Ohh my goodness, I’ve not written half as much as I was hoping about the weekend simply because I have done precisely nothing! Basically it poodled down all blinking weekend, so we were unable to do anything really. Rob fixed the door on one of the kitchen units and that was about as exciting as our weekend got – oh! and our neighbours decided to have a BBQ in the rain under one of those gazebo things. The gazebo blew over in the wind on Saturday night and now its laying up-side-down on the lawn in their back garden collecting the rain and slowly turning into a pond.
What possesses people to have BBQ’s in the rain? I remember when I was about 13 my friend had a BBQ for her birthday. It poured with rain and so as not to disappoint a bunch of teenagers her granddad decided to put the BBQ in the green house. Not a particularly wise move I have to admit. The green house just filled with smoke and every so often he would emerge chocking and carrying a sausage or berger.
I would like to think I would never do that.
Tuesday 29 May 2007
Friday 25 May 2007
Well, my doing a blog didn't really get started very well. We are now a week on and I've not written anything!
There hasn't, to be honest been a great deal happening.
However, its Friday again (the best day of the week) and to make things even better, its a long weekend because of the Public holiday on Monday. Ok, so it means that that awful Monday morning feeling is moved to Tuesday, but we get an extra day off work so that really can't be bad.
At the moment there is nothing much planned for the weekend. But Rob (my husband) is doing a charity bike ride in June and he needs to get some miles in before then so i expect he will be out for a couple of rides at some point - weather pending.
The charity he is riding for is Marie Curie and the ride is 26 miles through the New Forest - if you would like to sponser him here is a link
http://www.justgiving.com/smithrob
Its the first time he has done anything like this, and I think its great! I'm not taking part, but I'll do the "wifey" thing and stand at the finishing line with the camera to get that ultimate knackered but proud picture of my man! :o) I've been trying to convince him he should wear some pink lycra - but hes not having any of it! lol
Cycling isn't really my thing although I do have a bike. I don't have the same passion for it as Rob does, but saying that we went out last Sunday and it wasn't that bad. If the weather holds up we might go out tonight for a quick run. A quick run for Rob is about 10 miles, a quick run for me is up the road and back lol but we'll have to see what the weather decides to do. There is no way I'm going out in the rain!
Friday night on the TV is excellent so I've got the evening sorted. Living TV has some really good stuff on at the moment and Fridays are just brilliant. Xfiles, Close to Home, Criminal Minds and lastly CSI all one after another - fantastic viewing, and Criminal Minds has to be the best of the bunch. I just hope i can stay awake to see all of it as i'm knackered today.
well, hopefully i'll manage more than an account of just Friday this weekend, you never know...........
to be continued..................................... hopefully.......
There hasn't, to be honest been a great deal happening.
However, its Friday again (the best day of the week) and to make things even better, its a long weekend because of the Public holiday on Monday. Ok, so it means that that awful Monday morning feeling is moved to Tuesday, but we get an extra day off work so that really can't be bad.
At the moment there is nothing much planned for the weekend. But Rob (my husband) is doing a charity bike ride in June and he needs to get some miles in before then so i expect he will be out for a couple of rides at some point - weather pending.
The charity he is riding for is Marie Curie and the ride is 26 miles through the New Forest - if you would like to sponser him here is a link
http://www.justgiving.com/smithrob
Its the first time he has done anything like this, and I think its great! I'm not taking part, but I'll do the "wifey" thing and stand at the finishing line with the camera to get that ultimate knackered but proud picture of my man! :o) I've been trying to convince him he should wear some pink lycra - but hes not having any of it! lol
Cycling isn't really my thing although I do have a bike. I don't have the same passion for it as Rob does, but saying that we went out last Sunday and it wasn't that bad. If the weather holds up we might go out tonight for a quick run. A quick run for Rob is about 10 miles, a quick run for me is up the road and back lol but we'll have to see what the weather decides to do. There is no way I'm going out in the rain!
Friday night on the TV is excellent so I've got the evening sorted. Living TV has some really good stuff on at the moment and Fridays are just brilliant. Xfiles, Close to Home, Criminal Minds and lastly CSI all one after another - fantastic viewing, and Criminal Minds has to be the best of the bunch. I just hope i can stay awake to see all of it as i'm knackered today.
well, hopefully i'll manage more than an account of just Friday this weekend, you never know...........
to be continued..................................... hopefully.......
Saturday 19 May 2007
The Weekend, so far.... starting with Friday.
Well, since getting this "bolg", I've not actually written a thing, so i thought it about time that I did.
Since I class Friday as being the best day of the week, mostly due to the fact that its the last working day before the weekend, my weekend starts on Friday, and Friday this week, was not like most. Firstly, much to my annoyance, I was moving desks at work along with the other members of the team in which I work. The annoyance was due to only being told "officially" of the move about two days before it happening, however, a definate bonus of this move was that we had to have everything packed into crates by 2pm which meant we could then LEAVE the office! My weekend was about to start early! YAHAY!
