Just looked at your blog, Gary. Loved the fuzzy photos.
Fuzz is better than nothing :)
You see the second one of Isis and Sima? Is Sima chewing Isis' ear?
Tuesday, 20 January 2009
Tuesday morning
I have just read the misinformation reported by 'daughter 2' (seen in the photo above when we were down in Cornwall in April 2007) and I am not going to let this slur go unchallenged! :)
I have never said, "Ross has a narrow throat and that's why he can't swallow pills!"
I did say that he was like his Granny Lottie who also had trouble all her life swallowing pills and I did say that he has narrow canals in his ears which is probably why he has discomfort taking off and landing when travelling on planes and why when he gets a cold he tends to get deaf but I have never said that he has a narrow throat!
The information about his ears came from a doctor during an examination, years ago when he was a wee boy, so there! :)
Get your facts right Tootie Annie!
Monday, 19 January 2009
Monday lunchtime
I have just finished making the bed and now know for sure that I am no princess!
Luca found Ian's change sitting on the bedside table last night and decided it would be fun to fling the coins onto the bed (which I hadn't made yesterday - shame on me!).
I have just discovered that I slept on top of one 5p piece and two pennies all night and never knew a thing about it!
Talk about a hundred mattresses, I don't even need one!
Luca found Ian's change sitting on the bedside table last night and decided it would be fun to fling the coins onto the bed (which I hadn't made yesterday - shame on me!).
I have just discovered that I slept on top of one 5p piece and two pennies all night and never knew a thing about it!
Talk about a hundred mattresses, I don't even need one!
Monday morning
Look at the wonky cushion on the two seater setee - we all agree, don't we that it isn't comfortable to sit on? Well now it has chewing gum stuck to it!
The chewing gum has also ruined a good pair of Ian's trousers and damaged his car seat because some idiot left chewing gum on a surface and he sat on.
He thinks it may have been the squash court that had the offending seat, in which case he has also damaged a seat in the Legion!
What a mess!
So this morning, I phoned Harvey's Homeserve to remind them that they needed to get in touch with me about arranging a home visit to inspect the uncomfortable cushion and while I was on the phone I mentioned the chewing gum.
"We can probably kill two birds with one stone, here!" she said cheerily. "I can organise to send both technicians at the same time!"
Wonderful I thought.
My elation was short lived. There was a problem. The insurance had been taken out in Ian's name and because of 'The Data Protection Act', only he can deal with the insurance.
This is the second time I have been thwarted by 'The Data Protection Act'. The last time was when Harvey's Store in Kittybrewster could not pass my complaint onto their complaints department.
It was my complaint, I had to do it, because they could not pass my details on because of, yes you have it, 'The Data Protection Act'!
Sunday, 18 January 2009
Sunday afternoon
Although we woke to a bright cold morning, the black clouds are coming in from the west and it's getting darker.
Ian says the weather report has forecast snow which isn't good news for Ian as he is heading down to Manchester tomorrow to see a football match!
I find it hard to believe it's now more than a week since I last wrote. Where has the time gone?
The beginning of my week did include a fair bit of knitting...the batch of red wool (ordered from John Lewis before Christmas) that I bought to make Luca's cardigan took so long to come, I bought more wool from 'Lovies' in Inverurie to use instead. Now, of course, I am having to knit a second cardigan with the wool which should have knitted the first cardigan!
This one will have a V neck just to make a change. More practise in picking up stitches round the neck!
It's now quarter to ten at night. I had to stop writing because Gary and Luca arrived to watch the football. We had tea after they left and then Aunt Mary phoned for a chat so I'll make the effort to catch up properly tomorrow.
I found some Thornton's chocolate covered toffee in a drawer of Granny's wall unit. No, it hadn't been there since Granny had the unit, I put it there at Christmas time and forgot it till now. Yumm!
Ian says the weather report has forecast snow which isn't good news for Ian as he is heading down to Manchester tomorrow to see a football match!
I find it hard to believe it's now more than a week since I last wrote. Where has the time gone?
The beginning of my week did include a fair bit of knitting...the batch of red wool (ordered from John Lewis before Christmas) that I bought to make Luca's cardigan took so long to come, I bought more wool from 'Lovies' in Inverurie to use instead. Now, of course, I am having to knit a second cardigan with the wool which should have knitted the first cardigan!
This one will have a V neck just to make a change. More practise in picking up stitches round the neck!
It's now quarter to ten at night. I had to stop writing because Gary and Luca arrived to watch the football. We had tea after they left and then Aunt Mary phoned for a chat so I'll make the effort to catch up properly tomorrow.
I found some Thornton's chocolate covered toffee in a drawer of Granny's wall unit. No, it hadn't been there since Granny had the unit, I put it there at Christmas time and forgot it till now. Yumm!
Saturday, 10 January 2009
Saturday afternoon
Ive been to the shops this morning and all the food is sitting on the kitchen table waiting to be put away, but I need to clean the fridge before I put anything else in, so I've decided to update the blog :)
I did try, during the week, to upload the birthday video - left it uploading for 24 hours but the little circle at the bottom left hand side just kept on turning.
