Scary Sunday!

Another one of those days when 'our Melvyn' didn't feel like going too far along the TF1. We intended to go bowling but we ended up waiting for the grua to turn up and take us all home!

Luckily, we managed to get to the slip road, after a water pipe blew out. Following Spanish rules, 'im indoors put his reflective jacket on and placed the emergency triangles behind the car. I was ordered to go over the barrier, not an easy task as they look lower than they are!

Thank goodness for mobile phones. Brian rang for the grua whilst I informed the bowling alley of our misfortune. Five minutes later Officer Dibble turned up to check us out. Having explained that we were ok and just waiting for a tow truck, he left us to it. Nice of him to stop by though.

We only had to wait for around fifteen minutes which was well impressive for Tenerife and home again.

According to Doreen, there were lots of whinges in the bowling alley........but you can't have everything!

A Fun Afternoon

I collected Charlotte from nursery this afternoon for our regular Thursday jaunt. We had an extra mission today as we needed a nice flat stone for hopscotch.........no, I won't be playing!! Her Mum is intending to mark it out for her on their roof terrace. That done, she marched me down onto the beach to look at a dead turtle. I couldn't see it no matter how hard I looked. Imagination is a powerful thing!

Next stop the supermarket for our icecream. We try out a different one every week. Today's was 'lemony' and really very nice. After half an hour in the swing park (I got really high!), we went off for our computer time. We adopted a blue virtual pet named Wendy and can I find it now? Poor thing must be starving.

I had a text from Sue who is in England for a couple of weeks. They went over for a wedding but, unfortunately, Don's mum broke her hip. Not such a good holiday but at least they are there for her.

Birthdays..........Again!!

Who could this young lady be? Julian sent some pics, via Sam, of her first day at senior school. She looks wonderful and is a birthday girl on Saturday. Have a lovely day Jamie. We'll be thinking of you and send lots of hugs and kisses..............Nana, Grandad and Topxxxxxxxx

Our Martin! He can look forward to a year of peace now. One sister has gone off to another school but he knows that young Maisie will be annoying him during his last year at primary school!! Never mind, have a good birthday on Monday, mate, lots of love from Nana, Grandad and Top.....wish I could have a hug xxxxxxx

PS. Looking at Jamie's backpack, whatever happened to those horrid brown satchel things that my generation had to lug around?

Thank Goodness for Top!

I love to sit on the balcony during the early hours of the morning as it's the coolest part of the day and nice and peaceful. As soon as Topsie started running around like an idiot I realised that there must be a cockroach about. They sprout wings at this time of year and fly towards the light.

Ours was around four inches long and really horrid. Thankfully, 'im indoors managed to catch it after I had the screaming fits and woke him up. Unfortunately, he left it on the floor before going back to his bed muttering some sort of swear words and I had to scoop it up with the fly swat. It still had a couple of twitchy legs.........really horrid and I feel well creepy now!

Bad Bowling!

A new season with lots of new rules! I can see that we will have some rows over this during the next few months. One bad one is 'should any person not be on the lane at two thirty the match will be considered forfeit, and all points cancelled'. Yes, nice one, especially if I've travelled in on the bus which is a journey of around an hour, to find that some idiot is late and I've had a wasted trip!!

THEN.........they decided the fault line is to be used during all match games. Not such a problem but I bowled and received a foul. I know I never went over the line and went and complained. BLAH, BLAH, no, you must have gone over the line. Ok, I tried again, making sure at least three people watched me including the mechanic.........FOUL!! I rarely lose my temper but I was almost at the stage of picking my ball up and going home. Thankfully, just before I had a screaming fit, Shippy, agreed with me and the fault line was turned off. It didn't help my game though as I only had ten points on the third frame.

Not to worry as it might help in regard to another new rule. Handicaps aren't decided until you have played three matches. It's all so STUPID!

Sorry to whinge but I'm still well cross.

A New Series

I've just watched the first of a new series of 'who do you think you are' which looked at the family history of Barbara Windsor. It was interesting and a little sad in parts but it just goes to show how far you can go when the professionals lend a hand! I think it's safe to say that she's a real Eastender!

My friend John, who I thank for reminding me to look out for it, isn't too keen on the interest it generates as it takes so much longer for certificates to arrive and research sites tend to get a little clogged up. I best get a wriggle on too as I have 43 files to upload for FreeBMD! (Thanks also to the BBC for allowing me to pinch their logo!).

