Mothers Day x

Today is Mothers Day so I would just like to wish my beautiful and ever-so-missed Mother a wonderful day and I love you very, very much. Your gift was gorgeous thankyou and the little verse made me cry...as always! Happy Mothers Day to all of the other Mums out there too. A very belated Happy Mothers Day to Mum in England as I believe your Mothers Day was a couple of months back and we didn't realise, so this wish goes out to you too. I had a lovely day. Got my pressies in the morning,( a cd, dress, sweat shirt, dvd, chockies and a water bottle from Bailey that he chose from the Mothers Day stall at school...sweety pie!), then went to Bailey's football match, then had a picnic down by the bay. The day was beautiful and sunny and there's just something about being by the water, it's so serene and calming! Thankyou to my family for spoiling me! I love you all dearly!
It's been a fortnight since my last entry as I tried doing it last week...usual story about the bad connection. I've worked out now that the earlier on in the day that I do it the better connection I seem to have so I will try and do it every Sunday afternoon now instead of Sunday night.
Last weekend we had a long weekend. Bailey didn't have any sport but Yaz did on the Saturday so we went down to that game. Saturday night we went to Nicky and Seans for dinner. Sunday night we went to Mike and Charmaynes for dinner and Monday we just stayed in catching up on everything else. Long weekends are great! It aslo makes the following week go extra quick too.
During the week I wasn't that well so I had to go to the Dr.s for a couple fo tests. Today both Ian and Yaz are not feeling 100% either and there seem to be a few people around getting ill. It must be that time of the year for all of the different types of influenzas to hit. I hear Australia had it's first victim of the Swine Flu, coming into the country from a trip to America. How must the poor lady feel about being the first reported case bringing it in to Australia?! Not really something you want to be remembered for!
The rest of the week has just been the same old, same old. Bailey had a friend over and Yaz went to a sleep over...well you can't really call it a sleep over if they don't sleep can you! She's been knackered ever since!
Ian played his usual football Friday night. Click on the link to the left to read the match report. He always gets a good mention!
Great news from overseas...cousin Matt looks like he is coming over in January! I am soooo excited! I think at the moment he will be staying with us for a week, so really can't wait and will give him a week he won't forget. There are so many beautiful places to show him. It's going to be soooo much fun.
What else, what else, what else....this is the problem with doing this after a week has passed because I don't remember everything. Oh well.
Hoping that anyone reading this is well and happy. Bit of a boring entry this week, sorry.
'Till next week xxx

Bad Habit!

