Ok, I'm back! Was supposed to be going to an old work chum's house tonight to catch up and have a chat, but some imbecile/s decided to burglar her home today! Ransacked upstairs and took her jewellery and credit cards. Were obviously opportunists as they left the big stuff like XBox, TV, etc, not that that is any consolation!!
What is it with these people? What is it with this town? I received the free paper through the door this evening (News) and read through it while having a cuppa earlier on (before I knew about my friend).
The front page had a story about a man who'd run over a 10 yr old while drunk! He had his own 2 kids in the car with him, not strapped in, and was doing the school run!! Luckily the kid only suffered a broken foot, but that's beside the point! His excuse for drink driving: he was separated from his wife because she had been unfaithful and she'd asked for a divorce that day! Okay, I, perhaps, should feel sorry for him, but I don't!! If my partner had been 'unfaithful', I'd be bloody pissed off, not depressed. I'd be glad to see the back of him, not drowning my sorrows! AND, I would still have the decency to realise that I still had my kids to look after and be responsible for. Not only could he have killed the kid, but both his own too! Was she really, honestly worth that! I don't think anyone is!
Page 2 contained a story about a historic pub being burned down. It didn't mention arson, but buildings rarely spontaneously combust!
Page 3 had two stories. One about a man who'd threatened his wife (who'd left him) with a samurai sword and on his son-in-law managing to wrestle the sword away from him (the paper's words, not mine) he proceeded to say that he would be back to kill her with a shotgun!!! Another was about a 21yr old male who set light to a 14yr old schoolboy, hair and clothes, because he allegedly was after his iPod!
Page 4 there is a story about 2 men attacking someone in their own back garden. The victim's garden, not the assailant’s.
Page 5 is a story about conmen targeting the elderly.
Page 6 a story about a football supporter who caused trouble on a homeward bound bus being fined £80.
Page 7: Thieves stole £80,000 (yes you read that right) of heavy duty construction machinery.
Page 8: A landlord accused of fly tipping his tenant's possessions and a heroin addict being convicted of drugs possession.
Page 9: A school bus driver having intimate relations with a 13yr old girl (no details, but you get the idea) AND another heroin dealer being jailed.
Page 11 (page 10 was a full page advert), owner of dog who attacked kid is found guilty of having a Staffordshire Bull Terrier out of control.
Page 14: Two more stories - one man who broke into houses and stole handbags and jewellery and one about a woman who seems to have £8,000 which she cannot account for.
Beyond this the paper contains more ads, car pages, house pages and the classified section followed by the sports bits.
Looking over this, anyone would think we live in London or Birmingham or any other of the big cities, but we don't! The paper covers Chatham, Rochester, Gillingham, Rainham and Strood and you can walk from one end, Rainham, to the other, Strood, easily in a less than a day (to be honest you could probably do it in an afternoon). And this was the free paper; lord alone knows what's in the paying copy!
I've lived here all my life and I know it has always had its 'bad areas', everywhere does, but, and maybe it's because I'm getting old, it seems to be worse now than ever and it seems to be everywhere.
No-one has any respect for anyone else or anyone else's property. It seems now that whatever you want, you just go and take. If you want to get drunk and shout abuse at people, that's ok. If you want to walk around with dogs off leads that have lockjaw and you haven't trained them to do anything but breed or dogfight, that's ok too! And if your idiotic partner wants to spread themselves around, then it's ok for you to get blindingly drunk and then drive your kids to school!!
Oh well, I've had my rant, I'm off now to get blindingly drunk, shout abuse at my neighbours and set my dog on their cats. But that's all ok apparently!!
Cya
PS: Not really!! xxxx
PPS: Don't know what's happening with the formatting on this blog - but it's playing up big time!! Grrrrrr
Thursday 31 March 2011
Sunday 13 March 2011
5.30AM IS PRETTY, BUT NOT WHAT I WANT TO SEE
Well I can't sleep again!!! Don't know what is wrong with me, I'm normally the world's best sleeper, if patchy! Been back on the sofa this week as Phil bashing the bathroom to bits and the dust, etc, gets onto my chest and I wheeze all night! I experimented with sleeping on the sofa last time and found it comfy, so now that's what I do when he takes a week off to DIY.
