WELCOME TO JENRAY'S TIME OF LIFE

Hi to everybody...I've had it up to here with BCUK running snail pace slow...it's still doing it!! I sit and I wait and wait and wait for comments to go up and for the posts to change to the next page and then I get page 1 repeated before I get to page 2 of my friend's posts and all the time, time is passing and I'm getting older and more and more impatient...this blogging is supposed to be restful not bloody stressful...no wonder I'm knackered and no wonder I've been depressed, I can't get this blog site to move at anything other than a very ancient old person, which I am not...yet...but I will be if I stay here!!!...
Hope you're learning patience from it, I'm not...just sheer frustration...have a good evening, and I'm giving up now...great big hugs to one and all....
PS...do you think we could get a refund for slow servicing?

Hi to everybody...went to sleep at 12.30 woke up at 6.30 had a quick loo visit, went back to bed and was woken at 9.30 by hubby saying he's overslept...it was shopping day today...I couldn't wake up at all...he brought me breakfast in bed and I went back to dozing until 11 when I finally decided to drag myself out of bed...now sitting at comp doing my blog having answered my emails...and I've managed to put my face on but still not dressed...
Just feeling as if I need a long, long rest and after yesterday's chronic blues, know I need one so taking it now...hubby's doing the shopping for us now, so time for my morning coffee....
Have a good day everybody, and I send big hugs to one and all...also hope you've got a bit of sun at least...we've got clouds with very occasional peaks at sunlight...I'm staying in today...XXX

Hi to everybody...I watched with my hubby tonight David Attenborough's latest natural world offering of 'Tigers' and it was marvellous to see. The elephants carried specially adapted cameras into what can only be described as a wild paradise of a nature park and, in some cases, left the camera allowing it to film whatever passed by its lens...
The tigers were stunning, as were the leopards, and the cubs of both were just magnificent...I was really depressed before I sat down to watch it...I think this flu has just knocked the stuffing out of me...I'm still fighting the tail end of it I know because every evening I feel as if I've gone ten rounds with Mike Tyson...completely knackered...however, having seen that film, it quite restored my sense of awe, which had all but gone prior to sitting down...in fact, I couldn't actually see any reason for bothering to stay alive anymore...and that really, really isn't me...After I watched that, I decided to watch my new DVD..'A History of Violence' by David Cronenberg with Viggo Mortensen...that I enjoyed the second time around as much as I did the first...
So, my friends, before I depart for bed in half an hour or so, I do hope you have a good night's sleep and I hope I do as well, because I cannot know until I get into bed any more whether I'm actually going to go to sleep or spend most of the night up and down like a yo yo...sweet dreams to you and big hugs to one and all...may the sun shine tomorrow on all of us, because we could damn well do with some sun again...

Hi to everybody...a very quick one this morning...first of all had a really lousy night...saw in every hour right up until nine...think I'm up but not sure...second of all, it's a beautiful start to the day with sunshine but the clouds are creeping in now and the forecast is rain and bloody hail later!! Would you believe it...hail!
So now I'm about to give hubby his massage then we're off to the shops...can't go until eleven because none of the shops open until then...
That's it, hubby's demanding attention having kept me waiting for twenty five minutes while he showers and does his thing...have a good day everybody...and big hugs to you all...

Hi to everybody...jeez, we must be bored...I've googled me...and guess what?
I'm a bloody Air Freshener...HLOL...
A landscape and garden design company.
A variety of information sites.
And one with a lot of porn about biggus dickuses...

