Steve from England

It was decided that midnight Sunday was an excellent time to start doing my hair and, I was not so tired so didn't object. However! After the end result became visible it soon was obvious that some hair cutting was required because all the original blonde had melted and was coming off in sticky clumps. I am sitting here now at 01:48 waiting for the toner to take hold and probably screw up the rest of the remaining hair. Poor Deej still has his cough and is most unhappy about it. My hair not going according to plan has upset him too so it is not a good night for him :-( Two of my oldest friends seem not to be talking to me now. I have tried both several email and text and no acknowledgement at all. I have no idea what I did to upset them but I would have thought I'd deserve more than to be blanked. Such is life, we move on.

It was decided that midnight Sunday was an excellent time to start doing my hair and, I was not so tired so didn't object. However! After the end result became visible it soon was obvious that some hair cutting was required because all the original blonde had melted and was coming off in sticky clumps. I am sitting here now at 01:48 waiting for the toner to take hold and probably screw up the rest of the remaining hair. Poor Deej still has his cough and is most unhappy about it. My hair not going according to plan has upset him too so it is not a good night for him :-( Two of my oldest friends seem not to be talking to me now. I have tried both several email and text and no acknowledgement at all. I have no idea what I did to upset them but I would have thought I'd deserve more than to be blanked. Such is life, we move on.

Yes, my money is escaping from every direction but, I hope, will recover OK and the things it is going on are generally worthwhile. Tesco (bless them) have almost totally paid for a week in Gran Canaria for Pride next May, now that has to be a good deal. They will also pay for train tickets over to France in October and for ferry tickets for a trip Deej and I are taking to Disneyland in November. My timing of that one could have been better but I did not realise that the 'Tower of Terror' was opening as early as January! Daisy is no longer with Sam but now with James. Fortunately I am already used to James coming around so don't have to get used to anyone new. The car is still doing reasonably well with a first service being carried out next week after the engine rebuild. There are staffing issues at the coach house so I am having t keep on top of things there and make sure it does not end up collapsing. Email to be written there. I so need my eyes tested but am nervous abo...

Yes, my money is escaping from every direction but, I hope, will recover OK and the things it is going on are generally worthwhile. Tesco (bless them) have almost totally paid for a week in Gran Canaria for Pride next May, now that has to be a good deal. They will also pay for train tickets over to France in October and for ferry tickets for a trip Deej and I are taking to Disneyland in November. My timing of that one could have been better but I did not realise that the 'Tower of Terror' was opening as early as January! Daisy is no longer with Sam but now with James. Fortunately I am already used to James coming around so don't have to get used to anyone new. The car is still doing reasonably well with a first service being carried out next week after the engine rebuild. There are staffing issues at the coach house so I am having t keep on top of things there and make sure it does not end up collapsing. Email to be written there. I so need my eyes tested but am nervous abo...

C'mon, it's early and I can't be arsed with thinking up witty titles! The car is still running and, more important perhaps, outside my house! Yesterday I paid £230 to get the last bit of bodywork sorted out, just a windscreen repair to go and it's as good it its going to get. (It's only a small chip so shouldn't be a problem) When I say that, about it being good as its going to get I mean until I get the parking sensors fitted of course and I go see a little man about those next week. I spent quite a bit of last week fretting about my Dad and his wife coming over. I am 44 years old and what he thinks still gets to me. As far as I am aware there is not one thing I have done in my life for which he is proud of me so still I try to impress him even when I so know it'll never happen. John and me spent an age working on the garden. Kath still managed to be critical of the front though. She was also (or came across as) bitchy about the car wanting to know how I ca...

C'mon, it's early and I can't be arsed with thinking up witty titles! The car is still running and, more important perhaps, outside my house! Yesterday I paid £230 to get the last bit of bodywork sorted out, just a windscreen repair to go and it's as good it its going to get. (It's only a small chip so shouldn't be a problem) When I say that, about it being good as its going to get I mean until I get the parking sensors fitted of course and I go see a little man about those next week. I spent quite a bit of last week fretting about my Dad and his wife coming over. I am 44 years old and what he thinks still gets to me. As far as I am aware there is not one thing I have done in my life for which he is proud of me so still I try to impress him even when I so know it'll never happen. John and me spent an age working on the garden. Kath still managed to be critical of the front though. She was also (or came across as) bitchy about the car wanting to know how I ca...

Enough said!

Enough said!

Wendy just called to say that Jermaine has had some seizures so won't be able to arrive today. She's probably telling the truth but I am also concerned that maybe not enough effort is being made to take him out at all. I don't mean if he is genuinely having a bad day but rather on days when he's happy and well when they should be grasping the chance. The other day I noticed they were very short staffed there. They were muddling through but they were clearly stressed. The other client they have there was obviously causing them some concern they actually said there were things he expected them to do which they'd agree to do which they could not do because they were short staffed. I am hopeful that the staffing thing is a glitch because I know they are interviewing but even so, it doesn't account for the fact that Jermaine is not getting out. Something else I also noticed was that they seem to be doing the cooking elsewhere as well and I hope that is not a move to ...

Wendy just called to say that Jermaine has had some seizures so won't be able to arrive today. She's probably telling the truth but I am also concerned that maybe not enough effort is being made to take him out at all. I don't mean if he is genuinely having a bad day but rather on days when he's happy and well when they should be grasping the chance. The other day I noticed they were very short staffed there. They were muddling through but they were clearly stressed. The other client they have there was obviously causing them some concern they actually said there were things he expected them to do which they'd agree to do which they could not do because they were short staffed. I am hopeful that the staffing thing is a glitch because I know they are interviewing but even so, it doesn't account for the fact that Jermaine is not getting out. Something else I also noticed was that they seem to be doing the cooking elsewhere as well and I hope that is not a move to ...

Just recently I have found it difficult to work out where some of my files have been going. Albums I thought I had were just not there any more and yesterday we noticed that over 70gb's of TV stuff was missing. On quizzing those in the house it turns out that Zoey has just been deleting anything she doesn't like not worrying just where it was stored. So, thus far we have the entire series of Farscape gone alone with all of Doctor Who, the Star Trek movies, countless albums and heaven knows what else, much can be replaced (over a very long time) but she may have deleted stuff that is not replaceable and chances are it may be months before we realise it.

Just recently I have found it difficult to work out where some of my files have been going. Albums I thought I had were just not there any more and yesterday we noticed that over 70gb's of TV stuff was missing. On quizzing those in the house it turns out that Zoey has just been deleting anything she doesn't like not worrying just where it was stored. So, thus far we have the entire series of Farscape gone alone with all of Doctor Who, the Star Trek movies, countless albums and heaven knows what else, much can be replaced (over a very long time) but she may have deleted stuff that is not replaceable and chances are it may be months before we realise it.

Without a shadow of a doubt we are only getting one cat ... bugger!

Without a shadow of a doubt we are only getting one cat ... bugger!