hmph, grrrr and other similar things

My Dad asked to be my 'friend' on fb, and I could hardly say no, so now I cant post my pissed offness on there. And I keep forgetting he can see stuff, so now he is annoying through there too

Yesterday he posts on my fb that he will try and arrange a mutually convenient time to bring me something from my grandmother. Is it just me or does that suggest he would in some way contact me to check if 1.30 was ok? Or does it mean turn up then without any notice and regardless of whether it was ok with me?

No prizes for working out which one he did.

He had also seen on my fb that someone had requested pics of my tree. And as I am clearly incapable of taking a photo, he brought his camera to take them for me. So now I have to put on my fb pics I dont like. Please all ignore them til I've taken my own pics and posted them instead

Didnt even say, I've brought my camera in case you'd like me to take some pics and give me chance to say, no thanks, I'm doing it myself later. Nope, jsut got on and did it

Oh, and when he didnt come round to put up my new wall lights like he promised because he was 'ill', I think I now know why. He says he has some sort of flu bug, yet when he tells me that he doesnt have any of the normal flu type symptoms but feels tired lots, over sleeps, has a fuzzy head when he wakes, I know exactly what is wrong. He doesnt have flu ffs, he's suffering as a result of stupidly excessive alcohol. Stop drinking and wow, he'd feel better. Who'd ever think that being an alcoholic and drinking vast amounts could make you feel ill?

Rant over. Rest of life will continue to be posted on facebook

I remember now part of why I have a blog. Its somewhere I can go and say aaaarrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh. And a bit of grrrrrrrrr

In short the reason is my father. He is driving me madder. Again. For those that dont know the background, he's an alcoholic. And he's pretty much let alcohol fuck up most of his life, and then blamed anyone and anything, except his own sheer stupidity. When sober, he can actually be ok, quite nice to be around, mostly. Drunk, well, he's divorced cos my mum who loved him, had had enough of him being pissed all the time, and being very verbablly abusive.

He's had depression on and off, mostly on, for a very long time. And as alcohol is a depressant, when he drinks cos he feels shit, oddly enough he ends up feeling more shit. He is supposedly an very intelligent man. After splitting from my mum, he had a 'girlfriend' for ages. And when she dumped him, he got worse than he'd ever been, stopped eating, just surviving on 40 fags a day and a bottle of gin. He then got done for drink driving, again. So 4 years ago, almost exactly, he decided suicide was a good plan. Naturally he couldnt even do that properly. I'm the only relative within 70 miles, so sorted him into hospital, and updated what felt like my entire family, including long lost cousins i'd never met (It was actually 4 people, but shush) Somehow he got into rehab that autumn, which he then got himself kicked out of early January, cos when he was let out for an afternoon, he got pissed.

That seems to be the one thing that got through to him however, and he got sober, and stayed sober \o/ The main thing that has kept him sober however is that he's not worked, not through choice - he jsut cant get a job, and so has near no money.

But, and you knew there was one coming, recently he's been drinking again. I pretty much only have contact with him on Sundays normally, when we go to the pub for the quiz. Theres a real irony that the only way I know of to be sure hes not drinking is to take him to the pub!! I know he shouldnt drink though, and he knows I know this, and my friends S+K who we quiz with also know this, so he wouldnt drink. In his stupidity I think he thinks we wont notice that hes been drinking half the day. Erm, hello??? I grew up with him being drunk half the time, I can tell when he phones me that hes drunk, just by the way he says hello. Hes just rung me, hes drunk.

So I am grrrrrrrrrrrrrring cos he shouldnt, it is gonna kill him one of these days, and I'll get to sort all the mess out he'll leave. And I'm grrrrring cos I cant yet work out where the f*** he's getting the money. Either his dim mother (I'm not her greatest fan) is giving him money again, or hes not paying his bills, not eating, and just spending the money on alcohol.

