WINDS OF CHANGE

Bad news 'Textiles', I've replaced Jensen Ackles with another little hottie, is she cute or what?
I've decided to change the background daily, don't worry it will be your choice tomorrow.
Today is a lot cooler and that is good because I am not feeling so good, Remember Brilliant Brenda the lecturer from British Rail? I saw her on monday , first time for ages and she is still one of the most lovely people I know. Brenda is generous to a fault and I think she may have given me a nasty sore throat. She has been off work for ages with a throat probem but I might just as easily have picked it up from one of the boys in school. I am having difficulty swallowing but that is not it!! I also have a serious stomach upset, Gaviscon is my drink of choice and I'm not even pregnant. Whatever I eat gives me heartburn but I really have an almost non-existent appetite., I also feel sick when I eat, everything goes through me faster than the speed of light, I belch all the time and my stomach is always churning(such an attractive lot of symptoms). This has gone on for about two weeks and I have a doctors appointment tomorrow. What little I eat is now followed with copious amounts of cold water and it is really helping, no water and I would be seriously uncomfortable. My clothes are getting loose around the waist, one small Pollyanna blessing. Will update after doctors visit.
I am so glad that the Brits are finally getting out of Lebanon, I know that there have been complaints that other nations have got out earlier but they travelled by land. I personally would not have liked to have travelled the road to Damascus, physically or metaphorically. I feel for those who are leaving and their relatives as Ariel would have to study for a year in somewhere like the Lebanon if she did a degree in Arabic, the stress was bad enough when Anastasia was in Russia. At least when Anastasia was in Russia if you stayed together and did not go off piste you could at least had some damage limitation but in the Lebanon when a bomb is dropped on your head there is not a lot you can do about it. I wonder how many Hezbollah the Israeli's have got so far, probably not a lot.
Over the centuries it has been unexcusable to persecute the Jews and the things that happened to them was terribly wrong but what happened to them during the 2nd world war did not justify the stealing of the land of the Palestinian people.
But we cannot go back. Each side should accept that they are religious people and act like religious people. Sit down together, call a truce and accept that the Jews should never have been given a land that was not theirs and move on. Accept that the land has to be fairly split in two and these religious people have to live together in peace.
Yes Israel may have more money, more fire power, more political power but the Palestinians have a weapon that the people of Israel just do not have and could one day rise up against them- a massive birth rate. For a religious people that has been so badly treated throughout history the people of Israel have the opportunity to be the authors of something really good-PEACE.
Religious people shouldn't fight each other like this- surely the doctrine of the Jewish people and the Muslim people is to forgive and live in peace?PLEASE.
Mother of Many x

MODERN ART IS ELEPHANT POOP

The Upper Room- Cris Ofili
PROMISE-No more 'discussions' on art funding.
Do you remember the demonstration, 'Modern art is bullshit'? Well it was when a wheelbarrow of cow manure was dumped outside The Royal Academy because of an exhibition featuring Chris Ofili's work. In 1998 he won The Turner Prize
with, 'No women no cry', which had elephant dung attached to it and it was stood on elephant dung. A lot of people were not happy with it. He also p-ssed off a lot of people with his Virgin Mary collage which had pictures of genitalia taken from magazines and stuck onto the picture. I think some of Frida Kahlo's work is very cutting edge but I don't hear bitching about that.
Not only do I think his work is brilliant but it is also brilliant because it p-sses off snot nosed artists and critics. Wouldn't the world be a boring place if all artists were Fine Artists, what a waste of ceativity.
I watched a program the other night about the making of cave paintings and part of the program was about spitting the 'paint' onto the wall and causing a stencil effect. Imagine the response today from the purists! Their blood pressure would need monitoring.
As a kind of acid test, years ago I remember somebody sending in a painting their toddler had createsd to the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy. It was merely splashes of paint and they had titled it Monkeys in the Trees. It was accepted. You've got to love it.
I definitely do not have the talent of a fine artist but I would say I had creativity. Damien Hirst
is hugely talented as a portrait painter but it is definitely his modern art that has made him famous(and wealthy!).
Anyway, I think Beauty's artwork is better, being unbiased of course!
So to all the purists out there- BITE ME!

