GHD

Finally found a hairdresser that I like. £44 for a wash, cut, blow dry and colour.

Am really enjoying the new Little Dorrit adaptation, am watching it on BBC HD. When are we getting the next series of Ashes to Ashes???

Jump Around

Half Term. My daughter...

• Went to Longleat (twice)
• Went to two different friends houses
• Had two different friends round to play
• Decorated gingerbread men
• Made cakes
  
• Had lunch at Pizza Hut
• Went swimming
• Had fish and chips one night for tea
• Went to see High School Musical 3 (if you get the chance to see it....don't)
• Went to a non Halloween Party
• Atteneded TWO birthday parties

I did laundry, worked, cleaned and got hooked on Vallium.

Wossy

I didn't hear the phone calls made by Ross and Brand. I am not really interested. However, I am quite shocked how the public have turned against him! I always thought he was one of the untouchables. Like Sir Bob and the Queen Mother. Sir Paul (shut it Mrs Weasley) Dawn French and Stephen Fry. How wrong could I be!

Something really bizarre happened last night. We were having a night in with some friends when my best friend phoned and said "turn on Channel 4, quick!" So we did and it was a programme called "Place in the Sun - Home or Away?" People who are buying new homes get to decide whether to buy a house in the UK or abroad. And they show them a few houses. Would you believe...my old house was on there?!?!?! I bloody loved that house. I cant even walk past it for getting upset. I never wanted to leave it and wish I had held on to it. But I couldn't afford it on my own. Anyway, the woman in the programme bought my house and the one in Italy.

Lucky Bitch.

Soccer

Bryant Stunner Earns Robins Premier Cup Win
A stunning strike from centre back Stewart Bryant with 5 minutes left gave a depleted Robins side, missing six regulars, a 2-1 win over a battling Odd Down side in the first round of the Somerset Premier Cup. Toby Colbourne had scored an earlier equaliser for Frome and the win sets up a home tie against Bath City in the next round.

Can you imagine how hard this is to live with right now?

To smack or not to smack...that is the question...

In my absence from internet life, Stew hit my car. He backed into it with his. There is only a tiny mark on the number plate, but I was right angry because anyone who knows me and my car will automatically think it is me who has hit it!

My daughter is cheeky and chopsy. We used to give her small smacks when she was really naughty then stopped. Should we start smacking again? Do you/did you smack your children?

So sorry....

I am alive.

Stew is on a four day week, so I am picking up all the overtime I can squeeze in. I hope everyone got the link I sent with the newspaper article that Stew and Lizzy were in, but here is the photo for anyone who isn't already bored with it!

A couple of things I would like to mention are that, I am not really bothered that Madonna and Guy have split, and I REALLY don't care if Peter Andre and Jordan split. So please, media people, don't boringly bombard us with celebrity marriage stuff. It is tediously dull.


Whilst in Canada, my mum let Lizzy borrow her Sims game for the DS. She brought it home and has suddenly realised that the Sim Girl goes to the toilet. So my daughter spends at least half an hour a day making this poor electronic girl do constant poos.

I seem to be developing an addiction to the Crime and Investigation channel....and alongside that comes a fear that I shall end up in a trailer in the US, getting murdered for my handbag.

Alive and Kicking

• Picked up the Best of Simple Minds at the bootie this morning for 50p!
  
• Sold £94 worth of stuff at the bootie
• Had dinner over at the monster in laws
• Had an Indian takeaway last night and was really pleased that my best friend who came back from Florida yesterday came round
• Wondering why all the best old films have names as the titles. Have recently watched Mildred Pierce, Mr Skeffington, Cass Timberlane, Mrs Miniver (again) and Nora Prentis. I think I should have been born in black and white.
• Wondering what I am going to watch now that Bonekickers (Absolutely impossible, but entertaining) has finished.
• Not looking forward to working Bank Holiday Monday
  

Inukshuk

Inukshuk (in'-ook-shook) or inuksuk, is an Inuktitut¹ word.

A type of archaeological feature consisting of rocks piled in the shape of, or to indicate, a human form. Inuksuit are a common feature on the land, assume many forms and sizes, and serve a variety of different purposes.

The government of the new Canadian Territory of Nunavut uses the inukshuk as the central symbol of the territorial flag and as a prominent part of the territorial coat of arms. The government describes inuksuit as:

... stone monuments which guide people on the land and mark sacred and other special places.

The inukshuk has become a familiar symbol of the north throughout Canada and modern examples are now found scattered across the country.'Sacred and Other Special Places'

In June 2002, Canadian soldiers in Kandahar, Afghanistan (far from the north) constructed an Inukshuk from local stone as a memorial to their four comrades who had been killed the previous April.

Corporal Ainsworth Dyer, Sergeant Marc Leger, Private Richard Green and Private Nathan Smith, died that night. Eight other Canadian soldiers were wounded. Their Inukshuk points home.

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Parry Sound, Georgian Bay

We have been home for over one week and the sun has not shined once. Rain, clouds, and just generally dull.

We had a fabulous time in Canada. Met the nicest, kindest people, had lovely weather, ate far too much and slept a lot!

I got hooked on Dollarama, Tim Hortons Hot Chocolate, Butterfingers, Iced Tea and Dentyne Cinnamon Fire. Went to Walmart (and think Asda is probably nicer, but at least they don't have to wear our gopping green uniforms). Loved going out on the boats, and thought sitting on a front porch was great!

