Friday, November 17, 2006

A CLUTCH OF CLOONEYS!

THANK YOU FIONA...............ALL THAT TIME ON PHOTOSHOP CERTAINLY PAID OFF!

THERE IS GOOD NEWS AND THERE IS BAD NEWS!
By ignoring my elbow(whateva!) it is so much better, the pain isn't nearly so bad and for the bad news..........the pain in my neck is back with a vengeance-it's probably God testing me for not believing in him and living a life of sin OR maybe it's my arthritis playing up because of the wet weather! We shall see. Unfortunately this means no more hod carrying for me in the next week, or my flying trapeeze act or weight training. Just the less arduous task of chasing after an autistic 6 year old who had me awake at 2:30am this morning and she was really upset when I took the lounge lightbulb out and switched the plugs off at the mains so all she could do was go back to sleep. HAH! I may be old but I'm not stupid, within half an hour she went back to sleep-HURRAH!
I love children .........especially when they are asleep.

Thursday, November 16, 2006

DON'T MENTION THE ELBOW...............THE PAIN MIGHT GO AWAY IF I IGNORE IT!

Anyone who knows my scales know that they LIE, well they are lying to me again and they say I have lost a lot of weight but I am sure they are lying and I will only believe them when they lie to me consistently. They say I am just over 11 stone. I am so tired with Beauty that the extent of my cooking is a weight watchers meal and lots of vegetables so perhaps that is helping with the weight loss. I like ocean pie and vegetable chili best.

I have been invited to a Christmas dinner and the meals options are quite entertaining. The vegetarian option is a tartlet with lots of cooked cheese so that is out for my unpredictable stomach but the vegan option sounds good.It is a TIAN OF ROASTED MEDITERRANEAN VEGETABLES ON NEW POTATOES WITH ESSENCE OF RED PEPPER let me save you the time of hitting the dictionary for Tian, from recipes and pictures I have looked at it means a PILE of vegetables in this case and as for ESSENCE, after many years of doing waitressing I couldn't even begin to imagine what ESSENCE stands for. It seems that menus have moved on considerably since I last worked as a waitress, when I last worked there was a backlash against poncy minimalist food and there were things such as bread and butter pudding on the menu and the punters loved it. Last year the Christmas meal was at the Millennium stadium and the food was fantastic, the Sushi starter was stunning and the vegetarian option actually had some taste to it. The year before was a meal at the CIA and I kid you not but the salmon tasted like it had been standing waiting to be served for two days and the green mush was meant to be vegetables BUT it didn't affect my diet in the slightest as my sensitive stomach barely got home before it protested violently! I would NEVER eat at the Park Hotel as I have too many memories of a foul, stinking kitchen and staff who didn't care. The Angel was good but I have never seen the kitchen and the Hilton Christmas meal was plated with 3 roast potatoes, 4 sprouts, 5 carrots, a 'coin' of stuffing, a dot of cranberry sauce and pressed(yes pressed) turkey with a spoonful of gravey and all for £25 and this was in 2000- I hope it has improved since!

Thankyou Trent
Look and drool..............Look and drool!





Wednesday, November 15, 2006

A PAIN IN THE ELBOW!

It's too early, I have a sore throat and it's bl**dy raining! Oh well whinge over and back to being GLAD.Pollyanna would be proud of me.
First major Christmas shopping expedition last night to Matalan and the Range, this year I have decided to make my Christmas baskets individual and with a theme and last night I was able to buy quite a lot. However, I still feel as if I am only in the foothills of Everest as far as my Christmas shopping is concerned.I want the baskets to be individual and show we thought about the person we are giving them to and no there will be no khaki in Ariel's gifts this year, promise!
Anastasia and Dimitri will be here at the weekend and they are so looking forward to visiting my niece Edeline and her baby Dotty(when she shows, get a move on baby!). My girls love the name Dot-Dotty, they think it is so cute and they all want it for their babies(sorry girls!).
Anastasia is looking forward to Sunday lunch with Yorkshire pudding(though Dimitri doesn't like Yorkshire pudding,foolish lad), a Full British Breakfast and shopping in Primark.










