http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com The life and times of Anni, Duke and Aprilia Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:31:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en this morning we were woken rather later than I’d planned by the phone ringing (and no, I’m not fessing uip how late I’d slept in!) and I was rather relieved to realise that Duke hadn’t opened the curtains downstairs as that was where the cordless phone had got left last ... http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2009/11/23/cramming-it-all-in/ need to get the ranty bit out of the way first really…. EIGHT HOURS??????  Now, I know that 8 hours includes the person traveling to and fro, and their paperwork once they are back at the office etc but really, 8 hours????  What on earth do you talk to an LA ... http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2009/11/22/eight-hours/ I was speaking to one of the owners tonight where I clean and he has asked me to pull together my CV.  You see, he had asked me last week if i could go into the college where he works part time to give a quickie first aid demo for ... http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2009/11/19/pondering-employment-and-almost-autonomy/ This morning we trailed round town finding details of children’s savings accounts available to her.  After visiting every bank and building society on the town it would appear that NatWest gets her vote as it’s the only one that will allow her to run her own account without me shaddowing ... http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2009/11/16/just-stuff-2/ First to answer questions from previous posts…. Helen, yes, of course you can pass on my thoughts on the book. Jan, the course is Sports Massage.  After this one there is a Sports Injury one, a Remedial massage one and a couple of other ones I fancy too….. so much for taking ... http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2009/11/15/just-a-quickie/ Aprilia has been "under the weather" for a few days now, not poorly exactly, but not well either really.  So she’s been indulging in rather a lot of Cbbc and Citv and even a bit of Cbeebies here and there.  Lots of nature programmes on at the mo so she’s ... http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2009/11/12/tv-ed/ Today I stood silence with an ex squaddie.  He stood quietly and a touch sadly, bare head raised in the rain.  He doesn’t talk about it to many, the nail-shaped scars on his legs speak for him.  But the mental scars aren’t so obvious, unless you really know him well.  ... http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2009/11/08/for-our-tomorrows/ a nasty case of inertia has gripped the household recently resulting in no "reward chart" nonsense, and not a lot else either.  There has been…. the pop up tent in my bedroom (too cold outside!) in which we did fabric crafts. facebook, yes, I know, just don’t go there…. but I do ... http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2009/11/03/odds-and-sods/ Whilst looking for the cover things for the trampoline springs, we notices taht some places sell tents that are designed to go on them but for lots, and lots of money obviously!  But then, we have a pop up tent which is a perfect size…. so we have popped that ... http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2009/10/29/alternate-uses-for-trampolines/ We did "halloween crafts" at Nelly’s house today and I took a suggestion from this site to do "skulls" which both me and Aprilia had a go at and Nelly and Bart did their own take on.  Then, Aprilia being just that little bit on the perfectionist side, she decided ... http://tbirdanni.blogsome.com/2009/10/26/the-scream-photo-to-follow/