Just4Fun

Here’s a puzzle for you, just for fun. My boyfriend gave me this one to share with you. You will probably get the puzzle. But I’ll give you the answer for it next Thursday or Friday.

4 shop’s made out of match sticks.

These shops need to be turned into one well-known supermarket, by moving just 1 matchstick.

Have fun guessing. Leave your answers here. I must say I did not get it myself.

Bye for now x

He’s got the job! Yipee!

My boyfriend, Richard has got the job! Yipee! I’m so happy for him. Her starts officially Monday. We are going to celebrate tomorrow. My treat.

What’s your fear?

What’s your fear. Mines dentist. Been there today for a check-up and everything was fine. So that’s it till another 6 months. I’m usually calm when it comes to a check up, but because I was seeing a different dentist I was nervous again. But it turned out when I seen him, he was better than my usual dentist.

My other phobias are:

• escalators (but I’m working on this one).
• big spiders (make me shiver)
• bees and wasps (try to avoid. I don’t run now, I freeze or walk away hoping it’s still not following me)
• flying (never done it and don’t plan to)
• snakes

I may be nervous going on the sea, but not sure about that one. I’m ok on a canal boat.

And that’s my phobias. What’s yours?

23rd October

23rd October will be 2 years that me and Richard having been going out together. We’ll be celebrating in some way that day, when I see him after work.

And make most of our weekend too, as this is the only time we get to see each other, as he’s on work experience, and with a bit of luck, there will be a job for him at the end of it. <fingers crossed>

Would have been…

Would have been Lady’s birthday today, if she was still alive. Lady would have been 13 years old.

As you can see from above picture, my friend Kath has concreted Lady’s grave to protect it, as something, possibly a fox had been digging at it. But thankfully her resting place wasn’t disturbed, although I did find it upsetting that something tried. Kath has done a good job I think. You would have thought the concrete had been there for some time, and not just recently.

Kath knew it was Lady’s birthday at some point, so she put some flowers down for her in a pot, before going away. While rabbit sitting and looking after her place this week, I have lit a candle today in memory of her.

E-books……Don’t bother

When I buy a book, I usually buy a paper version, where I can sit back…hold it in my hands….feel the paper and enjoy my book. But after reading Twilight which I really enjoyed, I could not wait to get into the next sequel. So I’ve never done it this way before, but I thought I’d buy an e-book. NEVER AGAIN!! I’ll stick to paper in future. There was an error saying try again later on this e-book site, but like I do I thought I’d check my phone credit, and it was deducted off my phone credit. I even rang my mobile phone provider to check, and they told me it had. So  since 2nd Sept I have had a running battle with this particular e-book company. I told them everything that happened, what they needed to know. I’ve even started telling them what I plan to do next if this is not soon sorted. I failed to get phone calls on the day I was promised, so I ended up again phoning them back. You can imagine I was really annoyed now by this point. So basically I told them stuff your book, I now want a refund because this particular person who was supposed to get back to me did not. And I’m doing the chasing again. So to keep me quiet and try to make me happy, she sent me a link to my phone so I could get this e-book while they sort out this problem, and get to the point of refunding me. I also gave her my email address so they could contact me this way also.

But now I’m getting stupid questions by email. Even got my mobile number wrong. My final email went back directly with the person I last spoke to today. To get it sorted now, and to refund me Friday. They can look into where it went in their own time instead of wasting mine. They only have to get a conference call started, with themselves on it, me and my mobile phone provider, they will be able to hear it for themselves. Something they felt they do not need to do before when I mentioned it last time. So if they have got all what they needed, then why did they not refund me there and then on the last conversation?

Active day

It was my usual day again where I get up, have breakfast, before making my way to Nottingham for my counselling session. Which has slowly helped me.But this time today my Mum was coming with me, because after my session we were having a day out together while there.

