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It’s nearly the weekend

Posted in life goes on, music on July 29, 2011| 1 Comment »

Painting done to Westlife…Allow us to be Frank, Robbie Williams ‘Escapology’ and Mozart’s ‘Salzburg Symphonies 1-3 serenata Notturna. Then just for the fun of it Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1, Nutcracker Suite and Swan lake ballet suite. I also read thorough some of my old posts, I really must read them before I press publish, lot’s of silly spelling mistakes and complete words missing! Hehehe I have no excuse, other than ‘I never said I was clever.’ So here’s a little game, if you spot a mistake put a comment in the box, I may put some mistakes in deliberately. just to see if you are paying attention.

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A good scrub and a sing-song

Posted in life goes on, music on July 28, 2011| 2 Comments »

Law of the Result – When you try to prove to someone that a machine won’t work, it will.

That’s the box room, our room and the stairs and landing cleaned from top to bottom, so today I am going to paint what needs to be painted in the bathroom, re-varnish the landing and stairs, (it got very battered and chipped) and paint the porch, (that’s where they stacked their tools and it’s marked all the walls). While I cleaned I listen to, (and yes I did have a little sing), Barbra ‘The concert’, Goodnight Lenin ‘The Wenceslas Square’ ep. Goodnight Lenin are a band number 1 introduced me too and I really do enjoy them, Elaine Paige ‘Stages’, Alison Moyet ‘Singles’ and the Streets ‘A grand don’t come for free’ another band number 1 introduced me too and I love this album. It’s a story about a young man having a very bad week and if you listen to it it’s quite funny.

Goodnight Lenin

And whilst I was looking for those videos for you I found these, we were there. Anyone who has been reading me for longer than 12 months will know this is my favorite part of Arts Fest, every year different music and fire works.

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Dust be gone!

Posted in life goes on on July 27, 2011| 1 Comment »

Joy comes to those

who do not fear solitude.

Life comes to those

not afraid to die.
unknown

Did you no diets don’t make you thin? Well according to this bit of research anyway. I shall give up now then.

Sorry Pat, but if it’s good enough for Harrods Christmas has arrived

Dr Who is back, well in a few weeks the 27th August to be exact

Well the bathroom is as good as finished as far as the builders go, so today I am giving the up stairs a good clean through.

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Oh dear days

Posted in daft stuff, life goes on on July 26, 2011| 2 Comments »

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.- chinese proverb

The swifts are flying low this morning, they had me ducking this morning as I pegged out the washing, even though I know it’s very unlikely they would hit me. Yesterday was an ‘Oh dear day’ in as much as the builders moved a pipe and caused a leak in the kitchen ceiling, then after they had gone I went to tidy up and looked at the shower and thought that looks to far over, you will bang your elbows on the wall as you try to wash. So I asked hubby to take a look who snapped at me that it was in exactly the same place as before, (a bad day at work me thinks), but it’s not it is further in and higher up, I checked by looking at the piping. Then I thought ‘sod it’ it can stay where it is, I can stand sideways on to wash. Today feels like it is going to be one too, number 1 has just come down stairs to say I can’t have the big bedroom window open, why? Because the stray cat as worked out that if he jumps onto next doors van he can then jump onto our porch and come in through the window.

So now I am sending you to this site it’s so funny faces in things that shouldn’t have faces

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It’s Monday!

Posted in it makes you think, life goes on on July 25, 2011| 3 Comments »

The good news about midlife is the glass is still half-full. Of course, the bad news is that it won’t be long before your teeth are floating in it.

More talk on the news about gas and electric going up again, now is it just me or wouldn’t it be a good move on the part of one of the companies to lower their prices? Think about it, they wouldn’t have to drop them by much just enough to under-cut the other companies and advertise it. Most people would jump at the chance to change and that company would then have the lion’s share of customers, so a better chance of selling more of their products.

Isn’t it funny how things happen, mother and father-in-laws house was up for sale for a good 12 months, (it could have been longer) in hopes they could move back up here, 4 weeks after he died it sold and we found her a nice bungalow just 5 minutes walk away from our house. She came up at the weekend to view it and liked it, so it’s just paper work now. If hubby hadn’t woke me in the night with his snoring, and then toothache hadn’t kept me awake the rest of the night, I may not have dropped the washing powder, then I wouldn’t have got down on hands and knees, (to clear it up) and found the floor under the washer, (well the laminate) has moved.

