....agree or disagree, Charles and Camilla are going to be married come hell or high water and the Queens decision not to attend, hotly denied by the palace as a snub, seems to be just that! The reason given? That the couple want it to be a low key affair.....do mothers not normally qualify under the term 'low key'?
She may have her reservations, she may disapprove, we will doubtless never know the true 'goings on' surrounding this wedding that is fast sliding into a state of utter debacle but come on, she is his mother. One thing is for sure, if I were the 'happy couple' no amount of official statements or excuses would prevent me from feeling snubbed and furthermore in a situation where the queen is concerned about the image of her family this won't help. Much as I admire the ability to have the courage of one's convictions this in my opinion, not the most appropriate time or place for it.
Wednesday, 23 February 2005
Snow at last!
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I just had to get up early this morning to check out the snow situation and yes, at last I was greeted with some proper accumulation of snow. Yaayyyy. Last nights midnight fall had been added too and it was all brand new pristine, beautiful, foot print and car track-less. It began snowing again about an hour ago and hasn't stopped, the forecasters are suggesting this is only the 'thin end of the wedge' and PG is laughingly warning me I will wish I had been more careful what I hoped for by tonight when I have no heat, light or internet connection!
Ditto is loving it, she ran off into the whiteness at her first chance, chasing flakes and kicking it up around her at the first opportunity of an open door and has not been seen since.......Poppy on the other hand, looked out of the window and settled back down in her bed!
I just had to get up early this morning to check out the snow situation and yes, at last I was greeted with some proper accumulation of snow. Yaayyyy. Last nights midnight fall had been added too and it was all brand new pristine, beautiful, foot print and car track-less. It began snowing again about an hour ago and hasn't stopped, the forecasters are suggesting this is only the 'thin end of the wedge' and PG is laughingly warning me I will wish I had been more careful what I hoped for by tonight when I have no heat, light or internet connection!
Ditto is loving it, she ran off into the whiteness at her first chance, chasing flakes and kicking it up around her at the first opportunity of an open door and has not been seen since.......Poppy on the other hand, looked out of the window and settled back down in her bed!
My little blue car.......
.....is turning white!!!
And yes, call it dedication, stupidity or obsession......I have just been out at past midnight to take these pictures! :o)
Turning white
Ditto came too, or rather she snuck out and made her way somewhat gingerly in this new white world. At two years old this is her first experience, though it seems to have met with her approval.......I want to go to bed now but I'm still waiting for her to decide she has 'played' enough and to come home for the night........
Treading carefully.
And yes, call it dedication, stupidity or obsession......I have just been out at past midnight to take these pictures! :o)
Turning white
Ditto came too, or rather she snuck out and made her way somewhat gingerly in this new white world. At two years old this is her first experience, though it seems to have met with her approval.......I want to go to bed now but I'm still waiting for her to decide she has 'played' enough and to come home for the night........
Treading carefully.
Tuesday, 22 February 2005
Monday, 21 February 2005
Nokia girl
Yeah ok, so months ago I could have told you I would do this, one doesn't get to er.....40 'something' without being aware of one's own foibles.
Cell phones are one such foible! I have had more of the damn things over the years than you can shake a stick at and rarely am I happy with them. In November I upgraded and for the first time deserted Nokia, in my opinion the only phone to have. I should have stuck with them but no, I just had to try something new! So Samsung it was and a flip phone into the bargain.....and could I get on with it, could I hell. I have persevered but nope....... it was not to be.
The final straw came these last two weeks when it became starkly and frustratingly apparent that the reception equipment installed in said phone just wasn't up to bad weather coupled with isolated locations. For two weeks PG and I have been unable to call anyone successfully from home but put the sim into an old Nokia 3310 and hey presto, no problem!
And it was thus that today I bought yet another phone, a Nokia of course. I was reasonably well behaved, I didn't purchase the top of the range as is my usual habit, to be frank I was so fed up with video, mp3, radio and all manner of bells and whistles that I rarely used and made the thing so unnecessarily complicated that I plumped for something simple and a bit more fun, a funky bright coloured affair with flashing lights that does nothing more than take a photograph and would you believe it make a call! Yayyy.
All is not lost on the financial front either, the Samsung I got free with my contract and can be 'ebay-ed' for at least as much as I paid for the new one!
Result, a phone with decent reception, the comfort of the Nokia menu and no economic pain!
