Stop The Clock

What are our schools teaching????

2011-06-02T15:13:00.000-07:00

I have been helping my granddaughter with her GCSE revision. Law was straight forward as it was just about learning facts about the law. But some of the other subjects are just pure propaganda, social engineering and indoctrination.

I always thought science taught you things like how the heart worked. The difference between arteries and veins. What is chlorophyll, chemical reactions etc. In short facts about how things work. Not about whether culling badgers stops cattle from catching TB, or ‘pump head’ which may or may not be caused from being put on a heart lung machine, but the statistics seem to show nobody knows.

What is the point of discussing situations that the experts do not know the answers to, when the children don’t know in the first place what TB is or how the lungs work.

RE, which is only half a GCSE, you might think should be about learning about the world’s religions. No, it is about common sense and all answers must be given using common sense only and therefore they are not taught any real facts, but are asked to give their thoughts only. As long as it is common sense of course.

Global warming is taught as fact, rather than the views are divided between equally qualified scientists and the science is changing on it all the time.

People complain about faith schools indoctrinating faith into the kids, but you send your children to a faith school so that they will be taught within that ethos. It’s your choice. State schools obviously are indoctrinating our kids with the secular ideals of the day. They are socially engineering in the worst way regardless of the truth of what they are teaching. Social ideas change with the wind and media propaganda. I doubt most parents realise what they are being taught and would be concerned if they knew.

New age, meditation (in an unhealthy way) are just some of the things being done in schools regardless of the dangers or whether the parents approve. Our schools are creating a society that may come back and bite us on the backside in years to come. I’m quite glad that i won’t be around to see it but fear for my younger family.

Jenny <><

We are what we think!

2011-05-31T12:27:00.001-07:00

Belief System

If you accept a belief,

You reap a thought.

If you sow a thought,

You reap an attitude.

You sow an attitude,

You reap an action.

If you sow an action,

You reap a habit.

If you sow a habit,

You reap a character.

If you sow a character,

You reap a destiny.

I don’t know who wrote the above but it is so true. You are what you think. Whatever is at the front of your mind all the time becomes the way you behave. If you tell yourself your a nasty horrible person, then you will find yourself behaving that way.

If you say, i can’t do that your won’t. Tell yourself everything always goes wrong for you and it will. You get the picture. Think miserable thoughts. You most certainly will be miserable.

The opposite works exactly the same as well. Guess what the doers, the go-getters are thinking. The happy people, the contented, the encouragers of this world.

So we have it in our hands to choose how we think. Sometimes hard I know, but you have to take every thought captive and dismiss the bad and choose to think good things.

Start telling yourself, you can, i will, i am. Think how you can help others, rather than what others may have done to you. When you feel down, put on some happy music and think of good things. There is a lot to be said for counting your blessings.

It takes about 40 days to create a habit either good or bad, so start now to create some good habits in the way you think and see how much your life will change and your blood pressure go down.

Remember you are what you think.

Jenny <><

Back to school

2011-05-06T12:25:00.001-07:00

In 2 weeks G’daughter has her Law exam or at least part of it. They seem to do their exams in dribs and drabs now. She struggles with revision and says she cannot do it without me. So we have already done about 8 hours with many more to come. Law is her first exam, then comes Child development, Science, Graphics and quite a few more.

Law though i knew nothing about before i started. At the beginning of the year we did about 18 hours for her mocks and if i remember rightly she got an A for that so we are hoping for an A* this time.

I now know far more about law than i ever figured I'd need, but if it is going to help i do it willingly. She is on her own with German though, learning that on the quick to help is just beyond me.

You have to laugh though because one of her friends is coming round her house to revise with her because she is struggling with the revision too. Soon i will have a little school lol. They do seem to do the exams very different from when i did mine. We did 2 years of study then an exam at the end. They learn a bit, then an exam, then another bit, then another exam.

If she gets good high grades then she can choose what she wants to do at college, low grades and she has to take what they will accept her for.

Well enough about that, what else is happening. Well did i tell you about the revision ha, ha.

To be quite honest the days are just going by pretty much the same each day. Get up, housework, eat, computer, bed. Sounds boring but sometimes the predictability of each day can be a blessing, and of course i am never alone, there is always my God by my side to talk to and put a smile on my face as we sing and share the day together.

Jenny <><

Posting

2011-04-30T15:45:00.001-07:00

Have just posted in my other blog Learning and Yearning.

Jenny <><

Testing

2011-04-30T13:57:00.001-07:00

Just joined live writer so this is a practice blog post. Not sure what it does yet and what all the buttons are for but i will try them all i think.

It's been a long while.

2011-04-28T12:42:00.000-07:00

It has been a long while since i have written in here and i make no promises now that the next post will come any quicker. I am not even going to bother explaining what i have been up to since i last posted, life has just gone on with it's ups and downs, but one thing i will say i have bought two new things.

And they are, a new computer and a kindle. My old computer was full and i just fancied a kindle. Well also all my book cases are full and the books were starting to make piles on the floor. The kindle is brilliant and i have started reading far more again, and the old classics are free. So i read for nothing Pride and Prejudice. Missed it when i was young so thought this is the time to really see what Darcy had been up to, and i am looking forward to reading loads.

Easter weekend my and hubby was involved in a production of the Passion Play which was played on the green next to our local theatre. We use there electricity, roof for spotlights and sounds. This is the 4th time we have put it on since 1995, we aim for every 5 years depending when Easter falls in the month. It is a big production involving over 20 churches, over a hundred cast and we had around 7,000 people come and see it over the 3 days it was on. We had a great time and the culmination of a lot of work starting last October.

What's next? Well i don't really know. That is the fun of just letting God lead and see where you go. I seem to keep going from steep learning curve to steep learning curve and can only see the next step of the road. That next step for me is starting training with the 'Healing Rooms', but when i have done that i am not sure what next.

Meanwhile life goes on, slightly slower as i get older in the amount i do but a lot faster in time or so it seems. Which reminds me that's why i called this blog Stop The Clock in the first place.

Jenny <><

New year

2010-09-23T09:53:00.000-07:00

Unless you are a Methodist you wouldn't know but 1st September is the beginning of the year for Methodists. Ministers start there new appointments in their new churches, the holidays are finished and all the church groups and clubs start up again after the summer break. The Methodist year has begun.

So that's what i have been doing, getting back into the swing of it again after having August off. I lead a bible study group so i had that to prepare. I lead the prayer group and although that never stops i had not been for a few weeks as i had been on holiday. I go to a Sunday fellowship group which anyone can bring a topic to talk about but usually they rely on me to do that. Myself and a friend have started opening the church midweek for anyone who wants to come in and find quiet or wants someone to pray with them. Hopefully in time there will be enough of us for some of us to go out to the High Street and pray for people there or bring them back to the church for prayer. This is going to take a lot of courage and boldness but we will do it. We are expecting to see healings and miracles from God like so many other people are at the moment.

