WELCOME TO JENRAY'S TIME OF LIFE

Hi to everybody...seems not many friends have been on line much today, and I've found it a tedious day trying to redesign my blog without any success...what is in my design section bears little or no resemblance to what comes up on my actual blog now so have no idea what's going on
With nothing else happening, I'll just wish you all a restful night, sweet dreams and send you big hugs and hope tomorrow might fare better for all in blogland... night night...

Hi to everybody...hope you've had a good morning...at the mo, my blogs keep disappearing and reappearing if I go back to design and click on save and exit..not a happy bunny with blog.co.uk right now...if I lose them all I'll be more than annoyed...
Hmmm...think it's dinner time now...last time it was breakfast time, and all I've done is got the paper and played around with this darned thing and had a chat with son and that's it BLOL...
So, my friends, have a good afternoon...Happy Birthday wishes to Chyna for her 21st ...and big hugs to you all...

Hi to everybody...just a quick warning...if you come on my blog this morning, it may look completely weird...blog.co.uk is playing with my head...I've tried to change its appearance several times without success...it's just mangling my two blogs together and making a heck of a mess, so...not to worry...I'm nearly back to normal now, but can't seem to create another blog design because it won't let me...
Off to have a very late breakfast after fiddling with this stupid thing for over an hour...big hugs to one and all and have a lovely day....

Hi to everybody...I've had to put the heating on tonight in the house, it was way below 68 and really cold, so now have a winter sweater on and the heating on 68...it's August for goodness sake...aaahh...oh, well...
No call today about refund but hopefully tomorrow will bring a result...in any case, we go to the supermarket regularly so the manager won't forget or we won't let him
Now, I've a favour to ask...does any techie minded friend here know how to change the header background colour...my current turquoise one refuses to change into a new colour and I don't know why...any clues as to what I may be doing wrong...I actually want to get rid of the colour so that my fractal images stand out better...
Tonight, I've watched Britain's Strongest Man heats and tomorrow its the Finals...don't know why but I really enjoy watching them and really get a buzz out of cheering one on if he's so close but just not quite strong enough to do one particular task...or cheering if one of them does achieve something special...The World's Strongest Man has always been something I've watched through the years, and that's to come once this competition is out of the way... Well, I think it's a good thing to see really strong men competing against each other and none of them hurting each other at all...pity we can't have wars where a country's strongest six men battle with tasks against the enemy's six of the best and whoever wins that's the end of the war and we can all go back to being peaceful again...that would take all those macho bloody warmongering politicians out of the arena and stop innocent civilians dying as well....hmmm...pity it will never happen but good idea...
That's it, my friends, have a lovely evening, and big hugs to one and all...might be back but might not so have a restful night, sweet dreams, and for now...

Hi to everybody...Joebangles...Trevor...put this up on his post and now I'm putting it up on mine because I think it's rather lovely and quite moving...

I received this as an e-mail, thought that I would pass it on.

I am sending this to you to see how many actually read their e-mail.
Your response will be interesting. Pay attention to what you read.
After you have finished reading it, you will know the reason it was
sent to you.

Here goes:

People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person.
When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a
need you have expressed.
They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you
with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or
spiritually. They may seem

like a godsend and they are.
They are there for the reason you need them to be.
Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient
time,this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.
Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away.
Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand.
What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled,
their work is done.
The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.

Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has
come to share, grow or learn.
They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.
They may teach you something you have never done.
They usua lly give you an unbelievable amount of joy.
Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must
build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation.
Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have
learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.
It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.

Thank you for being a part of my life, whether you were a reason, a season or a lifetime.

Send this to every friend that you have on-line, including the person who sent it to you.

0 Replies - you may need to work on your "people skills"
2 Replies - you are nice but probably need to be more outgoing
4 Replies - you have picked your friends well
6 Replies - you are downright popular
8 Replies or More - you are totally awesome (and that's probably why you're
on MY list)

I wonder what mine will be....

GUARDIAN ANGEL.

