Croc Day and the return of Dr Who

Today was an expensive day!!

Went to dance class as normal with the girls, and went to the market to get a few craft bits - Abigail hates going to that stall - she says I take too long!!!

We went to the local shoe shop to look at crocs - they said they wanted some with their birthday money from my mum. But they didn't have in Georgia's size so we left it.

After we got home, I took the girls into Accrington - they wanted to go to the pound shop to get something and I wanted some bunches of those fake flowers to make some more cards up too, and some other craft bits.

Before Accrington we went to Winfields, they didn't have pink for Georgia but she decided on yellow, and Abigail chose purple instead of the pink she had liked earlier!! They didn't have pink for me though - not particularly happy but hey ho!! I said to the lady on the till I was a bit dissapointed, and she told me to try the other side of the mill as they have some there too - so we did - and now I am the proud owner of some fuschia crocs!!! And on the other side we saw some purple ones in Georgia's size - so she changed her mind and we went to customer services to sort that out!

And then as time was pressing on and I hadn't even thought about tea, I treated them all to MacDonalds on the way home.

And then they were really happy - as after bath time - Doctor Who returned!!! Abigail loves Dr Who - Georgia is scared but doesn't want to miss anything - so she sits on my knee quaking behind my shoulder!!! LOL

back tomorrow

I don't know where all the nice weather went to, at the weekend the girls and I went onto the tops, I wanted to take some pics for my BPS layout, although I seem to be getting further behind with that!!!! I'm not alone though LOL

I wanted to take some sort of different pics too as well as my panoramic shot above - what do you think??



This week has kind of flown by really.

On Tuesday I took the children to the park on the way home from school - the weather was glorious.


I was a bit miffed on Wednesday to say the least. I went to Brownies and I went into the little room where they were finishing off the Rainbow evening to be told Georgia had just done her promise ceremony. Like why wasn't I told?? They said they had given letters, but Georgia only brought home the words she had to learn, nothing to actually say she was doing it. NOT happy. It was especially made worse cos Gary had come home early and could of watched too.

So we did the photo stuff the day after instead.



By Thursday the weather had turned, and the rain came back!! Abigail had a freind round for tea, and today Georgia had her freind round. It was the first time she had had tea out on her own anywhere, and after about an hour got really upset - for no particular reason - and wanted to go home !!! So I rang her mum, and she came to get her; then Georgia was upset cos she had gone!!!

I have been quite busy this week making cards, I have been given the most amazing potential opportunity via a freind to start selling some, so at the moment I am making some samples up - although they never seem good enough - not to sell - I have incredible self doubt. But I guess we watch this space!! Time will tell.

That's all for now

It's Great to be a Souf Efrikan

I received this email the other day via gary, via my FIL, any south africans reading should appreciate it more than most!!!!

This is a great country because:
1. You can eat raw half dried meat and not be considered disgusting.
2. Nothing is your fault, you can blame it all on apartheid.
3. You get to buy a new car every 3 months and the insurance company even pays for it.
4. You can experience kak service in eleven official languages.
5. Where else can you get oranges with 45% alcohol content at rugby matches?
6. It's the only country in the world where striking workers show how angry they are by dancing.
7. You're considered clumsy if you cannot use a cell phone (without car kit), change CDs,
drink a beer, put on make-up, read the newspaper and smoke, all at the same time while
driving a car at 160 kph in a 60 kph zone.
8. Great accent. (!!!)
9. If you live in Johannesburg, you get to brag about living in the most dangerous city in the
world.
10. Burglar bars become a feature, and a great selling point for your house.
11. You can decorate your garden walls with barbed wire.
12. The tow-trucks are the first on the scene for most major crimes, without being called.
The police you have to call about three times.
13. Votes have to be recounted until the right party wins.
14. Illegal immigrants leave the country because the crime rate is too high.
15. The police ask you if they must follow up on the burglary you've just reported.
16. Where a murderer gets a 6 month sentence and a pirate TV viewer 2 years.
17. The prisoners strike and get to vote in elections!
18. The police stations have panic buttons to call armed response when they are burgled
19. Police cars are fitted with immobilisers and gearlocks!

