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6/26/2009 Short and.........It's getting late
 Just dropping a quick blog by let you know what i have been up to!
Bro no 3 has moved in, apparantly for 2 weeks although may not be here for that long
 Never mind his presence is keeping pravoking neighbour inside her home literally (she moves up the road on 16th july) :-DRemember that extra hard drive i had put in?..Had to re-boot it from disk!
Morale of above is...DON'T load ANY programmes onto hardrive BEFORE you have the windows service packs, has you will find that when service pack 1 turns up 3 weeks late has an update, you can try over 30 times to install (i did) it WILL NOT install and without service pack 1 you cannot install service pack 2!
Been up to see mum, once on saturday with the girls and again wednesday, Mum is doing good although her leg she still drags, i noticed it more on wednesday than i have the last time i saw her. I bought some new stuff ...for the house and the girls
Weeellll i did have my new patio furniture last month so only fair eh!
Sent off my coursework to be marked tuesday, fingers crossed i not naffed it up,!
Ooooo i have spoilt myself AGAIN today, via ordering some new design software...apparently should be here in the morning but won't hold my breath!
Apart from the above have been enjoying the quiet peceful day in the lovely sun whilst the girls have been at school (enjoying every minute whilst i still have it, another 3 weeks the girls are off school for 7 weeks DAM SHOCKING!!) When the girls are home after school we have been enjoying tea partys in the garden, playing games together, taking lots of photos (upload them tomorrow am knackered right now) Been on long walks with solitaire, who has played on the beach for the 1st time,...the sea she thought twice about. The girls love walking Solitaire although not sure they will in the winter months!
Bro no 2 has got me back plugged into my xbox 360 in the short space of 4 days he has been here, am just off to renew the membership, infact have xbox.com open in another tab ready to get hooked once again in the morning once renewed that is! (Blame him lol)
Will be logged into my little place right here on 'lost in spaces' catching up with you guys at the same time though, has desktop is right next to the 360....perfect setup i would say :-)
Ya'll take care, hope the rest of your week is full of sunshine. Night for those going and for those staying have a lovely evening, night for when that time reaches you.
 A photo of middle one and solitaire.- The little girl who 4 months ago was so scared of dogs she would go in the road to avoid them, has become near inseprable from her best friend.
6/20/2009 Just helping him out...Bro No 3 that is...
For those of you who donot know who bro no 3 possibly is, he is the one who is living (or was untill lastnight) with bro no 2's girlfriend, in bro no 2's girlfriends mum's house has a tenant, (Bro no 2 and his sidekick g/friend caused alot of rows when mum had her stroke, rows that bro no 3 stayed out of, he went up to visit her a few times at the hospital but kept out of the rows that accumilated over the weeks to follow. He has a girlfriend, her mum is private tutor to older one and at the momment and is living up the hill from me with her parents.
So now you know
 About a week ago bro no 3 came round to explain to me why he hasn't had time to come around and see the girls...he has been on graveyard shifts, and asleep all day.
After he tells me that he is planning on moving out from under bro no 2's girlfriends mums house and into a flat of his own he asks me if he can stop at mine for a few weeks. Now last time i had him here for 5 days he ate all in the cupboards, his girlfriend has ...lets say strange eating tastes, like eats a pack of bacon, with no bread! Gets bro no 3 to take her pastry from around her pie so she can eat the meat, and believe me there is worse from when they both lived at my dad's house.
I hummed and erred
and asked questions..like why??
Seems bro no 3 is charged £80 per week to live above bro no 2's girlfriend (it is 1 house but seperated into 2 flats)
He then has to pay electric and gas ontop (don't we all)
Has to buy food ontop of that (has we all do)
And then is charged an extra £30 per week from bro no 2's girlfriend for the privlidge of using her cooker and washing machine...(Shouldn't that be in with the electric and gas bill or in with the rent)
Anyways..
Bro no 3 and his girlfriend cannot save up for a deposit for a flat (which they will be sharing with their 2 friends) whilst payng out all the above.The flat the friends b/friend has seen has now got a secure deposit on it, they all (4 of them) have to come up with the months rent in arrears and the month in advance, then bro no 3 and his girlfriend will be living in the same village has me, not on the doorstep but close enough.
So from the morning (Saturday which is near enough today) i will have bro no 3 living with me, the girls do not know yet has i thought i best to make 100% sure he was before saying anything, tbh, will be a nice surprise for them. Am not sure how he is going to manage getting himself to work each day which is across a ferry, and then 2 buses, or across the ferry and a mate he works with picks him up the otherside but will see how that goes.
PS-If i am not online AT ALL in the next 2 weeks it will be because bro no 3 has eaten my net connection (which i only changed ISP yesterday) via the XBOX 360 and i cannot get online till he has gone to work....With only 1 ferry working at the momment am not sure work is part of his plan.
Take care ya'll
6/1/2009 On a more happier and not so crazyier note...This morning i thought was going to be 'one of those days', It started with me taking the girls to school, has they have been off for a week, i decided to say naff to the neighbour and continue to do has i was before, leaving Solitaire..
Has we walked away from our front door Solitaire was crying, and that turned into barking, i stood still with the girls for a few minuttes..just listening.
Noticing the lovely neighbour the otherside to me i have out in her front garden, i decided that maybe the best option was to ask the neighbour if whilst i took the girls to school she could just listen out and see if Solitaire continues to bark or not. She thankfully said 'off course' and off i went on the school run with the girls.
On my return, i walked towards my neighbour to be greeted with offer of a coffee. I accepted with that feeling off 'oh, the dog went nutts' in my stomach has i followed her into her house.
Turns out to my relief that Solitaire within 10mins stoppedbarking...was totally quiet!
Whilst enjoying neighbours coffee and talking about her grandchildren, ...my mum and dad,.. her garden, my garden, neighbour asks if i was ok, so i explained what i had done with the note and how that had escalated, and could escalate more and i wasn't too sure what to do.
Turns out that lovely neighbour next door has known neighbour who was complaining about Solitaitre husband since he was in nappys, subsequently lovely neighbour knows ALL about him and his wife...I get the story of how they both met, and the rows they cause wherever they live.
I left lovely neighbours house alittle shocked on hearing how one women can live in 3 houses around one village and cause so many rows, intimidation of many sorts with many people, including stand up rows in the street, not speak to her own mum and dad, and the reason that solitaire is barking is probably because neighbour with her 'past housing list' is never in and when she is she provokes Solitare on purpose has the neighbour is wanting to move AGAIN..only this time to a 4 bed house...(This will be to accomadate yet ANOTHER adoptive kid, and so claim MORE money)! Personally...i better not pass comment!
Shortly after getting back home, bundling washing into machine, making a brew and sitting down to listen to the quietness, the birds chirrping and just the whole 'me' time, ...out comes neighbour who complained!...
She starts her provoking off with throwing pegs into peg basket (must of been up dam early to get her washing out)...Solitaire strangely, did nothing!
She then goes onto call and feed the rabbit...Solitaire has a bark, i say NO! and follow that with 'ENOUGH'...Solitaire stops, has a groan at me and lays down under the table..
She then proceeds to let her dog out, who barks, she tells her dog to shut up, it barks more, and then takes the cover off rabbit hutch, so neighbour then starts shouting at her dog, and locks it back into whichever room has the echo in her house where the dog starts to bark and cry...Solitaire goes nutts!!
I do what a mate said to try, and that was throw a ball for Solitaire, take her attention off what is going on next door, and see if it works'...It does!
 Neighbour then moves onto throwing her kids toys into somewhere, a toy box maybe??!..by this time Solitaire is layed down again under the table,
Next she does the washing up, opens her upstairs windows ..Nothing comes from Solitaire..
Following this with taking a rug outside and banging it against her wall..turning the vacume cleaner on, and shouting at her dog to 'get down' and get in its bed'...Still Solitaire does nothing..
