First excuse any absense at the moment, we have experienced a death in the family so life outside cyber space is quite hectic keeping all the 'balls in the air' so to speak.
I had planned a few well thought out pieces to begin preparing for my blog here over the Easter break while I no longer had child minding and school runs to interrupt my daily chores. Unfortunately such as losses can't be scheduled so I apologise in advance if I don't get back to what I hope will be my fluid schedule which I have been trying - without much success - to get up and running since the start of the year.
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
I'm Still Here
Well, I'm still here, kind of ...
My car, my mobility outside my home, went in for it's third year service plus first MOT test. When the provisional booking came in a few weeks back I booked for the 'first window' for drop off so I would get my car back by lunchtime with any luck, Arnold Clark offers three time slot windows for servicing, 8am to 10 am, 10 am to noon, noon to 2pm. 2pm is the latest you can drop off a car for servicing that day.
I got confirmation that while my service dept. didn't offer actual times for getting servicing the earlier you can bring in your car the better as they operated a first come first serve operation.
So up I was at before 7am and on the road by 7.30. At quarter to eight I was first in the queue waiting for the service dept. to open up while it snowed heavily. Yuck!!
So we were first to the desk to hand in my car, when we asked if they could give us an estimate of how long it would be we were shocked to the core to say my car was booked in for the entire day and could be picked up at 5pm. I asked how that was possible when I didn't book it in for the entire day, I've had two services before and each finished by lunchtime why is it now taking an entire day when I was waiting for them opening, kind of takes the mockery out the first come, first serve they assure you of.
We asked how long it would take, because an MOT test takes 30 to 45 minutes at the most, so why does the service (which we've gotten two years previously by lunchtime) mean that it will now take 9 hours to have my car ready for pick up?
So they went and checked and the mechanics said the service would take two and a half hours, and the MOT would take place after the service ends. So that would mean a little over 3 hours tops, so why is my car not being ready for three times that?
They explained that they were booked for the first appointments hence while I was booked in for a whole day. We explained that we didn't book for a whole day, we tried to book for first thing when the dealership opened and were told that the depot didn't accept timed bookings and worked on a first come/first serve basis. The mechanics said they would try their best to have it ready by lunchtime but they couldn't guarantee it. We thought about not having the MOT done today but the soonest MOT they had opened was for next Tuesday and my MOT was due by Friday. Luckily the mechanics managed to have it ready for 12.30pm but we have to go back first thing on Friday as I need four new tires, my left front is approaching the legal limit on tread and all four are beginning to crack between the treads (something that has never happened on any car of mine in almost 15 years of driving). So it's going to take four hours to get the tyres done so I was asked to bring it in the 'sooner the better' on Friday so we will be waiting for the dept. opening again on Friday.
My car, my mobility outside my home, went in for it's third year service plus first MOT test. When the provisional booking came in a few weeks back I booked for the 'first window' for drop off so I would get my car back by lunchtime with any luck, Arnold Clark offers three time slot windows for servicing, 8am to 10 am, 10 am to noon, noon to 2pm. 2pm is the latest you can drop off a car for servicing that day.
I got confirmation that while my service dept. didn't offer actual times for getting servicing the earlier you can bring in your car the better as they operated a first come first serve operation.
So up I was at before 7am and on the road by 7.30. At quarter to eight I was first in the queue waiting for the service dept. to open up while it snowed heavily. Yuck!!
So we were first to the desk to hand in my car, when we asked if they could give us an estimate of how long it would be we were shocked to the core to say my car was booked in for the entire day and could be picked up at 5pm. I asked how that was possible when I didn't book it in for the entire day, I've had two services before and each finished by lunchtime why is it now taking an entire day when I was waiting for them opening, kind of takes the mockery out the first come, first serve they assure you of.
We asked how long it would take, because an MOT test takes 30 to 45 minutes at the most, so why does the service (which we've gotten two years previously by lunchtime) mean that it will now take 9 hours to have my car ready for pick up?
So they went and checked and the mechanics said the service would take two and a half hours, and the MOT would take place after the service ends. So that would mean a little over 3 hours tops, so why is my car not being ready for three times that?
They explained that they were booked for the first appointments hence while I was booked in for a whole day. We explained that we didn't book for a whole day, we tried to book for first thing when the dealership opened and were told that the depot didn't accept timed bookings and worked on a first come/first serve basis. The mechanics said they would try their best to have it ready by lunchtime but they couldn't guarantee it. We thought about not having the MOT done today but the soonest MOT they had opened was for next Tuesday and my MOT was due by Friday. Luckily the mechanics managed to have it ready for 12.30pm but we have to go back first thing on Friday as I need four new tires, my left front is approaching the legal limit on tread and all four are beginning to crack between the treads (something that has never happened on any car of mine in almost 15 years of driving). So it's going to take four hours to get the tyres done so I was asked to bring it in the 'sooner the better' on Friday so we will be waiting for the dept. opening again on Friday.
Thursday, 3 January 2013
Another Day
Another day is gone already. My brother dropped his boys off at our house around 11 am saying he would be back between 1 and 2 that afternoon and asked if we could feed them lunch as well.
We headed off to the supermarket after putting the youngest two's Kindle Fire HD tablets on charge for them. We got home just after noon and fed the boys lunch.
Both 1 and 2 pm came and went without any sign of my brother or contact via phone, then at just before 4 pm my brother arrived to pick up the boys. We figure he might have went home after he had completed his tasks and brought down and put away his Christmas decorations without the boys being underfoot.
