Zoonie

OK, well, the stove is calling for my attention - see you soon! x

Well, I'm cooking some pork fillet with grain mustard sauce and vegetables. We're sat in our kitchen/breakfast room with the patio doors open (it's the most fabulous evening) and IMOM and I are settling to watch Argentina play Greece - expecting a whitewash and Greece to be pretty well anihilated, but you never know...

Aaaw Frannie, Bea and I were saying we still play, just not as obsessively as we once did. Just seen a really interesting news item on our regional magazine/news programme - about someone making very modern dolls' houses. They were incredible.

Good Evening

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I'm going to have to go and close them, so I think I'll say goodbye for now and do some other chores - then I can sit and watch the match later without a guilty conscience (am studiously avoiding the Budget today - what will be, will be) *although am hoping for a massive tax levied on ex Primeministers and ex Chancellors :rofl (<-- Zoonie's creative accounting)

Oh no, someone has lit a garden fire and the smell is filling the kitchen

...and DM has lent me 2 extra lions, so I now have my 3 lions in goal on Zoonie's England footie pitch :rofl

See you Kijo, go carefully Lovely day here still Bee - this must be summer!

I totally understand that Playfish need to make money in order to even exist - what I don't think they do is give their paying customers the value and support that they ought to provide once people are paying. I've spent money on the game, and just didn't think it was worth it to be honest.

I don't use FB as much as I once did either - like you Bee, I found it was taking up far too much time, and since having to spend so much time on the house and projects, you break the habit and find so much more else to do instead.

I think it is a reflection of how the game's 'developed' - if you agree that it's actually developed as such, and not just continued. Not sure we're necessarily the right target market?

It's funny how many of us came to the same conclusion at the same kind of time frame - perhaps outgrown it, or perhaps just been playing too long, so that the new stuff that comes out is effectively the same old/same old. When you needed to save and work to design a room, it was great, but now it's just a question of redesigning rooms in order to use new stuff - not the same. Grrr, the Q key on my keyboard has started sticking.

IMOM just said he'll keep up with the score on his Blackberry and watch the last bit of the game with me, bless him. Bear with me, I have to go and put the kettle on>>>

Not very good manners there Bee, is it! I'm bored with PS too really, but like the contact with the people I care about

The very odd thing with YD, apart from the dye she used which as I said was such a dark, flat black - her roots are light, so she actually looked like she was going grey! rofl

She's been warned!!! Anyway, that was the whole escapade, and apparently, I'm her fairy godmother now, as well as Mum! Yes, tomorrow is make, or break, I'm trying to muster all my positive thoughts IMOM will be on his way home when it's on, unless he leaves early or stays later and watches it at work (they've installed a TV especially) Welcome Back Kijo. you said you've emptied your chest, is that it? have you quit PS?

I've improvised for Three Lions rofl

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YD's hair is very long, she's naturally a dark blonde colour, almost brown, but with lots of natural highlights that shine through, especially in the summer. For some bizarre reason, she'd dyed it jet black! and was then surprised when it a) ruined the condition, so it went quite woolly b) was a flat and very matt colour, with no natural shine or gloss at all, and no change in tones when she moved her head and it caught the light. SO, first off, they had to use a process to strip out all the dye - this left her hair kind of dark auburn, with aubergine tints when she moved her head ... shocking, but they had forewarned her. After that process, they then have to put some colour back in to it, but, it wasn't possible to go back to her natural colour, as that's too light, it could only be done over time, in stages. So, they used 4 different colours in foil highlights. Then, after that, they used an all over tint, to sort out the ends of her hair, and tone everything down a bit. All the products they used were of a good quality, with the colours being organic. After all that, she had a blow dry. While all this was happening, I had a special deep conditioning treatment, and a cut and blow dry (have gone shorter for 'Summer' to shoulder length) and chatted to her and her stylist, while drinking tea and coffee and reading magazines. We were there 5 hours in total, plus and hour travelling. When we got home, IMOM had a glass of wine waiting and was well under way cooking dinner for us all It was a great day, if expensive - but we paid for it all for her birthday present and, she's absolutely thrilled with it. Am going to speak to her later to check that she feels the same today. It was really soft and very shiny, and all the various tones come through - it looked fantastic.

Sunday, with both the girls was low key really, the weather here wasn't so great, but it was lovely to all be together. YD stayed overnight, as you know, and off we went to the Salon - it's about a half hour drive from here. YD was really worried, it was a big process, but it turned out well, let me type a separate message to tell all about it...

Hi Bee, how are you? (apart from frustrated with the pc???)

OK honey *waves*

I've just got to answer a couple of important emails, but if it says I'm online, I'll be looking back from time to time

Did I miss you Kijo? Was announcing a lost Petling, had so little time this past couple of days - bad mother!