No Business like Snow business

Well hiya, here we are back again. The wheels are turning and we're getting there. The new spex well what can one say keep going back to the old pair trying to keep away from Headaches. Well winter has descended with a vengance 3inches of the white stuff all over Norfolk and what happens then all the young drivers must go out for their FIRST drive in snow .... but why do they have to get in front of me 15 mph is grand but on road that is clear of snow I ask you... Must not get stressed not good for one I have been told. Got to do it all again tomorrow, at least next week we'll be in the Rhine Chrimble marketting pass the gluh vin mmmm nicey warm. Okay must go and speak with the fitters -  see if they have my webasto heater fixed!  hope so might be able to keep warm then... of with us then see you soon..

Here we are again....

Well here am I back from the brink - Eye safely operated on and I can see a bit clearer now and if you have been worried about an eye op the dont be! me I was scared s*****ss but the nice young ladies in the hospital held my hand and in an hour it was all over and I didnt know why I had made a fuss the only problem is I cant put my own eye drops in cant see to do it hee hee, the only problem is that as the eye has to settle down cant do emails or computer type things so I have sneaked onto my little girls computer for a little while, good old funky fit.com, she is busy practicing her manicuring and all the other stuff she does....... and still finds time to do my eye drops. ouch caught, must go, leave my ear alone. . ..
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A rainy Day at home

Well folks we have here in Mablethorpe a typical english summers day that it is October and Autumn is neither here or there the rain or monsoon is falling without abatement which means NO grass cutting today hurrah, but time for a blog!

Not looking forward to this week at all as I am supposed to be getting an Eye op tomorrow so looking may be a bit differcult for a couple of days hee hee,

The wife is busy yes there is a Mrs Fred she is busy looking after the latest addition to the brood 6 baby terriers, the result of an union betwixt daughter in laws little terrier and another! She'll have her hands full with her poorly husband ie ME,tomorrow, so she'll have to look after me now doesnt she.......I should be so lucky and I suppose I am really.

Yes dear I am telling the world about you.... of course I am being truthful about you would I be anything else? Oh you need the washing up done and because I am here I have to do it oh well no piece for the wicked , bye for now..

Here we go again....

Its looking like Ground hog day or even week - getting ready to go back to Southern Ireland again.

Lets hope the weather is set fair again and the Irish Sea is calm, but I bet its not that quiet when we get there  - Lisdoovarna in September /October the great Matchmaking festival!!! I dont need any one matching me - Ive had the same model now for 40 years so I am to long in the tooth for a change, I am the Boss in our family ....I have her permission to say that!

Not to many folks going this week, but lets hope we may have at least a little pay rise now the minimum wage has increased - did hear that the employers are moaning that its not fair they have to  SUFFER an increase in their wage bill when every thing else is going up durrrr its going up for us to pal but when you get 5% of 50000 then thats money but 5% of  next to nothing is next to nothing when inflation cuts in.....

Any way I shant be blogging for a while I am off to the Eye surgeon and will have to spend some time away from doing things on the net - so as Arnie says "I'll be back" but not for about six weeks. So dont forget to look at Sue's excellent site Fragile X Australia - super site love nearly as good as the other one you look after for me, mind you Andreas' site all about the little place in the country (ultraviolet observations) wow some of those flowers but howsabout the creepy crawlies gang way I dont like spiders at the best of times but Sue tells me they have them there as large as plates .... blow that for a game of spiders oops, we'll see you all soon. I HOPE!

If you're Irish....

Well to be sure its meself blogging.. from inside a posh hotel to the west of Dublin. Duly Guinessed with dinner and now about to retire for the night. Thanks to the hotel for complimentary Internet so we lesser mortals can blog till the early hours.

What a week around the Rings of Southern Ireland  viz Beara and Kerry but what beautiful scenary but driving along the passes with just the width of the coach is a bit daunting but we have lived to tell the tale. Plus that big bright unidentified object has been following us all week although today it was replaced by a big Grey cloud so lets hope it'll still be around next week when I come back to Galway and Athlone.

What mess is the Euro getti ng me into 80cents to the £ makes my coffees expensive on the coach but the pax still pay in pounds. Mind today I saw a lovely sign it said R600 to both the left and the right but the right one had under it the words short route to where i was going.......

Irish or what - better be nice to them or the little people will jinx me,

See you all soon........

Brighton is a Seaside town!

Here we are again, back after the trials of a trip to the seaside! It is true you know the days of a Sea side break are numbered not in years but months! Its not surprising the Political parties are moving away from their traditional conference venues, what a dump Brighton has become, from a once lively resort near London to a stop on the School trip meter and then only a brief one to make notes of the Volks railway which seem defunct, certainly not for the Coach parking facility so far along the beach you had to have a Taxi to reach civilisation, and when parked there you have take care of the numerous FUN bikers on their Suzukis and Hondas and Kawakars all trying to fall off the back of their machines whilst trying to reach unobtainable speeds and polluting the ears with the racket - pity the poor people who live in the expensive high rise over looking the beach at that point! The hotel I had the pleasure of stopping in was right in the middle luckily not afflicted by the Gas leak from one of the neighbouring hotels Thursday night, it looked Friday morning as if all the Fire officers were in for breakies after the crews had stood down!

Mind you at lest the weather relented and for the last three days a mysterious object was observed in the heavens and bright light shone down bringing warmth on the tourists - it almost made the burnt out pier attractive - but it wasnt enough to bring the naturalists out on the nudie beach only a small point to raise I suppose but it wasnt that warm ......ho ho!

Well next week we shall be in the Emerald Isle so I hope the wee folk will smile on us and give an Indian summer or maybe that is reserved for Luton? Lets hope the Guiness is cool.. talking of cool have you see my mentors new web site? Super read Sue and I hope you get the message out - so look at The Fragile X Association of Australia an excellent read and give them your support!

I wish I was that clever but thats toooo much to ask for, but she did encourage me to blog - and yes I know we want more photos to liven it up - but I have to take them and I forgot the Camera

Senior moments! now what was I doing here? ..........

What a Week of misdirection!

Here we are again another week past and what a week rain, rain and more rain, and it was supposed to be Scotland and yes there is a high road and a low road and I was there before yea, one is the A9 which goes all the way to Inverness and the other is some thing like the A820 going to Fort Willum - I may be wrong but Minnie is usually right when she is told the correct details , but we ended up in Conference land this week and next, Bournemouth last Brighton this week but at least they speaka de English albeit with a Romanian accent having lived in Dorset I have never heard so many foreign voices especially in the Burglar King restaurant - all Korean or Fillipeanos.... wot you like wif it fries or wot?

Glad to see Sue (Blogging Sueblimely) has her son in his first choice adult centre we wish him all the luck in the world and more, whilst I am at it hows about that lovely 13 year old swimmer didnt she do well for the Team GB two gold medals well done her!

Mind you I swim like a brick doesnt! if I get any where near a pool the Whale watchers come out and I get nervous if there are any orientals at pool side hee hee. Not that one is large but one does cast a shadow when the sun shines if only....

Mind you now I have a posh neat dongle thingy, I shall be able to blog from a foreign field not b.... likely at wot Orange want to charge £60 plus a month just to have the facility rip off comes hastily to mind, well better get some ugly sleep before the sandman says oi get up you lazy so n so! better than the old fried or boiled? that old Black & White collegues would remember from the Portsmouth days - I bet that gent is now waking up the angels in the etheral b -n - b.

Well nite all.... will blogg more later....