AND MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP-Robert Frost

La Geunon et son peti By Picasso
Sold for $6,719,500 in2001








I really think that it would be better if I just went back to bed, hid my head under the bedclothes and never surfed the net again. Today on the internet I read an atricle on the arts section of the BBC website and it discussed how the Catholic church is to make aquisitions in the contemporary art section to display in the Vatican museum.
WHY?
I feel that the members of the church should be asked how they would like their money spent and if the museum director Francesco Buranelli,'would like very much to have a Picasso' then he should,'very much' go and buy one with his own money.
I am sure there are a lot of people out there who would love to LOAN their art works to be displayed in the Vatican museums. Think of the turn over of work that could be displayed(and the Kudos!) and the art that could be seen by so many more people. Think of the money they could raise for those in need.













































With my very small life I am a very lucky person.

I MAY NOT BE A SMART MAN BUT I KNOW WHAT LOVE IS

Recently I have written about Superman, the unholy state of children's bedrooms and the red paper clip that in 14 trades became a house but nothing about the situation between Isreal and Lebanon. You may or may not ask why! It is complicated but yet it is easy!
It is complicated because the situation is complicated, the situation between Isreal and the Arab world is difficult and nothing I say here would make it better. I read the opinions of the people who have commented on the internet and I agree with some comments made about both sides. So what difference would my adding fuel to the fire make? I write via Amnesty International, and on my own volition, regarding any situation that I feel is wrong and that I feel that writing about might help but most of the time I feel that no one out there is listening.
I always felt that I had strong feelings regarding the situation in the middle east and I felt I was pro one side but when I probed what I really felt I found that in my head were a lot of ,'ah buts....'
Here is an example.
I do not like, support or believe in the priciples of the BNP but yesterday I read a newspaper article about a teacher employed by Derby council who a teaching union say should be fired as a teacher because the said teacher stood as a candidate for the BNP. The argument against this is the fact that the BNP is a registered political party therefore they are legally allowed to stand as a candidate for the BNP without it affecting their job. The council believes however that there are no grounds for action.........well thank goodness for the voice of sanity. The council says that it has a statutory duty to promote race equality and the consequences of breaching this duty would be 'emphasised to Mr Jones'.
Ms Keates from NASUWT states the following in a letter to the council,'I am sure that you will share the view of the NASUWT that those who subscribe to a racist and fascist agenda have no place in the teaching profession'
The BNP made the statement that the NASUWT's stance was, 'outrageous and disgraceful'.
As Forest Gump said(don't quote me on this),'I MAY NOT BE A SMART MAN(well I'm a women actually but I'm refering to the smart bit, see blog entry dated Friday 14 July 2006), so I had to look up on the internet about the definition of what fascism is and the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines fascim as,' A political philosophy movement or regime( as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralised autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition'. I am sure that this is not the only definition of fascism.
But what struck me about this definition was the part which said, 'forcible suppression of opposition', surely to fire somebody from their job because they have stood as a political candidate for a registerd party is an act of fascim by the ,' forcible suppression of the opposition'.I know I am not a clever person and I am sure some clever person could run rings around me in a debate but I just don't know how one can be a 'fascist' and the other not.
I always thought that if you were a Catholic, a Protestant, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Mormon, Muslim, a Conservative, a liberal, a supporter of the labour party, a pagan etc etc then if you were a teacher in a non-religious state school then whatever personal philosophies you held to you were not allowed to teach them in the classroom. Many of the religions and political parties that I have mentioned I know I would not want their philosophies taught to my children in school unless it was part of a politics class or a comparative religion class and then I believe that personal opinion is not allowedby the teacher. So why does NASUWT feel they have the right to discriminate against one political party when there are other political parties out there and religions that I know have policies and tenets that are just as scarey. As an example, the PM who is a member of the labour party went into Iraq WITHOUT UN support and subsequently how many civilians and soldiers have died? Does the NASUWT feel that teachers are suitable to teach if they support the labour party? The NASUWT cannot be selective in 'their judgements', if they are then they are discriminating. Are the labour supporters being advised on the need to follow the law and not promote invading non-aggressive countries without UN backing? If not then why? If Derby council is advising teachers who support the BNP to understand the consequences of breaching their statutory duty to promote race equality why are they not asking fundamentalist mormons if their beliefs regarding black people will affect their ability to promote race equality? Are they even aware of the views of the fundamentalist mormons? Is Derby council aware of the view of the teachers who support other religions who believe that only members of their church will go to heaven? Would this affect their ability to promote race equality?Justice is about justice for all not just about who you think deserves justice. Derby council are being discrimatory by feeling the need to re-emphasise to the BNP supporter about their statutory duty to promote race equality. The NASUWT comments about the BNP are discrimatory. The BNP are a legal party, if the NASUWT have a problem with the ideas that the BNP promotes then they should resort to legal means to deal with the problem and not stoop to discrimination.
So here you have an analogy of how my feelings are regarding the middle east, we do not live in a black and white world and remember it does take two to tango