I think I apologise every week about not doing this blog...it's certainly becoming a bad habit of mine!...maybe I should just make it a fortnightly event and then I won't have to apologise anymore! Life just seems to be very busy lately but then not much is happening at all...if that makes any sense?! I can't even think of why I didn't do it last week. I know we weren't out and I haven't written in my diary for a while either so I'm relying on memory here and let me tell you there is nothing coming out!!!!
So what have we been up to? If I tell you about the weekend just gone, then maybe I'll get other snippets of the past fortnight I can add on at the end. Well this weekend was ANZAC Day on the Saturday. Normally we get an extra day off during the week if it falls on a weekend but they have canned that this year...such a shame! We love our public holidays!!! Anyway everything closes until about 1pm on Anzac day, so in the mroning we just did a few household chores before heading down to Movie World on the Gold Coast. It was a great afternoon...apart from Yaz making me go on the Superman ride with her which I vowed never to go on again after the last time. It just goes down on the steepest, vertical, face down slope and I just can't stand it, plus it goes at over 100km an hour. The good thing is that the whole ride lasts for less than a minute so I just shut my eyes and hang on for dear life and then it's all over. After Movie World we headed into Surfers Paradise for a cuppa and have dinner. It was such a beautiful night and it was absolutely packed down there. We had a walk around and looked into some shops etc...and sat on a bench over looking the beautiful beach. What a lifestyle! We all just love Queensland soooo much. Our next adventure is to move closer to a beach...
Today we have just spent the whole day at home. Yaz and Bailey both had a fair bit of homework/assignments to do, Ian had some TV viewing to do and I had some book reading to do...very important Sunday stuff! I love these days!
Friday I had a parcel in the mail arrive and it was a personalised, autographed cd from Ronan Keating! My lucky, lucky brother Dale met him at a promo at his work where Ronan performed and met everyone. Dale was so lovely as to buy me is latest cd and get Ronan to sign it for me. I'm just in awe and very envious of Dale. It is such a great cd too. He also got one for Mum as she is a huge fan as well. Mum and I had a whole conversation on the phone for about an hour just talking about how beautiful the cd was etc...Thanks Dale...YOU ROCK!
OK, this is the part where my brain was supposed to have come up with something...umm...oh yes, I had an interview with Baileys teacher the other week and she said,'The only way I can describe Bailey is that he is the perfect student in every way!'...well it can't get much better than that can it? She said some really lovely things about him and how well he is doing and what a lovely friend he is to his mates and everyone in the class and how much he participates etc...Yaz bought home her report and we were very proud of her too as she got some fantastic results in all areas. She seems to be handling this Immersion class soooo well! We are so very proud of both of our children for their achievements and efforts in school. Yaz also bought home her recent art work, it is a canvas landscape painting and it's just beautiful! I tried to take a photo of it just then with my phone but it didn't turn out very well. I'll get one with Yaz's camera over the next couple of days. She certainly has some talent in the art department!
Bailey scored his first try of his rugby league season today. I unfortunately didn't see it as I was at home not feeling 100% but Bailey told me all about it with a huge beam on his face and Ian told me about it too. Their team lost but he didn't care...he scored!
Work has slackened off just a little. I have been waiting for this as everyone is feeling the economy crisis biting a bit. It's still going well, I just had a couple of spare appointments last week and I haven't had that for a while!
I am very proud of my cousin Matt in Felixstowe as he has made it into the top 3 of the Royal Post staff Awards in England. That's an absolutely huge achievement! He is getting interviewed during this coming week and will go to a posh do on London for the awards night. We have everything crossed for him to win, although in my eyes he's a winner and we're so proud of him! Well done Matt!
We have had a pretty decent downpour of rain lately which has been great for our drought situation! I think our dams have now gone over the 50% mark which has been a long time coming. Mind you in some areas of Queensland the rain bought flooding and disaster, always the way isn't it?!
During the week Bailey got bitten or stung by something, not sure what, and his forearm swelled up like Popeyes! It was bright red and ever so hot too. I took him to the Dr.s the following morning and he was put on some anti-histamines and an ointment also. It soon cleared up in 2 days. He wasn't sick or anything with it, we just couldn't believe the heat and swelling!
At the moment, Ramses has about 3 cats after him. Every night they come around our house and meow that low, drawn out meow they do and Ramses does it from inside back at them. The new kid on the block is getting bullied! I hope it settles down soon. Ramses goes outside and sometimes they just sit and stare at each other. No fight has broken out yet, he came close once or twice though.
I think I remembered enough for an entry today! There's always something that comes to me just as I'm about to go to bed and it bugs me that I forgot to put it on here so I suppose that same thing will happen again tonight.Another bad habit of mine is that I lay awake most of the night annoyed about those types of things and then I'm knackered the next day! My mind is alwasy so lively and ridiculous in the early hours of the morning. I wish I knew how to meditate to put myself in a dream-like trance and just drift off peacefully!
Hope you all had a great couple of weeks anyway. Make sure you check out the photo link often as I do update them when I can...it hasn't been done for a couple of weeks mind you but I WILL update them when I can!
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The Move!

Hello to anyone reading this after I have abandoned this site for a couple of weeks now. Well I am still here but have just been way too busy to spend a second on the computer. We have finally moved to the house down the road! For the last couple of weeks, we have been cleaning, boxing, packing and hardly sleeping! We questioned ourselves for a while as to why exactly we were making a move to a house so close by but now that we are in it, we are VERY happy! The storage space is incredible!!!! The whole move went well, no breakages, no arguments, no problems. Ian and I did the majority of it with some help on the Friday from Sean who came over for the afternoon and helped us with really bulky, heavy stuff. He was a great help who had an abundance of energy! Mike also came over to help Ian and Sean with the pool table in the afternoon also. Bailey watched these men in action shifting one big thing after another and commented on how very strong they were. He was very impressed! We basically just bought over car/ute loads at a time and just dumped it in the garage and then back and forth etc...then once it was all over, we headed back to the other house for the final clean-up. It took longer than what we thought, mind you we were very fussy about doing everything immaculately and the house ended up looking cleaner and newer than before we first started living there! It took us a whole week just to get the basics all unpacked. The kitchen was the first thing that we set up. We slept on mattresses for a week too. In the middle of all of this we were both still working our long hours and taking the kids here and there...Now that we are here, we love it! Our wardrobes are double the size of what we had and the rooms are a fantastic size too. Ramses has settled in well also. He was a little wide-eyed and frantic for the first hour but settled in immediately!

