The Losers

Watched the Losers the other night and thoroughly enjoyed the film in a throw away, guns and gags type of way.  I've got the graphics by Andy Diggle and probably have to say I enjoyed them more, but then that's how it goes. It's a shame the film came out in the same year as The A Team and the Expendables, but I'd say it was the better of the three.
I also watched another film which I can't talk about because it's not out on DVD and was given to me by a friend, which I think he'd downloaded slightly ill-egally.  It was good though and you never know, I may buy it when it is released on DVD.

Another one. Down southbourne today.

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The Black Keys

We have had a very busy weekend, culminating in a Black Keys concert at the O2 Academy in Boscombe.  It was absolutely brilliant and left me speechless.  Such power from two people!  I've never seen dirty, grinding, sliding blues played like that before.  Both of them are so talented.  I took a photo:-

I was sat, like the queen in the disabled section.  It was a brilliant view and the whole evening was made much better for it.

On Saturday, Lic and Rick came down and we slurped several bottles of vino, then went round Darryls for a housewarming/birthday/bonfire party.  Sloshed is definitely the word I would use to describe my state!

So, last post was 18th October?  Since then we've been down to Cornwall to see the aged P's, I've had a week off, a cold and we've done P's birthday.  I'm exhausted!  Needed to come back to work just to get over it.
Went to see RED at the cinema for P's birthday after a lovely meal at the Coriander in Bournemouth http://www.coriander-restaurant.co.uk/ which was absolutely gorgeous.  Well, RED..I'd been looking forward to it too much really, so I think I'll need to see it again.  It's definitely going to be in my collection as it's a "put on anytime" film I think.  Lots of action, lots of funny sequences, not enough true violence (it's only a 12A) but pretty good overall.

good ol' Warren Ellis.  What a gig! S x

Quick

Just a quick on as I'm still in the office because Mathew has gone off sick, so we're having to cover until 5.30, which is a bummer. 

Sian has got "the cold" which she probably had last Autumn/Winter, so will probably go onto her chest as winter asthma.  Anna's all worn out from trampolining on Saturday as she is on her birani's which is a front somersault with half twist. Hurrah! she's nearly beating me!

Pat is not sleeping and consequently, neither am I, which has a very heavy consequence when I'm driving for 2 hours to get to and from the office.  Can't remember my journey at all this morning, so that's not good is it? Will have to tell him to sleep downstairs I think.  Harsh.  Working at home on Weds and Fri, so will remember to bring his birthday pressies back with me.  Things always get rough around this time of year.  I wonder whether it's the onset of another year which gets him down.  No, it's just me.

Had a good week really and I know, but it's a shock isn't it?  We've calmed down now since Pat and Ad had an afternoon of cider and man hugs.  He brought him back to ours and made tea while I was shocked and stunned that he was even in the house.  I hope it's drawn a line under it now and we can carry on.  To be honest we've both tried our hardest to make things better and I don't feel as if I'm just walking through a vat of treacle any more.

Jane and I have seen a couple of good films together, one was Heartbreaker, a French film which was extraodinary in every way and needs to be recommended as much as possible.

Then, we went to see a completely different film, The Girl who played with fire.  Very good, strong, gritty, violent, sexy.  All those things.  I've read the books so I was au fait with it, but Jane was a bit lost.  It was on the edge of your seat stuff though.

Sorry I haven't written, it just seems to be the same old guff.  Since my last post, we've had the most rows we've ever had and last Saturday (mum's birthday bbq) P ended it.  He did the bbq and mum didn't have any idea that things were bad, so we just carried on.  By Saturday evening, we'd had some more rows and decided to make up, but things are still dicey.

So, it's been a week since then and I've got a week's holiday coming up and after Jane coming round last night and having a good evening, P went back to the same old depressed "my logical brain still doesn't believe you".  Well, your logical brain is playing tricks on you mate, and the sooner you realise that, the better for everyone.