IS IT A BIRD? IS IT A PLANE? NO IT'S SUPERMAN.

Due to the fact that I had intended to finally set up Runningman's family website today I had decided that today I would just load up some photos instead of a 'proper' blog. However(big however),whilst waiting for changes to load I checked out the blogs of Anastasia and Sno White and I find myself crying like a big girl(Yes I know I am a big girl but........).
Well I read their top ten lists and I thought now what cute guys would I list and I thought #1 Christopher Reeves but then I thought but 'hey he's dead' and you know how when somebody dies and tears come out of your eyes that you have no control over and they just roll and there's no weeping just tears...well it was like that. With the release of the new Superman I realised how much the release of Superman had meant to me when I was 17. He was lovely. Cinema had seen a decline and there were predictions of the demise of the industry and then came Star wars in 1977 and Superman & Grease in 1978 and Star Trek in 1979, I loved Superman. No I shouldn't write it in the past tense as my feelings are no different now than before. I never met the guy so its just the same situation as before, he exists just not here.
So back to the list.....

Top Ten Cute Guys
Christopher Reees
Cliff Richards
Donny Osmond
Alan Rickman
Gabriel Byrne
Anthony Hopkins
Scott Bakula
George Clooney
Jensen Ackles
Peter Firth
Of course in no particular order!

Top Ten Cities I have Visited
Tangiers
Valencia
Rhodes
Marmaris
Faro
Paris
Moscow
Valletta
Malaga
St Petersburg
Of course again in no particular order

Mother of Many x

'BEING ORGANISED INTERFERES WITH MY CREATIVITY'

THIS IS NOT FIONA'S ROOM(SHE WANTED ME TO MAKE THAT CLEAR)

PERHAPS I SHOULD MAKE THIS INTO A CAPTION COMPETITION















WHO LIVES IN A HOUSE LIKE THIS?























I WAS THINKING OF INVITING KIM AND AGIE TO TEA................
























OR MAYBE ANTHEA.............























HELL IS ONLY A STATE OF MIND(I WISH).................IT EXISTS IN THE BEDROOMS OF YOUR CHILDREN!




















'WHY SHOULD ANYONE WANT TO DO THE DISHES'

THERE SHALL BE ETERNAL SUMMER IN THE GRATEFUL HEART........... Celia Thaxter

MAMA IN THE KITCHEN DOING A BIT OF STITCHING.....................



















BEAUTY IN TENT TOWN



















WELL OSH kOSH BGOSH.................BEAUTY'S NEW SANDALS




















WHAT A BEAUTY

DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT THE RED PAPERCLIP THAT IN 14 TRADES BECAME A HOUSE?

So the story so far is.................... this Dude
swopped a paperclip on the internet and
traded up and traded up 14 times until
he got a house. Well you learn something new every day.
You've just gotta be impressed.
Good luck Paperclip Guy.


