I just saw this on TV this evening -ah so funny!
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Saturday, December 08, 2007
Walking in a Winter Wonderland...
It's what I'm listening to!
In an attempt to feel Christmassy and to try and be on a par with the household when I head to Coventry I am now making a concerted effort to Christmas myself up.
It's proving slightly tricky as I've been in school every night this week and all over this weekend and Monday and Tuesday night - haven't really had much time to 'get the Christmas on'. This is not a complaint - I'm merely stating a fact (A phrase I have had to repeat several times this week when people have asked why I look so k***...sorry...tired!)
There's been some really cool stuff on this week - the infant Nativity was especially cute! At the minute the Y13's are frantically trying to piece together 'The Curse of the Werewolf'. It's sort of a cross between a bad horror movie and a pantomime! Still despite the lack of rehearsal it does seem to be coming together and I've got a few of my team on board to help out backstage so a good (if slightly rushed) experience all round.
I tell you, I'm thinking of starting a wine cellar with all the thank you's I've been getting!
The renault Clio is going well and sems to be coping. However I managed to run the battery down twice in 2 days and had to rescued by various members staff - that would be me not used to a car with normal electrics then!
Poor Moffy has broken all records in the Garage across the road (and indeed her own record!) by SPECTACULARLY failing her M.O.T - 2 pages and and a page of Advisory...ooich. However 3 of those were a new tyre a piece and lots of little bits of welding - and a big King pin thing. Still it means I get to spend the Christmas hols working at the fabulous Coach and Horses and spending my free time in the company of Morris Minor Men and my Dad - I'm actually looking forward to it!
Have been feeling a little lonely lately - just shows that next term is the right time to join groups and hopefully start my scuba diving (that is if I'm not to skint!) Although having no social life has definitely been beneficial this term!!!
In an attempt to feel Christmassy and to try and be on a par with the household when I head to Coventry I am now making a concerted effort to Christmas myself up.
It's proving slightly tricky as I've been in school every night this week and all over this weekend and Monday and Tuesday night - haven't really had much time to 'get the Christmas on'. This is not a complaint - I'm merely stating a fact (A phrase I have had to repeat several times this week when people have asked why I look so k***...sorry...tired!)
There's been some really cool stuff on this week - the infant Nativity was especially cute! At the minute the Y13's are frantically trying to piece together 'The Curse of the Werewolf'. It's sort of a cross between a bad horror movie and a pantomime! Still despite the lack of rehearsal it does seem to be coming together and I've got a few of my team on board to help out backstage so a good (if slightly rushed) experience all round.
I tell you, I'm thinking of starting a wine cellar with all the thank you's I've been getting!
The renault Clio is going well and sems to be coping. However I managed to run the battery down twice in 2 days and had to rescued by various members staff - that would be me not used to a car with normal electrics then!
Poor Moffy has broken all records in the Garage across the road (and indeed her own record!) by SPECTACULARLY failing her M.O.T - 2 pages and and a page of Advisory...ooich. However 3 of those were a new tyre a piece and lots of little bits of welding - and a big King pin thing. Still it means I get to spend the Christmas hols working at the fabulous Coach and Horses and spending my free time in the company of Morris Minor Men and my Dad - I'm actually looking forward to it!
Have been feeling a little lonely lately - just shows that next term is the right time to join groups and hopefully start my scuba diving (that is if I'm not to skint!) Although having no social life has definitely been beneficial this term!!!
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
That post eBay feeling...
Well, after my ponderings in the last post I finally bit the bullet, had a good scout round various sites and decided that the quickest & easiesit way to get a car was via eBay - and tudah, I am now the proud owner (well, when I pick it up) of a '93 Renaalt Clio. It's a purpley blue color witha 1.2 litre engine and hints ever so slightly at the boy racer - however, it's reliable, MOT'd 'til summer next year and taxed for a couple of months so is just what I need. I set my limit and came in £100 under it.
Feeling a bit shaky now but I guess you always get that when you spend a fair bit of money on something. Still even though the garage let me borrow the Vauxhall for free I've still had to fork out £50 to insure it for just over a week so I figure that in the long run this will definitely be cheaper! Also the lovely Martin Fox did some ringing round and found a Moggy man with a rear diff for for Moffy - and only £60 - seen as a new one was going to be about £350 I feel that I have hopefully made some good choices today....
Still we'll see when I pick up the new (to me!) car, which will be hopefully either tomorrow or Thursday :)
Now to spend some quality time on the Mofster.
