Oops! Been Ages!

Haven't posted for ages! Not failed in my attempts to keep the blog updated, just been rather busy. Working FAR too much, even did the saturday of the bank holiday. This basically involved babysitting sub-contractors and drinking rather a lot of tea, but hey there's always the overtime pay. Mind you I would have rather been in bed!

Dropped in on the parentals as mum's had an operation on her knee. Suffice to say the grewsome details include scabbling the kneecap to make it grow scar tissue etc... All things you don't want to hear over dinner like I did! Why is it that people always pick the most inappropriate moments to say things like that? Oh good, your just tucking into your sunday roast, wanna hear about how much pain I'm in/all the mess involved in my op? NOT REALLY NO!

Though I can sympathise to some degree, it does look pretty swollen and she cant walk on it for two weeks. I pity my stepdad who's going to be run into the ground waiting on her hand and foot. I'm sure I remember the good old days when my mum was hard and uttered unforgettable phrases such as "you're not sick, now get to school!". And lets not forget that this is the same woman who made my sister walk round on a broken foot for 2 weeks, then finally took her to casualty! Or the time I had such bad tonsilitis that I ended up hallucinating and the doctor telling her that I should ahve been brought in a week ago... Do I get the feeling of a double standard as she takes 3 weeks off work? Fairly sure I was told she could walk on it in 2? All this and she's planning on skiing next year! :-S

On the up side, finally got a new back door key! Hurrah! now I have a back garden I've never seen before, and now wish I never had. It requires a days work and a trip to the tip me thinks! Will mean that I can have summer BBQ's now though :-) It may also explain why the roof is leaking, as there are at least 3 roof tile smashed to bits there, so I think there may be a rather big hole somewhere. Though I have been promised the roofers will be out this week, but they said that last week and progress has been non-existent, and thats being generous!

Seems very odd. The roof leaking is only a problem when its raining, obviously. Yet in bad weather, the roofers can't come fix it! Now in a country where it reains what seems like 80% of the time this has gotta be a problem! I'm just glad that its leaking into the bath, or I'd have to be comming home at lunch to change a bucket or something!

Giving up the GP this weekend, will be the first one of the season I miss, but the idea of a weekend at alton towers is almost as good. Throw in the company and obviously I'm there! Will be needing the break as people are on holiday at work, so my workload is a bit more than usual, made the day go nice and quickly though. Three more of them and it'll be fun time again. Will try and keep the posts more regular, mainly as these take too long to write and by now you've got bored if you've read all this way!

Advice for the day is, if you're going to do something, do it properly, so other people can use it. ALL ARCHITECTS TAKE NOTE!

Posted by Russ at May 3, 2005 10:50 PM