Test (Recovery) Post - Blogger in Draft

This is my cheeky little minx, Emily.

She's five years old now and every inch a five year old, with a head on her that states she's about thirty five!!


Recovery of blog from long-ago abandoned one.

Test post using Blogger in Draft.

Seems quite functional and easier to use!!

Will post again in a years time!

I'm Living In a Box.

This is my lounge - awaiting the decorator tomorrow - bare walls, furniture missing, it looks awful doesn't it? The three piece suite's days are numbered as is the carpet - and it's only been down just over a year!! When I spring clean - I spring clean! And doesn't Emily look happy!! (Not) all of her toys have been tidied away!


Hope you are all well this fine Tuesday.


Today has been a mish,mash really as we have been clearing the living room ready for the decorator's to come in and do their stuff tomorrow. I am having it all re'done(oh bliss) ready for the spring, we have ordered a new carpet and a new chocolate suite so it will look lovely when it's all done and dusted in a few weeks time,(the suite isn't made of choc you understand, it's chocolate COLOURED!!!!!!!, how silly of me to write it in the wrong context, Gary will tap my wrists).





Emily has resumed nursery today after a week off for half term, and she hated every minute of it poor little thing, apparently another one of the lovely little kiddywinks bumped heads with her causing a huge crying match , and she couldn't pull her tights up after going to the toilet, which the teacher said she should be able to do on her own now at 4 years old. Do any other Mothers out there think that our little one's are having to grow up very quickly these days, or is it just me? Emily is only 4 and to me she is a baby girl not a teenager so I'm sure she will have a struggle now and again,let's face it even I have a problem with the dammed things so I'm sure she will, the goverment are trying to steal our children's childhood (I feel a petition coming on, let's change the subject).





Anyway I will inform you all about how my transformation in the des-rez is coming on, you all can come around for tea and cakes (for a small charge at the door!) Only kidding folks, there's nothing worse than somebody rabbiting on about what they are getting done and how much it is going to cost is there? I will speak about something else next time I blog! But I will post a pic of the loung when it's complete!

Joy to the World

Hello one and all, I have good news to impart... the dark cloud that has been hanging over me since a visit to my doctor in November was lifted yesterday at the hospital. The good doctor Muir (a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon) revealed that my GP had been over-reacting to suggest heart failure from a raised bnp reading from a blood sample of mine. ECG and scan of my heart revealed that there is nothing wrong with me...oh joy...oh joy!So I can start living again!
Short post - just wanted to tell the world.
Happy Valentines Day!
Lesley
xx

Sad Saturday!

Hiya everyone,hope you are all well especially Denise and Sheila.
I said yesterday in my blog that I was going to go into town and grab a few bargains,well bargains failed me today miserably,(to be honest I wasn't in the mood for spending), and anyway my elderly mother got on my nerves so I came home with a pack of floor wipes and a pair of slippers that I didn't really need or want,never mind there is always next week.
The weather was foul(windy and cold) so I should have nipped in a travel agents and looked at some golden beaches to cheer myself up,but I didn't think at the time. What are you all doing tonight?,is anybody going out on the razz? Middlesbrough isn't the place to wander around on a Saturday night anymore,but I'm sure you Denise will have a lovely country pub to visit if the mood takes you. My evening will consist of a bath,hot cup of tea,a cuddle off Emily(aaah),a lovely kiss off Gary(fingers crossed) and a film later if there is anything on Sky(Gary will be denied the magic of Match Of The Day if I find anything worth watching) saying magic ,the Boro were beaten 3/0 away so I don't think it will be anything to write home about.
See you all again soon,keep well ,keep warm and most of all stay cool,love Lesley.

Thank God it's Friday

Hiya everyone,the weekend starts here.
Today I nipped to the hospital to return my 24 hr heart monitor to the cardiac unit,the weather was oh so cold as it was only 9.30 am, but I found it quite pleasant actually in the watery sunshine and the hard frost that covered everything. The walk only took me 30 mins as I live quite near to the metropolis called James Cook Hosp, and I saved my dear husband the parking fee which is disgracefully a fortune. I then returned home to a hot cuppa, a bit of housework, and then I went into town to sell some pegs( how many of you know that saying from The League Of Gentlemen?).what a brilliant series that was,which Gary and I found absolutely hilarious,especially the episode where Papa Lazarue asked to use this womens toilet ,and then preceded to turn her whole afternoon into a living nightmare,those of you out there who haven't seen this particular gem yet,must grab a copy and laugh yourself stupid.
Tonight I am going to have a luverly bathe in my new Sanctuary stuff I bought in town from Boots,as I was denied the luxury of cleansing myself as the heart monitor was not waterproof,but I will make up for lost time tonight,my gawd will I.
All you film buffs out there ,there is a good one on later at 11.15 called Unlawful Entry starring Ray Liotta which is very watchable,I do recommend it.
Tomorrow I am going into town oh yet again,but with my elderly mother this time to have a mooch around. We have some coffee,and then proceed to Marks and Sparks, Bhs,Binns,and Next,bank account here I come(Gary you did not hear that).
Anyway I won't bore you all any longer with my tale of Friday,I will do my blog tomorrow again and tell you about my Saturday,and what bargains I bagged myself. I was going to go to the Metro Centre as I like the Disney Store for Emily but I think the snow is going to return(it never went away really) and I don't fancy travelling on a train or bus in the cold.
Bye for now and enjoy your Friday evening and chill.

Back by popular demand.. well by order of Denise!!

Today was a very haphazard, busy,tiring but strange day. This morning I had an appointment at James Cook Hospital in their Cardiac Investigations Unit to get a heart monitor fitted for 24 hours that records just that..... your heart! All you girls out there who are currently with new lovers /boyfriends etc would surely have a raised printout,however my printout I'm sure will be raised because of a crying child named Emily I dragged around Guisborough for 2 hours. Gary was at an event called Meet The Buyer at Guisbrough's stately Hall so I tagged along as I particularly like the shops there i.e Mackays and the lovely quaint coffee shop that serves luverly bacon buns which sadly Emily left quite a large portion of ( but mum soon polished off) size 14 skirt here I come!
Emily got a few things i.e stickers,school skirt,a book,pencils,need I go on?
I think I will stink tomorrow as I can't get bathed or showered tonight as the heart monitor is not waterproof , so a good old wash behind the ears is on the cards instead(this is hell on earth for me as i love having my daily soak in the wonders of all my elixirs that adorn my bathroom shelves.
Gary was held to ransom at gunpoint by Mrs Nesbitt at the said stately hall to get me to write my blog for today, so a big thank you to you Denise for reminding me that my life is indeed interesting enough to write home about,even though I don't do much really. I will sign off now and go to the bathroom and whine.

Travel or Spend?? Choices choices!

I am so so so so bored today! This is my first time on blog and I.'m appealing to any other bored
mothers out there to speak to me and relieve my sense of despair. I love my daughter dearly and my world is a much better place to live in since she was born 4 long years ago this month but there is such a thing as death by cbeebies and death by colouring so lets chat.
My husband is going to a client meeting at 2pm today to a very barren place up on the moors,and this is my choice for this noon, do I go along for the ride and sit in the car and read awaiting his return, or do I go into town and spend wildly on items I don't really need or want?.
Some choice, eh?
Has anybody else been watching the 5 Days on BBC1? Do we have ANY idea on who has grabbed Leanne? Yes this is my life at this moment in time' I also follow Eastenders and Trial and Retribution at present ( oh no I hear you all groan).
Anyway I will go now and get ready to go to the barren place on the moors and yes I have made my choice for today!!!!