A Redcoat Christmas

(Warning this entry is very picture and video heavy so may not be suitable for dial-up :( )

So if you have been wondering where we have been...

Sunday 23rd December

At 9am we were all set for our Christmas adventure.

I had said all along that we would upgrade to first on the train and I am so glad that I did as the train was absolutely rammed to the rafters. There were no seats at all in standard and they were standing in the aisles and in the vestibules and anywhere absolutely possible. Paying the extra £45 for First class was sooo worth it. The seats were wider there was more room and I had my eye on my luggage the whole journey.

When DS and I ventured to the train shop for our complimentary food and drinks, it was murder. It took us about half an hour to get to the other end of the train and back but we really enjoyed our little box of snacks. They only had bottled water unfortunately but that was enough for me. In our little snack box we got some TUC biscuits; a piece of fruit cake; a packet of fruit chips; a mini Kitkat chunky; and a mini carton of Orange juice.

The journey went by so quick in our luxury and soon we were pulling into Taunton where we had to change.

It turned out that our train to Minehead was a BUS. Oh and not your luxury coach that we get from Derby to Notts. A regular single decker bus that stops at all stops for locals. With 30 holiday makers on their way to Butlins and their suitcases all packed into this bus like sardines and he was stopping to let more on. There were cases falling on people’s heads and DS feeling woozy and a whinging teenager sat behind us. The journey that should have been an hour turned into an hour – AND A HALF! On the up side though the bus takes us right into Butlins and we were greeted off the bus by a very cheery Red coat.

I was like a little kid when we got off the bus. Here we were at Butlins. I had never been as a kid and it was all a wondrous mystery. We made our way to the skyline dome to check in and I was just in a daze.

The queue wasn’t long and we were seen straight away at check-in. As I feared, our apartment was at the far end of the complex and we are on the 3^rd floor.

We dumped our stuff and went out to explore. We found ourselves in the skyline dome and went for fish and chips. A few £s spent in the arcade and I treated myself to a mocha chino at Bar Rosso.

Although I said we wouldn’t, we found ourselves in the centre stage watching Chico. Even though I wasn’t really interested I have to admit he does put on a great show. He has a band and dancing girls and he really plays to the crowd. I actually enjoyed his set very much. It included some great crowd pleasers like La Vida loca, The Timewarp, a couple of his own songs and of course he finished with Chico time.

After his show he did a signing next to the stage which brought back great memories for me. The huge queue went right round the room. I joked to DD about the fact that he is only a runner up from a TV talent show – AHEM.

As the queue went down DD got up and just joined the end of it and came back with a signed picture of Chico and also boasted that he kissed her and she had her photo with him. (OK who are you and what have you done with my DD)

We stayed for the party dances and then as we were all pretty knackered, we went back to the apartment. On the way back DS spotted a Rabbit hopping about on the green. Heaven only knows where it had come from or where it disappeared to…

In my bedroom I have a huge double bed and it was so comfy with 4 huge pillows that I fell off to sleep as soon as my head hit the pillows.

Christmas Eve

I was woken this morning by my mobile ringing at 9am. I answered it but no one was there. Outside was bustling with activity so I got up.

There were Squawking Seagulls every morning but I didn't expect to hear Quacking - I looked out and there was a family of ducks waddling up the path. Calm as you like. It wasn't as if we were near a lake or a pond or anything. They became an everyday occurrence though as the week went on.

When the children were up we went out to take a walk to reception. I wanted to report that our TV Isn’t tuned right and that we have no water in the bathroom.

After going to reception we took a walk round the funfair and the children had a turn on the Dodgems. Their turn was up just in time for the Super Slam Wresting in the clubroom called Reds. DS bought a big foam finger and he really enjoyed getting stuck in and joining in with the chants and songs.

We had lunch at Burger King and then I decided to retire to the Chalet for a couple of hours while the children went off to the arcades.

In the evening we went to the on site cinema to see Enchanted. It was a lot better than I had thought it would be with a mix of Animation, CGI and live action. We went to Pizza Hut for tea and ended the evening with the Butlins Happy Holidays fun in the Centre Stage.

Redcoats Ian and Mitch sang all your favourite Christmas songs including Last Christmas; All I want for Christmas; Step into Christmas; Baby it’s cold outside; I wish it could be Christmas everyday; Merry Christmas everybody etc…

We stayed for Battle of the Sides - It was great because all the Redcoats were dressed up in tinsel and stuff...Looking like Christmas trees -

and then although I did want to see the Abba Tribute, I was knackered. So we went back to our chalet for Hot Chocolate.

