



This is also in my sketch book, a cross that I made out of driftwood.

Beauty is wearing me out at the moment, she seems to be going through a very frustrated stage. Nothing seems to keep her happy , she is constantly getting angry when she doesn't understand something on the computer,when she can't turn the tap on and flood the kitchen floor and tonight she tried to go upstairs to Fiona's room as she has been there a few times with Fiona and it was very difficult to bring her downstairs. I tried and tried but found it impossible to move her she is so big but the only reason that I got her to move was the fact she cooperated, if she hadn't cooperated I would never have managed it.
I foresee stormy times ahead!

IT'S RAINING.....AGAIN!

You can so tell that I am 'old' mother!
Today after dropping Beauty off at school I went to the local drapers to get some wool and on the way home I stopped at the local church shop to buy some second-hand knitting needles and books.Whilst I was driving I passed two school day trips walking along the pavements.Very few of the children had hats, gloves and scarves on and some were not even wearing proper coats, merely wearing their school fleeces. This, with strong winds, heavy downpours and a temperature of approximately 6 degrees. The teachers leading the groups however with all very warmly dressed up against the cold!
They should either leave those who are not adequately dressed at school or wait to do the trips when the weather is better.

Five-day forecast

	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
Conditions	heavy showers	heavy showers	heavy rain
Max Temperature	Max: 12°C 53°F	Max: 10°C 50°F	Max: 12°C 53°F
Min Temperature	Min: 5°C 41°F	Min: 5°C 41°F	Min: 7°

Now does that look like the weather for a ramble to you?

I have sent you an email Anastasia on your prophecy mail as I cannot find your new email address.
I have also sent you an email Belle.

This has to be the cutest bunny ever,
I want him.

THE BUNNY IS SULKING!

Last night we decided that the bunny needed bathing as he smelt a bit!
So I showered him in the upstairs bathroom,with 'Bunny Bubble Bath'(not Hugo Boss shower gel!) .
The rabbit was so not happy and to show his disgust he jumped out of the bath and refused to get back in but not before he had been washed enough to look like a drowned rat. So he wouldn't catch a cold,Fiona even dried him with a hairdryer. His hair looked so fluffed up he looked twice as fat and as if he had put his paw in an electricity socket! This morning he is continues to ignore me.....like a teenager.
Whilst the guinea pigs who were bathed just afterwards show no such indifference towards me and they actually really seemed to enjoy the hairdryer and within minutes were happily squeaking for food.

Today was Beauty's annual school assessment and they are very pleased with her progress. Whilst her speech is progressing very well, so are her social skills and she is really becoming part of the group. I did feel that she needed school work to be sent home though as in school it is difficult to get her to concentrate but at home she seems to enjoy one to one time.
I also mentioned the crazy school transport drivers to the head teacher as their driving antics are getting scarier and scarier, I used to park in the school grounds like all the other parents but now I park out side and walk in as it is getting way too dangerous. Even that is worrying at time as everybody parks on the pavement so I have to negotiate the the road with drivers doing U-Turns, reversing and speeding. Pushing a wheelchair with crazy drivers hurtling past you can be quite unnerving.
Even with everything the school transport drivers do they are no way as crazy as the local religious school that I have to pass to get to Beauty's school. I have even seen parents kicking their children out of the cars whilst the cars are still moving and no I am not making that up.
The parents and the children seem to be running everywhere and seem to have no road awareness. It is also not wise to confront them about their behaviour as the parents can become very aggressive .
The parents just don't seem to understand that if they are late for work then that is all it is, they are late for work but if a child were run over and killed then being late for work would seem totally irrelevant.
Have they not heard of the Tufty Club?



Sam with Tufty (Gene Hunt)



Gene Hunt as Tufty

WHAT A LITTLE SWEETHEART!

Yesterday something really special happened.
Last night I went to drop off some recycling and I left Beauty with her sister Fiona, when I came back Fiona told me that Beauty had spent to time between the back door and coming to her and saying WHERE'S MUMMY?
Beauty has never called me anything before and for her to show she knew who I was AND that she missed me AND knew my name is very special and a wonderful development in her level of understanding.
Oh and she greeted me with HELLO CHICKY, which is my affectionate greeting for her.

THANKS YET AGAIN JOHN BARROWMAN

Well Mr Barrowman, it seems that I am indebted to you for making my Mother's day very special.
When SnoWhite met John Barrowman in IKEA she asked him to sign a piece of paper which said
TO ALLYSON
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY
LOVE JOHN
SnoWhite framed it and gave it to me as a Mother's Day present.
OH MY GOSH was all I could say repeatedly.
Well there is not much you can do for the man who has everything to repay a debt but John, if you ever need your puppy walked or a homemade pie or crumble, don't hesitate to ask.

I was equally pleased with the cardigan, bulbs in a pot and a card which said
YOU KNOW THE POINT YOUR CHILDREN HAVE GROWN UP WHEN THEY STOP ASKING WHERE THEY CAME FROM AND REFUSE TO TELL YOU WHERE THEY ARE GOING
from Fiona!
I also had a lovely card which Anastasia drew and emailed me and she also gave me the DVD's Casablanca, Forever Young and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
Ariel also drew and emailed me a card which was lovely.
From Beauty I had a plant and a picnic basket which has come in very useful as i am using it to keep my knitting in.

I am back to having stupid dreams, last night I dreamed that the rabbit was really purple or if you looked at him from a different angle them he was a camouflage pattern! What can I say?

MY ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE SONG