Cornwall

We've been on holiday to Cornwall and met up with all the cousins, which made it 17 for lunch on the sunday (including the boyfriend) which was a bit hectic, but lovely to see everyone.  We stayed at Ali's in the garden in our new "3 man" tent, which once the airbed was in was about a 1 1/2 man tent! Every night we talked about out situation and everyday we carried on as if nothing was happening.  It came to a head on Saturday evening and I stropped.  Needless to say we'd had a few shandys and therefore, there was no point in discussing it.  It carried on to Sunday when I ended up getting on my fold up bike and cycling into Christchurch to pick up my car, whereupon I went to Mudeford Quay and watched it fill up with tourists all vying for space along the prom with their crabbing nets.  I'm glad I don't live down there any more.  It was heaving, even by 10.00am.  I had a little snooze and then made my way back home, but not until 1.00pm ish.  Was immediately hit with a barrage of stuff, so walked out again.  Came back later and made up, but only after I'd shown some emails which had been sent.  It's going to take a while and I don't know whether we/I'm strong enough.  Stupid girl.

Roadtrips

Since I last wrote, kerry has been on a road trip to Azerbijan with Charity Road Trips and has come back down to earth with a bump.  I think she had a fab time, but didn't get too much of a chance to sample the different cultures as they were on a time limit.  So, this means of course, that she wants to go back.  I expect there will be some sort of family road trip coming up, so that she can show us around.  She especially liked Bosnia and said it was stunning.  We've already spoken about going back together.  I'm happy to drive my car over there, rather than hire something and go through the channel tunnel to get to europe.

Our holiday is coming up on Saturday as we're going to Cornwall and although there is a bit of reticence from one boyfriend, everything's on track.  The boyfriend I think wants to stay in the house and Pat and I are both in agreement that he shouldn't.  I need to speak to him tonight and get it sorted once and for all.  He should just come with us and have a free holiday.  I don't understand these youngsters! Never mind.  I will tell him that he needs to be sleeping away from Friday night so that we can get an early start on Saturday morning with no tears and stuff from the girl.  I think that will work.  Why is nothing simple?

Driving Test! Monday 28th June 2010

Sian has passed her driving test!! She kept the day very secret and I even took her up to the train station to go to work, but she sat there for about 15 minutes and then met her instructor, who took her on a 2 hour warm up and she was back at home by about 11.30, really happy and excited that she'd passed.  What a relief! I'm so proud and also extremely relieved.  Well, she'd only got a half day off, so she had to go to work in the afternoon and she drove! How brave is that?

We've not seen her an awful lot since then as the novelty hasn't worn off yet, although I did go for a roadtrip to Somerset last night to plan her route to NASS, at the Royal Bath and West Showground this weekend.  It was a lovely drive and she navigated while I drove.  I don't think she's got enough petrol to do it twice in a week! Anyway, the evening was really lovely and we even managed to glimpse Glastonbury Tor in the distance as the sun went down. Glorious. x

Well I'm still here and Pat's still here, but it's been touch and go over the past two weeks.  I have finally been ground down and had to admit to pat that I kissed Ad in Portugal.  However, I've been very pleased that I didn't do anything physical and therefore, there is no lie when asked about the next step. There was none.  For me, life goes on as per usual, whereas for Pat, he's been dumped in a maelstrom of new emotions which has caused chaos with his sleeping, moods etc.  I feel very sorry.  Sorry for him and what he's going through, sorry for myself in getting caught and sorry for Rope, who is caught in the middle, not knowing what's going on.  Maybe this is the pinnacle of the last 5 years.  Maybe I've not been content for that long, maybe longer.  I love my life, but sometimes feel slightly buried in it all.  Does this feeling happen to everybody? I wonder.  I know that it will be very difficult for a long time now. Nightmare.

Nonsense

I'm not writing at the moment because Pat's been on the warpath about my "relationship" with Ad.  There is no physical "relationship", so I can't write about it because it's just the never ending story. Looked back at my yahoo blog and 2005 was just the same.  I need a ticket out of here.

