Happy New Year!

I realise I'm a few days behind but I had a screaming migraine all day yesterday which kept me in bed for most of the day. Anyway, I hope the New Year brings you everything you desire!

In other news, we transformed a cheap chest of drawers into a cheap chest of drawers with a new front to them...



I think they've come out well, and now at least they match the rest of the room. We also bought new bedlinen in the sales that go too. That room is now the most expensive in the house. I'm considering putting my pc back in there, but it looks so nice that I don't want anything messing it up, next stop the rest of the house! We've decided to do the living room next because we figure that will be the least expensive (touch wood) to do. I'm also going to paint the kitchen because the hospital green is getting on my nerves.

I wish it could be Christmas every day

Firstly, Merry Christmas to all those I didn't speak to these past few days!

I really enjoyed going to mum and dad's this festive period and was a bit sad to come back to Preston, although the weather has been lovely here today. I think the chickens rule the roost (if you'll pardon the pun) as they have spent much of my time there in the front garden eating all the herbs when they were supposed to be in their area. Christmas was lovely, got some lovely gifts including a cook book with some recipes in it by mum, and a chicken plate painted by her own fair hand.

We've had Christmas Day 2 today as His Lordship and I weren't together for the actual day. This is a tradition I might continue as it's meant a few days of opening presents!?! His Lordship bought me some new needles for my decks, a voucher for the hairdressers, a food processor and some new shoes. These ones in fact.... http://www.faith.co.uk/productdetails.aspx?pid=231200&language=en-GB&cid=platform_wedges_court_shoes

Thanks also to Aunty Sonia for her kind gifts, it was nice to speak to Liam and Natasha as well, it sounded like much fun was being had by all there!

Waiting for Godot

So, this morning at around 8:30am the cooker man rang to tell us he would be with us between 12pm and 3pm. This gave us some hours in town to try and buy the Christmas presents we haven't yet. We basically ran around town because we thought, nay hoped that the cooker man would be coming around the 12 mark rather than 3. Well, we got back just before 12, and waited, and waited, then waited. 1 came and went, 2 came and went, then 3 came and went. He eventually turned up around half past after sitting outside in his van for at least 20 minutes. When he eventually decided to come in, his reason for being late was that he was watching a plane circling. Not just any plane mind you, a plane that looked like it was going to crash land and was circling to get rid of it's fuel. Apparently his brother had seen it and called him to say he could see it and that it looked like only one of it's wheels was down. Cue much speculation as to whether it was going to make a crash landing. Now, I'm not overly certain this wasn't an elaborate excuse, but I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt as he's fixed my cooker and it now reaches top temperature.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

This morning, I left my house to go to work, the floor was a bit wet but nothing out of the ordinary. I got half way to work and suddenly, SNOW EVERYWHERE! Seems the East of the county has faired rather badly where the weather is concerned with a couple of my colleagues even snowed in. I hope we've got it out of the way before Christmas otherwise it's going to be a fun cross country trip.

We put our Christmas decorationss up yesterday as well, it's all looking very festive now. AND the best news is that Morrisons are now stocking my FAVOURITE fudge yule log which they only make in December. We've bought one and tried a little piece today, just for testing purposes you understand.

Back safe and sound

I've been in Sheffield again this weekend for the second hen night. We went for a meal to an Italian restaurant which served MASSIVE portions, the ended up in one pub. Our Muneer put me up and it was lovely to see both him and Pauline. I also popped in to see Our Lisa, and cannot believe how grown up her boys are! I've added them all on facebook so we'll all be able to see what's going on with each other by the magic of the Internet. I also popped in to see Aunty Sonia and Michael and managed to stupidly leave my mobile there! I'm not good at remembering it, I often leave it at home and only miss it when I'm supposed to ring His Lordship from work.

In other news, I think Cousin Dearest has misunderstood the new President Elect and I fail to see how helping the poorer off in society can be a bad thing! Has capitalism eaten his soul???! It doesn't matter whether he ran on that policy or not, he's going to be in the top job for four years and will most certainly do things he didn't announce when running. He's also a democrat so I don't know why there is surprise that he might raise taxes!!!!

Mary Sue, Aunty Sonia passed on a recipe from you so I'll test it out and get back to you on how I get on.

Barack Obama

Despite what my miserable cousin may think, I believe Obama winning this election to be one of the most monumental moments in the World's history. Listening to his victory speech brought a tear to my eye as I thought that only forty years ago (in my own parent's lifetimes) black people were denied the right to vote and were denied the right to live equally. It demonstrates how far the World has come, and especially how far America has come. I think it's a beautiful thing that when it came to it, it was the person and not the colour of someones skin that won out in the end. As for what he will achieve, he's already a change from the Bush administration and from the Republican ideal, and that in itself is enough for now. Give the guy a chance to prove himself on everything else, and if he doesn't, well, we'll cross that bridge when it comes to it.

I'll leave you with this....

"The Americans will always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities" - Sir Winston Churchill

Hen night and other assorted news...

So, this weekend was the official hen night to London. We kicked it all off with a visit to the West End to see Chicago. This is one of the bride to be's favourites and we surprised her with a matinee performance in the afternoon. I didn't much like it, but it's not for me to! We then went for a curry to a restaurant recommended by one of my friends who is half Indian. It's the only Indian restaurant her dad will go to and I must say it was delicious. No beef and plenty of vegetarian dishes. it was also fairly reasonably priced for London too! On the second day we went to afternoon tea at Browns Hotel. This was very nice for a treat but wickedly expensive for what it was. We did have the champagne tea though as it was a special occasion! Later that day we went a little more down market and went on a disco boat along the Thames. It was hilariously bad, and that made it good. There was another hen party on the boat and they were all in fancy dress. One of them was there as Amy Winehouse, and she lent me her wig so I could pose for a photo....how do you like it?



Hen night part two is this weekend and Muneer has kindly agreed to have me stay as there was no room at the Inn at the bride's house. It's also the final dress fitting, so we'll see how well that goes!!!

I appear to have come late to this censorship issue and am unsure what it relates to, but I will say this, people should be allowed to write what they want in their own blogs. I also think that maybe sometimes it's hard to convey meaning in text. I doubt very much that anyone would be intentionally trying to cause anyone pain either!

And finally, BARACK OBAMA TO WIN!!!