WELCOME TO JENRAY'S TIME OF LIFE

Hi to everybody...just a quickie...Gilraen, I've borrowed the banner for the 100 short story blog because I think it's a good cause too...hope that's okay...have a good night and sweet dreams...night night to one and all...

Hi to everybody...this is an urgent warning...today they have found yet another dangerous thing we do and that is enjoy a glass of wine each evening...apparently doing that increases your chances of bowel cancer!!! I thought, up till now, we've been told a glass of wine is good for you...hmmm...is this ever going to stop...now, not a day goes by, when something, previously claimed as good for you, suddenly becomes bad for you...heard an interview with a 93 year old man who puts his longevity and health down to eating healthily including never eating margarine only butter... Didn't I hear butter was seriously bad for you so we went on to Olivio (or Sainsbury's own) because it contain olive oil, which is very good for you, isn't it?...committed grave crime last week when we bought the saltiest spread in the world...a jar of Marmite because had a sudden and irrepressible desire for it...if I didn't know better, I would have said I was pregnant, but that being out of the question, have put it down to rebellion against all health tsars and besides I absolutely love it...the only conclusion I can reach is ignore everything they say and just eat sensibly and we should all be fine...the wine somersault from good to bad doesn't affect us as we only drink it occasionally...the high histamine content plays havoc with our sinuses...but would drink far more if we could...now I use it mainly in cooking because I do love what it does to a sauce...mmm...white or red...it adds something wonderful...
Okay, that's it for tonight...have a good evening...big hugs to one and all and have a restful night, sweet dreams, and wonder what we won't be able to eat tomorrow...

Hi to everybody, good afternoon to you all...cloudless blue sky now and woke up to it this morning and that was it...had to go out somewhere...anywhere, but couldn't stay in...decided to go to Poole for the day, have our lunch by the sea overlooking Brownsea Island and then saunter back to Poole centre, do a bit of shopping then come home...and that's exactly what we did Had a bad night last night...next door had a party and at 2.30, I gave up and opened the window and gave them a shout in the garden where they were being really noisy...not rude just 'hey' to get their attention and they all melted indoors without a single need to say anything else They did keep quiet after that, but heard them still going at 6.30 and then hubby saw them leaving at around eight this morning...probably a birthday party, but not exactly sensible to have it during the week when everybody else has to go to work...but it's very rare so not a complaint, would just have appreciated a bit of warning...otherwise really nice neighbours...
Now, hubby's gone to make us a coffee and I've just played Tetrix and nearly reached my personal best when the long red bricks missed going down into the space and that was the end of my effort...hope everybody has some of this lovely weather...we all deserve a break now from the darned rain...perhaps St. Swithan's will be wrong this year and not rain for forty days and forty nights otherwise it's not due to stop until well into August...did however, walk myself off my feet today...took a wrong turn when we decided to return to Poole and ended up walking in a very long circle back to it, and, by the time we got there I'd been on my feet for nearly three hours, which makes my back very tired...must learn to pace myself better
Okay, my friends, that's it for the mo...have a lovely afternoon and evening and big hugs to you all from a just about getting a summer tan woman... for now...

Hi to everybody...woke up this morning to a beautiful day and decided there was no way I could waste it being in a cinema all day, so had a change of plan...we got up and dressed early and caught the bus into Boscombe and did the reverse walk this time from Bos to Bournemouth. The beach had quite a few people - mostly Mum's with their kids during the summer hols I think LOL...it was a gorgeous walk again but didn't realise until I checked my watch again that we'd actually been walking for over two and a half hours from the time we got off the bus, and I realised then why I felt really tired...
Had another change of plan then and went to the French Cafe and had a meal of hot peking duck and rocket salad with dressing and a baguette with butter, and coffee...very nice...then decided to go and see the Simpsons at the local cinema...on the way there, we made a fatal mistake and went into a gallery that sells some of my favourite glassware...got outside without spending anything then hubby spotted a stunning vase in the window round the side of the gallery and I was hooked...it's so heavy, we couldn't carry it home so it's being delivered tomorrow evening...that's one vase hubby won't be able to knock off waving his arms about as he talks to our 27 year old begonia rex on the mantelpiece BLOL...no, he's not barmy, we both talk it, which is probably why it's still alive after all these years...anyway...a lot poorer but very happy, we went to the cinema and we can highly recommend the Simpson's film to anybody who wants a good laugh and a rollercoaster of a film that doesn't drag once...
Back home again now, we're relaxing and wondering whether to have something else to eat but still full from the dinner in the cafe...it was one of those meals that no matter how much you ate, the plate didn't appear to get any emptier...LOL...the salad in the end beat me, but it was lovely tender duck...
So, that's it for now, have a lovely evening and big hugs to you all...