Feeling a bit shaky now but I guess you always get that when you spend a fair bit of money on something. Still even though the garage let me borrow the Vauxhall for free I've still had to fork out £50 to insure it for just over a week so I figure that in the long run this will definitely be cheaper! Also the lovely Martin Fox did some ringing round and found a Moggy man with a rear diff for for Moffy - and only £60 - seen as a new one was going to be about £350 I feel that I have hopefully made some good choices today....
Still we'll see when I pick up the new (to me!) car, which will be hopefully either tomorrow or Thursday :)
Now to spend some quality time on the Mofster.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
A fabulous Year In The Park
Well the show is over and I'm enjoying my first day not being in school for 20 days!
It went so well and the girls worked really hard - I was very proud of my team :) The audience were impressed - some said they had never been to that type of theatre (promenade) before but would definitely go again. It came together well and Saturday nigths performance was pretty tight.....now for the clear up!
Moffy is in the doctors again. At first it was thought that there was something jamming the gears - however when they got to look at it appears that the diff in the back axle (the thing that converts the motion of the prop shaft to turn the wheels) has bits missing off it and these have damaged other parts of the diff :( I am now having to decide if it's going to be more economically friendly to buy another car and keep Moffy off the road until she is all repaired.... hmmmm.
It's Ben's Birthday Bash tomorrow, looking forward to my first proper night out sibce arriving here:)
It went so well and the girls worked really hard - I was very proud of my team :) The audience were impressed - some said they had never been to that type of theatre (promenade) before but would definitely go again. It came together well and Saturday nigths performance was pretty tight.....now for the clear up!
Moffy is in the doctors again. At first it was thought that there was something jamming the gears - however when they got to look at it appears that the diff in the back axle (the thing that converts the motion of the prop shaft to turn the wheels) has bits missing off it and these have damaged other parts of the diff :( I am now having to decide if it's going to be more economically friendly to buy another car and keep Moffy off the road until she is all repaired.... hmmmm.
It's Ben's Birthday Bash tomorrow, looking forward to my first proper night out sibce arriving here:)
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Avast and climb the rigging...
That was in honour of the fact of watching 'Pirates of the Caribbean' (is anyone ever sure they've spelt that correctly!) last night and the fact that I've nearly finished rigging for the school show. Abley assisted yesterday and today by Vix who is down visiting for the weekend - very exciting :)
We are now sat having a computer moment before enjoying a healthy (hmmm)breakfast of pancakes and then heading into Bath to finish the rigging and see the sights.
I have just had a vague geek out at being able to order Wil Wheaton's new book (it's been out for a while but he's finally sorted out the problems with PayPal) so I'm almost as excited as in my quest to find 'Just A Geek'. I'm hoping it'll arrive near the show so it will be a pre/post show treat. He's a great writer, with a really easy style to follow, and even though I'm a bit younger so the whole Star Wars / D&D thing passed me by I can still relate to the geeky childhood/teenage thing.
Moffy is back. I had to replace a headlight and all the tyres need doing...still she now has a new head-gasket, a new heater valve and new timing cogs and they were very nice about billing me for the time so all in all I feel a little more confident :)
Right...on with breakfast.
We are now sat having a computer moment before enjoying a healthy (hmmm)breakfast of pancakes and then heading into Bath to finish the rigging and see the sights.
I have just had a vague geek out at being able to order Wil Wheaton's new book (it's been out for a while but he's finally sorted out the problems with PayPal) so I'm almost as excited as in my quest to find 'Just A Geek'. I'm hoping it'll arrive near the show so it will be a pre/post show treat. He's a great writer, with a really easy style to follow, and even though I'm a bit younger so the whole Star Wars / D&D thing passed me by I can still relate to the geeky childhood/teenage thing.
Moffy is back. I had to replace a headlight and all the tyres need doing...still she now has a new head-gasket, a new heater valve and new timing cogs and they were very nice about billing me for the time so all in all I feel a little more confident :)
Right...on with breakfast.
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Half Term....I remember it well...
Yup, enjoying my first official few days of half term by staying in Cov with the sisters. May actually be staying for longer because Moffy's fuel pump was doing intersting things on the way up here and just after I'd got lost trying to find Tesco's somethng started going clank and, according to the AA guy, one of the vlave seats has blow....fun. I was supposed to be rotating wheels and fixing my gear box and speedo cable while I was up here. Now I have to ring the AA when I'm ready to go home and get Moffy into a garage ASAP....bless!