Onwards and upwards

Well after a bit of a rollercoaster ride there for a few days, I am getting back on track with stuff.

I blitzed the girls' room yesterday - again!!! After school we went to the park, the weather is becoming really nice at the moment, lets hope it lasts into the easter holidays next week!!!

Sam's a bit poorly at the mo, he's fully of a cold and coughing and spluttering all the time!

I am really pleased to say that Abigail is ALMOST riding her bike now - gee it's been a long time coming, she seems to really struggle with her co-ordination. She's really settled again at school, she has a new group of friends so is away from the other girls who were causing her problems, so I am dead chuffed there too. Re her headaches she was having, it did cross my mind if it was migraines, they could be caused by citrus, as before her last bout she had eaten loads of tangerines over a few days. I have been giving them to her again just to see, but so far she's A OK. Fingers crossed it was just a cluster of head pains and nothing more serious.

I have been learning too to give her more freedom, she's been playing out on her own of late and walking round the block etc, on sunday she went up onto the tops behind us on her own. she likes the independance, she also learned at the weekend how to brew up - this could become very useful for us!!!! But right now every second she seems to be asking "do you want a cup of tea or coffee?" Bless !!!

I have just been given the potential to sell some some handmade cards, my head is buzzing with all sorts of ideas, so now is the time to get them down onto paper - literally!!! I need to make some samples up and then away we go.....onwards and upwards ......

This is probably the last time I will have need to use this logo. On Thursday evening I decided to resign as Team Leader of my team on UK scrappers. It wasn't an easy desicion by any means, but one I have been thinking about for a while now. So on Thursday I did it, and as I was doing that, I realised we have so much going on over the next few months it was probably best to quit altogether. So I did......

It's hard being team leader, most of the time it's cool, it's good fun; but it is demanding, very hard to think up new challenges and swaps and stuff and keep the team motivation and morale high etc etc. Things have been a bit stale just of late and I did feel the time had come for me to let my "babies" fly the coup and let them go it alone, inject some new spirit within.

So Ali will take over I think, she will do good, her confidence scrapping wise has grown over the last few weeks especially and she will go far I am sure - I would like now to wish her and the rest of the team all the best.

I have made firm friends within the team, that will not change, I have shed many tears over the past couple of days over the result of this decision, butI think those tears have been mixed up with other emotions going round my head too at the moment.

I have toyed and toyed with myself have I done the right thing? when Ali posted that she was going to go and hunt for a new teammate it was all I could do to stop myself saying NOOOOOOOO. Although deep down I know that I have made the right choice , for myself and the sake of the team and my freinds and indeed my family. The team may not see it now but they will in time.

I am going to carry on with the team cj, it seemed most wanted me to stay on that, and I am happy, I like doing cj's. First post is on tuesday, mine is almost ready to go (the handbag from earlier).

Today we went dancing as usual, I tried to do some writing in my notebook for the BPS class, but it just wasn't coming together in any way whatsoever, guess my mind is a bit preoccupied right now.

This afternoon I went for a walk on the tops, with the girls, I took some panoramic photos of the views to go together with my journalling about it - I will get that done next week.

I don't need to worry about points now - I can just scrap for myself!! Which I have to say is very hard after over fifteen months of being in the same team; today I completed my exploding box and I thought - "there's 50 points bagged" and then I thought "no it's not LOL"

So next week I will continue with my blitzing campaign and try and get a few bits done that I have got behind on.

I received the map of the catchment are for our potential new high school - it's huge!!! But it gives us a start on locations to look at in the future.

Just need to get to May, and get this probabation period out of the way!!!! Then we can come out of no-mans land and get on with our lives again.

it's really going to happen

Time i think to remove my head from the sand

We will be moving later this year. That is a fact. We have talked and talked, not much else granted, but as we cannot do anything til May not much else too do!!

But I have spent some time looking at houses in and around, the one Gary likes is still on the market.

We have decided upon the secondary school we would like the children to go to, so that will be our base. I have just phoned the said school to get a map showing their catchment area!!

and so now reality is beginning to kick in, this will happen - it is real

About me........

