house and the like

errm bit of a delay, sorry.

The house is about finished and has been for weeks, we are just getting through the snagging list and Elaine and I have some painting to do :)

We are chuffed with it and this summer so far it has been perfect for sitting and enjoying the garden.

Elaine has a new car, one that goes a proper speed, only thing is we need to sell Eric, which thanks to a few unhelpful people is taking some time!

Today I went kite flying which is always a good, thing, earphones in, sun out but enough cloud so you can look into the sky and a good strong wind. Made me feel like I was in the middle of no where even though I was in the middle of Earlsdon!

Oh and me veg garden looks rather healthy.

and we nipped down to the Godiva festival to catch a bit of the 80's night, thanks Poole's!

week 4 and the bunnies

oh my :) lets not mention that the footings might need to be 2 metres

and.......

Here you go mum- photos

Plus we got card from the vets saying "sorry for your loss" - type thing. It was nice of them.

we have house guest

Mr Loz and Mr Daniel are here for just under a week.

Mr Daniel has new Thomas the Tank PJ's and I think he's just fab. Loz is alright an' all.

Elaine is trying to focus on her dissertation, not sure how well that's going at the moment.

Back to work tomorrow.

Oooo and nearly finished the rabbits new shed. Will have to get some picks up

Oh and 6 weeks of roast dinner in a row

4 days off and I...............

Thursday
Biked to asda and ate a carrot on my way home.
Went to see Lorraine :)
Went for Coffee (and a little snack) at Starbucks with Elaine

Friday
Went to Ryton Pools and got a bit lost on a bike ride, made it home safe though
Flew kite a bit (not much wind)
Invited Leah Poole over to stay (and stay she did til Sat evening)
Watched Elaine and Leah carve a pumpkim

Saturday
Met with the architech (oooo)
Went to the Dr Who exibition with Leah and Miss Elaine Nicholles
Went to tesco's for lunch (got wii fit plus - just need a wii now)
Met Richie and saw Ellie and Megs

Sunday
Went church
Had very pleasant lunch in town with Laine, very nice indeed!
Watched 3 episodes of Bones
Made roast chicken from like a whole raw chicken

Nice few days off :)
There would be pictures if only my laptop wasn't at the laptop hospital
:)

me leah and elaine went to b and q, look what they were doing!!!!!

bit of a cough

I have a bit of a cough, it is winter and as of yet I haven't yet had a bad cold. I have had a few sniffles and a slightly poorly weekend but that all, this is all good :)
Have been christmas shopping got some presents, not all of them but getting there
Work is busy busy, should slow down a bit over santa season, i hope!
Laine is busy doing essays, she did an exam the other day 100 flipping % ha ha
I have just registered to do the first module of the social care degree with the open university, i am quite looking forward to it :)
Leah Plip has a birthday soon, she's 10 years old wow!!!!!!!!
The cats have all been in the house lately, i think it may be too cold to go out, they all have a chair or a stool or a bean bag to sit on, sometimes they argue and fight but then it settles.
The rabbits are running around all over the place, they have learnt how to get onto their cage and at their food they are somewhat rascalish at the moment but lovely at the same time.
Looking forward to santa time, nice long break, yay

new toys

We have new toys, a lappy toppy and a dictaphone :) these 2 things are making for quite and entertaining evening :)
We have made the computer talk, recorded it onto the dictaphone, played it back to the laptop and had the laptop read our what was recorded.
How ridiculous and we both need to get lives!! :)
I have to admit we have also been making the computer say rude words, I know pathetic, a 30 year old and a 36 year old being so childish, hanging my head in shame now.
This may provide entertainment for some time me thinks.
Other than that I am getting ready to battern down the hatches for the artic weather heading this way and shall probably spend a fair amount of time sat in the loft watching Bones - oh yeah

swimming at pingles

On Friday we planned to go swimming,the plan changed and I was left mightly disappointment (much like a small child)
However we rearranged and went today instead to Pingles in Nuneaton and it was fab, not too busy which surpised me as it is a bits pants weather wise and school hols.
There was a swimming lane set up so I een got to swim a bit reather than splash around.
I am not cooking my pasta as swimming always gives me the feeling of being able to consume a large pony or horse! :)
Cheers Pooles, good trip out
Unfortunately Laine had a migrane so couldn't come :(

I ate cookies

Laine made me some cookies today, I eeerrrrmmm, I ate them all. There were 7 of them, Laine did help with a few bites here and there.
I did bike to Whitley and back thou which almost makes up for it!

:)

love sun sets and this can't be right!!

we all went to bo beep again:)

we rode bike and ate and slept, think that covers it :)

5.30 is a lovely time of day

Laine has been on placement for oh some weeks now, she has to get up t about 5.30am to make sure she is ready to go at 6.30am (she takes a little longer in the morning than I do but I'm not sure being able to get up at 7.50am and leave at 8am is anything to blog about!). I am kindly helping by getting up as well so she doesn't miss her bus (well Pete the taxi). I then hop back to bed for another hours sleep.
Anyways there have been some lovely mornings, no pictures I'm afraid far too sleepy to be thinking about grabbing a blumming camera

I am hoping the rabbits extension will arrive today, it makes there run bigger and then next month I want to get them a summerhouse so they can stay out in the day when the weather is nice enough. Bessie particularly likes it outside, Archie likes it anywhere that we are.