UPDATE ON LOCATION OF JIMMY HOFFA'S BODY AND MY CAMERA(see entry fo Friday 14 July 2006)
Camera magically appears in basket by the sink , as predicted no one knows how it got there, last resting place of Jimmy Hoffa remains a mystery

Mother of Many x

I AM A FOOL IN A CLEVER WORLD.

I feel so sorry for Menezes' mum.
WHY? ........There are to be no charges against the individual police involved in the Menezes shooting incident. This reminds me of how I felt when I was asked to accept that an individual shot himself three times in the head at Deepcut and killed themselves, what I am being asked to accept is so wrong and in my head I just cannot believe that this is the right decision. When I was in University I could pass exams brilliantly but I never managed brilliant marks at essays no matter how hard I tried, this made me feel inferior to the others I was studying with because the only way to progress academically is by written reports, essays and dissertations. I feel like this now, is it because I am not as clever as other people that I feel that the decision not to charge the individual police officers in the Menezes case is wrong? Are the decision makers more intelligent than me and see things that I am not clever enough to see? I am definitely not clever enough to be a judge or a police officer or a politician, I just see things so differently to them!
No wonder I am happy with my quiet little house in my quiet little street, life past my gate gets so complicated.
Jack Worthing in The importence of Being Ernest said,'I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we still had a few fools left'.

I LOVE THE FUN SONG FACTORY

I refuse to be provoked into a kharma related incident which will later come back to bite me in the butt. It is 3.28am and the video is being looped by Beauty(I almost typed Belle, now that would have been wierd), she is looping the start of the Fun Song Factory, same music, same words, over and over and over. Remember Barney(8 May 2006), well never again, I love the Fun Song Factory. Definition of the phrase,' Terrorist Action'- Five year old of the autistic kind inflicting sleep deprivation upon parent. Not only is sleep deprivation kicking in but I woke up yesterday with a swollen
eye , some kind of infection. I am way too old for this. This must be kharma for my boring blogs of late. Well is it wrong to want world peace and to save the earth? What about greater gun control and harsher punishments for parole violators?(well it was funny when Sandra Bullock said it!) Ok I promise to stop.
I can't find my camera, of course eveyone blames the fairies! In a week it will probably turn up on the stairs and no one will know how it got there. I wouldn't be surprised one day to find the remains of Jimmy Hoffa somewhere in my house and the kids will shout,'well it wasn't me, I found it on the stairs' and I will reply that I knew it couldn't have been them because A) the house wasn't built when Jimmy Hoffa disappeared and B) None of them have enough energy to get off their butts and fill a dishwasher let alone be responsible for the disappearence of an American Labour Leader with Mafia connections.( Now does that sound like one p-ssed off Mama? GOOD). No wonder politicians say such stupid things, they claim they work so hard and get very little sleep, well I know how they feel. Perhaps this is my chance to say all the things I was too afraid to say before and put it down to sleep deprivation, wow I would make a good politician.
Lets see..............
Tom Cruise..........I don't give a sh-t about your kid....Who does?
Tony Blair............You're false and play to the camera!
Britney Spears.....For goodness sake wash and there is no way you are OCD
(oh and get rid of that useless husband of yours)
George Bush........ I pray your God exists so on judgement day you can be found wanting and be punished with eternal hell (like having to live on welfare or a low wage).
Trent from Pink Is The New Blog..........To be the next president of the US.
Time is officially dragging, I thought it was 6.15am so I have put Beauty's fish fingers and mash on to cook for her to take to school for her lunch and turned around to find the clock said.............5.15am! It will be another 45 minutes before CBEEBIES starts BUT Beauty does like the CBEEBIES program preview loop that starts at 5.30am and lasts until the 6am CBEEBIES start. It will be a nice change.We now have,'I Can Sing A Rainbow' on loop, I can not believe that people actually wore orange canvas jeans in 1995 when this video was made. The most popular colour for trousers or jeans around here in 2006 is white! White! White! I can't keep blue jeans or patterned clothes clean with Beauty and my washing machine is running constantly.
I hear a new video going into the player............Ariel-The little Mermaid, well the Fun Song Factory kept Beauty entertained for 2 hours, now that's not bad, just 3 hours 15 minutes to go until I take her to school. I love school, I think all teachers should be made saints.
Thrilling news.........fish fingers and mash are cooked!
My painkillers must be kicking in as I am having strange thoughts, I am having an overwhelming desire to clean out my fridge........back you evil spirits go terrorise someone who needs you like Britney.
Yesterday Beauty came home with very sore toes, her feet are sore under her toes and along the top ridge of her foot. I thought it was something to do with her shoes so we took her to the shoe shop and bought her a lovely pair of well fitting OSH KOSH sandals, however I now think the problem is the fact that she is too big for the buggy and she uses her feet on the floor and the wheels to stop the buggy. I will have to tell the occupational therapist so they can hopefully hurry up her new buggy.