Cuisine fit for a king.















I shall also have to introduce them to 'WHAT' the new shop on Newport Road, like Hypervalue but tons better.
I forgot to tell you Anastasia, you know the house 2 doors down from Pavvas on HollyBush Road that they did a huge amount of work on? Well it's up for sale already. I am surprised as they are a large Asian family and I thought they would be there a while, it didn't strike me as an investment property. The 'study' house on Cyncoed Road seems to be finished and the extension is massive, the extension is as big as Pavvas' house. As well the conversion of the water tower next to the new Synagogue seems to be almost finished and the new sheltered housing on Cyncoed Road is coming along really fast and it looks really well done, it really fits in well though I still haven't forgiven SCOPE for closing the sheltered housing and selling the land.
I know it has been Autumn and you expect to see leaves on the ground but this year there seems to be huge amounts everywhere, I also haven't seen a street cleaner on our estate in a long time and I wonder if Cardiff Council is trying to save money by not sending out the street cleaners. I think that would not be a wise decision, remember the switch off of the lights on the Bay Link Road? Russel Goodway, then head of the council thought that he was saving money by keeping the lights turned off.......until somebody died! I know piles of leaves doesn't sound that bad but think blocked drains and slippy pavements, think of the people who could fall and break bones! How to deal with the problem? Remember I said that Unemployment Benefits should be for a set period only, and should include seasrch for work time and voluntry work? Cleaning leaves sounds good to me.

School leaving age may be raised
England's education secretary is said to be exploring ways to raise the school leaving age to 18.Alan Johnson told political journalists that "staying on" rates must improve.
There's nothing wrong with the idea of making children stay on in some form of education until they are 18 but I have also heard in the media about Alan Johnson not wanting them stuck in dead end jobs but what is a dead end job? Can everyone be a brain surgeon? People need to be made to feel proud of working what ever they do. I have worked as a cleaner, as a carer, as a shop assistant, as a waitress and my view is that all work is important and valid and that is what needs to be promoted. Anyway who does Alan Johnson want to do the 'dead end' jobs? Someone has to do the work.

Can you think of anything more stupid than being incapacitated because of a pain in the elbow?
When I have neck pain that sounds normal, back pain sounds normal but elbow pain that it stops you doing anything sounds stupid. But my elbow is just as bad as my neck was last week and no I'm not just being a wimp, remember 'pain is what the patient says it is'-well it's bl**dy' awful. LIFE SURELY CAN BE A LEMON AT TIMES! THANKYOU MEATLOAF.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

SAM'S BACK!

Did you know that Quantum Leap Is coming back and in production. Brilliant!
Do you know Al from Quantum Leap? Well Dean Stockwell plays Al and his Dad Harry Stockwell played the part of the Prince in Snow White. We have more new names for the blog(will it never end I hear you ask), Prince- SnoWhites mate and Dimitri-Anastasia's friend.
And last but by no means least we have Dot, the cutest little bug princess from Bug's Life-a name reserved for the newest addition to the family when my niece has her baby.

Here's Dotty!Is she sweet or what?


















WEIRD DREAM TIME!
You haven't had to endure my weird dreams in a long time so here is the latest caused by lack of rem sleep which in turn is caused by the lack of sleep in an autistic six year old.
Last night I dreamt that I had just come back off holiday from Dubai to find a small white elephant and a large black elephant and 3 rhino's on my balcony and in the living room was a black panther and running around the house was a monkey. I called the police to come and take them away and they cordoned off the road in front of the house which turned out to be the road in front of my mothers house in Rhoose then they anaethetised the rhino who promptly deflated..............oh and it was all the fault of the man next-door!! Where this dream came from I have no idea, I have never been to or thought about going to Dubai, nothing happened in the last few days regarding wild animals but I have thought about my mother but not her house in Rhoose. Dreams are such strange things.
Moral of the story...............don't mess with the rhino!