Since i have been out of work i have been stuck in a bit during the day so i have joined a church group where they meet fortnightly and usually have speakers. Most of the people that go started out like i did by going to the Young Wives club many years ago. We have now graduated to Midway although being as i am probably the youngest one there and the average age is 70+ should probably be called Endstage. But don't tell them i said that.

So that is my time spent. I have gone from not doing a lot during the day to going out twice in 2 days, woo hoo. I don't count the other groups as they are all in the evening.

This then and some other things in the pipeline has kept me quite lately and hopefully i will have more to tell in the future.

Jenny <><

2010-09-23T09:28:00.000-07:00

Have just posted in my other blog 'Learning and Yearning' if anyone is interested.

Jenny <><

Spam tab

2010-09-09T12:51:00.000-07:00

You will be glad to know i have found the Spam tab under the comments tab. Panic over.

Jenny <><

I'm back

2010-09-09T12:44:00.000-07:00

I've been on my holidays to North Somerset and since i have been back very busy. We went to the same cottage we went to last year as there was still lots of places that we didn't get to see. This year we got to see Cheddar Gorge and Wookey Hole. I went down the caves at Wookey but i am a bit of the opinion that once you have seen one cave you have seen them all. I also have this silly feeling all the time that this is will be the day the cave caves in, lol! So once was enough i didn't bother at Cheddar but let hubby take the kids down the caves whilst me and daughter strolled through the gorge looking in all the little shops and having a cream tea.

We also went to a car museum (leaving the girls back at the cottage, it wasn't their thing). I will have to show the pictures when i get them on the pooter because i cannot do them justice with my description. But there was lots of very fast sports cars, huge old American cars like you used to see in the old films and Shuumachers (not sure bout spelling) F1 racing car. Hubby and G'son loved it.

Well this is going to be short and sweet because it was more by way of a trial run as i couldn't get to sign on to blogger on my baby computer, but i seem to have cured it by allowing some cookies that were disabled. although this 'pooter is tiny it is easier to write with as i keep it on the dining room table. My laptop i have on a small table and use from the armchair and is only ok to write small amounts. It is better for playing on etc.

So now i am up and running i should be able to write more often.

Also i am probably being a bit slow but where is this spam tab i have read about cannot see it anywhere and i seem to be getting some spam comments.

Jenny <><

Away

2010-08-08T03:27:00.000-07:00

Well I have been at my daughter’s for a week babysitting the cat and my g’daughter. Has been nice and peaceful and decided I would use the time for a kind of retreat and bible study. Not to be, that funny thing that happens the minute you want some peace and quiet, or pick the bible up happens.

First my hubby will come in. Now this happens at home the same, whatever time I pick the bible up he is guaranteed to arrive through the door. Then when he went I would try again, but g’daughter would emerge from the bedroom sometime around midday. Eventually she would go out, so I settle down again. By now it would probably be mid-afternoon.

Just over the back someone is doing building work and has been for months, the noise of grinders, hammering, machinery booms out louder than necessary because the road behind somehow works as some kind of echo bowl. The noise reverberates and aims itself at me as if coming through a loudhailer. This noise was used when the hubby and g’daughter distraction had passed.

If all else failed then by that time of day the other great aid to bible reading would happen, I would fall asleep after the first few minutes. Your eyelids get heavier and heavier and you just have to shut them for a little while, and bang your gone. Deep sleep.

4.30pm saw the coming home of next doors young twins and out into the garden they would go playing and kicking the ball against the fence. Then cooking commenced in neighbouring houses with the clatter of pans and the distraction of lovely food smells wafting in through the open doors.

There was nowhere to get away from it all as being a new town house all the living accommodation is at the back of the house and it was very hot, so doors and windows had to be opened. Anyway the cat wanted to lay in the doorway, just out of the direct sun and with the gentle breeze blowing across her and as it was her house who was I to argue. I after all was just the babysitter.

Now don’t get me wrong I loved spending time with g’daughter but I thought I would get to do both as teenagers don’t tend to stay in much do they?

Well the first 2 nights she actually came home early, the third she brought home 2 friends for a sleep over, and the funniest of all was on Wednesday.

She wanted to go somewhere that both me and her Mum thought she shouldn’t go. Now I had no problem if it had been early in the day but it wasn’t and Mum who was away anyway had said no over the phone. Well you know how teenagers can be and a discussion was had with me saying, ‘well you know what I have said so it is up to you now’. With that God was on my side, the heavens opened, the thunder rolled and the lightening flew across the sky. The person she was going meet who was fishing, phoned and said, ‘don’t come I’m scared of the thunder, I’m leaving’. Well this made us all laugh and I said, ‘see, told you Nanny knows best. They met at a far more suitable place.

So the week ended and I had a peaceful and enjoyable week and loved spending some time with g’daughter but as for the rest, well, it didn’t quite happen the way I thought it would.

Jenny <><

New post

2010-07-30T12:07:00.000-07:00

For those interested in Christian things i have just posted in my other blog Learning and Yearning.

http://learningandyearning.blogspot.com/

Jenny

Mixed bag

2010-07-28T09:00:00.000-07:00

It has been a bit of a mixed bag this last week. There have been ups and downs. Fun moments, anxious moments, challenging times and times when you think again about the awesomeness of God as you see him work.

There wasn't even any church Sunday night to go to, as there was a big special service for the superintendent's leaving do at another church a few miles away.

A bit of a scare midweek when hubby text me to say there was a big fire in the High Street. That was all he had heard on the radio and as our church is on the High Street we hoped that wasn't it or the derelict buildings next door. It wasn't, it was an Italian restaurant further down. Completely gutted.

Just had our last bible study for the summer, will meet again in September. That will give me a chance to get some prepared in advance and get ahead of myself. Spending some time over my daughters soon babysitting the house, cat and teenage g'daughter. So I thought I would spend the time using it as a bit of a retreat. Read my bible, listen to God, praise and worship. That is the plan anyway, we shall see if it works.

Well I said this week had been a mixed bag, I just opened my cupboard door and two old casserole dishes of my mum's fell out and smashed all over the kitchen floor. It has scratched all the flooring as well so feeling a bit peeved at the moment.

Jenny <><

Seriously

2010-07-23T09:30:00.000-07:00

As soon as a baby girl can sit up on her Daddy's knee, she looks up at him with those big eyes and long lashes and learns to wrap him round her little finger. This is where girls learn to relate to men. They flirt, manipulate, learn how far they can go, push, before exasperation sets in. They learn to understand their femininity. How to cope with and handle the woman they will grow up to be. It is all preparation for the time the hormones kick in and they go into the world to find their soulmate, hopefully for life.

