Worzel Gummidge has nothing on me LOL

Afternoon everyone :)

Finally after an hour battle (scowl,) Pickles has given in and gone down for a nap. Had an awful night again last night with him he finally went to sleep at 1.30am but was up at exactly the same time as yesterday 5.40. I wasn't going to give in this time and get him up. I went in several times and in the end gave him a bottle of milk to drink in his cot and then went back to bed and literally sandwiched my head between four huge pillows. I couldn't sleep but at least there was silence for a while LOL.

I can't remember the last time I made anything I have been so dog tired with my OH away all of the time and Pickles refusing to sleep and a stroppy teenager to contend with arrrrrgggghhhhhh I needed that, I feel a bit better now :)

Just had some good news my OH is heading back from Gloucester at 4pm so he should hopefully be home for bed time, traffic willing. I am going to go to sandwich my head between four pillows again in bed when he gets in and he can sort them out LOL

Just off to the greenhouse to water my tomatoes, chillies, peppers, aubergines, cucumbers and melons and water the hanging baskets. When I came back earlier from dropping little miss temperamental of at her friends I happened to glance at the front garden. When on earth did all of that grow! I have been that busy and tired and it's been chucking it down the past couple of days I hadn't even noticed LOL. The air was filled with an overwhelming yummy smell of old roses pure unadulterated heaven arrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

That was until of course my nose started to twitch and my brain came to the realisation that I hadn't taken any hayfever tablets today.It then past the message quicker than lightening down to my nostrils achoooooooooo. I haven't stopped sneezing since; I look like blinkin Rudolph for Pete’s sake. I caught a glance at myself in the bay window and frightened myself half to death. I had a scruffy t-shirt and tracksuit bottoms on my grey skin and hollow drawn eyes streaming and nose twitching from the hayfever and my heeeeeeeeeeeeeeed. Well Worzel Gummidge has got nothing on me today I look like I have been dragged through a hedge backwards. A dirty great big one at that, Leylandi sized with no word of a lie. I live in an area of the‘ladies what lunches', all perfect and ST Tropet’ed to within an inch of their lives and I looked like a vagrant trying to break in. I have to get myself and Pickles sleeping sorted this is ridiculous.

I've told my OH I am booking myself in for a major rehaul in a couple of weeks time, facial, massage, eyebrow shape, manicure, pedicure, haircut the entire shebang and I demanded new clothes too. I think he recognised I was a slowly going deranged woman on the edge and smiled and simply said "yes, do it, you deserve it" ehhhhhhhhhhh ????????

What’s all that about then? Agreeing with me (confused) "no, not another craft mag" he declared last week when I asked him to pick me the latest copy of Let's Knit for the Grande ole price of £4.99 from the supermarket.! Men, eh and they say we are hard to work out.

I am being hailed now by Master Pickles informing me at the greatest of decibels to rescue him from the curtain monster so I must go for now. I’ll hopefully be popping back on later to upload a few things when my OH gets back.

I hope everybody has a lovely day and ((hugs)) to those that can't :)

Cheers ears :)

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 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 :)