Neighbour then goes onto sweep up her paving slabs, and i can only assume that has most of her tryed efforts to provoke the dog to go nutts at her failed, Solitaire didn't bother, then her last attempt in provoking was to go to her bin...Solitaire went nutts!..and i left her too!!!
 Just has neighbour had decided that maybe she 'should give it up' and all went quiet again, my doorbell rang, Solitaire barked to let me know. ..A women from the Housing Association stood there, she had come around to let me know she had recieved my letter letting them know i had a dog, (i left my phone number off it) ..and also with new tenancy agreement for me to sign in her hand. I asked her to come around the back.
Solitaire barked at the women has i let her in the gate...not one word from neighbour!...i then put Solitaire in the house shutting the door on her, No barking from Solitaire the whole 15-25mins the lady was in the garden.
I have my other part of fencing behind the patio bench being sorted, the new drive being chased up, and was told in open hearing of provoking neighbour, who by this time was outside but not doing anything, that i was lucky to get 6ft fencing put up, as usually it is chicken wire type stuff...LUCKY MOI EH! **SITS HERE WITH A SMILE ON MY FACE***
The lady then goes onto the dog situation, not sure if provoking neighbour reported Solitaire to landlord, but anyway has the lady brought it up, i let her finish and knowingly open hearing off provoking neighbour i said 'i actually called the police for advice..they are not interested but advised me to get signs, they gave me enviromental health number, who passes me onto dog warden who basically says they are not interested in a dog that is warning the neighbour from property, only dogs that are left all day and evening' Lady agrees and agrees with signs being put up front and back to let others know....Suddenly the sweeping starts back up again from provoking neighbour, i let the lady out of the gate and continue enjoying the peace and quiet, with the thoughts of actually am glad she came around has not only has she entered my back garden and seen for herself how Solitaire reacts, she has also seen how she is when locked indoors...
Picking the girls up from school i get stopped by a parent who has 'been told' about the whole situation with provoking neighbour and Solitaire...Her advice tell her too F@@ OFF. i get the same story from this parent has i got this morning from my lovely neighbour, only alittle added on the end of, 'provoking neighbour has a screw loose and is struggling to keep the 2 boys she adopted'...i pass no comment!
Drops my older one off at her private tutor to be told Solitaire news has made front page headlines there also, and it is from her i find out alittle bit extra about provoking neigbour and how she stirs up trouble with neighbours so the Housing Association have no choice but to move her,...
Provoking neighbour has one hell of a problem in this case,...Has this girl rises above it!!
And who's dog was it at 1645ish barking in the garden, when apparent next door neighbour but one is on nights and 'trying to sleep'...The provoking neighbours dog, Who when provoking neighbours husband says 'alright' to her he gets a gruff 'hello' in return back....where has me, i got her at my door but hey oh!!
What ever happened to that weekday half hour of 'Neighbours,..everybody should have good neighbours, with alittle understanding' ...lol On a more happier..., more crazier note...And i have (well friday) had my new patio table + chairs delivered... Something for me to be happy about
although minus 1 chair has some numpty has either drilled the slot to far down, or i have one side upside down...will see weds when bro no 1 graces me with his presence which of those are correct.
 ....Solitaire likes it anyway :-)..although bro no 1 may not when i slight mention i need another 3 slabs laying...only reason i haven't till writing this is because the thought of having to clear the mud mess he leaves is errr one i would rather not think of.On a more crazier note...
I may of provoked..(unintentionally)...maybe even caused a war to be developing between myself and the dam neighbours!
Has we all know, or those who have dogs and probably those of you that don't will know too, dogs bark, it's a well known fact eh..?
Way way way back ...even further than that, before i got solitaire, said neighbour heard the girls shouting the words 'we're getting A PUPPY''...and they went and got one, about a week after we got solitaire, although there dog is 2 weeks older.
All was quiet in both houses from said puppies for weeks, maybe the first 6-8 weeks, then they learnt to bark!...Neighbours pup started the barking off at all hours day and night...of which i ignored, although at 2300, i did pass comment to mum..dad..bro no 1 and any other mate that was on the end of the phone, something along the lines of 'oh, next doors dog is barking again' Am sure next door didn't hear it has i was in my house.
Anyways..
When mum had the stroke i was up the hospital 2-3 times a week, We got solitaire 4th feb so this would of been around a month after we got her, nobody complained about the dog barking!!!
Course neighbour next door left her dog whilst she went out...her dog barked, and barked, even in the street her dog barked.
I ignored it on the principle of 'my dog barks too'
Neighbour about a week and half ago, went out leaving her dog 'home alone' in a kitchen..or somewhere in a room in that house! The neighbours dog had gone from barking to howling, i presume it was left in the kitchen has the howling was made worse by the echo..I thought i was doing the neighbouring thing by putting a polite note through her door basically saying 'This is what your dog is doing when you are out'... I would want the neighbour to do the same if it was Solitaire.
Around half hour later said neighbour returns, i am upstairs and i hears her bellow 'WELL HER DOG BARKS''!!!...I went around with the sole intention of politelysorting this out, to have said neighbour say 'I DON'T WANT TO KNOW' and slams the door shut....HUH??
 How a polite note can escalate!..
Few days later, i think it was Thursday just gone, 2205ish i let Solitaire out in the garden to go the toilet, not sure if the sheep in the field set her off barking or the teenagers out on the front, but something did..Has i am quieting Solitaire down to a slight 'gruff' said neighbour opens her upstairs window and shouts down to me ''SHUT THAT DAM DOG UP ORELSE I AM CALLING THE POLICE, I HAVE KIDS IN BED ASLEEP HERE, MANDIE'...I appologize following that on with the dog is going the toilet!...neighbour slams her window shut!
Not knowing where i stand with this issue i decides to call the police myself for advice...
Police tell me it isn't there issue and if said neighbour was to call and report Solitaire, they would tell the neighbour that the dog could possibly be protecting her home ( i have to buy dog signs for the house) and tell her to call Enviromental Health... Policewomen gives me there number to call for further advice!
Enviromental health- Man on switchboard who i explained the situation to, replys with 'he has a dog, his dog barks at all that pass his window, did i leave the dog for hours?..'no'!..'Then said neighbour doesn't have a leg to stand on'....Although i do leave Solitaire for hours when visiting mum twice a week, oh geeez!!! Can you see what is coming?...
Enviromental health man puts me onto the Dog Warden...i explains situation about said neighbour, He asks 'did i lock the dog in the garden and go to bed'? No!..'Have i been at work all day leaving the dog?, NO!, 'Then if neighbour was to put in a report, it would be noted, but really they wouldn't be interested has their interest is in dogs that are left for hours, or dogs that are left in a room for hours, and also looking at the situation said neighbour provoked the dog to bark more by putting her head out her window!
I say thank you for the advice, and sit wondering, but alittle more relaxed in the mind knowing that the neighbour really cannot do anything about me letting the dog out in the garden for the toilet. And when all said if she was to report to the Housing Association they would probably tell her ' It is against my tenancy, and neighbours to be letting my dog go the toilet in the house'..
Have passed the neighbour in the street since and no words exchanged!..
Above escalates even further...!
Since the sun has been out and i have spent more time in the back garden enjoying not just the sun but my new patio furniture with the girls, i have noticed the following things with Solitaire..
*- Neighbour comes out to her bin (which is against her fence but overlooks my back garden)...Solitaire goes nutts!
*- If neighbour is out in her garden...Solitaire will go nutts!
*- Anyone coming to the fence overlooking my back garden...Solitaire goes nutts!
*- Neighbour throws her washing pegs into peg basket...Solitaire will go nutts!
*- Neighbour shouts at her kids and they cry...Solitaire barks!
*- Kids playing in the street, noises outside including the sheep in the field right at the back of our house, or the local teenagers playing with their new toys (motorbikes) at 0130 and stopping right outside my house to chat with friends...Solitaire barks at the first 2, and barks and growls at the last.
