I quit AGAIN!

12:17:53 o'clock BST Keith and I did not win the Euromillions, we spent the morning discussing how we are not going to spend our 92 million that we did not win, we wouldn't buy a tropical Island, we wouldn't be sharing out our fortune amongst friends and family, we would not be buying oursleves and everyone we know fast cars and big houses, we would not be getting private tuition for the boys and we would not be landscaping a dirt track on our private grounds and buying those dirt track bikes and whizzing around all day on them, and we would not be designing and building our own fairground, Keith would not have his own fishing boat, I would not have my own hairdresser and beautician, and we would not have our own chef, fitness instructor, plastic surgeon, helicopter and we would not be quitting work for ever.

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19:58:06 o'clock BST

My bro is getting quite seriously in to his photography, but has only really taken pics of inanimate objects, so I offered myself for an afternoon's photoshoot so he could have a go at portraits, and between us here are a few of what we came up with ....

 

and just a few of me and Martin, once he had recovered from his night's hard partying and 9 hour shift at work!  (ish)

 

and a cupla sillies

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11:19:52 o'clock BST

Our wedding day in 2004 reached 30 degrees and was the hottest day of that year, stark contrast to what it's like out there today.

For my Keiffy

I Will Love You Forever

I love you so deeply,
I love you so much,
The way that you kiss me
And the way that we touch.
I love your warm smile
And your kind, loving way,
The love that you bring
To my life every day.
I love you today
As I have from the start,
And I'll love you forever
With all of my heart.

xxx

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07:49:02 o'clock BST

It's our 4th wedding anniversary today, happy anniversary to me

Jack starts big school today, for such a calm boy he's actually quite nervous, all the things he's worried about I remember worrying about the same, ten *cough* odd years ago

Astonishing, his friend, who's 11, smokes, his mother gives him cigarettes, she should be shot, I hope I don't ever come face to face with her, not my business I know, but what the hell is she doing?

it's raining, it's raining horrendously, it's horrifically terrifically raining.

I have to go and chat with Jack, he's wanting to talk, must be the nerves

x

happy ole soul

a friendly word of advice from his big brother ... (never spend the night drinking, get in at 3am, when you have a 9 hour shift at work starting at 8am)

*update - he went in ok, apprehensive, but I didn't milk it, I took him to the entrance, he saw a friend, and so I shoved him in with his mate and scarpered. 

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20:34:38 o'clock BST

evening

well the weather held out, and we had a lovely time.  Started spitting at about 7, so we got 3 hours or so in the garden.

 

this is Keith's two sisters, Bev and Lisa, their husbands, mum and dad in law and of course me and jack

Jack and Keith's sister Lisa, she's great for 46 eh!

I was telling a real good joke, notice how they all laugh! ....not

Jack on trampoline

Me and me mom in part of their garden done special in memory of Steven, known as 'Steven's Garden'

 

 

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11:53:29 o'clock BST

Is this the reeall liiffeee

Is this just fantasyyyyy

Caught in a landsliiiideee

No escape from reaaalityyyyy

Oppen your eeeyeeees

Look up to the skiiieees and seeeeee

I'm just a poor booyy

 

Shut the f*** uuuuup

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18:55:58 o'clock BST

tis a funny ole life innit!  I've had two days no work, and I have done lots of housework.  I cleaned the kitchen from top to bottom, my mother in law bought me 3 plastic cereal containers for our wedding anniversary, I said she should have bought us 4, one for each year we have been married, and she said she would go up the town tomorrow and buy a fourth.  I didn't say not to bother, 3 cereal containers for a fourth wedding anniversary sounds like bad karma to me.

How easy it is to lose touch with family.  I have a big family, I did have 5 uncles (all married so 5 aunties), an auntie (married so another uncle)  all had children, and lots of them, and my mum.  Two uncles have now passed on.  As a child I was close to all the family, always aunts, uncles, cousins, nans granddads wherever you turned, now I'm lucky if I see any of them once or twice a year, if that.  I was on facebook last night, I have a few of my cousins on there, and they are all party animals, their kids have all grown up (eek) and they now seem to be enjoying their freedom, a little more than they should maybe.  But there were lots of photos of my aunts and cousins etc on there, they all look so grown up, a photo of one of my aunties was on there, when I think of my auntie Rose I imagine her as this young, vibrant woman, in this photo she was grey, and old.    I guess she'd say the same about me, not old and grey, quite, but just old, a grown woman. 