Maybe I should start taking bets on quite which way he'll manage to kill himself. It may sound morbid, but if I dont try and make light of it...... I'm thinking a car accident is unlikely, he has driven while drunk consistently for about 20 years, and despite being caught, and banned for it 3 times, once he has a car again, he's bound to still do it. Its one of the problems he has when drunk, he thinks he's fine, dont even ask what reading the machine came up with last time he was done

Oh, and he's met some woman online, they talk all the time, have done for a couple of years now. Only she lives in NY state, so they've not yet met. She is apparently coming over for a visit in August. I'm dreading it, he wants me to meet her, which might be fine. But what worries me is that it shouldnt take her long to realise what hes like in reality, and if she then dumps him.... And I know, I know, I shouldnt worry about what might not even happen, but knowing him, and whats happened in the past, I think I have jsut cause. And I as say, I'm the only person nearby, so I'll get to either sort him, or his estate out. He has already appointed me exectutor of his will

I'm gonna go scream and grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr elsewhere for a bit

See, the problem is these days, its often easier to summarise anything of interest in a couple of lines as a facebook status than it is to bother blogging

The occasional exception might be when I want to say something to a more 'select' audience. Mostly moaning though. Stuff like knowing my ex's family dont see this, so here its safe to mutter about my ex in laws sending Holly 1 birthday card, as is normal, but sending 2 to Amos, one from ex mil and one from ex fil. Their birthdays are a mere 10 days apart, would have been very easy for Holly to notice and comment, possibly even to be bothered. Fortunately she didnt, but it does irritate me the way they make their favouritism of him so flipping blatant

Oh well, very little I can do, and so far it doesnt actually cause the kids any issues.

My life has mostly carried on as usual, anything mildly interesting posted on fb. Likely to continue that way too. Kids are all fine, 6 weeks on Tuesday til they leave the country without me \o/ Dog is fine, back to vets this Tues, for update, erm, see facebook

Today has mostly been a lovely day. Abby had a birthday party from 12-2, and when we picked her up, we went straight to city centre for some shopping. Amos and Holly had birthday money burning holes in their pockets. For a bonus point guess who Holly likes based on what she bought.....2 Hannah Montana books, 7 packs of Hannah Montana stickers, a Hannah Montana goody bag, a Hannah Montana Wii game, and cos it was bogof, she also got a High School Musical Wii game too

Amos also got a Wii game, some Zelda thing. So now we have 3 new Wii games, and 1 Wii. Roll on the next round of bickering :-\

As we were in town, we went to Town Quay on the way home, just in time to see Grand Princess go past, and with plenty of time to be as close as possible to see QM2 leave. Well, publicly anyway. Along with quite a lot of other people we watched her slowly pulled outta berth by the tug, then turn and go off down Southampton Water. I never tire out watching the cruise ships go out.

We missed seeing Norweigan Jade leave, but had seen her earlier, good view from top of Ikea car park. Another HUGE one, though of the 3 today, QM2 looked biggest and is certainly the most impressive and prettiest to look at. Was nice to be right in town to watch them go for a change, normally we go to the big country park which is right on the water 3 or 4 miles further down, and dog enjoys it there too, but well, we have new wii games!!

Theres a line in Pretty Woman. Well several, but one in particular. The gist is when they are lying in bed talking and he asks about her past etc, and she says....the bad stuff is easier to believe

So why? Why do we do that? Ignore all the good stuff people say, and micro focus on the tiny negative thing?

And on a similar line, why do I know something is a bad idea, but still do it over and over again? Why do I not learn? Why do I think that the other person has changed in any way, will listen this time when they never have before?

Why when I am healthy, my kids the same, the dog, well yes, anyway, I have my own home, food in the cupboard, more friends than i can count some days. Why am I constantly surprised they still like me after getting to know me? And why do I focus on the things I dont have? A man mostly, though other stuff some days too. Not possesions, cos though more money would be great, it would be so i could pay all my bills without worrying, not for things, have never greatly cared about those.

And I'm alone in this. Why do we do it? And will I ever learn that sometimes its jsut not worth it, and to move on?

Pics of doggy

This is Smartie, and Abby, and a bit of Amos. I took it yesterday morning. You can kind of see her leg, though its less obvious now than a couple of weeks ago when it was all freshly shaved and bald. As I think I said, its not in a cast, just pins, as hopefully the next pic shows.....




