Photo's

Well i managed to take one piccie whilst step daughter was here, well i say i did, it was Amy actually she and Ellie were in a silly mood!

Also I have put one of my fave pics from our holiday in Majorca last year, may have to be a while before i put some more on they took ages to upload!

Where does the time go??

Well, another long time in between posts!
I am struggling to remember what has happened in the past couple of weeks, apart from being ill :-(, according to the practice nurse on the phone i had a viral infection.......wasn't she good diagnosing that over the phone! needless to say they couldn't give me anything for it, so I have been dosing up on co-codomal, ibuprofen and cough lintcus!, but the cough is still persisting two weeks later! :-(
Well we had the car MOT'd and after finding that the advisory notice was as long as the A4 sheet of paper we decided to sell and buy something smaller, now with 4 and sometimes 6 children here that would seem a foolish thing to do, get rid of a 7 seater and purchase a 5 seater.......but i think that i can count on one hand the number of times that the 7 seater has been full over the last year, so put that with the cost of petrol, insurance and road tax for such a big car we sold it and bought a little 5 door Fiesta, nicknamed Florence :-) - she is a zippy little thing and comes with a cd player...woo hoo! feels like a luxury...lol

Over the half term, i took the boys and step daughter to a soft play centre and met an old work colleague with her 3 girls, had lunch,chat and the kids played - nice afternoon :-)

I was supposed to be going to the cinema with a friend from our HE days and then back to their house for some yummy food -which is what we always get when we go there! - if i was married to the man i would weigh at least 20 stone....it is soo good, anyways, this was suppposed to happen on the Wednesday and i sold the car on the Tuesday, so had to go car hunting instead, though the youngest went to a friends for a sleepover and eldest boy went to the said friends and cinema...etc and had a great time.

Went to Stockport to return step daughter and met my sister there, her youngest and step daughter are the same age and love each other :-), we went to the hat museum and they had a great time dressing up with all the clothes...just wished i had taken my camera, then i would have had something good to put on here, i will remember it in future....i will remember it future....note to self!, then we went for a lovely chinese banquet ...yum ...yum.

Had a late night on Saturday..went to see some friends in Morecambe and stayed a little longer than was planned, didn't get home till 545am!!!! i felt like a teenager again...lol, though the roads from Morecambe to home are very quiet at the time of the morning...it was a lovely fast drive :-)

Well it was back to work yesterday and doesnt even seem like i have been away...lol

i am sooo far behind on my Spanish course, with being ill and unmotivated!, i have an assignment due in on Monday, thankfully my tutor has given me a weeks grace, but i have to admit that i am lacking inspiration.....i really wish i knew how to conjugate verbs properly...! also i seem to slip into French so easily it's annoying!

well that's it for now

catch up

Hmm well, been well over a week since i last posted, so here is a little run down on what has been happening...
well last Friday was a fun day!!.... i came home at lunchtime from work and immediately knew that something was wrong.....after much investigating i found youngest daughters school uniform in her bedroom...rang her school to ask if she was there, knowing full well the answer...she wasn't there, she had been in registration and got her mark and then bunked off. I couldn't ring her phone as she had already had that confiscated for an earlier misdemeanor, so didn't have a clue where she was!, by this time i had to go back to work. Unbeknown to her I finish work early on a Friday, so when I came home and found the door unlocked I knew that she was there, what i wasn't ready for was the two 'hoodies' that went out of the back door when i was coming in the front door, let's just say that the air was blue and I don't think that they will darken our doorstep again! - so sanctions for her....grounded, no computer and no phone till 10th March!!! plus she did a day in FTEC (internal exclusion) i really hope that she has learnt her lesson!! .

well, went to get my hair highlighted on Saturday...long time since i have had this done, the last colour that went on my hair was Flamingo Pink!!, gawd i still can't believe that i did that...it was my middle age rebellion - i never did rebel as a teenager. Then me and eldest daughter went into Blackpool to do a little retail therapy.....she got all the therapy and i got nothing...lol, still she was happy, also made a well overdue appointment for her to have her hair cut today.

Watched the Hammers draw with the Gunners, not a bad point, they should have won really!

But of a boring week at work, same old same old, still week to go and then a week off, we have my other half's 6yo daughter coming down for half term, so no doubt we will be busy.

The car had the work done and passed its MOT - yippee!, know all we need to do is clean it out and sell it!

Had a good day with the breadmaker again today...made homemade pizzas for tea, then made dough for croissant, and the bread is on timer to be ready at 10am...yum yum!

this weekend i am planning on clearing out the garage, much needed, also have to use the car with the trailer before we sell it...lol

Also sorted out the coldness in the boys bedroom, finally got the radiators working properly and now it is a little warmer, hopefully this will stop the mould growing on the wall that i washed off today, despite telling the landlord about this he still doesn't seem to car, well we only have to look at the half finished bathroom that he started in November, we still need a windowsill and the rest of it finishing off!...wouldn't mind but i have always paid the rent at the right time every month..the least he could do would be to keep up with the upkeep of the house...hey ho!

well that's about it for now...be time for another catch up before i know it!