So what happens to girls nowadays in this world where we seem to no longer require men. Girls are more often than not, now brought up in one parent families where the father is mainly or totally absent from soon after birth. They no longer have that knee to learn upon, a role model to teach them how men and women relate to each other.

We seem to have a new trend emerging I believe because of this. More and more young girls are turning to their girlfriends for love, affection and sexual fulfilment.

Girls are saying that all girls are bisexual and even if they don't believe that, say it to keep face with their mates. They kiss, cuddle and hug each other even if they have a boyfriend. At sleepovers they all share a bed and will tell you they like to snuggle up and cuddle each other to sleep.

From there a larger number than before will go on to full sexual relationships with a girlfriend. I believe it is because they feel safe, females are what they know about and also it is the fad of the day. It is pushed at them by the media, magazines and the world of stardom with actors and singers. It is the modern thing to do. And after all you cannot get pregnant.

Boys also play a part in this too. It's not really their fault, but they to suffer from not having a father figure, role model. After all how do they know how to treat a girl properly and with respect when they have never been party to a proper husband wife relationship.

Another trend that I think is helping girls to think girls are best is that more women are leaving their husbands, sometimes of many years, and going to live in a lesbian relationship with other women. What signal does this give out to young impressionable girls?

The tide will turn and the pendulum will swing back, it always does, but in the meantime we have a lot of very mixed up youngsters about, unsure of their sexuality or their place in this crazy world we have turned it into.

God did not say for fun, "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife and they will become one flesh." He really did know what he was talking about.

Jenny <><

Bits and Bobs

2010-07-21T07:34:00.000-07:00

Went over the RSPB nature reserve the other day and realised once again that I am a country girl at heart. I love the smell of the country and the sounds. I don't mean the smell you get when you drive past smelly farm, but that smell of grass, meadow, earth that you only get in the country away from too much civilisation. Also a major river runs alongside, it's a tidal river so there is that unique smell associated with a salty river.

There I could stay, just me and the one who made it all. Sharing a word here and there. Turning to smile at each other as we both spot a butterfly passing by. Enjoying that feeling of oneness when it is enough to sit together and there is no need of words. I am my beloved's and he is mine.

Deep sigh!

Saw my green woodpecker in the garden today. I just got my binoculars out as he was coming nearer the house and out came the neighbour to hang out her washing.

Another deep sigh!

He has taken me to the banqueting table, and his banner over me is love. Song of Songs

Jenny <><

No. 6 blessing

2010-07-18T04:59:00.000-07:00

Quite a few years ago I heard someone mention the No. 6 blessing. I was confused. I hadn't realised that there was a list of blessings. Who wrote them? Where would i find them? Why had I never heard of them before and what was the No. 6 one? Was it more special than the others?

This was a puzzle to me for a number of years and I felt too silly to ask anyone what the No. 6 blessing was, especially as everyone else seemed to know.

Then one day the secret was revealed. Did I feel stupid or what. A great lesson learned. Clean your ears out and listen properly. There was no numbered list of blessings.

Please turn to Numbers 6 verse 24.

"The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face towards you and give you peace."

Jenny <><

2010-07-17T07:51:00.000-07:00

I’m sitting in my dining room looking out at my garden. At the bottom of the garden is an enormous Oak tree. I love this tree and have watched it grow for over 35 years, and boy has it grown in the last few years.

This tree is full of life from top to bottom although strangely not very often full of acorns. In fact the tree could be called Oak city due to the way it is used by the wild life.

Let me explain. In the top quarter the crows perch and once but only once nested. Half way down the tree to the bottom of the tree the wood pigeons like to sit. They don’t seem to like the very top, probably sways too much for them to hold on. Again half way down to the bottom the magpies come, usually with a view to annoy and bully any other bird that seems like good sport.

Blue and great tits flit in and out the bottom half. Surprisingly it’s sparrows and starlings that never seem to use it. Black birds and robins perch in the bottom branches also and green woodpeckers run up and down the trunk.

Now I must mention the green woodpeckers because my husband is always moaning about the holes they leave in the lawn. That’s a whole different discussion, but when he described the size of said woodpecker he reckoned it to be about the size of a small penguin by where his hand was off the ground. Having explained to him they are about the size of the magpies without the long tail he just grunted. So of course now whenever we see one we just shout, ‘your penguin is in the garden’.

If you look closely at the trunk of the tree there are ants running up and down. Now how far they go I have no idea as I have never climbed the tree and don’t intend to, but it would be interesting to know though.

When we have a good crop of acorns there are plenty of squirrels about and then the magpies really have fun. They seem to like nothing better than annoy the squirrels. It gives me hours of pleasure watching them think up new ways to rattle the squirrels who in the end get so angry they end up chasing them.

So there you have it my Oak tree like a city to lots of diverse birds and creatures all living in their particular part of it, and I cannot sit and look at it without seeing something of the glory of God’s creation before me.

Jenny <><

Friday

2010-07-16T12:52:00.000-07:00

I am sitting here with my ear phones in my ears plugged into this computer. First night of the Proms is on the TV, it's something heavy by Mahler. I have the sound on the TV turned off. Every time i go on to another web page i get my ears blasted. The last blast was 'you have mail', nearly took my ears off. Why you might ask, and i can only say, 'i don't know'. I was watching something on BBC IPlayer and haven't bothered to either turn TV back up or unplug my ears. I do so like being different lol!

G'daughter has fried the innards of her laptop by using it on the bed where all the air vents have been covered causing it to overheat and burn something out. Shop is looking at it and hopefully it can be mended. It will still cost though but is cheaper than buying a new one.

Complete change of subject. I was hoping to get my bus freedom pass when i was 60, then they changed the rules and i will have to be 61 and four months and four days before i can get it and a pension. Now they are talking of speeding up bringing women up to 65 before getting their pass. So now i don't know when or if i will get one. Silly thing is hubby got his at 60 and he will be working to 65. Poor me :(

Now, i am hungry but don't know what to eat, i'm thirsty but cannot make my mind up what to drink. The man singing on the TV (without sound) looks a bit constipated the faces he is pulling so i will give Mahler a miss. Think i will find something good on pooter to listen to being as my ears are still plugged in to it.

What do you think....

Jenny <><

Help needed

2010-07-15T10:23:00.000-07:00

Ok folks, help is needed. I wrote a long blog piece for my other blog 'Yearning and Learning'. I wrote it in word and then copied and pasted it in. But it wouldn't accept it.