Now, that's bored me all over again....hope you're having a decent afternoon even if it's still piddling with rain and foul...big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everybody...had a really, really deep long sleep last night from 12.30 to 9 then another hour on top...feel much revived now so must have needed it..also last day of my antibiotics so glad about that as they always make you feel pretty low...had some weird dreams as well but won't bore you with them here HLOL...thought, oh, goody, we'll take a walk round for the battery charger for my camera as the card reader arrived today and works beautifully...and get some bird seed from the Range, a cucumber from Lidl's and my pain de raisin from the garage, and, of course, the paper from the newsagents...that's a walk of about two miles all round...
Those plans have gone out the window...it's bucketing with rain and there's a howling gale...so much for Spring! Hubby's racing round for the paper and my cakes because the garage is the nearest...the rest of the stuff we'll have to try to pick up tomorrow as Monday we must do some shopping in Poole...hmmm...the joys of the bloody British weather now....
I keep feeling now that I must get back to some sort of order in my life that's been totally disrupted by this damned flu...I haven't written a word for three weeks, haven't had a practice on my keyboard, haven't been out, and have spent all my time blogging and playing online games and getting really, really down and bored...so it's time to restore some semblance of order to our lives again...
I thought, as it's hubby's birthday on the 13th May, I might try and give us both a treat as we've both been pretty poorly this year so far by booking a short holiday in the sun...would you damned well believe that Bournemouth airport has no darned short breaks flying out at that time of the year...they either start at the end of his hols or the beginning and last for fourteen days and he's got a week off, and we're certainly not going all the way to damned Gatwick...also thought I'd try a coach holiday and the same problem...no holidays across that week...before it, after it, but not during it...bugger! So much for the best laid plans of mice and men...LOL...he'll have to make do with a complete box set of Cranford, which I know he really, really wants but it's not the same as seeing the sun for a few days at least...
So, my lovely friends, that's it for this morning....hubby's arrived back like a drowned rat and is having a coffee while I'm finishing off here...have a lovely weekend, and I hope somewhere some of you are having a dry one, and big hug to one and all in the meantime....

Hi to everybody...I needed to hear this so sharing it with you...HLOL...we need reminding every now and then....

Great big hugs to one and all....

Hi to everybody...at about 12.15, I looked out of the window and the rain had ceased and it was trying to sunshine, so grabbed hubby and off we went to the paper shop and bought the Independent and three tins of decent soup, and came home in the dry...half an hour after we arrived back the heavens opened again and I was so glad we went when we did otherwise I'd have not got out of the house for yet another day...
Even though a short walk, it was so good just to be out in the fresh air...well, fresh is stretching it a bit, we walk along the busiest road in Bournemouth, twenty-four hours of non-stop traffic flows along it and have no doubt the pollution levels are pretty high, but even that doesn't make me feel bad because I'm actually out of the house at last...HLOL...Now, it's a beautiful day with small clouds and lots of blue sky and sun...
So, my friends, have a good rest of the day, and big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everybody...bad night again...had that wretched dream about trying to get to a level on my comp and it going all haywire...that went on for about an hour from 2.45 to 3.45 and at the same time, I had a toothache in my right shoulder joint...finally gave up and went and made myself a cup of tea with a paracetomol and listened to the radio for a while then switched it off when I felt tired enough and woke up at 8.45 so got some sleep eventually...so boring!!
The weather here is foul...bucketing rain and it's cold and, according to hubby, this is going to be the weather for the whole weekend...I'm going to have to be committed I think if I don't get out of the house soon...three weeks is too long for a human being to be locked up when they haven't done anything wrong, except get bloody ill...
So, my friends, if this is a foretaste of the summer to come...the Spring has decided not to bother clearly, we're all going to be in a very sorry state by the end of the year...no sun for two years will definitely have us going stark, staring, raving bonkers and prone to catch every virus lurking around waiting for sickly individuals lacking sunlight for far too long...I'm trying to feel positive, but it isn't easy when I look out of the window and hear rain pounding on the glass and the wind blowing hard as well...close your eyes, Jenny, and dream of blue skies, soft sands and calm seas, and go there...because you're not going to go there over here that's for sure...have a good day and big hugs to one and all....

Hi to everybody...strange, I've googled the reports of the flu pandemic that my hubby was told by his friends at work was in the paper yesterday, but I can't find it anywhere...if they're not reporting it, they're keeping it quiet because it's definitely highly infectious and a great many people have it...don't know why they don't publicize it more and tell people how to treat themselves instead of just keeping quiet and letting people spread it through the community because ignorant of what it is...typical of the government!
In the end, I didn't get out because hubby said the wind was very cold so crossing fingers it will warm up by the weekend and I can get out again then...must be two whole weeks since I've been outside now...no wonder I've been going stir crazy...LOL...
That's it...if anybody else saw this report in their newspaper, can they tell me which one it was, please...have a good rest of the day, and big hugs to one and all....

