THURSDAY THOUGHTS

                  

Hello all you lovely journal people!   I`m here at last....   I`ve been busy catching up on emails and reading journals.  I really started to get behind with it all.  A very big apology to everybody who didn`t get a comment from me yesterday.  I read all the journals but didn`t leave many comments.... sorry, but I just wouldn`t have finished them all if I had.

I spoke to Danny yesterday and he wasn`t feeling too great after the accident.  he was hurt a little more than he thought and he had a swollen knee as well as the bump on his head.  The driver who hit him originally admitted liability and then changed his mind.  Now because of this Danny`s insurance won`t help him with a hire car.  He has to use public transport, 2 buses in fact, to get to work....he is not at all happy with the situation, but at least he is one piece.

Jim has starting laying the paving slabs today.  He has been working outside since this morning with just a couple of hours off at noon.  he is almost halfway there but he says the job is getting a bit more difficult now as the ground is not very even further along the garden and he will have to do a lot of cutting.  We went to the garden centre cafe for lunch and whilst we were there we bought a couple of half barrel flower tubs.  There are huge but we have wanted them for a while so we can plant the wisteria in one of them.  I bought the wisteria a while ago and I`m training it to be a standard.  I was looking on an Australian plant website and I printed off some details as how to do it.  So far, it`s coming along nicely as they do grow very quickly.  Hopefully I can put it at the front of the house in the spring as it will be much bigger by then.

Also on the way home I went into Kwik-Fit to get them to check my car exhaust.  I definitely need a new one and with my MOT due on 18th July I have to get it done now.  Being a French car (Renault)  it`s lot more expensive than a British car, and what annoys me even more is that my car is the new shape, brought out in 1998 in conjuction with the old shape that was in it`s final year of manufacture.  For the old shape the cost of the exhaust is £35 , for mine, made in the same year it`s £94!   How can they justify that ?

Kerry popped in on her way home from work, she only has tomorrow and then she is on maternity leave.  She can`t wait as she is so tired all the time when she is at work.  She only gets one half hour break all day and it`s not doing her any good at the moment.  Another thing is that she won`t have to drive anymore, she has Slava, me or Jim to take her anywhere once she`s not working.

I`m off now to play a bit of Bookworm.  Wish me luck as I`m not doing to well with it lately!  Have a lovely day, bye bye for now and take care :-)

 

CUTTING REMARKS

~  How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.  ~

G.A Rossini

~  When a opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.  ~

Victor Borge

~  Liberace is a pure art student gone camping.  ~

Peter Freedman

~  Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be deaf  ~

Oscar Wilde

~  Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.  ~

Sir Thomas Beecham

~  Once upon a time, rock music was sung by the young to disgust the old. Now, it seems, it is sung by the old to embarrass the young.  ~

Craig Brown