http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6446271.stm
I am glad to see Post Secret is up for an award this year.......Foodie Farm Girl at Farm Girl fare should write a book - she'd win - he blog is the best EVER blog (link to the right!)
1 day ago
Mar 13, 2007
Hi Ho Cherry-O
We played a few rounds of Hi Ho Cherry-O this afternoon...its a game that even Sam can join in with..he won two games! I lost...I'm useless at it lol!
I used to have the same game when I was little but instead of Cherries it was apples and it was called Mr Bumps Apple Picking Game........
My other little scrapbooker......
Susannah is still at home sick...so this morning she did some scrapbooking too, using her Disney pictures....she decided to do 12 x 12 layouts with hers.......she is definitely destined to be a scrapbooker if her 'craft table' is anything to go by.....she spreads her stuff out all over the table!!!! :) I think she did well though don't you?
Hello Lynn!
My Cousin Lynn is my latest visitor to the blog!!!! Hi Lynn! When we were young and Lynn came to stay, she met Lloyd (he was probably around 10 years old and had blonde curls) and she nicknamed him 'The Squirm with the Perm'
He'll be so glad I told you all that!
Lynn is my sickeningly attractive cousin - Hi Lynn!
The pic above shows Lynn as Carnival Princess...stood beside my Nanny and Grandad Collison (my Moms parents)
And when I went to stay with Lynn one summer I remember we would go to the store daily to get these contest forms or something and we won endless beach balls!!! And I bought my twirling baton in Weymouth with Lynn too :) And we fought like sisters too lol!
Last one...........
Dorothy's last bud is opening.....and then that will probably be it until last year.........
Thinking of Dunblane today...
As well as thinking of my friend Kirsty and her family, today my thoughts are also with the families of Dunblane, Scotland.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/13/newsid
_2543000/2543277.stm
On this day 11 years ago a man walked into a primary/ elementary school and shot dead 16 children and a teacher.
I remember I had been watching television while I pottered about doing housework...Chris was almost 2 1/2 and Laurence was 5 months old. I was living in Blackburn, Lancashire.......the tv show I was watching stopped for a newsflash....I couldn't believe it....as I watched the news throughout the day I remember sitting on my old brown sofa crying and hugging Chris and Laurie.....it was awful.....
When we were in Scotland there was a family att he childrens school who had lost their child in Dunblane......and the school security measures were very tight and they told me it was because of how close they were to Dunblane.....
To think that many of those children would now have left school...or have been at college still studying....going on with their lives......
Very sad. Because this day is special to me anyway, I never forget Dunblane.....although I could find very little about it on the BBC News today.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/13/newsid
_2543000/2543277.stm
On this day 11 years ago a man walked into a primary/ elementary school and shot dead 16 children and a teacher.
I remember I had been watching television while I pottered about doing housework...Chris was almost 2 1/2 and Laurence was 5 months old. I was living in Blackburn, Lancashire.......the tv show I was watching stopped for a newsflash....I couldn't believe it....as I watched the news throughout the day I remember sitting on my old brown sofa crying and hugging Chris and Laurie.....it was awful.....
When we were in Scotland there was a family att he childrens school who had lost their child in Dunblane......and the school security measures were very tight and they told me it was because of how close they were to Dunblane.....
To think that many of those children would now have left school...or have been at college still studying....going on with their lives......
Very sad. Because this day is special to me anyway, I never forget Dunblane.....although I could find very little about it on the BBC News today.
Somebody stop me......
It must be my day for out of the blue emails.......crappy one from Lloyds friend...nice surprise from my cousin Lynn (although my Mum had said to expect it at some point)
And then this afternoon I got an Email from 'toxic friend'........now I haven't heard from 'toxic friend' (from now on known as TF) for ages.....so this is totally out of the blue.
TF is an extremely jealous person.....she can handle talking about what she has and what she's done and what she's doing....but as soon as you mention anything you bhave or are doing or have done...well thats it she stops contact for a while (probably to seethe....most surely to moan at her DH about how life is unfair....and then to spendmoney they DON'T have on getting equal or better.........TF's husband is just as bad......TF's DH can not stand not having everything - not having the same or better than everyone else......
TF and her DH are VERY in debt...but they don't let that stop them 'enjoying spending' on anything and everything on credit...........
So last year TF had a big foreign holiday planned and I was so excited for her...I made a bon voyage card and bought her lots of scrapbooking supplies for her trip......listened to her excitement......shared in her joy....
I was NOT allowed to discuss my excitement about Disney ......she could not handle it.......I was cut out of her life until she could do better...bigger.......
Its not just this though....its been one thing after another with TF for the last three years......I ahve told myself again and AGAIN to end this friendship.....it is not healthy and I always end up hurt.....
