Celebratory meal!

Tonight My husband and I had a celebratory meal, to celebrate the good news I got during the week.
The meal was an Indian take out, and the alcohol was Champagne! Slightly a random mix but it was really delicious. Cheers people.

Duh!!

Well of course its raining... British Grand Prix? This weekend! Wimbledon? This weekend! Glastonbury? This weekend!
The question should be ...Why isn't the rain non
stop!

The waiting game. . . .Again!

So now I know the answer is YES! I am playing the waiting game to find out when! I should be happy but I am so desperate to know the When, that my mood seems to be in an undulating space!

Time to Celebrate.

After last week being so awful with Losing The Big Bird, having to move Mouse, and all the trouble at work,   this week is panning out quite nicely, thank you very much!
Mouse has settled very quickly into her new field, she has two handsome stable mates in the adjoining field and water on tap! I have lost 4.5 lb in my first week proper of dieting, and to top it all off I had some fantastic news this morning, which I will share on here shortly but not today.
Let it be said I am one very happy bunny. Things are on the up!!

lost. 1 wheelbarrow!

Today whilst mucking out the field I managed to loose the wheelbarrow. It took me ages to find it again!

What have you learnt today?

I learnt a few things this week, and most of them the hard way!
1) There is no such thing as a free lunch!

2) Some people just aren't who they make out they are!

3) In times of crisis, true friends and genuine people will be there for you!

4) A bottle of wine and good company makes you feel so much better!

What do horses get up to when there is no one else around?

APPARENTLY, THEY DANCE!

Hide the poo!

Today I had to move Mouse from where she has been, and sadly I no longer have Big Bird! :-(
I took her the two miles or so to her new field and settled her in, once I knew she was happy I got everything else sorted out. Then went home to prepare the dinner and do some laundry, muck out the hamster, go shopping, you know, the usual Saturday afternoon stuff! Then I went back up to do the evening check on Mouse, well The grass is up to her belly and its not exactly a small paddock tomorrow when I come to muck out I could very well be playing hunt the poo, I guess I will just have to troll round and round the field until I get a barrow full, then once she has eaten it down I can find the stragglers! I made her a small feed and gave her the once over then left her to do what ever it is horses do when they are left alone at night!

Roll over.

Sadly our syndicate from work didn't win the Euro Millions, so we will all be turning up for work on Monday.
Ahh well, it was a bit of fun in an otherwise bad week.

Lottery.

Today at work we were all feeling very low, morale at work is appalling and some of us things outside work are a little fraught too. Anyhow, on a whim, one of the girls suggested we all do a one off syndicate on the Euro millions lottery. So we did, and had a very enjoyable hour telling each other in a very play ground way, just how we would all spend the money if we should win.... Now then! Back to reality.

Flat as a pancake.

When everyone thought the world was flat Columbus said its round, he went down in history and America was found! According to an Elvis Presley record I was given for Christmas as a child.
Well, my world is still as flat as a pancake at the moment, so please someone I need a bicycle pump. (Why do they call it a bike pump? I mean, its not the bike you are pumping up, its the tyres on the bike, ahh well!)
 I could really do with some nice positive news or something.
To be honest I could just do with something going along smoothly.
 

Reeling

I am still reeling from yesterday.

I have nothing to say.I can't even write today

Everything lemon!

Happy Fathers day

 Its extremely sad when you don't have to buy a fathers day card!
It doesn't stop me thinking back to all the memories,
Ballroom dancing standing on my dads feet
Being chased around the garden by my Dad with the garden hose!! Shutting ourselves in the porch for Dad to shove the hose through the letter box.
Drawing on huge sheets of paper.
Going to work with Dad and swimming in the pool.
Running through the splinter
Dad's jokes.
Shloity Shloity Shloity.
Hearing Dad whistling whilst working in the garden.
I miss you so much Dad. I will never stop missing or
loving you. x

Talking in riddles

Every day this week I have been checking my emails... except today! For some reason I thought it was a Saturday, therefore no office type work should be done. That is until I thought I might have an email from a friend I haven't heard from in a while.
Instead of that I had the email I have been waiting for, asking if I would like to go out next Saturday (Like helloooo!!! Of course I do!)
That said, If I get a good email Monday or Tuesday I will he saying No I don't want to go out next Saturday after all!
Confused? Ha-ha, with any luck all will become apparent.. very soon!
Hey Northern Bird, Gimme some of that green plant! .....(four leaf clover I mean, just in case anyone thinks I mean anything else!)

Ragwort.

Today I decided to De ragwort the scrubby end of my horses field, just so they have a bit more area to go into, not that they need it!
I took the wheel barrow, an empty horse feed sack, a pair of rubber gloves and a ragwort fork.
It only took half an hour to do and I only managed half a sack. This is good though as it means there wasn't much there to start with. One happy me and two happy horses. Just as a side, whilst I was doing this four Buzzards flew over really low giving out their classic mewing call. What a lovely morning.

I'm so Dizzy my head is spinning.....

Today I had 5 dizzy spells at work.
The first one and the fourth one were scary, my vision went like it does if I have too much to drink and I felt what I can only describe as a drawing in/back sensation very odd and uncomfortable.
If I get any more I'll be forced to go see the GP. Please don't get any more, please don't get any more. please......

soggy!

No Thanks!