Big hugs to everybody...

Hi to everybody...didn't sleep well last night...I was cold and finally changed into a warmer winter nightie and then did go to sleep but woke again at 5 and couldn't get back to sleep after that so made a cup of tea and read my book...heard hubby come in at around 6.10 but didn't call out to him and he went off to his room, heard him snoring loudly a few minutes later and I turned off the light again and woke up at 10...
Hubby went off to Lidl's armed with errant tap to see the manager who recognized him as a regular customer, gave him an immediate refund of the said tap and a promise that we'd get a call today after he'd spoken to head office saying we could either have a full refund of the costs incurred to have it plumbed in or a credit for goods for the said amount or a partial refund or credit of the amount...I'm hoping it'll be the former..it certainly should be, but will wait and see...
Dull and cloudy today so yesterday's trip to the sea was a real bonus...now back to usual August weather
Hope you have all had a good morning and will have a good afternoon...big hugs to one and all, and may the sun be with you...at least somewhere in the world...

Hi to everybody...thought this was very funny...don't know why but it made me really laugh....

Big hugs, and I'm definitely going to bed now... Sweet dreams to one and all...

Hi to everybody...here's a very very very short poem from me...

Jamboree

Is there jam for tea?

No.

Can we have a quickie?

No.

Hey, you looking at me?

No.

Oh.

*****

That's it...I hope you have a restful night, sweet dreams and I send big hugs to one and all...night night...

Hi to everybody...hope you've had a good day so far...hubby's just gone off to work and there's absolutely nothing worth watching on TV so found three jokes for you...here they are...

One year at halloween the governor was giving a costume
party. All the gentry were there and as they arrived the
doorman would announce what their characters were.

When one couple arrived he announced "Mickey and Minnie
Mouse".

As the next couple arrived he announced "Tarzan and Jane"
and so on as each guest arrived.

Later in the evening a man arrived dressed only in a pair of
underpants but apart from that totally naked from head to toe.

"Who do you think you are?" demanded the doorman. Having
ascertained that the man was indeed an invited guest from the
local university CS department The doorman asked "How
shall I announce you?"

The man said, "I'm premature ejaculation"

"I'm very sorry sir", said the doorman in obvious shock, "I
cannot announce anything like that to such a gathering."

"O.K." said the professor. "Just say I came in my pants"

The Perfect Worker

1 Bob Smith, my assistant programmer, can always be found
2 hard at work in his cubicle. Bob works independently, without
3 wasting company time talking to colleagues. Bob never
4 thinks twice about assisting fellow employees, and he always
5 finishes given assignments on time. Often he takes extended
6 measures to complete his work, sometimes skipping coffee
7 breaks. Bob is a dedicated individual who has absolutely no
8 vanity in spite of his high accomplishments and profound
9 knowledge in his field. I firmly believe that Bob can be
10 classed as a high-caliber employee, the type which cannot be
11 dispensed with. Consequently, I duly recommend that Bob be
12 promoted to executive management, and a proposal will be
13 executed as soon as possible.

Addendum:

That idiot was standing over my shoulder while I wrote the report
sent to you earlier today. Kindly re-read only the odd numbered
lines.

And last, but not least, a cheeky poem...not mine or hubby's...LOL...

He laid her on the table
So white clean and bare.
His forehead wet with beads of sweat
He rubbed her here and there.
He touched her neck and then her breast
And then drooling felt her thigh.
The slit was wet and all was set,
He gave a joyous cry.
The hole was wide... he looked inside
All was dark and murky.
He rubbed his hands and stretched his arms...

And then he stuffed the turkey.

Big hugs to one and all....