I have been accused in the past of not letting things drop, that is true, I will readily admit that I am like a dog with a bone when I get rattled about something, especially stuff I find personally upsetting. But that's me and the way I am.

I am by nature I think a kind person, honest, reliable, a loyal friend. I am respectful and tactful. I can at times also be quite tactless - sometimes I say things without just thinking it through first, I think most people do that at times if they are honest. As well as the positives I have a lot of negative traits, I get bored very easily, I am easily distracted, but one thing I am not though is a hypocrite, that is most definately a family trait.

So those who accuse me of not letting things just drop really ought to do that themselves don't you think............

and now an update:-
I do really need to crack on with my journalling course, I may have a look at week three tonight after Brownies.

Abigail has settled back into school life very happily again, she seems to have befriended another girl at school which is nice to see. However the other girl is a bit flighty flitting from one group to another after a period of time, so I don't know how Abigail will cope when she does move on.

Georgia is going to her "boyfriends" for tea on friday!!!! They will be having pizza apparently.

Sam has changed his days at nursery, he will now go mon weds and Fri morning, he has moved into the nursery room now, since turning three.

And my sadest news this week, is that one of my closest real life freinds is emigrating!!!
Since I told her we would be moving later this year, she has looked into joining the police in Austrailia, she has had her assessments and interviews and told me yesterday that she could be gone by September, probably even before us at the rate we are going!! OMG how sad am I going to be. she is coming to talk to the Brownies tonight about the phonetic alphabet and how she uses it in her work too.

and so Bravo Bravo Lima !!!
xx

my new banner

way hay i did it
thanks to some lovely paeople on uks and esp to claire with fab instructions on her blog

and these are my new lo's i have done for the My word journalling class from bps

the first is a lo of sam in the park at the end of last summer, it was one of the last occaisions i saw lisa and the journalling reflects that








this lo is where we had to write a photograph - text to describe the picture that was never taken

birthday week

I just don't know where this week went to !!! Spring was here at the start of the week, daffodils in the garden, and snow at the end!!



After Monday's visit to the hospital, Tuesday was spent preparing for Georgia's birthday. I made her a cake for her her birthday tea, vinegar loaf - which i know sounds revolting, but is in fact rather nice - yes it does have vinegar in it, but no - you cannot taste it!! This was just a simple cake so she had something to blow her candles out, her "proper" cake was for her party.




Then I got all the bits out from the various hidey holes and wrapped everything up.

Wednesday arrived, she was soooooo excited. for her birthday this year, she got a scooter, pink and silver with flashing lights!!

And so after opening everything, and getting dressed, we went to school, then I had to go and pick her back up - she had her Pre-primary dancing exam that morning too. So we went to Rawtenstall, all dressed, hair up in a bun, and off she went to perform her best for half an hour, she came out all excited :- she had passed and had her certificate to prove it!! Unlike every other girl I know though (especially for one as pretty and girly girly as Georgia is) she insisted I take her hair down and put it back how it was - she was NOT wearing her bun to school!!

I took her scooter to school so she could scoot home - Abigail was NOT impressed. After school, she had her birthday tea - pudding pies - aka steak and kidney puddings!! They had them with smiley faces (nothing like good wholesome food !!) and then after we did the cake before rushing off to Rainbows.

I went to pick her up from Rainbows, I had asked for half a night off from Brownies, so I took Ab's to Brownies and then took Georgia home. Abigail rode her scooter there, Georgia scooted home


And so after a very exciting and hectic day, Gary arrived home to take her to bed, and I went back to Brownies.

And so Thursday arrived, and I started all over again for Sam's party. He wanted a rocket cake (I am trying to gloss over this part quite quickly - you'll see why later!!) So I went to do the shopping - we were having a tea party on Friday evening with my folks and Sam's godmother. And in the afternoon I made the cake, and decorated it in the evening. I have to be brutally honest and tell you it was rubbish!! Then it was back to the hidey holes to dig out the pressies!










And so Friday arrived, Sam opened up his cards and presents before school, then when we got home, he spent the morning playing.
Mary arrived later in the morning so we could finish the Brownie accounts - the tallied up eventually!!


