Happy Birthday Jim and an Unwanted Garden Visitor

 

 

Hello everyone,

I`m back after a couple of days off from journal entries, not because I didn`t have anything to say, far from it but I`ve been really busy and haven`t been able to get online until evening.  Anyway, I`m here now and I have to start by wishing Jim, Hubby of mine and decorator-general.....Oh, and my beloved, of course....lol!  So here we go.................

At this present moment he is putting the finishing touches to the wallpaper that he has just finished hanging and a great job he has made of it too.  I can`t wait for the floor and carpet to be laid and then I can take some photo. Yesterday I spent most of the day driving around trying to find a suitable pair of curtains fopr the hall window.  When at last I did find a really nice pair I took one look at the price and decided that  they weren`t what I was looking for after all....lol!  So I came home empty handed do decided to go online for 10 mins to see if I could find anything there.  I did, two pairs in fact for a fraction of the price.  Jim wants me to wait until tomorrow when we go to get the flooring from B&Q and see if they sell them.  I`ll bet the ones online turn out to be the ones I buy, they are just what I want.

                        

Kerry has an appointment for Roman with a Dermatologist on Thursday morning.  She only rang up for an appointment with the doctor and the receptionist suggested it to her.  She is really happy that at last she is seeing an expert as Roman`s skin keeps infecting and it`s been driving him mad.  Antibiotics just don`t seem to work and so Kerry wants to explore the allergy side of it now.  She is quite determined that she won`t be fobbed off this time and will say she wants to see the Eczema nurse at the hospital.  I`m really hoping that something can be done to alleviate it at least,  his healthy skinis beautiful and soft and it would be lovely it it was all like that, bless him.

                     

I`ve spent most of the day cooking for Jim`s birthday meal.  This morning I made the Guinness cake a la Nigella Lawson and, I`m pleased to say that it couldn`t have turned out better.  The only drawback being is that it`s loaded with calories and I can feel my waistband tightening as I think about it...lol!  This evening I made Beef Strognanov courtesy of Rick Stein and Jim loved it.  I`ve made it before but that was for some friends that I`d invited to dinner when Jim was working so he never got to taste it.  At the moment he is watching the football and scoffing his birthday cake, having put the final touches to the wallpapering, giving me the oppotunity to post this entry and read some journals.

                         

Also today to my dismay I found out just what`s been living under the shed.  Not for me a cute Beatrix Potter hedgehog, Oh no.........It`s a rat, not a particularly big one, but a rat all the same.  I was doing the washing up after breakfast when I saw the creature, bold as brass, trot out from under the shed and run along my flower border and disappear under the fence.  There is now a declaration of war from me to the rat.  I`m not at all squeamish so if I get the chance I will kill it myself.  There is no place for it in my nice tidy garden.  It should stay next door where the garden is full of rubbish and goodness knows what.   Now I know why Jake has been acting strangely in the garden lately, he knew it was there and very likely has tried to catch it.  If only he were a Jack Russell he probably would have by now!

                            

Right,  I`d better save this now before AOL decides to close me down.  I hear there have been a few probs with journals and AOL yesterday,  and I don`t want to lose my entry at the last moment.  I hope you all have warmer and sunnier weather than here, though according to the British weather forecast I doubt it.  Have a nice evening anyway and take care my friends. :o)