Hi to everybody...woke up to the sound of the doorbell ringing this morning at 8.20...turned out to be BritGas engineer come to see to our vent we needed checking according to our first little plumber, and had we asked him to do it, we were told it would cost £65 plus parts...we'd completely forgotten it was today and had got it into our heads it was Friday...anyway, we donned dressing gowns and let him in...and he came upstairs, checked it, asked if we had a pin or a needle...we supplied one of both, he stuck it in the top and said that's it...and packed up his ladder after checked the loft tank and left All that had happened he said was the hole in the top had got a bit blocked...aaahhh...me oh my...what is the world coming too when a Corgi qualified plumber would have charged you all that money for what a pin could have resolved in two seconds??? At least, he didn't, and told us to go back to BritGas where we have our insurance cover, but isn't that ridiculous...anyway that's the final end, I hope, to our plumbing probs...
The morning turned out to be absolutely beautiful...a cloudless blue sky, and as we were up early we decided it was a chance to go down at last and have a walk along the beach, which we did, and it was lovely...walked from Boscombe to Bournemouth then had lunch in the French restaurant and then came home...I found a pair of shoes in a last min check of TKMax before the bus came and got a real bargain for fifteen pounds instead of around forty-five...so that was a good end to this hol...hubby is now asleep and will get up at 5.45 and then it's back to work until Friday then off again until next Tuesday...doesn't seem as if he works much at all now but he does...he has cut his overtime down though for two days of the week because it's taking too much tax off his pension...roundabouts and swings really but hard to know what to do for the best, but think this is a better option as he doesn't have to lose quite so much sleep for two days of working.
So, my friends, hope you've had some sun too and will have a good afternoon...big hugs to one and all for now and might get back later...

Hi to everybody...good afternoon to you all on this partially sunny partially cloudy but very warm day in our neck of the woods Decided to go to Poole and not to Bournemouth for a walk along the beach because weather just wasn't good enough...

When we arrived in Poole after a twenty five minute wait at the bus stop instead of five to ten as we were a bit early, we got off and wandered round the Dolphin Centre checking out some of the shops...mainly, don't laugh, for a fourteenth pig for hubby as I couldn't leave him with thirteen...being oddly superstitious about it for some completely unknown reason...anyway, we found him one in one of the shops and then came to M&S and discovered they'd revamped the Poole one and it now had their latest fashions...prior to this they only had their own and it was pretty drab...so wandered in and found a pair of trousers I thought might suit me and went into the fancy new changing rooms and began to try them on and got a horrible shock...

There were four mirrors in the changing room so you could see yourself from all angles...oh, damnation, I don't need that...I already know what I look like, I don't need it thrust down my throat in a shop where I'm trying on clothes that I can kid myself, looking at my front view only, actually fit me and look okay...there's absolutely no way when looking at myself from all angles I can persuade myself of that...the result was I didn't buy anything and probably won't ever there because I'll never persuade myself I look okay in anything I try on in those cruel mirrors...it's bloody depressing for somebody like me to have any sense of self esteem when confronted by a wall of mirrors surrounding me on all sides...also it's still a shock to see myself ageing...

I can't get used to it yet because my mind is still young but my face is so much older now...one thing I know I'll never go quietly into that dark night...I'll definitely rage, rage against the dying of the light So, my friends, any suggestions how you come to terms with this bloody boring business of ageing, because I haven't found out how to yet...

Well, I hope you've got a sunny afternoon, because we have now so we're off for a stroll on the heath again...we've never been on the heath so often as we have this year It's gorgeous as well with all the rain we've had...there's heather and gorse in full bloom as far as the eye can see in every direction and it smells wonderful...in the meantime, big hugs to one and all and for now....