Friday afternoon I was baking and cleaning - the works!! People arrived just after half five or so. We had some food and drinks, Sam opened yet more presents!! including a MASSIVE "dig dig" which he loves! Then


we did the cake!


Now I did say it was rubbish - I will hold my hand up - but Sam loved it, even Abigail thought it looked "cool", which was very kind of her to say so!!




And so the guests left, we tidied away, then I made list for the stuff I needed to get for Goregia's party!!

Saturday, we had a cancellation appointment at the optician, so we left for Rawtenstall even earlier than normal!! Abigail was ok, her sight hasn't got worse and we even checked her periphary fields as the pedeatricain suggested, but she was ok there too. I went to Asda in between that and Georgia's lesson to get the rest of the bits for her cake and the pizza toppings and the like - oh and our saturday night curry (due to the tea party, Friday night curry night was postponed!!)

After dancing Georgia had another party to go to, and whilst she was there I made her cake and the marziapn teddies. My confidence was a little shattered after the rocket, but they were fab teddies!! I made three and then they could have one each! I iced it in the evening, so that was one less thing to do in the evening.



I was very pleased with the end result !!!

On the way home from the party we went to McDonalds for Abigail and Sam, as promised last weekend after Georgia's missed party so I even managed to do an assignment for the BPS class - I couldn't really do the girl that gave me the food at McDonalds, but I was watching a lady sat near the window whilst I was waiting, so I came home and wrote about her!!

Sunday was Mother's Day - the children had made me some beautiful cards. Abigail sorted Gary out to make my breakfast, and they had a lovely bouquet of flowers for me too! We went to church, it was a Parade sunday and the Rainbows were leading it, Georgia did loads helping to put the visual together for the story of Moses in the bulrushes. Then it was home to prepare the food and tidy up and get ready for the party!!

We had an arts and crafts party, we started by making place mats - they coloured a picture, then Gary laminated them. Then we did some plate painting, I already had ceramic paints, and I bought some packs of value plates in Tesco. The we did ssome t-shirt painting and bling - I bought some cheap t-shirts in Tesco, I already had textile paints, I bought some heart gems and glue - so they painted and stuck to their hearts content. I think it was fair to say everyone enjoyed themselves.










After the craft, they played games whilst we cleared the table and brought the pizza bases out and the toppings, and they made their pizzas. A few games whilst Gary tended the food, then time for tea!

After tea, we brought out Georgia's cake and sang happy birthday, a couple more games whilst I cut the cake, the everyone left - and I had a large glass of wine!!


Happy Birthday to Georgia and Sam !! Cheers, (but thank goodness it's only once a year !!!)

our trip to the hospital

after dropping sam off at my mum's, and georgia off at school, we set off to rochdale, armed with directions and maps.

We got there no problem, parking was more of an issue, the car park is teeny!! So we went to investigate the side streets, and got parked quite easily.

We made our way in, and checked in, Abigail seemed really quite frightened to be honest, she was so clingy when i went to the toilet, very unlike her, she wouldn't let go of me. Anyway the nurse took us to a room and weighed and measured her and checked her blood pressure. 136.8cm and 4 stone something!!!

I think we were first on, the doctors all came out of nowhere at half past nine and went their separate ways, most onto the ward. We were called in, we went in and sat down, he asked loads of questions and wrote loads of notes.

He checked in the backs of her eyes, and her reflexes, asked a few more questions.

The diagnosis ?? - well he thought it may be a cluster of headaches, or potentially migraine. We were to carry on as we had been doing, but see our GP should the pain worsen again. He would write to the GP saying what he thought. He wants to see her in July again.

So I am hoping it is just a cluster, nothing major, and even if it is migraines, at least there is nothing too sinister at first glance anyway.

So it was back to school.

I finally got round to doing the brownie accounts, I will email them later to my guider before we meet on friday. So I am ahead already of my timetable I set myself last night!! - good start to my manic week!!

I had an email this morning from the Design Collective, so I have been on their site to see what's what before I decide wether to hook up with them or not, there's a few familiar faces around already!!!