Sorry

I'm sorry I haven't written.  It's been pretty hectic as we had Anna's birthday on the 7th so that lasted for the whole weekend.  We've also been camping at Woody Hyde and I managed to get slaughtered on Saturday evening, which wouldn't have been bad, but Rope was there (he'd just got home) and although I'd been very sensible throughout the weekend, I wasn't on Saturday.  I couldn't help it, although I can't remember it very well and managed to nearly get caught in a clinch by Patsy.  Well, when I say nearly, it was properly.  What a donkey.  All the excuses that it was a goodnight kiss were ignored and I've been in purdah ever since.  Haven't seen Rope either.  Not much going on at the Howards' either.  We had a curry with them last Thursday, but it was a bit odd.  I don't know what's going on, but I think they have issues too.  I'm sure it will all come out in the wash.  Had a good bank holiday weekend.  We were supposed to go to Cornwall but Anna has a nasty cold and we didn't think it was fair on either her or the aged Ps, so we stayed local and had a lovely easy few days which we all needed I think.  Sian was secretly pleased that we didn't go as I think she was going to miss us. Bless!
I will work harder at keeping this up as my memory for stuff is pretty bad, so I should do it as and when it occurs. Promise.

Had Friday off and spent the morning in bed, rather enjoying myself actually.  Filament magazine put me on to a site which I found was quite "stimulating" and so while Patsy worked for 3 hours, I didn't.  Very naughty, I know, but it's not very often I get any time to myself.  He came back at about 1.30 and was my rough gardener for an hour or so. Lovely.
Went out with Charlie and Dean later on in the evening to the Cranleigh and watched Lady Winwood's Maggot.  I dunno, they were a bit rock, folk and very enjoyable. Had massive amounts of lager and felt very odd on Saturday.  One glass of wine only bad! Amazing!

And Breathe

It all went well, thankfully!  There was a trip to the New Forest with her mates on Saturday afternoon and then a Barbie in the evening, cooked by Pat, which was very good.  The mates were very happy to have us pottering about and eating and drinking with them and everyone had a good time.  I managed to get the cake as they do it while you wait.  All I had to do was to choose a picture and that was difficult.  Pat & I went to the pond shop in Cadnam and bought all the gear for the pond, like the liner, pump, and filter.  The chap was lovely and gave us heaps of discount.  Pat has agreed to fashion him a slate pipe and this made the discount even bigger! Hooray!  I wrapped up the pressies in the afternoon and after the barbie I was asleep within about 30 seconds.  sunday brought a very excited girl into our room.  Lots of squeaking.  We all watched as she opened her pressies and then got ready to go to the Captains Club at 1.00.  They didn't have our booking did they? Bugger.  I talked us into the restaurant and we had the meal which was very nice, but that sort of soured it.  I've got the confirmation in an email and I will be contacting them, but I wasn't very happy.  The service was a bit dodgy too.  Never mind, she went to Ocean palace last night in bournemouth with her girlfriends and I'm sure that was very lovely.  she's not up yet though, so I'll get the stories later. Phew!

Managed to go to Tourette's Point with Anna in Sian's car as we were going to pick her up afterwards and she could drive back, but the exhaust seems to have blown and it sounds so loud that I couldn't drive it. Managed to get a few choice pressies for her and feel better about it now.  Haven't managed to get her a birthday cake with a photo of her as a baby on though.  Just ran out of time.  Maybe next year.  It will be the thing that she really wants though.  Never mind.  Pat has been totally engrossed in the new pond this week and I'm sure he would have forgotten all about the BBQ he offered to do for her.  Hopefully she will keep the numbers down as we've only really got stuff for about 15.....
I know I shouldn't say it, but I'm looking forward to next week.  It's been very fraught with the old stress.  Anna's birthday next. 13. what was I thinking??

Stress Now

I'm stressed now and I should be as I've not put in the hours that I need on the 18th birthday and it's getting very close now.  I just sent an email to the Echo in Bournemouth for an announcement with this picture.  Sian will say that it's from 2 years ago, and yes, it was, but it's lovely.

Easter

Well, we've had Easter and managed to get through it without killing each other, which is good.  Pat's "big plan" is to build another pond, but this time it's going to be a raised brick pond which is low enough to sit on the side.  I'm looking forward to it, but it's the most expensive thing we've undertaken.  I know everything there is about bricks and blocks now and could probably be site agent when the boys get going.