My favourite site has been taken off for repairs this weekend. No photo comp, no photo quiz and no late night debates. Missing it already!

The School Bus

I really couldn't resist blogging this little tale.

As I mentioned on a previous thread, Jamie has just started Senior School and now needs to catch the school bus (pictured). It put her mum into memory mode and she confessed to a couple of childish pranks............first I've ever heard!

She attended the same school and did the daily journey just as Jamie is doing now. Scary stuff really.

Anyway, it appears that all the kids on the bus, around fifty or so, decided to have an away day. They planned it weeks in advance, most of them took a change of clothes and instead of going into school they jumped on the ferry and had a lovely day in Plymouth. Unfortunately, a few got caught and the rest got a lecture the following morning but as pranks go, it deserves ten out of ten! Cool!!

Best we don't tell Jamie and I've just grounded Sam for the week!!

I Forgot to Mention.........

6) Dead DVD player!!

Toaster works.........I shouldn't have said that should I?

Most folk have problems in threes, we double it!! Fortunately, the fridge freezer did revive over night so that's one less thing to worry about.

It's still well hot. We are all suffering and I have awful heat rash. Thankfully, there is aircon in the bowling alley. Not that Martin or I played too well today, but never mind, better luck next time.

Jamie starts senior school tomorrow. I really can't believe she is almost twelve. Best of luck, Flowerpot, do well and enjoy xxxx

Would You Believe It?

I'm sure that we have some crazy leccy gremlin living in our apartment. We have had so many poorly, sick and bad appliances this year it's hard to keep up.

1) Computer - Repaired twice and now has a bad 'a' drive
2) PS2 - Completely dead
3) Dead kettle - replaced and the new one is looking ok so far, finger's crossed
4) Iron - struggling
5) Washing machine gave up the ghost and was replaced three weeks ago - needs the repair man come Monday............grrrr.

THEN we came home this evening to find the kitchen flooded. The fridge freezer has packed in!!!

Luckily, we hadn't done a big shop so not much to spoil but there isn't any cold water for 'im indoors' whiskey! Talk about priorities, what is he like? Telling him to 'chill out' didn't help (hee hee).

All mopped up and towels spread around and we'll see what it's like when we plug it back in. I'm always so hopeful!

September........already!

As my Nana used to say 'rabbits, rabbits, rabbits!!

I haven't any of those but I do have this pic of young Pepper. He's now wide eyed and on his feet........with a little help from Maisie by the look of things! Thanks Sam xx

Well, our cunning plan to win enough money to pay the locker fees flopped, even though we were both close. Ron won with 189 points with Brian a close second having 180. I had a split which included a green random pin. All I had to do was to knock the white one down............grrrr.......I missed it by a coat of paint! Two hundred euros out of the window. Not to worry as we both enjoyed our evening. Better luck next time!

A Good Win

Martin and I both played well today and managed a 6 - 2 win against the team 'Wigan Pier'. I scored 170 on the last which was a clean game until frame seven when I lost the plot! A big split, nasty rabbit's ears, but I did manage to get two of them. That 200 shirt still eludes me.

The new Sunday League season starts this week. I checked out the teams today and it seems that ten have registered so far. No-one new, unfortunately, just the same old faces.

We are off to the fun bowl tomorrow evening. Free bowling, free drinks, free food and lots of cash prizes. I'm quite good at bowling 'off the bumper' so finger's crossed. Our target is enough dosh to pay the year's locker fees!

My blog is a little lacking in photos at the moment because my 'a' drive is playing up. Everytime I insert a disk, my computer crashes. I've no idea why but 'the man who knows' will be back from his hols soon and should be able to sort it.

Moving House

Brian helped Dave and Caron shift their stuff into the new house today whilst Charlotte and I had the afternoon to ourselves. She's such a clever chica as she improved her time on the 'Bob the Builder' game by half!! Mouse control is good and she's sussed the space bar! Another couple of 'lessons' and she will bypass me!

We walked down to the park after a while for icecream (a beer for me)!! I reckon we both deserved it! The workers arrived about an hour later.

It took us ages to find a bar to have a meal in..........we were all starving. Tropicana was full of football supporters, Esmerelda only had tapas so we ended up at Bar David. Not a bad meal I thought and Charlotte enjoyed her egg and chips. It was a little scary when she decided to play hairdresser though and declared that I had 'flies'! I really hope not!