Georgia has her final ballet class tonight prior to exam on Wednesday morning, then swimming club later.

Don't think I 'll get much scrapping done this week, but I do have a couple of cards to make, and an exploding box to finish for mother's day!!

Busy busy busy

Well this weekend has been manic to say the least - I guess it will prepare me for the most frought week of the year for us!!

When I got my pc back I signed up for the My Word class at Big Picture Scrapbooking. It took me a while to get into it, but I have to say I thoroughly enjoying it, it seems to have released a whole new creative side of me. In the past I have always just scribbled down the first thing that pops into my head for journalling my lo's, but now I am starting to put a lot more thought into it, indeed that is my starting point.

Last week we were settling back to normality, Abigail has gone back to school and been quite painfree, the hospital appointment is in the morning. I guess we won't find out much more, they will probably just do tests I would imagine and then go back in a few weeks and see what they have found.

On Friday Georgia was supposed to be going to a party, 6 - 8pm I had it written down as from the invitation. We arrived at six, just as the party was finishing. Devastated wasn't the word, it seemed to be worse as all her friends were still there, just getting ready to leave. She was invited to play the following afternoon at the little girl's house whose party it was; and the tears were finally averted by a trip right then to MacDonalds - she hadn't even had her tea!!

On Saturday we did the usual dancing malarky, but that changes next week; Georgia has her exam this week so next Saturday will move to the next class and therefore we can leave home half an hour later.

My team mate Jayne was coming up this way this weekend with her hubby and youngest daughter. They were going to Laura's to drop the things off that people had donated for Lisa's children to make memory books of their mother. She texted me earlier to say they were leaving at eight, due around half ten. We left dancing and came home, just as Georgia and I got home she phoned to say they had just arrived at Laura's. So we collected Sam and off we went. It was fabulous to see her, I have never met her in real life, but we chat on UKS and have chatted a few times at length on the phone.

I did get a shock when I saw her though. You know when you have a pre-conceived idea of what someone looks like, well I really thought I had one, as I was certain I had seen a picture of her either in her profile or in a lo; she was NOTHING like the image in my mind, and I was shocked by that, just hope it didn't show too much - I shall explain to her this week LOL

So after a drink, we left, we had to collect Abigail from dance, have a quick dinner before Georgia went to her friends and Abigail went to a party. Me and Sam went with my mum to Accrington, I wanted to go the Stationary Box which was closing down to get some writing stuff (told you I had the bug LOL)

After we went to collect everyone back up and came home!!

On Sunday I had decided that I would take Abigail to see Charlotte's Web at the cinema. I asked my mum if she would look after the two little ones as Gary wanted to do some stuff around the house. So Ab's and I had some quality mother and daughter time - I think she enjoyed it, although she got sad when Charlotte died!

And so the weekend is almost at an end, I want to do a little more writing for my course later, and prepare evreything so we can hit the ground running in the morning.

This week I am ultra busy, Monday is the hospital, Tuesday I need to make a cake or some buns for Georgia's birthday. I also need to get her presents from either my mums or behind the chair and wrap them ready for Wednesday morning!!

Aside from being her birthday, Georgia has her first ever dance exam. She will be very excited as she will get her hair made up into a bun too for the first time.

Thursday I will be creating a space rocket cake!! Glutton for punishement me!!
I will also probably do the shopping on Thursday ready for the weekend.

Friday sees Sam's third birthday, I can't believe baby Sam is going to be three. I wonder when he will stop being referred to as baby Sam LOL

Georgia has a party to go to on Saturday, and then on Sunday it is her own party - a craft party at home. Told you I was glutton for punishment!! And so Saturday evening I have to create a quite simple cake, but it has a marzipan teddy on the top - do you think a marzipan blob will have the same effect??? LOL

And so that is life up to now
busy busy busy

Emily Falconbridge - '52 week challenge'

Ok, I did the boring catch up stuff yesterday, today I want to post some pics of my new bits and bobs:

I joined this a little later in the year than most, but whilst I had no pictures to scrap whilst my pc was away - I managed to catch up with it all.

it's a 52 week chellenge, decorating playing cards, using weekly prompts from Emily's blog http://embers.typepad.com/e/mini_art_journal_challenge/index.html

The first prompt - something you are proud of...



