What a week ... started out with the usual power cut on Monday (as previously mentioned) ... ran around like a chicken without it's head on Tuesday (as usual!!!)
School classes went well ... the girls all finished their 8x8 pages but I forgot the camera so took photos on the cell phone ... now can't find the bl...y disk to put photos on computer ... nothing is ever simple in my life ;-( ... we're going to start a concertina mini book next week ... that should be fun !!!(oh look out for photos on next posting!!! I hope, and now that I've told the gals they'll be on the blog I suppose I have to watch what I say !!!pmsl)
Then Tuesday night dashed off to the 'Christmas House' (this is a family who spend all year making and preparing Christmas Stuffs to sell, then for 1 week of the year they live in the 'tool shed' or somewhere else and they decorate their house with all the handmade stuffs and they sell it to us silly buggers who adore Christmas!) Needless to say I did the usual ... had no control at all over the spending elf within and went a little crazy ... this photo is the back seat of my car with just some of my lurverly purchases ... oh I can't wait for Christmas now so I can decorate the place !!!
Wednesday was spent trying to get washing dry ... dashing between the rain showers. It is so blooming cold here at the moment, and wet too ... it hasn't stopped raining since Saturday afternoon ... and with this house having tiled floors everywhere it's FREEZING !!! Oh I now know FOR SURE that I will be the only house in Waterfall with DOUBLE GLAZING and CENTRAL HEATING ... even if I have to go out to work to pay the flaming electricity bills !!! I HATE BEING COLD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!(Oh shame the landlord just popped round with a fan heater for us cos mum had mentioned to them we were suffering with the cold !!! how sweet is that !) I was chatting to my sister in law about looking into getting a tumble dryer (can you believe it 8 years in the UK and I never needed one and here I am in 'Hot Africa'(NOT) and I'm talking about getting a tumble dryer !!! ;-0) Penny said get one and use it in the dinning room and it'll keep the rest of the house warm too... so that's why you need one !!! PMSL!!!
To add to the dilemma (or consider it another challenge) yesterday mum puts some chops in the oven at 3pm (mmmm lurverly casseroled chops with onion gravy... mash and veges yummy !!! warming food !!!) only to discover at 6pm when she wants to thicken the gravy the damned chops are still raw!!! The blasted oven's not working !!! (do you actually wonder why I think there are forces working against me??? or is all of this normal and I'm not!!!)
Then I get the saddest phone call from June ... seems Daisy Dog is a very sick puppy ... she's not been eating properly since June got her on Friday and she's been throwing up whatever she has been eating ... poor dog has Parvo Enteritis (it's a deadly disease in dogs and puppies are at the highest risk !!!) June is absolutely gutted !!! ;-( Daisy is at the vets at the moment ... they have her on a drip and a course of antibiotics ... if she makes it through the next 48hours there's a possibility she can survive ... and of course both Shadow and Indi have had to be checked out and have booster injections too ... older dogs develop a better immunity to it ... so we're all hoping and praying real hard that Daisy pulls through ... I'll keep you all posted ...
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