I have been there And back again to see how far it is LOL

Apologies to everyone that has been visiting my blog only to discover I haven't updated it in a couple of weeks. I am a bad, bad blogger (hangs head in shame) I will do better, I promise :)

I've been there and back again to see how far it is LOL

Had a hectic couple of weeks. My daughter has her final Statistics GCSE today and Pickles has been unwell again and my OH has been and still is working away. So I seem to be constantly chasing my tail LOL

Chicken pie and one of his hoppos still keep on getting in somehow, they are driving me utterly insane. I am on a constant chicken watch.

I have tried excerise in a bid to loose more weight and have dusted the excercise bike off. Appears to be working as I dragged myself to Slimming World last night and I had lost a pound. I was hoping 4 more, still it's better off than on and hopefully I'll do better next week, fingers, feet eyes crossed etc,etc

With my OH being away I decided to go up and watch TV in bed after watching Big Brother. But could I find anything to watch! Utterly ridiculous, there are hundreds of channels on Sky and I must have flicked through all of them and not a single blinkin sausage worth watching. I don't know why we bother having it sometimes. I ended up on the Create and Craft channel watching the pick of the week. Until I discovered it was for Christmas vellum. Christmas it's only just June for heavens sake. There probably trying to get in early and entice everybody to spend now b4 the credit crunch really takes a hold. Another bug bearer of mine don't get me started on that. Why our greedy government can't reduce fuel prices I don't know. I think it's something daft like over three quarters of what we pay at the pump goes to them and not the oil companies and yet they are trying to say this global credit crunch is over the global cost of oil and the US housing market going down the pan and they can't do anything about it. That's fair enough a lot of it may be out of there hands but they do have the power to knock our petrol prices down somewhat though. Oh I could go on 4eve about this LOL

Pickles decided just over a week ago that he was scared of his curtains. We changed them four different times but to no avail. So there has been a screaming match for at least an hour every single time he is put down to bed. He won't sleep anywhere but his cot not even on the sofa. So up until yesterday he hasn't been having a day time nap at all, I am dog tired. He was a little better yesterday only cried for half an hour b4 (arggggghhhhhhhhhhh)But then I had to go up to him half a dozen times last night b4 he would give in and sleep. I awoke to the same "no like curtains blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" at 5.45 this morning. So I slowly slid out of bed bleary eyed and completely shattered. The poor little sausage was sat in the corner of his cot crying shouting for his Daddy shaking his head at his curtains. So I had to get him up. He had his milk in with me and he almost fooled me into thinking he was going to go back to sleep whilst having his milk. He lulled me into a false sense of security and I allowed my eyes to close and think of sleep them 'wham' as his huge elephant that's almost as big as him was slammed in my face and he then decided to jump on top shouting "Mickey Mummy, Mickey on". I then spent the next hour trying to keep him quiet as his sister slept as she had an exam. I was quite chuffed with myself in the end as we were all organised and ready to go half an hour b4 we needed to, a miracle 4 us LOL. Then as per usual something had to go wrong, grrrrrrrr. My DD chucked a huge spanner into the works by announcing very calming and Kevin the teenager like that she couldn't find her calculator. She only needed it for her blinkin Statistics GCSE. Kids, she wasn't panicking in the least. I called my OH just as she found it. It then occurred to me when Pickles came running into his sister’s room with the remote control that I could have put blinkin Mickey on in the bedroom for Pickles to watch this morning and have had a peaceful hour, arggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh. I am going to sleep for the entire weekend when my OH gets back.

I am being hailed by Master pickles now demanding toast and bee bops (he's referring to those silly always sickeningly cheerful Doodlebops on the Disney channel)so I'll have to sign off until later.

Once again thank you very much for visiting and I hope you all have a lovely day and ((hugs)) to those who can't.

Cheers ears :)

I hate chicken pie !

Afternoon everyone :)

Just managed to sit down at last and have a catch up and a coffee. Not 4 long though Pickles due to wake up soon. Been doing washing, washing and more washing and tidying today. At least it's still warm and I've not had to use the drier. The first lot went on the line at 9 this morning and it dried in no time. I went out to take it off and pop another lot on. All very very organised for me for a change. I nipped back in with the clean washing and to pop another wash on. I was so proud of myself being so organised, I should have known it wouldn't last for long. The peg bowl was empty, I was confused I even went back into the house to check if they were there, but they weren’t. Then I heard a certain very cheeky monkey shouting "away, away" So I ran out of the house he was no where in sight so I went through the arch into the back part of the garden and there was a very cheeky toddler throwing the last of my pegs into the huge rhododendron bush. It's about 25' high and 15 or more feet wide and very dense to the ground. I then spent the next three quarters of an hour tying to locate the blinkin things Huhhhh. I managed to put the washing out b4 having to take my DD to school for her GCSE English exam. My OH is in Gloucester and I might just get half an hour b4 Pickles wakes up and I have to start all over again and go and pick my DD up from school. Roll on the weekend.