Hi to everybody...had a bit of an up and down night but feeling much better still this morning, and the government has finally admitted it has a pandemic of flu on its hands!! About damned time too...this is a foul flu and anybody with it should be advised to stay at home until it is over in two weeks minimum...
Was going out for a walk, but hubby has just come in and said that it's really cold out of the sun, so think I'll wait a day or two before facing cold winds again...
Nothing exciting happening here otherwise...please try and avoid getting this perishing flu if possible, but, if you've got it, please take great care of yourself, and for the well have a good day, and big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everybody...slept without a break from 12.30 to 7.45...then went back to sleep until 9.10 when hubby woke me, made me a cup of tea and breakfast in bed. I thought I'm tired still, I'll go back to sleep for a while but realised pretty quickly, I didn't want to sleep again so got up and then it dawned on me...I feel better today!!!...I washed, put on my make up for the first time for twelve days and am now checking my mail before going downstairs to get dressed for the first time for as many days...ah, what a damned relief...I never thought I was ever going to feel better again...have three or four more days of antibiotics, and they don't make me feel on top of the world, but at least they're clearing the infection out...hubby's doing the shopping for us now in the pouring rain so certainly not a day for checking what the outside world feels like yet...
So, my friends, thank you for all your comfort and encouragement...it has been more than appreciated...I was so close to getting into a seriously bad depression with this blasted flu, having a way of writing about how I was feeling helped tremendously, so thank you again...and I hope you have a good day, and big hugs to one and all....XXX

Hi to everybody...found this film about football in Lusaka....very moving and the best use yet I've seen for the game...saving lives....

Big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everybody...I'm so bored I want to scream my head off!!! I'm not well enough to get up and dressed even yet...I feel like frigging death warmed up and I'm playing stupid games on the Net and I'm losing every one of them which is driving me demented...I've read everybody's blogs, I've read my mail, I've had my lunch, and I'm going round the bend very quickly....
I keep crying over every silly stupid thing and I'm not a bloody happy bunny at all...I'm more than fed up with my hubby sharing these foul bugs with me...
Big hugs to one and all...regardless of how I'm feeling....

Hi to everybody...had a very sound sleep last night and woke up still feeling drained...had breakfast in bed again and am up now and my brain feels like mush...hubby has started another cough. He phoned up the surgery and asked for his own doc and was told Friday morning!! I said try another, he was told all of the docs are busy until Friday...I said phone up and get a prescription for antibiotics for goodness sake, by Friday the cough will have taken hold of your chest and you'll be really ill again...he phones up for the third time to be told...oh, if you phone at two o'clock we have appointments open for today but can't issue them until the afternoon!! What the fuck is that all about? My hubby could have been seriously damaged with no antibiotics until Friday if I hadn't insisted he keep trying to get something before then...nobody told us of this new system, the receptionists never mentioned it, and I think that's tantamount to criminal...that's a person's life they're playing with by keeping back appointments and not telling the patients...anyway, now he's got to start phoning the surgery at two and just hope he can get through and make an appointment for this afternoon now...
He looks ill still and I don't think he's got over his bout of the flu yet either...he had two lots of antibiotics but they clearly didn't clear his chest fully...and I went down with it Saturday week and I'm still not up and around yet, but he had to go back to work after the same amount of time ill last Tuesday and must have been still weak with it....
Not surprised the docs are blocked up with this around, but still keeping back appointments is just not on...
That's it, my friends, have a good day, and big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everybody...woke this morning with a splitting headache after sleeping very deeply all night with two very brief interruptions...head blocked, chest chokey...hubby got up and made me a cup of tea while I sat and listened to Start the Week, and brought me a Hedex, followed by breakfast in bed with my first antibiotic of the day...listened to a very good prog and, by the time it was over, my headache was gone and, although feeling feeble, decided to get up and check out blogland while hubby went off to get the paper...
I'm not doing anything today...not even getting dressed...just resting...the house is very quiet...for some strange reason hubby hasn't put on much music at all this weekend, which is unusual...usually there's always the sound of some tune or other playing in the background, but just quiet for a couple of days now...think he's still not fully up to par yet either...I'm supposed to cut his hair and beard before he goes back to work on Wednesday...I really must get round to it as he's looking wild and woolly now...LOL...
So, dear friends, have a good rest of the festive weekend, stay well, and if ill, hope you feel better really soon, and I send big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everybody...here's wishing Freeasthewind, a very Happy Birthday...may you have a wonderful day and hope that this year will bring you lots of happiness and joy....

