January 2006

1st January 2006
Happy New Year Everyone. Have you made new year's resolutions? For once I have, but I can't tell you what they are in case they don't come true.

6th January 2006
Chips has started at new school. And they have said she can go back again next week, so it can't have been that bad. Actually, I was proud of her. 10 dogs in a hall and only one tiny little bark. Oh how she has come on.

12th January 2006
Wow, Angie is in Cambodia. Have a good one Angie

13th January 2006
Today, my friend Marion came to visit. She hasn't changed at all! We had a fab time catching up, and then we turned to reminiscing. We went on friends reunited and looked up everyone in our year. Then we got brave and looked up everyone in the year above us who used to scare the bejeebiez out of us. Weird that two grown women should be sweating and feeling sick with fear whilst looking at photos of 14 year olds. They still hold their power over us, with their luminous towelling socks, mullet perms and black eye-liner. Oh the 80s. I intend to put some photos up of my own. Mum, have you got any you could send up?

18th January 2006
Our ice cream man was found lying on the floor of his van covered with hundreds and thousands. Police say that he topped himself. Ha ha ha. You thought I was serious for a moment there, didn't you.

19th January 2006
I make it my policy not to have regrets. However if there is a lesson I am going to lean from, it is that when the time comes to replace my vacuum cleaner, I will embrace the bagless variety that never loses its suction, and not be persuaded to revisit the bag/cylinder hybrid. We have moved away from the bag because BAGGED VACUUMS LOSE THEIR SUCK and they do it bit by bit so you never know when it is time to change the bag. It is only when you have changed the bag and you can hardly drag the nozzle along the floor (due to high suction) that you know the bag should have been changed weeks ago, even if it was not full.

If I was in the business of regrets I would probably also have something to say about the fact that I am quite taken by the fact that my vacuum cleaner sucks again.

20th January 2006
Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off. Abby you have got to stop sending me those jokes. You're killing me.

27th January 2006
Today while we were out walking we met a group of 6 boys out hunting with their ferret. I had heard about that kind of thing but never seen it with my own eyes. Oh, life in the north.

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