This is me

I did something on Face book a couple of nights ago that i don't normally do!....upload photos, well not of me anyway, but i did. I let my detection go... found out... and now have to own up. I'm not doing this cos i want to, I'm doing this as Gillian Barry @springlamb pleaded with me to show my mug to the world....OMG! here go's i wont babble on so this is me...1,2,3,

Christmas 2011

Can i just say, I hope you all had a wonderful new year and a great Christmas. I went home to my family after an absence of two years! well overdue and greatly welcomed. Mum looked well but i know she's still very poorly and can not walk walk far now, but that didn't stop us both hugging each other. Ted was just glad to see me home.

On Christmas day ceri (mums sister) called over to have Christmas dinner with us. She is also recovering from cancer. Her hair is growing back now and her nails are still distorted but they are not black any more after using a solution like cream to rub on. They both been there for each other when one of them became ill and still are. Their bond is very strong.
I wanted to take a photo of them together with pat (younger sister) no one would budge! but got this shot just as ceri was leaving.

Photo of mum and pat ( she has downs) opening presents after our dinner. Mum no longer can look after her and is living with carers in a house five miles away. Its a lovely house and so homely even i wanted to move in. By 4pm she was ready to go and mum and i took her home i guess now. Bless you pat...was put through the mill last year when there was lump found on her breast. Thankfully she has the all clear now.

Everyone loved there presents this year, me included and had a theme to them...the colour purple..lol. Purple hat and scarf, purple pjs, purple dressing gown and purple money. Purple is the new black this year.

                                                         Starlings on christmas evening

Call the fire brigade

There's nothing better than a shower to start the day. Hair semi dried i started to straiten it when i hear in the distance someone beating the door, thinking nothing of it i carry on what im doing. Then bang! Bang! On my neighbour’s door opposite then something about a fire, just as i look through the peep hole in my door Bang! Bang! and shouts of fire and help!! Downing my tools i rushed to open my door and my neighbour doing the same. We both hesitated outside when the young lass ran back in her flat. (We both looked at each other her in her PJs and coat and me in my scruffs and hair sticking up all over the place) trying not to think what we must look like we went in and there was smoke everywhere, it was so thick i couldn’t see. I quickly opened the window in the bedroom, then back to the living room where my neighbour opened the window there. The fire was in the kitchen on the draining board and i quickly turned on the taps. Not knowing where the T towels were i just grabbed a bath towel off the radiator and soaked it under the tap to dowse the flames. The smoke was making me cough and had to get out. I asked the young girl if she was ok, and asked if she forgot about the food in the oven. Sheepishly she did. Luckily it was only a small fire and it was out in minutes, but she was very lucky it wasn’t any worse. Id heard the young girl phoning the emergency service while i was tackling the small fire but it was out before they came. I went back inside my flat smelling of smoke and hair all over the place and the door frame hanging off and my straitners on the carpet still on! I know why the door frame came off, id tried to open the door with the chain on and id just dropped my straitners.
Once id finished straitening my hair again i heard the sirens going passed...WTF the poor gal could be burning to death in there, then five minutes later i heard them coming back through the village and turning into the car park. So please check your smoke alarms this chrismas.

Its not the easiest of address to find. I once had an ambulance at my door to take me to hospital and one ex bf went right through the village looking for my address. Id even had to cancel my take a way as the driver was going nuts.
                            

On the busses

Lets be honest, the bus is convenient..its there when its there and when your running for that bus it drives off and you wait for the next one to turn up. Now the bus stops in my village are few and far between. There's one in the village right outside to co op next one couple of yards from the first with one on opposite side of the road and the next one is five minutes going out the village and that's the one i head to as im going out the village. Now i could be standing there waiting and i would see one bus coming! and it would drive past and im thinking why didn't the twat stop! then another would come along and drive past...fucking twat!! after 4 buses i actually get on one and you have to give correct change witch is annoying. When i need to be somewhere i need to get off and wait for another so more money and sometimes have to give them more than the price of the ticket! so they're raking it in, and have to repeat that going back home. One week id spent over £13 that's more than a weeks petrol for me. Last week i was standing at my usual stop, got on the bus and the bus breaks down by the time he reaches the next stop! ( didn't i break down here before)... Like i said the bus is handy when you need them. You get on a bus some days and it takes off with so much acceleration  im flying down the middle with such G force i miss my seat! not so funny when you have bags of shopping in each hand and land head first onto someones lap. I on the other hand dont like buses but least they there of which i wont be using very soon.