It looks worse than it is, but you can understand why when it was new, Holly took one look and burst into tears! It is actually 6 metal pins which are screwed into her bone, with a bar across them all holding them in place, and firmly so. If all continues to go well, she has an xray in about 4 weeks, which should show the bone all healed, at which point the pins come out.

Those pics were taken after last weeks green bandage came off. Some skirmish with one of the cats. So yesterday when we went to vets for check up, she got a lovely new pink one. Its main purpose being to protect her and us from the ends of the pins! They may not be needle sharp, but trust me, you dont wanna get poked by one. As todays final pic shows, she is generally pretty chilled out, and doing well \o/

According to some AOL article, there are 15 types of men/relationships women go through. Well 14 really, but they clearly thought 15 sounded better so included doing a Katy Perry (Or doing a Jess ;)). The list started with first love and ended with "the one" and had most things in between, the 'one night stand', holiday romance, etc etc.

Still on the bright side I reckon in one way or another I've now gone through 9 of them, so only 5 to go til me and Mr Right start living happily ever after

I need to stop reading chick lit. They all seem to go from one relationship to the dream one in no time, yet after nearly 3 years I've yet to have one show more than a passing interest :-\

Despite how that might sound I'm not desperate, well not much. It jsut would be nice.... But I'm gonna try and focus on the positives. I can live perfectly well and happily without a man. I have my (mostly) fantastic kids, a gorgeous dog, a roof over my head, enough money to have all the necessities, and even occasional treats. Its a beautiful day, I live in a country where I'm free to do pretty much what I please, and I have my health. I could go for a walk in the lovely spring sunshine (I said could, not will!), I have amazing friends, an internet connection ;) and wine in the fridge :)

In general life is good, but at this moment, I still feel a bit quiet :( Oh well, life goes on and all that

Smartie news.....she came home on Thursday, is hopping around with no real problems. Shes not meant to do much more than lie around. I have put a stair gate up, and keep reminded her not to jump, at all! Not to say hello, not onto the sofa, not onto the sleepers in the garden to get to one of her sniffing spots. Daft dog. She goes back to vets tomorrow for a check up. I was going to take pics yesterday, but I can t work out how to use the digital camera my mum gave us :-x It might just have dead batteries.

Latest on Smartie

Vet rang me mid afternoon and told me she's had her op. It went very well, they've managed to put her bones back where they should be, and her leg is now all pinned and clamped and goodness knows what else. She had come round again by the time vet rang, and was fine. They are keeping her in again tonight to keep an eye on her and keep her topped up with painkillers, but she ought to come home tomorrow.

Then the fun begins of trying to persaude her the that vet said 6 weeks of rest!

Not much else happening, I've about two thirds of the way through replacing kitchen floor, tis looking great. Have also been repainting bits of wall while I'm at it. Bit pointless laying a new floor and THEN painting. Am jsut doing it the same colour, covering some of the marks that have magically appeared. None of my children ever touch the walls. Same way their stuff walks all by itself to the middle of the floor and then sits there.

We've not won pub quiz so much recently, the curly merkins are back on form :-\

School holidays start soon, I will undoubtably have had enough by about 8am Saturday morning. Would be sooner but I'm going out Friday night.

I will try and get a pic of Smartie all bandaged up. It'll take me months to get round to moving it from camera to pc and then to blog, but thats nothing new.

Dog update

I've spoken to the vet again. She's had her xrays, and the good news is that its only her leg that got injured. The bad news is that it is broken, and not cleanly :( Both bones have splintered :-\

She will hopefully have her op tomorrow, and if everything goes to plan, in about 6 weeks she will be back to normal, and will be hard to believe it ever happened. However operations always carry a degree of risk, and theres also a slight possibility of a problem with the blood supply to the area which would affect healing. Also a possibly it wont knit back together properly.