Great big hugs to you and loads of love....XXXX

Hi to everybody...here's two for the price of one...the first is for people with a short attention span...the second is for those with longer HLOL...


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Enjoy, have a good afternoon, big hugs to one and all....

Hi to everybody....here's a novel way of creating art...3D canvasses...

Big hugs to one and all....

Hi to everybody...got up this morning late after sleeping very well...dull, dreary and cold outside so nothing exciting happening with the weather...decided to have a nice soak in a bubble bath followed by a lovely coconut oil massage by hubby and also decided to admit defeat and start my antibiotics because I can't clear my sinuses and chest by myself...still feeling completely knackered, but gathered that's normal with flu even after a full week of it...last night I decided to watch the last Bourne film Ultimatum...and must admit I found each one really very good...a thoroughly good roller coaster of a thriller as I_Am Xenon pointed out recently...also saw following it a lovely gently paced German comedy called Schultze gets the blues...it was about three German miners following their forced retirement and how they dealt with it...unexpected ending but nonetheless a sweet, gentle film that I can thoroughly recommend if it comes round again on Sky Indie...
Tonight, we have The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett...first part...and really hope it's better than The Hogfather, which was a big disappointment with bad casting...David Jason though is in it again and should hold it all together...there's either nothing on TV or everything...last night of Candleford, which my hubby loves, but I find very twee, and, of course, Lost...that's also finishing soon...seems like it has only just started and now it's nearly finished...bummer...all these are also on tonight, so it's square eyes here we come...LOL...
So, my lovely friends, I hope you're enjoying the festive season in whatever way you celebrate it, and have a great day....I send you all big hugs in the meantime....

Hi to everybody...here's wishing Mrs F a very Happy Birthday, may you have a wonderful day and may this year bring you all that you wish for yourself....

Great big hugs and loads of love to you...XXXX

Hi to everybody...Here's wishing KenanPhoenix a very Happy Birthday...Hope you have a wonderful day and best wishes for the year ahead....

Big hugs to you and loads of love....

Hi to everybody...I'm definitely bloody brain dead...there's one thing I wanted to watch for sure tonight and that was Cold Case at 9 because yesterday it clashed with Boston Legal...on C4 the new Dirty, Sexy Money started and I ringed it to watch it at 10 using plus1hr...what did I do...reversed it in my damn dopiness and saw the new series at nine and missed my excellent Cold Case...bugger...this new series is supposed to be a cross between Sopranos and Six feet Under...with the main actor from the latter playing the main part in this...if the first one is anything to go by, it's going to be a pot boiler of the worst kind and that is damned annoying...now, I'm going to see Torchwood instead at 10.30, which I'd originally decided to miss as I'm getting seriously fed up with Gwen and her husband...so that's it...a messed up evening because my brain's still jelly...
Have a restful night, my friends, sweet dreams and big hugs to you all....

Hi to everybody...I'm definitely going stir crazy...there's sun outside and inside the house there's no heating on even though it's cold outside but I'm boiling hot...can't breathe, chest has treacle in it, and my brain is nearly defunct...and the house is so quiet because hubby doesn't feel like talking as he's on his comp and the radio's churning out rubbish, and bloody ads on Classic FM...I gave up when I heard them remind me to watch out for Most Haunted...my most hated prog on TV, it turns me into a vicious snobby murderer...I want to kill the stupid ignorant wide boys and moronic women in it...how come a classical music programme would even consider that the people who listen to such music would also appreciate that utter crap??? I keep pleading with the bloody ghosts to come down to earth and kill the two main morons in it, but of course they don't damn well listen because they're not there!!!
That's my rant for today...now I'll just have a choking fit and hubby's finally put some music on and has gone off to get me a cup of coffee...why does my face feel as if it's on fire? Maybe I've just got a little closer to hell with this rant...
Have a good afternoon, and big hugs to one and all...