*** Nutts= barking, growling, with hair on her neck standing up ocassionaly***
Today doing what i have done for the past 3 days, sitting outside with the girls, Solitaire has been barking at one, or many of the above things. Around 1730ish a knock at the door, Solitaire barks to let me know, opens the door to a women, don't know who she is, (at this point) but the women had come round to do the neighbourly thing and let me know that 'Solitaire is barking which is keeping her awake and she is working nights, 2200 she starts'..I explain to her why Solitaire is barking, (the sheep) appologize, explain to her i keep telling her 'NO' when she barks at the sheep but it seems to register 10 mins afterwards and say to her we are taking Solitaire for a walk in 10mins.
All is hunky dorey i thought!....
We come back from our hour and half walk with Solitaire, i puts tea in the oven whilst that is cooking shower girls. Solitaire when i put the tea outside on the table for us all is layed down outside all is quiet, i feed Solitaire and she lays back down afterwards..
We all sit down to eat tea, around 2030ish, it was lovely sitting out there whilst the sun went down, laughing and joking about Solitaires first time off her lead and how 'silly mummy' was worrying about losing the dog when she needed off, ...about 10 mins later said neighbour decides to come into her back garden and throw her pegs into the peg basket...Solitaire went nutts!
Just has i calm her down from that, said neighbour shouts up to her husband...next thing said neighbours husband is walking down the steps (that we share to get to our back gardens if not using our own back doors) with a rabbit hutch above his head...Solitaire goes nutts!
...and Solitaire continues to go nutts whilst the neighbour and her husband for the next half hour to 45 mins shouts a rabbit by name, then has to chase escaped rabbit around garden... By this time Solitaire was listening to not one word i said, she just continued to go nutts...We continued with our teas.
Remember the women who came my door?..the one i didn't know who she was but said she had to work nights? Well this is where she fits in...!
Solitaires barking turned into growling of the not nice kind, i turned around to see why and to tell Solitaire 'NO'! When i notice the women who came my door earlier walking down the steps at the side of the houses to help neighbour catch their rabbit....HAAaaa NOW i know where she lives and who she is, she lives next door but one to me, ajoining with the next door neigbour!.
Things start to fit together, i can suddenly see a note that was meant no other way than 'just to let neighbour know' going totally out of control!... I call my dad this evening to see what he says to do, his final answer!- Neighbour probably friday called up the police..who gave her the number for Enviromental Health...Who then passed her onto the dog warden, where said neighbour got 'no joy'...So said neighbour has then got next door but one to me involved via saying she works nights, If she works nights then why at 2030 is she out catching a rabbit???
MORALE OF THIS- Never think you are doing the right thing via being neighbourly, 9/10 times the neighbour will blow it into a mountain has big as Everest!!!
5/24/2009 Saturday..Did we see the sun or what...After spending Friday night awoke, i strangely had managed to get more done around the house then i do during the day.. Mopped floors, cleaned bathroom, kitchen.. you know the usual stuff us women have to do. And got around all live space network, wishing them a happy weekend' in a night.
These Beechams capsules are getting clear of that head cold nicely and i am 'starting' to feel more like myself again!...Although i think the girls would prefer the 'too ill to be bothered' mum back...
Around 0530ish i stood looking out of my lounge window, listening to the birds wake the morning and the sun slowly coming out from behind the field, low mist was sinking to the ground has it appeared..(will have to get a photo of it,) the girls put an abrupt stop to the beauty of it all via stamping upstairs shouting 'morning Solitaire, ..and the dog barking has they did, no morning mummy, just a 'what we having for brekkie, and are we going out today' hmm!
With all that out of the way, i 'bribed' yes i know bribery done by mums is noway allowed, but ...it WAS needed,
Those 3 boxes of plants needed to be planted, so i 'bribed' the girls into watching cartoons whilst i went and did some planting and afterwards we would go out..
I had decided yesterday that planting the flowers in the front garden is pointless has the crazy dog just eats them. My front garden, not much to say about it really, i lost interest in it, simple has that, the backgarden is where the privacy is, and where i spend any time in. I used to look after the front, but when the cats came from near and far just to crap everywhere, then you lose interest, all i did was run the mower over it when needed.
Today was maybe a new look to the front garden.
It had a proper mowing... (the neighbours that where outside must of thought something was wrong with me).. i raked the grass from the borders that where hidden...and from around the palm tree, i re-did the border.
Solitaire looked none too pleased about the whole expierence,
The girls where soon on hand with the water, has i planted ..they watered..
A friend and her new hubby was doing the rounds, catching up with friends on the street that they left behind for the bigger house in the village they needed, was nice to see them again, only get to see them vaguly nowadays, in passing during the school runs, what was even better was the lovely invitation to pop over their new place, for catch up, and meal/snacks/drinks this evening..after the gardening!
Of which the otherside of the front garden didn't take that long to do...
All plants planted i stood back to admire our work, middle one had taken to the sweeping brush and sweeped out the mowed grass from the paths and neighbours slabbed area.
I decided that something wasn't right...all this work given a few weeks would become weeding inbetween those new flowers has well as mowing the grass,...(Me, make more work for myself then is needed, not bloody likely) !!!
So out comes the bag and half of wood chippings left over from the back garden and down it goes around the new flowers,
Sorted!With the front garden now sorted, we all got showered, changed and made our way into the village to spend the evening with friends for 1700, Turned out to be a lovely evening, loads turned up, the sun stayed out till well after 2100, Was nice to catch up with what they have been doing since they got married back in April, and meet up with other friends too, infact was nice to get away from home and relax with good company. The night ended around 2330 and we was driven back to our house, where the look of the days hard work was noted by the friend and another invite to go out with friends for wednesday afternoon.
Was planning on turning in for the day has soon as i had the girls off to bed 2 of which was asleep minute their heads touched their pillows, little one, had other plans!... She is now ill, not sure if eating Greek pate by the spoonful is what has done her or too much sun, either way i cannot go to bed untill she is more settled...
Have a lovely sunday ya'll
4/20/2009 It's the end of the easter holidays....HIPP-HIPP-HIPP-HOORAY..
It's the end of the easter holidays, and the girls are back at school...
It's the end of the easter holidays...
Now what should i do today...! (sung to the song, the sun has got his hat on)
I have last of the washng to dry piled high in washing basket
Have done the washing up, cleaned all bacteria and all that lurks from worktops, mopped kitchen floors
Done a great deal of coursework!...oh that was lastnight/early hours of this morning but still today eh.
Text my mum, see if she is still surviving, of which she is...just, and done my rounds across livespace network.
Thrown the ball to Solitaire...who WILL learn that when i say the word 'leave' she either leaves or i don't play!
Least i forget !,....I got the girls to school, nice and early... Ohhh i just love it hahaha.
Nice quiet day, just me and Solitaire
...I could go out and mow the lawns,
pick up yesterdays heaped sandpit, mande worse by one dog thinking she can climb into a rectangular sandpit box, errrm, stupid dog you has grown since you once could.
Could get on with this last bit of coursework...concept boards.
Do some CAD work, or even those garden designs my bro wants for the weekend...
Dare i say it, i COULD even go and get on with the ironing, which has each load has washed and dryed is now back to being a mountain almost resembeling Mount Everest, oooo errrr!
Haaa naff to that, am going to enjoy the peace and quiet of the next 3hours just me and Solitaire, in the sun!!!
Have a good day ya'll
 3/6/2009 The real world has taken over my life.....Shocking i know!Am quickly dropping in to wish you all a happy weekend, am so busy in the real world right now, i havent had the time to be around livespace or messenger to say hello.
Few things going on over the past week
1)- Design stuff ---->> NEARLY done...only nearly is not done am afraid!