APOLOGY DUE
Last Christmas I visited my sister Megara and her family and we also visited with her two girls Ashlyn and Edeline. Now Edeline is younger and at Christmas she looked like a skinny teenager but when we last visited in the summer she had grown up and Ashlyn and Edeline looked like twins, beautiful young women. Well I couldn't stop saying how they looked so mature and the same and when we visited last weekend I mentioned how they looked the same and I know Ashlyn was upset and I want to apologise. It is all in the face, yes Edeline may be pregnant but you don't look anything like her like that. Edeline has a bump and you look very slim and I am very sorry. I bet you as well that within two weeks Edeline will be back in skinny jeans whilst I still have my belly and Beauty is six!

Monday, November 13, 2006

WHO'S WHO

6am and I am waiting for my medication to kick-in, whilst I am unfortunately awake my joints have as yet not caught up on the fact that they are meant to be awake too. My jaw is especially bad this morning but thankfully I was able to move it enough to eat crumpets(I love carbs) and take my medication.
I have 3 nieces, the youngest is a little bit older than Beauty and I have two others, one is a little bit younger than Fiona and the other is one day younger than Ariel. The two older girls are my eldest sisters children and the youngest is my brothers daughter. Sorry girls but it has to be Barbie, to talk about you on my bolg I need to give you a Princess name and Mulan and Pocohontas and Jasmine just didn't seem right(well Fiona and Anastasia are not Disney so you are in good company!). Barbie has a film The 12 Dancing Princesses and these are your new names.


This is Princess Fallon, my youngest niece because she has blonde hair.



















This is Barbie, Princess Fallon's mum.



















This ActionMan, Princess Fallon's Dad(my Brother).





















This is Megara my eldest sister.


















This is Hercules my oldest sisters husband
















This is Princess Ashlyn my sisters eldest daughter




















And this is Princess Edeline my sisters younger daughter























This is my other sister Esmeralda


















Her eldest son Shang











Her youngest son Taron




















And their Dad Phoebus

Sunday, November 12, 2006

LET US NOT FORGET


In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields

Remembering those who died and should not have.
Remembering all who fought for and still fight for freedom.


There Lie Forgotten Men
They lie there in their thousands
The last rays of sunlight
Catching the white of the gravestones
Lending a poignancy to the moment
Numbering in their thousands they lay
Deserving remembrance
And yet the scarred green fields are empty
Nothing remains here
The processions of people vanished with the years
Their sacrifice all but forgotten

She stands there alone
At the edge of the silent place
And she is shocked
New wars brew and these forgotten men
Will play no part in them
The dead silence warns no ears but hers
In great halls in moments of great decision
What they fought for is forsaken
And by days end new gravestones
Appear on the blood red ground

She finds what she seeks
'Sgt John Malley Age 27'
His life brutally ended
And she stands by his grave
But he can give no answers
And she weeps for him
For the empty hole he left behind
And for the new emptiness
Soon to join the black chasm
And her tears join the flood
Rebecca Sullivan

RANTS, REVIEWS AND NEWS!
'A man has been jailed for a week for stealing a poppy collection box from a bank in Prestatyn, Denbighshire. David Archer, 51, from Rhyl, appeared before Llandudno magistrates, 20 minutes before the UK held a two-minute silence for the fallen on Saturday.'
I think that a week in prison is a waste, this man needs a very PUBLIC community service order to shame him.

Vandals have daubed Nazi swastikas on a war memorial in West Sussex.
Am I stupid because I cannot even begin to grasp WHY someone would want to do something like this.

3,000-mile gap for wedded bliss
A great-grandfather has revealed the secret of his happy marriage - he lives 3,000 miles from his American wife. What a good idea-if they are happy!

