Sunday, 21 June 2009

Happy Father's Day

June 21, 2009 0 Comments
Couldn't let the day go by without a quick post and the obligatory photo of my pops. Mum, Dad and I had a lovely meal at the Millbank at Millbank and on the way home stopped off at Hebden Bridge to listen to a little of the brass band competition (Dad's thing not mine). If you can't do these things for your Dad on Father's Day, when can you?

So massively stuffed after a lovely meal of blacksticks blue cheese fritters with beetroot, roast belly pork with roast veg, raspberry sorbet and coffee ..... yum.

The sun shone all day, and now the new series of Top Gear to round it off - could it get any better :o)

Dad and I

Mum and Dad

Mum and I (pulling stupid face)

Oh and finally, as promised, picture of sexy new car ........

Wednesday, 17 June 2009

Gosh

June 17, 2009 0 Comments

Can't believe its the middle of June already, and half way through the year and yet again I have failed in the blogging stakes.

So what's been happening ......

I am still in the job I don't like. Still not enjoying it very much. The people are really nice, having alternate Fridays off is fantastic and the traveling is so much better but it is so dull. I can spend the whole day doing very little and even doing work for my colleagues in the team doesn't fill the day. I told my boss in my 1:1 that I needed some more work and all she said was the investigation I was doing at the moment would fill my day!! It isn't!!!

I've sold the blue golf I bought earlier this year. For some reason it just wasn't as nice as the previous one and I couldn't 'bond' with it, so stuck it on autotrader and sold it within a couple of days. Then of course you have 2 more weeks of constant phone calls, including one wierdo who was so drunk or stoned he couldn't seem to grasp the fact it was sold, very amusing to listen to this on speaker phone on the way home.

2 weeks without a car and I found the most perfect new one, well again, new to me. A sexy black Mazda 3, photo to follow. So impressed am I that I have even had my plate put on it, which I never bothered to do with the blue golf. It drives like a dream, has an in built 6 CD interchanger and is a complete smoke free zone - it must be love :o)

Had a lovely Friday with my 'old' friends from Team Risk at MRI a couple of weeks ago. Chinese buffet lunch at Red Chilli then an afternoon of shopping with Mr H. What a hoot, I have never spent as long testing perfumes and colognes ever nor have I come away with as many free samples and discovered some must have new smells. I even scrapped a page to celebrate the occasion.















Father's Day this weekend and Pops, Mum and I are off to The Millbank at Millbank to sample (yet again) their superb cuisine. Sadly MP will not be coming with us as he is off to Scotland for the weekend on a bike tour with his biker buddies. Therefore I am also taking the opportunity to have a little gathering at my place on Saturday to partake of a little scrap booking and of course chatting.

On that note, better get back to the cleaning ....... don't want anyone to know how untidy my house really is ....... then again what are closed doors for if not for hiding things?

Friday, 1 May 2009

Wey Hey

May 01, 2009 0 Comments
Just a quick post to share my wonderful news .........

I've got tickets to see Greenday at MEN arena, Manchester in October .............. so excited. 

Here's a little taster of the boys ..................


Tuesday, 14 April 2009

Out of the frying pan

April 14, 2009 1 Comments
Well, I started my new job on the 6th April and just going into week 2 I know this is not the job for me. It seems 'Patient safety and quality' practitioner involves very little actual patient safety and uses the term in the broadest sense....

It seems my job involves dishing out money to GP's for doing something I think they should be doing anyway, and paying them to attend training they should already be attending. 

Now I may be way off the mark here, but they are still doctors are they not, and isnt part of that ensuring you and your patients are safe? Well it appears not, unless you pay them for it!!! So I am well and truly p***ed and looking for another job.

On a brighter note. The weather has been glorious over the Bank Holiday weekend and I have been a free woman. MP has been off on his bike and I have had peace and quiet so I have managed to get some scrapping done. Now very behind with Shimelle's challenge but I am going to Whittle in the Woods crop (no, not a fictitious place from Blackadder, this really does exist) this weekend, so fingers crossed I'll manage to catch up.

I have just finished reading part 3 of the Twilight trilogy by Stephenie Meyer and excellent it was too. Can't wait for part 4 to come out in paperback. I have now started reading Skullduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy and although I have just started it, I am enjoying it thoroughly. In fact it will be keeping me company tonight. A good book and a warm bed - heaven.

Here are a few of the LO's I've done recently and I really must get on and start the 'art farty jigsaw' challenge. I'll explain next time, till then, take care.


Kisses the Mummy - Murph and I, Abney Hall 1995


Old? No! - I wear Etnies. Me trying to be young at heart.