Easter brought it's hangovers and choc heart palpatations, which had to be ignored.  I took another couple of days off too, so I've only come back to work today.  It's odd to know that tomorrow is Friday.  Gearing myself up for the 18th birthday and also the 13th birthday.  How did I manage that? Anyway, some very intense shopping will need to happen on Saturday I think.  Wish me luck!

Weekend

Why oh why do weekends go so quickly? So quickly, that I can't remember one end from the other.

Ah, Friday we had a very lovely Chinese takeaway.  Sian was babysitting for the Howards, so she had hers and drove round in her little car, which I drove back.

Saturday was a bit of a rush but was our own fault.  Shaun was coming round at 11 to pick up some books, have a coffee and chat, along with a look at the fish, so we pottered around until then and then it was midday and we had to rush to B&Q to order some bricks, but we have to do that over the phone, so that's been put off.  We've still got the blocks, sand and cement though.  Came back and ended up taking Anna to trampolining, leaving her there and taking the papers (which I should have dropped off earlier) to mums.  Anna was worried when I got back and was a bit teary because I hadn't texted or phoned her.  No, because I was driving I said.  Then I said "you need to be worried when I'm not here at 3.00 to pick you up rather than in the middle of the lesson". Bless.

Had dinner round at Chris and Tracy's.  Pat did the starter of large prawns (shell on) on watercress with garlic butter sauce and they were bloody brilliant.  Chris did spice encrusted halibut, with a lovely risotto and tracy did a very alcoholly trifle.  It was bloody lovely all of it.  It made spending £250 on food last week rather galling to be honest, but there you go.

Pat went fishing with Dean on Sunday and I lay in and read my book.  It was a very relaxing day and Anna and I put together the roasty with no tears at all. Pat finished it off though!

No Cold - Hurrah!

Well, back at work this week after a week at home (working, you understand) and I feel so much better! I can't begin to describe it.  Everyone has had it though after me and Pat, so I feel for them. 
We've had a brotherly worry week too as both Mick and Ben have stomped out of their respective houses. It's been very difficult to sort them out and I think Ben's will take some time, but Mick's back on the straight and narrow, so that's something.
I don't think there's anything else to report actually.  How strange!  It's been very quiet today so I've been on the twitter and falsebook a lot, but I'm up to date with everything, so what can you do? Anyway, I've arranged to see Mrs H on Sunday, so hopefully the March weather will be kind to us as I want to cycle round.  Patsy's going fishing and I may need a bit of girly company.

My Birthday 2010

Having been horribly ill with a cold all of the previous week, it was a relief to feel slightly normal on the Sunday 21st, although still a very strange temperature.  Patsy was also having difficulties with it too.  He seems to have had one thing after the other this winter.  We still managed to get to bed by 9.30 most evenings over this long weekend though, which is a bit sad really isn't it?

Friday evening was spent with Mrs H at splinters restaurant, although Mr H couldn't make it as Ollie was in hospital with a horrific chest infection, although he was released on Saturday.  So, she came with us and he stayed at the hospital.  We were all slightly subdued as a result of this and should have really just rebooked it for a month or so's time, but hey, we had a pretty good meal and managed to drink a couple of bottles of vino.  Saturday, we spent the day in front of the rugby, apart from popping the papers round to mum's and going to the hospital to pick up Mr H and the very quiet Ollie, oh, and picking up Anna from Grace's birthday sleep over and bowling.  So, actually, I was quite busy really. Apart from that, I lay on the sofa feeling like a pile of poo.  I'd had this cold all week from the Tuesday and had not been into work as a result. 

Well, we managed to rally for the Sunday and had lunch at the Urban Reef on Boscombe Prom.  They had a surf competition, so loads of people were down there and it felt really vibrant and well, surfy... We had a Sunday roast, which was lovely and another bottle of vino.  Popped into see the Howards on the way back and had a slurp with them, then walked home.  Major mistake.  I can't walk home from there!  Maybe it was optimistic, maybe just stupid, but by the time I got back to ours, I was totally annihilated and had to lie down again on the sofa.  Never mind.  It was a lovely day all round and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Birthday pics

New Car

I've bought a car for Sian!  It's only a little Peaugot 106, but it's very sweet.  Silver, with red and black seats, no rust that I could see, no dodgy noises coming from the gears and brakes.  Looks good.  We're picking it up tonight and I expect I will be taking photos of the proud girl later. 

