I`m Back....again! Photos included

I thought it was time I posted another entry, it has been a while since my last.  Jim and I took Roman to stay with his sister Sue and her hubby Steve the weekend before last and we had a wonderful time.  Roman really enjoyed his visit to Broadstairs and his time on the beach, he is fascinated by sand and couldn`t wait to start digging with his little bucket and spade. However, Jim and Steve built a rather elaborate sandcastle which they wouldn`t let Roman  near in case he knocked it down...spoilsports...lol!  In the end though when we decided to go further down the beach they let him jump on it and what fun he had too!  There was the annual Dickens Festival on and it was fun watching the local people dressed up as characters from Charles Dickens books.  My late grandfather would have loved it as he was a Dickens fanatic, having read everything he wrote more than once.

On the Sunday we visited the RAF museum in Manston and again we had an enjoyable time there. Roman loved all the old planrs and was particulary taken with an out of service Sea Rescue helicopter that he said was `massive`, his favourite word at the moment.  He wanted to climb in the cockpit of the planes but they were only suitable for adults so we managed to talk him out of it.  It was a really windy day but very hot and we almost were blown away whilst sitting outside with a cup of coffee. Roman and I went for a walk in the memorial garden and he asked about the war memorial and told me that he liked the pretty red flowers there. He was looking at a wreath of poppies that had been placed there. It brought a lump to my throat.

By the time we left for home on the Sunday evening I was exhausted, Roman had been waking me up at 5am for the last few nights and I badly needed some sleep. However, sleeping in the car was out of the question as he didn`t stop talking all the way home. I can assure you though that night I slept like a log and even though I was up at six for work the next day, I felt so much better. Now I know why parenting is for the young...lol!

The last couple of weeks I`ve been doing some extra hours at work as we`ve been short staffed and I have to say the money will come in handy for our holiday to Canada on August 4th.  Now it`s getting nearer I`m starting to feel excited and can`t wait to go. The only reservation I have is that I hope Danny, who will be staying here remembers to water the plants, including the tomatoes....if he doesn`t ....well I won`t be responsible for my actions....lol!

This weekend coming we are going to a friend`s 60th birthday party, the following Saturday we are going to another 60th birthday party, this time Jim`s cousin. We go all year without an invite anywhere and like buses they all come along at once!   It`s Roman`s 3rd birthday at the end of July, my goodness I can hardly believe it, and we`re going to Kerry`s for a celelbration BBQ on the Saturday followed by a visit to Legoland on the Sunday. At the moment Jim only has the Saturday off but is first reserve for the Sunday, fingers crossed that he gets it.

My bloodshot eye looks normal again and is only slightly tender to the touch. I`ve been really careful not to have any accidents but I banged my head the other day on the wash basin in the bathroom, though not too hard this time.

Whilst driving to work one day last week I scratched the side of my car on a branch of a tree that was hanging down by the side of the road. I couldn`t swerve to avoid it as there was a lorry coming the other way...I can tell you I used some very unladylike language at the time and again when I saw the damage. It`s not as bad as I feared it would be but bad enough. Hopefully I can rub some of it out and then I will decide if it needs some professional attention....sigh.

Our new neighbours have had their new drive completed and have cleared the very messy back garden, repainted the whole house and replaced the dreadful carpets that the old owners had laid.  They are so friendly and the children that visit are so polite too. It`s so nice to be able to just say hello and get a hello back and a smile, something that only happened with the last owner when he wasn`t drunk, and that wasn`t often.  Now we hardly ever hear a thing, they are so quiet....bliss!

Anyway, enough of my rambling. I must try to post more often though my intentions are always good. It`s actually getting round to it that`s the problem so I hope you forgive me....lol!

Take care and I hope you are all well. Bye Bye for now. :o)

 

 

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Oh Dear, Not Again!

 

Oh dear, I`m in the wars again.  Yesterday I almost poked my eye out on a cane in the greenhouse. I was leaning over watering the tomatoes and that was it, the cane collided with my left eye socket preventing it from going right into the eye itself. My goodness it DID hurt too. My eye is really bruised and bloodshot (see above graphic for the general idea...lol!) and I`ve got the start of a bruise on the side of my nose and is a small cut just below my eye....I do look a fright I can tell you. It`s very painful but it has taught me to be a bit more careful. First thing this morning when I got to work I bought a couple of packets of cane eye guards, a bit late perhaps but at least if I do it again I won`t do myself any damage.....and knowing me I WILL do it again!

Jim has been out all day fishing in Theale,  the next village to where Kerry lives. He rang me just 30 mins ago to say that he hasn`t caught a thing all day and will be home soon. He has had an enjoyable day though.............somehow I can`t imagine how you can enjoy a days fishing and catch nothing, oh well I`ll never understand this fishing lark...lol!