So, after irritably moving files into filing cupboards and my other stuff into crates - you really don't realise how much rubbish you can accumilate in one filing drawer and another smaller drawer! Buscuits - been there for at least a year, chocolate - rather not mention that, a half finished jar of coffee - it had gone rock hard at the bottom which should give you a clue to its age, a mouse mat from a project at leat 3 years old, books someone had leant me although i couldn't actually tell you who had leant them or, frankly if they even still worked there.... and some other more random stuff such as, a packet of self adhisive bindi's someone had bought back from a trip to India??? I really thought my arms were about drop off! I was knackered, but I was safe in the knowledge I could leave early!
After getting home at about 2pm - great! I thought I would ring my partents quickly, just to say "hi" - they weren't there. I then did some housework and played on my computer game CivCity Rome for a bit until my mum rang back. It went something like this:
"ohh Hi mum!"
"yes, you rang earlier"
"just wanted to say hello"
"oh, have a word with Joan, you've not spoken to her for ages"
ohhh no!, you now need a bit of backgroud. Joan is the wife of Frank who was a collegue of my dad's before they both retired. They stayed in touch and did the usual, have the occassional dinner etc. Anyway, Frank unfortunately had been ill and had gone into hospital earlier that week which had all been relayed to me by my dad on Tuesday.
The conversation continued.....
"Noo, I don't know what to say to Joan"
the phone went quiet.....
"ohh hello katherine..... how are you?"
my mind went into panic, and I said....
"oh hello, how are you? I've had a great day so far as I've been home most of the afternoon"
"that's nice" said Joan and continued "your mum & dad have been so good to me. Taking me backwards and forwards to the hospital. They are even having everyone back here after the service"...........
What! the alarm bells really rang then..... ohh no, all I had said was what a great day it was.... talk about drop me in it! it transpired that mum and dad had failed to me know that Frank had sadly passed away a couple of days earlier. Mum's words were "oh, haven't we spoken to you since then...." errr, NO, and actually it would have been kind of nice to know that kind of thing before talking to someone about something I didn't know had happened!..... arrghh, what a nightmare.
So, now my day wasn't going as well as planned....
Since I class Friday as being the best day of the week, mostly due to the fact that its the last working day before the weekend, my weekend starts on Friday, and Friday this week, was not like most. Firstly, much to my annoyance, I was moving desks at work along with the other members of the team in which I work. The annoyance was due to only being told "officially" of the move about two days before it happening, however, a definate bonus of this move was that we had to have everything packed into crates by 2pm which meant we could then LEAVE the office! My weekend was about to start early! YAHAY!
So, after irritably moving files into filing cupboards and my other stuff into crates - you really don't realise how much rubbish you can accumilate in one filing drawer and another smaller drawer! Buscuits - been there for at least a year, chocolate - rather not mention that, a half finished jar of coffee - it had gone rock hard at the bottom which should give you a clue to its age, a mouse mat from a project at leat 3 years old, books someone had leant me although i couldn't actually tell you who had leant them or, frankly if they even still worked there.... and some other more random stuff such as, a packet of self adhisive bindi's someone had bought back from a trip to India??? I really thought my arms were about drop off! I was knackered, but I was safe in the knowledge I could leave early!
After getting home at about 2pm - great! I thought I would ring my partents quickly, just to say "hi" - they weren't there. I then did some housework and played on my computer game CivCity Rome for a bit until my mum rang back. It went something like this:
"ohh Hi mum!"
"yes, you rang earlier"
"just wanted to say hello"
"oh, have a word with Joan, you've not spoken to her for ages"
ohhh no!, you now need a bit of backgroud. Joan is the wife of Frank who was a collegue of my dad's before they both retired. They stayed in touch and did the usual, have the occassional dinner etc. Anyway, Frank unfortunately had been ill and had gone into hospital earlier that week which had all been relayed to me by my dad on Tuesday.
The conversation continued.....
"Noo, I don't know what to say to Joan"
the phone went quiet.....
"ohh hello katherine..... how are you?"
my mind went into panic, and I said....
"oh hello, how are you? I've had a great day so far as I've been home most of the afternoon"
"that's nice" said Joan and continued "your mum & dad have been so good to me. Taking me backwards and forwards to the hospital. They are even having everyone back here after the service"...........
What! the alarm bells really rang then..... ohh no, all I had said was what a great day it was.... talk about drop me in it! it transpired that mum and dad had failed to me know that Frank had sadly passed away a couple of days earlier. Mum's words were "oh, haven't we spoken to you since then...." errr, NO, and actually it would have been kind of nice to know that kind of thing before talking to someone about something I didn't know had happened!..... arrghh, what a nightmare.
So, now my day wasn't going as well as planned....
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