2)- Renovating/starting from near scratch on the girls room ----->> I have blisters from screwing 10 screws into bottom of toybox and still more flat packed furniture to arrive!
3)- Took Solitaire to vets for her 1st injections---->> Typically it rained...and rained, leaving me and Solitaire both looking like we had been for a swim in the sea.... next time i'm chancing the taxi !
May not be around for the weekend, and if i gain myself more blisters from screwing screws...(that'll be of the metal kind tut lol)
.... i may not be able to type much next week.Have yourselves a lovely weekend, 2/28/2009 My livespace SEEMS to be back on this planet once again...Did anyone who dropped in to my crazy place right here notice that half way down all was stuck?
'stuck' = My blogs before 2 days ago had gone to see through so all you could see was the background picture with words, not black background like y/days blog or i am hoping this one...hmm will wait and see,
'Stuck'= i couldn't re-arrange modules past the half way down my space mark, couldn't move them, all was stuck on left hand side.
'Stuck'= Any blogs before y/days are unreadable...just vanished, unless you use the 'find blogs the easy way' module above....
Haa well least i managed to sort it, took me all morning, Alvin passing my reply to his unusfull email in response of 'HEEElllppp meee' onto nardia from spaces help.... (i wonder if that was because i asked him 'do microsoft employ you to sit behind that computer looking pretty and eating crisps all day' Help me does not come to send links that are unclickable and nothing in the way of help for my space.
Anyway all sorted, i am happy once again, change of layout on my space but hey oh looking good i would say... off to pick daughter up from her friends party in half hour then back to the usual design stuff, mixed in with 3 girls and a dog.
Haaaa the joys lol 2/27/2009 Why do we realize we have gone wrong when it is too late?Maybe i am losing the plot...Maybe i just didn't feel a bump on the back of my head when i slipped on the stairs other day (too bothered in if Solitaire was ok)....or maybe i am just getting so bored out my braincell with this research on materials that i am not even bothering to read fully the question asked of me. (skim reading is not always good)!
I spend ALL day yesterday till late evening doing research on supplers...manufactures...inporters of different kinds of wood.
Researched the be all and end all of wood, put it all into microsoft word, what i had written i read and re-read for mistakes to the point where my braincell was exploding with pain, and out came two headache tablets, i gave in eventually and went to bed with the feeling of thakfully i got all that out of the way! (wont get marked down for spelling mistakes) Yippeeeee!
Drops the girls off at school this morning with the usual 'school NOW!,... have a nice day' has i booted them out the taxi one by one, waved to them has they vanish through the school doors, and on i went to do the shopping at Sainsburys.
Feeling of haaa i no need to zoom around the isles, throwing things in has i go, i have finished question 1, catching up nicely, so can slooowly have a nice walk around and do my shopping . ...
Hour and half maybe even two hours later i am home, shopping is away, Solitaire is fussed and i sit down to start question 2 ....
ONLY ERRR I RE- READ QUESTION ONE AGAIN, THIS TIME PROPERLY!!!
Now have to scrap question 1 has it is actually asking me for a index of softwood and hardwood seperatly, and to pick ONLY THE DAM ONE not ALL ... Arrgghhh right back to the start.
Still i picked up some nice wooden photo frames, for 99p, down from £9.99 so was worth the slow shopping i guess
oh well back to it from question 1 AGAIN
 1/16/2009 A new female to add to the family...In 3 weeks time anyway....!
It started , not sure how but all started here news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7827379.stm
In 3 weeks time around 6th feb, will have a new addition to the family, of the four legged kind (i aint that stupid for it too be any other kind)
... The girls are extatic that they finally got me to give in, yup soft touch or what haha, but that little puppy is going to be one hell of a bonus,....not only is she going to become a part of the family ....(so long has little one doesnt stick her in the washer which is how she thinks puppys have a bath at the momment)  ...but she will also get the middle one out of this fear of dogs which is so bad she would rather go in the road and not think of if any cars are coming just to get out of the way of any dog! ...Crazy idea at this momment in time, hmm maybe but if my plan works out then be well worth it all in the long run .Photo of the puppy- Taken 12th January 09, By the puppys current owner!
  1/12/2009 So far ....So Good....But dam that facebook!Never thought i would actually manage it tbh, but yup so far i have not logged into msn during the day...ooo think i did for half hour one dinnertime few days ago hmm, (am sure msn friends will put me straight haha)....having a break that could come under, or maybe it more comes under the word 'skiving' ??, Good thing is though, i logged back out again and got back on with the CADwork My week hasnt gone all to plan... Lastnight ( Saturday) i had to appologize to a guy i been chattng with on msn since just before xmas and let him down on meeting at the end of Jan,.. poor guy had taken 2 weeks of work, was going to be traveling down here over 3hrs via train, all to meet 'just me'...Still feel bad, he was a great guy, got on well whilst chatting and laughing for hours when he called the mobby, had a laugh via those calls and txt, over msn but am just too busy with the CADwork and coursework at momment . So rather than let him waste his cash coming all this way i explained the why, and he thankfully accepted it and was happy that i had not wasted his time off work has like he said so many others out there would of done,... it didnt seem fair or right for me to know that i am at the momment totally on overload with CADwork and coursework, to then let a great guy come all this way and then tell him later when he travelled all the way home that 'I enjoyed being with him but....' So i did the right thing... let another girl out there have the chance with, what i know is a great guy, hope he finds that 'special' girl he is searching for... I know to let go was the right thing to do !! Has well as the above i have from Friday done little if not none at all on the CADwork, why? well it goes smething like this- 1- Take 2 divorced parents who are in one of those hmm, lets say 'difficult' relationships - i say 'difficult' because it is a case of 'they cannot live with each other, but hell no can they not live without each other either! 2- One parent is a member of a well known site AKA -Facebook....and so is the other! 3- One parent (the oldish dear) decides to add the other parent (the old man) onto her 'friends list', and have him change his status to ''in a relationship''...has they are back together so why not?? 4- One parent (you can probably guess which one) then decides to go mad, is mad the word or is it more 'Facebook addicted'?...via being constantly logged in there!!,...like more than half the world... you would think to do what most of us who are members on Facebook do, add people you have no idea who they are and neverspeak to to your 'friends list' just to bombard them with application after application and naughty poke them 225+ times per day ...all in the name of a laugh and abit of fun right? FACEBOOK APPLICATIONS ARE NOT ABIT OF FUN OR A JOKE WHEN YOU ARE IN A RELATIONSHIP!! 5- Take one parent with the facebook addiction who is logging in to see who (mainly what female) is posting what, when, and how many times a day to the other parents wall to wall,...and god help the other parent if it is read that sexy linguire,handcuffs BDSM or anything else in that related topic have been sent to a female via a Facebook or 3rd party application,... opening gifts,... finding matches on 'meet me' getting e-mails on 'are you interested' are not acceptable and a deffo 'no no' ..'All in the name of abit fun and a joke or not'!...Moral of that being ''You are in a relationship so why accept all the sexy inferenced applications? Why click on meet people? Why open gifts from others on 'are you interested ? To the parent who is reading all the above why are these applications on other parents Facbook at all when in a relationship with the parent who is constantly logged into Facebook! 6- Take said parent,who is logged into Facebook ....constantly! Add that with the other parents ex being on 'friends list' plus that parents wall to wall and all applications sent via the one parents ex ...Facebook row no 175 on the horizon!!! ... Warning to ALL who are in a relationship and addicted to Facebook to duck, or at least move out the way switch your mobby off for at least a month..or 6 when the current partner adds you on their 'friends list' only to see every naughty item, sexy gift, and naughty poke ect sent via application via your ex and many a female/male out there! Too be deleted or not too be deleted is a very good question!!! 8- Take the one parent who is constantly logged into Facebook with the scenario of 'that ex can get deleted for a start and ALL the applications that been sent via that ex too' add that with 'ALL those applications that go further than a smile..a pillow fight..or a good morning can get deleted whilst your at it or else there is no me and you' ...then throw in the other parent with one single yet stood by word ...'NO'!! Has of Friday night i have more a hate towards Facebook!
