Archive for January, 2010
Oh what a fun week
This week has been one of those weeks, it started Monday night when while walking Lady, our Golden Labrador, she saw a cat the otherside of our street and decided to chase it, at the same time a taxi cab was driving up the road. Unfortunately the dog had seen the cat before us so [...]
We’ve been gritted – yippee
After weeks of snow and Ice our street has actually been gritted by the council. There must be a reason! For the past few weeks the council has been running out of grit/salt, they haven’t been refilling the grit boxes on the sides of roads where accidents are likely because ‘they do not have enough [...]
No school due to snow on ground
After I posted yesterday we got a call saying that the secondary school our eldest two boys attend was closing at lunch time because of the snow, school buses would run so no need to collect them. About 20 minutes later it was announced that the primary school our youngest attends was also closing so [...]
What’s that white stuff?
Oh it’s snow. Today is the first day back to school for the kids today after a 2 week break and guess what we was all doing this morning, listening to the local radio for the list of school closures. Tracey and I in the hope the schools our kids attend are not on the [...]
So it’s a new year now what?
What is going to happen for us all this new year? 2009 was a up and down year, things started of not great income wise but then they picked up. Out of the blue we bought a motor home and as we signed the loan agreement income seemed to have dropped to nothing again. Although [...]