BUT shes a young dog, will be 4 end of April. She's fit, healthy, and the odds are that she'll be fine. Jsut get to wait now. Hopefully she'll be home tomorrow, then we go back after 6 weeks for another xray to see if all is as it should be

Not a great day

Its a good thing I had nothing planned today, jsut some bits around the house. So at least I didnt have to rearrange or cancel anything.

The day started well, took kids to school, then dog to Weston shore for a walk. I walked, she ran, sniffed, bounced around, sniffed some more, usual sort of thing. Then just before we got back to the car, she went into some bushes, there were things to sniff. Only she did whats shes never done before and went a very long way into the bushes, and then out the other side. Straight into a car :( The poor driver had no chance, was entirely the dozy dogs fault. I didnt see it, just heard her squeals, but it would appear the car jsut clipped her, caught her shoulder and front leg. But that stretch of road is a 40mph limit, and the car was likely to have been doing about that, so even jsut catching her would do quite some damage. And it has :(

Fortunately her head is fine, and her chest/stomach area. And 3 legs are fine. But the 4th has broken in at least 2 places. I obviously found her as fast as I could, got her to car and drove straight to vets (pausing to exchange mobile numbers with driver). Vets have given her lots of painkillers and fluids, she was understandably in a lot of pain and in shock. Am waiting for a phone call any minute with the results of the xray, but they already know she will need an op, either tomorrow or thurs. She is, obviously, staying at the vets til after op, all doped up.

Its very weird here without her. I'm jsut hoping and praying its 'just' 2 breaks, one in each bone, and that they are clean breaks.

And no, shes not insured. I did start looking into it a couple of weeks ago, but didnt finish comparing whats covered by which companies and how much etc. Shes at the PDSA who are a charity providing vets for people who cant afford them. But if she needs specialist treatment, they dont do that, and I'd have to pay. Which of course I would, but at the moment I'm in that horrible stage of jsut not knowing whats needed.

I'll post agasin later when I know more

ok, when I said I was gonna blog more often, clearly I lied. Tough.

Update on last post.....Last Sunday I had a police officer come out, we had a little chat. My strimmer had been found by someone else that morning and returned, well most of it, the guard is still missing :-\ I dont want to press charges or anything, I just want the kids involved to know its not on, and to leave me alone. So the officer left me to go straight to see said kids and have a 'word'. It appears to have worked, not a peep from any of them since \o/

And a brighter note, I've jsut got off the phone to a lovely lady. She works for the CSA, and they havent forgotten me :-D In fact the person I spoke to works in the criminal department. As soon as they can pin him to an address, and serve him a notice, which has to give 14 days before they can take him to court, they will be taking him to court :-D

He's being done for failing to provide information to the csa. And another department are working on actually getting money out of him. If they cant, they will be lodging that debt with a court too. He really is stupid enough to think he can get away with not paying for his kids, its fab to know that the csa agree with me that there's no way he will, and we WILL get him! They have a range of things they can do to him, including imprisoning him. Sounds fair to me. I know its harsh of me to say it, but it is a last resort, and is unlikely to happen, but if they get to it, he will deserve it.

Had parent teacher meeting with Holly's teacher today. She is, of course, doing very very well. I get on really well with Mrs Stephens, so we jsut had a natter. I get to see Amos' teachers next week, which will be much more interesting, though I can tell you now what almost all of them will say. I've been told the same thing about him at pretty much every parent teacher meeting for the last 7 years!

Abigail this afternoon apparently went on a class trip to the local cemetery. Erm, ok. I signed a form ages ago, giving permission for them to take kids out locally any time they like. Makes far more sense than sending a form every time, and waiting for all the replies etc. However, it does mean that I have not a clue why they went to the cemetery. It would appear to be simply because they could. Very odd, but I trust her school, so dont mind.

I'm still slowly working on the hall floor. Having said I couldnt be bothered to prepare it properly, I keep finding myself actually preparing bits of it :-\ Its about 3 quarters done now though, and looking fab. I would offer to post a pic when its finished, but we all know I'd be lying.