Hi to everybody...good afternoon to you all on this glorious Bank Holiday Monday...woke up this morning to brilliant sunshine but discovered when we went downstairs for breakfast there was a cool wind...so we decided not to try for the beach today but rather to go for a walk this afternoon on the heath again...
When we went round for the paper we discovered to our delight, Whisky, the little cat, was there to greet us effusively and walked round with us for the paper as far as the corner of the water works then said goodbye to him and we went off to get the paper...when we returned, he was nowhere to be found so presumed he'd gone back to his new home again after seeing us and having a big love... It made our morning...
After that, we took a quick trip to Lidl's for milk and odds and ends and tried to see the manager about returning the tap and our claim for a full refund for the work costs, and found out that he wouldn't be back at work until Wednesday, and then not until midday and hubby's got to sleep that day because back to work that night...so it's Thursday now when he's in again in the morning...after that we came home, had a much needed coffee, and are now doing the week's washing...not exactly a relaxing Bank Holiday but we have had the entire previous week off so not really any different from the other days Oddly enough though, it is actually quite relaxing to get back into a more normal routine...this has been a really disrupted week's hols and not really enjoyable as I did some damned stupid things during it...not least trying to get the damned tap plumbed in during it, leaving the freezer door ajar, and last night I set the video timer all wrong and missed Martin Clune's latest offering...that, however, was slated in the Independent today so probably didn't miss much at all...it's a bit sad...he's being typecast now as the rather grumpy stiff upper lip guy who has to be melted by a serious of humourous encounters, when, in reality, he's a very accomplished actor who deserves more meaty parts....
So, my dear friends, that's our day so far...there was a pic of Bournemouth beach yesterday and it looked like an infestation of fleas on it... There wasn't an inch of space between the mass of bodies invading it to get a bit of sea, sand and sun...and today will no doubt be the same, so think we'll wait until tomorrow and try then when the hordes have departed and left the beach to the locals or few holiday makers around...
I hope you have a lovely Bank Holiday and send you all big hugs...and really hope you have a bit of sun...

Hi to everybody...following Kev's blog on personality, I did the test and got this...

# The first dimension is Extroversion. People with a relatively low score in this dimension could be considered aloof and quiet. Relatively high scorers are outgoing and enthusiastic, often termed 'Wanderers' by personality experts.
Your score was: Medium High

# The second dimension is Neuroticism. The lower your score the more emotionally stable you will be. High scorers are prone to stress and will be categorised as 'Worriers'.
Your score was: Relatively Low

# The third dimension is Conscientiousness. Relatively high scorers will be organised, but can also be quite rigid and inflexible. They will often be seen as 'Controllers'; on the other hand a relatively low score can indicate that although spontaneous you can be careless.
Your score was: Relatively High

# The fourth dimension is Agreeableness. Relatively high scorers are trusting and would be classified as 'Empathizers', very people focused and sociable. Having a relatively low score indicates that you are not at all focussed on other people.
Your score was: Relatively High

# The fifth dimension is Openness. High scorers in this dimensions are usually imaginative and eccentric, open to different experiences. They are often termed the 'Poets' by personality experts. Relatively low scorers are practical and grounded and can be relied upon. However they can be closed to new experiences.
Your score was: Medium High

This information is for informal use only, and should not be used as the basis for clinical or professional decisions.

To find out what the national Personality Survey reveals, come and hear the survey's author Daniel Nettle at the Tempest Anderson Hall, York on Thursday, 13th September, 17.45-18.45. More information and tickets available from www.the-ba.net/festivalofscience. Find out more information about the book at Oxford University Press

All a bit of fun I guess...that's it for tonight, my friends, hope you have a restful night, sweet dreams, and big hugs to you all...

Hi to everybody...woke up this morning to a beautiful clear blue sky and decided just had to go down to the sea...that was at nine o'clock...by ten fifteen the clouds were starting to build up much to our disappointment, so changed our plans to go for paper and have a walk on the heath later after we'd removed some of the darned ice off the refrozen things in our freezer...I know it's a bad thing to do to refreeze stuff, but I don't think it's too much of a risk with it staying cool even if not frozen for a day...anyway, we'll make sure everything we use is well cooked...and will use all the food in this freezer now and leave the food in the small one in the conservatory till later when all the large one's contents are eaten. It was just one more thing that went wrong this hol so will try to forget this one quickly
Now, the weather is back to lovely again, but realised when we went for the paper, it's heavy...the air pressure affects the rod in my back making it an effort to walk so quite glad I didn't go for any lengthy ones today...also there's no buses from Boscombe on a Sunday anymore that would take us home...now we have to come back to Bournemouth first then catch another bus home...usually we walk between the two piers from Bournemouth to Boscome and catch the bus home from there...so typical..on the days when people who have no cars can go out, they take the buses out...just amazing...
Nothing else to tell you at the moment...life goes on, and I hope the weather is being kind to you wherever you are...glad we're not in Greece at the mo with the terrible forest fires Must be terrifying, and one entire village of 350 people is now surrounded by fire and nobody now can tell what's happening to them...very frightening...on that rather gloomy note, I send you big hugs and have a lovely day...

