49 posts from October 2009

What's the worst vacation you've ever taken?

It was a week in the City of Bath.  I was in my teens and went with my parents.  Stopped in a Guest House, we coudnt find anywhere to park and ended up spending £25 for the week using a garage forecourt.  We knocked on the Guest House door and the owner came and looked us up and down like we were pieces of shit then asked who were were and we gave her out names and she looked like she hadnt got a clue who were were and that we were really inconvenient. 

She showed us to our rooms, I got this damp room and woke up the following morning my lips were turning blue because it was so cold and damp it set off one of the worst asthama attacks I had i my entire life.  The owner of the guesthouse never saw us again, she refused to servve us breakfast and send a minion out to serve us even though we knew she was in the back.  My parents 25th wedding aniversary was spent there and when they put cards up in their room, the woman at the breakfast sneaked up to us checking her back and whispered that she wished them a happy annivesary as if she might get in trouble for being nice to us, the owner who must have known never even came out to say anything nice as is often customary in guest houses when the owners come out and chat with guests. 

My parents room was at the bottom of the house next door to the private family quarters and was woken one night with the husband, drunk as a skunk making a right racket.  The people of Bath were rude, we got swore at by a Big Issue salesman becasue we politely declined to buy his magazine and we got a mouthful of abuse.  I spent the entire time unable to breath, we felt unwelcome and I just wanted to go home.  I never want to go back to that hellhole of a city ever again.  Bath can be described as Miss Havershams Wedding Cake from Great Expectations. It looks beautiful on the outside but beneath the icing it is rotten to the core, both the buildings and the people we met, rude, rude people.  I never want to go there ever again.  And I love Jane Austin sigh.

...at the first hurdle already.  I saw a book,it was a book I really really really had to have.  Its the Kyoto Costume Institute book called History of Fashion from 18century to 20th.  Its two massive hard backbooks in a box and the stuff in it is beautiful. 

....i gotta get outta this flat I just gotta!

So im feeling better today, i finally managed to do the hoovering so i must be feeling better.  Still got a chesty cough but my energy is back.  So I had three prescious days off work, and what have I done with these prescious days, nothing...nadda.  So tommorrow is payday and im on a mission now to spend as little money as possible, however tommorrow I must get some shopping done..but...I am going to go out, I need to get out into the fresh air, not sure where I will go, I always like to walk around Chatsworth House Gardens, its large and plenty of interesting corners and they have horse chestnut trees so I might find some conkers.  Its a bit of a drive out though, anyway Im going to go somewhere if it kills me.

...its time for a new wallpaper so ive chosen this one to go with my new pink theme.

Flying

...so I use firefox as my main browser, I downloaded this really cute pink theme and then found that there was an add-on called firefm which addes a toolbar onto the browser making it easy to play your last.fm page.  It seems to be working really well so far.

.....I think im on the mend, my nose keeps running but my cough is subsiding, Im getting my energy back but I still keep flushing hot and cold.  Had a crazy dream last night, probably all the different cough mixtures and a double vodka that did that.

Woke up to an Open University survey to complete this morning.  Completed but failed to put down what I wanted to say because I kind of felt that the correct oportunity would come up on the next page but it never did.

The cat is driving me nuts today, I really feel I need to get out into the fresh air but Ive only got a few pounds of petrol in my car I cant afford to put any petrol in my car until wednesday so I cant go anywhere into the countryside, looks like im stuck in again :-(

I think its time for another lemsip.  Why do lemsips allway give you the feeling your teeth are rotting and going to drop out.

....dragged myself out of bed, I feel so weak, my head is humming have this really chesty cough, feel lousy.  Goes off to sulk.

If you joined the circus, what act would you most want to perform?

Non, circus's and especially clowns creep me out.

....  How cute is this

Pig barks up the wrong tree: Prudence the porker thinks she's a dog

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1221920/We-saved-bacon-Real-life-Babe-pig-befriends-dogs-helped-raise-animal-rescue-centre.html#ixzz0Uf5EwXc6

......and a chest infection.  It started last night my chest went tight, started wheezing and had to start using my inhalers, got a dry cough now.  Why does this always happen to me when im due to have some time off work.  Typical