ON TO OTTAWA

 Hello everyone, Just a quick couple of lines before I begin my main entry.  I took this photo of Roman yesterday.  Hasn`t he got chubby?  I went with Kerry to the baby clinic today and he now weighs 10lbs 7ozs, not bad eh?!

As for the mouse, Jim has put a humane trap behind our washing machine, hopefully this will do the trick as we really don`t want to hurt it, but it really cannot share house space with us!  Now back to Canada.........

Our train to Ottawa

OTTAWA  Tuesday 16th August

This morning we took our leave of Toronto and were taken by coach to Union station where we caught the train bound for Ottawa.  We were in the first-class carriage where we were wined and dined in suitable fashion for top paying passengers!  It was so nice to travel in luxury like that and as we got out of the city and into the country we started to see what Canada really looked like.  The surrounding countryside was so picturesque my neck started to ache where I was turning it to look out of the window!  This journey is where we first became aquainted with some of the other tour travellers.  We sat opposite a couple called Lynn and Pete and we started chatting.  We ended up sharing a meal here and there with them on the tour,  we got on well and enjoyed a good laugh together.

We reached Ottawa at about 2.30pm and our coach, driven for the duration of the holiday by John, a friendly Canadian, arrived just after us and took us to our hotel for the night.  When we were settled into our room we went out to explore, and we were in for a treat too, the parliament buildings were just around the corner so we made our way there.

Parliament from across the Ottawa River.

The Houses of Parliament are accessible to the public and are set in beautiful surroundings.  It was a very hot day so we walked around the outside of the buildings and down to the Ottawa River.  I would apologise for the overuse of the word `beautiful` but I an`t think of any other word that would describe it all so well!

I was very impressed that tourists are allowed to get so close to the seat of power in Canada, of course it would be unthinkable in England, but then again I don`t think I`d particularly enjoy getting so close to our own parliament buildings, which are not, by any stretch of the imagination, beautiful!

In the evening we went out for a meal with Lynn and Pete at an Italian restaurant while we were there street entertainers performed for us.

Our restaurant is in the left-hand corner. The whole area is known as The Market.

We stayed on in The Market just to have a nose around and while we were there we saw a few horses and carriages and we decided to go for a city tour by night.  The weather was still very warm and it seemed like fun so we jumped in.  Our guide was a cheery French-Canadian called Alain and just for the record his horse was called Dan! 

The four of us sightseeing by carriage.

Our tour by night took in many of the sights we were going to see in the morning on our city tour.  But seeing it all by night was amazing and was certainly great fun.  Alain spoke very quickly and we had to keep asking him to slow down, but he was very patient and tried really hard for the four of us who spoke nly a few words of French between us.  We went past the Embassies that are in Ottawa, all forty odd of them, the biggest being the US Embassy that is designed in the shape of a battleship.  We couldn`t get any photos of it though as it was so big and our camera isn`t very good at night.  In thegrounds of the Embassy there is a statue, Alain told us it is made out of girders from the World Trade Centre, and that every US Embassy in the world has one.  I`m not to sure of the truth in this but it does seem very feasible to me, do any of my American friends know the answer to this?

After our tour around the city Alain took us back to the parliament buildings where there was a light show about to start.  He drove the horse and carriage right up the pavement and took the photo of the four of us.  He actually stopped the traffgic to take it and we were sure he was going to get run over.  Just after he took it Dan decided that he would take us for walk without our driver until Alain shouted at him to stop.

Parliament with the light show.

The show lasted an hour and I wish you all could have seen it.  Jim took a video of it but this was the best photo I could get.  The show celebrated the history of Canada starting with First Nation People ( Indians) right through to the present time and at the end many famous Canadians had their names emblazoned on the parliament building.  When the show ended we went for a drink before going back to the hotel and a good nights sleep.  In the morning we were on the move again, a city tour and then on to Sainte Adele in the afternoon.  So it was bags outside the door for 8am and on the coach for 9am.....here we go again, round 3!

To be continued.

TALES OF TORONTO

This is the best view of the World Bank and CN Tower that there is in Toronto.

TORONTO Sunday 14th and Monday 15th Anugust.

I have to say that we were very impressed with Totonto.  Being only used to London I was pleasantly surprised to find a lovely clean and well thought out city that you can walk around in safety, I have never felt so relaxed, even walking at night.

