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Thanks for you comments, I did once try to get into journalism when I was at school leaving age but I got rejected twice at interview stage and gave up. I later tried to get into the press office for the company I worked for but was rejected for having no experience! I do really enjoy writing though (and have had a few bits published in company magazines) and it is great when people appreciate it.

I also used to sell photos, but not of gigs, that was my first attempt having only just acquired a camera I can take to a gig with a decent zoom. The old SLR is a bit bulky! Did you manage to read all the graffiti on the pig?

I take it you didn't get my second email then?

Yep i got it and i can see them this time, i sent you an e-mail.

What camera do you use now then?

I read the pig, some of it was on my bacon last week i think.

You should take up the writing again, what i liked about it was that i felt that i was actually there, it was well written enough to draw the reader in without skipping bits, excellent

Hey and you are a babe, or should i not really say that

I got your email... I am increasingly coming to the conclusion that the problem with this technology stuff we muddle through is nothing to do with age but the millions of variables there are and the infinate number of software packages!

I decided to go digital so I went to the camera shop and said I wanted a camera that would fit in my jeans pocket and take good pictures at gigs - I ended up with an Olympus FE-240, 7.1 megapixels and 5x optical zoom! Is it sad to say I bought it specifically for the Waters gig?

again! That is exactly what I hope to achieve when writing.

You are allowed to say I am a babe (as long as we are not talking pigs again!), it made me but it's nice to know I've still got it whatever 'it' is!!!!!!

Hubby once told me he spotted a woman in the street and thought "Cor, she's a bit of alright" and when he got closer realised it was me !!! It took him ages to tell me that because for some daft reason he thought I would be with him!

Blimey 7.1 megapixels, thats a good one, that must have cost a bit

I glad it made you , its nice to get 'good feel' compliments every now and again, and no definatly not pigs

I decided to spend some of my redundancy money but it wasn't that expensive - less than £200 including memory card!

I have just had a and based trauma . A couple of weeks ago there was a nasty smell which I searched high and low for the source of to no avail. I came to the conclusion a bird had died and fallen down the chimney. Last night I came home from work to find around a dozen bluebottles sleeping on the window . After a mad frenzy with a newpaper they'd all gone to meet their maker! Today I found the offending rotting corpse after moving ALL the furniture. I hate dead stuff living no worries, dead one (2-3weeks old), throw up and run a mile!!!

Thats whats redundancy money is for and blimey thats a good price.

Bluebottles on the window that sounds like the Amityville Horror

I would cordon of the whole house and move

Crisis over - phew! There were a few flies I missed but no need to anymore. I have given the a stern talking too but he just looked at me with that "are you going to feed me chicken now?" expression on his face!

I just can't seem to motivate myself today... and I am at work until 11pm tonight. How are things with you?

Damn 's never do what they are told, our cat wont even look at his dinner unless i take the top off it with the tin opener, lazy sod, the amount of times i have showed him

Well its 12:15am now and if you finished at 11 why arent you on here......only joking enjoy your

All good this end, bit quiet job wise, so i am looking to do a part-time job at the local school

I was trying to get to sleep for a 6.30 start today - short straw or what going from a late to an early... more caffeine! How come you were on line so late

So what is the job at the local school then?

Have you worked out how to email photo's yet?

I was the first chance i had to get on here, the kids were on it all day, but by the time i did get on i was knackered

Well really it should read 'what was' the job, as they now decided they dont want anybody.

They are building a new garden area in the school with a japanese theme, water garden and such, its quite a large area and they wanted me to design it and put it into action, but alas they are putting it on hold until next year now due to funding.

I did have a look but went crosseyed, so i am going to get my boy to show me, but he is away this week (school holidays), him and some of his mates have gone on a football tournament to Bournemouth.

That's a shame about the job, it sounds like a fun project, I will keep my fingers crossed that they have the funding next year and still want you to do it.