It has definitely been worth it. In all of the unpacking, I have been sorting out things as I go and cannot believe the amount of hoarding that we have done over the past two years! I am going to take alot of this unwanted stuff up to a market to try and sell. We thought about doing the whole e-bay thing but we don't have time to sit on the computer and do it all. I am a bit worried that because we have extra storage, it means we can hoard more stuff! I want to stop that habit right from the start and have been quite podantic about where things are going and putting things away properly and getting rid of anything not used at all.

Apart from the move, Yaz had her 14th B'day. It was pretty non-eventful as unfortunately it was in the middle of the move, but we took her and her friend out for dinner and I made her a 'Jack', (from Nightmare before Xmas), b'day cake. She insisted that she didn't want a cake but as if I could let that happen!

Well today is Easter so Happy Easter to you all! Back to work tomorrow, for me anyway. The kids are now on holidays for a week and a bit. I will try and take them out as they have been put on the back burner recently due to Ian and I being busy. We haven't done much this weekend, just still unpacking and relaxing as much as possible and eating really naughty things! The perfect weekend really!

The computer is very unreliable at the moment so I might have to end it here. We apparently don't have much coverage from our provider which we have only just been told about. When we first signed up we were told we were completely covered. When I phoned them the other day to arrange the change of address etc...I was told that the area we are in doesn't have coverage! When I told him that we were only around the corner from the other house, he basically said we should never have signed up in the first place but a bit late for that information!!! We are just seeing how the coverage goes over the next few weeks and may have to change companies...again! So if I am not on here or aren't answering emails like I used to then this is why. On the whole scheme of things though, it's not that bad. We still can use the internet on occasions...briefly... but it's only the computer at the end of the day. There are other ways of communicating that probabaly don't take up as much time and more reliable too!

Dressing Up!

It's always good to dress up, whether it's just in something new and nice or whether it's in character for a party. Well this week we did both! We went to a Murder Mystery night at our friends Nicky and Sean's last night for my birthday. It was a scene out of the 1920's where there was a murder on a train and we were all suspects. I had to go as a renowned French Fashion beauty, Ian was the husband of the victim and was an ex-military guard, Yaz was the American half-sister of the victim and Bailey was a humble Scottish engineer. We had so much fun trying to put on the appropriate accents...Ian kept asking me if I was German...I've never been one to put on an accent...We had a gorgeous three course meal which was just divine. We sipped champagne and escaped reality for a few hours which was so much fun! After the meal and the game had finished, we listened to Sean's music collection, most of it being from the 80's so it was excellent. We didn't get in until about 2am so were all pretty tired today.

So today is my Birthday. 37yrs old! I was woken by a phonecall from a good frined in NSW, then a few phone calls later and a few texts, we just got on with the chores of today...still getting everything ready to move...and then this afternoon we headed into Brisbane where there is a yummy dessert cafe. Ian wanted to take me out for lunch or dinner, but I much rather the dessert part of any meal! We all had something very rich and filling and absolutely delicious! I got some new clothes for my b'day which in the photo you can see one of the items. I love getting new clothes!!! I just had to put on something new today, as I said it's always fun dressing up...So we were going to have a nice steak meal tonight but we are all so full that I think it's just going to be nibblies instead...and I will make sure that I hit the gym tomorrow!

That's the most exciting part of the week, the rest of it is just work, packing, cleaning etc...I just want to say a very big thankyou to everyone who sent me their b'day wishes whether it be by card, phone call, email, text etc...It is all very much appreciated and it all went towards having a great day.xxx

No Time, No Connection...

Once again, I have left the blog for a few weeks due to the fact that the times that I have tried to get on it's the same old story...bad connections continually cutting me off. Or the fact that we have been so super busy lately in every aspect of life that I haven't been able to put aside my 'blog' time. I haven't even really been writing anything in my diary either so I'll be going off my memory...not a good start!