On our first evening we went out to get something to eat, we had a really good flight with British Airways but no food except for sandwiches bought with the vouchers they gave us, and we were bordering on starving....lol! We were to find out just how wonderful the food in Canada was.   After that we decided to explore the city and we walked around for hours and took in the vibrancy of the place.   As our holiday was a coach tour we had a city tour in the morning at 9am  ( we will get used to there early mornings as you will find out later!)  We got to find out the history of Toronto and saw the excellent architecture of the city.  Jason our guide was very quick witted and gave us lessons on Canada without us even realising!  We were taken along the edge of Lake Ontario, the smallest of the Great Lakes, ( The smallest...?.  I must see the biggest then!).  It is like the sea, and so beautiful too. 

A view of Lake Ontario taken from the CN Tower

 I really wanted to go on a boat trip but we didn`t have the time.  Later we went past the CN Tower, the tallest freestanding structure in the world, all 1,800 feet of it.  Later Jim and I got to go to the top of it where he took the photo above.  We were told that the glass floor of the tower was built to withstand the weight of fourteen hippos, I wish I had been there when they tested it....it must have been really difficult getting those hippos up there....lol!

 

The CN Tower

We moved on to the underground shopping malls that go on for miles.  They are all owned by the banks there and are very well kept, I made a note to return and do some retail therapy on our way to the tower.  We stopped in one of the malls to have coffee and a cinnamon bun...hmmmm great coffee and delicious cakes, I`m liking Canada more and more and it`s only the second day!  We moved on after this to see an unusual building, it`s actually gold in colour and is actually made of gold, well there is an ounce of gold in every window so that it shines and stands out from the others.  It belongs to one of the major banks in Canada and is quite something.  Apparently in looks even better when the snow is on the ground when it is dazzling.

We took this with the automatic setting on our camera at the bottom of the tower.

In the afternoon we had some free time and went shopping and visited the tower and by the time we took this photo we were weary and footsore.  I had blisters ontop of blisters and had to and by some plasters for my poor feet.  We walked slowly back to the hotel and repacked our cases for the move tomorrow.  It will be the train journey of a lifetime.  Suitcases outside out rooms by 7.30am and in the coach to the station by 8.30am.

Ottawa here we come!   

to be continued.

 

PS:  Just to update you on the mouse situation.  He hasn`t gone.  Last night while watching TV it ran across the room and, I`m ashamed to say caused me to scream and jump on the sofa!  Well that`s it, the gloves are off....mouse war has begun!

I`M BACK AGAIN!

                                                                

 

Hello Everyone,      I`m back again in body if not in spirit.  Canada is the most wonderful country and we had a fantastic, though hectic time and I`m still very jet-lagged.  It was a whistle stop tour of the east of the country, starting with the `happening` city of Toronto.  But enough of that,  I`ve have decided to do an entry for each stop on the tour, that way I can post the relevant photos and it will give me time to get it right first time.  So much has happened that one entry isn`t enough.   So what has been happening in J-Land?  I will soon get stuck into the journals and find out what I`ve been missing while I was away.....   Jake was very pleased to see us on Saturday when we got him from the kennels.  He had been ok there but was a little intimidated by the other dogs barking all the time and hadn`t been eating very well.  He didn`t look skinny though and has eaten well since being home with us.  Kerry and Slava brought Roman to see us and we couldn`t believe how much he has grown.  He is four weeks old now and getting quite chubby. He is also very alert now and doesn`t sleep all day, preferring instead to sleep more at night, much to the delight of his mum and dad!  I will have to get a photo of him soon.  We go away again atthe week end to Dorset for a week, Kerry and Little Man are coming with us leaving Slava at home so he can go to work each day.  On Saturday Slava will bring them down there with us and leave a couple of hours later, the cottage has plenty of room and Kerry will enjoy the break by the sea.   When we got home we discovered that we had had an unwelcome visitor.... a mouse!  It had got into two of my cupboards in the kitchen and had left it`s mark .  We cleaned out the cupboards and then Jim taped and blocked up the holes where it must have got in, it`s not been back so it must have done the trick.  In my opinion it tried it`s luck because Jake wasn`t around so I don`t think it will be back again.   Today, being a holiday and with our husbands both working, Kerry and I spent the day here.  It is also very hot and we sat in the shade in the garden, well Kerry did, I just pottered about pulling weeds and cutting back one of the clematis that had died while I was away.  It was infested with some sort of bug that I think must be the cause of it`s demise, maybe it will grow back from the roots next year....we`ll see.  I have repotted the wisteria into one of the half barrels I bought a few months back, I have high hopes for it.   I will now go and read those journals so I will say goodbye and take care.  Tomorrow I will start my Canada postings and I hope you will enjoy them!  