What did i do wrong and how can i write a post somewhere else before transferring it to here.

Any ideas?

Jenny <><

Comments

2010-07-10T11:43:00.000-07:00

Have been told by Guido that he couldn't put a comment on my last post. The only thing that changed was i added the verification word onto it to stop spam comments. I have changed it back so hope it works now. I will get someone to check it for me as i cannot myself.

Jenny <><

Hello again

2010-07-05T11:20:00.000-07:00

Well it has been 5 months this time, so much for good intentions. Have struggled to get a bit of order to my life since being at home but i am getting better. I have got out of the house a bit more and once a week me and a friend go for a walk around our local park.

I used to get frustrated with my mum for being so slow but now i seem to be the same, everything takes forever. Mostly because hips, knees and ankles do not work as good as they used to. I don't get as much done in a day as i once did or the days are getting shorter.

The biggest thing that has happened has been my daughter moving house. On her birthday she was offered a new build 3 bedroom town house meaning she could get out of her 2 bed 2nd floor flat. Only problem it hadn't been built yet. Usually with the council you get offered a place and have to move in about 2 weeks later. Well with this house we couldn't even get near it, but just take a peep from a distance onto the building site watching it go up. The house is only 3 roads away from me, a lot nearer than the flat but still a good walk. I get there by taking a bus to the park entrance and then walk through the park, out the other side and just down the road. Takes me about 20 mins but my hubby can walk the whole distance in about 10 mins, but then he is a lot fitter.

The frustrating problem with the house was that she kept getting told it will be ready by... and it wasn't. Then you will have the keys by... and she didn't. We started packing and stopped packing. She packed the summer clothes and then had to unpack them as the weather got hotter.

Eventually on the 1st June she got the keys and moved in on the 14th and it all happened in a great rush, BUT WE DID IT!!!!

By then though we were both in agony with our backs and everything downwards and living on pain killers. Bending over packing boxes and running up and down 2 flights of stairs as her new house is a town house took there toll. But it was all worth it and now she can unpack at her leisure.

G'son has already unpacked and i think g'daughter has nearly finished. As they are both on the top floor i don't go up there too often. There are plenty of boxes in the garage though but the problem is where to put all the stuff. For the first time in 14 years they have a garden, a very small garden but nevertheless it is their space with grass and somewhere to hang out the washing.

The cat was traumatised for a while and wouldn't come out of the lounge but now she loves the garden and can hiss at the cat next door through the fence and try to pounce at the squirrel.

So the on off move has rather taken up my time this year but now it has happened so the next step is to get me a bit fitter and out and about more.

Jenny <><

Blogger has changed

2010-02-01T05:15:00.000-08:00

It's only been two months and blogger has changed???

Well not only has things changed with the blog site but things have changed for me as well. I am now redundant, jobless except for a little bit of typing i do occasionally for someone. I had it all planned, all the things i was going to do and i have done none of it yet. The day after i finished work i had to go to the dentist, within a couple of hours of getting home i started to get a temperature, the shivers, achy all over. The snow came down so i was stuck in with this virus and still a toothache. The next week i went back to dentist and had a filling. Then the pain really started. The injections had irritated the nerve down the side of my jaw. Ouch!

The third Wednesday i went back to the dentist again and it was just beginning to subside, he said leave it for another two weeks to see if it settles. Thankfully it has but i still know it is there now and again.

So i have only just started to feel a little bit more normal in the last week and i have spent most of that over daughter's babysitting.

I got very down and despondent during that time. What had happened to all the things i had planned, i couldn't see how i was going to do them. That still is a problem, arranging my day, as hubby is around at all the wrong times and his sleeping pattern means i have to be quiet at times when i could be making a noise. I will also have to find places to go as well or i could find myself never going out. People keep saying it is early days, but we will see.

Daughter is ill again with a cold that seems like it might have gone to her chest. I have never in a long while known so many nasty viruses around and they seem to linger and keep coming back. It's the cough you cannot get rid of either.

I bought myself a Wii fit+ just before Christmas and i have yet to set it up and use it. That was one of the things i was going to do when i finished work, GET FIT. So far as i have not done anything or gone anywhere i am stiffer than i have ever been. My hip seems to have set. So feel free anyone to challenge me to see if i have got the contraption set up and am using it in the next 6 months lol!

My other leaving work treat, is this that i am typing on, my new toy, a netbook. I love it. I can look at what is happening while i am having breakfast. Stick it in my bag and take it over daughter's and play on facebook when I'm there. I have wanted one for awhile. That will be the last of the treats though now I'm not earning :( Never mind i have more than enough of everything i need.

Jenny <><

Even More illness

2009-12-06T13:53:00.000-08:00

Now it's my turn to have the dreaded virus. Cannot stop coughing, chest is tight and wheezy. Hope it goes soon.

Swine flu vacine. Two doctors i know plus a pharmacist said that they wouldn't have the vacination under any circumstances. That's good enough for me.

Jenny <><

More illness

2009-11-19T09:23:00.000-08:00

This week it has been my daughters turn to be ill. Last week she had a head cold and then on Monday i get a text telling me she was in a lot of pain in her back when she breathed. I persuaded her to go to the doctors and he said she had pleurisy. G'son was also at home with a temperature so i packed my bags and off i went. The bottom bunk was again my bed but i slept like a log on it.

I am home now and daughter is on the mend and g'son back to school. I have has a chance though last week to get most of my christmas presents and they are wrapped. Having problems though trying to get my head round how soon it is to christmas.

Short one this time as it has been a long week and there is still a few days to go.

Jenny <><

Life things

2009-11-09T08:56:00.000-08:00

Well in the last couple of weeks i have had a birthday although they are not so exciting these days as it just means your a year nearer your pension. Hubby has had that bad cold virus that is going around and now he has a chest infection. The Doc has given him steroids as well as antibiotics and upped his preventative asthma spray. Thankfully he has a week's holiday now so hopefully he will be better when he goes back.

I have been on a 2 day christian conference and had a wonderful but challenging time. I am trying to work through those challenges now so some hard thinking is going on.

I was watching a green woodpecker the other day come right up to the back of the house. He was pecking away at the lawn and obviously finding things to eat which then made me realise that i hadn't seen any Crane flies this year. Not a one. The last few years i had only seen a few but none this year. Do you remember when September you only needed to open the door a crack and in they would all fly. Everyone would squeal and then you would spend the rest of the night trying to catch them. They never worried me and it didn't mind holding them.

Before they become a flying beastie they live just under the ground (usually the lawn) as a grub, looking like a brown Caterpillar called a Leather jacket. When i was about 6 i could usually be found with my pet leather jacket living in a match box in my pocket. What a sad child i was. Now, has the woodpecker eaten all the Leather Jackets? Or does anyone have another idea?