Hi to everyone...tonight I really really want a ciggie...my whole mind and body is longing for one as I'm stressed and it is the only thing that takes it away...there's not even anything at all on tv to distract me...at least not until 9 when Smallville starts followed by Dexter then it's back to nothing...
Tomorrow is film day...we're going to see the Transformers in the afternoon, then have a Chinese meal and after that, we're going to see the Simpsons...saves having to waste two taxi fares up to the local leisure centre (there's no buses anymore up to it brilliant planning) and it will be a day out for the both of us...hubby's definitely not interested in the first one but wants to see the second so hopefully he won't sulk afterwards if he really hates it...our son said it's a bit of fun so that's why I'm going...I need a bit of brainless fun to get rid of this head f**k as we used to say in our hippy days...
Have a good evening and big hugs for now...

Hi to everyone, good afternoon to you all...outside we have a Simpson sky and it's lovely and warm...went shopping this morning and then came home and did the washing and have had our lunch and now we're about to take a stroll on the heath again...I hope all of you are getting some much needed sun as well...
Totally boring night's tv last night, but read a review in today's Independent on Clapham Junction that I talked about in an earlier posting last week and the critic's view of it and mine coincided perfectly, which came as a bit of a relief because I wasn't sure whether it was just me finding it incredibly heavy and depressing...now I know it wasn't just me...she did too...
Nothing else to say at the moment...it's really peaceful here and very quiet as hubby hasn't put his music on for a change...LOL...so have a lovely afternoon, and big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everyone...good afternoon to you all...very late today because actually managed to get down to the sea for a long walk along the seashore...it was gorgeous...parts of the beach we had to ourselves midway between the two piers and walked right along the water's edge...aaahh..bliss...woke up this morning to a lovely day and decided there and then to catch the bus down to the shore. The clouds were beginning to gather by the time we caught the bus, but, by the time we reached the sea, they'd cleared away...what did amaze us, was the cliffs...the surfeit of rain had caused the entire cliff face to be covered from top to bottom almost the entire length between the two piers in lush undergrowth and shrubs...first time that's happened...the sandstone beneath was completely gone except in the odd section...
Walked for two and a half hours in all with two twenty minute bus trips and a cup of coffee and a sandwich in Costa Coffee, which should be renamed Costa a bloody armandalega, but after seven sugars in our ginormous medium cup of coffee it became drinkable and at £2.20 a cup it damned well should have been...I could barely lift the cup as well because the design was so incredibly bulky, with the coffee in it, my poor wrist nearly buckled trying to pick it up at first... Anyway, had a sandwich with it because we missed the bus home by a min and had an hour to kill before the next one and both of us were really hungry so decided to eat before we got the next one...hence our sojourn to Costa Coffee...the sandwich was good, but at five pence less than £4 each, that should be excellent...there were cheaper places to eat but we couldn't wait in the queues as it was lunch time and had limited time, so had to choose one that wasn't crowded...now I wonder why
Came home half an hour ago, and am now quite whacked...thought it was going to bucket again because we came home with huge black clouds looking above us but they've all disappeared now...it's heavy though...I've got a heavy head so think there's a storm brewing somewhere...get sun, and you get a storm... wonderful...apparently this is the worst recorded year since 1797...I actually found that quite comforting because, going on that, the next one won't happen for another two hundred years or so
Well, dear friends, that's it for today...below is a picture of Oscar, in case you haven't seen the lovely little cat that does its rounds after the nurses and doctors...a real sweetie...

Big hugs to you all and might be back later... for now...