I feel like I wait forever for summer and then blink and it’s gone, can you believe we are more than half way through the year, soon be time to write the Christmas cards!

My heart goes out to the people of Norway; their life’s will never be the same again.

Oh well another day, let’s see what it brings.
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New Wine for Seniors

Posted in daft stuff, funnies on July 24, 2011| 5 Comments »

A single glass at night could mean a peaceful, uninterrupted nights sleep. NEW Wine for Seniors I kid you not…
New Wine for Seniors

California vintners in the Napa Valley area, which primarily produce Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Grigio wines, have developed a new hybrid grape that acts as an anti-diuretic. It is expected to reduce the number of trips older people have to make to the bathroom during the night.

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PINO MORE

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Because Kate did…

You Are Old-Fashioned and Kind-Hearted

You have a lot of natural appeal. You are attention-getting and quite attractive.
You are definitely a romantic. True love is something you always want to have in your life.

You do your own thing, but you’re always thinking of the community around you.
You are lovable, endearing, and affectionate. People gravitate toward your positive spirit.

The Train Oracle

The First Rule of Blogthings Is: You Don’t Talk About Blogthings

This couldn’t be further from the truth if it tried
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I remember that!

Posted in books, let's go out, life goes on on July 23, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Voltaire

Yesterday I took a trip to the Public in West Bromwich. I have only ever been in the Public a couple of times and that was for a quite look at some home-grown paintings or a cup of tea, this is due to two facts. The first being when it first opened admission to up stairs was at a charge, (and I wasn’t prepared to pay £10 I think it was) to have a look around, and the second I could never find out the opening times. So off I went as the exhibitions on now are free and it turns out most on in the bit you pay for, so I got to look at those to, which I am glad I didn’t have to pay for after seeing what there was. Anyway back to the story. There was a collection of photos and paintings by local artist none of which really caught my eye except for two photos by Hannah Mitchell which I found rather disturbing. They were photos of two children but the faces had been smudged out with black paint/ink. The Art of Story, three touch screens showing paintings/drawings done by young children at a local school, some of which were very cute. A couple of films called Town Sparrows and Civic Oldbury c1940. The first showed children going about their daily life and I sat there watching and thinking I used to go to that market with my mom and used to shop there with number 1 when he was a little one, (every Tuesday, the fish monger always saved me a nice bit of boneless for number 1s tea). It’s no longer there, it’s a car park now, the park I used to play on, (an housing estate now), with it’s very high slide and after seeing the film I wasn’t just remembering it high because I was little, it really was high, (wouldn’t be allowed now), the witches hat, (wouldn’t be allowed now), the rocking horse, (wouldn’t be allowed now) jumping from the top of walls onto concrete, (wouldn’t be allowed now), struth the kids of today don’t know the fun of picking a scab off their knees, because they are never allowed to get a scab on their knees! A short clip showed a class doing music and movement in vest and knickers, (remember that, be a tree in the breeze, now a flower growing from a seed and now a piece of seaweed)? A class full of girls learning to knit and sew, I loved craft lessons. I also watched a short film called Who killed brown Owl, but I couldn’t tell you what it was all about because I didn’t have the foggiest. Stan’s Café were there with the sticky backed feet trail for the kid’s to follow and make up there own stories, that’s something else kids seem not too good at anymore.

Finished reading Terry Pratchett’s Monstrous Regiment.

Bathroom update, sink in, one more wall tiled.

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Another day another tile

Posted in life goes on, music on July 22, 2011| Leave a Comment »

“On the contrary!”

Henrik Ibsen on his death bed, on a suggestion he was better.

I didn’t go anywhere yesterday, I cleaned the shower rail and roller blind and I am very pleased to say they both came up really well so I don’t have to buy new. However we will have to buy a new shower tidy as the screws on the old one have rusted tight and there’s just no removing the shelves. I turned the old light shade into a plant pot by removing all the bits of metal from the inside.