 

BYE BYE FOR NOW....!

                                                    

 

  Hello everyone.....   Just a short entry today.  I`ve almost finished packing and cleaned the house top to bottom.  We`ve taken Jake to the kennels and he didn`t even look back at us!  I miss him already but I know he is in good hands.  Kerry and Slava are taking care of the house and watering my flowers, they came round with my Little Man this morning and I gave them a short list of instructions to follow!  My stomach is turning over as it always does when I`m due to fly.  I`m not afraid of flying exactly but I`m always a little apprehensive until we are in the air.  Our son Danny rang us this morning to wish us a safe journey and a great holiday and now.....and now there`s nothing left for me to do all day.  I`ll read all the journals and I`ve just switched off the alerts.  Jim bought me a chocolate fudge brownie but I feel too sick to eat at the moment.  I suppose I`ll just have to see how I can raise my score in Bookworm.  A little while back I reached 600,640 and I reached level 24 with the title "Thesaurus Rex", since then I`ve been lucky to reach 300,000 so it`s very unlikely in my present addled state that I will ever reach those dizzy heights in the hear future!                                                                                                                            It`s raining quite heavily here and it looks as though it will stay that way all day.  I hope though tomorrow will be dry and bright if only to cheer me up in the morning and so we can get to the airport without the need for umbrellas.  Jim said last night the BA planes were moving and everyone checking in for last nights flights were boarding.  We should get away tomorrow ok but perhaps with a few hours delay.  As long as we get there safely is ok by me.   I`d like to thank you all for your prayers and good wishes. Now I shall say goodbye to you all , please take care all of you and I`ll be back in a fortnight.  Till then.  

 

  

 

   

WILL WE, OR WON`T WE?

A more reliable mode of transport...?

Hello everyone.....

By now most of you know of the British Airways strike at Heathrow Airport.  A question for you all.... Guess who`s flying to Canada with them on Sunday with British Airways?  And, guess what Airport they are flying from too?!  Of course you know the answer to that.  Because Jim`s company works for BA he didn`t have anything to do yesterday and he was sent home early.  This morning I went into the travel agents to see if there are any contingency plans for any BA passengers, there are but if we were to change flight companies we would lose the full amount of money that we have paid for this flight!  So we just wait and see what will happen now.  Jim has phoned to say that flights will depart again this evening but there is a huge backlog of passengers.  I don`t mind being delayed by a day if necessary but any longer will mean the holiday will have to be cancelled.  We fly to Toronto for 2 days but after that we leave for Montreal and we`ll never catch up with the tour then. So now we sit, wait and hope that all goes smoothly and we get the flight on Sunday.  Please think of us both on Sunday, the power of positive thought may help us and those other thousands of stranded passengers.

Jim did quite well on his fishing trip on Wednesday.  He was pleased with this 7lbs carp and he caught several bream and tench as well. His two friends did better than him, one of them catching and landing so many fish he lost count and went home early feeling that he couldn`t have had a better day!

Kerry took this photo of Little Man the other day.  I thought it was so cute I had to share it as he looks so bright and cheerful.  Unfortunately, this wasn`t the case today, he has been crying quite a bit though he isn`t hungry or wet.  He just seems to be flexing his muscles and Kerry is getting wise to him and lets him cry when he does that.  He has had a bit of conjunctivitus since he was born but though Kerry has followed advice it just hasn`t cleared, so today he was given some antibiotic cream to get rid of it.  He is not very good at night though and kept mum and dad up all last night again.  Last evening Kerry and Slava had a few hours out on their own and I looked after Roman.  He was very good and slept until his feed was due, but when they got home he started to cry again and, I`m told, didn`t settle until 4am.  Poor Kerry is getting very tired now.

Jim took this last night 10 mins before Kerry and Slava got home!