After an early wake-up call Beauty seems to have gone back to sleep, however I am sure that today she has a lot more fun in-store for me. I am so too old for this, I am 45 and it is the time in my life for lie-ins on a Sunday morning and grandbabies that can be handed back. Sometimes Beauty is like having twins she is so much work, did I have twins and nobody told me?
What is so yummy about being a mummy?
I have constant black bags under my eyes from lack of sleep and because Beauty has to be watched 24/7 I cannot even shower before I leave to take Beauty to school in the morning. AND most of all- I am always covered in yoghurt! Autism is a tiring thing!

Saturday, November 11, 2006

LET THERE BE PEACE ON EARTH

LOOK WHAT I JUST BOUGHT TO TONE MY FLABBY OLD BUTT! AND HOPEFULLY TO GET SLIMMER OF COURSE.
Unexciting saturday spent ironing, cleaning, buying laminate flooring, napping(it has to be done) and chasing after the six year old.
Picking up a prescription this morning from the chemist I took part in the two minute silence to remember not only those soldiers that fell in any conflict but all those who fought and fight for peace in any capacity. I support those soldiers who are in Iraq and Afganistan even if I do not believe in war. Let us all pray that this time next year none of our soldiers will be anywhere but home and the conflict will be over.

Friday, November 10, 2006

'YOUNG AND SWEET ONLY SEVENTEEN'


A WHITER SHADE OF PALE-PROCUL HARUM
We skipped the light fandango
turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
but the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
as the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
the waiter brought a tray

And so it was that later
as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale

She said, 'There is no reason
and the truth is plain to see.'
But I wandered through my playing cards
and would not let her be
one of sixteen vestal virgins
who were leaving for the coast
and although my eyes were open
they might have just as well've been closed

She said, 'I'm home on shore leave,'
though in truth we were at sea
so I took her by the looking glass
and forced her to agree
saying, 'You must be the mermaid
who took Neptune for a ride.'
But she smiled at me so sadly
that my anger straightway died

If music be the food of love
then laughter is its queen
and likewise if behind is in front
then dirt in truth is clean
My mouth by then like cardboard
seemed to slip straight through my head
So we crash-dived straightway quickly
and attacked the ocean bed

Another piece of defining music. Defining for a number of reasons but it was for me the first appreciation of music other than pop- I was 17 and disco was BIG.


Rwanda nun jailed over genocide

And this is religion. I fail to grasp what was going on in the mind of this nun who helped in genocide in Rawanda in 1994, she is meant to be a religious for goodness sake.

Thursday, November 09, 2006


Catch The Wind Lyrics (Donovan)

In the chilly hours and minutes,
Of uncertainty, I want to
be,
In the warm hold of your loving mind.

To
feel you all around me,
And to take your hand, along the
sand,
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.

When sundown pales the sky,
I wanna hide a while,
behind your smile,
And everywhere I'd look, your eyes
I'd find.

For me to love you now,
Would be
the sweetest thing, 'twould make me sing,
Ah, but I
may as well, try and catch the wind.

When rain has
hung the leaves with tears,
I want you near, to kill my
fears
To help me to leave all my blues behind.

For standin' in your heart,
Is where I want to be,
and I long to be,
Ah, but I may as well, try and catch the
wind.

If we had to find a song that would define our lives then I think that this would be the one for me.
I feel that my life is all about lost hope, lost chances and what should have been and no I am not talking about husband number 2 (if there is a next life then when I meet him I will punch him in the head and tell him what an idiot he was for wasting his life and slap him once more for making me a young widow, selfish git) , I am talking about everything! I feel that most of what
I have lost or missed has been directly linked to me having been a mormon. DON'T get me wrong about the church, I am not saying that I made evil choices but choices were made that I would never make today because I believe there is no God. If it were now I know I would have delayed having children until I could have given them everything they deserved, I would have finished my nurses training and worked nights as a qualified nurse as they were growing up. It could be said that my son Marc died at birth because I was young, living in a bedsit with no money-I was a statistic, even though I will always blame myself it is probably true that I was just a statistic. I see his face in the faces of of the boyfriends of my girls that have passed through my house and now in the first husband and it is not a bad thing, it is a comfort that life goes on and it can be good. They will never go through what I went through, I shall see to that.
WOW! I sound like a lioness ready to protect her young. Perhaps it is these feeling that make me quite happy to spend the rest of my life on my own caring for Beauty. I actually think that Beauty will one day be good enough to care for herself and live her own life and then I will be content with my books, plants and paints and the visits from the grandbabies. It sounds like a good life.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006