Very soon daughter and g'son will be round for a burial down the garden. The hamster has died and out of the two they have this is the favourite. Smudge only lasted about 18 months and was a very pretty laid back hamster. If anyone was to dig up the bottom of our garden it is full of bones. Hamsters, gerbils, budgies, cat, dog. G'son lives in a flat so that is why Smudge is going to spend the rest of his days with us.

Well they have just gone and Smudge has been duly dispatched under a lovely Cordyline tree, and g'son has gone off for ice hockey practice.

Going to go christmas shopping this week but i have no idea what to get so it should be fun.

Jenny <><

2009-10-23T15:45:00.000-07:00

Have added a new post on http://learningandyearning.blogspot.com/

New Blog

2009-10-22T03:59:00.000-07:00

For some time now i have been thinking of starting a new blog. Yes even though i have struggled to keep this one going, so don't laugh. But anyway, i have took the plunge and wrote my first post last night. It will be a christian blog journaling all that has been going on in my life over the last couple of years.

It is not a devotional. I do not intend putting prayers, thoughts of the day, poems etc. into it. It will be as the title suggests my 'learnings and yearnings' as they happen and have been happening. My walk with the Lord as i try to make sense out of what he is doing in these extraordinary times we find ourselves in.

So now all i have to do is try to do the links right, it is such a long time since i did it not sure if i remember how.

http://learningandyearning.blogspot.com

Hope this works.

Jenny <><

2009-10-20T09:47:00.000-07:00

Well this is my first blog since February. Where have I been? Facebook. I notice a lot of other people haven't blogged for a while as well.

What have i been up to? Well, in June hubby was 60 so i took him to Rye for the week. On his actual b'day we went to a Steam train railway at Tenterden Kent. We stayed in a lovely B&B we had stayed in last August and the weather was fine.

On 2 separate weekends i went with daughter and g'son to Nottingham to an ice hockey school, where we just sat around the Ice Arena (where Torvil and Dean used to train) while he enjoyed himself with 2 whole days of ice time. Unfortunately after the new term started he decided he wanted to be a goalie and as they had no other, and he has great potential to be very good so they say, he was accepted. This is a whole different kind of training and kit. So we have had to get him all new kit at a price i am not even going to begin to tell you, but i think a mortgage would have been cheaper.

Summer holidays found us in North Somerset in a wonderful cottage near Burnham on Sea. There is so much to do in the area that we are thinking of going back next year to finish the area off.

Our winter week's hols is coming up soon but as we are all spent up not sure if we are going anywhere. Maybe a few days back to Rye. We like it there and it is not too long a drive for a few days.

The day after Boxing Day sees our 40th Wedding Anniversary, Ruby. Where has the time gone. Now you know why this is called 'Stop The Clock'. The beginning of January also sees me being made redundant from my job, so a new chapter begins.

Well that's my year in a few sentences. I am hoping to blog more frequently and wean myself off of my dependence on Face Book, although i would never give it up forever.

Jenny <><

Back again

2009-02-13T10:06:00.000-08:00

It's been a long while since i have last posted and there has been no real excuse except for a month of birthdays (now over), a lot of tiredness and Facebook games.

January is the month when most of the family where born so it seems and coming right after Christmas keeps you busy and your purse empty. Usually by January i have run out of ideas.

Tiredness - because i have been going to bed late and Facebook games!!!! What can i say... TV is boring and when you are tired you can play without too much thought.

G'kids are all doing well. The littlest one has played a couple of games for his ice hockey team and is getting better by the day. He fair zips across the ice and enjoys all the speed and body contact. I will put some pics up later. Youngest g'daughter has just been awarded a 'Jack Petchy' award by her Youth Club, which is an award for achievement earned. She was nominated by her peers and the leaders agreed and put her forward. Schools, youth clubs and uniformed organisations (scouts etc.) join the scheme nominating someone who they think deserves it. You get a framed award, a badge and a sum of money that is used for the good of the club and the kudos that goes with getting it.

Jack Petchy who started it up is still alive and if you google his name you can find out more about him and the scheme.

Hubby had another tooth abscess and another lot of antibiotic and was most miserable as this was the second time in a few months and not forgetting his chest infection he had, and i have got back into swimming and church activities.

And after that quick update i will leave now and try and write a longer post on a completely different subject.

Jenny <><

Christmas Pictures

2009-01-04T08:27:00.000-08:00

Actually took some photos this christmas and managed to put them on the computer. Also managed to get some photos of my other G'kids too. Yipeee! I usually cannot pin them down long enough to take snaps.

So here they are:

G'daughter and eldest G'son

Second eldest G'son

Next G'son one of twins.

The other twin. Not identical as you can see.

Both of my lovely G'daughters.

My gorgeous D'-in-law

My youngest G'son at a fancy dress new year party.

Daughter and G'daughter at the fancy dress party.

My Son a few christmas' ago trying hard not to look at the tele when he should have been looking at the camera.

On looking again and before i get into trouble actually youngest G'daughter took a lot of this christmas' pics.

Well that is my immediate family.

Jenny <><

2008-12-31T11:48:00.000-08:00

And A Blessed and Happy New Year to you all.

Jenny <><

2008-12-24T14:22:00.000-08:00

Happy Christmas everyone!

Jenny <><

Busy, Busy, Busy

2008-12-18T06:25:00.000-08:00

Wouldn't i just like to be like them. Life has been hectic with the lead up to Christmas and i have been too tired to read many blogs let alone comment. Sorry.

Hubby's virus turned into a chest infection and more antibiotics and it seems this virus also likes to pop back for another visit every now and again. At the moment he is asleep in the armchair beside me.

I had a good time at g'daughters sleep over. There were 7 all told and they all seemed to talk at once???? I had borrowed a chocolate fountain, but everyone said that they made a big mess up the walls and carpet, so i bottled out and just melted some chocolate in the microwave. We had strawberries and marshmallows to dip in the chocolate mmmmmmmm! I got to bed at 3am and went straight off to sleep. I had originally gone to bed at 12 midnight but g'daughter called me out to tell them a story, so up i got. But it didn't matter cos i enjoyed it.

I still haven't got all my Christmas presents or written any cards... Am i bovvered? Er... sometimes. But i expect it will all get done by the day.

We have had a big problem trying to find a turkey over 9 kilo, so much so that we have had to settle for an 8.4 one. It seems there are not many around this year due to the trouble with turkey's last year. People have suggested having a crown cos there are no bones so you get more meat, but a lot of us like the legs the best and a 4 legged turkey would be alright for us :-)

Another suggestion was to get a fresh one from the butchers, but that would be far too expensive. No we got a frozen one from Tesco's like always and now i have to cook it in my new fan oven. Eek!! I have never used a fan oven and i haven't used my big bottom oven yet. As there is only the two of us at home the small top oven does us for most things.