However, this week I've not been able to sleep as well. Been snuggling down about 11pm (which is a little early for me) and going off to sleep fine, but then I'm waking up about 3am and I'm wide awake!!!! It's not daylight as that isn't happening until now, as I write, so I have no idea why! Some nights I've just played on my DS for an hour and managed to get back to sleep, but I'm still waking at 7.30am! I'm never awake at 7.30am! The other night I slept for about 4hrs, was awake for 2hrs, slept for a further 2.5hrs and was then awake! It's driving me mad!
I've been really busy too. Been attempting to keep house dust free downstairs, been out and about and been working in the garden, so I should be knackered! But NO!
I gave up this morning after being awake at 3.30am and tossing and turning until 4.30! I got up and made a cuppa and checked out Facebook which is a bit quiet at that time of day needless to say, but got my games done, haha. Am now watching the sun come up outside while typing this and wondering whether it's worth going back to see if I can get some sleep! I have so much to do today that it probably isn't worth it as I know I'll feel worse later, but I'm visiting a friend this afternoon and don't want to end up dozing off on her!
So, what to do next! Can't put the washing on as my machine is on it's way out and is extremely noisy and can't tidy up either as that's too noisy and I don't want Callum up just yet! Might go watch TV on low, might read my book, might do something else, but I have at least 2 more hrs to kill before C is up and about and that seems like a really long time to be doing 'nothing'!
Oh well, let's go put the kettle on again and see if I can get inspired! At least with the daylight arriving I no longer have to walk around the house with a torch, haha.
Cya
However, this week I've not been able to sleep as well. Been snuggling down about 11pm (which is a little early for me) and going off to sleep fine, but then I'm waking up about 3am and I'm wide awake!!!! It's not daylight as that isn't happening until now, as I write, so I have no idea why! Some nights I've just played on my DS for an hour and managed to get back to sleep, but I'm still waking at 7.30am! I'm never awake at 7.30am! The other night I slept for about 4hrs, was awake for 2hrs, slept for a further 2.5hrs and was then awake! It's driving me mad!
I've been really busy too. Been attempting to keep house dust free downstairs, been out and about and been working in the garden, so I should be knackered! But NO!
I gave up this morning after being awake at 3.30am and tossing and turning until 4.30! I got up and made a cuppa and checked out Facebook which is a bit quiet at that time of day needless to say, but got my games done, haha. Am now watching the sun come up outside while typing this and wondering whether it's worth going back to see if I can get some sleep! I have so much to do today that it probably isn't worth it as I know I'll feel worse later, but I'm visiting a friend this afternoon and don't want to end up dozing off on her!
So, what to do next! Can't put the washing on as my machine is on it's way out and is extremely noisy and can't tidy up either as that's too noisy and I don't want Callum up just yet! Might go watch TV on low, might read my book, might do something else, but I have at least 2 more hrs to kill before C is up and about and that seems like a really long time to be doing 'nothing'!
Oh well, let's go put the kettle on again and see if I can get inspired! At least with the daylight arriving I no longer have to walk around the house with a torch, haha.
Cya
Friday 11 March 2011
I'M STILL ALIVE!!!
Hello all, well those that might still be reading/waiting for a post!
I am still alive, I just haven't really a) had time, b) had the inclination and c) had a computer that wasn't playing up!!!
Anyway, I'm back now! Have new computer which has taken me a few weeks to find my way around and at least another week to find all my favourties again. But I've got/am getting there!
What has been happening? Well, January we were all ill!! And I mean we were ill. I had the worst cold I've ever had. Lasted weeks and I felt soooo drained, all I wanted to do was curl up on the sofa and sleep. I ended up going to the docs, which I never do for a cold, but he only said 'rest, drink fluids and if not cleared in a couple of days, we'll do a blood test'. Well a couple of days went by and I started to feel ok, then a couple of days later I felt crap again and this went over for another couple of weeks. Needless to say I couldn't be bothered to go back to docs and just let nature take its course. Callum wasn't brilliant either, but he wasn't as bad. But now has had a cough for about two weeks. And as all the adverts on billboards are saying after 3 weeks, go see a doc, that's what I'll be doing if there is no improvement by next Friday. Luckily he seems ok in himself, just gets very tired!