Not only was i on the phone most of thursday evening trying to explain to one parent how Facebook works and that facebook is just abit of fun and really should be taken that way,...ok, the other parent shouldnt be sending sexy stuff to any female when in a relationship that has the inferance in a sex way or a 'want to bed you' way no ...but then i did explain to the one parent that half the people on a persons 'friends list' do not even live in the UK....That made no difference! END RESULT OF THURSDAY EVENING- One parent (the oldish dear) decides that the pub would be the best place to go sort this out leaving me, dad and bro from 2230 till 0250 wondering where the hell she has gone at that time of night, freezing cold outside and no way of contacting her,...she stubbles home and types a msn message to bro saying 'i am back'... Cool i can go bed then! .... and the Facebook row continued parent to parent throughout thursday night and was still carrying on late friday morning!
BY THIS TIME ME AND MY BRO HAD TOTALY HAD OUR 5 DAYS SOLID OF IT AND DECIDED NUFF WAS DEFFO ENOUGH!! Friday evening- Have you ever had one parent on mobby down one ear, and the other parent on house phone in other ear?....try rolling a fag whilst doing that, oh yeah it is possible takes nearly 20mins to accomplish but possible and smokable too
There was not a chance in hell that either of the oldish folks was going to be continuing this Facebook row into the weekend, so over msn or not i made the oldish dear sit and sort it out one way or the other with the old man...and me on the phone whilst they did....0200...0400...0600...0700, the girls stood at side of me wide awake, all came and went i didnt care there was noway i was getting off the phone till it had been sorted between them both one way or another! END RESULT FINALLY - The oldish dear had to accept that even though you delete a friend it does not delete their name from any applications they sent! Also accepting that noway on this crazy planet was the old man going to delete all the sex inferanced applications....moral of that being, 'they are abit of fun, accept it or dont bother with the you and me because there is no you and me'
Haaa but... Whilst this was accepted via the oldish dear after an hour or three it was not without its drawbacks! The old man had to agree to give ALL passwords to his email accounts and Facebook to the oldish dear, go over her house and put them in so she saw he had given the correct passwords or else the 'there is no you and me' was coming right back at him like a bommarang!
Sunday has thankfully been quiet, mum is at dads and all seems to be going ok, although tomorrow is a different day, and if with that different day brings more Facebook rows, then i am having my phones disconected and bro is shipping out on a more permanant basis!!
Rightio am off to my bed and back to the CADwork after i taken the girls to school in the morning ,
12/26/2008 Was a better xmas this year than last, Thankfully.... Xmas over with for another year  Girls woke up bright and early, ...strangely enough with not the same 'charge around the house screaming SANTA'S BEEEEN' has they all did last year, all was a calmer although still a hectic day. Dad managed to get here for 0800, ....he just didn't go bed at all poor man, and the girls waited for him to get here before opening prezzies (strange kids i got eh) although i think it may of been more the fact the girls/me last xmas had to spend all of xmas without their grandad, that was hard!!! Especially when the girls are so used to being at their grandads for the whole of xmas and new year since being babies, mum decided last xmas to say the words 'would of been nice for grandad to be here' having herself and the girls upset and xmas dinner left,..and new year not much of a good one either. oh well that was last year! This year was a good xmas, dad was here in the morning, he watched/helped and took headache tabs haha main thing is he was with us for xmas, he then went to my bros g/f's house for xmas dinner with her mum, leaving us to have ours. Dont think that when he came back he be expecting to be building a kitchen but hey oh even in his knackered state he still did it. (thanks dad) Shame Christmases and New Years cannot be has we used to have them,... mum... dad,... 3 bros and the girls all laughing and joking, and building xmas prezzies Nowadays it is mum, this year and hopfully for many more years to come dad.... and one bro on other end of a phone, but hey oh such is life!  Me and mum   Me and little one  ...Me and mum ...Older one, mum, and dad ....you asleep dad ??? haha   ....Now dad am sure mum can dress herself lol  ....Middle one  .... 12/25/2008 xmas eve..NEARLY there!! Time is now 0305....Few hours to go till total cahos!! AARgghhhh..... The idea today was to go to wollworths and buy 1 play kitchen to go with the play food, Great idea my mum comes up with ....only did it happen like that oooh no!! Woolies is like aladdins cave to any a female out there, and right now with shutting down sales on means bargins galour, (cannot moan) although carrying 4 wollies sacks to the taxi rank i think went alittle OTT on the ONLY going halfs on the play kitchen with mum, oops!! Soooo guess what mum and i have been doing most the evening??? well i say most that was when the middle daughter had FINALLY given in with the 'has santa been YEEEEET' question, and decided there is really no point to the asking has mum is ignoring me...nannie is typing away to grandad on msn so might has well go bed and go sleep, leaving me and mum around 1100pm to wrap yet more xmas prezzies,  So got those finished in early hours of the morning AGAIN,...same has last year, and gee am just not going to say the words NEVER AGAIN they are pointless to say! Still has they say, xmas is for the little ones, and one day they be all grown up and only thing i will hear is the words ''off down the pub, what time did you say xmas dinner will be cooked for''?....cannot wait lol Hope you have your alarm set dad....nice and eatry, ...i sure have, Mum has decided at this time in the morning to have a bath, huh???, oh well leave her to it, am off to bed, going to be a looooong day in a few hours. Have a good one all see you in a few hours dad,....(don't forget headache tabs) 
Myspace Christmas Layouts Xanga Christmas Layouts  Funscrape.Com | More Winter Comments 12/24/2008 Yesterday's blog....today!Countdown to Xmas Day - 2 sleeps and 1 day to total cahos!!!
Yesterday started of with the usual....''is it christmas yeeeeet'' from the girls at which point i just didn't answer them!!!, well lets face it sometimes it is best to just say nothing....that was one of those times!
Bundled them all into a taxi to go do last bits of xmas shopping at Sainsburys! ...got to be kidding me, NO party sausages!, NO pork pies ! NO dips that wasn't Indian or spicy!....Plenty of boxes of mince pies though ones with sherry, ones with icing on the top, and even ones with custard in them
Oooo i bought the meat you didn't REALLY thing i give my mum steak, egg and chips for xmas day dinner did you
...mum will be pleased, although that could change when she sees it may need to be cooked for 5hrs before eating....oops!!Last night mum had an brainwave
miricles do happen hahaha, and it was actually a good one too!!, she decided WE WOULD get the xmas wrapping done last night instead of tonight (xmas eve).... unlike last years palarva of STILL wrapping xmas prezzies at 0530 xmas day morning for them to be unwrapped 2 hrs later and being totally knackered xmas day to the point where the girls had free run totally of the house, whilst two adults slept a fair few hrs away (NEVER AGAIN)!!! So the xmas prezzie wrapping is ALL done by 0235 xmas eve morning, YAY we did it, santas grotto couldn't beat my kitchen i tell you.
BUT WAIT FOR IT....
My plan for today was get on with coursework am now behind on, do the buffet stuff (well what we got) later and haaa a nice chilled out evening on the 360 not having to worry about getting xmas prezzies wrapped...
My mums plan started with the words.....''lets go into town'', ARRRggghhhh!!!
You know what this means don't you, MORE XMAS PREZZIES BEING BOUGHT cause hey why not, i mean there is still one more day of shopping left before xmas day so lets g spend!! spend!! spend!! ....and spend the evening, yes this is an evening that my mum and me said ''NEVER AGAIN'' to wrapping any more xmas prezzies we buy....Jeeesssusss where does it all end????
I think it ends about 2200 when there is no more shops physically open to buy from, either that or when we both got no cash left....logic, noooo there is none, but hey oh mums will be mums!!!