I usually cook the oven on low all night, but how low is low in an electric fan oven???? We shall see.

Oh well i really should be tackling the Christmas cards about now....

Jenny <><

Happy Birthday Granddaughter

2008-12-10T09:30:00.000-08:00

Granddaughter is 13 today. She was born by C section 13 years ago, my daughters first child. This last year she must have grown about twelve inches in a year, she is now much taller than me. Saturday we went shopping and i bought her some clothes. That girl has always known how to shop :-). Today we go out for a meal and next Saturday i have the privilege of supervising a sleep over of 7 girls. I have already been given my orders, mainly not to embarrass her. As if i would...

Last night my next-door-neighbour had his car stolen from outside the house. It was inches away from ours. All this happened at teatime, not in the middle of the night as you would expect.

Just a short one today to say 'Happy Birthday' g'daughter have a great day as you enter your teen years.

Jenny <><

Pain and more pain

2008-11-30T12:24:00.000-08:00

Well i give up. I have tried and tried to put pictures in and it is having none of it. so i cannot be bothered any more tonight.

Remember hubby's toothache.... well it was an abscess so he has now had the nerve taken out. Now he is saying the one next to it hurts, but i am wondering if the abscess hasn't quite gone and he needs more antibiotic.

He has also had for the last two weeks that nasty chest virus that is going the rounds. It sounds like the same one that they have on Strictly Come Dancing. G'daughter has it too and has been very ill. Last Wednesday night she ended up in A&E because she couldn't breathe. Luckily they saw her straight away and gave her some steroid tablets to take and a prescription for sprays. She is better but her chest still sounds terrible and i doubt if she will be back to school at the start of this week. She is very rarely ill but when she is she often ends up at A&E and has what ever she gets worse than normal.

Next week g'daughter will be 13, how did that happen. It seems she is having a sleep over of 6 friends. Now daughter has come up with clever the idea - she thinks - of her and g'son sleeping over my house and that i go over and supervise the sleep over. One reason being that my daughter has a very short fuse when woken from sleep at night, although she reckons she cannot remember what she says the next day. Hmm!! Anyway to save her nerves and g'daughter's this was the suggestion. G'daughter is all for it as long as i don't embarrass her. I haven't given an answer yet, but oh what fun i could have. Embarrass, Ha! Ha!

My glasses broke half hour ago and i am wearing some very old ones from years back. I dread to think what i look like... No comments please :-)

Today i wrapped up...well hubby wraps...my first presents. Thank goodness, i thought i was never going to get started. Sons family is nearly all done, so is Church friends, but i still do not know what to get for some members of the family. And i am not telling on here what i have bought already as i know family reads this blog, so there.

Tom Jones is on TV at the moment, his voice hasn't altered a bit with age. Boyzone was good as well and i have always loved Seal.

Well I'm off to watch I'm a Celebrity and i am recording Strictly results to watch later... Oh what a busy life i lead.

Jenny <><

Holiday

2008-11-17T11:55:00.000-08:00

We have just got back from my last holiday this year.

We set off Wednesday morning, picked up my friend who was coming with us and set off. We were going to 'Mission Worship', a weekend conference where christian singer/songwriters teach us their new songs they have written. Give us good teaching and raise a lot of money for a kids charity that provides schools in the Amazon jungle. It is run by Kingsway Publishers who gives a large percentage of the money raised from the sales of goods at the conference.

Back to the plot. To make a bit of a holiday of it we thought we would go a couple of days early. My friend wanted a lift to the conference so had to come with us early.... So it was a lovely day and on the way there i suddenly saw the sign for the Bluebell Steam Train Railway Line. My husband is rather a steam train lover and we had been there before so i said lets go and visit.

We saw one train and had a lovely lamb dinner. I sat and sunned myself on a seat in the station while my hubby and friend went and looked at the engine sheds. I am not quite so much a train lover. If you have seen one you have seen them all is my motto.

A couple of hours later we set off again and reached the hotel about 4pm. We had a lovely room with a big bay window overlooking the sea. There was a full moon and we sat and watched it shining silver on the water as the sun went down. ( i am now singing the song 'by the light of the silvery moon').

This isn't exactly the same as our room but it is one of their bedrooms.

There was a 'Tinsel and Turkey' group at the hotel so my friend and i went down to the hotel lounge and joined them on Thursday night as they had a singer playing 60's songs. They were all from Doncaster and very friendly and didn't mind us gatecrashing one bit.

For those that don't know, 'Tinsel and Turkey' is what the over 60's go to usually with their clubs. It is a coach trip to a hotel usually in November when you pretend it is Christmas and have a Christmas dinner, presents and do all the things of Christmas day. When we joined them they reckoned it was New Years day, LOL! :-) It is especially good for people who have lost their partners and would never get away from home as it makes a nice 5 day break for them.

Friday morning the coach departed and our lot for the conference started turning up. There was 10 of us from our church. Now if i am doing these pictures correct there might even be a photo of the hotel we stayed at.

The first floor big bay window 3rd from the end of the hotel was our room. The weather was very warm i never wore my coat at all. It was lovely to spend time away with some of the church family. We sang, we danced, we worshipped together. We had breakfast together and spent time till late at night chatting in the hotel lounge.

Actual hotel dining room.

My husband had raging toothache all during the holiday. One of us usually has something. He likes to go for walks on holiday, not my thing. So i think he walked at least twice up to Beachy Head with some of our church mates. This was uphill a lot of the way.

Picture coming....

That is Beachy Head, quite a famous landmark in the UK and famous for people throwing themselves off of it. Thankfully hubby's tooth never got so bad he saw that as a solution.

So after a good week we came back Sunday afternoon and now looking forward to getting back to work :-(

I wonder if this post is going to look the same as it does now when i publish????

Jenny <><

Empty head

2008-11-10T07:16:00.000-08:00

Explain this phenomena to me. In bed, at the bus stop, anywhere away from my computer i write the most interesting posts. In my head. But the minute i sit here to write something all thought deserts me. Nothing, nowt, zilch. One empty head. And to make it worse it's raining and I'm not at work.

About three weeks ago the handle of my handbag came unstitched and broke. Now i could have mended it but i have a bit of a handbag fetish... after about six months i get fed up with it and buy another. Which is the reason i only ever buy cheap bags. So what was i going to do today?? I was off to buy my new bag and do some Christmas shopping. But it is pouring down and has been all day. It is dark, dull, windy... Horrible in fact.

