Bah Humbug!

I was awake early enjoying a cup of tea.

Checked to see if I had any maintenance for our kids off ex-plum

Nothing.

Oh dear.

Later on phoned the CSA, he hadn't paid a bean.

Scrooge is still alive and breathing....

It will of course be added to his other arrears by the new lot doing the maintenance now.

This doesn't help getting the kid's presents I promised.

Got some small  Xmas presents for now

Lumo Lemon Time!

Sadly lacking this Friday Feeling..

Still waiting to hear from school on what they are doing about what happened on Wednesday.

As we are having dark mornings,

Some people are driving around with one bulb or no lights on at all.

In a good way I am dressed like a lumo lemon..

After the Friday Madness of first part of Job 1.

Time for chill with coffee...

 Mystery packet time...

 

At least it's not ticking...

 

I Believe In Father Christmas

I woke up to a very dark morning.

I heard Greg Lake's "I Believe In Father Christmas" on the radio.

I said to my hubby:

 "I bet he has some royalties for this song."

Found out later he had passed away yesterday.

Greg Lake had actually discussed in a newspaper in 2005

about the royalties for his song......

The homemade Shepherd's pie was all eaten up....

 Back to cake making tomorrow...

Trying To Look On The Bright Side...

If I knew I was going to have a bad Hump Day.

(I would have stopped in bed...)

Larry wouldn't start.

Lift to Job 1.

Gets lift to get new battery for Larry.

 My dad and friends fits battery to Larry.

Still wouldn't start grrrrrr

Calls Green Flag.

A very very nice man comes out,

Tightens up the starter motor...

Larry now wakes up and works...

Hip Hip Hooray.

Then there was the trouble in the school involving one of my kids in the afternoon.

Pass me the headache tablet...

 

Make It So!

The first half of the morning,

I had pea soup fog to deal with.

I had a visit from the local PCSO's  

at Job 1

Most of the car drivers stuck to the 20 mph limit and were stopping!!!!

One parent got told off for parking on the Zig Zags.

Back home

I was going to play with Henry,

Then had a powercut for a hour.

The PCSO's were back for the second half of Job 1

One van failed to stop, his license plate was noted.

Better get my skates on for getting into this Christmas mood.

(my new CD might help!)

 No cards made yet

No Christmas cake made yet

2 presents got so far...

19 days left and counting....

 

 

Getting Back On It!

Back on the Wobbly Work Wheel.

Another freezing day....

Thermal knickers are back on!

Nice sunrise...

I enjoyed singing backing vocals to 

T'Pau's "Heart and Soul" 

(That was playing on Asda FM)

while I scanning my shopping.

(Nice,loud and even in tune!)

Larry sat outside,

Watching the car park defrost.

Now to rest the vocal cords...

Even better, no singing needed to.....

 get back on it...

(Writing the new book!)

Beware The Red Light Flashing...

 A cold Sunday had arrived...

It was time to explore the loft for the Xmas Tree.

Hubby was armed with the crucifix and holy water.

Once the house was decorated inside and out....

 Off we went for that free coffee.

While there, I found the ideal items to help smear hubby in baby oil!

Then we moved onto Asda.

While using the self service till....

One old boy was huffing and puffing like a steam train,behind us in the queue.

 It wasn't  our fault, we were taking a long time.

 Our till was being hyper sensitive

 And we had a lot of reduced stuff. 

Soon after we left and he got served..

The red light above the till was flashing:

Just like our red light above our bedroom door....