Hi to everybody...well, just had some compensation for my missed prog Atom...I've just seen Andrew Marr's The History of Modern Britain and the period of the Tory reign covering Eden and McMillan...very interesting indeed, with some revelations in it I didn't know about...for example...my apologies if the figures are slightly off but from memory...McMillan had thirty five members in his government all related to him by marriage and seven in his cabinet and no women - it was a clique of old Etonians and was to bring Britain to its knees in the end...and Eden went to war with Egypt over the Suez after hatching a plot with Israel and France and the British people came out on the streets in protest against it and when the reservists were needed thirty five thousand refused with many writing 'bollocks' across the call up papers...
Eventually, Britain ran out of money and oil and had to go to Eisenhower for help..and was told in no uncertain terms 'you get nothing until you get out of Suez' and we got out...basically it was the end of Britain doing anything on her own bat without the approval of the USA...
There's a horrible familiarity with that time and Blair's escapades in Iraq...the British people came out onto the streets in protest and were ignored and it was a humiliating disaster just as Iraq has turned into for both the USA and Britain...all we've succeeded in doing is making a bad situation even worse and now there's little or no chance of a peaceful settlement with the various groups in Iraq breaking up into warring factions and thousands more dying until another powerful figure comes along to take control once again...
The McMillan period ended in the Profumo affair - very familiar to me...it was just before I joined the Ministry of Defence when I was eighteen and the whole of London was buzzing with the scandal...later on in my life, I would get to know Lady Astor (Her husband, Lord Astor, was at the heart of the Profumo affair) quite well when she had a religious community a couple of miles away from our hippy one Odd how so many involved in scandals seem to find God...I believe Profumo, after his resignation, spent the rest of his life doing good works...
What concerns me now is...we could be heading for an attempted renaissance in the Tory ranks of the old Etonians trying to restore their perceived past glory, with David Cameron heading them ...unless of course he doesn't knuckle down and behave as they want him to and be their golden boy at the helm, then he'll be ditched like all the other failures of the recent past...I just hope Gordon Brown isn't like Eden who followed Winston Churchill as his shadow for years before he got a chance to be Prime Minister and rode on a welcome mat of popularity until he blew it with Suez...The question is whether Brown is strong enough to stand apart from the USA now and stop the mad concept that we're special in the eyes of the USA...we're not, all we are is strategically important to them in the event of a world conflict, and will strengthen our ties with Europe once we get over the problem of mass immigration and our apparent loss of freedom if we do draw closer...
Hmm...well that was a long post...sorry about that, but wanted to share some thoughts with you...and here's one last thing...here's a taste of Atom, it's got two more episodes to come so maybe this might stir some interest in it...big hugs and have a restful night, sweet dreams, and an early night night to one and all

Hi, I've just gone downstairs to watch my prog and discovered in my eagerness to save energy, I turned off my Sky box last night before I went to bed and so nothing recorded of the prog as it started at midnight...oh, I'm so pissed off...and it's not on again as it was repeated twice during the early hours of this morning...now I'll have to wait to see next weeks as it's a series of three...I hate it when I do something stupid like that...
Nothing on now until ten o.clock...so it's filling in the time until then with nothing to do other than surf the net or watch boring progs...fortunately I do know a bit about the discovery of the atom but it would have been good to hear it from the scientists with their current knowledge added...Professor Jacob Bronowski covered it in the Ascent of Man, which went a very long way to rousing my interest in all things scientific - great series - my mother wouldn't watch because...wait for it, Bronowski was such an ugly little man...aahhh..pain.
I'm taking deep breaths...there's so little on the television now that is educational in the old meaning of the word...like the Ascent of Man...it's doubly annoying to have to miss my prog because of this...the last one was on Light and that was very good, but slightly arty...that's what I found so refreshing about Bronowski's series, he described discoveries without all the trick graphics and reenactments and you understood what he meant, and could go off and extend your own studies afterwards...now a lot of science programmes have a health warning about flashing lights before they begin...for goodness sake...leave out the trickery and let the scientists explain their discoveries just like Professor Richard Feynman did in his brilliant lectures...
That's it for now...nothing more to say...needed to let off steam and get rid of my frustration...so have a good evening again and big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everyone, it's raining again Now that's out of the way, I've just discovered early this afternoon that MSN Hotmail has problems with one of its servers...has to be the one with my mail on and still can't get through now, so can't find out who's commented on my comments or collect my mail Oh, well, at least it's not my end...
I think I'm going to watch the prog on the Atom that I recorded last night when I've finished checking everybody's posts...not many people on today...just a handful on an off all day, not that I've been here all day Just when I've popped in to see whether anything thrilling is happening...
Was disappointed I had no comments on my post about Oscar the cat...I thought there'd be at least one or two ahs, and isn't that great...I still think it's just beautiful...must be missing Whisky now he's moved on with his owners...keep expecting him to come bounding out of the long grass greeting us and then trotting along by our side down the road...hmmm...deep sigh...some animals have a special quality...just like some human beings, and he had it, and I guess Oscar has it as well...everybody loved Whisky...he just made you feel instantly happy whenever you saw him...
Oh, well, the birds are making up somewhat for his absence...I've put a new feeder out for them and it's already a quarter of the way down the container which is quite a lot as it's quite big...the birds around here must be incredibly well fed because lots of people in the surrounding gardens all have bird feeders hanging up and we've noticed all the birds use them, so am expecting to see some pretty obese little tits around soon...BLOL...
That's it for now...off to see Atom...will let you know whether it's worth watching later on... Have a good evening, and big hugs to one and all..

