jenn, cookie, joan & worley

[worley]

is this okay?

I am such a grumpy bitch at the moment

hello voodoo

Aww voodoo, how are you doing? Was just thinking about you. I am a crotchety old boot and have no excuse.

good god, watching the jonathon ross show, jonny vegas looks so differnt he must have lost about 5 stone!! hes just as funny though!!
wish i could lose weight like him though

But you hardly have as much to lose as JV Worley! It's easy to lose a stone when you need to lose 5. Talking of which I am down to 11st10. 10 to go!

We both fell asleep on the sofa last night before Johnathon Ross even started. I am SO tired.

tipsy in charge of children

sporticus fans here

at Sportacus thread!

The Macdogs had a lovely weekend. dd offloaded to PIL on Sat morning while dh & I went to the County Show at Ayr. Big show in the area: Horses, ponies, BSJA, agricultural etc. Got dd a fabby CAT t-shirt with a digger on it (she's such a girlie ??)
Picked dd up Sunday lunchtime.
Absolute heaven to lie in on a Sunday

good god it was in birmingham yesterday, we spent the afternoon on dp's friends roof terrace with the kids all running up and down. which scared the living daylights out of me incase one of them jumper oveer the wall, (which they couldnt as we all sat agianst the wall, but i have an over active imagination!!)
it was 270caccording to my carrs temp thing. its a bit cooler here now though.

i put smoe sweetpeas in some troughs on our decking so they can grown up the fence, however i turned round ssaturday to see ds2 with one of his brothers plastic golf clubs, hitting all of them[andgry]( so if they will recover now i dont knowi dont know whats in hi, a bit of the devil i think. he could of gone and taken a swipe at all the dandelions in the lawn, but oh no, the sweetpeas looked sooo much nicer!!

bloody children...

Well I got loads done yesterday.

I didn't know I needed red peep-toe wedge shoes until I tried them on and fell in love with them. I also bought some sensible work shoes.

Nearly new sale on Saturday I bought dd a lovely wool stripey zipped hooded cardigan, ds got a winter coat and some romper suits for when we are on holiday in 7 weeks and counting! All for the grand sum of £4.50.

Peas got planted in ground, sowed some borlotti beans and climbing beans along the fence near the raised beds where I put up a bean net this year. Peppers, courgettes, tomatoes and aubergines are doing very well. I took some wall flower cuttings, some vinca cuttings and had a go at planting some seed from a fatsia. No idea if they will germinate or doing anything but you never know. It is my mission this year to only propagate, split and grow from seed to save money.

dp's birthday today. luckily gta4 arrived last week in time, he got some smellies, a danger mouse mug and a necklace he wanted (im normally anti men wearing necklaces but i though, hes gone on about it for so long i may as well just buy it for him). we were going to have a bbq later if the weather stays nice and ds1 picked him a racing car cake from tesco.

i feel a bit sad as his brother didnt even send him a card, an email or ring, nothing. {well not soo much sad just angry)and its his first birthday without his mum too.

i've got 2 lots of vinca growing in the front garden. Next doot used to have a row of conifers and nothing would grow there as it was so shady and they hogged all the soil goodness i suppoose so i put a couple of those in along the drive way and they have soon spread!! i have a nice deep green leaf with purple flowers and a varigated leaf with pink and white stripe leafs. they are trying to take over the rest of the garden too so have to keep cutting them back now.
plus next door nolonger have the conifers and they are growing up through their garden too!!!

My vincas are yellow and green varigated trailing, and vinca minor both with blue flowers. Would love some taller ones though.

wish I knew about flowers. Can you recommend something cheap and that grows fast for a very shady part of my garden? either a little bushy thing or a low level creeping thing. Thanks X

Nasturtiums. Just push the seeds under the soil. You can get some lovely dark red flowers with redish green leaves Empress of India Now you can get climbing red and yellow ones too. Dirt cheap. Right time to plant and grows really quickly, for autumn early winter flowers.

Ceanothus (Californian Lilac) Is beautiful. Evergreen plant with lovely blue flowers. You can get low growing (30cm) or high ones (2m). Won't grow from seed, but will be flowering in garden centres now.

Ajuga reptans Lovely Purple leaves, creeping and spreading plant. Gorgeous blue spikes of flowers. very low growing. Flowering right now under trees and things.

The only thing flourishing in my garden at moment is rhubarb, waist high it is!!

Got baby fishes in my trop tank, not sure if they're guppies or mollies. At moment they look like commas!

Been watching the ospreys at Loch of the Lowes, Scottish Wildlife Trust CAM 1.
Now that's reality TV!!!

oooo, rubarb crumble with custard, mmmmmmm

sold all the crocs i brough, i made £60 on them so im pleased. will all go in the pot to try and save for first a hall carpet and then a holiday in the october half term.

oooh thanks Jenn. may have run out to garden centre tomorrow..
threw up cleaning my teeth this morning! yuck.
Hip is agony, awful and strikes worse when I stand at the kitchen sink..wonder why? I must go into a strange 'washing up' position...

Bet you stand with one foot taking most of your weight, with your hips tilted. My counter and sink are 4inches higher than most peoples and it still isn't high enough for me to stand up straight. My posture is dreadful.

Mmmmmm rhubarb crumble. (but with icecream)

Am starving. Have eaten already, but ate it so quickly, it didn't hit the sides.

Actually no. Custard would be ok too. It's not too hot right now so yes custard please.

Am now a football widow
dh glued to the faffin' telly, without so much as a kindly word in my direction.
at least dd off to snoozyland without a fuss

Where I work was absolutely clogged with pissed up Glaswegians at about 11am. They hardly set a glowing example to the rest of Europe. Apparently all Manchester Hotels were fully booked, so they all went to Blackpool and were going to get the train in. I work half way between Blackpool and Preston and they all demanded the bus driver stop at a pub so they could piss. Delayed the bus by 15 minutes and all the old ladies were petrified.

dh worked in London today and said it was full of Russians! I too am football widow. Just started anti-Auntie Mabel thread. Cant stand that old bag.