I was lucky I had an extremely happy childhood, our family all loved one another and had mass parties whenever we had an excuse.  Martin was shocked at the amount of second cousins he has, as we waded through the photos, he had no idea.  It's not like what it used to be is it.  Days, weeks, months go by, life overtaken with work, stress, housework, the wider family union seems to have disappeared all together, it's all about trying to get through each day without anymore grief. 

I would have loved for my sons to have had safe warm feeling that a large family unit can bring, aunts and uncles always welcoming, remembering a certain aftershave or perfume, gifts that a special auntie and uncle gave you, the funny laugh an auntie might have when she drank a little too much, the stern uncle who caught you roasting weetabix onhis gas fire, and would shout until the vein pulsated in his forehead.  I was chatting to one of my cousins for a while via MSN last night, it's all it seems to be these days, quick chats via the internet, how are you, yeah fine, we'll have to meet up soon, yeah see you in a few years, at the next funeral maybe. 

I'm not being morbid, I am thankful I have a whole bankfull of memories, of which I treasure, sometimes it lifts my spirits when I'm low, I just think it's sad that we are losing these family values.

I just grounded Jack, he told his first lie to me, and it's the first time I have ever grounded him.  It was only a white lie, but a lie all the same, so he is sat over there with a face on.  Nip it in the bud, that's what I say.  I might force him to have a game of Scrabble with me, it's what one of my aunties used to do, but I doubt it'll remain a treasured memory for him, as much as it is for me

x

 

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08:16:48 o'clock BST

My in laws are having a 50th golden wedding party on Sunday, it is being held in my sis in law's garden, like a garden party, same as my wedding reception, and there are contradicting weather forecasts all over the place.

So I gets my brother, who has been studying weather all his life to give me his most accurate forecast, as this garden party depends on it, and this is what I get:

So, weather forecast for Sunday: Rather warm (24 C to 26 C) and humid with bright spells, albeit rather hazy. Variable amount of cloud cover. Small risk of thundery showers (possible a localised thunderstorm) later on in the day. At least we'll lose this wind, though!
  Hope that helps.

warm, ok, bright spells but hazy (so could be sunny, but might be overcast)  Variable cloud cover ( so might b cloudy, but might not)  Risk of thundery showers (so might rain, might not)

all I can deduce from that is that it's not gonna be windy ... ... thanks bro!

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11:28:05 o'clock BST

my mum is here having a cuppa, and my mother and father in law are here too, and my father in law is talking abour croissants, but he is pronouncing it as croysant and me and my mum keep catching each other's eyes, every time he says it, and |I have had to come over to my corner under the stairs office and try and do something to distract me cos I am gonna burst out laughin in a minute.  Father in law would not appreciate being laughed at. 

 

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15:58:04 o'clock BST

I am enraged

My mum had breast cancer, and developed lymphoedema in her arms due to damaged lymph glands.  Well she was given an emergency info sheet stating that if she got bitten or cut on the arms and there was any signs of infection she was to seek medical advice IMMEDIATELY, as damaged lymph nodes means that you are less able to fight infection.  Well she was bitten by a mossie on monday, and by turesday the swelling on her arm was pretty bad, raised lump, burning hot and painful.  So I phoned her doctor's surgery about tuesday lunchtime, and the recpetionist said that the doctor was fully booked, he couldn't see her, so she was to try again the next day.  I told her that she must be seen, this could be serious, but she couldn't help, so I then insisted that doctor read her medical records and leave out an appropriate antibiotic to clear up this infection fast.  So an hour later I picked the prescription up.

Now on this prescription one of the side efefcts is the big D (below troubles)  But it states if severe D is present then she must seek medical advice immediately.  Well it was severe enough that she couldn't hold it all night.  So she phoned the doctors this morning and there is no doctor int he surgery today!  Can you believe that?  So what is she supposed to do, she doesn't know whether to carry on with the antibiotics, or stop them.  She keeps asking me but I don't feel I should advise..  I have just given her the number of the NHS direct, so she is waiting for them to call back.

This is what we pay our taxes for, it's bloody criminal int it.

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