She's not passed her test, but hopefully this will be an incentive to get on and do it.  she does need the practice though and it will be good to see how she's progressed as she's had heaps of lessons.  I need to book her theory, but I'm sure that can be done within the month.  She's going round the house saying "beep, beep" like the road runner!

Old girls

Went up to Helen's on Saturday evening and took Jane.  She lives in Somerset, so we had a lovely drive there and found her house quite easily, using her instructions for the last bit as it's in the middle of nowhere.  Alicia came soon after and we got down to some serious eating and drinking around the kitchen table.  It was lovely just to sit and chill (not that I've had lots of that this month) and just chat to the girls.  I can't remember the last time we got together, but I think it may have been in the summer, so it's been a while.  It was like we'd seen each other last week, not a lot of catching up, but a lot of general chatting, opinions and politics, just what we've always been like.
4 bottles of wine were drunk and a bottle of champagne.  I had a bit of a thick head in the morning, but got myself a cup of tea, took it back to bed and read Hello! for an hour before everyone got up.  We then had brekkie, lots more chatting and then headed home for lovely roasty and Being Human later.

Clients have been most unreasonable today. Why is that?  Is it the moon, the weather, the fact that it's not Friday?  No, it's because they're worried that we will find out that they're all zombies.

Dreaming

I wake up this morning to Pat saying that he'd had a dream that I'd got pregnant with Ropeless, but I'd had a show and therefore was not pregnant.  He said that he was upset because I'd got it on with Rope and he was very pissed off about it.
Now, I am not pregnant with Rope.  I have never had sex with him and although I went to Portugal and spent time with him, nothing at all raunchy happened.  So, why is Patsy having these issues?
Is it because a) I'm very fond of him 2) I occasionally lend him money and buy plane tickets for him or iii) don't have a problem with his lifestyle and don't judge him on this, ever? Or, is he just judging me by his own standards, or standards based on my behaviour from about 20 years ago?
Maybe I'm just being naive and I shouldn't have gone on holiday to see the guys.  However, in my defence, I went with Kerry, so was chaperoned by her.  I spent every night in my own bed alone. And I didnt' do anything!  If I had done, I wouldn't be feeling so terrible.  I wish I had done now.
I've even started to feel guilty about feeling anything for him.  What a disaster!

Well, it's been a week since we did the holiday thing and I think I've had my holiday comedown (probably last Tuesday) and so it's all back to normal.  Have texted ropeless a couple of times but not in a stalker way, just chatty and giving him the news.  Anna did a couple of somersaults on Saturday and I was so proud of her.  She's also eating up the Darren Shan graphics/books and so I'm totally proud of her reading so much.  About time too!
We had Eddie and Fran and Dean and Charlie over last night and it was lovely to see them.  Patsy was a bit snakey afterwards because I'd Facebooked a status after reading my horoscope and he thought I was complaining about the cost of the lamb.  As if! It was just a response to the horoscope.  Never mind.  Perhaps we should have an almighty row as it feels like something's building.  A bit worried as Ropeless is in the line of a storm which has already hit Madeira and caused all sorts of fatalities.  I hope he's battened down the hatches in Ewok Village...
I've recieved True Blood from the online film club.  I'll let you know how I get on.  Kev describes it as "raunchy".  Hmm I fancy a bit of that.

Holiday!

Been on holiday.  Had a brilliant time and really enjoyed myself.  What a selfish cow! No, Kerry and I had the best of times and thoroughly relaxed and chilled out.  There was no need to do much and the main sightseeing was to different beaches for different types of waves.  So opposite from at home where everything is rush, rush.  This was gorgeously laid back to the extreme.