Ellie Sarah and Megan came for a picnic, t'was lovely! I bought a sun shelter for the rabbits which was way bigger than I expected so we sat in it instead and did a jigsaw (after Ellie had had a nap)

Anyways, soon time to go back to bed and then up and today I shall be going to warwick

rabbit revision

i have been reading about rabbits again, I go through phases of feeling the need to increase my knowledge of the little creatures so to improve their lives if possible. I have begun reading recently mainly due to the fact that Archie has been peeing all over the place quite a lot. I think i have figured this is probably due to him not long having been neutered and should stop within a few weeks, lets hope so.
Archie is lovely, Bessie is back to her old self after a bit of wobbliness, ear is back up and she eats enough hay for 8 rabbits at least
I have purchased a new run for then to extend the other one so when it isn't raining (ha ha ha ha ha) they have plenty of space to run about and we are thinking of getting them an outside house so they can stay out is it's nice when we are at work

Speaking of work, it's going well, never a dull moment in this job, I find chasing my on tail amuzing most fo the time :) Schools break up soon and when they do my diary calms down loads.

Me good self and the Laine went to Tarsus last night was lovely, really proper, I'm not a fan of eating out but will be back for the buffet evening again soon!

skip, 5.30 and rabbits

well laine has started her new placement, she has done 4 shift over the last week, all beginning at 7am in Warwick. This has meant that we have both seen too many 5.30ams over the last 7 day. I do feel in a slightly better position as i can go back to bed after and i don't have to do it for 7 week. It was a case off all alarm clocks in the house going off this week to make sure she was up

then theres bessie, i must ring in a minute. She has been with Jane at the rabbit rescue for what seems like weeks. We may have a potenital new friend, Colin, he's a bit older than our Bess but is the only bunny there that she hasn't hated :) We'll see

Yesterday Ian and I tootled over to Melton to help me mum and Baz clean out my grandads garage. He had a lot of years to collect stuff and my he had done well. Baz isn't for throwing stuff out and I think he must have saved 15 hammers "just in case"

Today I'm pottering, in me garden, sorting caravan and maybe going to see Bess

oh and Dr Who was fantastic!!!

it's the weekend

It's been another busy week, the new job is gonna keep me occupied I think :)
It's been good this week, really feel into it all now, not so much new that I don't know what I'm doing.
We have a peaceful weekend planned, Laine has 2 more weeks to placement so she's making sure her resources are well and truely topped up.
I took the cats to the vets last weekend, Moses is scabby and Charlie needs "not to put any more weight on" :)
Me, Laine and Leah all went on a bike ride to Lorraine and Petes house and they weren't in so we moved some gnomes around and went home to play on the trampoline, all good fun :)

derby

me and laine went off to derby yesterday shopping for laines postponded birthday. Was a fab day with a nice dinner, coffee and cookies :)
Laine shopped until we both dropped
We spent a lot of time on the M1 in congestion on the way up and an accident on the way home
i took moses and charlie to the vets, they behaved brilliantly, moses a scaredy (editted by me) cat, charlie a little hissy but polite to the vet.
i'm off to melton today for a fancy dress party

busy few weeks

It's been a bit busy of of, laine has finished her exams and essay and now has 4 weeks off, Cousin Linda from Canada is here and staying over the road, we went to Hatton and Stratford yesterday, was lovely.
My garden is most definitely getting there
and it's bank holiday - I love May with it's not one but two bank hols :)
oooo
and most importantly it was Enisa's 18th on Friday, we had a big party for her with balloons, ribbon, banners, cakes, potatoes, dips, cakes, presents, music, people, cakes and alcohol!

HAPPY 18TH MISS ENISA!!!!!!

hayfever

i hate having hayfever, I never suffered from it as a kid but as I have matured (:)) its seems to get me every year. Today I am snotty and itchy and the worse thing is it make me feel lethergic as I am a bit of a doing person so these 2 things conflict.
I've just dropped my car off for it's service and MOT, then I'm off for a haricut, not something I enjoy but is a necessity. Then another trip to the tip anf finally offering my help to the Poole who''s house in parts resembles a building site and they have a visitor saying for a week orso from Thursday.

Laine is still attacking her essay and revision, feels like she been doing it for months, it's been a hard slog this year cos uni has run while she's been working so she hasn't had any free weeks to get it done. I don't envy her at all!!

today is monday 12th May 2008

I got up went to work, did some work, came home :)

All good.

This weekend was lovely, Sat I spent a fiar chunk of time in the car in a queue at the tip with Ian, sunny days always brings out everyone and his brother to the tip to get rid of all the bits of crap that have been hanging around.
Sunday I spent most of the day under me favourite tree in the garden, was a fab day and a real chill.

Laine thou bless her was having to write her essay and is now revising. It's not fair on her really cos she works so hard and is a bit of a perfectionist and it means that it eats up her whole life until it's finshed. She is a clear one thou and it shows when you read what she's written.

Grass ain't looking too bad at all! Glad the rubble's gone :) good old rubble collecting men!

Anyways back to Dr Who I go now :)