SOMEONE stop me replying to this email because I just know if you don't stop me then I will be meeting her for lunch and having to take on all her toxic crap again :(
And then this afternoon I got an Email from 'toxic friend'........now I haven't heard from 'toxic friend' (from now on known as TF) for ages.....so this is totally out of the blue.
TF is an extremely jealous person.....she can handle talking about what she has and what she's done and what she's doing....but as soon as you mention anything you bhave or are doing or have done...well thats it she stops contact for a while (probably to seethe....most surely to moan at her DH about how life is unfair....and then to spendmoney they DON'T have on getting equal or better.........TF's husband is just as bad......TF's DH can not stand not having everything - not having the same or better than everyone else......
TF and her DH are VERY in debt...but they don't let that stop them 'enjoying spending' on anything and everything on credit...........
So last year TF had a big foreign holiday planned and I was so excited for her...I made a bon voyage card and bought her lots of scrapbooking supplies for her trip......listened to her excitement......shared in her joy....
I was NOT allowed to discuss my excitement about Disney ......she could not handle it.......I was cut out of her life until she could do better...bigger.......
Its not just this though....its been one thing after another with TF for the last three years......I ahve told myself again and AGAIN to end this friendship.....it is not healthy and I always end up hurt.....
SOMEONE stop me replying to this email because I just know if you don't stop me then I will be meeting her for lunch and having to take on all her toxic crap again :(
This is just so sad.....
http://www.abandonedpast.co.uk/index.cfm?sid=6605&pid=101185
This is the hospital where I trained as a psychiatric nurse...I lived here for 4 years.....in the nurses accommodation...I worked on these wards, ate in the cafeteiria and the sad sad thing is that the patient in the photograph was one of my patients! She was really bossy - quite a character!
We had summer fairs there....we had bowling greens, tennis courts...I met my first hsuband there and had endless parties in the social club....and in the nurses accommodation......
I lost my virginity in that nurses accommodation lol! Had my 18th birthday party there AND my engagement party!
The padded cell was not in use then but we did go in it to see what it was like as part of our training...
I have so many memories from my training and my life in that psychiatric hospital....its really sad to see it in that state......
http://www.countyasylums.com/mentalasylums/westpark01.htm
This link takes you to 10 pages of photographs...I find the state of the activity hall really sad.....I used to go there to watch my ex play badminton on Tuesdays.....
The picture above is the nurses accommodation I lived in for the first year or so before I moved to the newly refurbished Caldwell House......My ex's room window was behind the tree....5th window along from the end........one day we came home to find someone had driven a van up under his window and stolen everything from his room.....we used to feed slices of toast to squirrels out of the window..they'd come right up to the windo and take it from our hands....
I feel like Debbie......
I feel like Debbie when she wrote that she felt she was letting Adrian down by writing about him the other week........I feel like I am letting Lloyd down and yes I may delete this later but I have to write it down and get it all off my chest.
Lloyds friend is a grade A JERK!!!!! I have tried and tried to like him. I made an effort when he came to stay in Scotland...shit I was even ironing his effing shirts for gods sake. He was rude at times to me there but Lloyd and I had just got together and things were emotional and rocky and it was complicated with my divorce etc and I put it down to him being worried that hsi friend was making a mistake being involved with a married woman with 3 kids.......
Then he was extremely offensive after Abigail was born and when we left for Canada...he got very drunk and told everyone how children ruin your life (yes this at a party where Lloyd was showing off his new baby Daughter!)
Then a situation occurred where I offered him a solution to a problem he and his girlfriend had...and I goit a nasty email back AGAIN saying how kids ruin your life.........
We didn't have contact for along time...maybe once a year or so he and Lloyd would speak by phone....but you know what??? It was ME that nagged at Lloyd to contact him...most weekends I would suggest Lloyd phone his friend for a chat....Christmas I always asked if he wanted me to send a card and suggested he phone........
So then last year this friend writes and suggests he comes to visit - in 3 weeks time!!!! Yep he has no kids and is so self involved he has no clue about family life........sorry you are not that special and we cannot drop everything for you...we HAVE a life!!!!!
So we suggested he come over this summer when we can plan better, when Lloyd can have time off and we can show them around and when they can fly over for more than a few days....preferably with his girlfriend and maybe another friend and his girlfriend and their children too.......
So this friend is in Iraq at the moment and I knew Lloyd was worried about him going.....so we planned parcels to send and I shopped for them and got the children to draw pictures and write letters and we mailed one and he just moaned that there was candy in them (amongst lots of other things it effing well cost $30 to mail just to the US!!!) I sent emails and learned about the area he is in and showed interest...but he is just so self involved all he can talk about is how many minutes he did on the frigging circuit trainer that day and how he can burn at 30% faster rate using an exercise ball!!!!! Who cares???? GET A LIFE!!!!!
