The Life and Times of Me

Heah ackes, I've had 3 in the last fortnight. Last nights one resulted in me having to take a sick day coz when I woke up this morning I was still feeling groggy and seemed to have lost my sense of balance. It felt like I was travel sick when I was sat up :-( Oh well. I seem almost to have recoved. I'm still a bit unsteady but I can sit up which is all I need to be able to do at work.

I did some more chrimbo shopping today (over the tinternet). Only one present I am really struggling with. I will have to think harder about that on.

More guiding stuff arrived in the post today my guiding mannual. Last night I attended the first of my first aid training sesions. Apparently we should have an acident book for the unit. I am sure SAGGA once created some sort of accident data base. My box of guiding stuff is getting bigger.

Jocasta keeps trying to eat by Otter "ta la." Most annoying.

I better go and do my ironing so I have somthing vagely smart to wear into work.

posted by Amy @ 20:36 1 Comments

I met Philip and he is very cute and I had a fantastic cuddle with him :-) (apparently Tim was a bit jealous).

I also met Jo. She is very nice. Hugh's house is looking good and he has good plans for it which are bound to make it all more pratical.

Went to Martin Mere yesterday. It was cold but fun.

I am enjoying loafing about and watching a bit of Sunday morning TV.

posted by Amy @ 12:53 0 Comments

I forgot to mention. Anna is away in Spain with her dad (there have been some very funny arguments on that front, major issues between them still) and so I have had the house to me self (but with Jacasta still) since monday am. But got up monday am to find pressure had gone from boiler and I didn't know how to fix it so I had to get a plumber. All fixed within 4 hours and I now know how to do it meself. Last time there was a similar problem, it took Anna nearly a week to sort out!

posted by Amy @ 13:02 0 Comments

So I haven't blogged for a while! Sorry didn't think I had done enough exciting stuff to merit a posting, but I was asked last night "just to keep everyone up to date."

So I make a quick scan through my diary since my last post. 8th of November, that seems ages away as it is now nearly December and my way slip has landed on my desk. I have £*90.4* in my pension you might like to know. Blimey I am a proper grown up. NI contributions being made plus a pention and union membership!

I've been to my first guide training session, it was about using G-files and Go For Its to incorporeate the 5 pillerthingys into your unit's activities. Was an interesting evening although I am not sure what the trainer really offered. I now have my book which I will work through in order to gain my warrent. I already have about 5 things ticked off. It is very difficult to do alot of the stuff as captain and doormouse don't let kipper and I make decisions etc and all they do is sit and drink coffee! I have some resources now, the unit now has 1 patrol x-tra and one badge file in preparation to us putting the guides in patrols in January (we have 18 girls and no patrols at present). I also have a pile of go for its and "being prepared" a risk assessment book. I am hoping that Guiding will start to appear on my door mat at somepoint in the near future and that I will be getting the guiding handbook/mannual thingy too (it is order). Last w/e (19th) I took Tim along with me to the Guide and brownie coffee morning, very amusing it was too. I ended up buying back 15 of the 40ish cakes I took along. Coming up I have some first aid training and I am supposed to be organising a trip to the cinema for the last week of term. We had a "wow factor" night this week and nearly all the girls took part (and I did a bit of singing...i think I sang ok).

Working is plodding along nicely. SEA stuff is on hold at the moment while other people catch up so I am commenting on some EIAs... don't think I can say too much about that though, if you want to know more you can ask.

Callum's curtain's are made. Well sort of, one is a little bit cocked up still and requires someone with more skill than I have to fix it.

I am becoming a regular visiter to London. Both for work and pleasure, SEA/SA conference, visits to see Jamts Tunks (I think that is the closest English spelling to the name) and me other cousins/aunt plus a day out with Hales/Roberts/Fishers (although not all of them).

Off home this w/e for several reason's: I get to meet Philip, I get to "laugh" at HM hosting a NW SAGGA event, I get to see other SAGGA friends and I get to see me mates. I'm well looking forward to it and I have taken Monday morning off as a flexi day so don't have to worry about sunday traveling.

I am worried about Tony Blair's sanity/brain cells. Nuclear power! This is heavily subsidied and so we never pay the true cost of it (unlike coal/gas/oil etc), we still haven't found a way of dealing with the waste and it is not really dealing with the issue of getting people to consume less energy in the first instance. Shouldn't "standby" be banned from electrical appliance's? Shouldn't all new houses be build to Carbon neutral standards or at least low carbon (solar heaters, triple glazing etc). I am most p*ssed off with it all. And they are still insisting on school reforms!

Anyone know of an alternative to diethyl ether?

posted by Amy @ 12:36 0 Comments

Babies babies everywhere. Two within a week of each other. One more into the D'Costa Clan and one more into the Wright Clan. Congratulations everyone.

Work.... I have nearly nothing to do. I can get any further with my SEA stuff until me boss has written his issues and options report (its all to do with the 2004 planning and compulsary purchase act...). So I am scoping more relevent documents and trying not to fall asleep at the same time, helping with the migration of the counties website (I'll let you know the pages I am responsible for when it is live), general it dogs body, organising the christmas lunch. I have done very little proper SEA stuff for a while now.

Tonight with guides we went bowling. I got 84 I think, not really my best score but I wasn't taking it too seriously. "Kipper" and I did some more chatting about where to take the unit. Only problem is we can't upset Dormouse and Captain too much as we are relying on them with their warrent cards until we get our own. We have started planning our partols and some possible activities for next term. Next week we are planning for the coffee morning (on the 19th) and are looking for money making suggestions! I think the guides are doing crafty things next week in preparation but I am not sure what. Off to my first church parade since.... goodness knows when on Sunday. Im looking forward to it, a good chance to sing.

Anna's (my landlady) Dad is staying at the moment, Anna is sleeping on the living room floor. I am not sure how long he is about for but Anna hasn't spent alot of time with hime since she was 12. Anna never fixed the fuse. A lovely young man who shall be known as Mr H sent me some fuse wire and I did it meself. I think that Anna is hoping her dad will do jobs about the house for her.

Andy Lad (of Safe as F**K fame) sent this to me:
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.

The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

posted by Amy @ 23:17 2 Comments