I did this using some free papers I got from some magazine a long time ago !! I cut some letters from a magazine and just pasted them on and inked the edges.
Something I am proud of?? My children

The second prompt was what is powerful to you?



For this I backed the card with red tissue paper, I stamped the word Love onto red card and inked the edges, I stuck the card down together with a heart clip I got from some swap! and then wrote the words for my family, and inked the outer edges again

What is powerful to me? The love for my family

Week Three's prompt was "I am", but I couldn't do this at the time as I needed a phot of me and couldn't access my pics!

Week four - a symbol you love



The union Jack - I have always loved the Union Flag, I don't know why really, just sort of feel proud when I see it, proud to be British - yeah this country has a lot of bad points, and things could be better, but is that not true of everywhere and indeed everything. We mightn't have fabulous weather, we might get heavily taxed, but we have a free health care and other benefits etc etc, and me and my family are reasonably safe here unlike many other countries - and at the end of the day I am proud to be British.

Week five: use some ephemera from your week
I have done this challenge - but this morning I just re-inked the edges and so I don't want to put it in the scanner just yet!!! Will upload later this week!

Week 6: LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!



I wanted to implement the old cartoon captions "love is ..." and try and implement how i feel about love. I found this image on the web and so printed it off, used a heart eyelet and inked the edges.

Week seven: shoes - there is always a story to tell.



I wanted the caption "too Many Shoes", and a photo of lots of shoes - the photo isn't mine - that comes from Imelda!!
The caption was important to me - when we moved from our last house, I was pregnant and I had to work too on that last day, and my good friend and neighbour helped Gary with the last bits. She packed all my shoes into boxes and wrote on where they were to go in the new house - eventually she just wrote "More shoes!!" , and then finally "Too Many Shoes" !!!

I used the image and some white rub ons.

Week Eight : who (or what) do you miss?



What do I miss?? That's easy - I miss my friend Lisa dreadfully. I said in September what happened, so I am not going through that again. But as time has gone on, I have started to move on, but there are many times when things happen, sometimes in real life, and sometimes i see things on UKS, and my first thought is I must tell Lisa that - she would laugh; and then the pain starts again as I remember I can't tell her anymore, she isn't here.

This image and text is part of a lo I did from when we set the weekly challenge, the poem summed everything up for me, and we had to incporporate an angel, so i did both together, nothing else is required for me to know Who I miss.

a lunar ecllipse !!!

Last night was a lunar ecllipse - I tried to take a photo with varying levels of success - this pic was as good as it got !!!




This was Georgia - her first night at Rainbows - one very excited little girl - but when did she get so grown up!!





Abigail getting her gold merit award - she was very determined to go to school this morning - they phoned me later in the day to go and collect her, as her headaches had reappeared





and Georgia dressed as Litlle Red Riding Hood for World book Day 2007















and these two are pics of my new cj - we are doing a cj within our team on uks - and mine is entitled "what's in your Handbag" although i still have to put the title on it yet and do my intro page which will be as a leather tag on the handle - both of which will be cut by Rocco

I am really pleased with the way it has turned out, it isn't perfect, but it's different and i like it!

Anyway I think I am all caught up now - so it's off to do some ironing!!

i have been away - well my pc has anyway !!

Well where do i start !!

I got Rocco, and on the Saturday, my pc guy came round to put a new memory card in my pc - this was to make it work a bit faster cos it has been PAINFULLY slow.

Anyways that didn't help !!! He said the best thing to do was put a brand new drive in it - so he took it - right there and then!!

Didn't need to worry too much though, we got Gary's old lap top down and I used that for a while, til Cosmo (my pc LOL) arrived home, but it didn't like doing certain things - and logging onto here to update was one of those things.

So it was gone for a week, and what a week it was !

First of all on the Sunday Gary went to the tip - with all the stuff from my mad blitzing - he was alo putting the stuff I had put into boxes into bags - and he found it - Abigail's tooth!!! So he was superdaddy - til I told her she was already paid out for that one - double!

