Dodgy

Me and Stew have spent two days in a car together. And I have had a thoroughly nice time. We have been into Bristol, (horrid place) down to Taunton and into Bath, looking for the new car. Dizzy has been at nursery and it has been heaven. We have listened to Dodgy on the cd player, been out to lunch twice and I have nearly finished my Beryl Bainbridge book which I am really starting to love.

On a completely different track...I had a fit of the giggles at work this morning when I realised that in my posting a couple of weeks ago, I forgot to tell you my most important claim to fame!

I went on holiday with the drummer from Paper "Billy Don't be a Hero" Lace. Admittedly, it was to babysit his children. But a fabulous and nearly forgotten claim to fame. I would have hated you to miss out on that one.

New car

Sold this ...bought this...am now very very poor.

Three cakes

The whole weekend has been taken up with Dizzys 4th birthday. Somehow, she managed to get three birthday cakes. One, she took to nursery on Friday. One she had at her party yesterday. And the last one she had for her party tea for her actual birthday today. I also had to go the dreaded Yellow M, but they do now provide a rather nice Spicy Beanburger Deli roll, which I had on brown bread. My daughter has gone to bed, full of sugar and probably dreaming of Barbies and Gameboys. As you can see, I bottled out of a proper party, and just took them all to one of those bouncing places that provide it all for you. Stew is now able to drive and has one more week off sick before he can go back to work on light duties. Sadly, whilst he was off we sold the car, but haven't found another one we want.

Have a bloomin' bath!

It is Glastonbury Festival again. Or, as I am old, Pilton. I went to work yesterday, and there were a trillion crustys plodding through the tills buying Carlsberg Special Brew, White Lightning, lentils and UHT milk. None of them bought soap or toothpaste I noticed. And how can they smell already? They have only just got here, surely they should have had a shower before they left home!?

Mind, I might be teensy bit jealous. This year they got Amy Winehouse, Arctic Monkeys and Kaiser Cheifs. The novelty act for this year is Shirley Bassey. And I'd love to throw tomatoes at her. Also Lilly Allen is gracing Somerset with her presence. I'm still waiting for Miss Winehouse to give her a well deserved black eye.

Dear Emma...

...I got lillies

De Plane, De Plane!

I am allegedly geting a tattoo tomorrow. I can't believe I am doing it to be honest. I don't like tattoos on women, I think they look (to be blunt) common. Stew thinks I will chicken out, and he is probably right. But a girl I know had a tattoo that I fell in love with when I saw it...so will try and be brave. Will post pics if I manage to get it done.

Snickers

I have borrowed an exercise bike. This is because, at least twice a week, me and a few friends do a five mile walk. Last year we walked the Bristol Half Marathon for Breast Cancer Awareness, but this year we haven't planned any sort of sponsored walk. Anyway....to get to the point...when we walk, I am always having to wait for them, they are so slow! This week, however, we went out cycling for a change. The tables completely turned. I struggled. A lot. Twice they had to wait for me, and once I had to get off and push. I refuse to get beaten, so I have borrowed this bike to use whilst watching TV. But somehow, I managed to eat a Snickers bar whilst watching the telly and pedalling. Which is probably defeating the object of the exercise. My friend was going to use it, but she said she refused on the grounds that there wasn't a built in ashtray for her fag.

The Monster in Law and Stewart

Of Tummys and Pink Plasters

Well, I went to my GP yesterday, and as I thought, no chance of getting it done on the NHS. Although, probably, if I was a nineteen year old single depressed mother of five, I'm sure they would have rushed to pay for it for me.

So I will be taking out a loan and paying for it. My doctor thinks that I should get it done if I want, and doesn't think my sticky blood will be a problem, as they can put me back on heparin and warfarin. He is going to contact me today, to give me a list of suitable hospitals. No cowboys are gonna be getting their hands on my lard. I haven't forgotten the Fight Club soap. Also, thought you might like to see a pic of Stew in his pink plaster that he got, as Dizzy insisted on him having pink. And yes, Emma, I would like to claim that purple clematis in the background as mine, but we are over the monster in laws house, and as I am taking the picture, it would be a big lie.

Claims to Fame

1) I sat in the tube opposite David Jason once, during his "Sharp intake of Breath" Period.
2) I was looking in a shop window in Shepherds Bush once, and Reg Varney was looking alongside me.
3) I met Richard Stilgoe at a theatre
4) Eddie Kidd bought me a drink
5) Had a really long chat with Liz "Carry On" Fraser outside my old work.
6) At lastly, but by no means leastly, I had tea with Diana Dors when I was seven.

Now then....beat that :oD

Cosmetic Surgery - Yes or No?

I have got an appointment to see my doctor next week, due to the fact that I want some cosmetic surgery done. I have been thinking about a tummy tuck for years, I have always had a big tummy even when I was a size 10. After I had Lizzy (emergency caesarian) mine got even worse. I have been to loads of cosmetic surgery websites showing before and after tummy tucks, and I promise you, I'm not exaggerating, I can't find one as bad as mine. I know the chances of me getting one done on the nhs are very slim, but I have a blood condition so I also need to see my GP and ask whether he thinks it sensible. Also, though, due to my blood condition, it is quite dangerous for me to carry weight around my middle. thing is, I can't face anyone else thinking I am pregnant. And the more weight I have lost, the worse it looks.

Another point to note is that I will be taking out a loan to pay for some of it. And lastly, how selfish is cosmetic surgery when there are sick people, and dying children all over the world?

Am very interested to hear what others think of cosmetic surgery, and whether you or anyone else you know had anything done?

So what are you reading?

I went into Bath yesterday and whilst on the way there in the bus, I finished Cider with Rosie. So I went to the pdsa shop and gave them my Laurie Lee book and bought a Beryl Bainbridge book called "According to Queenie".

I thought from the cover it would be the perfect book for me. Alarm bells should have rang when Margaret Atwood is praising it up to the heavens on the cover (I detested the Blind Assasin).

I am sort of enjoying it, but the characters are very vague and it jumps about a lot. I keep thinking that any minute now it will get going. But it doesn't. Has anyone else read anything by her? Apparantly some of her books have been made into films, but I have no idea which they are.