St Catherine of Alexandria, patron saint of teachers.


















I thought I was safe, it was 7am and we were watching The Bear With Very Little Brain when all of a sudden, just when I wasn't looking,what should pop up but The Fun Song Factory. I love The Fun Song Factory. One day when Beauty is older and watching some random fluffy chick flick or coming-of-age film, each made and acted by airheads I shall look back and see The Fun Song Fsctory as deeply philosophical and entertaining in comparison. But for now I pray for the patience of Job and the hastening of time.

It is 9.08am and ALL IS WELL IN ZION.
I took Beauty to school and I got her out of the car, put her in the buggy and the first thing she did was pillow her head on her hands and say'Goodnight, Goodnight'.
I don't care how long she naps in school, she needs it and so do I.
Goodnight
Mother of Many x

BLOWING IN THE WIND

It seems that a survey was carried out on approximately 20,000 people around the world for The BBC World Service and almost everyone felt the same. The survey was on the way energy is being consumed and the long term effects on the environment and peace. Most people were reluctant to have to pay more personal taxes but felt that car manufacturers should pay more and that there should be tax incentives for renewable energy.
'We're worried' seems to be the message from the survey.
With the little money that I have I feel that my hands are tied as to how much I can actually do. I would really like the government to promote solar energy and wind energy by making solar panels and small windmills available to the public at cost price. I have read about projects they have been involved in before but they were very limited and you had to apply, lots of paperwork was involved and only a limited number were available.
For a lot of people money is tight and providing for their family now and in the future can be a hand-to-mouth experience, any money that I have is for Beauty's future so take heed government leaders and help us to protect and preserve this planet before it is too late.
Zidane has said sorry to all the young people and children he let down by his actions and said his actions were due to insults to his mother and sister, it was good that he did not go into detail whilst so many people including youngsters were watching. I am sue that we will eventually find out what was said but I feel that Zidane acted very well.

REMEMBERING JUNE ALLYSON

This is June Allyson, June died yesterday of respiratory problems. She was one of my mother's favourite actresses and I remember her best for her role as Jo in little Women.
She was a nice lady.She was born in 1917 so she had a pretty long and good life. She also set up the June Allyson Foundation which supports medical research of incontinence, it is nice when people use their fame for good. She will be remembered fondly.