Tonight I have to sort out some bits and pieces of ironing, and the last couple of items to wash.  Then tomorrow we have to put Jake into kennels, I`m noy looking forward to that at all.  I keep thinking that he`ll feel miserable abandoned and that I`m being cruel.  Logically I know I`m doing the right thing, emotionally I`m in a turmoil over it and I just hope he will forgive us both!

 I watched the first two episodes of the new TV series `Lost`, at least new in the UK.  I taped it and finished the last bit of tape this evening.  I can`t wait for the next episodes, which again I`ll have to tape.  It is going to be good TV watching the characters little secrets come into the open, as I`m sure they all HAVE secrets as it always makes for better TV!

I have to go and read some journals now.  I have so many alerts but I don`t think I`ll get them all read this evening.  I`ll just have to do my best.  Till tomorrow, Good night and take care.

ROAD RAGE AND ITCHY!

Hello everyone.......

Welcome to Wednesday and just 4 more sleeps to go before our holiday, and after today I think I need it too.  Well there was no problem all day really, it was in the night it started.  I woke up at 3am and my eye was really itchy, I mean REALLY itchy!  I got up and bathed it but it didn`t make any difference.  Eventually I fell asleep but the alarm went off after what seemed like 10 mins later.  This morning I decided to call the doctor`s surgery as it is so close to the holiday.  I couldn`t believe my luck when they gave me an appointment for today at 4.50pm...I nearly fainted with the shock...lol!

I had a hair appointment at 11 to get my roots done.  I went and got that done, came home, ate lunch and went to see Kerry who`d had a fraught day with Little Man.  She looked so tired and she told me he had been playing up all morning.  They`d taken him to get his passport photo done and he hadn`t settled since they got home.  So nanna picks up her little grandson, gives him his feed and he promptly goes right back to sleep.  I suppose that`s what nanna`s are there for...lol!.  Kerry is definitely doing the right thing with him, he`s getting into a routine already and he`s thriving but Kerry is finding the lack of sleep catching up with her.  Slava has a week off next week so they will be able to have nice days out, just the 3 of them.  I`m glad, because I wouldn`t want her to be on her own all the time just yet.

What is it with drivers these days?  Why are so many of them so aggressive?  Are they like that in there every day life?  There are the questions that go through my mind each time some idiot tries to cut me up!  I personally think that a general common sense test should be carried out on would-be drivers.  It might make our roads safer and would certainly cut down traffic.

 

This afternoon whilst driving to and from the doc`s I encountered 2 of these drivers.  The first one was while I was driving there.  The road I have to go down has speed humps the whole length of the road, now everyone with any sense knows that if you drive over these humps too fast the chassis of your car will get damaged.  Obviously the woman in the car behind me was unaware of this fact because she drove so closely to the tail gate of my car that I thought she might like to ride along on my roof.  Now if she thought I was going too slowly (I wasn`t!) all she had to do was overtake...too easy, she just wanted me to go faster (I didn`t!)  When we parted company at the roundabout she waved at me...well no, not a wave... more like gesture, but I won`t elaborate on that!

The 2nd of the 2 erm.....drivers was actually in the doc`s carpark.  I was on my way out of the surgery and going to my car.  She was parked next to me, but between us was a small neat little shrubbery.  Anyway, as I walked to the car she looked right at me and reversed her car, I had to jump back and obviously looked a bit annoyed, she drove back in the parking space, I got into my car.  She then swung her car out of the space, over the shrubbery, just missing my front wing.  She paused for a moment, gave me a filthy look and roared off with her tyres screeching as she went.  She was all of seventeen and the shrubbery was now flattened!  Why did she do it.....who knows?   What I do know is that things have certainly changed since I started driving twenty years ago.  It really worries me because while you are so aggressive you are not concentrating on the road at all.  Oh well, I can only drive to the best of my ability and hope for the best!

What I didn`t say was that I have an eye infection for which I have antibiotic drops be be used three times daily.  That should put it right for the holiday!  For now, Good night all and have a nice peaceful evening!

ANOTHER DAY CLOSER!

Just another Little man!

Hello everyone......

Another day closer to my holiday and I`m really getting excited now.  Tomorrow I`m getting my hair done and today I`ve packed more things and rechecked our tickets and passports, charged the batteries for the camera and camcorder, dug out the travel hairdrier and iron.  I`m trying to cut down on the things I take with me but it`s very hard.  I mean I have no idea what I will want to wear from day to day.  Oh well... I just have to try harder...lol!