And now the weather. Its sunny. Nice warm, spring day. The sort that leaves you feelign you ought to out in the garden, tidying it up a bit and planting seeds etc, and then slightly guilty that you havent. It has been like this all week, and I havent done a thing in the garden yet. Oh well, theres always next week. Or more realistically, next year

Any thoughts on what we can have for dinner? I cant be bothered to cook, but no money for takeaway. Answers on a postcard to the usual address please

Bloody long post, and not happy news :(

In short, I'm having problems from what could loosely be called children. Not mine, the local lot with their asbo's.

I think it was them on Tuesday calling at me as I got out of car with girls after Abby's swimming lesson. They were jsut calling out can we come to yours for dinner, and I didnt even acknowledge that I'd heard them. Little brats being well brats I thought, and got on with life.

You're getting the full details btw so I have it for myself as a record, if you want the short story, stop reading now.

So then last night, would have been about 8pm, I heard a noise. I thought it was Holly jumping down off of the ladder to Amos'. But then Holly came downstairs and said it was the door, so I went and looked. There was my bike, that had been in my garden. Someone had taken it from my garden, and rammed it into my door. Naturally by then, there was no one in sight. About 10 minutes later, there was another thud at the door, and this time I jsut opened it and let the dog run. I also ran, usually unheard of I know. Its amazing what anger can help you do. Kids got to corner before me, and by time I'd rounded it, no sign. So I went and knocked on the door of the local troublemakers, eldest of whom cant be more than 10. Mother answered, I said I'd had some trouble from some kids, had hers been in the whole time? And this other woman there went off on one. BIG time, shouting and screaming and swearing at me, barely let me get a word in, and eventually mother pushed her away and shut door. Was only way to get her to shut up.

I was really really shaken by it all. Felt very scared, vulnerable and unsafe in my own home :(

Oh, and one other tiny but possibly relevant thing. As I ran down road after them, dog ahead of me, I passed another child, who kinda said whoa, as dog ran past. As I was knocking door, said child walked past me into side door. He had a carrier bag so had just been to shop. Now him I saw again today, so is likely to back his mates up with their lies, but wasnt one last night.

Annoyingly I didnt actually see any of them properly last night, it was dark, so theres fuck all I can do :-\

However today......I had jsut left tescos with the girls when my mobile rang. It was Amos who told me he'd heard the gate, looked out the window and saw kids running off down the road with my strimmer. He rang me at 16.46, so it happened a few minutes earlier.

I got home, unloaded shopping and went down to try and sort things. You'll all be stunned to hear I knocked on the same door as last night. Only this time Amos had seen and I knew it was one of them. No response to start with, so I knocked again, heard a voice tell a child to not answer door, so I knocked again. Voice shouted to go away. So I called out " return my property then". That got the door open!

I explained calmly, that the kids had been seen taking tennis rackets and my strimmer, and it was undoubtably jsut them thinking it childish pranks, but I wanted my stuff back.

I dont believe it was childish pranks btw, I think they are nasty little shits. But in the interests of getting it sorted calmly and easily....

She said she'd have a word with them, I said thank you, and walked off. Went to my lovely neighour who lives opposite and who I spoke to about it all last night. As we're talking 2 of the little shits appeared with 2 of MY tennis rackets, adn a ball. They threw them onto my garden from half way down the street, but I spose they had at least jsut about returned them. Very helpfully my neighour instantly recognised one of them, and we already knew the identity of the other.

They then sauntered off, and I called to them to return my strimmer too. They played innocent and said stuff like waht strimmer? we aint got no strimmer? I told them they had been seen with it, and to give it back.

The house in question is down the road from me, and round the corner, 3rd house along, and has an alley to its back garden. So kids go down alley, and about this time mad woman from last night appears. This time I recognise her, and lovely neighbour even knows a name. She was a lot calmer (ie sober), and asked what was going on. I told her, and when after a minute or two there were no children re appearing, we walked to the corner, where I saw the 3 little toads legging it, one of them holding MY STRIMMER!! They went down Grove Gardens, which at that point is a dead end. However, that wasnt gonna worry them. WHen after am inute they didnt re appear I followed, and they were going over a fence into a back garden. However someone who lives down there had heard a nosie, and had his window open telling them to get down.