Hi to everybody...woke up to sunshine streaming through my bedroom window and had a good night's sleep with only a couple of interruptions but still have a fever because I could wring my nightie out when I got up...needed a dry one! Had a sauna of a night and we had no heating on so it was still this flu...most weird, but getting up and staying awake all day so getting somewhere...
Decided to play our son's games in Nitrome because I'd lost all my levels I'd reached through changing my comp...have discovered something really weird...I'm functioning now at about an eighth of my normal levels of concentration and cognitive skills...but I got to level 22 in Headcase in the two days I've played it and yet, when functioning fully, it took me two or three weeks and a lot of screaming at the screen as I died a thousand times each later level??? What's going on there? It wasn't because I'd played it before either, I couldn't remember how to get through each one...they're far too complicated to remember all of them...hmmm...
Nothing else really to tell you...it's a beautiful day, but I'm still far too bad to even think of getting up properly yet...tried that yesterday, but it was a waste of time and energy...people at hubby's job still coming in and signing off to go home to try to recover from it...not something I think anybody was expecting to arrive at Easter!! Certainly must have thrown a lot of well laid plans out I would have thought...at least we didn't arrange anything special for my birthday and our wedding anniversary...
So, my dear friends, I hope you're all keeping well, have a very happy festive season if you celebrate it, and I send big hugs to one and all....

Happy Birthday, Walrus

Hi to Walrus...here's wishing you a very Happy Birthday...I hope you have a wonderful day, and this year will be kind to you....

Big hugs and loads of love....

Hi to everybody...last night was one of the weirdest I've had for years...I was very tired at 11 so went to bed...finished my last Terry Pratchett book..Making Money...then tried to go to sleep...at 1.30 I gave up and made myself a cup of tea because hubby was now at work so nobody to wait on me...I drank it and put the radio on and then got into the most surreal dream state but not asleep that the radio was somehow programming my computer with what it was broadcasting and it wasn't doing it right and I couldn't get it to do it right...this continued on and off until I turned it off, but still couldn't get to sleep...I had to get up about ten times since my cup of tea to go to the loo...I thought I was going to go stark staring raving mad...up and down like a damned yo yo the entire night...at 6.30 hubby came home and made me another cup, with two biscuits and two paracetomol, and I fell asleep after finishing them until 9 when he came in to tell me it was 10 and I said oh, no, I've overslept and he said no, I've made a mistake...so I sent him away with a flea in his ear to catch up on some more of my lost night...anyway, to cut a long story short, it's 10.30 now, hubby's gone to get my prescription from the chemist and, with a bit of luck, to find me some cakes at the garage shop...nobody around here sells cakes!!! and I think after sneezing my head off for the last hour, I feel slightly more as if I'm coming back to the land of the living....
So, my friends, I hope you have a good day, that you avoid this flu, and thank you for bearing with me while I have had it, and I send you all great big hugs...

Hi to everybody...I've just looked up the symptoms of flu and they're identical to what my hubby and I have had....
Symptoms

* Fever - may be high
* Headache
* Tiredness
* Dry cough
* Sore throat
* Stuffy, congested nose
* Muscle aches and stiffness

Other symptoms may include:

* Nasal discharge
* Shortness of breath
* Wheezing
* Croupy cough
* Chills
* Fatigue
* Malaise
* Sweating
* Loss of appetite
* Vomiting
* Dizziness
* Worsening of underlying illness, such as asthma or heart failure

Just in case you might come across it in your area, my only advice to you, is, if you do go down with the above symptoms, please don't go out and spread it, because it's absolutely virulent....
Big hugs to one and all...