Hi to everybody...creepy crawlie this time...after Semafu's post on Spiders and hating them, it reminded me of a really nasty looking one I found in my garden maybe two or three years ago now...It looked just like this - a genuine black widow

Apparently, the false widow spider does inhabit our area of the country and looks like this, and has a dodgy bite. This doesn't look like the one found in my garden unfortunately.

I'm a wee bit cautious now when I poke my hands behind pots after seeing that amazing spider in my garden...

Big hugs to one and all....

Hi to everybody...good afternoon to you all and I hope you have a bit of sunshine wherever you are, because we have today...don't know how long it's going to last but it was a bit of a lift to see it again...Here's something I've just read in the paper and thought it worth sharing with you..
Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours.
His acuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chose someone. It usually means they have less than four hours to live.
'He doesn't make too many mistakes. He seem to understand when patients are about to die,' wrote Dr david Dosa in yesterday's New England Journal of Medicine. 'Many family members take some solace from it. They appreciate the companionship that the cat provides for their dying loved one,' he added.
The two year old feline grew up at Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre. The facility treats people with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease and other illnesses.
After about six months, the staff noticed Oscar would make his own rounds, just like the doctors and nurses. He would sniff and observe patients, then sit beside people who would end up dying in a few hours.
No one knows if Oscar's behaviour is scientifically significant, but the grey and white cat recently received a wall plaque at the home recommending his 'compassionate hospice care'....

This article moved me to tears and my husband was also bowled over by it...just something very beautiful about it, and a small example of proof there's so much more to animals than meets our eye...
Have a lovely day, and big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everyone...strange day today...awful, awful weather all day then it was very nice, but got dark again very early...hubby's gone to work and managed to ring me in the middle of the only two progs on tonight Las Vegas and Cold Case...don't mind missing bits of the first because very light but the second you need to follow the story otherwise you don't know who's done what to who...and hubby decides to ring me in the middle of it to say Hi and goodnight...very nice, but also darned annoying as he knew it was on and just forgot...so got short shrift and rang off...thought I'd say sorry during the ads so rang him on his mobile...hubby and gadgets don't get on...he's had it over a year now and keeps forgetting how to answer it when it rings...I think he's managed to answer it about twice since he bought them...BLOL...anyway he didn't but rang me moments later on the phone to ask me what I wanted...I told him but was annoyed he hadn't answered his mobile yet again and said goodnight properly but told him to ring me on the mobile then he'd know how to answer it, which he did and now he knows and all this was going on while I was trying to see my darned prog.. I do not know why some men have such problems with machines...it's like they go into a panic when it comes to having to work them and just press anything hoping one of the buttons will work...
Anyway, all's well that ends well, saw the prog without missing too much...have now tidied up the kitchen, put out the breakfast things and am about to get ready for bed and a session with Terry Pratchett...have another fifteen books - I think - to go
So have a restful night, sweet dreams and I send big hugs to you all... night night

Hi to everyone...bit obsessed at the mo with these moths Have been trying to find one in flight to show you the amazing wings it had...the one below is the same type except it the many plumed moth...the one I saw had plumes like this but not so many...but you can see how delicate and amazingly intricate the wings are on this little moth..