On the plus side, my bedroom walls have been knocked back to brickwork and replastered so the evidence of turning 2 beds and a corridor back into a 1 large bedroom is not there and I don't have a gaping hole at the fireplace! New ceiling, but not plastered. AND P has started on the bathroom as well (which is off the bedroom), so now have old toilet, old bath, no sink and 1 wall half tiled + new ceiling (insulated) which has been plastered! Go Phil!!!!! ;-)
AND, yes there is another 'and', I've been out in the garden and making a start on getting it sorted out AGAIN!! As there is now no longer a dog trying to gain access to the garden and kill everyone (actually there is nothing at the moment, which is still a little daunting) I can hopefully enjoy my garden and get it to how I want! The aim is a nice peaceful oasis for medicinal plants and wildlife encouraging plants too with a small pond and stream if I'm lucky! Will take a while as I want trees too, but am not aiming to move in the near future unless I get surrounded by unsavouries that is!
The only other thing I've done and this was a bit mouth before brain! I've joined a Crafters Group and am now committed to make 5 things for 5 people before end October. Now that seems ok, but I haven't done any major crafting for ages, so it could be interesting and I could end up running about like a headless chicken at the beginning of October with nothing done! Hey ho, that'll teach me! Especially as I'm already knitting a jumper for my daughter!
Right, that's all I'm doing today! I just wanted to catch up and fill in the gaps. Am hoping that now I'm back on here I can do some more regular posts, but I've said that before without success, hehe!
Cya
I am still alive, I just haven't really a) had time, b) had the inclination and c) had a computer that wasn't playing up!!!
Anyway, I'm back now! Have new computer which has taken me a few weeks to find my way around and at least another week to find all my favourties again. But I've got/am getting there!
What has been happening? Well, January we were all ill!! And I mean we were ill. I had the worst cold I've ever had. Lasted weeks and I felt soooo drained, all I wanted to do was curl up on the sofa and sleep. I ended up going to the docs, which I never do for a cold, but he only said 'rest, drink fluids and if not cleared in a couple of days, we'll do a blood test'. Well a couple of days went by and I started to feel ok, then a couple of days later I felt crap again and this went over for another couple of weeks. Needless to say I couldn't be bothered to go back to docs and just let nature take its course. Callum wasn't brilliant either, but he wasn't as bad. But now has had a cough for about two weeks. And as all the adverts on billboards are saying after 3 weeks, go see a doc, that's what I'll be doing if there is no improvement by next Friday. Luckily he seems ok in himself, just gets very tired!
On the plus side, my bedroom walls have been knocked back to brickwork and replastered so the evidence of turning 2 beds and a corridor back into a 1 large bedroom is not there and I don't have a gaping hole at the fireplace! New ceiling, but not plastered. AND P has started on the bathroom as well (which is off the bedroom), so now have old toilet, old bath, no sink and 1 wall half tiled + new ceiling (insulated) which has been plastered! Go Phil!!!!! ;-)
AND, yes there is another 'and', I've been out in the garden and making a start on getting it sorted out AGAIN!! As there is now no longer a dog trying to gain access to the garden and kill everyone (actually there is nothing at the moment, which is still a little daunting) I can hopefully enjoy my garden and get it to how I want! The aim is a nice peaceful oasis for medicinal plants and wildlife encouraging plants too with a small pond and stream if I'm lucky! Will take a while as I want trees too, but am not aiming to move in the near future unless I get surrounded by unsavouries that is!
The only other thing I've done and this was a bit mouth before brain! I've joined a Crafters Group and am now committed to make 5 things for 5 people before end October. Now that seems ok, but I haven't done any major crafting for ages, so it could be interesting and I could end up running about like a headless chicken at the beginning of October with nothing done! Hey ho, that'll teach me! Especially as I'm already knitting a jumper for my daughter!
Right, that's all I'm doing today! I just wanted to catch up and fill in the gaps. Am hoping that now I'm back on here I can do some more regular posts, but I've said that before without success, hehe!
Cya
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