BEING BEAUTY

Beauty is not playing ball! She is however playing with the new DVD/VIDEO player at 7.15am, I know for some people that is not early but when Beauty has been awake a few times in the night it seems early. I like to wake at about 6 am, take my painkillers and let them slowly kick in, quietly. However, when you have a 5 year old in a tiny lilac nightie that makes her look like something from Barbie's Fairytopia punching buttons ( that I still do not know how to work!) and switching constantly between CBEEBIES(The Koala Brothers), The Wiggles and Winnie The Pooh it is just too much noise and stress. I must be grateful however that Ariel is asleep as her noise levels last night were nearing illegal levels and Fiona was not helping, every 5 minutes they were yelling,'Mummmmmm, tell her, she's been on the computer longer than me, it's not fair!'.
Give it up girls. They are 15 and 16 not 5 and 6.
Alert-just had to get Beauty down off the Rose cupboard again! In the last few days Beauty has been very persistent-not naughty-just very persistent and climbing the cupboard seems to be her 'thing'.
Beauty can now count to twenty but when she comes to 15 she says fiveteen, she is a star.
Beauty has now calmed down and is watching Lazy Town and 'reading' her colouring book.
I am quite happy for Beauty to watch CBEEBIES or videos or DVDs but Lazy Town is just plain wierd! It is a children's program created by the ex-world aerobics champion and it is all about healthy living and it is set in a fantasy puppet land and in it there is Sportacus(the superhero), Robbie Rotten the Baddie and Stephanie the friend of Sportacus and they are real people and the rest are played by puppets. It is all about promoting a healthy lifestyle for kids, which is good but tell me why if Sportacus is so healthy he sleeps in his clothes? And Robbie Rottens suit is just a little bit too tight-now if a girl wore a suit that tight there would be complaints( from some obviously not). Witnessing Robbie Rotten's lunchbox is not a pretty sight. I don't think it is that I am a prude(for goodness sake have you ever watched an episode of the Hoobs-they are so rude) I think it's just that it is a foreign production so it comes across as different and when I get used to Stephanie's mega watt smile blistering my eyes first thing in the morning it will seem as familiar as Pauline Fowlers miserable smile(not that I would ever watch a soap of course-yeh whatever!).
Mother of Many x

UPDATE ON THE ZIDANE HEADBUTT!

So why did Zidane headbutt Materazzi?
Because Materazzi pinched him(what a baby!), Materazzi denied it and called Zidane a liar then Materazzi told Zidane he hoped that Zidane and his family died an ugly death and then he told him to 'go f-ck himself'. Not the nicest of things to say to a man who has just learnt that his mother is very ill in hospital. Materazzi is obviously a very special and nice person! I wonder why you would purposely provoke someone like Zidane when you know from their past record that they could attack you? Let me see..........because they want Zidane to attack them and be sent off just before the penalties......................surely nobody would be that low?
It's really odd how Materazzi looks like he is smiling!
I do not condone the violence but I totally understand what happened. As the title of Sandi Thom's album states SMILE..........IT CONFUSES PEOPLE, that's the approach I would have gone for and then ................... as I stated before in reference to the Deepcut 'suicides', if anyone did that to one of mine, I would hunt them down for the rest of time and bring them to justice.Simple. Stated.
UPDATE
Materazzi denies it but Fifa to investigate.Good.


WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE TRAFFIC?
Anastasia thinks it must be the heat! Thankfully it is not as hot here as other parts of Europe.
An accident at St Mellons, 1 lane of the dual carriage way closed, the A48 closed, diversions through Pontprennau, an accident at the junction of Pentwyn Drive(Wern Goch) and another at Llanedeyrn drive(but Wern Goch and Lanedeyrn Drive always seem to have accidents) equals gridlock.
A 5 minute drive to school took approximately 25 minutes. Beauty quite happy in the back reading Grazia but in other vehicles, passengers and drivers did not appear as chilled as Beauty.
I really don't know how emergency vehicles manage to get around. I hate traffic.
Got to school and there were no minibuses in the car park so I thought we were the last but we were actually one of the first.
I so wish that we had the Star Trek capacity to 'Beam Me Up' it would stop a whole load of stress, for Christmas I would like a transporter room.
Mother of Many x

WHY ARE WE HERE?

We cheered on Italy and France equally, Anastasia was supporting France and Beauty and Runningman were supporting Italy. I was happy for either team to win but I would have been happy with France winning because it was Zinedine Zidane's last international match but what was that head butt all about? I'm not here to judge because the other guy might have said something awful and the stress was too much for Zidane-imagine the situation...... it was the culmination of Zidane's whole career.......... poor man.He can still be proud though because he scored the goal which meant they got to take penalties. I wish him luck for the future.
EQUILIBRIUM
The name of the film that I watched last night with Christian Bale, very much a cross between the concepts of 1984 and the Matrix. A 21st century world where war and murder no longer exist because of daily medication that stops the individual feeling. 'It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all' ..........the film portrayed life without feeling as pointless.
I don't care about the questions 'where did we come from?', 'where are we going to?' just
WHY ARE WE HERE? As my head can't believe in an eternal being(though I want to) my head can not also accept that we just are and there is no reason for it. I just feel that there has to be something more. I feel like the metal probe called Veger in Star Trek The Motion Picture, on the long journey home looking for my maker.

