Weekend stuff

Well it's been a downright miserable weekend as far as the weather goes...Bitterly cold, on and off pouring rain, high winds and just thoroughly YUK...My teletext is not working on my telly...Have no idea why and am going to take K's TV through and plug it into the ariel see if teletext works on it...If it does then it must be the TV if not then must either be the ariel or teletext itself...But if it was the ariel then my picture would be affected to and it isn't hmmm...It's so annoying me as i like to catch up on stuff from it...The TV is still under guarantee so if i find it is working on K's telly i'll be going to comet LOL.

On sat i put loads of music off some of my CD's onto my computer...The boys went to their club in the afternoon...Before they went to club i had to rush out and help out a friend who had an accident in her car...One of her tyres had a blowout whilst she was driving it...So she was pretty shaken but no-one was hurt...Bit of luck it happening right beside halfords who managed to fix it later in the day...G had opticians early on sat morning so we left M in bed as he was still sleepy and went down...As they said it could take up to an hour i popped across into poundland whilst waiting...Ages ago i said i had bought some vinyl floor tiles...Well when i went back to get more after i'd workd out how many i would need they had none left in same pattern...So last week i had seen a pattern in that i thought would do...You get 6 tiles in each packet and each packet costs £1...They weight a ton LOL so as i had G with me to help i bought 12 packets of tiles...I think 72 should be enuff to do my kitchen floor...It's quite a big area but awkward...It's not a straightforward shape...I would have prefered to be able to afford to buy some nice thick lino but that would be out of my price league...This cheap stuff will do the job for a couple of years and maybe by then i can actually afford a new kitchen and get new flooring too...I did pull up some of the very worn old lino last night and am going to need to wash the floorboards down first...I was going to pull all the lino up today but the weather is so miserable i don't want to hear or see rain battering in kitchen window LOL.

Yesterday the boys were at respite and i waited in most of the day for my ex brother in law to comeround...Needless to say he'd tried when i was out collecting them <sigh>  Maybe a phonecall to arrange a time wouldn't go amiss...Ended up phoning him to ask where he was...So eventually he did turn up...The boys got their pressies my ex mother in law had taken back for them from the states...G got a model to build of a working engine...M got a solar system mobile to build...Remember  i said she didn't take anything back to K as she didn't know what size clothes she wore???  Well there was a pressie for me...Now i do appreciate it and i love it BUT she could have taken similar back for K too...It's a dragon ornament...You know those glass blocks you get with an image inside them??? One of them with a dragon in it...There's also a base that lights up to stand it on...Ex MIL knows K loves dragons too...As she took home as pressies for other people then why not K...Oh well i really don't think i will ever figure out how that family thinks or works...I feel guilty having been given something when her own flesh and blood got nowt...I'd bought the recent Star Wars DVD 'Revenge of the Sith' yesterday so the boys watched it twice last night LOL...I hadn't managed to see it in the cinema...Was quite good seeing how he became darth vadar...Bit of useless info time here now...There is a big fight scene between anakin and obi wan on top of lava flows with volvanic eruptions going off around them...Instead of uing CGI to do the effects they used actual footage of a volcano erupting...It was either when or before they were making the film that some of the cameramen from lucasfilms went over to see etna erupting...They got as close as they were allowed to and took real footage of it erupting...Now that is dedication to your job LOL...It does give it a bit more edge than CGI.

Today it's been so miserable i can't be bothered with doing anything...G was up at his usual 7am to get washed, dressed, breakfasted before taxi arriving at 7.30am...By 8.50am still no taxi and he was getting very agitated...I phoned the escort but no answer so obviously she had left...I phoned the taxi driver and he told me it was a different driver now (lovely NOT) and that the other lad on the taxi was off school again...Finally at 8am they arrived...There had been a big mix up this morning...They were redirected to collect another lad...They then got stuck in traffic and it's just one big muddle...The taxi firm who have the contract for the base just now are RUBBISH...Am being polite there btw...Most of the boys in the base don't like change especially at short notice...I know we have to allow for things like traffic BUT i could have been informed by the firm they were changing the driver...The firm are also supposed to inform the parents of any changes in pick up times...They DON'T...They're supposed to phone us when term restarts...They DON'T...I've phoned the escort who is also being messed about by them and hasn't a clue what is happening tomorrow...I just phoned the base to complain so they can pass it up further...The base are NOT happy with this firm either...I really hope and pray that when the contract is up for renewal again that they don't get the contract...The base just told me that some of the boys are being dropped off at school before it is even open!!!!...And some are arriving late for classes starting!!!...It BETTER get sorted out LOL...Oh one thing i did manage to get the boys to do at weekend...They finally wrote down a list of things they would like for christmas...They've not done that in the past...This year all they want is games and i can't remember names of them all...So now i have a list i know what to look for...M actually wants more DVD games...The bullseye, catchphrase, telly addicts and family fortunes ones...I have no idea if there are DVD games for all four of them but i do know there is a bullseye one...He watches all these old gameshows on the challenge TV channel on sky LOL...He's obsessed with gameshows...It's muggins here who has to give him answers to questions he gets stuck on...Apparently i am the font of all trivial knowledge according to them <ggg> Anyways must go now so Toodle pip tc xx

My new dragon is similar to this one on siggy Sara did :o)