Yesterday was a disaster too. Run off my feet all day and then when I finally got Pickles down for a nap I spent the next hour and half instead of relaxing chasing chicken pie from next door around the garden. It even got into the house and myself and my DD couldn't get it out. It pecked the hell out of my French doors. When Dr Doolittle from next door finally decided to put an appearance in he came around for it. I told him I'd chased it for an hour and a half and it had been in house. I politely told him to find out where they were getting in as it is now a daily occurrence. Our back garden is split into two and I can't see the back half from the house so by the time the mealy eyed thing saunters through to the part I can see it's usually eaten through loads of veggies, the fat cretin. The guy from next door just kept hugging chicken pie and kissing, YES I said kissing it, he wouldn't give me eye contact, every question or comment I came out with he ignored and just jabbered away in a silly voice to the damn chicken. He just kept hugging, cooing and talking and kissing chicken pie. Hasn't he heard of E-Coli!I felt like I had entered the twilight zone there for a while.He didn't apologise, just turned around and walked away. His OH is a lovely woman but he is just weird. His OH says he likes chicken pie and his hoppos to run wild. Well that's all well and good if they are running wild in their own blinkin garden but they aren't they are in mine feasting like theres no tomorrow because they have eaten everything in sight in their garden. Wheres that bird of prey when you need him eh? I can't believe he didn't even apologise, how ignorant I was speechless for once, YES I for once the mother of rambling on couldn't think of a thing to say I just stood there open mouthed. I really have had enough, truly.



Going to try and use this half an hour making a blinkin peg bag, I'm not going through all of that again LOL. I hope everybody’s having a lovely day and (hugs) to those who can't :)

PS Hoping to pop some more free images on later if I can track the printer/scanner lead down. I have a file stuffed full with them just have to decide which ones to put on. So please check back later.

PPS Thanks to those who has voted on chuckle monkeys tree frogs bud name in the poll. If you haven't voted all ready, please have a go :)

Cheers ears :)

New blog header and revamp

Apologies if you keep on logging on to see the layout constantly changing. I am in the middle of revamping my entire blog over the coming week. As I have been that slapdash it is totally disorganised, like me (turns red with embarrassment) I want to try and make it more user friendly, so it will be changing a lot over the next week why I am trying things out.

I have just added a new header and I am messing about with colours etc. So please bare with me :) As you can see from it Chuckle Monkey has a new friend the ? tree frog (see poll on the right hand side or post your own suggestions) and he will be joined by many more friends over the coming weeks and months. So please bookmark me and check back often.

Off to grab a cup of coffee to keep myself awake. I wont be partaking in having a accompanying custard cream with it though as they are all gone (blush) We are all such sugar rush gluttons they literally vanished within minutes of them coming out of the oven LOL. Bang goes the slimmer of the week award (oh the shame, blush, scammers off to find something else to dunk instead, blushes even more)

Tata 4 now.

Cheers ears :)

I have turned a corner I no longer think I am going insane.....I think!

Good afternoon everyone I hope you are all well. Whey hey blogging for the third day in a row, I hope you are all proud of me LOL

Well, what a debacle yesterday was. I finally tracked down the camcorder lead and my PC started playing up. If it had gone any slower it would have stopped. After shutting it down several times I succeeded in getting it working, then it took forever to download the photos, only all of the ones I wanted to put on had disappeared argggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh. My OH said he is going to try and find them for me tonight. I am so flustered lately they are probably there somewhere completely obvious taunting me for being so blonde! For some totally bizarre reason though there were loads of piccies from when we went away for a couple of weeks with my brother and his family to Devon and Cornwall last year. But all the recent ones had disappeared. Some great snaps and some awesome ones of the fabulous Eden Project. I shall be sure to pop some on later for you to peruse or not LOL. Can’t do it now unfortunately because miraculously the camcorder download lead has mystically morphed itself into a damn IPOD lead AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out and relax, remember you are turning over a new leaf; you are a calm confident organised individual. Hey stop with the sniggering, it’s true!

Just put Pickles down for a nap, he's still ill and clingy and I am still having trouble with the antibiotics. Made a pact with myself earlier to get more organised and blitz the house and garden between now and the weekend. Maybe if I am more organised I will actually end up getting more done and won't get so flustered and down with OH being away all of the time. I am making some chore rosters, hopefully this afternoon and then when my OH gets back get him to get my laminator down from where the giraffes live and buy some whiteboard pens and get it up on the wall. Decided as my DD is now 16 she can get off her pampered batty and help out. I got a call from her on the way to school "Mum I've 4gotten my PE kit" arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Just after I had got my determined organised head on too, typical. So I turned into the local taxi service for her again and abandoned the washing up and went to my parent’s house. My Dad then took the kit to school as Pickles is too ill to be messed about in and out all of the time. He was really clingy, I wasn't allowed to have a cup of tea or read so I came home.

Stopped off at the shops on the way back and bought him his In The Night Garden comic to cheer him up, worked for about 2 minutes! Also treated myself, realised I haven't bought myself any ME magazines (apart from craft mags) in over a year I used to buy them all of the time. So I went a bit mad and bought two newspapers, the local newspaper, Your Home with free gardening mag, Cheshire Life, Chat, Take a Break and Best. The latter three full of the usual gob opening obscure almost unbelievable personal stories. Just finished the washing up so now I am off to have some ME reading time and a cuppa then get on with the spring clean. Going to read the one with Fern Britain in first I think and all about her diet. She's lost four stone and looking fantastic, I never knew she was 50! She’s looking amazing.

Going to enjoy myself and take them out into the garden as the weathers so nice, a good escape into a trashy story will do me the world of good. Only read craft mags, talked about crafts, done crafts and babbled onto a baby all day for well over a year. Hopefully it will perk me up you know what they say a change is as good as a rest. Hope the sun is shining for everyone and you all have a fantastic day and ((hugs)) to those who can't.

Cheers ears :)