Monday they went back to school, and on Wednesday Georgia had her very first night at Rainbows - she was sooooooo excited. By this time the cream had worked miracles on Sam's legs and he was a little more settled through the night, but I think he's teething too. So the Wednesday that Georgia starts, we are about to have tea - and trust me Wednesday is a mad mad rush - straight from school to swimming, home at quarter past four, shove something down their necks for tea before now leaving at about 5.15 for Rainbows. So Sam is racing about and acting the goat - he collides with the radiator - blood EVERYWHERE - I clean him up, but he is just not interested in his tea. So we go to Rainbows but as I lift him into the car - his upper lip which hadn't been bleeding is really swollen. So when I get home - i post on uks for advice (where-else ??? !!!!), phone my Brownie guider to say i mightn't make it, and my mum for some help ferrying everyone around. So my mum went to collect georgia and also take Abigail to Brownies. When she got back Sam had settled asleep (he had decided in the interim to eat his tea) so I went for the tail end of Brownies!

On Thursday it was Thinking Day - the girls went to school in their Rainbow and Brownie uniforms - and had a great day.

Saturday - my pc is coming home the following day - so I think.
and if you're still actually with me here - we went dancing - although Abigail had woken up with a slight headache. By the time Georgia had finished her lesson Abigail was more or less slumped at the table - so I gave her some Calpol but decided to come home. She went straight to bed and fell asleep, but by 1pm she was screaming her head was so sore and I couldn't gove her any more meds til another hour at least. I phoned the docs out of hours, and they gave me some further self help advice, with instruction to phone again should she get a rash, temp rise to a certain point or vomitting. So we did as we were told.

At 1am she got up and came to me in my bed - crying cos of her head, and then said "oh my god - I'm going to be sick", promply throwing up on her way to the toilet, so I came down and phoned as told to, and got cloths to clean up. Whilst I awaited the nurses to ring back, she told me she could see two of some things - in her peripheral vision.

So I told the nurse this and she said that due to her vision problems she was going to phone the doctor. They rang me and said they had made her an appointment at 3.15 am.

So we set off in the car around 3am, he checked her out and said more than likely it was a bug but if not improved we should see the gp the following week. We got home around 4, she went to bed, but I was buzzing, so I did the ironing!!!

Sunday I had to tell the pc man we had a bug in the house - his mother was in hospital so obviously we had to take care - after calling the hospital he was advised not to go anywhere near bugs!! SO no pc !!!!!!!

Monday (and I am sure you are bored by now - but this is also serving as a diary for Abs' head journal) - she went to school - she was due a gold merit is assembly and didn't want to miss that, Georgia was off for the day - she had a sore tummy - so Gary and I went to parent's assembly - Abigail looked washed out. I never made it to Kendal - was supposed to go with Gary for the day, and had even checked out some craft shops too). Gary got home around 2 just as the school phoned - Abigail's head was hurting again.

Tuesday they both stayed off and I booked them into the gp's.
The GP seemed concerned that Abigail was waking during the night with head pains, this is rare he said, so he was referring her urgently to a specialist; Georgia by this time was bouncing around - full recovered methinks!!

We kept Abigail off school as advised Weds and Thurs - she missed the show which we were supposed to be going to - but thankfully we got our money back, and she missed dressing up at school for World Book Day - Georgia went dressed as Little Red Riding Hood as per Abigail's outfit last year.

Abigail was eventually painfree by Thursday, but we kept her off Friday too, and decided she shouldn't dance on Saturday.

On Friday I got a call from the GP's - she has her appoitment Mon 12th March at Rochdale (where's that !!!) I have to pick up a letter on Monday.

So Saturday arrives, we went dancing again - Geoprgia's rehearsal with the pianist for her ballet exam, and then came home.

And then at just before midday - my pc came home too!!! It's working a treat so far, and I can play with Rocco again - and I have a couple of other bits of software on to to mess about with.

Hopefully though next week is more back to normal and I can continue blitzing!!!

See you soon
xx