Flew into Malaga and stayed with Ian on the Saturday evening, then after not much sleep, drove about 6 hours via some very good roads to Portugal and stayed in Max and Jayne's van, vehiculo rongo, Sunday evening.  Had a lovely evening out in the woods with them and Adam, but Monday morning came along and Kerry and I decided that we needed an appartment pretty pronto, with all mod cons, one of them being a loo on site!  Ad had told us about Tonel Apartamentos Turisticos, so we went along, with Max on Monday morning to sort out a room.  Brilliantly, they were 21.50 per night, which was very reasonable, considering that we generally had 6 people living there throughout the week. Afterwards, Max took us to the West Coast, to Cordorama.  Such high cliffs! such wind! such waves! It was immense.  We then went to Lidl and bought some provisions, while Max "did" the bins.  Bless, he managed to get heaps of potatoes, peppers, and pineapples, so we ate those throughout the week.  We got the basics, but lived generally on stuff they'd got from food bins.  All of it was brilliantly edible, just out of the sell by date.

Monday evening was just Max and Jayne as Adam was having dinner with Roger.  I managed to get myself into a migraine state as I'd not had any caffeine throughout the day and so had to go to bed at about 12, but was very happy to be where we were.

Tuesday saw us with Jayne, who'd had a bath and scrubbed herself clean.  She took us to the end of the world's Cape St Vincent, where we marvelled at the views, cliffs, swell etc.  We looked at some trinkets and decided to come back to them later on in the week.  We went down to Mareta beach, where Adam was surfing.  Max was there too and we offered to do dinner in the evening as we had peppers, pasta and that sort of thing.  We went to the port with Jayne and sat in a small cafe having toasted sandwiches and beer. brilliant.  She doesn't seem very happy with Max at the moment, and to be quite honest, he is very badly behaved with her.  I think she leans on Adam for moral support too...
They all came over for dinner and drinks and a good time was had by all.  I managed to get slightly squiffy, but in a good way and was left for quite a lot of time towards the end of the evening with Adam, playing music and generally yarning about anything and everything.  It was really nice to be able to talk to him normally, without having eyes boring into the back of my head. I may have kissed him, but I ended up in my bed (on my own) and he had the couch.
Wednesday was rainy, so we decided to spend the day doing some henna tatoos (as Jayne is a henna artist). Roger came over and we had lots of eggs, bacon and rolls for brekkie.  He brought his laptop so we were able to watch films on it.  It was lashing down with rain, and again I had lots of time to chat to Adam.  It was a proper pyjama day, very easy going.  Jayne brought lots of food round too, so we had roasted vegetables and a lovely onion gravy.  Max didn't think I knew how to make roast potatoes! I didn't bother trying to prove it though as Jayne was the head chef that day. Another late night, in fact I can't remember going to bed at all. hmmm. I'm sure I did though.
Thursday was lovely and sunny and I got up to find Adam had washed himself and his clothes and tidied up the appartment main living area.  What a sweetie.  The guys were going to get the kayaks and meet us down at Martinhal beach, so we scooped Adam up and went shopping for the trinkets and some tshirts and then went off road to Martinhal.  The sun was lovely and hot and I managed to catch a few rays.  Kerry went for 2 swims which was very brave as everyone said that she'd need a wetsuit, but she didn't - what a girl! The guys kayaked around and then we went home as Roger had said that he was meeting Martin in the local eating place and we should all come too.
We did all go.  Now, as it was Thursday, I knew that we had to get going on Friday, so I was very restrained and was Des, the driver.  The food was lovely, all home made and very good.  The wine and beer was definitely flowing and I think having Martin there added another dimension to the 5.... I didn't think it at the time, but maybe Kerry was a bit left out what with me and Adam being as thick as theives.  I feel bad about that if she did.  Anyway, the evening went swimmingly and everyone was completely plastered and came back to ours.  By then I was pretty tired, had a glass of pink stuff but felt that the rest of the evening should be left for the others.  Adam was slaughtered and Martin I think may have been too.  Ad kept turning up the music (and it was slipknot!) so I didn't sleep much during the evening.  Went in at 6ish to find him on his own, again listening to the music so loudly.  Asked him to turn it down/off and I think it did go down.  It was still playing though, so at 6.30ish.  I went in, turned it off, walked him to the couch and put him to bed.  In my dreams that was my wildest fantasy to get him into bed, but not this way.  Never mind.
Max had conked out in the van, and Jayne, Kerry and Martin had gone to martin's.  If extreme amounts of alcohol hadn't been consumed, I could have had a bit more fun but it wasn't to be.
Friday morning was spent locating Jayne and Kerry and tidying up the appartment in readiness for moving out.  Everyone was so hungover.  I had to say goodbye to Adam and he was in a pretty rough state, but I was sad and told him that I was going to miss him.  I may have kissed him again, but I don't think it will have made much of an impression.
I had a lovely time and Kerry was the best travelling partner.  It was all so easy...
And so back home.  I've been grilled, but my conscience is clear and to be honest, I'm happy with that.
I'll be going back in November though.....

