This lady is a tramp...


I was looking forward to catching up with people this weekend, hotel booked etc but in reality I am not well enough to cope with a 4 /5 hour drive ( taking 2 naps a day at present though not ill just tired / weary ). So my much anticipated and looked forward to weekend did not happen :-(

However, this I think was Fate Lady.......

When we should have been up north but in reality sat at dinner table eating chicken and potato cakes with a friend (Michelle - who rang up last minute for a catch up) a phone call from my Mum... I have fallen cannot stand up, on my hands and knees. My 80 year old Mum had fallen outside and crawled in to ring for help.

This was at half past 8, we drove over and took her straight to A & E - ankle broken. after three attempts at putting it right (the last one was correct under a big dose of morphine) so that they could operate today, Home at 01:30). Grateful that Michelle could stay in the house with Tash (Another tale with this for another time, tash was as usual tash)

Mum was operated on this morning and will be living with us for 6 weeks from tomorrow or the day after (non weight bearing) zimmer frame included !!

On a good note had a phone call from somebody close to our hearts and it was brilliant to hear them happy and to talk.

Stress free time ....... NOT ..... ho hum

Beautiful flowers -

The other week.....

Florida May 2009 .....one of the many rides we went on wheeeeeeee

High fashion.... as per the Sunday Times.... plus sized models used by Mark fast on his London catwalk show of knitwear. His stylist walked out over this decision because they could not sashay down the catwalk as well as the slimmer models.

Good on you I thought.........

Till reading further down the article.....

The models were .....

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Size 12 and perfectly in proportion.   Ho Hum.

The Bucket List. Place an X by all the things you've done and remove the X from the ones you have not.
Things you have done during your lifetime:
(x) Gone on a blind date
(x ) Gave blood
(x) Skipped school
(x) Watched someone die
(x) Been to Mexico
(x) Been to Florida
() Been to Hawaii
(x) Been on a plane
(x) Been on a helicopter
(x) Been lost
(x) Gone to Washington, DC
(x) Ridden in a police car
( ) Hugged a homeless person
(x) Swam in the ocean
(x) Swam with stingrays
(x) Been sailing in the ocean
(x) Cried yourself to sleep
(x) Played cops and robbers
(x) Recently coloured with crayons ( I am English)
( ) Ran a marathon -
(x) Sang Karaoke
( ) Volunteered at a soup kitchen
(x) Paid for a meal with coins only
() Been to the top of the St. Louis Arch
() Seen the northern lights
() Been para sailing
( ) Been on TV
(x) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't
(x) Made prank phone calls
() Been down Bourbon Street in New Orleans
(x) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
() Fed a Giraffe
(x) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
( ) Fired a gun
(x) Danced in the rain
(x) Been to the opera
(x) Written a letter to Santa Claus
(x) Serenaded someone
() Seen a US President in person -
(x) Been kissed under the mistletoe
(x) Watched the sunrise with someone
() Driven a race car
(x) Been to a National Museum
(x) Been to a wax museum
(x) Eaten caviar
(x) Blown bubbles
(x) Gone ice-skating
(x) Gone to the movies
() Been deep sea fishing
(x) Driven across the United States - well a few states!
() Been in a hot air balloon
() Been sky diving
() Gone snowmobiling
(x) Lived in more than one country
(x) Lay down outside at night and admired the stars while listening to the crickets
(x) Seen a falling star and made a wish
() Enjoyed the beauty of Old Faithful Geyser
( ) Seen the Grand Canyon
(x) Seen the Statue of Liberty
( ) Gone to the top of Seattle Space Needle
(x) Been on a cruise
(x) Traveled by train
() Traveled by motorcycle
(x) Been horse back riding
( ) Ridden on a San Francisco CABLE CAR
(x) Been to Disneyland/Disney world
(x) Been in a rain forest
(x) Seen whales in the ocean
() Been to Niagara Falls
() Ridden on an elephant
(x) Swam with dolphins
() Been to the Olympics
() Walked on the Great Wall of China
() Saw and heard a glacier calf
() Been spinnaker flying -
(x) Been water-skiing
(x) Been snow-skiing
(x) Been to Westminster Abbey
(x) Been to the Louvre
(x) Swam in the Mediterranean
( ) Been to a Major League Baseball game
( ) Been to a National Football League game
(x) Swam with sharks
(x) Been White Water Rafting
() Written a book or screen play
() Been to a Tournament of Roses Parade
(x) Lived in more than one state
(x) Become a parent
() Been Bungee Jumping
( ) Been to Vegas
() Been to a minor league baseball game
( ) Worked on a political campaign
(x) Been to the top of the World Trade Center or Empire State Building
(x) Ridden a Subway
( ) Been to your High School Reunion

Personal bucket list.....hmmmm

Retrain as a teacher
Keep in touch with people
Own / ride a motorbike

Ingredients

• 4 tablespoons  of self-raising flour
• 4 tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons cocoa
• 1 egg
• 3 tablespoons milk
• 3 tablespoons oil
• 3 tablespoons chocolate chips or (optional)
• A small splash of vanilla extract and your favourite tipple
• 1 large coffee mug

Method

1. Add the dry ingredients to your largest mug and mix them well.

2. Add the egg and mix thoroughly.

3. Pour in the milk and oil and mix well.

4. Add the chocolate chips (if you  are using), vanilla extract and a drop or two of your favourite tipple, then mix again.

5. Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts (high).

6. The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don’t be alarmed!

7. Allow to cool and tip onto a plate

To serve

A totally dressed up version of this cake ready to serve to dinner guests, is shown at the top of this article. You could eat the whole thing yourself, but I would cut it in half as it serves two generous portions.

If you are feeling really naughty you could either serve it with thick cream or Baileys Cream. It’s also delicious with home made strawberry jam (check out our strawberry jam recipe in the links below).

And why is this chocolate cake so dangerous? Because now you are only 3 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time of the day or night. Enjoy!

Tenby on a damp grey day, but the town opened earlier than Blaenavon lol.



Some parts a bit tired but liked the area



and I haven't seen one of these for years !



Off to London today - not a jolly - but working in a reptile shop where everything scuttles round you.....

www.youtube.com/watch

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The BBC allegedly believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here:

How do your reading habits stack up?

bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish oh and underline the ones you want to read

 

The BBC allegedly believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here:

How do your reading habits stack up?

bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish oh and underline the ones you want to read

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (I started reading it in the shop...)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Blagged from another blog, thought it might be of interest

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" As many of you (usually like myself) don't pay attention to every move they make, and I can tell 800 of you at once: You should know that Livejournal laid off almost half of their staff today, apparently including their engineers.

Here is a story about it.

http://valleywag.gawker.com/5124184/the-russian-bear-slashes-a-social-network

It might be prudent to back up your journal.

This page offers some suggestions how to most effectively go about it.

http://chipuni.livejournal.com/620260.html

If any of you have an further suggestions, please share with everyone in the comments."

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Might not be a bad idea to do a back up just as a precaution