NEWS, REVIEWS AND RANTS

I am sure I have heard this story before, it is either a case of deja vu or urban legend.
BLAZING MOUSE SETS FIRE TO HOUSE!
A man finds a mouse in his house and throws it onto a fire in the garden and the burning mouse runs back into the house and the house burns down. I'm sorry I don't believe it, the owner of the property heard the story once and is using it.WHY?I don't know but anybody who has owned a hamster or gerbil or pet mouse knows how nearly impossible it is to catch the little sh*ts when they escape their cages and are running round your house.

BRITNEY FILES FOR DIVORCE

Thank goodness that is over! Enough said..............SnoWhite will no doubt raptuously fill you in. I don't think that Britney will be crying into her hot chocolate over the loss of that little schmuck(Yes and I do understand the meaning of the word).
The end of Jessica Simpsons marriage and that of Reese Witherspoon was a trauma for SnoWhite but this she will dine-out on for months, perhaps it had something to do with that voodoo doll I brought her back from New Orleans. So don't mess with SnowWhite and her voodoo doll!




BEAUTY SPEECH UP-DATE
Yesterday she said to one of her teachers, 'for goodness sake stop it'.............the teachers thankfully fell about laughing, hands up that was me, thank goodness she didn't repeat anything SnoWhite or Fiona says. She will repeat most things that I say now, I am working hard on Please and Thankyou.
The other night we took Beauty to Tesco and she just loves looking at toys, well we got to the dolls and we saw a Cinderella and I said Cinderella and she repeated it and then we saw a Snow White and I said Snow White and again she repeated it and then we came to an Ariel doll and before I could say anything she said her sisters real name. Is that amazing or what? That is so clever and Ariel was shocked too and couldn't understand how Beauty knew because yes the girls have had their princess names for years before the blog but Beauty was the only one who has ever really been called by her princess name and that is pronounced more like Booty from Yoho Ahoy than Beauty.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

I HAVE NO EXCUSE!


Sorry there was no blog yesterday, Beauty went back to school yesterday after half-term and my body just seemed to give up in exhaustion. I managed to get through my website class and when I got home I just lay down until it was time to pick Beauty up from school. Beauty's friend is back. He spent the summer in Nigeria I think , well I knew he was going to a special unit that was opening and I presumed he had gone but no he had gone on holiday for the summer and only just got back.
He is such a nice little boy.
The BBC weather said that yesterday was meant to be clear and sunny! Ok!
It was grey and foggy and damp all day-yes'the weatherman lied'.
Well today it just says FOG-now that's more believable. Vienna 13*c clear and sunny and Panama city beach is meant to be 21*c with some showers amongst the sun, oh well, time to be planning those foreign holidays I think!

NEWS REVIEWS AND RANTS

Will they actual enforce the death penalty with Saddam?
I don't think so, society seems to find that kind of thing difficult and this is not the 'arm-chair liberal' in me talking.

Go Borat!
Borat opened in 837 cinemas compared to Santa Clause III which opened in 3,458! Hah!

So Westlife are to use the names of their fans in their latest video! So will we be seeing SnoWhites name in lights anytime soon?

They are worried that there might be cut-backs in social care due to lack of money. All I can say is PLEASE do not take my childminder away who takes Beauty out for three hours a week whilst I either clean or sleep. Beauty loves it too.

So the Jerusalem Gay march is to go ahead! Ooops, I see trouble!