Today we all (Me, Jim, Kerry and Little Man) went for lunch to the garden centre cafe.  Roman was as good as gold and slept right through.  Then we went on to the giant Tescos for a good look around.  They did have some wonderful bargains like a steam iron for £6, and a sandwich toaster for £5....!   How can that be possible?  I`ll have one of each when I get back from holiday.  Oh yes, they had large suitcases for £12.95...why didn`t I see them the other day when we went to get ours?....sigh.  I did buy some Indian icecream called Almond Kulfi, it has a very different taste but it is really delicious.  I`ll try a different flavour next time.  The lifts/elevators in the shop are very fancy with glass doors, a bit unnerving if you don`t like lifts (like me) but very quick so you don`t have to worry too much!  I`m impressed also with the air-conditioned underground parking.  I`m impressed by the whole shop and the walkway from the shopping centre AND the new road layout that they have had to do to satisfy the local council.  I just hope they keep up the standards they have set, time will tell.

When we got home and Kerry had fed and changed Little Man, we went outside and sat on the patio.  We seem to do this every day now with Jake lying down beside us, still not sure what the funny little thing in the carseat is all about!  If he cries Jake looks at him in such a funny way, but he isn`t too concerned or quite as interested as he was at first.

Jim is preparing to watch football tonight so I`ll be onlinefor longer as I don`t plan to join him.  Tomorrow he is going fishing very early in the morning with two friends.  Maybe as he hasn`t been in a while he`ll catch something this time.  It`s not as though we get to keep what he catches from the freshwater lakes but he just wants to catch something large.  A nice fat carp or bream would suit him nicely.  He has his fishing gear all ready, his sandwiches all prepared too.  I`ll have tomorrow morning all to myself now.

Well I must go now as I have lots of emails to answer and more journals to read.  I think I`ve been keeping up with them quite well lately despite doing a dozen things at once.  Have a nice evening and please take care.

JUST A FEW FUNNIES

Save the whales, collect the whole set.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

I just got lost in thought, it was unfamiliar territory.

Remember half the people you know are below average.

Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how popular it remains?

He who laughs last thinks slowest.

Borrow money from a pessimist - they don`t expect it back.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

When everything`s coming your way, you`re in the wrong lane and going the weong way.

GETTING READY!

   My Little Man!

 Hello everyone.... I just had to post these pics of Little Man.  I took them this afternoon while Kerry was here.  The top one is over Kerry`s shoulder and I had to get a shot of him with his eyes open.  He is 11 days old now and weighs 8lbs.  He is growing fast and gets cuter by the day....Oh we do love him!

Of course he doesn`t have his eyes open all the time, in fact he sleeps more in the day than my two ever did.  He even sleeps while he`s having his feed and nappy changes, Kerry says he takes after his Dad, for sleeping that is, not nappy changes...lol!

This one was taken just after the last one, he starts crying in just a minute.  We went out for a walk this afternoon and I pushed Little Man in his pram.  He seems to like his walks and goes to sleep once we are moving.  We can walk much further now as Kerry is almost back to normal now.  The midwife and heath visitor are very impressed with her quick recovery and you wouldn`t know to see her that she had a C-section.  We were going to take Jake for a walk with us but it was far to hot for him.  He is back to very early morning walks and late night while it is hot like this.  Jake`s  hotspot on his muzzle is almost better now.  It has dried up and hopefully now he has finished his antibiotics that should be the end of it.  I`ve sent off for a claim form from the pet insurance company and at least I`ll get some money back.

I`ve spent some time packing today.  I did heaps of ironing yesterday and I`ll still have a few more bits to do that we need.  So far my packing is very neat, but I`ll have to sort out Jim`s case to make sure he`s got all he needs.  I`m getting so excited over the holiday now, now the cases are out reality has hit.  This time next week we`ll be in Toronto.....whoopee!  I have afew things to do in town before I go.  I must get my eyebrows done as they look like two hairy caterpillars and I`m no good at doing them myself!  I need my vitamin tablets and aspirin to take for the flight.  I know I need other stuff but I can`t remember what at the moment...it`ll come back to me.