Mother of Many x

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. ...................................Zadok Rabinowitz:

My dreams are so random..................
Dreams are such odd things. I know that I honestly think that dreams come from something that happened to you in your daily life and that your brain is remembering, mixing up and creating whilst you are asleep. Yesterday I dreamt that I met somebody from my past (don't know who)and I always promised that I would get revenge on them for something they had done to me in the past when I met them and I did meet them and thought,'It doesn't matter anymore' and instantly forgot about it and went on with my life.
NOW WHERE THE HECK DID THAT COME FROM?
Past and gone hopefully.

Mother of Many x

IN WITH LOVE.........OUT WITH HATE................

DOES THE ABOVE MANTRA WORK FOR ME?
HELL NO!
(WELL, NOT YET ANYWAY!)


Today I went to town, the first time in a while and I will not be going back in a hurry. Walking along side David Morgans which is boarded up, I was unable to walk on the pavement because the pavement was flooded. A bus came around the corner and twice hit me with his bus- on purpose because I would not walk on the flooded pavement , I walk with sticks because of my arthritis and Dercums so walking on a flooded pavement was impossible. He refused to give me his identity number and called me an IGNORANT BITCH . I went to the police who are dealing with it and on Monday I intend to seek legal advice.

Mother of Many x

BUDDHISTS...........BE THE BALL!

BUDDHIST MONKS PLAYING FOOTBALL
Question- If the monks are moving so fast and watching the ball whilst playing football how can they possibly be aware if they have stood on an insect or not?
I think monks playing football is brilliant because the biggest problem that I have with religions and those on a spiritual journey is their quest becomes obsessive and they lose sight of their ultimate goal- a search for happiness. These guys look pretty happy to me.
You go for it lads!

Mother of Many x

GENEVA CALLING



Our friends from Geneva visited today. Beauty was presented from son2 with a childs computer game with twice as many keys on it as a normal computer. I will never master it-Beauty will probably have it mastered in a day.We gave son2 a huge water gun, we think he liked it but I'm not too sure what his mum thought of it! OnlyDaughter looked really good, she has grown her hair into a bob which looks really nice and she was wearing a summer skirt, she looked very stylish.
The GenevaFamily are going to see the Lion King in London at the weekend, I hear it is brilliant and I am sure they will all enjoy it.
They will be returning home on monday, they are driving so that will be some drive. Way too tiring for me.Safe journey home guys.


WHAT A BUNCH OF WIMPS!
Yes I am talking about the Portugese football players and the biggest wimp is the coach! They played France last night and the Portugese were sooooooo naughty. Yes all players try and trip up other players but Portugal go a step too far. I have been reliably instructed by my children that it is called diving where you fall down, usually untouched by anyone and start screaming and crying that you are hurt. WHAT A BUNCH OF WIMPS!
My message to the Portugese team is, 'if you haven't got enough talent to win fairly then s-d off back to Portugal'.
I watched the Germany v Italy match and that was a brilliant match, yes they tripped each other but the match was fast and they were pretty much matched in talent and I found it to be an exciting and good quality match. The match between France and Portugal was a whole different ball game, they were like a bunch of petulent pre-pubescents who were missing their dummys and their mummys. Come back boys when you're out of nappies!




AND DO WE FEEL SORRY FOR RONALDO?









I know that Sno White doesn't feel sorry for him, perhaps it was something to do with this........