I then watched Richard Hammond’s Journey to the centre of the earth on TV on Demand, (because there’s not a lot you can do with no water and workmen In the house), I quite enjoyed it, I shall watch another.Even though I can’t find one good review about it, most of them seem to slate Richard and the over the top graphics, I enjoyed the over the top graphics and the fact that Richard wasn’t giving a lecture made it fun to watch, yes there were bit’s I knew because I had learnt it many years ago in school, but there were also bit’s I didn’t know.

Bathroom update, a few more tiles up and the new loo in.

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Oh I love A Good Painting

Posted in let's go out, life goes on, music on July 21, 2011| 2 Comments »

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Oscar Wilde

Yesterday I got the train to Birmingham and went into the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, it’s still being done up it’s been years in the ‘doing up.’ Things that caught my eye, Lapping Waters (1944) by John Armstrong, Night with Her train of Stars (1912) by Edward Robert Hughes, Orpheus Returning from the Underworld (I always seek this painting out, there’s just something about it), Morgan-Le-Fay by A F A Sandys (1832-1904). An exhibition about Equiano and his part in the abolition campaign of slavery

My life and fortune have been extremely chequered and my adventures various – Equiano

I love the Ancient Egypt Gallery too with its mummies, there’s a mummy of a person c300AD, Falcon, cat, Ibis chick, and a crocodile all c300BC.

You have to give it to Birmingham they try hard, they now have ping-pong tables dotted around so you can stop and have a free game. Although I don’t think falling masonry is a good idea. A piece of building fell off and into the street while I was looking in the shops!

Bathroom update, one wall tiled.

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Dust

Posted in Entertainment, let's go out, life goes on on July 20, 2011| 3 Comments »

DUST, dust everywhere! We have the builders in, doing the bathroom. I had wanted to do-it-ourselves but hubby said no and it’s just as well he did. Day 1, (Monday) they took the radiator off and found the release value broken, so replace it. They tried to turn the water to the shower off but the stop cock had seized up and couldn’t be released so had to be replaced, and the water turned off at the mains, but that stop cock had seized up too and started to leak, (which did surprise me as I only had that turn off a couple of months ago). Then when they took the shower out part of the wall came down, haha, that didn’t surprise me as I have pulled wall paper off and had walls fall down. Well not the wall as such, the plaster back to the brick. So that had to be plaster boarded. So after all that all they managed to do was strip the walls, take the tiles off and scrape the aertex from the ceiling. Oh and informed us that because of changes in the building regulations our bathroom light was no longer the right one. Did you know you can’t have a light bulb and shade in your bathroom, (or kitchen come to that), the bulb now has to be enclosed, so we now have to look for a new light fitting, (nothing we do is ever easy)!

Yesterday I decide to leave them too it, brought a day saver ticket (£3.60) and went a wandering. First into Oldbury to drop a prescription off then onto Walsall where I had a look around the shops and popped into the Art Gallery. I was rather taken by a window installation by Jon Burgerman called I stare Out of The Window. I thought the exhibition by Mark Titchner ‘BE TRUE TO YOUR OBLIVION’ very good, the exhibition is part of the ‘Home of Metal’ which is a celebration of the music born in the Black country and Birmingham, yes people we are reasonable for HEAVY METAL, (more info here home of metal). I stood and watched Ergo ergo, which consisted of large wooden wheels with spirals painted on them which revolved, quite hypnotic, but I think I started too long as I felt a little sick. Another exhibition which caught my eye was Leo Fitzmaurice’s ‘You Try to tell me But I Don’t Listen’ and in the Garman Ryan Collection which is a permanent collection ‘Make Room’ uses contemporary works along side historic artworks, I particularly liked ‘Dog’ by Glacomo Brunelli, Elizabeth LeMoine’s tiny sculptures made from recycled materials, Tracey Emin’s ‘It’s What I’d Like to Be,’ and Upshot Wonderland by Tom Ormond.

I then got the bus into West Bromwich and had a cuppa and a wander around the shops looking for a bag for the wedding. No luck on the lime green to match the shoes job, but as I passed the Sue Ryder charity shop I saw a lovely little straw bag for £2.99 so I brought it, then went into the flower shop and brought 3 green butterflies (£1.50 each) which I have sewn on the front. There you go a new bag for £7.50.