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Aaah Wish, I might just have a very weak something thanks, seeing as it's Friday. It was a really bad migraine, sick, stomach upset and a problem with my left eye - it pole-axed me (as you can tell) Now, what did I miss about your break away? any stories to tell? Hopefully you really enjoyed yourselves! Re PS I wonder if Zoonie will be able to use his ticker for status updates again? It's been ages since that icon got lost.

:nono: I think you do young lady! but all for your well wishes and the silliness. Just read the blog quickly, well, skim read it - not been in PS since this morning, You can earn 20 coins and 1 paw point per fly cleaned when washing a pet up to a maximum of 80 coins and 4 paw points. crikey, I'm never going to take all this in with my feeble brain this week. BG, you need to sip some hot lemon and honey drink, for your throat I mean

Evening All, Is Boogs here, you nutter! and you too BG Hi Wish, and anyone else I can't see on this page.

Bye then Dawn. I have some chores to do too, so will also say Bye for now x

Oh that is something to be proud of Dawn, I was going to put their colours on later in distant support rofl, although considering I wore one burgundy coloured sock on Sunday and one blue, - maybe it's support they can do without There were lots of incidents where the Ref seemed to have forgotten he could show a card to Man U...I think most non-Man U supporters agree with what you said about Ferguson. Even he said Vidic was lucky not to be dismissed though - am 100% if it'd been a Villa foul, the Villa would've been playing with 10 men for 86 minutes, or whatever it was! So - do you have any other plans this weekend?

Best of luck honey - what colours do they play in? 8) I think I bored Kijo to sleep again :Oops:

and finally, we left quite early but got caught up twice in 'crowd' control. When it started to howl down again and hail, realised my beloved hat had been left behind ^ similar although no tartan on mine, I have a really nice breast cancer support pin and some feathers on the ruched side. Anyway I've had that hat for 10 years, it keeps me dry - and, it's even survived being run over by a car (just a few tread marks on the gold quilted lining) R rang the company director and he rescued it for me - didn't realise he had to run up three floors of escalators to do it! So T'Hat's been awol and had a trip to Leeds and back without me. Company Director is now my hero!

DOh! I told you were were at Bluewater on Sat It's been absolutely terrible with rain, wind and snow Dawn. We were amazed that they were still taking off the inflated tents over the pitch and packing away the blowers - and hoping they'd coped. Anyway, we had loads of food, hot and cold, all served up on a buffet sideboard and hotplates. Lamb with Moroccan spices, vegetable moussaka, green beans and sugar snap peas, saffron potatoes, tabbouleh, rocket and watercress salad, some salad with broccoli and red peppers, and a pear and stilton flan thing Oh and red or white wine (or beer or soft drinks) We'd only finished that lot when we had to go off to watch the match. Can you imagine the fury at THAT tackle, that resulted in a penalty, but not even a yellow card? How we leapt and cheered at the goal YAAAAAAY. The pitch was absolutely appalling though - men going down all over the place. At half time we had our pudding and coffees. Very unhappy with the result

Lots and lots of uniformed staff, all very polite. Found our box and we were first there. You have a waitress waiting outside the door to escort you in, there's a little lobby with a cloakroom off and then the galley kitchen. Inside there was an 8 seater dining table and chair and it was all laid up. The walls are all covered with glossy panelling and a built in fridge, counter top and wardrobe cupboard for your outdoor stuff. There's a big plasma screen on one wall and the company logo on the other. There's a table in there with telephone and sliding patio doors with vertical blinds. The seats are two rows of four. We had a few cups of coffee to warm up and waited for everyone to arrive. The other people were a man and his wife from the accounts department (West Ham supporters who cheered for Man U ???) A buyer from Morrisons (proper Man U supporter) and one of the company directors from near Leeds with his wife and their grown up son (all rampant Villa fans)

Yes, it was a box. The weather was absolutely awful Dawn, all day except just as the second half kicked off and the sun was out very briefly. Second installment coming up

It seems like the pen has a bit missing inside the barrel, why they couldn't just replace it and get a new one themselves from Cross, is beyond me. Anyway they can deliver the new one, I ain't fetching it. I was worrying about being unwell on Sunday anyway (lack of sleep the previous week and that 'raised temperature in the night' - plus I was quite ratty with R, so I knew what to expect) Luckily Sunday was ok, but we were awake at about 3am listening to torrential rain and storms and pondering on why Wembley doesn't have a full roof covering! Anyway in the end we were late and I had to finish my makeup on the train I was in a T Shirt, new shirt, it's lovely (I said didn't I lol, it's a dusky pink and white pinstripe linen, with tucks down the front, on the John Lewis site, but in blue) jeans, boots and my waxed riding coat and hat because of the rain! That station car park was flooded and R's feet got really wet (I rolled my jeans up and my boots kept me dry. Phew what a start. In the end we were at Wembley by 11.20 and the doors don't open until 12 (but we only have one train an hour from here) It was so cold and blustery and eventually we had to go and hide out in the Souvenir Shop am surprised they didn't throw us out!