We are currently in the middle of packing things up again and on the move. Still in the same area, just a few streets away actually, just going into something a little bigger with more storage, bigger kitchen etc...I can't wait until we are in there but it's just the hassle and time spent packing, moving, unpacking etc...that I don't like. It will all be worth it though...hopefully. The street is very quiet and backs onto bushland again, so great for Ramses. So for the next few weeks we won't be going anywhere or doing anything exciting.

Today we spent the day down at Seaworld on the Gold Coast. Apart from leaving a little late and hitting heavy traffic, we had a fun day going on rides and seeing attractions etc...So everyone is feeling a little knackered right now, including me and I knew that if I didn't jump on the computer and write this straight away, then it would be another week left untouched!

Bailey has started playing Rugby League and is absolutely loving it. He has had two games so far, unfortunately they lost both but that doesn't matter. His coach is actually one of my clients and an ex-footballer so he is going to be a great influence on Bailey. It should be a good season.

Yaz hasn't actually played any club matches for soccer but had a gala day on the weekend where they played two short matches. She had to step up and play for the women's team as they were short and at the end of the game they asked if she would like to play for them. We turned down the offer, 1.-because Yaz wasn't particularly interested, and 2.-because she has no spare time for extra training etc...

Happy Birthday to Shane for the 3rd and Klaudia for the 11th of this month. My b'day is this coming weekend and my friend Nicky has asked us over for a 'Murder Mystery' night which should be good fun. I think we're all going to get dressed up into character etc...so I'm really looking forward to it. On the actual day, Sunday, we will have Bailey's rugby game and then just probably just continue packing etc...I wasn't too fussed about doing anything this year and if Nicky hadn't made her offer then I probably wouldn't have bothered doing anything at all! I would have just enjoyed completely chilling at home...surrounded by boxes and a list of cleaning jobs etc...yes this move is the most important thing at the moment and we want to get it all done so we're in no rush for when the day comes around which is around 3rd April. Then we have Yaz's 14th B'day a week after mine. Not sure what we're doing yet, probably not much this year due to everything else but I'm sure she'll end up getting spoilt as usual! Still can't believe she is going to be 14!!!

Work has been exceptionally busy which is fabulous! I was kind of expecting it to die down with everyone concerned about this recession but if anything it's gotten busier to the point that my clients can't get appointments for 3 weeks! Never in a million years did I ever expect to be this busy. I'm truly overwhelmed...in a good way! I just have to make sure that I look after myslef and get regular massages to keep me in good condition as it really takes it toll on your body.

Ian is back into the football season too. I went and watched one game and I haven't seen him play for about 2 years and was amazed at just how quick and talented he still is as he is always saying that he doesn't play well etc...He is awesome on the field and really outshines any of his team mates! I have put up 2 links on this blog page on the left hand side which will take you into both Yaz and Ian's weekly football results and write-ups. I'm not sure how Bailey's works at the rugby but if they do write-ups too then I'll put a link up for that too. Again, if anyone has any trouble with my links not working please leave a comment at the end of my blog entry and I will try to sort it out.

It looks like Mum is moving too. The house she has been renting for the past 30 years has been sold we think. She has been offered another place though near to where we used to live in the Blue Mountains so she is very happy with that. We are too as I was concerned about where she would end up. The other good thing about it is that our good friends live practically across the road from her so I know that they will keep an eye out for her.

Like I warned you before, I am trying to rmemeber everything we have done as I have been slack putting things in my diary and so I truly can't remember anything else! The weeks are just flying past and it's hard to keep on top of it all. We are all well and healthy though which is the main thing and hoping that you are too. I will TRY to do this next week, if it's not on here then it's probably the non-connection! Please be patient with me :-) xx