Hwyl
for now
Mother of Many x

BLAME THE MONKEY.................for all the washing in the house and Italy winning(remember she said they would)

To Mr Blair, my neighbours and anyone else who might care, I use my washing machine constantly but I use an Eco Wash and so I use lots less water. My neighbours of the not-so-quiet kind never dry clothes outside so they must use a tumble dryer constantly but my other neighbours are always cleaning and washing and drying clothes outside(but not nearly as much as me) so I apologise now for my impact on the environment and blame the smelly little monkey that is the 5 year old. Her philosophy on life is Eat, Drink and Be Merry and have a very good life. Sounds good to me............apart from the washing!
At present we are having a heatwave, well compared to our usual weather for this time of year but compared to some European countries I have visited we are having a nice warm spell.
It is difficult to sleep at night because of the heat especially as I sleep on the ground floor and I cannot leave the window open because of the local 'burglar' who actually appears to be on holiday at the moment. The burglar seems to have gone very quiet, it could be linked to my giving them a fright however! or perhaps the helicopter and 'swat' type police team that staked out their flat for a couple of hours one night might have something to do with it!
Who cares what it was really, it's just nice to have a bit of peace and quiet.
Hey, being a burglar wasn't really a job with a good career structure anyway so perhaps they can now concentrate on their legitimate talents.
I know we are wimps in this country when it comes to a little bit of heat but I know with my skin colouring I was never meant for life in a hot climate. I once read that the australians had a high skin cancer rate because of their fair european skin. I know how they feel, 5 minutes in the hot sun and my skin is popping and sun block never seems to last long with me as I perspire so much it comes off in a few minutes.
Which means that my right arm is always brown from driving and my left arm is white with a
t shirt mark at the top of my arm, attractive or what! no mistaking me for a super model...........I wish.





Italy 2-0 Germany
Again I couldn't watch the match, way too nerve wracking. What I did see was a good match though and it was constantly moving and the teams seemed equally matched though Italy seemed to have greater possession of the ball. It was awful to see the German fans and team cry, I don't like that at all.

Commiserations to Anastasia and friends, I know you so wanted Germany to win. I wanted the final to be England v Germany.........now that would have been exciting.
Hwyl for now
Mother of Many x

SH*T, IT'S A SPIDER!!!!

SH*T I'TS A SPIDER!!!!!
Echolalia rears it's ugly head. Beauty spent all of saturday repeating everything that was said in her hearing.We had the window open whilst we were watching 'Supernatural' and so a Daddy long legs flew in

jim kalisch/unl entomology



and Sno White was good enough to shout,'Sh*t, it's a spider' and FCUK which Beauty was later good enough to repeat.


She was even good enough to answer the question,' Who is going to win the world cup' with,'Italy', of course we had spent all of saturday at her elderly Italian aunts house so she was heavily influenced by the Italian contingent. The 'Italian' family spent the afternoon at the pub and then at their house watching the England v Portugal match and of course rooting for the England team being of course more recently good cockneys. I was impressed that Running man wore an Italian football shirt all day and nobody said a word at the pub, I think it is because nobody sees them as serious opposition, however I think if he had worn a German shirt there would have been blood shed. At the superstore just before the motorway on the way home I did see a brave soul wearing a wrist sweatband in the German colours.



What was nice about visiting the wilds of England was to see all their flag poles with their English flags and to see how proud they were of their country, I am proud that at the drop of a hat the Welsh will bring out their Welsh flags, hats, scarves, shirts, shorts, dresses, socks to name but a few patriotic things but it was brilliant to see the English do the same. Whilst I was born in Wales and my father was Welsh , I am very proud to say that I am of mixed heritage and my mother was from England.
On the way home there was also a motorway diversion at Swindon and so we were diverted down the lanes between the Swindon motorway access points. What a nightmare! it was sooooooo very badly signposted that we now know what Swindon looks like. But we did see DITCHES(last week a crop circle now a ditch!)-something I haven't seen in years and I said, 'I bet my girls don't even know what a ditch is'. I was wrong-partly wrong- my girls were pleased to inform me that they knew what a ditch was because when telling them to be home by a certain time I had told them that it was because I didn't want to find them dead in a ditch. However, they had never actually seen a ditch-they were everywhere in the village where I grew up but even there they seem to have been filled in.
Echolalia, Italy and ditches- strange combination for a blog but HEY that's my life.........STRANGE!
Hywl
for now
Mother of Many x