I`ll sign off now and leave you with a couple of jokes.  Have a lovely day all of you and please take care.

BLONDE ON BLONDES

Hear about the blonde explorer?

He bought a piece of sandpaper thinking it was a map of the Sahara Desert.

Did you hear about the blonde who thought who thought nitrates were cheaper than day rates?

What do a group of blondes have in common?

Nothing they can think of.

 

THE WAG AND BONE SHOW 2005

Hello everyone and welcome to the Sunday after the long, long day before.  Yesterday Jim, Jake and I went to the Wag and Bone show in Windsor Great Park, and what a fun day we had too.  The show is obviously a day out for dogs, little one, big ones hairy ones and smooth ones, fat ones, thin ones and just about every breed you can think of were there and more besides.  It`s not a championship show with top dogs being preened and presented , but a fun show with lots of classes for all-comers.  Jim and I were snapping our cameras like mad and trying to get the best pictures possible.  It wasn`t that easy though as the scent of all those dogs was driving them all crazy, Jake included.  My shoulder is really painful today from being dragged all over the place by Jake.

At the show there was a games zone and Jake took part in two of them.  One was where he had to fish out a shape from a tank of water, where he won a squeaky toy, and another where he had to select a tennis ball of various colours.  He chose blue and won a frisbee and another squeaky toy.  You had to buy tokens for £1 each for the games and all money from these and all of the classes was donated to all seven animal charities represented at the show.  These included the R.S.P.C.A, the P.D.S.A, Dogs Trust, Hearing Dogs, Dogs for the Disabled and Guide Dogs.   At lunchtime made our way to the food zone and sat down on the grass as all the tables were taken.  Jim stood in the coffee queue for 25 mins, as I sat and ate sausage and chips and chatted to a couple all the way from Newquay, Cornwall.  Jake just lay down with his head on my leg, while what seemed to be the entire dog population of the world passed by.  Every few minutes someone would stop and tell Jake how handsome he is, or ask me about him.  I was even approached by a couple of people I haven`t seen for 10 years.  They remembered me from our daily dog walks with Rosie and Hannah.  It was lovely to chat to them after all this time.  There were a few well known people drifting around.  I saw the actor Anthony Stewart Head from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, queueing up for fish and chips and it seemed that he wasn`t recognised by most people.

The weather was cloudy for most of the day but the sun came out later in the afternoon.  I was very surprised when I got home to find that I was rather sunburned.  That`s the thing at this time of the year, the low cloud can be deceptive.  I have more photos but they are on our camcorder and I have to leave Jim to download them as I haven`t the first idea how to do it myself.  In the last photo collage Jake is in the top left hand corner, he wasn`t sure whether to join those other labs in the paddling pool and decided against it in the end.  Anyway I must go now, we are having some visitors round and I had better get ready.  I hope you all have a lovely day and please take care.

A BABY-FREE ENTRY......NOT!

 

Hello everyone.......

This is a baby-free entry, no mention will be made of babies, right, here we go then.

Yesterday I did the usual things, spending much of the day with Kerry and Little Ma...ooops.... sorry, no mention of babies!   He didn`t wake up all.......ok, I give in, babies it is then...!

Little Man didn`t wake up all the time I was there yesterday.  Kerry`s routine is under way and he is more contented already.  What I didn`t do was take anymore photos, plenty of time for that.  Jim had a dentist appointment to have a crown fitted on his broken front tooth.  They have done a marvellous job and you would never know the difference, mind you as Jim said, so it should be for the price the dentist charges.  He is hoping he never needs another one because they are just too expensive, and that`s with dental insurance cover.

Late yesterday afternoon, we took the plunge and went to get our shopping from the new Tescos Extra.  It is even bigger than I thought it would be, with a carpark underneath the main building as well as surrounding it.  The building is quite easy to find your way around (that was the bit I was worried about) and there was so much inside to see, but we didn`t have time to browse and headed straight for the grocery dept. where we managed to get all our shopping done.  The staff in there are extremely helpful and were pointing customers who were lost in the right direction. I won`t mind shopping there again...alone next time, as shopping with Jim is a bit of a nightmare. He doesn`t give me enough time to look around and he keeps wandering off to look at things that we never buy.  Children are much easier to cope with as you just sit them in the trolley!  The clothes dept. looks wonderful, and the baby clothes....well, I must definitely come alone for them.