Hi to everybody at the end of a truly summer's day...it's actually hot...I'm so happy to tell you the damned tap saga is finally over...we now have a great new ceramic one, which works perfectly, and a letter from our new plumber stating that she has been a plumber for nine years and, in her professional opinion, the tap she attempted to plumb in was faulty and what she had to charge us, so basically she's supporting a claim we're going to make for a refund from the company for what we've had to pay out, plus a refund on the actual tap...will let you know how that goes, but don't expect a rapid response
Managed to get into Bournemouth but only to take a necklace back and get a refund on that because I discovered when I put it on I sounded like garden chimes...I rang like tinkling bells whenever I moved No worries with that, a refund was given with no hassle...then went round to Lidl's then home...it was very, very hot and my feet were hurting...I seem to have acquired two very sore toes on my left foot the little one and the one next to it...I'm not sure whether somebody trod on them recently or whether I've just bruised them somewhere but can't see any sign of bruising, but they do darned well hurt especially when I put any pressure on them...
Something funny happened on the way home...we'd sat on the four push down seats in the front of the bus because they were easier on my back but we knew we might have to move if anybody with a pram got on, or at least hubby would...well, at one of the bus stops two Moslem ladies with their headscarves got on with a baby and pram...they looked like mother and daughter or daughter in law, well to cut a long story short, hubby promptly stood up to let them have the space and I kept the seat down with my hand for the mother to sit down between me and the pram...and the bus lurched and she fell backwards landed half on me and heavily on my hand holding the seat down for her...she was mortified and when she'd finally managed to sit down properly held my hand rubbing it and apologising profusely while I was laughing and saying I hold the seat down and you sit on me, jokingly and she was going sorry, so sorry...and I said really it's fine which it was, I wasn't hurt fortunately, because actually she was short but very hefty and I was lucky to escape with no broken bones, but it's the first time in my life I've been so close to a Moslem lady and having my hand held by her...they got off a few steps later still apologising and me telling her I was fine...hubby sat down again and we carried on our journey...it was a strange and oddly moving experience...I have no problem at all with headscarves, I do with the full burka, but it was a brief moment of real human contact and rather lovely...
Hmmm...that, my friends, is the end of my day so far...we've had an easy dinner of fish, new potatoes and salad with seafood sauce....and are now refreezing our freezer after discovering the door had accidentally been left open all day When it's completely refrozen, I'll have to go through all that I have in it and throw out any that's been in it for longer than it should have been...I know how it happened...I closed the freezer door and couple of jars and a glass jar fell off the top and down the side...hubby came running when I yelled for help because I thought one of them had paint in it, but it turned out to be empty and not even broken, but, with all the kerfuffle, the freezer door hadn't shut properly and I went out to the garage where it lives tonight and was horrified to find everything was defrosted...this holiday has been a bit of a nightmare in some respects...well actually in quite a few, but now I think the worst is over...but there's only until Wednesday morning left now and then hubby's back to work...let's hope the rest of the hols will be hot and sunny as well...it's forecast to be so...and with that cheerful piece of inf...I'll wish you all a great evening, and have a restful night, sweet dreams and a good Bank Holiday for all of you in the UK...big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everybody...good afternoon on this wonderful summer's day...warm and balmy here with no wind and I'm dying to go out but plumber's now working her magic on a completely new tap, having confirmed she had the washer in already and the tap was definitely faulty so it's return it together with letter she's provided to put in a claim for the cost of her work to find that out...hopefully this will bring this saga to a satisfactory end and give us time to go out this afternoon...also the new tap is much more suitable for the kitchen layout...hubby said to me just now that he didn't know how to tell me but thought the chrome one didn't fit the kitchen at all, and I'd thought that too but just couldn't bring myself to say it aloud...
So, my friends, I promise once this is finished, I'll never never bore you with another story of plumbers and taps and radiators again... I hope you have a lovely afternoon, and are doing something really enjoyable on this rare summer's day, so big hugs to you all, and for now...