Frustratingly, he didnt see them with my strimmer. So at the moment, its gone. The kids jsut swaggered off and said that I couldnt prove anything. Arrogant, cocky little bastards.

Annoyingly, we all know they are right. I didnt see which one actually was holding the strimmer, and there were 3 of them :-\ However I have spoken to the police and someone is coming out to take a statement tomorrow at 5pm

My biggest worry at the moment is that they will continue to harass me. They know damn well they can get away with most things. Speaking to the police has helped though, today I dont feel upset as such. Angry more than anything else

So there we have it. I shall update you on what else happens. I suspect it will be when, not if :(

Well today started as planned. Except for the strange white stuff that fell from the sky. It never normally snows here, yet this morning it did, and confused everyone who lives here.

Amos went to school, I went online. Had a lovely email in my in box again, its a great way to start the day :) Took the girls to school, and went into Abby's for her class assembly. I was very proud of her, she had a small talking part and she did it!! She's quite shy and hates standing up in front of people. The mere idea of saying something as well terrifies her, and I did wonder if she might chicken out. But she didnt \o/

Then I picked up Jonathan, came back home. He went to play, I went online ;) Had planned to give him lunch then get on with the stuff I couldnt do yesterday. It was around about then that the day stopped going to plan :-\ I got a phone call from Amos' school, he was very pale, looked on the verge of fainting, could I go get him. So once again he is home, and not quite right. He's mostly fine, and hopefully a quiet afternoon reading and on the wii, then an early night and tomorrow he'll be ok.

If not, he'll have buggered my plans for a third day running!

Today I had a handful of things planned. Then Amos announced he was ill, and I scraped all of them :-\ He didnt have any real symptons, but he never misses school. He never moans about going, never has to be nagged to go, so when he says he's not up to going, I believe him. Oh, and he only ate half his dinner last night and went to bed voluntarily at 7.30pm!! He is back to eating me out of house and home again now though, so tomorrow will go to school again.

So instead of going out, I decided today was a good day to lay a new floor in the hall. Well, start laying one. I have finally cleared the old table out, put new floor in the corner, moved stuff round some more. I've only got cheap vinyl tiles, and I cant be bothered to worry about making the floor vaguely flat and level. But I hate the current floor more than I can explain. Half of it is a foul brown carpet, and the other half is where the carpet got removed and its a foul brown concrete. The new tiles are a pale parquet style, and even the little bit I've done so far looks sooooo much better.

Tomorrow I have Jonathan for the day, which as always should be lovely. He's very easy to look after, and in general a delight to be around. I may even get to run some of the errands I had planned for today.

I'm off now to watch Grand Designs, which I adore. And after the first few minutes of it, this looks like being a beautiful building

Wow, it really is a long time since I blogged.

Been long enough that I have actually done stuff that isnt just boring day to day crap. I've done that too, the washing machine still goes round often, the dog acts likes every time I take her for a walk is the first time ever, or since well, yesterday. The children continue to go to school, thank god.

In January I took a day off and went to London, been far too long since I was there, love it. Met up with a bunch of weird aol people ;) Usual sort of meet stuff, we mostly sat in pubs drinking, chatting and laughing. I believe quite a bit of sex happened too, sadly none of it involved me :-\

Bizarrely, having not been to central London in nearly 2 years, I ended up in the exact same place about 3 weeks later!! The kids and I had a fantastic day out. Someone I've known for nearly 20 years(scary!!) was turning 30, and while most people go out for a meal or throw a party, she organised a treasure hunt!! There wasnt any actual treasure, it was just for fun, and fun we had. There are even pics, I must sort some onto here.

A couple of weeks ago my brother came to visit for a few days. I dont see him very often, so it was lovely. And he is very useful :-D He fixed various little bits, like my leaking roof :-x He also did a load of new woodwork I've been waiting years for. I need to now get on and prime and gloss it all. Its already looking good, and hopefully soon it will look amazing. Its sooooo good to finally be getting some of my house sorted.