After counselling, first stop was somewhere for dinner. I thought Pizza Hut would be a good place, as we both have never been in one before, and I wanted to go somewhere different where I have never been. I know Pizza Hut had a kind of make over and change how they do things, but I never realised exactly just how much. Wow! I was impressed! It did not feel like a take away, it felt and looked like a restaurant, and I was surprised what drinks were available. We both had a salmon pasta bake. We don’t like garlic normally with things we’ve had in the past, but we both decided to try the garlic bread that was with our dish. If we did not like it we could always leave the garlic bread. And we were surprised, as we discovered we could eat it. Not alot! But we liked it! Will be telling Richard Saturday when I see him, as he reckoned I would like it. Mum had a J2O drink and I had a smoothie. We nearly bought a bottle of wine between us! Mum was already thinking about a dessert before we got our dinner, but she discovered she was full to fit that in!

We then had a look around a few shops. I bought a fleece jacket I needed for my outer jacket I bought a few weeks back from trespass, then we went into Publishers Book Clearance, where I bought a Collins Compact Dictionary and Thesaurus book, which will come in handy. Mum bought a few books too, one which I started reading on the bus on our way back from Nottingham to Sutton, which I got to grips with from the start. So she’s let me take it home to read first, as she still reading the one I’d lent her. I’m already a quarter a way through it! It’s called Lord Loss by Darren Shan.

When we got back to Sutton, our last stop before going our separate ways was at Wilkinsons. Mum wanted to get some bulbs for her garden, and I wanted more silk flowers etc.. the same sort I’d bought yesterday. So I could fill a vase up better. This will be displayed in my study. Something to look at.

After a couple of hours rest, I went out with my friend Anne, after she called round at the flat from doing her shift at a charity shop. We called back her place before making our way to a pub where we’ve been before for a meal. I had broccoli and brie prepared for me as there was no chicken in the carvery. But I have had this before so I know its nice. Had a selection of veg from choices available with a drizzle of parsley sauce over my veg, and a bit of cranberry sauce on the side. Lovely! For my drink, I had a glass of Bulmer’s pear cider.

From there we then made our ways home.

Tomorrow I’m off to Newark.

Reading

I’ve found since I read lots of books again now, as I need to keep up with today’s books, as I’m doing my home study course ‘Writing for children’ that I seem to sleep better. Yes.. I can still have the odd night where I’m still awake even though I’m sometimes tired, but since getting back into reading books I’ve noticed when I do sleep, I know I have slept, because I really feel refreshed in a morning, and feel like I have slept. I never thought I’d ever feel like that again!

When you read do you feel the same?

My weekend

Had a relaxing weekend, except for Saturday when I went on the Wii to play ten pin bowling with Richard and my Mum. I found I still don’t have the energy as I should. I had to call it a day after playing two games. And I was already struggling half way through the second game!

Enjoyed watching my Mum have fun…laughing. They played a further two games. It was nice to see my Mum laughing and having fun.

I also started reading a book today today called Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.

Sunday, me and Richard went down down so I could get some compost and containers, for two of my plants that needed re-potting. I only managed to get compost from one place, so we had to make our way to another shop for the containers. But before that, I needed a rest.

Once I got my containers needed, we made a slow steady walk back home to my flat. After a rest, I started on re-potting my plants, which Richard helped me to do. One container I bought, we felt was too big, but it was all they had, so my Dracaenca Marginata will have plenty of room to grow into. The other container, which was ok, was for my Spider Plant, which I’ve now put back in the bathroom, next to the cactus. For the finishing touch, I added blue stones around my, to match what was in the tray underneath.

A chance to know ME better

Some of you know I used to write another blog, called Lady’s blog, but I removed it not so long ago after Lady’s passing, when I felt the time was right. Although I will never forget her.

I know from doing her blog, which I wrote as through ‘her eyes’ I found it easier when writing about me, than I do on this blog, but I’m giving my regular readers a chance to know me better.

I’m not promising anything, but here is your chance to comment here. What would you like to see on my blog, or know about me?