CHRISTMAS DAY

I was woken at about 7am by the redcoats outside. Redcoat Chris had been saying the night before that they would be out waking everyone up at 7.45am but I thought it was a big joke but I looked out the window to see them over by the staff quarters all in fancy dress with drums and trumpets and a noisy trolley. Sure enough at 7.45am they started parading around all the blocks making as much noise as possible and shouting Merry Christmas. I wish I had known when we came that they did a trolley dash as I would have bought an extra pressie to give them.

The children were soon up and watching out the window to wave to the team. I couldn’t take any pictures because the light wasn’t good enough.

The Children unwrapped their presents and at about 11am I cooked the traditional Christmas morning breakfast – Bacon, Eggs and Sausage with Croissants and Orange juice.

The rest of the time we just slobbed around as we always do on Christmas morning. Eating chocolate and watching crappy Christmas Day TV.

I really fancied a shower but of course didn’t bring any shampoo or anything so I got dressed and went out to the supermarket to get some and thought I would just pop into the arcade for a bit. Who would believe it, Christmas day and we are playing the slots in the arcades!

I had my shower then I sat around watching Top of the Pops Christmas special eating chocolate and drinking Archers. What a way to spend Christmas afternoon.

Soon it was time to go for our Christmas lunch. We were allocated to have ours in Pizza Hut. We got there in plenty of time and soon a huge queue formed. Bob the builder came along to entertain the waiting line along with Wendy and a couple of Redcoats. As it was almost 4pm, Bob started banging on the door for them to let us in and soon we were inside and seated at our lovely table. Our waitress was Andrea.

The first course was already set – Melon with raspberry coulee. Honeydew and Gallia Melon. I don’t know which was which but I didn’t like the green one of that helps. Next course was the soup – Tomato and Basil – It was a bit spicy but perfect for Christmas as it was very warming. We had to wait quite a while for the main course. We thought we had been forgotten as all around us the tables were getting their Turkey and we were still sitting there. Finally it arrived and it was fantastic. There was Turkey with stuffing and a sausage in a blanket; roast potatoes; boiled potatoes; sprouts; carrots; roast Parsnips and gravy.

It took me a while to get through and believe it or not I was really struggling with the last few mouthfuls. I was determined to get through it though.

The next course was offered a choice. For traditionalists like me it was Christmas pudding and Brandy sauce but for the children it was a gorgeous Chocolate torte. As I looked around it seemed most children chose the chocolate.

We finished off with coffee and sadly no mince pies. When we were all fed and stuffed to the limit, we left feeling well satisfied.

We wanted to watch the Gunge show at 7pm so we hung about the Skyline until they opened up the Centre stage club. We got a good seat but we wanted to make sure we were on the right side of the club for battle of the sides later so we moved to an equally good seat on the opposite side.

The gunge show was your average – Get your dad onstage and let him make a fool of himself – kind of show. 3 dads who first of all had to dance to Kelly Marie then had to drink a pint of water through a sock. WE were the ones that started the “SUCK THE SOCK” chant then everyone else joined in.

The winning Dad and his daughter were meant to then get the chance to win all the prizes or get gunged but the whole thing was turned on its head when the compere (Redcoat leader Chris) tried to get all the Redcoats in the gunge tank but that was all turned on it’s head again when the Redcoats got Chris in the tank and gunged him – Not once…but twice. The redcoats were all a little delirious I think owing to the fact that it was Christmas day and they had been working for 12 straight hours – Not even getting Christmas lunch as they had to entertain the guests while they ate.

I was in 2 minds about staying for the Motown show but I am glad I did as it was good. Sang by the usual Butlins crew who I am warming to now.

We left after Battle of the sides (Which our side won again) as I was exhausted and couldn’t stop yawning. We stopped at the Supermarket and picked up some goodies for supper when we got back.

Boxing Day

It was a lazy day today for me. I have had this cold coming for ages and today it suddenly showed itself. My throat hurt and my head ached and my sinuses were all stuffed up. I went and bought myself some Beecham’s and made myself at home on the sofa. I couldn’t get the children to understand that just because I was staying home, didn’t mean they had to. All they seemed to do all day was argue.

In the evening the children went out to the arcades and to the Battle of the sides. I stayed in and watched TV. We did watch Ballet shoes which starred Victoria Wood and Emma Watson. It wasn’t quite DS’ thing but I think DD enjoyed watching it with me. I really enjoyed it. It was refreshing to see Emma Watson in a role other than Hermione Grainger in Harry Potter.

