update

Friday 28 Nov - gave blood. It wasn't very comfortable, but I did it. Thats 2 now
Drank some wine when the beer trolley came round, shouldn't have and felt woozy ! But hey ho.
Bruised like billy-o ! looks like i've been jacking up or something !

Saturday - had hair cut. Anna and Si called in for lunch on their way to the airport. They are off to NY for 5 days - hmmmm, nice. Cold , but nice.

Sunday - I spent 6 lousy hours inputting crap into Kev's laptop. Ruddy data entry, and ruddy pillock that he works with that didn't put it all in at the time. grrrrrr, what a waste of a day.
Monday - Thurs . So far an ok week. ALL pressies wrapped and all to be delivered this weekend,excpet Lexie's.

Dawn gets the keys to her new house tomorrow - yeah !!!

Off to Wales on Sat/Sunday. Off work on Monday, aaaaaaaaaaaahhh

November catchup

Well the month of November, what's gone on ???
Same old, same old for the most part.
We had a lovely weekend visit by Emma,Paul & Lexie which was lovely. We all went shopping in Bristol, where Lexie made friends with the giant statue reindeer, and loved the large pile of Christmas baubles in Quakers Friar.
I put our Christmas tree up before they arrived, and Lexie loved it ! Its a brown tree with gold and chocolate baubles and stars. It looks nicer than it sounds, honest !All weekend it was the main topic of conversation, with Lexie counting every bauble each time she walked past it ! Soooo sweet, and it was a lovely weekend.
Anna & Simon are calling up tomorrow on their way to get their plane out to New York ! Jealous.
I am (hopefully) giving blood later today, if my iron levels are high enough !

all my pressies are wrapped. All my cards have been handmade. I've see the M&S Toffee Xmas Pud that I want . . . . . bring on Christmas !!!

Halfway through November already !

Xmas is coming , yeah ! I've bought and packed 95% of my pressies and my tree is up ready !!














Jack enjoyed Halloween - well, sort of !












I have Lexie's presents all wrapped and ready to go - Xmas 08 is all about Disney Princesses !!

Lexie's 2nd birthday

Made a flying visit to Wales for Lexie's 2nd birthday party on Sunday. She was dressed as Snow White !! Gorgeous. Everything is "princess, princess, princess" at the moment, so she was a princess for the day.
As always, she was full of smiles and cuddles, and sooooooooooo cute and comical. And despite the house being rammed full of people, all pointing cameras at her (!) she was a total sweetie for the whole 4 hours .


Fingers crossed also, but it looks like Dawn has bought a house. Watch this space . . . . .

rain, rain, go away !

the rain has settled in for the week now methinks. Grotty dark rainy mornings. My least favourite time of the year for 6am dog walking !! grrrr

Anna & Simon are coming to stay this weekend - looking forward to that. Plenty of shopping to be done in the new Cabot's Circus centre, plus a Bottelino's meal on Saturday evening - lovely.

Emma, Paul & Lexie are in Florida for 2 weeks - lucky people. I think they are going to "Disney-out" !!

I've nearly finished my Xmas shopping for Lexie (and got her birthday pressies too).
Got her some lovely toys, and most of "Zara" !!!
Her 2nd birthday party will be on Sunday 26th October - yeah !!

My shining light in these dark times is Austin Healey on Strictly Come Dancing !!
2 of my favourite things in 1 - it could only be better if Orlando Bloom was dancing too (although in a certain light Tom Chambers looks pretty similar !)
I never want it to end, I love it. And Austin is awesome !!!!

Sunburn, ouch

Kev is on his second week away in Aberdeen, not long now. He says they had nearly 2 hours of sunshine at the weekend , wow.

Clare stayed overnight at mine last Wednesday which was lovely and we had some wine, plenty of chat, and a Chinese takeout. Which unfortunately revisited me at around 4am, and didnt go away til 9.30 am. Not nice! felt very dehydrated and sorry for myself for the rest of the day.

Saturday - gorgeous day. Got up and finished painting our garden fence. Then had a bath and went shopping. Homesense, again. Bought a fabby new rug for the lounge, bargain (ish !). And a few bits of Xmas pressies. Spent the rest of the day sat in the back garden doing some cross-stitch. Then a pizza and some wine for tea.
Strictly Come Dancing is back - YEAH . Austin Healey is on, and danced an awesome waltz bless him. Can't wait for this series, really loving it already. And very sure that Gary Rhodes will make me cringe every week !! hee hee

I appear to have lost my little dog for a couple of hours. He has decamped to Sarah's next door ! When i peaked round the fence he was sat in their lounge, as if he lived there, the little scamp.

