Harley just walked up to me and asked me to smell 'Spot' (his latest Dalmatian, makes a total of eight now lol), so I did and noticed that his belly was wet as I sniffed. Harley had put some of my roll on deodorant on him! ROFL! He does make me smile :D

I've been mucho absent recently - forgive me, just needed time out. I will try to get back into the swing of things soon.

I am going to complain to british gas, as they've royally pissed me off one time too many today. I am sat here with steam still coming out of my ears, and was hoping to get a second opinion on this complaint (I am going to try to email it to them or print it out and send it recorded) as I really do want them to take us seriously, and not ignore it (they've ignored pervious email queries I have made regarding my Grandmother's problems with them). I'll change the 'Dear...' part of course, but couldn't resist starting off with this despite wanting to say so much worse! Any input is much appreciated!

( copy of my complaint )

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

( Onto the list of 100 books... I've read 26/100 )

I'm not really bothered that I haven't read that many of them (just glad I got above the average 6!), and there's not many I'd go out of my way to select for reading either as they don't interest me much and I usually pick my books via instinct, I read for pleasure these days - I remember being subjected to Lord of The Flies for my English GCSE and hating it (I am shuddering just remembering how it bored me to death). I find these lists quite pretenious to be honest, like you're less of a book lover if you haven't read all of them. Yeah right!

I am very fortunate that I only now read what and when I want to. I do intend to make a return to education at somepoint in my future though and English Lit will probably feature somewhere in there, but it won't be for a while yet - been saying it for long enough mind you!

We have gas... wooo!

Carter is currently poking Harley who is laying on the sofa and moaning 'NOOOO, I don't want to play, I WANT TO SLEEP!' hehe... best go rescue him!

I am so scared, Gareth is late home now. Ever since he got ran off the road I have been so paranoid about him being involved in an accident. I can't even ring him because I have no working landline (whole other story!) and have lost my mobile phone. OMFG. I am getting desperately worried, may even go to such lengths as to see if a neighbour would be so kind as to let me borrow their phone or message people on facebook and hope someone is online who will ring him for me :(

My tooth is hurting less finally, so am able to concerntrate and what happens?

Gareth's car breaks down on the way to work and he had to walk the final 3 miles, got it picked up and took to a garage who have quoted him £500 as it's the head gasket.

I can't cope, we already owe money for having no choice but to buy another car in the first place, and now this! I want to die.

ARGH! Wisdom teeth :( *&*&!"£()£&$*&$ Need I say anymore?

ARGHHHHHH!!!!!! It's Harley's first school sports day today and I didn't know until late last night when I got a message off Vicky via facebook - I was hoping to use Carter's morning nap to get the keyrings sorted out so that I can post them asap for everyone's Father's Day gifts. I will get there, just going to be tight to fit in I suspect,I may have to cut them out and put them in the keyrings when I've fetched Harley and then run to the Post Office.

However, I am looking forward to Harley's sports day, I just hope he does better than I used to at the frigging things! Thank goodness Vicky let me know otherwise I wouldn't have been there for him *blush* it does make a little sad though as I lay in bed last night crying as i can remember Tamara's every year, especially the last one just after Mum had died and I went with her Dad to watch. So sad.

we always tell carter 'bad' when he does something like whack us in the face etc...

he just put gareth's fishing line that arrived today on the desk and i picked it up, so of course he turned and glared at me and told me I was 'bad' hehhe

Mum's anniversary wasn't too bad, it was bearable. However I seem to have reall sunk into a deep depression since :/ No idea why.

Harley's birthday tomorrow, hope the weather is better then!

Trying to cheer myself up by looking at camping gear as we really want to go camping this year, on Sunday morning we actually went to out local carboot to see if they had anything for Harley's N64, but ended up buying a stove like this one from Halfords with four bottles of gas for £15 that folds away into a carry case. So it made me smile. We actually also bought Gareth a huge fishing umbrella too, which should be getting plenty of use today as he has gone fishing and it is chucking ti down! He went yesterday as well, but the rest of week is for family time so I am cool with him spending a couple of days of his holiday fishing.

( Camping ramblings )

Ohhh how exciting, Bonnie has posted pictures of most of the Holden's Landing order up on her blog now here

Here are mine:







And my rainbow coloured wipes:


Wow!!! So absolutely excited about these, can't wait until they arrive now, Bonnie is posting them out on Friday, wahoooo!

Scary - fire at our local council offices

We discovered it a couple of hours ago when we had to detour on the way to the shop for some Electric O_O Harley wants to firemen to come to our house to put out our fire (wtf! Kids are crazy!).

Spoke to one of the firemen as we realised we'd have to turn around and walk the long way round and he said nobody had been hurt. I have images of a disgruntled OAP hobbling round to start the fire because they're annoyed with paying too much council tax ;)

ETA: more pics, damage is bad! http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/content/image_galleries/melton_mowbray_fire_30may08_gallery.shtml?1

Urgh, so sick of being ill, and to top it off Carter has gotten it too and woke up every five minutes in the night crying out (teeth and damn throat I'd guess) so I am extra exhausted.

Just want to go crawl underneath a rock somewhere very quiet and warm.

I was woken up this morning by Harley puking into the toilet bowl. he was complaining of a sore throat yesterday just after we got back from popping into town to see the show, and he had a bit of a cough. He went to bed at 5:30pm after asking if he could O_o and then slept through until the puking.

He has puked a couple times more, and I had to take him out to meet my Nan in town quickly to go with her to the local newspaper offices where I helped her put a memorial notice in the paper for Mum's anniversary. I'd have cancelled but we don't have a phone anymore so Ididn't want to just not show up as she'd have a fit at me. Luckily Harley chirped up once we got outside though, and was fine for the hour we were out.

Carter's still teething, but one has finally come through on the bottom at the front. I just need them both to be good, and healthy today so I can get Evelyn's skirtie finished up for Ez as the funeral is tomorrow, then Thurs and Fri I'd really like to get some stuff done on other products so that they are all ready for stocking on Sunday. Can't see how I am going to do it to be honest, unless I have a couple of late nights at the end of the week.

I really want to do something special on the shop for my birthday on the 30th June too, but we'll have to see how my orders go through the month for that I reckon.

To top it all off I think I am coming down with whatever it is Harley has, my throat is like sandpaper and so sore. Gah.

Well that was a waste of a fiver! Although Gareth will be chuffed with the box of donuts I bought back for him to nibble on when he gets home.

Harley loved seeing everyone walking their dogs around though, he even spotted a couple of dalmatians and got so excited about it. Highlight for him was 'winning' a stuffed dalmatian toy on hook-a-duck.

I wonder if Gareth would like to go to the cinema this evening to see Indiana Jones? Hmmmm....

Getting away from the kids sounds good to me for a couple of hours!

I love these photos!

(help yourself to any of the photos Sophie, sorry it's taken me so long to get around to doing them but these are so much better than my previous attempt when they first arrived!)

( peeeeeektures of the little man )