Last night I was sorting out our suitcases to start packing for Canada.  One of them needs replacing as the zip has broken, it`s a pity because it`s only acouple of years old.  I`m getting quite excited now as we`re leaving on the 14th August, just nine days to go.  I`m sure we are going to miss Little Man but he will be well looked after by his Mum and Dad.  My main worry is Jake going into kennels for two weeks.  I just hope he doesn`t think we are abandoning him like his previous owner did.  I will impress on the kennel owner that he needs a lot of TLC, his special diet and a list of instructions as long as your arm.  They are very god there but Jake is used to living in a house and I can`t help but worry about him.  We`ll make up for it when we get home because just five days later we are off to Dorset for a week. Oh Joy!

I was in town this morning,paying bills, getting a prescription made out and getting a few bits for Kerry.  While I was there I couldn`t resist a couple of things for Little Man.  I got a little `plush` blue teddy bear rattle for newborns and a set of rattles for babies from three months......  and a tiny sleepsuit that was in the sale, yes I know he has enough clothes for a whole maternity ward but it was cheap and he will look really cute in it...lol!

I`m going to go and get ready to go to Kerry`s now. I do hope you all have a lovely weekend, enjoy the rest of today and please take care.

BLONDE ON BLONDES

Why do blondes have more fun?

They are easier to amuse.

Why do blondes have TGIF on their shoes?

Toes go in first.

Why did the blonde scale the chain-link fence?

To see what was on the other side.

Did you hear about the blonde who shot an arrow in the air?

He missed.

 

GRAFFITI

I found these words of wisdom,

inscribed on a bathroom wall;

Put there with a firmish hand...

"God made MAN first of all."

 

And underneath, in different style,

(For sharp-witted replies never cease);

"She made him as Her early draft,

Before Her final masterpiece."

copyright; Ian Mackay

 

 

 

 

A NICE DAY

 Hello everyone.....  Welcome to Wednesday`s scribbles.  I have some more photos today that were taken in the garden.  First of all Little Man who was very much better last night.  Mum and Dad got a lot more sleep!

I went to Kerry`s about 2.30pm and we got out the stroller and walked back over to our house.  We sat in the new bistro chairs on the new patio!  It was a lovely peaceful afternoon.  Little Man slept....and slept, Jake had a look and, curiosity satisfied, he went back to chasing his football around the garden.  Kerry, Jim and I just sat around drinking coffee until Jim decided to get the camcorder out.  He took some footage of Roman who just slept....and slept, took some snapshots as well, then gave up.  Little Man didn`t wake up until he was woken for his feed.

Kerry is unbelievably well today.  It won`t be long I think, until she gets her figure back again either.  See the bistro chair in the left-hand corner!

Jim set the camera onto automatic for this one.  It was quite funny trying to get us all in position before the shutter clicked.  We tried to get Jake in the pic but he was more interested in his football again....lol!

Tomorrow we are going to the new Tesco`s superstore that opened Monday.  It is an enormous building and looks as though it will take all day to get around.  The other store was huge so I`m dreading this one.  Just how big does a supermarket need to be, it has 14 shops that are not owned by Tescos inside the main building, that is without the shops that are owned by them..

When Kerry and I were crossing the road to our house, there was a bailiff outside next doors house.  He had stuck a notice on their car and he then proceeded to put a wheel clamp on it.  They drove off later this evening so they must have paid up straight away. That was a little bit of excitement to liven up the day!

Well as I don`t want to become a `baby bore`, I`ll try and think of something else for my journal.  It`s really hard though as my life has become centred around Kerry and her little family. I think Little Man has taken over my life and I let him in willingly!

That`s it for me now, I must go and read some journals. I have some Blonde jokes for you though, so have a good day and a nice evening. Take care.

BLONDE ON BLONDES

How did the blonde explain how his helicopter crashed?

He said it was getting cold and he turned off the ceiling fan.

 

What happened to the blonde tap dancer?

She slipped off and fell down the drain.

 

Why did the blonde take her new scarf back to the shop?

It was too tight.

 

Why did the blonde put her finger over the nail she was hammering?

The noise gave her a headache.

 

Why did the blonde stand in front of the mirror with his eyes closed?

He wanted to see what he looked like asleep.