Hi to everybody...arrived back home at ten forty after a fabulous concert...Van Morrison came on at ten past eight after a single song warm up by Chris Farlow (he of Chris Farlow and the Thunderbirds) and as soon as Van Morrison came on, it was non stop music from then on without even a breather in between each song until 10 o'clock when he walked off stage after a single return after everybody shouted and stomped for an encore and that was it...he never said more than a couple of words, didn't introduce the band, but did give a humdinger of a concert so no complaints...only one bugbear in the actual place...just in front of us a lady kept holding up her mobile phone and videoing him as soon as the lights dimmed a bit and it was shining right into my eyes until I'd had enough and asked her to stop it...she did for most of the rest of the concert but did it once more then stopped for the rest of it...think she was handicapped, but the people with her should have told her it's not only bloody annoying for anybody behind, but also illegal....
Ah, well, have now seen Van the Man, and he's no taller than I am, which is really quite funny as he has a really big voice and presence...LOL...
So, my friends, my apologies for boring you to death with my saga of the tap today again, but it will hopefully be completed tomorrow and I can forget all about plumbers and taps for the next sixty years...
Have a restful night, sweet dreams and I send you all big hugs... for now...

Hi to everybody...I spoke too bloody soon...the plumber has just left having discovered that the damned tap is faulty...there's no pressure behind the water...it just dribbles out of the damned tap and she had to take our sink out to fit it, unplumb our washing machine and what should have been an hour's job has taken from 12.30 until 4...she's been a plumber for nine years and she said it was the most awkward darned tap she'd ever had to fit and concluded it was made for European pressure of water and not UK's even though it said it's suitable...she's going to write a letter for me to take to Lidl's and we'll take the tap back and put a claim in for selling us a faulty tap and it costing fifty quid to put in...now, we've got to spend seventy nine pounds on a UK tap and another fifty to have that plumbed in tomorrow...she's coming back after eleven o'clock...I HATE FUCKING KITCHEN TAPS TO PIECES....
It's spoiled my damned day and we didn't get lunch until 2.30 when I gave up waiting and cobbled us something together in the conservatory...now, my dinner time is all thrown out and I know I'm going to get chronic wind from stress so will be uncomfortable all evening...bummer, bummer, bummer.....
So, that's my news...I'm just fed up to the back teeth of anything to do with taps and plumbers and wish I'd never thought of replacing what was essentially a working tap, just one that looked a bit grotty now....
Big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everybody...don't want to speak to soon, but kitchen tap is now seated on my kitchen sink and is on the way to being plumbed in as I write...
Darned hungry though because lady plumber was half an hour late so won't be able to eat until two today and really needed to time my eating carefully today so I don't get stomach cramps tonight while sitting down for two to three hours...usually eat lunch at one and dinner at five to half past so will have to do a bit of juggling today...but at least the darned tap is being put in at last
Nothing more to add at the mo, so have a good afternoon and big hugs to one and all....