I was fascinated with the Inuckshucks (Excuse spelling) and brought one home with me. Spent far too much in Whiskey Jacks and did not want to come home.

To the girl with the mousey hair...

For some reason today I feel very nostalgic. I have watched Adam & the Ants, Paul Young, David Bowie, Sweet, The Selector, Madness, Hazel O'Connor, Blondie and The Undertones on YouTube. I am rewatching probably the best series made in the last 10 years, Life on Mars. I also bought my daughter some Space Dust. And made her eat it.


"Gene Hunt. Your DCI. And it’s 1973...almost dinner time. I’m havin' hoops."


Will tell all about the fabulous Ontario in the next post.

Loonie Land

I DID NOT want to come home.

She looks like a sugar in a plum

Lizzy had a group visit her school for the last dayof term. I would imagine they were a Steel Band. They played Brown Girl in the Ring, Rivers of Babylon and must have done a couple of numbers by UB40. My daughter came home incredibly excited. She said "Oh mummy, they were brilliant! They did some songs you have on your cd in the car! And they came from a really long long way away!"

I asked her "Where were they from? Jamaica? Nigeria? Africa?"

she replied.....


"Erm no...I think they were from Ikea"

Off to Canada tomorrow. I can't believe the holiday is here already!

What.....?

What is going to happen to Dr Who? I liked Catherine Tate in it.

What the hell has happened to Billie Pipers mouth? Why has she developed a lisp?

Why have I never seen Casablanca before?

Whatever happend to KLF? They rocked.

Why do I bother dieting? I have spent 4 weeks fasting and still weigh the same.

What the hell will I do with my child for the other 4 weeks of the summer holidays?

Lazing on a...

This week I have not found a job. I have tried new cooking recipes due to boredom. I have been to bingo. I have worked in my dead end job. I have not saved any spending money for my holiday and I haven't been out.

I have, however, watched two great Bette Davis films on TCM...Now, Voyager and Mr Skeffington. Both made me cry.

And a band of angels wrapped up in my heart

My mobile phone has been on a washing machine adven ture this week. I finally got it dried out, and then left in on the windowsill. When my friend phoned and phoned, it vibrated so much, it fell into the washing up water. Was it Schell who dropped hers down the toilet? Did hers ever recover?

Lizzy went to bed one night this week, and sneaked her Silly Putty up there with her. She fell asleep with it and in the morning it was everywhere. I hd to cut it out of her hair, and although I tried the Marge Simpson trick with the ice on gum, I had to throw the nightdress out.

Stew is doing the London Run this weekend. If he does complete it and all his sponsors pay up, he should raise £700 for a local cancer charity.

I have finally finished college this week. So now I REALLY have to find a job.

Only 24 days till our holiday! I really must get some holiday insurance.

Reasons to be cheerful...Part 4

Stephen Fry
Scrabble
Stilton
The Barbecue Season
Kathy Burke and Gimme Gimme Gimme
The Beatles
The Office - An American Workplace
Gnocci
Houmous
The invention of reading specs
Dickens
Bargains at a boot sale
My daughters school report
Red Wine
Corn on the Cob
Squeeze on my car cd player
Not being dead

And marmalade skies...

Dizzy has been off with a tummy bug, but she is back to school today. Good job, I have a girlie lunch out today.

I have applied for four jobs this week. Surely one of them will give me an interview!

Miss Elizabeth had a birthday on Tuesday. We got her a trampoline. I think she is stuck to it. My mum got her a second hand karaoke machine. I think I'm Cher when she's at school.

Without wanting to bore everyone with weather stories...are we actually going to get a summer this year?

Hysterical

Funniest thing I can remember seeing on TV ever was The Office, last night. Jim pretending to be Dwight for $11. Even had his own bobblehead. Question...What kind of bear is best?!

Lizzys birthday party today. I may need valium.

Still haven't found a new job. I may well be unemployable.

Half hour later.

I have a post script to this blog. This morning, I have recieved an email. Here it is, copied and pasted.


Hi Jackie

Thank you for your e-mail. If you are interested in delivering the Frome Times please call me on 01225 704761 so that I can take your address and telephone number and your date of birth if you are under 16. Then I will get back to you again when I have a round in the area of Frome which you live.

Thank you

Linda Maslen

Distributions Manager

Wiltshire Publications, publishers of;

Melksham Independent News

White Horse News

Frome Times

Now, I certainly haven't applied for a paper round. And my four year old is unable to write emails as yet. Which leaves one person in this house who has applied for a paper round in my name....

All the teachers down the pub, passing round the ready rub...

My daughter took her first trip to her headmistress this week. Her crime, along with two partners in, was "To see if we could create a flood by blocking up the water fountain with tissues" They did accomplish this most hideous of offences and were duly sentenced to a trip to Mrs Stokes. Who, in her infinite wisdom took 10 minutes off the offenders playtimes for the following day.

On the way home, Lizzy said....

"I hate Mrs Stokes. She ain't coming to MY birthday party."

Holiday, celebrate, it would be so nice....

We had a lovely week away. It rained, but it was lovely to see my aunt and uncle. Sadly, the car broke down the day before we went, so we had to borrow Stews mums car and worse, it cost £450 to repair! That is all the holiday money I have saved for Canada gone.

I am still watching all the classic films I can. Have watched Three Coins in a Fountain, Jezebel and Pat and Mike.

Went to see the new Indiana Jones film at the weekend, with some lovely friends of ours. It was what you would expect from an Indiana Jones film.