Big hugs...off to see Las Vegas and Cold Case now so enjoy the rest of your evening...

Hi to everyone, here's the delicate little moth we found last night...thought you might like to see the real thing...it's flight was amazing...the wings unroll and whirr silently as it flies, lovely little thing...

Big hugs and have a good evening...

Hi to everyone...sorry forgot to add a little bit of interesting inf...the Post Office boss, Alan Leyton, who earns half a million a year and got half a million bonus, works for half a day a week at the job...he spoke to the unions two weeks ago and walked in saying he could give them three quarters of an hour... Perhaps, it might make people a little less peed off with the striking posties if they realised this...Tony's cronies do very well indeed for themselves, while the working man has to turn somersaults backwards to get a liveable wage...
Big hugs to you... for now...

Hi to everyone...I'm sitting here at the comp, and I'm listening to the howling wind and absolutely torrential rain bucketing down outside and the heating's fired at under 60 in the house and I'm not playing this game anymore...I want my summer back again otherwise I'm going to throw a ruddy great tantrum in the middle of the playground...
Just looking outside makes me feel cold...the damned thermals are out again, and winter sweaters...this is getting really, really stupid...and expensive with all this heating being on during the summer!!
Hmm...not a happy bunny at the mo...can't get out, hubby raced round for the paper this morning and then too the local supermarket to pick up some bottled in oil mushrooms and some dried porcini mushrooms - Lidl's is doing an Italian day and their speciality things sell out quickly so he got them for me today...I've now got three bottles each of mixed mushrooms and sliced mushrooms - the ones in a tomato base had sold out since Monday...I got fed up buying fresh mushrooms and having to throw the unused ones away because not using them in whatever was the next few meals of the week...this way I get to keep them in the fridge until I need them again...
Hubby's strike ends at eight tonight and that's when he starts work again...so he's all out again with his sleep time...and no overtime either...bummer...more lost money...hope they sort themselves out soon...I think he's sleeping now because I can hear snores coming from his den over the hallway
Okay, dear friends, that's it for now...still can't reach my friends up north and am getting worried now...have left a message on the answerphone so all I can do is wait and hope they're all right...big hugs in the meantime, and have a good afternoon...

Hi to everybody...success...put a photo up on the WildLife Forum and got an answer almost immediately...It's a plumed moth...Emmelina monodactyla...to be precise...and apparently quite common in the UK, but I've certainly never seen one...really glad we let it go...big hugs to one and all off for our lunch now...

Hi to everyone...and a good morning to you all on this gloriously damp, dreary, gale ridden day in the middle of summer
Last night, hubby and I were getting ready for bed when we spotted this insect on the door...neither of have ever seen one before and wondered whether anybody here might recognize it...it folded its wings into a flat stick across its back giving a complete cross shape...it has a pointed tail but no proboscis in the front of its head just two distinct eyes...when it flies it unfurls its wings and they're large and as far as we could see double...it's a light brown sort of faint speckled insect and at first we thought it might be some sort of mossie but don't think so...don't even know what to call it even to start trying to find it on the net...

This makes a change from my normal first post Big hugs to one and all and have a good day...

