Ahhh The Ruskin Arms; it used to be a regular haunt before I was ill. Drew took me, Mike and Karl up there Saturday, Kev wasn't feeling that well, and I had the most excellent time. Not sure how a good a time Mike and Karl had but I loved it and Drew seemed to as well. He was exhausted yesterday, he spent most of it dozing on the sofa bless his ( Read more... )

Just a mini-rant, shouldn't be more that three or four pages long. HAH! Mike is being a pain in the proverbial at the moment. He's all loved up but his basic selfish nature hasn't changed one iota. He wants his girlfriend to be here for Easter but he isn't prepared to lift one little finger to help in the process. I'm the one who has to cook, clean ( Read more... )

Things seem to be going well on the approach to Easter. Of course there's many a slip twixt cup and lip, so I am prepared for everything to go pushed over cow. Mike and his young lady will be turning up Good Friday, we should be having a gathering in the evening, Drew will be turning up on Saturday afternoon and I will probably be having a nervous ( Read more... )

My little bird is kingfisher8867, or Drew as he is known to me, he's adorable, loving, generous of heart, mind and body and my lover. It's not exactly a secret, though I don't tend to go out of my way to tell the neighbours as Bug is still only 13 and it isn't exactly something you want to think about when it's your mum involved is it? But for all ( Read more... )

Went to help out at Bug's school last night. Bug came along because and I quote: "It's the girls dancing, I mean; it's GIRLS!" The teen letch, so much like his father, bless. So we did drinks and sweets, I was on the drink counter. I personally think we could have done tea and coffee quite easily but the person organising had it all decided. I've ( Read more... )

Can't believe how incrdible militant and well rabid people get on line. It's like they lose all the social inhibitions they have in the real world and start telling people how it should be and what they should do. I belong to a couple of forums and of course a couple of LJ comms too, over and over I see people come in dissaprove of something and ( Read more... )

Wow aren't I getting dramatic with these titles? I just felt like typing and have no idea where this is going but we all go somewhere don't we? Drew stopped over the weekend and will be here next weekend too. I had the most peculiar thought last night when talking to Kev, I said that if Drew is still part of our family when our boys finally have ( Read more... )

Yes I know, I've mentioned a lot of people in my life but not who I am. Well, to be ridiculously predictable, I am me. I am fat, love the honesty of that word, I am slightly wrinkly and very saggy, I am not well yet though closer than I was. I have been very ill, I escaped worse problems by getting it sorted in time but the consultant told me if I ( Read more... )

I love gatherings, when the Usual Suspects and a few others come along for the evening to eat drink and be merry. Sometimes it's a quiet thing though more usually it's an insane thing and I am much too old to be acting much too young. Re-living the party years I missed when I was a young mum and completely under my mothers thumb; hmmm let us not go ( Read more... )

Before Kev starts his new job. We've had a three week holiday and he's a bit grumpy because he has to go back to work so soon but we know this is possibly the oppurtunity of his career life. It's a pay cut at the moment, at least until he gets his A+ qualifications, but this is a fairly new company so he is getting on at one of the lower floors and ( Read more... )