Time for a random picture ~

This was where the random picture was supposed to be, but as you can see they came up at the top???????????

On holiday this year we went on a deer safari, i think i have mentioned it before. Well this was it and the face g'daugher pulled after feeding the deer. She had very dirty hands.

I would love to show some pictures of my other g'kids but do not have as many photos of them. One reason is that they are much older and whenever we go round there they are in and out like yoyo's with their friends. Also i am very bad at taking photos and most of the ones i have of my daughter's children, she has taken and emails me them. Unfortunately at Son's house computers only last a few months with 5 kids on it. The deadly virus is just waiting to get it. So i don't have as many pics of them at all. Hopefully i will get some when i go Christmas.

I have just had my tea, sausage and mash. I used my new frying pan to do the sausages and what do you know... i still nearly burnt them. LOL!!! I will get used to the new cooker, and yes i have myself a new set of pans but it hasn't improved the cooking

Daughter just told me what she had for tea and it sounded very tasty:

Cook some chicken and bacon and put on top of leeks and mushrooms in a casserole dish.. Pour a tin of condensed chicken soup over the top and then mashed potato on top of that. She then put it in the oven for 2 hours. Sounds like something i might try.

Well i think i will stop now.

Enjoy tomorrow...

Jenny <><

Another Birthday

2008-11-02T03:24:00.000-08:00

Yes today is my birthday, 21 again, and again, and more! Thanks to the above 'Happy Birthday'. I have had it a long while and must admit i cannot read who made it as my eyes sight is not good enough.

Well today i am going over my daughters for Sunday Roast and looking forward to it. It is always good when you haven't had to cook it yourself.

Right now i am giving myself a birthday present by being on the 'pooter so early in the day, hubby's in bed (although the door bell just rang and might have woken him) having a lay in like he does every Sunday catching up on his sleep. He works unsociable hours and has a long day Saturday. He also knows i like a bit of time on my own. No, he is now up the doorbell did wake him!!

It is a shame b'days are not quite so exciting when you can see your bus pass getting nearer and nearer. For those in the US when you get to be 60 in some parts of the UK you get a bus pass to use the buses for free. I still have 3 years to go BUT I DO NOT FEEL OLD ENOUGH YET!!!!

That's why i have called this blog and my old AOL one 'Stop The Clock' The rest of it used to say 'times moving too fast'. Or something like that, i cannot quite remember now. See the brain's going as well.

Ah well, i am off to get ready to enjoy my day and to give thanks to God that he has seen me through another year.

Jenny <><

Up to date birthday photo

2008-10-30T12:56:00.000-07:00

Now look at that cake. Doesn't it just look perfect.

This is what he asked for.... A friend of my daughter's always makes his cake and so she made him an ice hockey cake as that was what he wanted... BUT he asked if it could look 'off' ~ because last year he said everyone had a piece leaving him none. So by his reckoning if it looked off no one would want a slice.

So she made it to look perfect on the outside but on the inside it looked like sludge. I am told it tasted lovely as long as you kept your eyes closed.

I have made a decision, no more gym, so that's that.

Saturday night we had a lovely time. Godfrey Birtill was around in the 60's. He is a very spiritual man and his songs hit the button on what God is up to right now, but he puts some of his songs to a rock and roll beat. So we worshiped, we praised and danced till we dropped. It was the best way to party on a Saturday night and i went home tired and happy.

My slow cooker came out today and i made a beef casserole and dumplings. I have to say they were 'Aunt Bessie's' but nice nonetheless.

Now what type of dumplings do you make... suet dumplings or Norfolk dumplings? I like both but was brought up on Norfolk dumplings. I expect now the weather has changed my slow cooker will be used a lot more but i do not have a great range of receipes. Any good ones will be gratefully received.

Jenny <><

Happy Birthday

2008-10-25T07:46:00.000-07:00

Today is g'son's 9th birthday. I 'm afraid the photo is not a recent one. All the ones i have at the moment are either of him a long way away or with his sister. But he hasn't changed much.

I will be buying him some ice hockey gear he wants, and guess where he is now? Ice skating....

In December his sister will be thirteen and then in January i have.... wait for it ~

Daughter, son, daughter in law, g'son, sister in law, niece. It's a dear season.

Tonight i am going to a Godfrey Birtell concert. He is a christian singer/songwriter, very spiritual but also knows how to rock and roll. Don't ever say us Christians don't know how to enjoy ourselves. I am hoping to do a bit of bopping tonight. Ok, the body will move after a fashion before i flop into a chair exhausted.

Which brings me to exercise. The Gym is not working....I felt feint after being on the exercise bike for 5 minutes but how much of that is because it is on my mind after what happened on the treadmill the other week i don't know. Without that though my knees and other joints are getting sorer and sorer and now hurt constantly through the week. So i do not know how long this will go on for, i have a review in November. Now swimming i love and could stay in the water all day.

Hubby has gone upstairs to have a bath, who wants to bet on how long it takes him to start snoring. LOL!!

The clocks go back tonight so it will get dark by 4pm, winter is getting closer, Christmas is getting nearer. This year we have a bit of a problem. Every year i put the turkey in Mum's freezer because mine is usually full and of course Mum is no longer with us. So, Where am i going to put the turkey then, eh? And it is one big turkey.

Well it will be interesting to see if my paragraphs turn up in this post or if i have a long streak of white paper before you get to the comments button like last time. Lol!

Have a good weekend.

Jenny <><

Addiction

2008-10-18T09:11:00.001-07:00

Tea's in the oven - there's time to spare.

You switch on the computer. You just want a little peek to see how everyone is doing.

Click on 'live feed' and there they all are.

**** is playing Pathword.

****has just got her highest score on Word Challenge.

****has got the best hand yet in Texas Hold -Em Poker.

****virtual pet has just been to visit yours - and they had a good time.

Ha ha! Everyone is at their computer and you know what they are up to.

But! Hang on! What's this!

That high score I worked so hard for all last night has just been topped. Oh no!

I got to get started. Working hard ... Fingers flying and then Yes! Yes! Yes!

WhooHoo comes from the armchair as i do the 'happy jig'.

Beat em....

For now. Till Tomorrow. Till the next time. When it all starts all over again.....

Such is the life of a Facebook Addict.

Jenny <><

Sunday

2008-10-12T06:16:00.000-07:00

It has been a hard week this week not helped by it having been my 'one Saturday in three' day on. All the christmas stuff is going on the shelves and i am not the most creative person on this planet.

Sooo, I am really having this as my day of rest. Hence it is 2.30pm London time - i am still in my dressing gown - and i don't care :-) I have been eating chocolate and am playing about on here. So there!!!

I will go to church this evening and i think it is the night for our fellowship group to meet, I hope so, and start the week afresh tomorrow.

