Not a lot really

The burns night was good last night...It's really just an evening for the dancers to show off their dancing and some adults associated with the school accompanying on the fiddle and drum with one of them doing the toast to the haggis...But there's no haggis, neeps and tatties served up...We did have a break for tea, coffee, irn bru or a wee dram of whisky with some snack food...Well oatcakes with cheese, shortbread, sausage rolls, sandwiches, a rather yummy fruit cake and haggis balls...One of the parents of the dancers had made tha haggis balls...They were haggis rolled into a ball and covered in pastry...Guess they were fine if you like haggis..I don't LOL...M sang twice which i didn't know he was doing...A couple of his friends did a double act telling jokes and one of them was also singing...Some of the dancers sang as well as a group...Maybe am biased but out of them all who were singing M was by far the best...Well along with the actual dancers he did get biggest round of applause...There must have been over 100 people in the hall watching as well...Quite a few of the primary one pupils have joined the dancing group...One wee lad who is downs was dead cute, very funny and thoroughly enjoying himself...So much so he wanted to stay on the floor dancing the whole night :o)  The first time M sang i didn't record it...Well i thought i had but i hadn't arghhh...I've never recorded with this camera before and i could swear i had pressed the right buttons...Shame because i think he sang it better than the 2nd song...And the 2nd one is what he is singing on mon...But he has sang Robbie Williams song Advertising Space a few times at school things...So he's well used to it by now...Must say he does sing it really well...Before he sang the 2nd time he told everyone he is auditioning on mon so after the evening finished everyone was going up to him to wish him luck :o)  Today he has come home from college with good luck 'cards' that his classmates made for him...Which is sweet :o)

I sat beside one of M's friends mum last night...She's in the bad books with her son LOL...Because she wouldn't let him audition for either X Factor or Britains Got Talent...Thing is he's not that great a singer...He goes off key all the time and basically she is trying to protect him from looking daft or being put through to being in front of the judges to look daft on telly...Now he is quite good at comedy so he'd be far better putting a comedy act together and audition for BGT as a comedian instead...His diagnosis is aspergers but the school GP is wanting to run other tests for other stuff...He's a lovely lad but very very vulnerable...His mum like me went to Art school although a different one...She has set up a business doing caricatures and goes to wedding fairs, craft fairs and corporate events to get business...She didn't tell me how much a stall costs at these big events (she doesn't do the smaller ones) but said it was worth the money...I know the stalls are expensive...But the last one she did which was a huge wedding fair she got orders worth £2000...But she charges an awful lot per caricature...I know what i would like to do but what worries me is a) the cost of setting it all up, b) overstretching myself, c) having too much variation of things eg: cards, glass painting, wedding favours and jewellery again and d) FAILURE...Ok i could farm out some bits to friends to do if anything was popular...When i suggested to K IF i managed to get the unusual wedding favour idea off the ground that i could teach her to crochet and pay her £1 per favour she cited minimum wage at me...My reply was yeah i know minimum wage and it doesn't take an hour to crochet one item LOL...Besides i couldn't really charge more than around £3.50 per favour to those wanting to buy them...And they don't take that long to crochet up...I know from trying out for christmas cards (which never got finished LOL) that my idea of using wire will work...Just need to get the right thickness...Dilemmas (sp) i need to resolve and soon...I enjoy creating stuff and always have done...I was one of those avidly glued to Blue Peter wanting to try and make what was shown from good old sticky back plastic and rubbish LOL...BUT even very young i added to what they did...Like if it was a room for one of your dolls made from a carboard box and furniture from old egg cartons i put my own additions in...Mine had to have skirting boards, light bulbs, sockets, flexes and such like...Bulbs and plugs made from plasticine, skirting boards from thin card and painted before glued on to the walls, flexes and cables from string or wool or crochet thread LOL...But if am going to make this work i need to try and stick to specifics and try not to vary from them too much...I have found some sources for silver wire although some the bulk they sell in is way too much for me just now...To be honest i am getting frustrated with researching sources and would rather be getting on with being creative...I have these ideas going round and round in my head and i want to try them out...Am going to buy el cheapo wire and use plastic beads to try them out see if they are feasible and look good...Of course the problems with my shoulder are getting in the way a bit as well just now...I really don't want to start soldering again as a) it's messy and b) i would need a totally seperate room which i could set up as a proper workshop...Ach it can all wait until after monday and see what transpires with M.

G has accepted the conditional offer of a place on the MEng in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (hope i got them right way round)...He did that at school and never told me LOL..Today he had another 3 letters inviting him to one of 3 prospective student days at the Engineering dept of RGU...Now todays date is the 25th jan and one of the days was 16th jan LOL...It would be good for him to go to one of them as well as have the personalised visit...As at one of those days he will get to meet other prospective students which would be cool...I do wish he would keep me up to date on what he has and hasn't done though...Suppose am only mum ROFL...Am sure the base and school reckon he had told me but he forgets so easily...One reason i would like a PDA applied for through disabled student grant or he'll never remember anything...Not as messy as post it notes stuck here, there and everywhere...Am getting car back tomorrow, it's been fixed and retested and passed...I'll find out the damage to my pocket next week LOL...Oh i've tried to edit and fiddle with the clip i tried to take of M last night...You'll have to wait because am crap at it LOL

Toodle pip tc and have a fab weekend :o)