Hi to everybody, really dark outside now and raining...even had to put the heating on for a short while today...heard from Gennie that in the USA they're showing about 20 secs on our floods and all they've heard is that the queen sent her sympathy...no pics barely and barely any news about what's going on over here...isn't it strange...when they have a disaster on the scale that we have here (size relative of course) we have loads of news and pics of what's going on, but it seems it's not reciprocal over there...very insular American news unfortunately...
I started thinking today that if next year is the same, there's going to be a mass exodus of people trying to find property abroad to move out of this country...there's already a near exodus...if that is the case, why is there such a shortage of housing? Surely all the people who've moved abroad must have sold their homes over here first, and I heard it was so many thousand a day leaving so all of them must have put their properties on the market...that's a heck of a lot of property being sold or in the pipeline to be sold, so who's buying it?
I feel very sorry for all the people suffering with the floods because, when it comes to trying to sell their property now, they're going to find it extraordinarily difficult and must be in danger of being in negative equity when the floods subside...I think the size of the disaster had left most of us feeling rather stunned and not sure how to react...I can't reach some friends in the Midlands so don't know what's going on with them...it seems all the phone lines are down or something...
Never having experienced such a seriously bad summer before, it makes you realise how we take the seasons for granted...I know they've changed considerably since I was young, but you just sort of presume summer will have quite a lot of sunny lovely weather and it doesn't cross your mind you could have one that simply doesn't arrive at all...it's a rather depressing thought that this might be a norm in the future as global warming starts really kicking in...
Hmm...my apologies for that rather gloomy post but I looked out of the window this evening at around seven and it was dark, I had to put the lights on and it's the middle of summer...crazy...
So, I hope you have a restful night, despite the damned awful weather, sweet dreams, and send you big hugs...and really really hope we all wake up to sun tomorrow...even if the forecast is for more heavy rain... Night night, folks...

Hi, I've been tagged by Annbradley...thanks, Ann LOL...who the heck thinks these boring questions up? Here goes...

Q1. There are crumbs in your bed. What kind of cookies do those crumbs come from?
A1. McVitie's wheatmeal with butter, cheese and marmite...

Q2. You are sitting on the toilet brushing your teeth cos you are hungover as normal. What got you that drunk?
It's a long stretch from loo to basin probably fall off loo trying to reach if really hungover...what got me drunk was probably desperation while answering tag questions...or it might have been the Bacardi or Southern Comfort I consumed to drown my boredom...LOL...

Q3. You have been dumped. What comfort food do you grab?
Treacle tart, lemon and meringue pie, plain chocolate brandy liqueurs.

Q4. Your wife/husband has annoyed you off so you decide to go have an expensive gourmet meal on his/her credit card. What do you order?
Depends how much he annoyed me...if a huge amount, I might order everything on the menu, if just a bit..a three course meal of the most expensive dishes...

Q5. Sitting in church and you have a book/magazine tucked inside the hymn sheet. What is it?
I'd never sit in a church during a service anyway now so can't answer this...

That's it..I tag five of my friends who haven't been tagged yet, and apologise profusely for doing so BLOL...can't we have some more interesting questions...and no, I won't write one...big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everybody, dreary, dreary day again with light rain and no sign of the sun...hope some of you are seeing it around the world...came on line last night to a very unhappy group of friends and have now lost one completely and still don't know fully what the problem was in the end...apart from the now missing friend venting rather too powerfully for lots of people's liking...from the other posts I had the impression he'd come close to actually murdering somebody, which shocked me to the core, but now it seems it was more a case of what he wanted to do to somebody, and in the process described the person's sexual orientation, which is what I believe upset some people the most...after my recent post on Clapham Junction and its contents, I guess our friend's tirade was rather ill-timed...all I can say is I'm sorry to lose a friend whatever he might have done, and hope that he makes it in his new business...
This morning has been oven cleaning day...something I hate doing because so messy and I never, never manage to get it back to a pristine state no matter what oven cleaner I use, but this one did work pretty well after leaving it on overnight...so that's one nasty job out of the way for another six months...hubby's only got two hours in tonight so isn't bothering to go to bed this afternoon as it's a strike for the rest of the night so he can sleep tonight...throws his body clock out with all these ons and offs with night shifts...hope they get together soon and sort it out...like bloody kids all of them...you'd think adults could come together and thrash out a deal instead of behaving like warring tribes...I guess that's asking too much...
So, dear friends, have a good afternoon, and I send you big hugs and hope that wounded feelings are now over and peace has been restored...again...I wish it had been differently but that's just me I think... for now....