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It is Sunday evening yet again. I really don't know where the week goes! It has been a bit of a topsy turvy kind of week actually. I ended up getting a stomach bug late Monday evening which basically had me ill and laid up until Thursday, although still not feeling 100% from it yet either! It truly knocked me for a six and I had to cancel so many appointments, which I hate doing. Anyway, no-one else got it which is good, although Ian has complained of a tummy ache a few times but luckily it never progressed from there.
There seem to be quite a few bugs and illnesses going around at the moment. I am thinking that it must be the humidity, just a hot, sticky breeding ground for all types of germs and bugs! Even though we are having our fair share of rain at the moment which has been so lovely and refreshing, it is still so humid! I can't wait for the next month to go by, not that I ever wish for time to go fast, but it does make it near to unbearable sometimes. Sorry I'm whinging, especially since there have been so many tragedies of a high level lately...I'll not say another word...sorry!
Today we went to 'wet and wild' again and had another good day. We went with some friends of ours as their daughter turned 10 during the week and this is where she wanted to spend her birthday as such. Yazmin however has come home quite burnt and not well due to the fact that she didn't put any suncream on!!!!!! Silly girl!!!!! I had a very serious talk to her this morning regarding skin cancer etc...but it obviously didn't make any difference. The sun up here, well anywhere really is just too dangerous to take these chances. I was speaking to a Dad at cricket this past weekend who has just had a very serious skin cancer cut out from hi head and he was very lucky they found it when they did otherwise he would be making some very gloomy plans at the moment! This man always covers up and uses sun protection of every form but he still got affected. It really is just so scary. I think I will take Yazmin and Bailey...also myslef and Ian, along to the skin cancer clinic where you can get an examination to have everything checked out. If we do it on a yearly basis then hopefully nothing sinister will ever happen to us!...plus we don't want Yaz to end up having old, leathery skin at an early age either!
Last night we went to our neighbours for a b.b.q. and had a nice night. They have three boys, one Bailey's age and they get on tremendously. One of the boys is animal crazy and he has two childrens carpet pythons and two bearded dragons. They are just adorable and I played with them all night. The snake was just sooo cute and he was going through my hair and flicking his little tongue on my nose etc...I was just in awe. Ian won't let us have one though...I tried to get him to hold it too but he wasn't interested...I don't get that?! I guess he's just not as animal crazy as I am. Bailey had a go but was a little apprehensive. Yaz stayed home as she had her friend over for a sleepover and she just isn't into socialising with her parents anymore....yes that time has come and I guess I have to deal with it!
Bailey is still having his guitar lessons and was playing U2's-'Pride' over the weekend. I got it on video on my phone but I'm not smart enough to be able to download it onto the computer. It was so cute and he was singing along too.
Yaz started soccer training this week too. I don't think she suffered too much. She thought she was going to be quite unfit but I think she managed O.K....well I haven't heard her complaining so that's a good thing!
So basically that was this week all summed up! We are all well and healthy and that's the main thing! Hoping that anyone reading this is well and healthy too. :)

Thank goodness for my diary!

It has been soooo long since my last entry...again! It's not that I haven't tried or haven't wanted to, it's just that we constantly have internet and phone problems and I can be almost finished my entry and I lose everything! Do you know how long it takes me to write one of these?! I also have a terrible memory, so if I lose everything it's hard for me to recapture what I wrote in the first place plus my patience wears off so I generally just walk away feeling very defeated by a computer!

Anyway, after having a lovely long overdue conversation with my Mum in England, I promised that I would attempt to do my long overdue entry tonight as I know I won't have time tomorrow as we have a big day ahead planned.

Thank goodness for my diary...as my title says...if it wasn't for my bad memory, I wouldn't have a diary where I write down everything that I do on a daily basis. This is the only way that I get around remembering everything that we did during the week. Sad isn't it considering I am only on the verge of 37 years of age and have a very failing memory! Ian is going to have to have growing patience to be able to grow old with me!

Anyway....let's go back to Ian's birthday...I think that is where I left off last time?! Ian spent his 41st birthday at Bailey's cricket match in the morning, general hanging out at home until late afternoon where we had some friends come over with their children. The adults then responsibly left our children at our house...3 teenagers and Bailey and his friend, and we headed off to the local Indian restaurant. We had a lovely meal there, we ordered a variety of dishes and just shared, all of them were just gorgeous! The service and everything about the resaturant couldn't be faulted and we stayed and had a great laugh there also. Afterwards we came back home, not leaving the children for too long, and continued celebrating Ian's birthday for a few more hours with a few more drinks and a few more laughs. It was such a great night, some very funny moments when us adults acted younger than any of the children that were here and it ended early hours of the following day. Overall I think Ian had a great birthday and unfortunately I don't have any photos of it as our camera still isn't working and Yaz was using her camera with her and her friends.