Tow the line

I'll be glad to see the back of this month, so much has happened in a short space of time has been like a weight on my shoulders. (Im not even going to mention all the personal stuff as i dont have the time) But one thing i will share with you is... My car had been playing up with the lights on my dashboard flashing up and basically driving me mad, even after looking under the bonnet to see whats what! hell i dont know im a woman what do i know about engines apart from checking water/oil and the tyres. But i always take the risk and drive it anyway. The lights would go off some weeks then back on. But one morning i sort of knew i was going to have a bad day! i had to be somewhere in the morning and yes the lights came on and sort of spluttered. I kept telling myself its just cold and it'll warm up and everything would be fine. When i got back to my car an hour later i drove home, let the car cool down and i'll will investigate under the bonnet again!. I checked the water..ok checked the antifreeze...emty so fill it up, checked the oil Mmm, could do with a bit more... now the test drive, ok so far so drove into town then back again, just as i was driving back up the brow of the hill cough cough, smoke everywhere, broke down! pulled over to the other side of the road dead.
Phoned the garage no answer, phoned my friends husband, no answer, phoned garage again oh bugger what to do now! Waited a while panicking waited, waited and waited tried to start the car again and it was fine so drove off slowly but didnt get far, so hazard lights on wait then tried again...(while this was going on not one person stopped to see if i was ok.) I could see my flat so im not far to go so waited for the car to cool down then i would drive in second very slowly with hazard lights still on and chugg chugg...puff puff home. One motorist decided to drive next to me and take the piss then drive off another blue transit drove behind me as if to guide me but i was turning off into the car park at this time so he didnt bother. I parked up and thats where it stayed for 3 weeks.Id had enough to deal with personly i didnt need this on top. Catching busses were pain but i'll talk about that another time.

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Now the fun bit....
Id actually had enough of busses and decided to phone the garage man to expain what had happened to my car on thursday morning. I told a little white lie that id broke down 2 days ago.
Right hen, what car do you have?
Vaxaull corsa...
you been here before havnt you?
yes im the welsh lady.
Aye i remember you! ok can you drive down to the garage?
Well it starts but weather it'll drive is another thing.
Ok you do that and if you dont make it in 20 minutes i'll come out to you.
We'd discussed what road i was going to take as the main road had road works and traffic was bedlam.
I was to take the back road that leads past the new college, round two major roundabouts eeek! and turn into the endustrail est....that was the plan.
Got into the car drove through the village got round one roundabout through the other side of the village then puff dead.
Anyway phoned the garage man. Hellooo welsh lady here, just to let you know i didnt make it. Ten minutes later he arrives, starts the car smoke every where.

you've put too much oil in thats why its breaking down...He askes if id been towed before, yes many moons ago... he gets out his tow rope..well half of rope and half of seatbelts, looks for my hook but dont have one! so finds something i dont know what and tells me to get in then gave me instructions on when he was going to brake. Shit im starting to hyperventilate when suddenly we're on the move. Im making noises now going oh' oh' oh' oh' then see the first roundabout aaaaah!!! next roundabout oooow! its harder to brake and ive got hardly any strearing...he brakes quickly to warn me, i hit the brake danm hard going oh' oh' oh'. We get the major roundabout that leads past the college but no we're going past road works! noooo! oh'oh'oh' shit im hoping the rope/seatbelts holds till we get to the garage. We turn off another back road and its up hill all the way and im repeating myself please hold please hold. I was glad we got to the garage in one peice. Legs shaking  i get out and the garage man laughs and said that was a good tow well done. (yeah but you didnt hear the noises i was making ) I colect my car hours later and said my car is spick and span nothing wrong with it apart from too much oil and doesnt know why my lights kept flashing. If there's one thing ive learned on thursday is... Dont put too much oil in.  D'oh