A Good Morning

A lovely wet Saturday morning. Good Morning.

Just before my holidays I joined the local gym with the intention of getting fit. A friend has just informed me that I am losing weight off my bum - a bonus. Only trouble is I am also getting stretch marks there. Ummm. Oh well a few stretch marks are a small price to pay for losing a few pounds. Am just imagining my next shopping trip and buying clothes in a smaller size.

Yep its a good morning

Birthday pics.

Taken on a mobile phone, so not as good as normal pics.

Many thanks to Cilla for this lovely cake. XXX

Thank goodness for real people

I love paying my bills online. No hunting for the cheque book, no finding envelopes and worrying about postal strikes. No trekking to the post office when the wind in blowing up a gale and the rain lashes down. Just sit at the computer and type in a few numbers - simple. So when I changed my ISP to BT I thought I would carry on with this process. After all it saves you money as well.

So when I received my first broadband bill from BT I got on the computer and paid it. Now it was only a few clicks to setting up a DD. Or so I thought. I already have a BT account to pay my phone bill, so what could be easier than linking the 2 accounts? An hour later I am still going round in circles as it would not accept my new account number. Picking up the phone I get an automated responce. Choose my options and put in my account number - not once, but 3 times. It is still not recognising my number. By now I am pretty fed up and hang up. I hunt through my bill for a customer services number. Dial the number and a voice answers - "Are you a real person", I ask. Whooppeeeeee he is. So explain my problem. No problem he replies, I can set that up for you now. Five minutes later it is done. Now why has it taken so long when it is that simple?

I still like paying bills online, and do all my banking the same way. I just wish that some of the sites were a bit more flexible and allowed you to do what you wanted, rather than stick to their rather limited options. Thank goodness their are still some real people manning the phones as well as infuriating automated lines. Long may they continue.

Holidays

I can't believe its 4 months since I updated this. Hanging head in shame. It has certainly been an eventful 4 months, I have been on holiday in the Dales twice. We have lost a resident at work and I have been doing more activities with them. Nearly finished my NVQ. Had my 60th birthday and retired. Not to mention having joined the gym.

First the holidays. I went with a friend from work and we stayed in a cottage just outside Hawes. the views were spectacular and we managed to fit some really exciting experiences. The most memorable for me was a half day falconary flying. Even though it rained most of the time, it was wonderful.

There were visits to the Beatrix Potter experience and on the second visit to her house Hill Top Farm. There were castles and churches to visit, and despite not having a head for heights, I climbed to the top of them all and stood there shaking as I tried taking (slightly out of focus) photos.

Top of Richmond Castle.

Flight of Harris Hawk.

Zombie

I have been negleting this lately, and I am very sorry about that. But working nights has proved much more difficult than I imagined. Originally I was going to be doing 1 night a week and filling in for sickness and holiday. Somehow this crept up to 3 nights a week, which meant most of the time I have been walking around like a zombie.Now one of the other carers is leaving and the boss has given me the option of returning to 1 night a week. Yes pleasssssse says I..............it won't be till next month when he has had time to advertise and interview someone for the other hours. But at least it looks like I may get a life back soon.

So I am looking forward to more time in here

and more time on here

Baked and tested

Just having a change from working. Its taken a while to work out, but think I may have this right now.