Anyway, I hope they are well happy in their new home, lots of love from all of us xxxxxxxxx

A Long Holiday

I collected Charlotte from nursery today as her long holiday from school is beginning to be well boring. Her Nana, on holiday here for a month, spent lots of time with her and Auntie Sue has taken her swimming quite often but three months is a long time to spend at nursery with the babies. Her parents both work so it's the only option for them.

We had some fun. An hour doing educational puzzles on the computer, mainly concentrating on mouse exercises, was followed by a snack. She wolfed down yogurt, choccie biscuits and lots of orange juice.........where does she put it?

She did have a go at the bedlam cube, once I'd dusted it, but that wasn't as interesting as the computer!! We had a few 'fun' games before walking down to the park for ice cream and half an hour on the swings before Mum turned up and I was reprieved.

I enjoyed it and I'm sure she did. Happen we'll do it again next week!!

Painfully Hot!

It has been unbearable this past couple of days and that is an admission from someone who reckons 'the hotter the better'!!

We went for a stroll this afternoon. It was like trudging through the desert and I was relieved to be back home. Not that it was cooler here but at least I didn't have to move! I've just checked the forecast for the rest of the week and it appears there is a weather warning. Jogging will be off the list of activities then!

Poor Topsie has been searching for cool places too. Under the bed has been his favourite today instead of his normal 'soak up the sun' position on the balcony.

One Day

I'm still trying to win the photo competition and this is my current entry. I quite like it so we'll see how it goes.

Having had a strong argument over last week's winner, I'm not sure how the land lies at the moment. I spent many years learning the art of photography and my tutor wouldn't have accepted anything that wasn't my own work. The first rule in this competition states the very same thing............but, the winner of the last one entered a photo of herself!

I don't mean to be bitchy and I wasn't alone offering my complaints but rules are rules. It was a good pic and deserved to win............if the photographer had entered it in her own name. Nepotism I expect!

Accident?

We walked down to Bar Ayoze on Friday evening to meet up with Dave, Caron and Charlotte, before going over to Sue's birthday party.

It was lovely, sitting there in the sunshine enjoying a quiet beer........until this horrid child kicked his football onto our table. Glass, beer and blood everywhere! It was pretty scary and I was shaking like a leaf, but, fortunately, apart from a few cuts, we were ok. The child, around 13 or so, had his football confiscated. Luckily, it was just the two of us but I dread to think what might have happened if all of the 5 o'clock club members had been there.

We had a pleasant couple of hours with Sue and her family, listening to old sixties music and watching the sunset.

I found two perfect bedside lights this morning.............pale cream and black. My beef thingy meal was horrid and Accy Stanley had a draw! Blackburn lost 3 - 0.........my brother will be gutted.

Another draw for Liverpool and Sheffield Utd. Most of the crowd were supporting the underdog, but I just can't bring myself to cheer on a Yorkshire team!

Such Industry!

We finally got around to painting the bedroom yesterday. Not the ideal occupation when it's over 80 degrees but it had to be done. I was the labourer, not an easy task! It just needs some new curtains, which I'll make tomorrow, and some new bedside lights. Jobs a good un.

Whilst I wasn't running around after 'im indoors I was cooking!! Two meals at the same time I might add, never been known before. I made roast chicken and all the trimmings and also a beef bourguinonne for tonight's meal. Someone said that it needed to stand overnight to do something. We'll soon know if it's edible!

My friend, Sue, has a birthday today and has invited us over for 'drinks' later. Happy Birthday Sue x

A Bad Night

We went off to the Bowling League Presentation last night............really grim! I started with prawn cocktail, my old favourite, followed by a steak and finally, tiramasu.

Three prawns in the cocktail, no potatoes or chips with the steak, just a 'parcel' of carrots and some green thing that I didn't like the look of, and the sweet was far too sweet to eat!

The management didn't make an appearance and when it came to the trophies, it was one per team. Doreen and I had a quick argument about who wanted to dust it most. I'm not sure how I did it but Jeff ended up taking the cup home!! Sad for Brian but good for me!!

It isn't looking good for the next season as only six teams have registered. We shall see.

Will They Or Won't They?

Jason and Sarah-Louise are due to be married this week. I've heard that two separate story lines have been filmed.

Their mothers have been against it all along and the question is...............will they both turn up?

We shall see.

Good old Corrie!!!

No Bowling

I really hate the end of the Sunday Bowling League season. The day seems to go on forever.

We had a wander around the village for a couple of hours and came home for curry. Just what you need on a boiling hot day! Tasty though!

A bit of TV, I'm up to date on Corrie, and time for bed.