Friday 8 April 2011

Well the sun is shining high in the sky allready, and im feeling much better from a nasty dose of cold ive had so am going to make sure i enjoy today. We have been tidying up the garden ,a little at a time for me through lack of energy and shortness of breath ,but steve has been busy busy busy as usual. Firstly the front had a major tidy up with getting rid of a couple of dead shrubs that suffered badly in the winter weather ,and a major trimming of some winter flowering clematis that were so overgrown. A bit of weeding as well and we look as good as new now. Must go to garden centre to get restocks next week sometime though. We now have a couple of gaps to fill. In the back garden ,well where do we start ,last year i got rid of my greenhouse ,id tired of using it and it had just stood doing nothing ,or should i say I did nothing ,for 2 full years . Not good , so it went . Now though , we have the problem of what do we do with that space ,shall i have a veggie plot or should we make it into a sunny sit down area ,we have 3 sit down areas allready in various places in the back garden . That makes my garden sound huge but its not . Decisions decisions !! First though we have to have major clear up , since removing the greenhouse we've done nothing as we have concentrated on work inside the house with the new kitchen and building work we've done .As you can imagine its a right old mess with weeds and nettles and allsorts of climbing rambling things spreading everywhere ,AND i think we have foxes living in the hedgerow. The garden stinks of them at times and the dog ,Billy ,goes mad at times and at other times is scared to go near the top of garden ,especially when its dark. I will take some pics so we can show what it looks like ,maybe one day i can do a before and after shot . That would be good.

Sunday 3 April 2011






Hope all you Mums out there had a lovely mothers day . I was treated to a nice meal out in a place called matlock ,well just outside matlock to be truthful ,a pub called the claret and grouse ,been there before and its a lovely ,reasonably priced roast dinner and pud ,yummy too .Im full of another cold and am fed up of it now ,i want it to go away and stay away this time .

Think i might add some pics of my latest works of art !! lol!!

Friday 11 February 2011


went to have one of those fish pedicures yesterday ,my bezzie friend Dawn bought it for me for a birthday present last week . She came with me of course and had it done too . Must say ,it was unusual and at first i did not think it had done much. However ,last night i had a good look and its worked wonders ,my feet are ready for summer , no little frilly bits of cuticle around my toe nails , no dry skin on heels . I'm all nice and smooth and glossy.
Recommend it ...yes I would.

Wednesday 9 February 2011

The challenge for this month on I love promarkers is the sketch shown here . I am going to have a go . I must start blogging more often .
Promise to myself ...do more challenges and blog them.

Thursday 20 May 2010

The boat meeting

Well , we did find out everything and the new financial director certainly let us know it all . It turns out that about £4.5 million are lost ,stolen , gone awol ,whatever you want to call it ,so there is no money left in our funds at all , BUT we do still have the boat .Unlike some people who have put money into a new boat thats not yet been launched and is still in Poland ,we dont know what is going to happen with them , i hope they get a boat out of it at least .
The Old management team are going to put a new company together and run it in exactly the same way as the old with some new rules in place for transparency on boat accounts ,but to be honest now the bad apple is gone i dont see a need for this . im too trusting ,I know .Until then though ,we are on our own . We have a great syndicate so we shall be ok and may even decide to go it alone for the future ,we shall see . it might turn out to be too much hassle on the turnaround days especially ,and also on the boat servicing then we will all decide a management company is for us .I am hoping that we can still use the same management company whatever they decide to call it ( i like the name kingfisher boatshare ) as they know the boat .

Tuesday 4 May 2010

stolen

Ive told you all before that we have a 12th share in a narrowboat ,and we pay a company called Ownerships to run the syndicate for us , supposedly led by a lovely charming man called Allen. Well , this charming man has stolen all of our money ,our £3k free management investment and all the boats sinking fund has gone .We think ,yes ,only think , that the boat is ours but until we have been to the meeting which is being held in stevenage on saturday ,we shall not really know . We are expecting the meeting to be a little fraught to say the least but we hope that we will come away feeling that we have found out everything .Fingers crossed and then we can start to make plans for the future of the syndicate and where we go from here .
Allen actually died towards the end of last year so it is going to be a bit difficult suing a dead man for our funds ,but someone ,somewhere will know just where all our money has gone .