Hi to everybody...I was just about to wish you all a good morning when the mega bag chappy turned up to collect our household waste...now I'm back again having seen him pick it up and deposit it all in the back of his lorry...that's a relief...all the rubbish has now gone...
I've just remembered that for the fourth day running hubby has forgotten to top up my mobile at the local shop when we picked up the paper today...now he's going round again to do it...I know, I should have remembered as well, but this darned phone isn't for me, it's for him to ring me at work or me him in an emergency, and, as he's never managed to answer it at work more than twice in the eighteen months we've had it, I refuse to have much to do with it at all...I hate the darned expensive thing, but I did think it might be useful in an emergency then realised it was probably bloody useless as we live in a three storey house, and whichever floor I had an accident on, I, no doubt, wouldn't be able to reach the darned thing in the first place...
Now, we're waiting for our lady plumber to turn up at midday to do our kitchen tap That should be fun...I think she may be expecting a British style tap that you just turn off the water and screw it onto the pipes...this one isn't like that at all...it's one that has a pull out hose for spraying the sink, salads, and anything else you happen to want to spray in the kitchen
Tonight, we're off to see Van Morrison at the Poole Lighthouse...I'm really looking forward to that, but just hope I can keep a dry eye...he does have a habit of making me cry with some of his songs...
So, dear friends, that's my day so far...have a good afternoon and I hope you have a sunny day as well because we've got a lovely one at the moment...big hugs to you all...

Hi to everybody...good evening to you all...have just finished dinner of soft roes friend in butter with ground pepper and salt and cauliflower with cheese sauce and French bread and butter and followed by the last of the treacle tart... No more now for at least six months...much, much too fattening but so scrummy...
While I drank my tea and hubby washed up, I found the last part of an old series of Zena, Warrior Princess on Bravo and realised how much I missed her...I thought she was great She was my kind of woman...Gabriel was okay too but Zena was definitely my favourite...now, I don't question what that says about me...HLOL...I know there's a warrior woman buried deep down inside me, but I keep trying to suppress her because you really can't go around beating the crap out of the baddies in our world can you...today, I would be arrested and taken to court...just like the guard I heard about on the news tonight employed by British Rail and a drunk arrives at the station starts being obnoxious, the guard tries to get him away from the other passengers and gets struck by a broom handle by the drunk for his trouble...he gets up and decides the only way to handle this guy is to head butt him, which he does...the result...he gets sacked, charged with assault and will have to go on trial...the guy who attacked him first got an £80 fine for smoking in a no-smoking area and that was it...the guard's colleagues are now going on strike for him, and so they damned well should...in fact, they should shut down the whole damned railway to support him...
Gordon Brown said tonight what a tragedy it was that an eleven year boy should be gunned down in our streets today, and we have to look deeply into the reasons why this is happening...I cried when I heard that his mother ran out and he died in her arms...it was always my worst nightmare that our son might be beaten to death one day by the local bullies, so I just knew what she was going through not only in my head, but in reality having lost a son ourselves....it crossed my mind, there's a profound contradiction here...there's a guard who defended himself and the other passengers from a drunken brawler only to be sacked, charged and possibly sent to prison for assault, while the drunk walks away with a measly fine...everything is topsy turvy in today's world...I'm not advocating vigilante violence...far from it, but I am suggesting we stop charging people who legitimately defend themselves - such as the guard did, even if rather too aggressively in some people's opinion - and take a look at who is actually doing the assaulting in the first place...sometimes I don't know how the public contains itself with the amount of bizarre, what can only be called, miscarriages of justice taking place in our society today...it's small wonder the young form gangs and adopt them as family when they see for themselves that's it's every man - and in some cases, woman...for his or her self, and not to bother to look for justice in the outside world....
Hmmm...the news tonight just left me totally damned confused...and furiously angry as well...am okay now, but needed to give voice to what I felt, because not entirely sure whether I'm just being led by the news media to have these feelings by the way they report both incidents or whether I'm right in how I feel about them...
Anyway, I hope you all have a good evening, and if I don't get back again, have a restful night, sweet dreams and I send you all big hugs...