Ditsy Dawn! Kijo, one of the two men who were guilty of abducting, torturing and murdering this little boy (when they were only about 10 years old themselves) has now been returned to prison, as he broke the terms of his licence (they both served 8 years in a secure children's home and were then let out into the community again, but with new identities and on lifelong 'licence') (didn't want to leave you out of that bit of the convo)

Trying to keep as brief as poss Dawn, Friday was a day from hell, our bathroom was meant to be finished - it still isn't finished now. First off there was a miscommunication over the granite worktop, which took most of the morning to sort out. Then it transpired the big mirror that was meant to fill the whole space at the back of the basins (there are cupboards either side and a pelmet above) was 9½" short (WHY??!?) that's had to be re-ordered. After all that messing around and after the builder had gone, I went up to just stand and look at it all, and one of the (long awaited) basins is faulty - it has a big bump on the curved front - how no one spotted it is completely beyond me! So now, they had to re-order, wait for it to arrive and then we have to wait until our builder can fit us in to come back, fit the mirror and replace the basin Anyway, that meant the day was very fraught and tiring. Saturday I had to be up and out early, at the hairdressers - had my hair highlighted. R picked me up and we went to Bluewater (had to make two returns of faulty goods) House of Fraser just refunded on a faulty toaster bought on line last August. John Lewis were a pain in the bum over a Cross pen that broke on the second use, and have insisted on sending it for repair, despite me telling them we were very unhappy about that and want a replacement - and they tried to charge £8.50 to send it off too ... so had a tussle with them over that (didn't pay anyway) Got a lovely new Paul Costelloe shirt to wear to the match, some food in M&S and had a long lunch in Carluccio's, which was really nice. By Saturday night I was cream crackered! TBC

Back Did you bring any goodies Kijo?

That sounds rough Dawn Let me get a hot drink and I'll come back and tell you about the weekend (was just reading about Jon Venables and it's depressed me)

I'm sorry I didn't even know you were here, or that you were sick, feel really mean, but still - it's not a deliberate oversight. Glad you're on the mend now. I've just had to close PS down it was so slow, all I've done today is open boxes and try to redo room 1!

WB Kijo. Hi Dawn, finally finished opening my boxes! lol. What bad timing I had then How are you?

See you - take care xxx

What kind of contacts do you wear Army? I've gone with the Accuevue Moist - daily disposables. I have one eye for reading and one for distance vision lol, but it works ok for me.

Well, mine were so out of date, and I ran out of lenses a long time ago. I should get them by the middle of next week. I'm on my self improvement plan. Got the hair cut, got the hair highlighted, sorted out the eyes, next plan is to start doing some walking each day. I would go today, as although it's cold (I think it was-4 this morning) the sun's very bright (need to find my sunglasses too lol) but I'm waiting in for a parcel to be collected.

Glad it's helped a little. I'm starting to feel a lot better than I was thanks. I just had to dose myself up on tablets and stay in bed, and away from the computer screen or anything similar. Although yesterday I did have to go out to the opticians and she said my eyes were better than last week. I ordered 3 months supply of contact lenses and a new pair of glasses

See you in a bit Kijo. Hello Army, how are you now?

Oh you poor thing. I've just been doing some reading. With regard to me, it was a combination of not sleeping well last week, having a very active and tiring weekend (you'd think I'd been playing in that football final the way I wrote that lol) hormonal problems, and then the combination of a really bad period and the migraine, a proper migraine not just a bad head - but, at least I knew it would pass. Now, I'm wondering if you can do some simple things to alleviate the water retention and swelling? Cut salt out of your diet, snack on bananas - which are an excellent source of potassium (if you don't like bananas substitute raisins instead) Cabbage is good (even in coleslaw) and drink Cranberry Juice (no fizzy drinks) When you do get a chance to rest, elevate those legs still and apply an ice pack (say a bag of frozen vegetables) and use cold, black tea for an eye refresher - which always makes you feel a bit brighter, either tea bags, damp and rescued from work, or, just left over tea on a cotton wool pad. I'm still looking for more ideas that are simple and cheap...

Hope to see you soon DM. Congrats to your son, that's quite an achievement aaaaw, sending you some love, at least you wont catch anything else from me! I'll go back and read. It must have been a week, cos last Friday I had the day from hell, was out all day Saturday, then all day Sunday at Wembley, and woke with the migraine, which flat laid me out, I still have the remnants of it, but can cope at least now.

Kijo I thought work had called you away/ DM, lovely to see you, how are you? how are the terrors doing? has your son settled down at school any better now? Thanks for the well wishes