Later on the children fetched food. DS had a kebab and chips with a voucher from our welcome pack, Chicken and chips for me and pasty and chips for DD.

Thursday

Today we ventured out into Minehead. It isn’t a big town and the walk from Butlins along the front took half an hour with stops in the arcades. There are 2 good sized very cheap arcades along Minehead front and I was impressed that they were open at this time of year. Actually the weather was so mild that if it hadn’t been for the Christmas trees in local windows you wouldn’t have thought it was the end of December.

The town isn’t really up to much. There is a small Woolworths and a small Somerfield. Superdrug, Blockbuster, WHSmith, Subway and a load of charity shops as well as a few local shops and gift shops.

There were quite a few tea rooms and small cafes but they were all closed which wasn’t good as we were all getting quite hungry. We managed to find a small café that did take away sandwiches but DD didn’t fancy anything on the menu. I bought a Prawn Mayo baguette and DS had a Tuna Mayo Baguette. We made our way back to the resort and DD chose something for lunch before we got back to the apartment and got stuck in.

In the evening we went along to the Centre stage for the Battle of the sides and One big show. The room was pretty pants in the way of audience participation. A lot of people left and a lot of people had arrived but they didn’t seem to be in the party spirit. It seemed that our side only had us to make a noise and with my bad throat, that wasn’t easy. As a result our side didn’t win this time which is the first time since we have been here.

The One big show was quite impressive. It included an African group called “The mighty Jambo”. They were and acrobatic group doing such antics as limbo and human pyramids. They played the steel pans too and did a skipping display.

The show also included the Butlins crew doing a Take That Medley, A Grease Medley, A Queen Medley and joining with The mighty Jambo for a Grand finale.

Also during the evening there were interactive competitions for all the family. First of all a Dad was picked out of the audience to join the Butlins crew to sing “Greased lighting”. He was in good spirit and really tried hard. A little later a young boy was picked out to join in the guitar solo for Bohemian Rhapsody. He was excellent and really got into it. Finally they had a competition for the mums. 2 mums onstage who had to dress up as pop divas and perform. It was pretty lame really. The final winner overall was of course the young lad who won himself a DVD player.

We stayed for the end of the show and then got Burger King to take back to the apartment. It was about 11.30 by the time we got back and I was straight to bed after eating my Double Whopper J

Friday

What an awful day this was. The weather was horrific and it was a nightmare trying to walk anywhere. All the outside activities were closed down and there really wasn’t much for teens to do apart from the arcade.

We resorted to watching The Citrus brothers in the Skyline Dome. I wanted to go watch the Characters show in The Centre stage but no one wanted to come so we ended up going back to the apartment.

In the evening we went over to REDS (The home of the Redcoats) for an evening of Wrestling. DS was really excited. He had his foam finger ready to wave.

It was packed when we got there but we managed to find seats on the floor right in front of the ring.

Have I mentioned that Redcoat Paul – The host of Reds nightclub – is from Derby? Well we found out tonight that he is also indeed a Rams fan. It came about when he got everyone to BOO a boy in a Chelsea shirt. I was hoping we might get to speak to him later but as the host he skips off as soon as everything is finished.

When the Wrestling finally started, it was really exciting. Even DD got caught up in the excitement. Of course we had to cheer the good guys (The UK wrestlers) and boo the baddies (The rest of the world) The spoils were shared between the goodies and the Baddies with the UK wrestler Mikey Whiplash winning the special Heavy Weight challenge match at the end against Canadian 300lber The Barbarian.

DS managed to get the autographs of all the UK wrestlers on his program and was – It has to be said – Well Chuffed!!

We went down to the arcades after the Wrestling. DS had Burger King but DD and I decided to wait for later to eat. The Arcades were a lot busier than it had been all week. There were a lot more teenagers than had been during the rest of our stay.

When we had spent up our allocation of money for the night, I got a kebab and DD got Burger King and we went back to the apartment. I was shattered so I went to bed and left the children up watching “While you were sleeping” starring Sandra Bullock.

Saturday

As it was our last day we took a trip into Minehead to buy gifts for family and friends and pressies for ourselves.

Of course we also had to stop off in the arcades and I won quite a bit of booty – including a little tin of sweets with Bart Simpson on, 2 packs of Haribo, a Pug keyring and a little Duck pen. I also won 200 in points tokens but 200 points don’t get you much – So I got an Eeyore badge for my sister Debz.