Hi to everybody...good afternoon to you all on this now bright and sunlit day...woke up to a beautiful clear blue sky and both of us were up and about by 9 and ready to go to Poole for the market by 9.45. The bus arrived late but perfectly timed for us, that is, it was twenty minutes late so we only had to wait two minutes at the bus stop...getting canny now...try to time how late the bus is going to be and see if we can catch that one instead of the next one. If we go for the next one, we're guaranteed to have to stand around for those twenty minutes, which is so damned boring and such a waste of life....
On the bus, I looked up at the sky and realised the blue had gone and the entire sky was turning grey with a covering of possible rain clouds... Typical, and we'd left our umbrellas at home because left in sunshine...fortunately...the rain didn't come and the clouds have cleared away to give us a beautiful afternoon now...bought two pillows in the market that mould to your head and are advertised on tv apparently...got them for less than half price so didn't mind too much buying two...I was originally going to try it out then hubby could get one for himself...just after buying it we bumped into an old guy who said they were the best buy he'd ever made...since he got one, he's slept right through the night and even the fancy bed he'd bought recently that does all sorts of tricks couldn't achieve that...so went back and got hubby one too with that recommendation...did ask the guy selling them whether he was related to the old guy but he wasn't
Came home loaded up with goodies foodwise from the pork farm, soft roes from the fresh fish stall, and a French loaf for our dinner, which we scoffed half of it with absolute delight together with cherry on the vine tomatoes, creamy luxury coleslaw, pate, salami, ham and cheese...with butter of course as we've bought some now after running out yesterday Oh, it was sheer delight
Oh, yes, and found myself a new pair of mocassin slippers (men's) that fit me comfortably and am wearing them now...need to soften up a bit but a day or two should sort that out...so, dear friends, that's it for now...hubby's wandering round the house emptying all the bins for tomorrow's collection, and I forgot hubby bought me a pressie...The very best of Jake Thackray...after Nannyogg reminded us how hilarious he was and will enjoy listening to him again...
That's it, have a lovely afternoon, and I send you all big hugs... for now...

Hi to everybody...well that was a successful day...now have lovely tidy garage and a much tidier loft and it was all finished by three fifteen...hmmm...have a very dry throat now but feel pleased that rotten job is out of the way...hubby is now on his comp and coughing well with all the dust we've swallowed...there was a heck of a lot of it if you included having to empty the vacuum cleaner twice and the filter is the one thing that chokes you half to death while cleaning it...ours is a bagless one so you just tip the dust into the bin no hassle...they don't tell you the filter is a dust trap and causes even more dust than the bagged ones...
In five days, the mega bag will be collected and hopefully, that will be the end of it...it says don't pile above the edge of the bag, but we have a bit...hubby says when the bags lifted up the whole thing will drop down as it's just full of very light household waste...hope so because there's a little note saying if overloaded you'll be charge extra...
Oh, my throats really tickly with all the dust I've swallowed...also forget to say...I'm almost at the end of three months without a ciggy now - end of this week will make it three whole months and I haven't put on more than a pound in weight so quite pleased with myself...do sometimes think oh, I'll sit down and have a ciggie then do something or other then realise oh no I won't and just have a coffee...my cough's gone completely, my sinus's are clear too but if I hoped my skin would look fresh as a daisy I'm going to be disappointed there... The wrinkles have stayed firmly entrenched and no amount of cement is going to fill them in or expensive creams...mine are rarely expensive...the one I use all the time is Palmer's cocoa butter formula with added VitE - incredibly inexpensive - lasts for months and is completely natural with no added chems or things...keeps my skin as smooth as a wrinkled peach but I don't cry because haven't wasted my money on hugely expensive creams that wouldn't work half as well as this one...
Tried Revitalift and can't say I've noticed one iota of difference so will not return to buy another...
So, my friends, this afternoon is nearly over and I've decided it's just bacon, egg and hash brownies for dinner tonight...can't be bothered to cook much after all this clambering about and climbing ladders then clambering around in the loft...big hugs to you all and have a good evening...

Hi to everybody...good afternoon to you all on this very nice sunny day...we've decided to take advantage of this rare day and have cleared all the rubbish out of our garage this morning and have more than half filled our mega bag already...there's still the loft to do, but got a feeling half of it will have to stay behind