Still I did have the fun of driving to my Granny's house (which fabulously in the middle of nowhere) in a band new rental Peugot 207...very shiny!
So the rest if the week (especially getting to Wythall this weekend) is going to be highly entertaining! i can't get it into the garage here and there are 2 rigth next to my house at home - and Ireally need my car next week + I have a meeting tomorrow otherwise the sensible thing would be to stay here until Monday...ah well, sensible is rarely the start of a 'grand adventure'!
Still I did have the fun of driving to my Granny's house (which fabulously in the middle of nowhere) in a band new rental Peugot 207...very shiny!
So the rest if the week (especially getting to Wythall this weekend) is going to be highly entertaining! i can't get it into the garage here and there are 2 rigth next to my house at home - and Ireally need my car next week + I have a meeting tomorrow otherwise the sensible thing would be to stay here until Monday...ah well, sensible is rarely the start of a 'grand adventure'!
Monday, October 15, 2007
On being home alone...
Sometimes there's nothing like bopping round your flat like you just don't care to Rodrigo y Gabriela to make even risk assessments seem funky and fun!!!!
Zero88 course tomorrow, very excited bunny....:))))) ah techie-dom...
Zero88 course tomorrow, very excited bunny....:))))) ah techie-dom...
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Calzone in the oven....
No, no.....no euphemism. I have branched out into a new section of cooking. Right now my flat is filling with the smell of baking dough filled with cream cheese, cheddar and pesto and it smells gooooood. I'll take a photo when I get it out and post it!
I also made my first coffee cake of living here and, even though I was lacking Baking Powder, it turned out pretty good - yey! Now all I need to do is get the door of my oven to shut properly and I should be away :)
Hmm, what been happening? Well, last week I went back to Wythall for Isaac's Dedication which was lovely *fuzzy* I got spend some time The Sirrel's,and the Brown's which was fab and it was nice to feel properly as home somewhere for a bit.
My flat is feeling more homely. I think I need to put some more stuff up on the walls, my bedroom isn't very cosy - although it is spacious. And, as yet I haven't had to turn on the heat...yey. Also Moffy started every morning this week which was lovely, even meant I was at school early every day because I had to go out early in case I needed to catch the bus!
So tomorrow is my first time playing in church, I did about 40min practise today, kinda scary to be playing the 'cello for the first time in public in oooo 10 years...... blimey, had to think about than then! Gosh.
Stuff at school is going really well. This is the last week of this half term so I'm planning on doing some practical demos for the various departments in my PST team, Teaching the SM team how to prepare a props table, the Design team are starting their boards, the props team are doing some stuff, the Publicity team are starting work on the programme and putting up a noticeboard of photos. The Techs have got some gel sorting to do....fun! Still it'll help them learn the colours and sizes! Plus I have my LX desk training day on Tuesday so I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in this week :)
Plus I'm finding out more about the expedition stuff, Peru sounds cool - but who knows!!!!
I also made my first coffee cake of living here and, even though I was lacking Baking Powder, it turned out pretty good - yey! Now all I need to do is get the door of my oven to shut properly and I should be away :)
Hmm, what been happening? Well, last week I went back to Wythall for Isaac's Dedication which was lovely *fuzzy* I got spend some time The Sirrel's,and the Brown's which was fab and it was nice to feel properly as home somewhere for a bit.
My flat is feeling more homely. I think I need to put some more stuff up on the walls, my bedroom isn't very cosy - although it is spacious. And, as yet I haven't had to turn on the heat...yey. Also Moffy started every morning this week which was lovely, even meant I was at school early every day because I had to go out early in case I needed to catch the bus!
So tomorrow is my first time playing in church, I did about 40min practise today, kinda scary to be playing the 'cello for the first time in public in oooo 10 years...... blimey, had to think about than then! Gosh.
Stuff at school is going really well. This is the last week of this half term so I'm planning on doing some practical demos for the various departments in my PST team, Teaching the SM team how to prepare a props table, the Design team are starting their boards, the props team are doing some stuff, the Publicity team are starting work on the programme and putting up a noticeboard of photos. The Techs have got some gel sorting to do....fun! Still it'll help them learn the colours and sizes! Plus I have my LX desk training day on Tuesday so I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in this week :)
Plus I'm finding out more about the expedition stuff, Peru sounds cool - but who knows!!!!
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