We had lunch in a very nice restaurant called The Owls. We all had toasted Panini and DS had a Chocolate Milkshake. They were delicious.

DD also spotted this charming shop so I couldn't resist a look around...

I was loaded with bags by the time we were walking back. We got back to the room about 4pm and just wanted to chill out with a cuppa before starting the sad and arduous task of packing to go home.

As it was our last night I wanted to make it a good one. I put on my best clothes and my flashing bracelets. I put on my makeup and we were ready to go.

DD wanted to see the Gunge show and I was desperate to see the Character show at least once before we left but as we got to the centre stage the show was just ending. The place was pretty packed but we got a table near to the back on our favourite side.

The Gunge show was almost the same as the show on Christmas night. The Redcoats still did the Pass the pie game and they still made Redcoat Chris join in and they still made him get pied. This time though Redcoat Chris didn't get gunged and he succeeded in gunging all the other Redcoats - Except for Redcoat Christian who ran away.

Our Last Battle of the sides before we went home and We had to make it good. I had a real sore throat and hardly any voice left but I was determined to do my best! I only wish everyone else on our side felt the same. It was real hard work to get our side to be the best.

As it turned out there was a lot of cheating going on by the Redcoats and our side lost in the end.

It was such a shame that Saturday night wasn't that great for entertainment. We left the club at about 10.30 after the Battle of the sides as the evening show was Angie Brown. We went and spent our last lot of change in the Skyline arcade and then DD and I went to order take out Pizza from Pizza Hut. DS wanted to be awkward and get Chips.

We took one last walk around the Skyline before taking our supper back to the chalet.

I was quite sad that we were at the end of our holiday. The last few days the weather hadn't been the best but It was sad to be going back to the real world. I tried to make it last las long as possible but I knew we had to be up early in the morning to pack up and leave before 10am. Besides I also wanted to enjoy a last good night of sleep in my luxury bed.

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Bought myself a Christmas pressie

Today I treated myself to a new microwave since my old one want *POOF* on Tuesday.
I saw this on offer at Argos...
... And thought at that price I couldn't say no!
I haven't had a combi microwave / Grill before so I have no Idea how tio use it to it's best. The manual really doesn't tell you much.
At least I can do Baked beans and Rice pudding now (Not together Stupid)

School admin...

So after waving DS off at 2am I was lucky enough to get a lift back home and jumped straight into bed. I didn't really manage much sleep though so after DD left for school at 8 I went back to bed to catch a nap.

I was awoken about an hour later by the school on the phone asking why DS isn't in school!!!
When I explained he was on the France trip the woman knew nothing about it. After I told her there are about 50 children on that trip she just laughed and said "No wonder I have such a long list"

Midnight

It's just after midnight here and I am guzzling down coffee.
The reason is because in an hour I have to get my son up and dressed to walk up to school.
My Dear son is off for a day in Bologne with the school. They leave here at 1.45am to travel down to London to get on the Euro-star.

He will be arriving back home around 10pm.

School Christmas Concert

How many of these have I blogged about now?
Well it was time again for the Christmas concert.
It was sure to be a bit different this time round as the school had a new musical director in the summer so this was everyone's first chance to see what the new man was like. The last music teacher in the school was a bit of a hero and everyone loved him. It was very hard for the children to let go and accept a new person in the role.

As it turns out it wasn't bad at all. The show was a lot longer though as there were many new elements added such as dance routines and solo performances as well as several musical performances and arrangements by GCSE students needed as part of the practical elements to their grades.

The night started off as always with the Steel band playing people in. There has been a great change around since the last concert and many members have left so DS was up there at the front.

Some of the new additions to the line-up were a drum circle, the junior steel band, a breakdancing girl and a trio of asian dancers - 2 girls and a boy. The 2 girls were very ropey and had to keep watching each other for the moves but the young lad was amazing. He had great confidence and great moves too.

Another new addition to the regular school concert bill is a young girl called Pamela. I thought she was quite good but then she announces that she has 2 CDs out and is recording another album currently. No wonder they gave her 4 spots in the program singing On my own from Les Mis, Falling by Alicia Keys, A song she wrote herself in her own language and a part in the yr11 GCSE group.

The interval came 1 hour and 20 mins into the evening and everyone rushed for the beer table. There were a couple next to us who had already had too much and were quite rowdy. I tried my hardest to move away from them but i had a wheelchair in front of me so I was limited to my movements.