Cell phones are one such foible! I have had more of the damn things over the years than you can shake a stick at and rarely am I happy with them. In November I upgraded and for the first time deserted Nokia, in my opinion the only phone to have. I should have stuck with them but no, I just had to try something new! So Samsung it was and a flip phone into the bargain.....and could I get on with it, could I hell. I have persevered but nope....... it was not to be.
The final straw came these last two weeks when it became starkly and frustratingly apparent that the reception equipment installed in said phone just wasn't up to bad weather coupled with isolated locations. For two weeks PG and I have been unable to call anyone successfully from home but put the sim into an old Nokia 3310 and hey presto, no problem!
And it was thus that today I bought yet another phone, a Nokia of course. I was reasonably well behaved, I didn't purchase the top of the range as is my usual habit, to be frank I was so fed up with video, mp3, radio and all manner of bells and whistles that I rarely used and made the thing so unnecessarily complicated that I plumped for something simple and a bit more fun, a funky bright coloured affair with flashing lights that does nothing more than take a photograph and would you believe it make a call! Yayyy.
All is not lost on the financial front either, the Samsung I got free with my contract and can be 'ebay-ed' for at least as much as I paid for the new one!
Result, a phone with decent reception, the comfort of the Nokia menu and no economic pain!
Tiny white
We awoke this morning, after promises all weekend of disruptive falls of snow, to a tiny white dusting, a little more fell soon after but for now that seems to be it. Further East a few inches fell overnight and the forecasters are promising it's heading this way! Chickens are not being counted but fingers are crossed for the promised white-out and perhaps even some snow pictures of a more impressive nature!
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Snow clouds
Dusted.
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Snow clouds
Dusted.
Sunday, 20 February 2005
Saturday, 19 February 2005
More mishaps
Incredibly my place of work suffered yet more out of the ordinary happenings yesterday, I'm beginning to feel like the place is jinxed right now. Nothing happens year after year here and then suddenly in two days it's one thing after another.
So yesterday the first incident resulted in a posse of armed police officers making a rapid attendance, hell, I didn't even know we had armed officers so readily available in this quiet backwater, thankfully this incident was a false alarm and the result of someone hitting an alarm in error. The second incident involved a guy who wandered into the store, a foreign national with limited English, who had apparently been beaten in the car park. The details where unclear but again the attendance of the police was necessary and the poor guy left with them some time later.
Nothing and I mean nothing of any note ever happens here, in comparison to retail life in the city we are rarely even subjected to the standard interests of shoplifters and the consequent hoo ha that accompanies them, we don't get brawls, stolen vehicles or robberies and suddenly in two days the place has turned 'pear shaped'
With luck and a prevailing wind, today things will return to their normal state of sleepy seaside town!
So yesterday the first incident resulted in a posse of armed police officers making a rapid attendance, hell, I didn't even know we had armed officers so readily available in this quiet backwater, thankfully this incident was a false alarm and the result of someone hitting an alarm in error. The second incident involved a guy who wandered into the store, a foreign national with limited English, who had apparently been beaten in the car park. The details where unclear but again the attendance of the police was necessary and the poor guy left with them some time later.
Nothing and I mean nothing of any note ever happens here, in comparison to retail life in the city we are rarely even subjected to the standard interests of shoplifters and the consequent hoo ha that accompanies them, we don't get brawls, stolen vehicles or robberies and suddenly in two days the place has turned 'pear shaped'
With luck and a prevailing wind, today things will return to their normal state of sleepy seaside town!
Friday, 18 February 2005
Friday's feast (36)
Appetizer - Name 2 things you do that you consider beneficial to your health.
Does eating chocolate count? Well it does release endorphines and makes me happy so that has to be good for me! .......aside from that most other things I do are probably bad for me.
Soup - If you made a New Year's resolution, how's it going so far?
I only made one, to blog every day this year, thus far I'm on 100% but it hardly rates with giving up smoking etc. now does it?
Salad - Name something that has happened lately that bothers you.
The disappearance in Hull of Joanne Nelson.
Main Course - What is your favorite quote, and who said it?
"The pursuit of happiness is the greatest cause of unhappiness ~ Anon"
Dessert - What do you collect?
Clocks but only in a small way, some may say husbands!
Does eating chocolate count? Well it does release endorphines and makes me happy so that has to be good for me! .......aside from that most other things I do are probably bad for me.
Soup - If you made a New Year's resolution, how's it going so far?