Ian has volunteered to have a try on his computer later on - so thank you, Ian!
I've left Ian sitting in the TV room. He is having trouble with Merlin - I think that was what he called the programme.
It is the programme he uses to put 'East Enders' onto CD :(
I'm sure it's only a temporary blip, Lucy!!
It's been a busy week, I'm sure, although I am having trouble thinking back to what I've done in all those hours.
The beginning of the week was some serious knitting practise. It must be over 20 years since I ever did any serious knitting...you know actually made something. I remember knitting a couple of wee dresses for a very wee Kelly when we lived in Edinburgh but thats about it.
Both my sisters are very good knitters but my tension was always too slack! :)
When you were expecting Luca, Carole, I started a little cardigan but it's lying unfinished on the couch behind me as I write ...the back and part of one side completed.
I decided when I retired that I would have a bash at knitting again and so I decided...small being best, I would attempt to knit a cardigan for Luca, one more time.
Well, success...almost. I stayed in bed till two oclock on Tuesday trying to pick up the stitches around the neck and with a lot of perseverence and one dreadful tension headache, I did it! :)
I bought some little buttons on Wednesday when Johanne and I went down the village so any day now, the cardigan will be finished.
Lucy, I feel you need to take some of the thanks for this accomplishment.
If it hadn't been for your Christmas basket, I would have had nowhere to keep all my bits and pieces.
Check out your basket...
Just right, or as the buzz phrase of the moment would put it, 'Fit for purpose'!
"Well," said Gary when he was leaving on Wednesday night with Luca who had only eaten a yoghurt, two apple and pear purees (each equivalent to one portion of fruit for the day) and and half an oatcake for his tea, turning down fish and chips, "this just isn't good enough!"
I'm so sorry, Gary, we will try to do better next time. Please give us a second chance! :( :)
On Thursday, I walked to the Milton for a coffee with Anne. She sent me a text, "How to you fancy a wee walk and a large coffee this morning?"
Well, yes. That sounded good. I think we may have got our adjectives in the wrong place. We were out for over three hours in the end and Ian reckons we probably walked about 6 miles.
We had to have coffee al fresco because we had Kudjo with us but it was a beautiful sunny day and we were well wrapped up...I was wearing double simmet under my woolly jumper and my 'Deeside Brewery' hat.
Here are some photos I took while we were out.
Can you see the ice in the river?
Just look how lovely it is. No wonder we didn't realise we were walking so far.
I did try, during the week, to upload the birthday video - left it uploading for 24 hours but the little circle at the bottom left hand side just kept on turning.
Ian has volunteered to have a try on his computer later on - so thank you, Ian!
I've left Ian sitting in the TV room. He is having trouble with Merlin - I think that was what he called the programme.
It is the programme he uses to put 'East Enders' onto CD :(
I'm sure it's only a temporary blip, Lucy!!
It's been a busy week, I'm sure, although I am having trouble thinking back to what I've done in all those hours.
The beginning of the week was some serious knitting practise. It must be over 20 years since I ever did any serious knitting...you know actually made something. I remember knitting a couple of wee dresses for a very wee Kelly when we lived in Edinburgh but thats about it.
Both my sisters are very good knitters but my tension was always too slack! :)
When you were expecting Luca, Carole, I started a little cardigan but it's lying unfinished on the couch behind me as I write ...the back and part of one side completed.
I decided when I retired that I would have a bash at knitting again and so I decided...small being best, I would attempt to knit a cardigan for Luca, one more time.
Well, success...almost. I stayed in bed till two oclock on Tuesday trying to pick up the stitches around the neck and with a lot of perseverence and one dreadful tension headache, I did it! :)
I bought some little buttons on Wednesday when Johanne and I went down the village so any day now, the cardigan will be finished.
Lucy, I feel you need to take some of the thanks for this accomplishment.
If it hadn't been for your Christmas basket, I would have had nowhere to keep all my bits and pieces.
Check out your basket...
Just right, or as the buzz phrase of the moment would put it, 'Fit for purpose'!"Well," said Gary when he was leaving on Wednesday night with Luca who had only eaten a yoghurt, two apple and pear purees (each equivalent to one portion of fruit for the day) and and half an oatcake for his tea, turning down fish and chips, "this just isn't good enough!"
I'm so sorry, Gary, we will try to do better next time. Please give us a second chance! :( :)
On Thursday, I walked to the Milton for a coffee with Anne. She sent me a text, "How to you fancy a wee walk and a large coffee this morning?"
Well, yes. That sounded good. I think we may have got our adjectives in the wrong place. We were out for over three hours in the end and Ian reckons we probably walked about 6 miles.
We had to have coffee al fresco because we had Kudjo with us but it was a beautiful sunny day and we were well wrapped up...I was wearing double simmet under my woolly jumper and my 'Deeside Brewery' hat.
Here are some photos I took while we were out.
Can you see the ice in the river?
Just look how lovely it is. No wonder we didn't realise we were walking so far.
