I haven't stopped dancing yet!

We heard this on the telly tonight (Strictly Come Dancing Take Two) and me and Justin started singing along!!

Hot Chocolate

Well what a gloomy, dreary day! We did have a couple of hours of sunshine today, but for most of it it's been raining.
I've had a chat with dad on the phone, and had a look at the hotel he'll be staying at in Italy and it looks lovely, right by the sea. Lovely...
It was sunny when I went to pick up Matthew from school, but it started to rain just as he came out. By the time we got home we were absolutely soaked, and I know how dad worries when that happens!! LOL! Anyway, we got changed when we got back and then straight into town to get Matthew some shoes. I'd been into town this morning and had seen some Spiderman 3 ones, and luckily they fitted him, so Matthew was very happy. I also got four sheets of card from the craft shop coz I want to do a scrap page of the dragon at Disneyland.
We're now home. We have On the Buses on the telly, and a mug of hot chocolate... mmmmm...

A fascinating blog.

I've just listed another link on the right hand side down the page abit. It's interesting reading. It's the blog of a newly qualified doctor working for the NHS in the UK. Have a look.

Today's pop pick

Don't You Want Me by the Human League. Another song I loved from the eighties.

Swap-bot atc's received

From a lady in the US called Kellypuffs. My favourite is the night scene. They were for my swap - All that Sparkles.

Digital to Paper Scrap page.

I loved the digital scrapbook page that I made about Justin last week (uploaded in an older post), and I wanted to try and recreate it in paper. I think I did a pretty good job, not exactly the same, but not too far off.
Matthew's upstairs watching Spiderman 3 on the Playstation 3 with Darryl and Abby... I'll get a couple of hours peace, I'll probably fall asleep!!

Tainted Love - Soft Cell

So tonight's pop pick is Tainted Love by Soft Cell. This entered the charts in 1981 and was in the charts for ages (wealth of information me.)
I loved this song and bought it on 12" vinyl.

Sunday Sunday Sunday.... ahhhhhhh

Good evening.
So... Paula wants some help in creating some digital scrap pages, it's fairly straight forward and complicating at the same time.
Work was good today. Cheryl didn't have hangover so that was a good start. Weigh in this week - I stayed the same again, and Cheryl lost a pound.Dad stayed for dinner but next Sunday he will be in Italy on the Italian Riviera.
If we'd of gone on our cruise, it would have been docked in Southampton today, lol, having ended the cruise. I had a great time following the ship round, lol.
I watched some of the rugby tonight. I don't think England will beat South Africa next week... especially as they beat us 36 nil during this World Cup a few weeks back.
I've not thought too much about a song yet tonight, but I will.

Ok, so it's not the Sugarbabes.

The sound file wasn't clear, so instead I decided on Coldplay's Fix You.

The Rugby

Well we have it on... the World Cup Semi Final. England is losing 5 - 6 at the moment. We won it last time. I remember watching it in Elm wards day room.
Justin really doesn't like Rugby, lol.
Work was ok, we had a meeting today at 2pm, we had to watch a video and then discuss it. Zzzzzzzzzzz... lol, but did get to see my boss, Penny, so that was nice.
I'm tempted to start scrapbooking again. I want to recreate that digital one that I did of Justin's eyes and the blue papers. I also need to do some of the snow pictures of last Winter. I've only got those on a digital layout. I've found an excellent Disney scrapbook that I'm hoping Justin is going to get me for Christmas, so that I can at least make more of a start than the start page to the album.
I'm having a think about the song for today... it might be the Sugarbabes one, just coz I heard it on the telly tonight and I quite like it...

Friday evening already!

...doesn't time fly!
Ok, so here are some photos to look at.

The first one is of my boys with Darryl's girlfriend, on her 17th birthday. Aawwww, don't they make a lovely couple?


Below is the card I made for Abby's birthday.

The next photo is a pic of my 16 year old cat, Boots, asleep on Matthew's Micro machines lorry. She was very poorly a few weeks ago and wouldn't eat, she lost lots of weight and was very boney. She now tries to steal any food she can get her paws on! Mainly my dads dinner when he's here!

This last picture is of the ATC's that I made for my All that Sparkles swap at swapbot.

In Paula's blog today, she mentions that she may need some help with digiscrapping. I'll be able to do that Paula!!
I shall be having a bath in about 15 minutes. I always have a good long relaxing soak on a Friday night, with loads of bubbles.

Pop pick number 4!

This is a song called Angels, by Angelis - a classical group made by the one and only, Simon Cowell.
What else about today...
Well, Matthew is at school, me and Darryl went to tescos with Dad this morning. I bought Matthew two tops, jeans, and jogging bottoms. Darryl bought me a cake... think that was more of a bribe that didn't work, lol. Darryl has now gone to St Ives to meet Abby, and they're going to the Cinema tonight to watch Resident Evil (2) I think.
I made 3 more ATC's to send of to my swap that's listed on Swap-bot - the All that Sparkles swap. I shall send them off on Monday.

It's a bit of a dark and gloomy day, but it's not raining, so I have some washing on the line, and some towels washing in the machine.

Rebus is on tonight, so I have set the Sky box to record it and I shall watch it on Monday with Darryl.