Have a good day all and for all you out there working YAY for you only a few hours left
11/6/2008 Finally i can move on....!!The blog i wrote below i wrote for a purpose, at the time, (Thank you Gary for the reply).. i had no idea if what i had done that day was the 'right thing to do' even though i knew it could/may have concequences for me has a mum, has well as the other person involved. I no longer have to hide any of it anymore.
THE STORY BEHIND THE REASON-
Last year i met a guy online, this guy is in the military, we both been chatting for months off and on, mostly weekends till early hrs in the morning before we actually arranged to meet each other earlyier on this year.
We both just clicked from that first evening together, txt each other nearly 24/7 after that, if not, chatting online and txting each other, him at work and txting, and meeting most weekends when he wasn't at work or with 'family'. What i didn't see coming was 3 girls getting attatched to this guy, even to the point that lastnight (Bonfire night) the older one asked when he was coming back. See that guy was the first guy i let get close enough to the girls to allow that attatchment to happen, maybe i was at fault for doing that??,... it felt right at the time!
WHAT HAPPENED-?
Particular weekend this guy comes over after work has was the norm , weekend was already sorted, (has most of you know the girls have no choice but to go everywhere with me, for those who don't, it's a family problem) , so we both agreed to go with the girls to Woodlands theme park on the Saturday. Two of my friends was there (Jane and her partner graham) with their kids and some other friends, unbeknown to me that they was going to be there at all.
Been at Woodlands for a bit when little one decides she wanted to go into the ball pool, only she had to have an adult with her, way too small, so the military guy says he would take her, leaving me to catch up with goss with friends. 15-25mins later approx, jane is getting more and more worried over where the military guy has gone with little one. ....Me?, i trusted him with the girls, and if completely honest trusted him more than i have done with any guy previous,so wasnt so worried, End of that was Jane and Graham both went into the play area mainly to go look for the military guy without making it too obvious.
40-50mins approx had gone by when little one came running over big smile on her face asking if she can go in again, the military guy comes from opposite direction 10mins later, he had been the toilet, fair nuff that eh.
SUNDAY-
I don't know what the hell was up with me that morning, think i sat wondering if i was giving a guy maybe too much trust with what had happened the previous day, maybe the why he only told me the night before that he had to leave earlier than usual (had a hospital appointment on the monday morning),.. i don't know, i do know that i suddenly realized that 3 girls who was once only wanting their mum, suddenly wanted this military guy, 'mum' had become surplus to most requirements in those few months of meeting the guy, EVERYTHING revolved around this guy in their minds right down to every txt message i got was him, it had to be, even when it wasn't it was him in their minds, pictures the girls drew wasn't for mum anymore, they was stuck on the door for next weekend for the military guy! For him to take back with him.
I don't think ANY mum out there wants to ever think that a guy they are with could hurt their children, yes, we are all aware it happens, but to other people right??
So Sunday morning, i got out of bed went downstairs leaving the military guy in bed, did the girls brekkie, made brew as usual, only instead of getting back in bed i went in the frontroom, have me smoke, brew, puts the tunes on on the Tv, goes off to the toilet. Has i cross the landing i looked in my bedroom to see the girls in the bed with this military guy INNOCENTLY reading them all a story,....i stopped, looked at him, made sure BOTH his hands where on that book!!! ....and i walked away.
The military guy left early hrs of monday morning instead of 3p.m on the sunday, he didn't come back after that weekend.
6 WEEKS OF A 'TXT RELATIONSHIP' EVENTS AFTERWARDS-
* Monday morning few hrs after he had left he didn't bother to txt to let me know how he got on at hosp with his hand- txt straight back when i txt him to ask, so couldn't of been busy eh?
* Weekend after- He crashes his motor. (weekend before easter) Again doesn't bother to txt me till hrs and hrs later, can understand that, to much to sort in insurance ect way.
* Has problems with getting a hire car to get him to work,....then doesn't,
* Loses his bank card, gets another sent to him, in less than a week??
* Txting each other took a back seat, has did chatting online, so he could sort his stuff out, including finding time to party with his mates when so stressed with everything, and calling me in early hrs to let me know. All was cool with me though, although by this time a fair few mates took the opposite opinion of which i ignored.
* Insurance pays up and he gets a new motor, (all in a month just over and over easter too?), but cannot come over has he got to work, By this time txt messages were none excistant nearly, unless i txt him, occasionally he txt me, called me twice in all that time. (i'm sat wondering on the why's, but too wrapped up in the military guy to see the why)
My older one fell on a toy soon after all that above, hurt herself where a girl really don't need to, so had to take her the hospital, text the military guy to tell him, .....But what if she mentioned about being in the bed with the military guy?, how do i explain why i did not report it at the time?
I HAD TO peeve the military guy off enough to send me an 'it's over txt', so on the Thursday before the Social worker was coming out on the Monday that is just what i did, and in doing that i got the txt i needed that would be the proof for social that i'm no longer with the military guy if any of the girls did mention him being in the bed with them.
The next morning telling the girls that everything with the military guy was over was worst thing i had to do, it left 3 girls in total bits!, Thankfully little bro and his g/friend was here, cause i wasn't into explaining the why's and for a mum to be blamed by her own children and told to 'leave me alone! go away! it's all your fault! If you hadn't been arguing with him in txts then he would still be here!' when they all had the measels at same time few days later, they didn't want me, or my mum near them they wanted the military guy'....well that hurts more than the splitting up already had!!!
And when the girls told my mum about being in the bed with the military guy over easter, asking my own mum NOT to report it to anyone because of the concequences that may be involved for me as a mum, and him because he is in the military, Yes i know it was wrong to do that, it was wrong at the time!,
3 WEEKS AGO, MONTHS AFTER SPLITTING UP WITH MILITARY GUY-
Jane invites us around hers for a brew and catch up, not seen her since easter just after, the miliary guy is brought up by name, and i tell her we split months ago, all was left at that, did wonder why the time at Woodlands she brought up, but no harm done.
Got home pretty late on from Jane's doing the girls something to eat when middle one comes out of the blue with ''remember that time when we was in the bed with ******,and he was reading us that story, did you know that he had no boxers on mummy'....Jesus i just stood and looked at her, the other two girls agreed with her, OMFG had i trusted one guy 5 mins too far with the girls??... Was what went through my mind on that sunday morning the right way to thik ??? All of a sudden the past i thought was left there, i realized i now had no choice but to report, even though all the girls changed it to what i saw with my own eyes the following morning, why??.... what if the girls said that same thing to you, what would you do with it?, but mainly because i did not know 100% in my own mind if he did have boxers on or not, i had not got back in the bed that last morning he was here!
So for the past 3 weeks i have had the worry of knowing that what i had to report could/may have concequences for the military guy and me, in the way of protection meetings for failing to protect and supervise the girls, and the girls going on a at risk register, or even worse the girls who are all i have, being taken away from me for me trusting a guy with them and something that i saw has innocent, one guys 5mins mistake, of him just not thinking, was has Diane from child protection team put it his ''inapproprate behaviour'' .
Over the past 3 weeks alot of things that for months and months was left in pieces in my mind , just couldn't fit them together, why had he not come back? why did txt messages go downhill overnight? why did a relationship that was once good, in less than 24hrs went to none excistant apart from the odd txts, it ALL fits together today....
Diane went with a Social worker yesterday to the girls school, spoke with the two older girls, THANKFULLY the girls disclosed nothing in a indecent way done too them, and the file will be closed to do with Social services..... The military guy has no idea the world of mess he left behind that morning he walked out of my front door and never came back!
At least now i can FINALLY move on has the past is now out in the open and been sorted out, those pieces that wouldn't fit together even if i applyed glue to them,today fit together, he knew he was in the wrong has much as i did for not reporting what i saw at the time it happened!!... it doesn't matter who the girls say it to now, everyone knows.