I asked on Linkingparents for ideas of what to send him in the care package......everyone suggested lip balm, baby wipes, smelly candles or air fresheners.....socks....candy, gum, magazines.....littles games/ toys and cards etc.........so I packed the boxes full of what they suggested....in fact I also asked him if there was anything he wanted and he didn't respond so I said if there is anything he doesn't want he can give it away to other people there......but no he just said don't send any more candy and that his grilfriend did the wrong thing too and sent him cookies......I'm sorry but to me thats just ungrateful and selfish and RUDE.
Then Lloyd doesn't hear from him for weeks so I email him and ask if he could write to Lloyd to let him know he's ok because he worries.....and I end the letter asking for suggestions for Lloyds birthday and you know what? I get a sarcastic letter back telling me that all my ideas for birthday gifts are dumb and that I don't have a clue about stuff......WTF?????????
In fact he is rude to me throughout the letter and then ends it saying he is really hoping to come and stay with us in the summer because he loved Toronto......
So I am seriously pissed off and I wrote back and explained that where we live is 30 minutes from the city....no buses....4 hours from the Rockies (that he thinks he will explore during the day and then spend the evenings with us!!! Duh!) and it is NOTHING like Toronto here......
I think what hurts is that he tried to make out that I don't know my husband......I told him I had suggested a mountain bike, a telescope and home gym to Lloyd - all things he would love and has talked about buying - but that Lloyd can't decide between.......and he tells mne that Lloyd would not be interested at all ina telescope (what the hell would he want want of those for????) and that a mountain bike would be a thousand pounds (I've budgeted $3000) and that Lloyd wouldn't want weights.......
Well Lloyd wants a telescope - we moved out of the city to a home where we could see the stars and northern lights.........we spend many nights at Elk Island Park studying the skies.....
I KNOW how much mountain bikes are......and yes Lloyd has wanted a home gym and weights for AGES!!!! He used to work out a lot before we met and he really wants to start doing that again - with Chris and Laurie......
I am so frustrated.....I really wanted to like Lloyds friends because I know how much they mean to him...and I have tried so hard to get on with them but some of them are such jerks.....its like they just haven't grown up......actually its the two without kids who haven't grown up and who seem to think the world revolves around them.....
But this friend is coming to stay in the summer and Lloyd won't be home all the time because he will have to work.....so it will be me with him and I am dreading it because I have such little respect for him and I am tired of trying.....
I talked to Lloyd about it this morning......at least he knows I have tried...he sees how much effort I have put in..he has read the emails I have sent
and we have talked many times about it all.......he knows I am sad about this too.....but today I am not so sad...I am just pissed off at this arrogant shit.
Lloyds Mom always says she thought Lloyds ex was selfish because she didn't like Lloyd seeing his friends so often....this was when they lived in the same town.....well you know I TOTALLY understand how Louise felt and Lloyd and I would not have lasted five minutes if we still lived in Worthing near his friends......because his friends are jerks that don't know how to grow up and just think of themselves.....I can just imagine what Louise had to put up with.......
I love Lloyd so much and I have so much respect for him and the man he is......but why on earth does he have such jerks for friends.......some of them seem lovely...a few I met at the going away party were so so nice - funny thing is that they are family guys too.........
Lloyd has some great friends...unfortunately its the jerk thats coming to stay this summer and who will be a part of our lives forever probably....although I don't think Lloyd would ever put up with him disrespecting me here......I think that would end things........actually I know it would...
But you know what I don't want their friendship to end because I know how much it has meant to Lloyd for so long......which is why I have tried and tried.....and which is why some things I don't tell Lloyd because I don't want to cause issues....
But today after all I have done in recent weeks for this stupid friendship...well I am just pissed off and needed to vent....
And yes I may hit delete later but please do comment if you read this.......
Lloyds friend is a grade A JERK!!!!! I have tried and tried to like him. I made an effort when he came to stay in Scotland...shit I was even ironing his effing shirts for gods sake. He was rude at times to me there but Lloyd and I had just got together and things were emotional and rocky and it was complicated with my divorce etc and I put it down to him being worried that hsi friend was making a mistake being involved with a married woman with 3 kids.......
Then he was extremely offensive after Abigail was born and when we left for Canada...he got very drunk and told everyone how children ruin your life (yes this at a party where Lloyd was showing off his new baby Daughter!)
Then a situation occurred where I offered him a solution to a problem he and his girlfriend had...and I goit a nasty email back AGAIN saying how kids ruin your life.........
We didn't have contact for along time...maybe once a year or so he and Lloyd would speak by phone....but you know what??? It was ME that nagged at Lloyd to contact him...most weekends I would suggest Lloyd phone his friend for a chat....Christmas I always asked if he wanted me to send a card and suggested he phone........