Saturday, 3 January 2009
Saturday 3rd January
Is it really so long since I made an entry?
I feel as though I've been immersed in my own wee time bubble for the last few days. Motionless, I've watched time fly past on the outside unable to reach out and touch it...but I'm back.
New Year was freezing cold!
We had seen in the New Year with Anne and Les up at Johanne and Colin's house which is a good spot for watching the fireworks, being on top of the hill.
Anyway it was so cold when we left to come home, my teeth started chattering! It's years since I chittered or chattered for that matter.
I didn't waken till about ten on New Year's morning so I had hardly surfaced when Gary and Luca appeared. Not that I'm complaining.
At the moment, Ian and I are Amma and Daddad and Luca is Hacka. It's so cute!
Ross isn't too bad, he's Woss.
I will have to be careful though because I have caught myself calling Luca, Hacka!
Yesterday, I drove into Aberdeen in the afternoon to catch up with Sylvia. I hadn't seen her since the school holidays back in October.
Jim, Sylvia's husband, is still at home. He works off shore. I think he is in the North Sea just now but he has been in all sorts of amazing places.
Jim's nephew has joined the SAS or something. He has been a soldier for years. Anyway, their medical check ups are very thorough and they discovered that he is mortally allergic to some anesthetic... don't think Jim said which one but the condition is hereditery so they tested his parents to see which line of the family it had come through and it was Jim's brother who tested positive.
So Jim had to be tested too...in Leeds!
The doctors cut a small piece of your leg muscle out and expose it to the anesthetic. If it curls up and turns black, you have the disorder.
Jim tested negative.
Spent a very enjoyable afternoon with Sylvia. It was good to see her again.
We finished the piece of beef from the butchers last night and we all agreed it was lovely. Ross suggested it was even nicer last night than it had been the night before but I think it was probably tasting better because the atmosphere was lighter.
I had a stooshy at teatime the night before last - the first night we ate the beef. Poor Ian got the brunt of it. All he did was come in when he was called, and ask what was for tea... and I ate him!
No excuses... I was tired and overheated (the kitchen can get too hot at times) and I wanted self service not table service for that night and the kitchen was feeling very small.
Ross even stayed back after he finished eating and helped stack the dishwasher... on tiptoe! Bless him.
Anyway, things are brighter now and I have sent an email to Sheila to wish her a happy sixtieth birthday... a free buspass will be winging it's way to her very soon - possibly as we speak!
Her's a photo of Sheila many years ago in the school. I was doing a project on Our Community so I'd sent the kids round the school with a camera and here she is in her wee office!
I feel as though I've been immersed in my own wee time bubble for the last few days. Motionless, I've watched time fly past on the outside unable to reach out and touch it...but I'm back.
New Year was freezing cold!
We had seen in the New Year with Anne and Les up at Johanne and Colin's house which is a good spot for watching the fireworks, being on top of the hill.
Anyway it was so cold when we left to come home, my teeth started chattering! It's years since I chittered or chattered for that matter.
I didn't waken till about ten on New Year's morning so I had hardly surfaced when Gary and Luca appeared. Not that I'm complaining.
At the moment, Ian and I are Amma and Daddad and Luca is Hacka. It's so cute!
Ross isn't too bad, he's Woss.
I will have to be careful though because I have caught myself calling Luca, Hacka!
Yesterday, I drove into Aberdeen in the afternoon to catch up with Sylvia. I hadn't seen her since the school holidays back in October.
Jim, Sylvia's husband, is still at home. He works off shore. I think he is in the North Sea just now but he has been in all sorts of amazing places.
Jim's nephew has joined the SAS or something. He has been a soldier for years. Anyway, their medical check ups are very thorough and they discovered that he is mortally allergic to some anesthetic... don't think Jim said which one but the condition is hereditery so they tested his parents to see which line of the family it had come through and it was Jim's brother who tested positive.
So Jim had to be tested too...in Leeds!
The doctors cut a small piece of your leg muscle out and expose it to the anesthetic. If it curls up and turns black, you have the disorder.
Jim tested negative.
Spent a very enjoyable afternoon with Sylvia. It was good to see her again.
We finished the piece of beef from the butchers last night and we all agreed it was lovely. Ross suggested it was even nicer last night than it had been the night before but I think it was probably tasting better because the atmosphere was lighter.
I had a stooshy at teatime the night before last - the first night we ate the beef. Poor Ian got the brunt of it. All he did was come in when he was called, and ask what was for tea... and I ate him!
No excuses... I was tired and overheated (the kitchen can get too hot at times) and I wanted self service not table service for that night and the kitchen was feeling very small.
Ross even stayed back after he finished eating and helped stack the dishwasher... on tiptoe! Bless him.
Anyway, things are brighter now and I have sent an email to Sheila to wish her a happy sixtieth birthday... a free buspass will be winging it's way to her very soon - possibly as we speak!
Her's a photo of Sheila many years ago in the school. I was doing a project on Our Community so I'd sent the kids round the school with a camera and here she is in her wee office!
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