We are still all on tenterhooks waiting to hear anything about my niece having her baby, I promised not to phone for news so my girls are keeping me updated via their myspace accounts. Anastasia and Belle are constantly seeking news as their cousin is the first in their generation, even in their Dad's family to have a baby. We are all really pleased and excited, this is going to be one well loved baby.



I live such a sad boring life, today I went to the bank at Rydepennau to pay in a cheque and I dropped into the ironmongers to see if they had soda crystals- not only did they have soda crystals but BORAX as well! I am on an eco-high.

Sunday, November 05, 2006


CHILDHOOD OBESITY
It's in the news again! I think the game machine attached to an exercise machine is brilliant.
HOWEVER, if my little Beauty didn't want to exercise, SHE WOULDN'T.
Yesterday I took her to Fairoak Park to play with the leaves, would she co-operate,NO. She sat on every bench and then when the benches ran out she lay on the floor and wouldn't move. But she does love her mini trampoline, it is in the living room and she bounces whilst she watches tv, she has already destroyed one bouncer. The first one was a child's bouncer so we bought an adult one to replace it and I use it too(well when no-one is looking!).
We have news of progress, I have been trying to get Beauty to say please and thankyou for the last 4 years and she has said PLEASE and THANKYOU a couple of times recently. Any other not so nice words can be credited to the 20 year old!

Friday, November 03, 2006

IT'S A COLD WORLD


WESTLIFE
THE PERFECT LINE-UP



Cold night again, the kitchen is as chilly as Balamory last Christmas, thankfully our heating is working whilst in Balamory it was not. I am wearing the thick socks that I bought in Balamory as my toes are so cold.Bright clear sunny day again and the weather forecast says that it is set to warm up a bit, here and in Vienna and Panama city.

As the Queen of weird dreams I have to share these with you. Wednesday night I dreamed that SnoWhite and I were walking down Newport Road near the infirmary and Westlife came out from a concert and Brian McFadden was still with them and he was walking with Kerry.Well Sno White ran up and was all over him like a rash and asking for his autograph and anyone who knows SnoWhite will know that this would never happen so I woke myself up very quickly before the dream became a nightmare. A nightmare which involved a lot of blood and body parts bouncing up the street.
Weird dream number 2-Charlotte Church's mother was running a papershop/gift shop and I went there to get a donation for a school charity raffle. Charlotte was at the back of the shop and we started chatting and we were discussing me going to finish my Masters and doing a PHD but she wanted me to work in her shop for her. We had a lovely conversation, a very nice girl but the only weird thing was she was in full stage make-up whilst we chatted.

Beauty has found a BARNEY DVD , save us. She knows all the words, sung and spoken. Well I suppose it is better than the plastic smiling WIGGLES because they always seem a bit bi-polar to me.


























PARANORMAL ORBS
Do I believe in them ? Probably not, I have never had any in any of my photographs until last week and now I have had two. Dust or rain probably. When the lounge picture is larger the orbs on the floor by the chair are a lot clearer.



Rain?

















Dust?

















YOU DECIDE.





This is the activity corner in my kitchen!
Here lives my washing machine and small dishwasher on the floor and above is the tumble dryer and rhe large dishwasher. When the kitchen was built we realised that with such a large sink unit we could only fit a small dishwasher. But it was just not enough and so I realised that if I could fit the tumble dryer on top then I could fit another LARGE dishwasher on top- and I did! Sooooooooooo.......................I have 2 questions
1: if I have so much space for dishwashing why do all the dirty dishes end up on the draining board(or just anywhere around the house) waiting for me to fill and empty the dishwasher?
2:why can't a certain teenager who wants to join Army Intelligence find any clean glasses? Yesterday morning she said,'MUUUUM, I've searched everywhere and I can't find a clean glass anywhere, where are they'?
UUUUH! try the dishwasher!
Perhaps the same is true for Bin Laden, perhaps he is in such an obvious place that nobody thinks of looking for him there, like his Mum's house!

