Mums, ads and just stuff

Before I start on my day to day daily misgivings, I thought I would mention that Phil, with the help of Jim, managed to sort out the iPad ad problem.   He posted how to do it in the comments from my last posting, so if you missed this and are still having problems, check it out.

We haven’t been up too much over the weekend; we both made it to the gym on Saturday morning, it was busy and just a shame that we had to stop working out because Phil felt faint.  The reason being, he had left the flat without having any breakfast, not even a cup of tea.  Silly Billy although my fault because I had been up for ages and was pestering him to hurry up.

My mum would have been 70 years old on Sunday so Janice invited me, Mike, & Sue for lunch at The New Inn on Saturday.  Sue kindly picked us up and Mike and it was nice because Phil and Ian came along too.  Janice was joined by mum’s friends, Ann and Pat, so there were 8 of us in total.  I am not sure I have too much in common but Janice makes me laugh and Ann and Pat are the salt of the earth. It helped of course that my bestie Sue was there and while we did eat, lots of wine was consumed as well.  Sue & Ian left after lunch but Phil, Mike and me went back to Janice’s to toast mum with a bottle of champagne for what would have been my mum’s 70^th.  Anniversaries after someone dies can sometimes be difficult but cheers girlies, we did have a laugh.

I made chicken curry in the slow cooker when we got back; it was an 8 hour curry so I cooked it for 4 hours on Saturday night but it didn’t turn out good.  Before leaving for the gym, I made Phil taste it and he said that it tasted like a beef casserole!  He was right it wasn’t pleasant on the palate, so after DW, I popped into Asda to get ready made chicken tikka masala and chicken korma, plus some onion bargies together with an assortment of naan breads in readiness for Harriet & Billy who were coming to lunch.

Harriet has been through a little bit of a rough patch recently; she had an abnormal smear test and had to go for a biopsy.  She is still awaiting results but fortunately she didn’t have to have any laser treatment.  This, of course, may come at a later date, but fingers crossed she won’t need it.  Harriet has also been trying to get her flat up for sale which has not proved easy having to communicate with Guinness, the housing association. We had a valuation which we didn’t agree with and so basically we have lost 10k.   Negotiations started on the 22^nd of November and she still isn’t up for sale.  One word of warning, never ever buy a shared ownership through Guinness, they are crap.

Billy was suffering with a hangover and I don’t think our Harriet felt so great because they had both been out on the town the night before.  They did manage some curry and a couple of beers but left after lunch to meet some friends at 3pm.  It’s not all bad news; saw on FB yesterday that they have booked a holiday in Mexico.  And why not, you only live once and why not treat yourself to a great holiday before being tied down to a mortgage and kids.

Boy was it freezing on Monday morning; I still had to scrap my car at 10 am.   I had to drive to Kiln Farm to pick up our new blog book which Mr Postie had tried to deliver on Saturday afternoon.   I had a panic because they couldn’t find it but some 20 minutes later they eventually found my package.  I am really pleased with it.   I stopped off get petrol and buy a 5kg bag of basmati rice from the Oriental Shop before going back to the flat.  Talk about an exciting life!

I went to the gym in the afternoon leaving Phil to go to Overstone to pick up the post.  We did emails, paperwork and some internet research.  The hotel we are staying in Fuerteventura next week has got some pretty poor reviews. Not only that, I checked the weather and the forecast for 5 days starting from Monday, is rain 5 days in a row!!!

Phil's mum hasn't been very well, we phoned last Thursday and she had lost her voice.  Another phone call on Friday and she said she wasn't feeling 100%  On Saturday when we phoned she had been up all night suffering with indigestion which was so bad that she had been sick; vomit with blood in it didn't sound good.  Phil said that he would phone on Sunday and if she wasn't any better then he would phone the doctor.  I worry so much about this old lady who I know is so lonely, I offered to go down and visit on Sunday but she said felt too poorly.  She sounded a little better yesterday but who knows, either way we are going down next Sunday.  I do so hope that she will be okay and its nothing serious, just a virus.

It’s going to be a flurry of jobs this week, pay back for being away so much. My car goes in for a service this morning and on Thursday I have the windscreen people coming to the flat to fit me a nice windscreen.  I only had it replaced in 2012 and I am not sure how the screen came about, although Billy seems to think it may have something with me pouring boiling water from the kettle to clear the ice in the mornings.  Hey ho, my mistake but hopefully I can get the windscreen replaced without paying. I will let you know folks.