It is still sunny and warm here, i have a new flush of roses coming out into bloom and it is very quiet. ssshhh!

I bought a new CD at the shop i work in called 'A Christmas With The Gaithers'. It made hubby laugh, he said it was the ealiest he had ever heard White Christmas played. Certainly in our house.

What usually happens is, i put a christmas CD on, everyone shouts at me to turn it off, it's not christmas yet. This goes on till Christmas Eve. Christmas day we are usually out and when i try Boxing Day they then say christmas is over. So i sneaked it in today and fooled everyone. Ha! Ha!

Being as it is Sunday i thought i might add a few pictures of my g'daughter at her baptism a couple of years ago.

Sorry i have not put them in too well, never mind i will get better.

Jenny <><

Today's news

2008-10-10T11:24:00.000-07:00

G'daughter has now been in Germany on her school trip for 4 days - she went Monday. She enjoyed the flight (it was her first time), likes the food and the family she is staying with. She says they hardly talk any English though but is managing.

She hasn't been very impressed with where she has been so far - German parliament, museum - today she has gone to the zoo and i know one of the days they are going to see Mama Mia so hopefully she will enjoy them more.

She doesn't come home till next Thursday so they will have gone for a long while. G'son has a birthday coming up on the 25th and is hoping for some ice hockey gear. He will have to wait and see....

I didn't get much sleep last night, the lump on my head hurt and i was dreaming about how i was going to get off the treadmill next week without keeling over and head butting the wall. I am certainly going to have a talk with someone before i try again. It brought a whole new meaning to 'did the earth move'. I now know my hip hurts as well where i landed. And do you know, family and friends all laughed when i told them. Can you believe that????

I have to work tomorrow it's my 1 in 3 Saturdays on. I could do without it really, but i think i will take it easy. I just hope the Saturday worker comes in.

I do like the way this saves your work as you go along. I may be imagining it but it seems a lot easier to write a post on here than AOL. Well I'm off to get some food now.

Jenny <><

Danger in the Gym

2008-10-09T09:25:00.000-07:00

Well i surpassed myself today. I thought i was doing rather well. I had upped the resistance on the bike and was going faster on the treadmill. Then i got off.

I am always a bit dizzy when i get off the treadmill, a bit like you have been on a boat for a long while and have just got back on firm ground. So.... i stopped the treadmill and stood there for a moment before stepping off. I felt really dizzy and there was nothing to get hold of, i felt myself going over but couldn't stop myself from falling as gravity took me the rest of the way.

The wall stopped me. Crack went my head and elbow. The music was loud but two people heard the bang over the top and called the trainers over. One winced when she saw my elbow, but i haven't bothered looking. I am a great believer in what i cannot see i don't worry about (a bit like the size of my behind LOL!). My head feels like it has been bashed so i hope it will be alright. Bit concerned it won't happen again though especially as i have to up my time over the next two weeks.

Also.... I have successfully transfered my old blog over and have called it Stop the Clock Archive. Not sure if i am going to do anything with it yet though, or just keep it for prosperity.

Jenny <><

Busy weekend

2008-10-06T13:37:00.000-07:00

Well i have been over my daughters this weekend helping her get g'daughter's bag packed for her trip. Just about now she will be landing at Berlin and meeting her host family. She was a bit tearful when she went as this is her first trip abroad and to fly then stay 10 days with complete stangers when you are only 12 is daunting. But she is a friendly girl and not shy so i know she will soon be having a good time.

This has not given me any time to look at blogs and comment but i will get around to everyone.

Tomorrow the gym saga starts again.... how will the backside stand up to its pounding this week i wonder????

There is a fatal flaw to Blogger i have found. Look at the bottom of my page and you will find a game i have added from gadgets. It is so easy to add things to your page with gadget, but beware this game is addictive!!!!

Soooo Tired

2008-10-03T12:31:00.000-07:00

I don't think i have been to bed before 12.30am since Tuesday this week. Tired doesn't begin to describe it. Playing with this Blog. Making sure i have everyone so i don't lose any of the blogs. Playing a word game on Facebook. At least now i have found some people on Facebook i am no longer 'Billy no mates' anymore. Next week i must get some sanity back to life.

Another reason for being tired is the GYM! This has been my first full week, I go Tuesday and Thursday afternoon after work. I was going a bit faster on the bike and treadmill already yesterday, but oh my backside on that saddle. It will get better won't it???

My joints are sore and burning as well but i am going to ignore that unless it gets really bad.

G'daughter is off to Berlin in Germany on Monday and this will be her first trip abroad and flying. She is going with the school and staying with a family. She is a bit scared at the moment and snapping everyones head off, but she makes friends easily and is chatty so i am sure she will get on. Well she has kept saying she needed to do the abroad experience so now she will. They will be gone for 10 days and go on lots of trips and have a day at the German school.

G'son (the youngest) has started to go to ice hockey training. He loves it, but when they get older it seems to be a very dangerous and violent sport. He loves ice skating though and because of his ADHD he cannot settle with most sports but this is fast enough for him. LOL.

It has been very cold today i hope this isn't what's to come especially as the gas bills have nearly doubled so it seems. There will be a lot of people struggling this winter. We have also had a lot of stock in today for Christmas. What happened to summer, i seem to have missed it this year.

Well i am getting a bit hungry now so I'm off to eat and read some other posts.

Jenny <><

Playing with this

2008-10-01T13:37:00.000-07:00

Well i am having a good time playing with this. I must admit i like the way you can put gadgets on the sidebar and at the bottom. It still doesn't look visually as nice as AOL though.

I have tried to cover all bases and have put people in my IE 'favourites', RSS feed and become a follower and put people in my dashboard. I should find you somewhere. There are still people whose 'pooters are down, on holiday or just haven't posted for a while who have yet to hear what is happening. I hope they don't leave it too late. I know Guido is trying to cover that.

I have had my second go at the Gym and i have saddle sores on my butt. It is sore! Do you think anyone will notice if i go tomorrow with a cushion down my trousers. The cycling was no problem but after 10 minutes my backside was in agony. Talk about chafe. It is going to have to toughen up as i have to increase my time each week. It doesn't help that i have short legs so i rock from side to side as i pedal. I am going to try Vaseline tomorrow...

Well i am off to play some more.

Jenny <><

Moved from J'Land

2008-10-01T10:28:00.000-07:00

Well this is my new blog, or rather a continuance from the old 'Stop The Clock'. I think i will migrate the old one as 'Stop The Clock Archive'. If it all goes pear shape i won't be too sad. I will have to get used to this, it took me long enough to get used to AOL. Off now to go and put the others on alert if i can.

Jenny <><