Islands in the Stream

Fitting for the last port of the cruise, lol.
I like this song, a good one to have a good singalong to.

Peterborough.

Today's weather has been gorgeous, well after the freezing fog cleared this morning, lol. It was lovely, sunny and warm.
Justin had the day off, so we went on the train to Peterborough around 10am. First stop was McDonald's for breakfast. It had been refurbished! Gone had the red and yellow, and in came grey and brown, and it looked really nice. Massive red lampshades!
We got Matthew a new fleece top and a Doctor Who present for Christmas, oh, and a set of playing cards that had Doctor Who pictures.
Justin was looking for a book about the Titanic. We went in both Waterstones shops, WHSmiths, The Works... but no one had one single book! I got a hair streaking kit, so Justin will do that for me tonight sometime... I just reminded him now, I think he forgot, lol.
Paula has now got blog and that's now listed on the right hand side on my favourite links bit.
I still have to add todays song... am thinking...
The Oceana visted Gibraltar today, but as I was out all day, I missed the picture of her docked there... sniff.
Oh! I did email Cadbury's... they have no plans as yet to relaunch any of the other flavours that they used to have... I'll just have to remember how good it tasted.

9.54pm
My hair is now hightlighted. I ended up doing it myself because it was easy enough, plus I'd bought the kit where you comb it in... I actually prefer using the cap version, so next time I'm going to use that.

I fancy something sweet... I might have a pear.

It'll soon be the weekend again!

Darryl was meant to go to work today, but had been awake most of the night, freezing then hot, and headachey. He most probably had a temperature.
Went to dads today. I installed MS Office for him, so now he'll get even more confused! Hello Dad, lol. My dad now knows where my blog is and thinks it's interesting reading.
Dad cooked us shepherds pie tonight, lovely as usual. I meant to get to work on another card set for the cd today at dad's, but I couldn't be bothered, but I have managed to create 2/3's of a set tonight. I sent some of the previous set to Paula.
Justin had had pie and chips from the chippy by the time we got back tonight! We're having a MacDonalds tomorrow in Peterborough, lol, no expense spared! We'll be going on the train after taking Matthew to school.

The programme that I watched, Bulgaria's Abandoned Children, is to be repeated on November 10th on BBC2, it should really go out on BBC1...

Cadbury's Wispa is being relaunched this week after being absent for four years. I wonder if they'll bring back the Wispa Mint?????????? I might have to email them!!

Pop pick number Two!

Here is a favourite of mine from the electronic sounds of the eighties.
Fade to Grey by Visage, and it's the 12 inch version. Oh they were the days when we bought our songs on vinyl.

Music.

I've decided that I'm going to post a song here on my blog every day... until I get fed up doing it anyway, and maybe at the weekend when I don't tend to post on a Saturday night, lol. See below for the first entry!! It's not the link in this post, it's the post below!! Anyway, todays choice is The Lord of the Dance from Michael Flatley's Tap show. Click the link and you can see the fantastic clip of the finale titled Planet Ireland. To get there, after clicking on the link, click on sights and sounds, then on videos, then on more to the next page and select the video. Absolutely amazing.

Tonight Cambridge United were on Setanta Sports, and they won 1 - 0 thank goodness.

I have made another set for the card cd, just another 13 to go, lol. Tomorrow I need to get my sparkle atc's swaps. I haven't made anything for ages. I've had no motivation.

I signed a government petition today, after watching the horrendous situation of Bulgarian children in a children's home. Bulgaria's Abandoned Children. It was shown on BBC4 on Sunday night, it was a repeat from sometime in September, but has never been shown in Bulgaria. It was very sad. The BBC are trying to raise money to re-home these children.

Rozies pop pick number one

This is from Michael Flatley's The Lord of the Dance tap show. I love this show!! This livens up about half way through, so bear with it, then you can hear the tap dancers feet as well. Amazing!

Gloomy day.

But it's not gloom and doom in Ajaccio in Corsica! That's where the Oceana is "parked" today. Tomorrow the ship will be at sea, and then on Thursday, it's final stop is at Gibraltar, wow, what a great cruise...
It's raining here, very gloomy. I have to go into town and buy a loaf. I always buy the uncut variety and get them to slice it for me, lovely.

I DO like Mondays.

Here is the view from the docked Oceana at Civitavecchia in Italy. I almost feel like I've been along for the ride, lol.

Darryl had the day off work today, so I went into town with him... mainly because I'd paid the wrong company online this morning. I meant to pay Anglian Water, and paid British Gas instead, lol, so I then had to go into town and pay in more cash so I could pay AW. Darryl paid in some money to his account also.
Came home, and I checked emails, emailed Justin and dad. I went back into town with Darryl as he decided that he wanted to take up painting his little tiny metal figures from Lord of the Rings that he had around four years ago. He also bought another set of figures. Justin is making a model of the Titanic.

Darryl paid me a massive compliment today. He told me that he thinks I'm a much better person than I was, I also look better, and younger!!! LOL! Funny thing is, it all seems to coincide from the time I met Justin.

I've also started creating the floral cd again, got to keep Paula happy. I've had to have a rest at the moment, my arm feels weird - I hate having to make small repetitive movements.