9/4/2008 It was great to see him ....and his mate.!Do any of you have contacts on your MSN, that you say 'oh, if your down this way then stop by,ect'?
but then work, real world and social lives get in the way, so that mate seems to be just a online friend more than a 'real world mate',?
One of my 'online friends' came over with his mate today, he took me up on that brew i offered, (blimey got to be going on for 4months ago now
 since i made that offer,)! but poor guy work! work and more work! came his way.Finally we met offline, During his dinnerbreak and got to meet his workmate too, or is called vanmate hahaha, well was nice to see them both, ...bet his legs are aching after walking up that hill though
 ...i did warn him LOL.Little one was still giggling away at something or other 10mins after they both left, sure the school stuck something in her milk, she just went bloody hypo, giggling and laughing,
Course first words out of her when i go to pick the other two up from school are 'i met mummys friend, and they are funny'...caused abit of a moan, but now he knows where i live dont stop him dropping by again some othertime, if he wants to that is.
Nice to be able to say,
'welcome to my real world mate's list', officially no longer 'just an online friend'
....about bloody time hahaha.ooo so i dont forget!! (You know me and brainfade) not sure if it is from the 5th September which would be tommorrow or from the 22nd September but at some point between those two dates, i wont be around for abit, for a fair few months, so those of you who have my mobby number txt if you want too, when you can you know the score!
Wont be ignoring you, just will text you back when i can, and get to a chat too you when i can too
I WILL BE BACK!!! <---Done in my best Arnnie voice which is err crap LOL
cya later take care till then all x
 9/3/2008 Too all out there that sent messages to Dartmouth regatta blog ok, yes i agree with 'some' of you, maybe i was alittle harsh when writing that blog on Dartmouth regatta below...!! Yes i know how much forces guys have on in their daily lives, and if you guys knew me, then hey you would'nt need to tell me that one!!. But i agree ok, not ALL could make it so i will rephrase!!, Although it states on the Bournemouth Air show website that their shows went has planned apart from one (apparently), then ok, there is a possibility that the other 'black cat' pilot could well of been sick has was said that he was over here at our regatta. They are like us after all and do get ill so fair nuff i agree!. Dont answer why it was said the 3rd pilot of the battle of britain flight decided to stay in Bournemouth though eh. And yes ok, maybe Andy ( red 10) had other places he really had to be, fair nuff, they are all busy guys. AGAIN i agree with you and it was his last year in Dartmouth and they like Dartmouth so guess he just did'nt want to hang around for his own reasons....cool, NO i did'nt explain properly the word 'shag' to the girls...  i told them it was the fluffy bit on the carpet that they walk on it is called a 'shag'.....gee some people!!When i wrote that blog the last day of the regatta i was fed up, angry that it was a complete waste of time , and it was utter crap, so noway will i take that back when that is the truth! 8/31/2008 DARTMOUTH REGATTA...Would'nt bother with it if i was you!...instead try Bournmouth Air display, which strangely coincided with the Dartmouth regatta! and that was deffinatly where EVERYTHING and ALL action was...Dartmouth Regatta was crap to say the least,
Why?
*Spot the oddity- I did 3 times with the girls during the week, out of sheer boredom! £1 a go i think it was!
*Colouring competion- The girls did that 5-6 times at 50p a sheet during the week, i did two, again out of sheer boredom, even the girls got fed up with colouring in the end!
Wednesday 27th august 2008- Official opening
* Black cats- minus 1 black cat, Should'nt of bothered springs to mind!, was'nt quite the same with just the one, apparently the other was 'sick' (Sits wondering if that was through too much 'fun' over in Bournmoth the night before)
*Exeter pipes and drums- Did dartmouth committee find them last min,?? If your scottish then you would of enjoyed them, or into bagpipes, only they hung around for 15mins then gone, probably had other places to be alot better,...like Bournmouth!
Thursday 28th august 2008
*Fancy dress competion- Not many bothered.
*Music in the bandstand- She was okish, nowhere near as good has the band we usually have !.
*HMS Argyll- The highlight of the week!!!, came in late, i.e- today instead of the usual at the very start of the regatta which is the 24th/25th.(operational dutys which was fair enough)
*Battle of britain memorial flight- Minus the 3rd, he decided to stay in Bournmouth,(probably to hung over from the night before!)...at least two of them bothered!
*Music in the bandstand- They was utter crap, two guys dressed in Butchers aprons, trying their hardest to get the crowd singing..did they get theses guys from the local butcher shops in dartmouth??, or just two of the street eh? although we (me and the girls) decided that the taxi rank and the queue would be a much better place to be!...Bordom had totally taken over by this time then we remembered the fireworks display was on tonight
!!Friday 29th august 2008-
Did'nt bother wasting time, energy or any cash to go out the house!!..the girls was'nt interested AT ALL.
Instead took pics from my own front door of the Sea king helecopter and the typhoon practicing, well worth staying at home for, got to see alot more and save alot more from the comfort of my own home!
Saturday 30th august 2008-
Found out from the cheapjacks (stallholders) that staying at home y/day was a good choice to make, has the practice of the typhoon from the harbour you could hear but could'nt see due to the clouds and the Sea King air display did'nt bother turning up either...so thats why it landed in the Naval College and we sat at home waiting for it to leave but never heard it leave.
* Black knights parachute display team- Did'nt do their display at dinnertime due to low cloud (fair enough that) said that they would be back at 1810 when hopfully the cloud would of lifted (at least they had a reason to not put on the display)...but then never bothered to turn back up!!!
* Typhoon air display,- What you could see of it was great, at least he bothered to try through the clouds! although the usual after the air display meet the pilots that usually happens as has done in the past and that my middle daughter looks forward to each and every year... never happened !, so tears from her has i tryed and failed to explain the 'why' Well how do you explain to a 6 year old that the pilots would rather be in Bournmouth???..although she cheered up by the mention of The Red Arrows are on in abit, and then asked ''well mummy where is there little van that sells the Red Arrows gear''??, (she remembered i had promisd her one of the scale model planes)...Tears AGAIN has i told her it had'nt bothered to turn up this year...Did'nt bother too leave Bournmouth no doubt!!
*Music in the bandstand- ''59 ford'' a band actually worth the leg ache to stand around and listen to!
* Newfoundland dogs rescue demonstration- Could'nt see a dam thing, too much crowd!!, as i had said to the girls that i would stick out the leg pain in the long queue to go and look around HMS Argyll thats what we did... untill an hour just over later and still stood in the queue, HMS Argyll decides to not bother taking ANYMORE over to look around and stop!!...guess they could'nt be bothered either??? ...So we turned around, leaving me to then explain to 3 upset girls why YET AGAIN something they was looking forward to just was'nt going to be happening!!...by this time my bloody head is throbbing and all i want to do is go the hell home myself!!!
* RN Merlin Air display- What we could see of it was great, had me and the girls laughing as it came so low it blew sprays of the water from the Dart over us haha, first time all week i saw the girls actually laughing and having fun!
* Red Arrows Air display- They should of like many of the helecopters/jets through the week, saved the fuel and not bothered, Give them credit they did'nt give up trying through the clouds and we got a 4 second glimpse of them through broken cloud, but it was more a case of 'we can hear them but like hell can we see them' even the crowd could'nt really be bothered to cheer and clap, i guess it was a case of what we cheering too?? ...they did try which is the main thing, right to the point where we was told they could'nt try anymore as had only enough fuel to get back to exeter (WOW they was'nt going to bournmouth, shocking!!) ...one thing you REALLY cannot fault the Reds for and thats their will to keep trying, right till the end!
Although again the middle daughter asks ''where are all the pilots that usually are about'', just as i was about to explain for the 23rdish time the why, i did'nt need to suddenly the girls started jumping up and down, smiles all over their faces they had spotted Andy, (Red 10) that cheered all 3 of them up, totally made their day and saved me having to explain...although he seemed to just want to be out of dartmouth has quick has he could...i wonder why???