Went to see "A Sensible Man" by the Cohen brothers last night with Jane.  Can anyone enlighten me?  Perhaps I've lost my "film mojo" and I'm never going to "get" them again.  Oh well, I'm sure I've got lots more that I could be getting on with.
Done K's tax return and it was reletively straightforward which was a relief.  I think he thought it was very very complicated, but it wasn't and it took me about 40 minutes to do.
We seem to have been very busy this week, but when I try to remember what we've done, it's gone.  Pooof! just disappears.  Ahh actually, I did have a facebook chat with Ropeless on Tuesday in a slightly blurry "Rannoch's been round" sort of way.  He asked me to bring some tea and some dijon mustard.  Don't they have these things in Portugal? Eh?  Anyway, I'm putting together a list to work from and hope that I don't forget anything, although I'm sure I heard that they had a Lidl in Sagres.  Oh well.  I think we may be visiting the Howards tonight for a curry, so will work towards that and try to ignore clients. Taraah!

Shoot 'em Up

Is the most pointless and appallingly acted film I've watched in ages.  Poor Clive Owen.  Maybe he thought he was acting in a "tongue in cheek" film.  However, someone forgot to mention that to the other actors.  I haven't felt like that for years.  Just thought I'd let you know.

Snow!

I know, it's been about a month since I last wrote, so I'll be putting on my hair shirt and saying three hail marys to compensate.  Sometimes my blog is in my head, which isn't the best way to keep it going but I seem to get easily distracted.  The Xmas and New year celebrations have been and gone and were extremely good fun and lovely.  Pat has made me realise that xmas is to be enjoyed rather than endured and I'm thinking that after 25 years of non-wedded bliss (!) he's finally got me to the right mindset regarding xmas.  I was glad when it was over though.  No! that's not the way to deal with it!

I've become a bit more internet savvy and it's all down to Mr Warren Ellis.  He stopped writing Bad Signal at the end of the year and told me to use the RSS feeds to keep up to date with what he was doing, so I had to learn how to do that didn't I?  I've now got Neil Gaiman's blog and Ben Templesmith's too.  They are so interesting,  So prolific.  I suppose when you know that thousands of people follow your every word (like me), you are bound to write it all down for everyone to read and absorb.  Fabulous.

You will be proud of me.  I've finally booked a break to see Ian and Huli in Benahavis and then after a day or so, Kerry (for it is she who's coming with me) and I will drive down to Portugal a la Thelma and Louise to see the crusties for a couple of days.  We're taking books and facepacks and intend to chill to the max.  The weather down there is a bit rainy at the moment and they've all been confined to quarters over the xmas break apparently.  Hopefully, it will be sunshine in the day and chilly at night as we're going down on the 6th February.  This cold snap seems to be happening throughout Europe as far as I can see though.

Yes, we've had snow and ice this week and the whole country is dealing with it as best we can.  Sian thought it meant a good week off work, but didn't factor in my Dunkirk spirit of getting to work and had to give in to my offers of lifts and skidding about in order for her to get a good mark at work.  I was lucky in that I worked all week from Tuesday at home as did everyone in the firm as they were snowed in and didn't think that I should struggle into the office, when I'm more productive at home.  It has been roaringly funny though and loads of good fun.  It's always something to talk about, no?

Anyway, I (again) will try to write again soon, as I know you're all hanging off every word I write.....