I sometimes wonder if I should shut up shop here.

I have my “real life blog” and that has not been updated for ages either..in fact, it has become more of a historical document than a real life blog.

This was meant to be a place for free expression…..It seems like life has a habit of getting in the way of the fun things…and this is turning into an extension of the other blog.

I am like a little hamster in a wheel at the moment…running round frantically …but never moving forward…only round and round.

But I know this is here.

And one day, that creative spark will re-ignite and the words will flow and…..

Until then…

I will read, and comment…but not write… for a while anyway.

Some of you out there are on my mind…

So just dropped in to say I am thinking of you…

Ed’s dad is doing fine.

Dog is too.

Busy…but still caring..and thinking…and wishing you well.

This was fun but no good unless you use flickr - though I suppose you could search google images. Please go over to KAT
to see how it is supposed to be done. My tecky hubby is at the hospital so not available for consultations so this is the best I can do….

1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr search.

2. Using only the first page of results, pick one image.

3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Big Huge Lab’s Mosaic Maker to create a mosaic of the picture answers.

The questions:

1. What is your first name?

2. What is your favorite food right now?

3. What high school did you go to?

4. What is your favorite color?

5. Who is your celebrity crush?

6. What is your favourite drink?

7. What is your dream vacation?

8. What is your favourite dessert?

9. What do you want to be when you grow up?

10. What do you love most in life?

11. What is one word that describes you?

12. What is your flickr name?

Now, I don’t know how Kat managed to get her photos to display… the best I could come up with is this

The blank space is because my school is so obscure, there are no photos of it on the whole of Flickr

There was nothing for my flickr login name so this looked the best option but that is a bit random too…..

PS Number 10 - Perhaps I had better add that I don’t love “hands” most in life, it was “family”….

Oh… and Number 2 - is anything chocolate!!!!!

Thank you to anyone on Flickr that might find their images here on my blog due to this meme… all credit goes to you clever folk.

Ed’s Dad is back in hospital.

Ed had a phone call about 5.00pm to say the doctor had called and had admitted him to hospital as his blood sugar levels are dangerously high.

He has to go into hospital for treatment…. not good when you are fit and healthy - but not good at all when you are a frail 86 year old.

Anyway, Ed is at the hospital at the moment.

I am just waiting for news…

I think that a migraine that lasts one day is bad enough.

With me, they often last three days.

Recently they are dragging on for longer and I am now on my fifth day of nausea and intense pain.

I think that I am justified in feeling a little fed up with the whole thing.

Not so much Sunshine Sue today,sorry…

All fine here. Just so tired all the time.

I am now working four full days a week so no wonder really..

Oh and my husband is just SO demanding…..

Ho Hum.. what a hard life I lead……not!

Seriously though, I am finding this extra day a week a bit tough. Where as before I worked Tue, Wed and Thur , I am now working Monday’s well. The thinking behind it was that one of us has to go twice a day to the Town where we used to live to do the School run for daughter, so, as that is also where I work, I might as well work an extra day as we would be travelling there anyway. Well that was the plan anyway. I first thought that I might work five days but just work School hours so therefore finish at 3.30pm. But daughter has so many after school activities that this would not have worked as we would then have to wait around for her anyway.

Our routine is that we get up and leave the house by 8.00am. This gets her to school between 8.20 and 8.25 depending on the traffic. Registration is 8.30 and she is then supposed to finish at 3.15. Because she has her GCSE’s this year, there are many afterschool classes for catch up/revision/course-work etc so it works out that most days she comes to the office at around 4.30/5.00pm and then waits until I finish and we travel the journey home together. Somedays, if she finishes at 3.15, and he is around and not working away from home, hubby will time his daily visit to his parents to co-incide with her finish time.

She is planning to return to school for A levels which is the qualification here if you want to go on to University and we have said that she should stay at the same school rather than transfer to one nearer home. The School is very highly regarded and has excellent results and suits daughter. There is a bus that she can catch home and we have said that from September onwards, she should catch this, rather than relying on us. Afterall, she is sixteen next week and it is about time she started becoming a little more independent and less reliant on us. She is not keen, I must say… still… it is a long time until September when te new Academic year begins… and things change.

Anyway.. this is a going nowhere really post isn’t it?

Well, its about as good as it is going to get I think..

This is just not working.

I have typed, deleted, typed, deleted etc etc…..

So much so, I have totally lost what it was I started out to say.

I have been ravaged - and I like it!

Our Son has passed his driving test….yay.

Admittedly, this was his fourth attempt but he has actually passed today.

Hubby has been patiently taking him out each day over the last two weeks, practicing the manoeuvres etc, and it has paid off. I am so pleased. I do not know how his self esteem would have handled a fourth failure. But I am sure this will make him a better driver. he has always been a boy that has “winged” his way through things, doing the minimum amount of work required to achieve a grade that is just enough to get by with. It was a bit of a shock to his system when he failed the first time…and then the second…and, when he failed the third time…. he was gutted!! But he has got there now.

Our life will be so much easier now as, up until today, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings are taken up with just taking and collecting him from an evening class and his Air Cadet Evenings, notwithstanding any social events that pop up… and with hubby doing more and more driving jobs, it has taken a bit of military planning to fit in both teens activities. Now at least he will be able to drive himself and, take his sister when required.

He is planning to do this tonight. Daughter is going to a party - her friend’s sixteenth birthday party and son has volunteered to collect her.

So now I start worrying. I should be relieved of the burden, not burdened by worry.

He will be fine… and me, what is a few more grey hairs!!!

is that they introduce you to new bands and music that you would not have usually come across..

Daughter bought the album for Son - and she is the one that plays it all the time.

She told me that she thought I would like this track - and I do…..

Rather than saying who they are and all that, and me getting loads of hits from fans, if you want more information about the band, please follow this link..

Now I am not saying that I love the whole Album - that may be taking things a little too far… but I really do like this song.