Even the RN guys who i saw around 1400 walking about with armful of booklets to hand out, i saw again around 1830 walking back with those booklets...not many had gone!!
* Fireworks display- Amazing done to music has it is every year at the end of regatta..
I for one look forward to the only once a year 'fun' that Dartmouth gets,... only for the first time in the 4 years i have lived here i can honestly say it was 'utter crap from start -finish' ,a total waste of dragging 3 excited girls down there who then got bored, bored and has each day wore on even more BORED!...,the ones with no kids was also uttering the words 'shall we go home ' ,'all we are doing is spending money on that fair'..of which i sat thinking 'yup and dont i know how that one feels'
Dont get me wrong, if you like sitting down for hours upon hours watching a load of tennis players hitting a ball backwards and forwards to each other or even if you like to sit on the harbour letting the day drag by watching rowers race each other then yeah dartmouth regatta is the place for you, no doubt on that one!
But this year it was total crap!, can now see why the comittee at the opening ceromony looked has miserable as sin, (if only they had told the locals that nothing was in store for this years regatta, we would of not bothered and saved ALOT of cash) the ONLY ones to benifit was the cheapjacks, the takeaway food vans and the fairground!!...
Heres hoping that next years Dartmouth Regatta is a hell of alot better, or the tourists who are REALLY the ones that make up the crowds wont bother to waste their time in pain staking car ferry queues or standing anything up to 3-5hrs in a park and ride queue! ...and the locals will just stay at home and save on a bloody big headache of 'we are bored' if they have kids....Just a thought but never know ,maybe even the women with the skirts up their asses hanging around the Royal Hotel waiting for some guy from the forces to get 'friendly' with them might not bother too next year either!!!...and save me having to explain the word 'shag' to the girls.
8/28/2008 The Black cats...may of had the tourists fooled, but not the locals!!...To be more percific my middle daughter who has just turned 6 years old!
Has the girls had been excitedly waiting with alot of patience all day for the Black cats to do their 10mins show at 1730, The older daughters face just turned around and looked at me, when firstly there was only the one 'black cat' instead of the usual two to syncronize with it (I explained to her that apparently the other was sick ) but then came the middle daughters dissapointment, when she turned to me and said ''Mummy, we been waiting all day for this. THATS NOT THE BLACK CATS, THATS THE HELECOPTER THAT FLYS OVER OUR GARDEN AT HOME!!!!
 To which a fair few people also stood on the South Embankment overheard, and smiled at her.
Tbh i was so busy taking pics to add to the photos on live space i never took any notice, AT FIRST!!, but then i did, has i flicked back through the photos i had took, i noticed there was no Black cat emblem on the sides of the helecopter,(take a look at last years pics of The Black Cats and you will see what i mean,if you dont know)!...
...and has we was walking away i looked over towards the Naval college, and it was like a 'slap in the face' or rather running into a brick wall face first, has i stood with the girls and watched the 'Black cat' slowly landing in the Naval college, it suddenly dawned on me that if i had just stood in my own back garden, i not only would of saved myself alot of 'mummy i'm bored' earache, but also would of saved myself £65 in trying to keep the girls bloody happy!!
Next year will not even be bothering to waste time, energy and cash in making the effort to go down to watch them... OR one of them.
And just to top the evening of the girls decide that 'they dont want to stay any longer, the usual band that's around after the opening ceromony is none excistant, (unless you count the guys in skirts from some bagpipe band who hung around for 15mins), its boring and want to go home is what they said!
So totally agreeing with the girls, we headed off towards the taxi rank, through the crowd of people who had gathered outside the Royal Castle Hotel, when the older daughter spots a women with a lovely sparkly red dress on and says 'Thats a pretty dress that girl is wearing, mummy can i have a dress like that one?''...
...on noticing the dress was up the womens ass to say the least, i told the older daughter noway!! of course the usual 'why' comes flying back has a reply, so i told her 'she is'nt old enough to wear those kind of dresses.
Thankfully it got left at that.
untill...
We reach the taxi rank, and the queue of people who are chatting about the 'amount' of women from -18 to 50ish out this year, in skirts/dresses that leave nothing to the imagination to say the least, and wondering on the why??, only to come to the OBVIOUSE conclusion, has one man put it...
''The regatta Rock is this evening,900 tickets sold out,the Naval college get the first scoop at any if not the majority of tickets so leaving many people who live in dartmouth without, Easyiest way of gaining entrance...
...wear a skirt up your backside, one that shows most cleavage is the best, hover outside the Castle Hotel, and eventually the Navy guys WILL make the way in that direction. At which point these women with the skirts so short get 'noticed' even before the navy guys have hit the Hotel bar, make conversation and hey presto these women get their entrance to the Regatta Rock..and also get a shag for the night or untill after the weekend.''
 Said right infront of all 3 of my girls hearing!!...great one for the future and when the girls hit 18 that one, Sometimes i wish people would be alot more tactful when speaking infront of little kids, trying to explain the word 'shag' to my 7 year old daughter when she asked me what it meant in the taxi, gained me a puzzled look when i said 'oh its a thickness on a carpet,they call it a shag... 8/24/2008 Past week...Going to change this from 'what have i done today' to 'what have i been doing this week' just cannot keep up with it all on a daily basis, infact finding it very hard to do 2 courses,chat with mates on msn, keep 3 girls happy, and have a real world social life...
Any will get my ass into some form of gear during Sept, and sort it out with 'a routine'
So this week-
Been busy busy busy!, infact still busy so will simplyfy this.
* Handed in my assignment monday, which i thought was the 18th august, could be wrong, only it apparently was marked on the 18th too,so maybe i am wrong,..unless royal mail maraculusly got it there the same day. (Impossibility)!
* Went totnes tuesday that was fun, muddy but fun!
* Dartmouth castle, well all i can say to that is bring your own brew, your own food, and your own juice for kids...unless you want to spend £15.75 on 3 glasses of milk, 3 flapjacks, and a half cup of coffee! oh and add to that £4 adult and £2 per child entrance fee to get into castle which takes you all of half hour to walk around , add to that £1.50 per adult and £1 per child boat trip back to South embankment, for those like me who could'nt be assed to walk nearly 2 hrs back to Dartmouth = one very expensive day out!!!
* Welcome home party on friday
* Got my marks back for M1 test paper 1, i got 73%, which with 3 girls at home, real world stuff going on, trying to keep up with MSN mates.
A tutor who decided to phone me and tell me the day i posted M1 that he had been on holiday, and then another tutor tell me that he infact was my assigned tutor but has the other tutor as now marked up my work, then i will be passed onto him.... Still have no idea who the hell i spoke to on the phone but am happy with the 73%!
* Thursday/friday morning was a near all nighter with an MSN mate,who also was staying up to sort out for his meeting he had to plan so we kept each other awake, (having a GSOH helps when in this situation) but i gave in around 0530ish said 'night night' to mate and naffed off to bed
* Since Friday very late evening i have been sat in amongst carpet/sofa/wallpaper/paint ect samples, sorting them out into some order,then filing them on computer then adding them to a filing system, still have loads more in way of filing the suppliers of the samples in some form of readable order to do. But getting there veeery slowly. (Will add pics to my interior design slideshow)
So now it is Sunday 24th august,am so tired i feel like i am not in my own body anymore, the girls have 'tidyed up their mess in their own style of tidying' so i have that to go and sort out inbit along with washing clothes.washing up and cooking food, but at least the bulk of the samples are filed and sorted, just the suppliers to now go and file,
Can see another all nighter happening again tonight! - somehow i have to cram in over a weeks worth of CAD coursework that i am now behind on, before i get too far behind!.
haha, Life is such a joke at times, just have to laugh at it then get on with it!
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