Here we have the disaster zone...................again!




















THE WORLD JUST GOT COLDER

It seems that Darfur Militia are killing again and it is reported that they have killed 62 people in the last week and 27 of those killed were under the age of 12.
When will it be over for these poor people?

Thursday, November 02, 2006

DEEP ROOTS ARE NOT REACHED BY THE FROST

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS

All that is gold does not glitter
Not all those who wander are lost
The old who are strong do not wither
Deep roots are not reached by the frost
From the ashes and fire shall be woken
A light from the shadow will spring
Renewed be the blade that was broken
The crownless again shall be king
Lord of the rings the film

The BBC weather says it is 10*c today but methinks it is lying(maybe 5 in the morning and 5 in the afternoon!), it is gosh dash cold. I left the heating on last night as it was meant to go below freezing and my kitchen was and is freezing because it has no heating. I slept with Beauty and that room is no warmer this winter than it was last winter.However Beauty was as warm as a little hot water bottle as she had some nice warm covers on her. I worry about keeping Beauty warm as every winter she seems to catch some kind of bug every two weeks or so and has to take time off school. The lounge is lovely and warm today as it has the sun shining through and she is playing in there happily, for now. We had a frost in the garden this morning.Vienna is 3*c today and tonight it is meant to be minus 5*c whilst Panama City is 19*c today and 2*c tonight. I think we maybe heading for a cold one.










It has been a funny old day with Beauty getting up at approximately 5>6am, it is now 2:45pm and Beauty is taking a nap. I am so looking forward to the return of school and routine and Beauty needs it too because she isn't happy without school.
I have tidied the living room twice and it looks as if a tornado has blown through it.


BEFORE

















AFTER


















ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS MY TWO FRONT TEETH

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS




ALL SAINTS DAY

DIA DE LOS ANGELITOS









FOR ANASTASIA
In the story The Baddies don't know who they are until they are re-found by one of their own, so when they die the baddies have to look for their mates again who are again in an un-knowing body. Charlie is a baddie but he wasn't found by the other baddies and so he led his life as an ordinary person. His Dad was a good cop but one day saw the work of the baddies, a murder, and was so traumatised that he killed himself. Charlie is a good guy who has done some bad things in his life but is still a good guy but Charlie is also the proof that we have a choice and don't have to choose evil. In his previous lives he was one of the main baddies so they are angry with him for turning against them so they are out to get him and all his family.I think!
FOR BELLE
I think it is all in your formatting and settings, so if you want to change your password and send me your new password I will check and when I have finished you can re-set your password.I can but try.
THE REST OF THE DAY
I awoke at 7:30am and Beauty got up at 9am-what a blessing! Beauty has spent her morning watching ICE AGE 2 AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN! I love technology. AND the sun is shining so my washing will dry but it is so cold out, winter is definitely here.
I took Ariel and her friend over to a Halloween party at US of K, her friend brought the most massive pumpkin with her. The pumpkin was 2>3 times bigger than any pumpkin I have ever seen................a monster and it just fitted into a blue IKEA bag! Ariel took our plastic flashing pumpkin and the hanging witch plus some pizzas and some Indian snacks, onion baji's etc.
Miss US of K wants her friends to CAMP overnight in the garden and the weather forecast is -2 in some places. Ariel says she's coming home. The weather for tomorrow night is even colder.
It took us about 2 hours there and back to get Ariel to the party because of an accident on the M4, I feel so sorry for daily comuters.





















We spent some of Beauty's birthday money on a Snow White dress and she looks absolutely lush in it, wrong colouring but still lush.


Tip of the day-free storage. For carrying glass from

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MAMMA BLOGGING ABOUT BEAUTY AND HER SISTERS


An Irish Blessing

(A Blessing from St. Patrick)
May the road rise to meet you,

May the wind be always at your back,

May the sun shine warm upon your face,

May the rains fall soft upon your fields,

And, until we meet again,

May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.