What is it about television remote controls that automatically attract the attention of the male of the species. I sit, relaxing and waiting for the pain to diminish, watching television and enjoying the programme. He, enters the lounge, makes straight for the remote control, flickers through about 80 channels, settles on a fishing programme, walks ( Read more... )

I have listed some of Jay's stuff onto eBay. Each item is guitar and music related electronic equipment for use in the UK. Each auction clearly states UK ONLY and I have set my auction preferences to UK only too.  So WHY THE FUCK do people from Uraguay, Nigeria and Italy send messages saying "you ship to Italy yes?" or "I buy now you send Uraguay" ( Read more... )

For the past six months or so the Council have been renovating the houses over the road. They have had scaffolding up and down again on numerous occasions, a roof removed and replaced twice, new double glazed windows three times to the same property, complete stripping and re-rendering twice to the same house, and now they are outside again making ( Read more... )

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I has black and purple hair :-D

Busy weekend, involving a long drive, a few drinks, seeing old friends, tolerating some truly awful music, crashing out in a Premier Inn, long drive back, painful back and joints, paying the price for the weekend, and  ......... realising that next weekend will be MANIC !!!

Yesterday afternoon I took the car up to the local car wash and had it jet washed, soaped up and sponged off, and all the Sawley Farm mud removed.

This morning the car was covered in a very noticeable layer of dust

so much for the car wash then

What a strange start to the week. Up at 6am and driving Jay into work then back home and two loads of washing into the machine before heading out to do battle around Sainsburys. Massive load of shopping unloaded and all put away, kitchen cleaned up, living room and landing hoovered, half the washing already dry and now waiting to be folded and put ( Read more... )

Home and deblacked, living room full of bags of kit, Jay currently heading to the Chinese takeaway.  So, the weekend ( Read more... )

Picked up our weddings rings yesterday :-D  Time is ticking away a lot faster than I anticipated