So then last year this friend writes and suggests he comes to visit - in 3 weeks time!!!! Yep he has no kids and is so self involved he has no clue about family life........sorry you are not that special and we cannot drop everything for you...we HAVE a life!!!!!
So we suggested he come over this summer when we can plan better, when Lloyd can have time off and we can show them around and when they can fly over for more than a few days....preferably with his girlfriend and maybe another friend and his girlfriend and their children too.......
So this friend is in Iraq at the moment and I knew Lloyd was worried about him going.....so we planned parcels to send and I shopped for them and got the children to draw pictures and write letters and we mailed one and he just moaned that there was candy in them (amongst lots of other things it effing well cost $30 to mail just to the US!!!) I sent emails and learned about the area he is in and showed interest...but he is just so self involved all he can talk about is how many minutes he did on the frigging circuit trainer that day and how he can burn at 30% faster rate using an exercise ball!!!!! Who cares???? GET A LIFE!!!!!
I asked on Linkingparents for ideas of what to send him in the care package......everyone suggested lip balm, baby wipes, smelly candles or air fresheners.....socks....candy, gum, magazines.....littles games/ toys and cards etc.........so I packed the boxes full of what they suggested....in fact I also asked him if there was anything he wanted and he didn't respond so I said if there is anything he doesn't want he can give it away to other people there......but no he just said don't send any more candy and that his grilfriend did the wrong thing too and sent him cookies......I'm sorry but to me thats just ungrateful and selfish and RUDE.
Then Lloyd doesn't hear from him for weeks so I email him and ask if he could write to Lloyd to let him know he's ok because he worries.....and I end the letter asking for suggestions for Lloyds birthday and you know what? I get a sarcastic letter back telling me that all my ideas for birthday gifts are dumb and that I don't have a clue about stuff......WTF?????????
In fact he is rude to me throughout the letter and then ends it saying he is really hoping to come and stay with us in the summer because he loved Toronto......
So I am seriously pissed off and I wrote back and explained that where we live is 30 minutes from the city....no buses....4 hours from the Rockies (that he thinks he will explore during the day and then spend the evenings with us!!! Duh!) and it is NOTHING like Toronto here......
I think what hurts is that he tried to make out that I don't know my husband......I told him I had suggested a mountain bike, a telescope and home gym to Lloyd - all things he would love and has talked about buying - but that Lloyd can't decide between.......and he tells mne that Lloyd would not be interested at all ina telescope (what the hell would he want want of those for????) and that a mountain bike would be a thousand pounds (I've budgeted $3000) and that Lloyd wouldn't want weights.......
Well Lloyd wants a telescope - we moved out of the city to a home where we could see the stars and northern lights.........we spend many nights at Elk Island Park studying the skies.....
I KNOW how much mountain bikes are......and yes Lloyd has wanted a home gym and weights for AGES!!!! He used to work out a lot before we met and he really wants to start doing that again - with Chris and Laurie......
I am so frustrated.....I really wanted to like Lloyds friends because I know how much they mean to him...and I have tried so hard to get on with them but some of them are such jerks.....its like they just haven't grown up......actually its the two without kids who haven't grown up and who seem to think the world revolves around them.....
But this friend is coming to stay in the summer and Lloyd won't be home all the time because he will have to work.....so it will be me with him and I am dreading it because I have such little respect for him and I am tired of trying.....
I talked to Lloyd about it this morning......at least he knows I have tried...he sees how much effort I have put in..he has read the emails I have sent
and we have talked many times about it all.......he knows I am sad about this too.....but today I am not so sad...I am just pissed off at this arrogant shit.
Lloyds Mom always says she thought Lloyds ex was selfish because she didn't like Lloyd seeing his friends so often....this was when they lived in the same town.....well you know I TOTALLY understand how Louise felt and Lloyd and I would not have lasted five minutes if we still lived in Worthing near his friends......because his friends are jerks that don't know how to grow up and just think of themselves.....I can just imagine what Louise had to put up with.......
I love Lloyd so much and I have so much respect for him and the man he is......but why on earth does he have such jerks for friends.......some of them seem lovely...a few I met at the going away party were so so nice - funny thing is that they are family guys too.........
Lloyd has some great friends...unfortunately its the jerk thats coming to stay this summer and who will be a part of our lives forever probably....although I don't think Lloyd would ever put up with him disrespecting me here......I think that would end things........actually I know it would...
But you know what I don't want their friendship to end because I know how much it has meant to Lloyd for so long......which is why I have tried and tried.....and which is why some things I don't tell Lloyd because I don't want to cause issues....
But today after all I have done in recent weeks for this stupid friendship...well I am just pissed off and needed to vent....
And yes I may hit delete later but please do comment if you read this.......
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