Monday, 7 March 2011

Please please read this !



http://hppoppycampaign.moonfruit.com/#

Please please visit this web site and read the story about the girl who was told to take off her poppy whilst at work !

She has set up an on line petition to try to get David Cameron to take action over this and stop people trying to prevent people wearing their poppies with pride.

Please read, sign and post on your own website, blog, or forward on to friends and family.

Love Babs

Thursday, 27 January 2011

The light is a little dim...

Just lately it seems to me that it doesn't matter how fast I move to try to get to the light at the end of the tunnel, it seems to be receding into the distance, getting a little dimmer by the day.....

Tuesday, 4 January 2011

First Day.......

First day in new job went OK I think. But by 3.00 I felt I was ready for a nap and my brain was scrambled trying to take in new faces, new names, new procedures AND rememebr it all.........its only 8.15 but I am off to bed.......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Sunday, 2 January 2011

Welcome 2011

Well I say 'welcome 2011', slightly fearfully. 2010 presented us as a family with quite a few challenges, some of which were overcome, some of which are carrying forward to this new year. So with hand on heart I am really hoping that this will be a better year all round. I am alternately scared and hopeful, tinged with touches of real hope that this will be a year of change which will enable us to go forward instead of round in circles, or at times quite dramatically, backwards.

I start a new part time job on Tuesday and again, I am looking forward to it, but I'm scared stiff at the same time. I feel I have been out of the 'proper' job market for a some time, and am also conscious of my increasing age....

Himself left his job the week before Xmas - I wont go into the details right now, but if he had'nt left, I honestly think the job would have killed him. And much as we need the money, I do quite like the silly old fart alive and kicking :-)

So with some trepedation but also a periodic feeling of hope, I welcome 2011 into the Little Terraced House and hope and pray we can move forward instead of backwards, can pay our way and maybe make some dent into the debt that is strangling us and Himself can start to feel better and find a job where he is happy and content near to home, instead of always being somewhere else in the country.

I hope that 2011 will be everything that you want it to be too, where ever you are.

Babs xx

Wednesday, 1 December 2010

Lewis


Well, this little man does make me smile. He is still at that permanent puzzled looking stage. You know that expresson of, I had no idea it was going to be this bad out here. he looks alternately grumpy, confused, unsettled and well, cheesed off with things. LOL, he is so sweet and I have to say I guess I would be quite cheesed off if my big brother (now 14 months old) kept coming up and hitting me on the head (affectionately) and shouting 'Baba' down my ear !

So far so good, I had the two of them over night last weekend - I have to say it does make you realise that you are getting older, chasing after a now walking, toddling whirl wind and constantly trying to do everything with a tiddly one on your arms is quite wearing ! Lewis not a good sleeper, even at home and I got up 46 times to settle him and eventually he went to sleep on my chest, so I spent the rest of the night propped up with pillows everywhere. However I did have the most beautiful smile to wake up from Charlie who was beaming at me from the travel cot at the end of my bed - it made everything else totally worth while.

Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Sad Today

A blog that I have been reading for some while is FarmgirlCyn. Yesterday she lost her beautiful baby grandson Alex who was only a few months old. Please keep Alex and his family in your thoughts and prayers today - it just reminds me how lucky we are that Charlie so far has defied all the problems thrown at him, but also reinforces the knowledge that Cyn's news is repeated in so many lives each day, through out the world.

Sweet dreams little Alex xxxx