Julian celebrated his 17th Birthday on 6th February and Bailey has celebrated his this week, turning a big old 9 years of age! He got utterly spoilt with a fishing rod, games, cricket net, books, money, art set, science kits etc...He was at school during the day where he took in a doughnut for everyone in the class to celebrate with him and then we took him to a restaurant in Redcliffe, opposite the water for dinner. After we had a yummy meal we headed home to have his birthday cake...that's a story in itself! I haven't had a working oven for 2 weeks now as the element blew and the real estate haven't got around to fixing it...even after several phonecalls from myself and Ian! So I was unable to make him a cake so had to go and buy one instead! I decided to decorate whatever I bought in a wrestling theme, seeing as this is Bailey's all time favourite thing. I got a couple of square cakes and put them together to make a wrestling ring. At the time of all the icing and decorating however, we had a blackout for hours! Normally this wouldn't interfere with icing a cake...but...it was an extremely hot and very humid day, so the house was like an oven itself and the ceiling fans or airconditioner couldn't be put on due to the blackout! So basically everything started melting and sweating and his cake ended up an awful mess which I was devastated about! I nearly went out and just got another one already made and decorated, but ran out of time..and energy! Anyway, Bailey was wrapped with it as it kind of resembled a wrestling ring...apart form the posts drooping, the icing dribbling everywhere and the cakes seperating! NIGHTMARE!!! Oh well. Ian had a giggle about it too and thinks that he could've even done better, which I'm sure that he could have! I did take a photo but no-one will ever see it!!!

Yazmin attended the school swimming carnival last week and has now made it through to the Regional carnival. She came places in backstroke, freestyle and medley. She always does so well in her sporting events. She has been seriously thinking about taking up swimming again as an outside sport which I hope she does as she is very good at it. Her feet are certainly a big enough attribute to the sport! She has grown so much lately. She is now taller than me and her foot size is a 9 & 1/2. Still very, very slim and gorgeous too! She starts soccer training next week too so life just gets busier and busier! Bailey is still playing cricket on the weekends but when it finishes he has signed up for Rugby League for the winter season which he is really looking forward to. I am a bit apprehensive as he will be doing real tackles etc...so I think I will only see half of any game as my face will be hidden in my hands! I think I'm a very over protective Mum...well Yaz tells me I am anyway. It's not a bad thing right?!

Work for both Ian and I has been very busy. Ian is still driving his very long days in the heat and traffic fumes. I have been pretty much booked out also as we have a heap of new members at the gym who are having massages. I thought about maybe putting someone else on but I have kind of helped my friend make the decision to study massage therapy so I will wait and see how that pans out and who knows where we will go from there?!

Ramses has had a bit of a drama going on lately although he's 100% now. He got into a cat fight, as the vet thinks anyway and got beaten up pretty bad. He had lacerations on his belly, groin, wrist and unfortunately on his 2 manhood bits! Not nice indeed! He ended up having stitches in a few places, with some swipes going right down to bone! So he kind of looks a bit odd now as he has patches shaven off him here and there but the stitches are out and he finished his antibiotics and is back to normal. Oh, he also had the tip of his canine tooth come off too! Poor baby...obviously a lover not a fighter!

The last couple of days it has rained pretty much non-stop which has been beautiful and has taken the heat away also! HALLELUJAH! It did however put a dampener on Bailey's school camp where they were supposed to do a few outdoor activities which were canned but they still had lots of fun anyway. At the moment he has a friend sleeping over, well they are supposed to be sleeping but there is a lot of giggling going on out in the lounge room where they are camping out! We are taking him and his mate, our next door neighbour actually, to Wet'n Wild theme park tomorrow at the Gold Coast...if it's not raining again.Yaz has decided not to come with us...at that age I suppose?...so she is staying at a friends house tonight instead.

Ian has joined an over 35's Soccer team locally which he had training for the first time this week. He's also been out for a few runs to boost his fitness level. I am really looking forward to watching the games. A few of the Dad's we know are in the same team so it should all be good fun. I really need to get our camera fixed!

So that's pretty much all that my diary has revealed of the past couple fo weeks. There is no way I would've remembered all of that..actually is anyone still there reading? This has been an exceptionally long entry! If you are there, thanks for sticking with it. Like I always say, it's not rivoting stuff but it's our lives and I thank you for taking the time out to reading it and being a part of it too....mainly Joyce...is there anyone else who reads it after all? This entry is dedicated to you Mummy Joyce. Love you x