The start of the second half was time for DS to shine. He was taking the male part in Evanescance Bring me to life. DD was very apprehensive about how it was going to go. I think she was cringing a bit but to be honest it was fine. He had had only a couple of hours to prepare beforehand and only fluffed his words once. I think it is an incredibly hard song to attempt to sing and the girls did it brilliantly. I was very proud of DS. He seems completely comfortable onstage and not phased by nerves at all.

It was a very mixed second half including some Asian music played on the steel pans, a song sung in Latvian and also a song sung in Tagalog. One of my favourite pieces that I always look forward to is one of the school's most accomplished musicians playing a piano solo although I wish that the audience would give her more respect when she played ninstead of chatting and fidgetting all the way through.

There was a great finale with the Steel band playing a medoly of Christmas carols and the choir joining in with a big singsong to finish.

The greatest thing about it was that even though it didn't finish until 9.45pm, we were home for 10pm - It is so good not having so far to walk!!!

Visiting friends - Just like the movies

Saturday marked the start of the real lead up to Christmas for me as I went over to Notts to visit with Brian and exchange gifts.

I arrived in Notts about 1pm and had a wander around the Victoria centre. Well tried to as it was packed with people rushing around as if it were Christmas eve. I went into WHSmiths to get myself a drink and I must have turned invisible as I stood in the queue about 3 people just pushed right in front of me as if I didn't exist.

I stood and watched a few people have a go on the Guitar hero demo that was set up in the middle of the centre and also got waved at by a giant smoothie cup and then went to the lift to go up to Bri's apartment.

When I arrived Bri already had guests that were taking a breather before continuing their own Christmas shopping. I chatted with them a while before they left. I have now met 2 of Bri's work colleagues and what stands out to me most is how highly he is thought of by everyone. This is a great testament to what a great person he is. You cannot help but like him :)
After his friends left we opened up the Pringles and sat chatting.
As always the time passed so quickly and more visitors arrived. Brian's friend Joolz popped up in the middle of her shopping trip and then Tim (Our old mate from the AA) arrived with his partner Al as they had just been to see a pantomime in the city.

We all had coffee and were chatting about Christmas and other things. Before you knew it though is was approaching 6pm. I had to think about leaving so that Bri could get his tea before X-factor started. (I see Leon won heyhey)

The bus was a little late so it was nearing 8pm by the time we arrived in Derby. I then had to wrap myself up and face the long cold walk home.

Just wanted to add that Brian's Tree is absolutely Gorgeous. I don't know how he does it but it is way better than mine and looks just like a tree in a store...

Shitty day started well

The beginning of my Tuesday went fine. I got up and went over to Ange's to pick up my Christmas box from my Nan and then stopped off at the Warehouse on the way back.

In the afternoon I had my annual meeting with my lone parent advisor. The usual trowelling through the Jobs vac list brought up nothing and I brought up the possibility of doing re-training for work. As a result I will be starting a 13 week Business Admin course in the New Year. The course includes 4 weeks work experience and if that works out a possible job at the end of it. If that doesn't happen at least I have something substantial to add to my CV and more experience to make the job choice a little wider. I also get an extra £15 a week while I am on the course to cover travel etc... I am really looking forward to it.

My interview finished just before 3 and I was insistent on getting to ASDA to get a few things that I need for my special Christmas boxes I am putting together. The low point was that they didn't even have the one main thing I wanted. I did a bit of normal shopping and then went to the checkout. The one thing that everyone fears happened when my card was declined. I tried it 3 times and still no joy so I looked in my purse to see what cash I had on me. I just had enough with a penny to spare so had to give the cashier all my change.
Luckily I had bought an all day bus ticket so I could get home.

I was absolutely livid when I got home and logged into my online banking account. Stupid Virgin Media had tried to take 4 x my usual payment and so sent me £170 overdrawn and then the bank had charged me £25 on top of that. So that is why my card was declined. 2 weeks before Xmas and they wiped me out!!

I can tell you I was glad of the bottles of wine I had just bought, I sure needed that to drown my sorrows.

My country kitchen

I have always wanted a country style kitchen. That's why I was so excited when I first saw this kitchen with its brand new fitted units.

This weekend I added the finishing touch thanks to a lovely lady and her hubby and the Freecycle network.
Saturday morning this kitchen table and chairs was delivered to me by a very generous man.



In the new year I am going to sand it down and maybe varnish it up a little but for now it Will do just great.

What is your Grinch name?

Mine is Bleakgrinch Crankyfoot

What is your Grinch name??