And I don't mean no thank you! I mean no thanks.
I find myself in a job where the line managers do not see the bigger picture. Since I started working here I think I have been told once that I did a good job, and I can probably count on my fingers the amount of times I have heard my work colleagues praised. Its not that I expect it but I have seen the people I work with pull off some really epic tasks and nothing was said. In a recent staff meeting we were all told we would be taking on more work, we were told off for laughing and for some errors that had been made. We were told that some staff who left would not be replaced. Not once in the whole meeting did anyone say "Thanks you do a good job"
Today we were told that we can't have any food or drink in our office any more, yet today at lunch time I saw people eating in the managers offices.
Morale is low. Staff are getting moody....in fact the staff are revolting ( hehe)

Be Lucky!

This goes to someone who knows its for them!

OOOoohhh look a green plant! x

Ride on!

Blossom had a lay in this morning, well after a busy day and a late night I thought I would let her!
Once we were up and ready we went down to the stables where I groomed and tacked up Big bird for Blossom to ride, once she was sitting in the saddle all I could hear as I led them down the road was lots of giggles. A lovely sound, and Big bird kept giving me sideways glances as if to say "What are you doing walking beside me?"
Once back Blossom poo picked the field all by her self whilst I helped the stable owners to de ragwort another paddock., we were using a kubota with a hydraulic bucket for the ragwort, when it was full Jack asked Blossom if she would like to drive it to the fire and dump the weeds, Her face lit up more than it had for riding the horse. She drove round to the fire and tipped the bucket under instruction but all by herself!
Yet another good day.

Nothing lasts for ever! or Life is a roller-coaster

I have just wandered through the pages of my blog and realised I have been writing this for over five and a half years, there have been a few large gaps but its still going. Its quite odd looking back through some of the posts, things that have happened and family who have passed away. Nothing lasts for ever!
I often wonder if anybody actually reads my blog, I don't care if they don't but it would be nice to think someone does occasionally!
So much has happened in this time, good and bad, funny and sad, ups and downs.
The above picture
is a small snippet.

Don't stop me now. We're having such a good time.....

What a fantastic
day.
Blossom and I went over to pick up my friend Seal and her son Logan then the four of us went to the beach.
We had a huge picnic, and loads of sun cream.
When we had found a suitable place we sorted ourselves out while the kids ran off to paddle and dig holes in the sand... at this point I have to add that whilst they were digging a random Jack Russell terrier came along, saw what they were doing and joined in! digging in the same hole as them. We confirmed the friendliness of the dog rather quickly then watches as Logan pointed at a spot on the sand and the dog dutifully dug! This caused a great deal of laughter from ourselves and the owners of the dog.
When both kids had managed to get soaking wet and covered in sand they decided they were hungry, so we broke out the food and drink. Seal had provided most of the food and did she do us proud. Once fed the kids got sun blocked up again and went off to get more wet and more sandy. Then it was off to my mums for a sand free cuppa and piece of lemon cake before heading down to do the horses and take Seal and Logan home.
That in its self would have been a fab day but one home and showered Blossom and I were off out again, this time to a barn dance with a group of other friends, and again with a picnic, this time a picnic supper. I am so glad we took 5 or 6 bottles of lemonade and 4 cartons of orange, as it was a warm evening and we all got quite hot dancing. Thanks to Blossom I had to dance all but one dance, she on the other hand danced them all!!! I hope this helped with my weight loss! (or at least help to prevent all the picnic food having too bad an effect on my diet!)
We got home at half past ten and when I looked in on Blossom ten minutes after she went to bed she was fast asleep!

NOT GUILTY?

I had a brilliant idea, why don't we let doctors and nurses diagnose illness and injury then have 12 random people off the street from all walks of life do the actual operation!!! I bet the success rate would be comparable with hmm lets think! LAW COURTS!!! Not guilty?? really??

The wait!

Walking on the beach with my Mum and our two lovely Border Collies... the best thing to do after a stressful day.

 Apologies for the short posts.

Court!

The time is NOW!

Ice Cream

Was it ever a lovely day today!!
We have our Granddaughter staying with us this weekend, so this afternoon my husband suggested we go for a walk and get an ice cream. Of course Blossom was up for that! There is a place we go where the ice cream is just so delicious and the ice cream is swirled into the cone and above it for about 6 or 7 centimetres, such good value.
Remarkably she managed to eat the whole thing, this in its self is amazing but to do it with out getting covered is astounding especially as she had a brand new pale coloured top on!
We did decide to give her a black tee shirt to wear whilst she was eating her spaghetti bolognese at dinner time though, after all how many times can an 8 year old get away with it?
For the record this is exactly what the ice creams looked like except we had a flake and Blossom had sprinkles!!

A quick shower

Whilst mucking out my horses today I noticed that the water buckets could do with a clean and refilling so I went and turned on the hose.
When I got back I emptied the three large buckets and started to clean them out, at which point I was hounded by my shire Big Bird and through the fence by the little fells pony in the adjoining paddock. Both the horses wanted to be hosed off as a) it was very hot earlier and b) they are both obsessed with the hose.
Its quite funny to watch really as the fells pony spun round and round under the spray, whilst Big Bird just stands throwing her head about until she is completely soaked, Mouse on the other hand doesn't like being sprayed with the hose and ran away to watch from a safe distance.
Having both got totally soaked, they both immediately rolled, in the dust!
Gotta love horses!