The weather has been nice the last few days though according to AOL weather it`s going to be wet until the weekend. The BBC site however, says that it will stay fine all week. I think I`ll wait and see what tomorrow brings and see for myself. I need more sun to bring all my flowers into bloom, at the moment the garden is looking a bit dull. The hanging baskets and wall mangers are doing really well but I want the whole garden to look good now. Also I can now sit outside on my new sun lounger chair that I bought in Wilkinson`s for £30. We have the same one on sale at work for £69.99...exactly the same make and style too. Wilko`s had an offer that was 2 for £50, £20 less than the one at work. I think I did rather well spotting that one because I nearly bought the one at work using my discount though it would still have cost me over £40!

Anyway, my eye is getting rather sore as I`ve been online for a while now so I`ll say goodbye for now. Take care.

 

 

 

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An Entry At Last!

I`m here at last!  I`ve been unable to add an entry because like before I had no `add entry` button. I discovered just now that by signing in to AOL they came back again. I think AOL doesn`t recognise me as a customer...weird!

This last few weeks have been busy as usual. I`m rushed off my feet at work, what with customers buying all our stock almost before it can be replaced. I can`t believe how much some people spend but it is a LOT of money. Seeing as how expensive prices are here it seems the garden isn`t one of the first things to go when people `tighten their belts`. I`ve had the odd comment myself about what I spend on my garden but the way I see it, I pay my bills, don`t smoke or drink so why not spend money on something I love?  Of course I have spent hours outside lately and I`m starting to resemble an old brown handbag...lol! At last I really don`t have any serious work to do and all I have to do now is potter around, dead heading floweers and pulling out the odd weed. Good job too, it`s been rally hot the last couple of days and I just haven`t had the energy. Instead I`ve been reading my book in the shade and enjoying the peace and quiet.

I haven`t seen Danny for almost a week, methinks a woman is involved....watch this space.  Kerry has been to the doctor and is to see a specialist at the hospital but it seems her problems are all linked to the same thing,...again, watch this space. Roman is doing really well and last Thursday I drove over to their house ( I said I drove, ME!  That was a first!) Roman was delighted to see us and couldn`t believe it when he saw it was my car and not his Gwandad`s ( he always says it that way...lol!). We sat outside and Roman decided to run in circles around the garden and made me follow him despite my protestations. In the end I fell to the floor and he dived right on top of me....and he`s no lightweight any more either...lol!

On the Friday, ( not the Friday just gone but the one before) I split my head open when I brought in the washing, put it down, stood up and hit my head on the corner of the kitchen worktop. Well, you never heard a scream like it and I`ve never hit my head as hard as that before. I nearly passed out with the pain but pulled myself together to see if I`d done any damage. I felt blood running down my face and thought I`d probably need a stitch in it. I looked in the mirror and saw the cut and as it wasn`t as big as I thought I decided not to bother with the hospital as I`d probably have to wait hours to be seen. I took some paracetamol as I had a thumping headache, who wouldn`t after that? The cut was still bleeding slightly all through the night but had stopped by the morning, however I still had a headache for several days afterwards. I still have a small bruise on my head to remind me to be more careful in future, I don`t want to do that again!

Our new next door neighbours have had a drive laid and the front of the house looks very smart now after years of neglect by the last owners. Jim said that he had spoken more to our present neighbour in two months than to the last one in fourteen years! And they are much nicer people too. It`s a shame that the wife can`t speak English but I can sort of understand her, when she locked herself out the other day she came round to us and we sorted things out for her. Good neighbours can be hard to find, where ever they are from.

At the end of last week Jim and I went shopping for clothes for our holiday to Canada in August. We`ve not been shopping for clothes for sometime and after a trip to Matalan we came home with what looked like half the shop...lol!  Of course I was on a roll after that spree and on Saturday I went to Windsor with Kerry and Roman with a view to walking along the riverbank. We did DO that, I also sneaked in to M&S and bought a couple of tops, just in case I didn`t have enough....well, you never know ladies do you?  ;o)))

Do you remember some time ago me talking about the man from the "crime house" who was sent to prison for seven years for all sorts of fraudulant dealings?  Well, so much for 7 years, it seems he`s out after about 2 years and his time in custody before that. His cars that were impounded have been returned, (all four of them, brand new too!)  It looks as though he hasn`t had to pay any money back either, it makes me mad to see that he`s more or less got away with it....grrrr!

I hope you like the photos I`ve posted, I haven`t taken many of late and some that I did take were deleted by mistake...sigh. I get out with my camera and take some more, goodness knows there are so many opportunities. Anyway my friends, I hope you are all well and are enjoying some nice Summer weather. Now I must go and put my tomato plants back in the greenhouse.  Bye Bye for now. :o)

 

 

 

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