(Please post it in comments ;-) )

Charlie and Lola

Tuesday was Ange's birthday and I was invited round in the afternoon. I got a lift up there from Ange and when I arrived my niece was at the computer playing on the Cbeebies site on the Charlie and Lola page.
I have to say at the age of just 3 her mouse skills are excellent. There are loads of activities on the website aimed at children DNs age. Charlie and Lola... First of all we were dressing them up and then DN found the make a Butterfly page which had her hooked and she was making Butterfly after Butterfly for ages.

Imagine how different the world would be if we had had this kind of stimulation at the age of 3. I really think that intelligence would be higher.

When my Nephew came home from school it was time for Ange to open her presents. I stayed for that then I had to leave to be back at home by 4.30

Have you Sky Plussed it??

YES I HAVE!!!
Today at just after 9am a man from SKY came and installed my all new singing and dancing Sky+ box.

Never again do I have to miss out because all the best programs are on at the same time.
One thing I have learned though is that before I delete anything I have to read it carefully. I set it to record Ghost hunting with Radio 1 last night and then went and deleted it by mistake this morning. Luckily is it on again on Friday so I have set it again to record Friday and hit the keep button so that I don't accidentally delete it again.

Old fashioned family gathering

Well sort of tenuous extended family actually but an enjoyable afternoon.
Debz rang me beforehand to say her and boyf would call for us on the way at about 2.20pm So I stood at the window watching for them and guess what? It started to pee it down. Great I have done my hair really nice today and by the time we get to the restaurant it will be a total mess.
Luckily as we left the house the rain died off.



When we got to the restaurant Zoe and Glynn had just arrived and we were seated at the biggest table available. There were 17 of us all together including obviously Ange and Rob and the 2 kids, Me, DD & DS, Debz and Carl, Zoe, Glynn and their little one, Zoe Sister Tori and her hubby and their 2 kids and Zoe and Tori's mum.

As soon as everyone was present is was get food time. I let the kids go first and waited at the table for everyone to come back before I ventured up. I took advantage of the finger type foods first as a starter. I particularly like the Pineapple fritters and the Prawn toast. I also had the spicy wings with a bit of Lemon sauce and a (Rather huge) Onion ring. Oh and I had a bit of lettuce too lol.

Second course for me was the larger type dishes. I can't in all honesty remember what I had. A bit of Kung po Chicken and some chicken chow mein was on the menu. I also had a bit of Egg fried rice and filled the plate right up with as many different dishes as I could.



It was all gorgeous but you know you have to save some space for Ice cream. Luckily unlike the Big Wok, the Ice cream is scooped so I didn't overdose. I had a bit of chocolate, Vanilla and Strawberry and topped it off with Chocolate from the fountain and some Marshmallows. By the time I got to the table the chocolate had gone hard and it was all welded together so I had like a huge marshmallow and chocolate lollipop.

Of course as there were younger children there it took them a little longer to eat so when we were all finished there was time to chat and have a bit of a laugh. Zoe's little one had brought a little book along and we had to think of words with 6 letters. She was obsessed with Elephants and Ostriches but unfortunately both of these have more than 6 letters.

I think it was about 4.30 when we all said our goodbyes.

When we got home I got the Christmas tree out of the cupboard and DD and DS took pleasure at dressing it all by themselves. Then we sat and watched Elf.

So what's been happening?

Well whats been happening in Jembieland?
Tuesday morning I got up to find the boiler had packed up so had to ring the council and look forward to sitting round all day waiting, only to have the engineer call 20 mins later. He fixed the problem pretty fast...or thought he had until I said there was still no hot water. It turned out he needed a completely new part for the boiler. However within the hour the new part was installed and all was done. Excellent work!

Thursday DS had a band gig at ASDA superstore. I realised I hadn't seen his band uniform since we moved so I set to searching. In the process of the search I found my old McDonald's uniform that I haven't worn since about September 1992. I haven't a clue how I still manage to have it but I can tell you something, it doesn't fit me anymore lol.





I found DS uniform too luckily and his gig went without a hitch.

Last night I was meant to be going out with my sister for her birthday but I just don't have the money so I am joining them today for lunch instead. It is all you can eat Chinese ;)

Sorry no updates

I am so sorry it has been a week since I last posted anything. I don't have a reason really just not been arsed to be honest. I will do a big update post later :)

DS has just got home by the way, the local church did a sponsored stay awake last night for a charity which provides bibles for the 3rd world. He left here at 7pm last night and returned back at 10am after doing his paper round too. He is a bit like a zombie and I don't expect to see him for the rest of the day :)