How was your bank holiday? I made a big fuss to get the day off from work and then wished I had gone in... watching the rain with a drunken fool is not my idea of fun! Oh well, hopefully the weather will be better for the next BH and I will be able to entice him into doing something more interesting than watching rubbish on the tv whist getting slaughtered!!!

cheers

That damn rain went on and on didnt it, we did sod all really, even the kids didnt want to do anything

I have been quite bored recently, work is quiet, life is quiet, its seems like mid-year and nothing exciting to do, nothing to really look forward to as there is nothing coming up.

I think i am hitting a low time of life, still jolly in myself and all that, but nothing seems to happen, i need something, but i dont know what.

Do you get like that??

You sound like you need a . You’ve been going through the mill a bit recently and that job thing must have been quite a blow. I hate it when something really good comes along but stuffs up at the last minute! Sounds a bit hippy like (but then you have seen the hat!) but I believe things happen for a reason and something new (and right for you) will come along just at the moment when you need it.

I get that ‘need something but don’t know what’ feeling all the time. I think my problem is that I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up I usually opt for an adrenaline buzz, hence the rally driving or gigs are always good for a lift and conversations with strangers often give me a boost... although I think I freaked a guy in the shop out a bit earlierI told him I don't particularly like humans as a race and animals make much better people!

See already you have given me a smile

Your life is quite active isnt it, i mean you do things, rally, gigs and such, i want that sort of thing but...i dont know, it seems like there is nothing there, its probably just a phase, it will pass

Its a shame you dont live closer, as i would love to meet up with you and discuss life.

Maybe one day eh

This may sound but it is only recently that I realised I have done quite a lot of exciting and interesting stuff. I used to feel that my life was quite boring as I have not really travelled or become a high flyer or done the having kids thing! Then hubbys mate said he is jealous of our social life, my best mate commented that she loves having friends who do exciting things so they can tell her about them as she doesn’t have the guts to do them herself. A few days ago a guy at work pointed out that I have a story for everything, but I think that just means I can talk the hind leg off a donkey.

By the way, I am officially a permanent member of staff at my place. They are really happy with my work and I have been given a £1k rise!

I went through a really flat few years when I felt in a rut, I hadn’t been to a gig in years, stopped going to pubs because I just couldn’t handle him. Then Offspring played at Wembley Arena and that took me right back and woke me up! I gave myself a huge kick up the butt and morphed from moody, materialistic, gloomy goth to (almost) laid-back hippy and now I want to shift the rest of the baggage and live on a canal boat …basically I stopped turning into my mum

It would be to meet you, I’m sure we could talk nonsense for hours! I am great at putting the world to rights! You’ll probably wake up one morning to find me moored up on the river! Don’t have nightmares!!!

Your guy at work was right on both counts

Hey, excellent news that you are full time now congrats

Your outlook on life is to be admired young maiden

I will clear the water weeds now awaiting your arrival

I've just got back from a lovely day on the river in the sun. It's the first chance we've had to go out in the kayaks. I'm knackered now, not used to all this exercise. Didn't make it quite as far as Windor though

and i waited in all day

Damn weather here, whats happen to all the sunshine

I tried not to but alas i have got hooked on the bloody big brother programme, its like an addiction

What you been up to?

It's my fault for commenting on the lovely sunshine, now it's all grey and chilly

not Big Brother. And I thought you were ! I am proud to say I have never ever seen the programme and never intend to. I can see how you can get sucked into those things... I am slightly ashamed to admit that I got hooked on the Celebrity Jungle thing (when Phil Tuffnel won) and I was even watching the 24 hour footage. In my defence I was recouperating from an operation and pretty immobile at the time. I am not sure if the resulting depression was due to the operation or my choice of viewing!!! Perhaps a bit of both!

Today I have mostly been slobbing on the sofa (under a blanket) with the watching DVD's. I am working all weekend so today is my Sunday!

Any plans for the weekend?

When i read that i thought you said 'slobbering on the sofa'...i thought damn girl get a tissue will ya

Plans for the weekend.....emmm.....nope, none at all, parents have gone on holiday so i will pop over there and water the plants, their garden is huge so it will take blimmimg ages