Hi to everybody...have just sat down, well twenty mins ago to watch X Files...knew I hadn't seen the one in my TV times and damn it, the one being shown was only on tv about two weeks back so now there's nothing worth watching until nine when The 4400 starts...
It's a lovely evening with sun and some clouds but the early threat of rain disappeared soon after I wrote about it...just to prove me wrong...LOL...
If we lived near to the seashore, I would probably take a walk alone along it, but taking a bus down there is just too far...and wouldn't dream of going for a walk alone on the heath...it really is very deserted up there and I wouldn't like to walk on it alone at any time...not usually a bit scared of doing something like that, have absolutely no fear of walking through London streets even now with all the alleged muggers around etc, but on a lonely heath...no way...odd that, but it's a fact I can't get away from.
So, it's filling in now with reading blogs, playing Tetrix, Solitaire and generally killing time...gasp of pain...I hate murdering time...what's it ever done to harm me? Well, a lot really, it's turned my smooth skin wrinkled, allowed gravity to make everything drop several inches, thinned my previously luxuriously thick hair, taken my eyesight away until I can't see without glasses, removed some of my teeth, given me cellulite, spider veins and hands that do dishes and were once as smooth as my face, now give away my age instantly...oh, bugger it, I'm all for killing time...the dastardly mutt...
Have a good evening, and big hugs for now...

Hi to everyone...concern over now...windows cleaners haven't fallen off their ladders just got muddled over which day they were supposed to come here...they have us down for 1st August at ten on Wednesday...hubby wrote new day in last time so maybe he had a brainstorm or they did - but at least they're okay so no worries...they're usually on the dot when they say they're coming so genuine mistake...
Clouding over again now with black clouds out back...does one day come now without the threat of rain...knew the morning was too good to be true to last...
Ten minutes to go before I get hubby out of bed with a cup of tea before he has to get ready to go to work ...
It's strange how long ago last Friday seems when I last did it...one thing, do any women here have a prob with their partners or hubby's idea of what clean is? We've got an en suite shower room in the master bedroom and another bathroom...hubby uses the shower and I the bath because I don't like showers at all...he went up and cleaned it this morning, and, though I don't usually check it afterwards, because only he uses it, I did this today and couldn't leave it as I found it...why does he miss parts like the door for example or the shower section and soap dish?..he does the tiles and side panel and base but seems to not even notice the door or behind it...as much as I love him, I've never understood why we've got such different ideas about cleanliness and hygiene...BLOL...I'll tell him when I get him up, he's now got a clean shower and to please try and not forget next time, but I bet a hundred pounds he will
Okay, time for his tea...have a good afternoon everybody and big hugs...

Hi to everybody, good morning to you all...two mins to spare but will overlap while writing this post into afternoon Fun and games again today...it was window cleaners this morning at ten...hurried around and got house tidy, window ledges cleared and were dressed and ready for them and nothing...nobody's turned up, their mobile is inaccessible, the wife says they left for work this morning, and now I'm really worried one of them has fallen off their ladder or had an accident...they're a lovely couple of young guys just starting their own business as well...hmmm...bugger the windows, I'm just worried about them now...
It's a glorious day now with brilliant sunshine and very warm...had a great walk round for the paper when nobody had appeared by ll.30 and left a note on the door just in case they turned up...and it felt like the first day of summer...pity it won't last...according to Kendrive, 10 million people have left for hols in the sun this July!! The holiday resorts must be absolutely packed...not sure whether that's my idea of a holiday even if there's sun...
Hubby's back to work this evening...tomorrow it's a quick session in then home again when the next strike happens...apparently the posties are asking for a 27 per cent rise HLOL...if they were, I'd tell hubby not to damn well vote for a strike as such a claim would be absurd...this is just management exagerating again to get sympathy from the public...for years posties have managed on terrible wages, and now for the first time, they actually got a fairer wage, and now they're being made to jump through hoops to get a reasonable claim as near to inflation as possible...which is sitting at 3.something and they're being offered 2 and a l/2%...with house prices soaring, mortgages rising rapidly, loan interests too, it's not unreasonable to ask for that when the boss got a bonus of half a million and his next in line got 300,000 Now that's just bloody unfair...
Well, lovely friends, that's my gripe for today...and an explanation to you if you're being affected by the postal strike...don't blame the workers, blame the intransigent bosses who are raking in money by the bucketload for themselves...
Have a lovely day, and big hugs to you all... for now...