I only made one, to blog every day this year, thus far I'm on 100% but it hardly rates with giving up smoking etc. now does it?
Salad - Name something that has happened lately that bothers you.
The disappearance in Hull of Joanne Nelson.
Main Course - What is your favorite quote, and who said it?
"The pursuit of happiness is the greatest cause of unhappiness ~ Anon"
Dessert - What do you collect?
Clocks but only in a small way, some may say husbands!
Dancing blue footed boobies
This cheerful, amusing picture appeared before my eyes this morning and made me smile. As someone with a passion for birds it was a happy start to my Friday and I couldn't resist sharing it despite probable copyright infringement...... no risk is to great for you, my loyal reader(s) :o)
Dancing blue footed boobies. ©De Roy / Minden Pictures
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(No obvious quips please, their name is not my responsibility)
Dancing blue footed boobies. ©De Roy / Minden Pictures
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(No obvious quips please, their name is not my responsibility)
Late shifts, my favorite....NOT!
Today and Saturday I am on a 'late shift', gah.....I hate it. I'm not one that enjoys lying in in the morning so that's no treat and the early part of the day I just seem to spend clock watching waiting for the appointed hour at which I must drag myself gleefully work-ward. Having completed said shift and arrived home somewhere close to bed time it takes me far too long to unwind, I can't sleep and the following day is generally a haze of tiredness. Roll on Monday and my next day off!
On the up side the weather is progressing thus far in the direction it is is forecast it should for my hoped for snow. The atmospheric pressure is dropping nicely, the wind direction has changed to that which is required and it's speed has picked up appropriately. Maybe this weekend won't be so bad. :o)
On the up side the weather is progressing thus far in the direction it is is forecast it should for my hoped for snow. The atmospheric pressure is dropping nicely, the wind direction has changed to that which is required and it's speed has picked up appropriately. Maybe this weekend won't be so bad. :o)
Thursday, 17 February 2005
Hells bells and little fishes!
What an horrendous day today was, one disaster after another, you couldn't make it up!
Last night a member of the night shift was admitted to hospital having been taken very ill and still remains there. This morning one of the guys working on the rebuild cut his head badly and presented himself to me requesting first aid..... looking decidedly pale-faced and dripping the scary red stuff. The afternoon bought a more serious incident in which a colleague only narrowly missed being seriously injured when fixtures carrying extremely heavy stock collapsed, thankfully fork lift trucks have a heavy duty cage protecting the operator and in this case it did just that!
Latterly a customer reported a car on fire in the car park, upon investigation it turned out to be a brake caliper seized to the disc but the car was no longer fit to drive and so consequently we had to arrange a rescue service. What amazed me was how the owner had driven 30 miles and never noticed her wheel smoking, the smell nor the fact that it had become so hot the wheel trim had melted, let alone the pull on the brakes it must have resulted in!!!! And this lady has a driving licence????
I hasten to add (she says looking over her shoulder and winking at Michelle) none of these incidents was the fault of my employer. Paranoid? What me?
The day ended with my hitting a pheasant while driving home. I don't know if I killed it, it flew off but it hit hard and the thought that it might have a painful end is worse than knowing it died immediately :o(
Gah....I need chocolate and sleep!
Last night a member of the night shift was admitted to hospital having been taken very ill and still remains there. This morning one of the guys working on the rebuild cut his head badly and presented himself to me requesting first aid..... looking decidedly pale-faced and dripping the scary red stuff. The afternoon bought a more serious incident in which a colleague only narrowly missed being seriously injured when fixtures carrying extremely heavy stock collapsed, thankfully fork lift trucks have a heavy duty cage protecting the operator and in this case it did just that!
Latterly a customer reported a car on fire in the car park, upon investigation it turned out to be a brake caliper seized to the disc but the car was no longer fit to drive and so consequently we had to arrange a rescue service. What amazed me was how the owner had driven 30 miles and never noticed her wheel smoking, the smell nor the fact that it had become so hot the wheel trim had melted, let alone the pull on the brakes it must have resulted in!!!! And this lady has a driving licence????
I hasten to add (she says looking over her shoulder and winking at Michelle) none of these incidents was the fault of my employer. Paranoid? What me?
The day ended with my hitting a pheasant while driving home. I don't know if I killed it, it flew off but it hit hard and the thought that it might have a painful end is worse than knowing it died immediately :o(
Gah....I need chocolate and sleep!
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