Sunday - glorious day. Did as little as possible, but sat in the garden all day with cross-stitch again. Realised later that my legs, chest and arms are quite nicely burnt - ouch ! hey ho, i seem to do it every time, my bad.

Grand Day Out

Still smarting from my fall on the bus on Monday last week. My left foot (yeah i know, i should write a book) is deeply bruised and my left arm too.

Worked from home on Wed, dropped Jack off at his hotel in readiness for our team day out.
The activity centre was great fun, it was really muddy and wet but great fun. We did blind driving, RAGEbuggies, clay pigeon shooting, archery and hovercrafting.
I loved the hovercrafts, but not the buggies. Everyone was covered head to toe in mud, but all had a great time.


Then off to Tortworth Court Hotel, which is gorgeous. An old, sprawling 4
* hotel set in amazing grounds. We had a lovely meal, and plenty (oh did we ) to drink. The Sift awards I made went down well, everyone seemed happy.
Much drinking and a very late night (early morning) followed.
Thankyou Sift - it was fab.

Friday - came back to the office, caught up on mails, etc. Kev came home around 5pm, but was off on a leaving do in Cheltenham on Saturday, so Jack and I were alone again !
Sunday flew by in a blur, Kev is away til Wed, and the winter weather is here with a vengeance. Its disgusting today, totally disgusting. And I look forward to spending the rest of the day in soggy jeans. YUK

Ouch

Not a great start to my week. I took a bit of a tumble on the bus.
Stood up to get off the bus, but the driver braked sharply, and I flew 4 foot down the aisle. Luckily the ticket machine stopped my face !

Bruised my feet, legs, left arm, shoulder and hand. My left cheek has a bit of a mark, but luckily not bad.

Doing that attractive walk today, when you can't bend or move any part of your feet or body - nice !!!

Happy Birthday Jack !!!

We've had another busy few days. Gav & Laura came to stay last weekend. We went shopping, bowling, and had a lovely meal at Frankie & Benny's. yum, yum, yum.
Picked Anna, Simon, Debs & Johnny from the airport on Bank Holiday Monday. Kev cooked pasta and chicken for all of us then all the kids went home. Packed Kev's bag and off he went again to Preston. Another weekend over !

Lexie has chicken pox bless her. At least its over with early.

Nipped down to see Lexie on Saturday. She was sooooooooo cute, you'd never know she was poorly. Full of fun and was a total Grandad's girl ! (which was lovely).
Popped in to see Anna too, and she gave me a lovely bunch of flowers.

Quite a quiet day on Sunday, then Kev packed off again for another week.

Work are going out this Thursday/Friday for our activity day. looking forward to that, and have a few little surprises up my sleeve for some of the guys too !! hee hee

this week

Friday 15th - 4am start. Arrrrgggh, not nice.
Picked Clare up at 4.30 so plenty of time to get to the airport for our 6am flight. But what's this ??? Someone appears to have moved Bristol Airport ! We can't find it for some strange reason. We drove through the same (very nice) village 4 times, but no airport. All of a sudden, I saw the sign, hung a sharp right, quick trip through Narnia, then out the other side to the airport. Phew. Grabbed a quick cuppa then off we went. Edinburgh was damp and busy, but we had a brekkie and managed to fit a bit of shopping in (Zara - good shop !! Lexie will do ok this christmas again )

Meeting. Back to town. Beer. Back to Airport. On the way back on the bus who do I see ? Gordon Bird from ADP !! Madness, havent seen him for 2 years, and there he is in Edinburgh for the week with his family for the Fringe festival. Good to see him. I like Gordon, he's a good bloke.
Anyhoo, back to the airport, bought the obligatory bottle of whisky for Kev, had a meal, plane delayed (grrrr), landed in Bristol at 8.15pm, home by 9ish.
Knackered. Kev was back from Preston and between us we sat in a tired stupor and drank copious amounts of wine for 2 hours then crashed into bed exhausted !

Saturday - did boring stuff (washing, cleaning), did a bit of shopping, collected Jacky boy. More wine. Saturday over.

Sunday - Anna, Si, Debs, Johnny arrived, had lunch at the Beefeater and some beers (not for me cos i am driving later!). Debs loves Jack cos he is just like their dog Sooty ! All off to bed by 9ish. Up at 2.30, drove the guys to the airport. Waved Kev off too at 5.30. Day off Monday, and spent most of in and out of sleep !!

Normal week. Gav has just been 'crowned' Apprentice of the Year at his college, so he and Laura are coming up this weekend to celebrate !