Ooooh and we finally got an ikea in Southampton. Took years of planning wrangling and building, but I now have cheap, reasonable furniture easily available to help finish the house off.

And once again, like buses, and going to London, having not seen my brother for ages, I then saw him again the week after. In half term he and his wife, and their girls, had a narrowboat holiday booked for the week. However as its out of season, its when maintenance on the canals happens, and annoyingly for them, this time it was on the stretch they were booked to go to! Which meant they could go up and down a fair bit of water, but no locks :-\ But cos they couldnt go far, they invited us to join them for a couple of days, so we did. We all loved it, I've been on ones before, but many years ago, before I had kids. Apart from the little bit where we had the M1 100 yards away, it was, as always, very relaxing. With a maximum speed of 4mph, you have to slow down.

I even managed to do some steering without crashing it \o/ And although there is a little tv onboard, it wasnt switched on. Instead the kids and us played connect 4 and cards. And my brother and I were remembering playing a specific card game as kids when we went to our Nans. And after he texted my mum for details, and googled the rules, we taught it to our kids. They really enjoyed it, and it was jsut so nice to sit around with the 5 of them and my brother playing cards. No technology or distractions, just plain old fashioned fun

Then last Saturday we went and had lunch in Guildford as my mother in law was over for a few days, and its nice for her to see the kids. And it means I keep vaguely in touch with that side of the family. I stuggle with many of them, but jsut cos the ex is a twat doesnt mean his family are. It had been 6 months since she and the kids had seen each other, and will be another 6 til they do again.

Then we went to see MY Mummy, as it was her birthday the next day. Despite seeing her far more than the mil, I alwayas enjoy seeing her. Except for one thing. She has bought the girls bloody High School Musical 3 on dvd, and I am currently having to sit through it yet again!!

It doesnt help that its the story of 2 teens madly in love, and being all gooey. I'm damn glad to not be a teen any more. But being single... why is it so hard to find a man I like, who likes me, who is single, solvent, loves dogs and tolerates kids??

So anyway, I guess thats most of my news. I promise, I will blog more often. I have been suitably chastised for the lack of posts recently, there is at least one person out there who is intereted in the mundanity of my life.

The government really do need to sort out the shortage of high quality psychiatic help ;)

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And she says I'm mad?? Hang on, I joined in....

Cant be bothered blogging. Doesnt feel like theres anything to say. None of you are really that bored as to care that this morning I walked the dog, and in a bit i'm going to have a bath. After that I expect I will load the washing machine, and do some washing up. I may wash the kitchen floor, go on facebook for a bit, then get kids, do dinner, wash up again, then once they are in bed tidy up. Again.

As for things that arent the H word related, stuff like feelings, or thoughts, I'm reluctant to say about on a public blog. As tends to be the way with me, the same few things go round and round my head. It doesnt get me anywhere, and is usually best to not share.

One of the strange men I met a few months ago is taking me for dinner again tomorrow. We've done this enough times now for it to jsut about be classed as a regular thing. Is nice to spend an evening away from the kids and with someone else cooking. And the company is lovely too ;) Before any of you get carried away, its not a 'relationship' just 2 people having a nice evening every couple of months or so.

And now for the weather. Very foggy out today. Near continuous noise of ships horns down on the water. Its starting to get annoying. Tomorrow there will probably be weatehr again. It wont be interesting then either.

I also appear to be both tired and hormonal. Not a good mix, and sometime soon not only will I be feelign a bit out of sorts, but will start on the most men are bastards thing again. Roll on tomorrow when I can bitch about men to a lovely man who will let me rant then cheer me up :)

Told you she was gorgeous!!

Its a girl !!!!!

FINALLY, 9 days late, Helen has had her baby!!!!!

I am very excited and looking forward to meeting her asap. She was born at 16.09 today, weight not yet known, and is called Rebekah Catherine.

I am baking a cake, new babies need such things. Well their mummy's do. And once its done I will go up for a very quick cuddle and to drop cake off. She will obviously be beautiful. I will try and get a pic or two.