The new Wii game I bought for the boys arrived today and they spent most of the afternoon playing with it, at least the youngest two did, while the edlest watched what passes for children's TV these days.
So that's how my day went.
We headed off to the supermarket after putting the youngest two's Kindle Fire HD tablets on charge for them. We got home just after noon and fed the boys lunch.
Both 1 and 2 pm came and went without any sign of my brother or contact via phone, then at just before 4 pm my brother arrived to pick up the boys. We figure he might have went home after he had completed his tasks and brought down and put away his Christmas decorations without the boys being underfoot.
The new Wii game I bought for the boys arrived today and they spent most of the afternoon playing with it, at least the youngest two did, while the edlest watched what passes for children's TV these days.
So that's how my day went.
Wednesday, 2 January 2013
Welcome ...
to 2013.
I'm sorry I haven't blogged much over the past few months, it's been at least two weeks since I last updated this blog alone, life has been super busy. I've been pulling a lot of extra childcare help for my nephews. The two youngest had a stomach bug the last week before Christmas while the eldest went through an operation to remove both of his big toe nails.
School returns in less than a week's time, where has the holiday went? It's almost time to get back to a normal life again.
Christmas was busy, childcare not withstanding, and time flew in. Before I realised it Christmas was past and it was the first of the New Year.
Health-wise it's been hit and miss but that's only to be expected during this time of year and all the rain we've been experiencing is anything but good news for my RA. Tomorrow we have my nephews being dropped off at around 10 AM but we also have grocery shopping to do for ourselves tomorrow morning as well. Busy, Busy time.
We had my nephews last Thursday and Friday as well the eldest on Monday past. We also saw them yesterday briefly on New Years on their way to my brother's in-laws for the day.
So another early night tonight. But that is par of the course at the moment as well.
For Christmas I got the Samsung Series 3 Chromebook, which I'm typing on right now, as well as a replacement for my 4th generation iPod touch with an upgrade to the 32 GB model.
I hope everyone has a good festive season regardless of whether or not they celebrate the holiday itself.
I'm sorry I haven't blogged much over the past few months, it's been at least two weeks since I last updated this blog alone, life has been super busy. I've been pulling a lot of extra childcare help for my nephews. The two youngest had a stomach bug the last week before Christmas while the eldest went through an operation to remove both of his big toe nails.
School returns in less than a week's time, where has the holiday went? It's almost time to get back to a normal life again.
Christmas was busy, childcare not withstanding, and time flew in. Before I realised it Christmas was past and it was the first of the New Year.
Health-wise it's been hit and miss but that's only to be expected during this time of year and all the rain we've been experiencing is anything but good news for my RA. Tomorrow we have my nephews being dropped off at around 10 AM but we also have grocery shopping to do for ourselves tomorrow morning as well. Busy, Busy time.
We had my nephews last Thursday and Friday as well the eldest on Monday past. We also saw them yesterday briefly on New Years on their way to my brother's in-laws for the day.
So another early night tonight. But that is par of the course at the moment as well.
For Christmas I got the Samsung Series 3 Chromebook, which I'm typing on right now, as well as a replacement for my 4th generation iPod touch with an upgrade to the 32 GB model.
I hope everyone has a good festive season regardless of whether or not they celebrate the holiday itself.
Monday, 17 December 2012
Seasons Greetings
So Christmas is fast approaching once again and in a week we will be getting ready for the last ‘sleep’ before Santa as the children’s programmes keep informing us.
This coming week will undoubtedly be the busiest for myself and my family, what with getting ready for the actual day, finishing shopping for stocking fillers, finish wrapping (started doing this this afternoon!), delivering wreaths to my family graves, three different graves at two different cemeteries (which is scheduled for Wednesday), grocery shopping for the festive break (scheduled for Sunday the 23rd, the 23rd being our preferred day leaving Christmas Eve for preparing food and any emergency items we need to rush to the supermarket for before early closing time).
And those are just the tip of the iceberg for the coming week, also tomorrow (Tuesday) and Thursday are childminding days when we look after my youngest nephew then put him into his nursery class at 1pm. Also my youngest nephew has come down with a stomach bug which is a shame as he is just getting over a horrid cold.
Also my eldest nephew is going into the hospital on Thursday to have an operation on his big toe, he has a horrid ingrown toenail which is causing the toe to become continually badly infected. It’s an in-patient appointment for a short operation which means he goes in early (around 8am actually) and hopefully will get out in the late afternoon at the latest.
Also on Thursday (or Friday) depending on my schedule (with my eldest nephew going into hospital that day we might have the school run and feeding the eldest two that afternoon/night) to drive across town and hand in our (my parents and I as well as a couple of small things on behalf of my nephews) presents for our aunt into her house as well as pick up the bags she generally has. Not all ours, mostly gifts for my three nephews, my brother and sister-in-law as well as our own from her to save my Dad struggling home on the bus with multiple bags of gifts.
So all in all a busy busy week!!
So hopefully it will be worth it on the day(s) to come.
So if I don’t get back to you before then, have a great holiday season regardless of your religion or beliefs on the season, I wish you all well and hope you have a great time.
This coming week will undoubtedly be the busiest for myself and my family, what with getting ready for the actual day, finishing shopping for stocking fillers, finish wrapping (started doing this this afternoon!), delivering wreaths to my family graves, three different graves at two different cemeteries (which is scheduled for Wednesday), grocery shopping for the festive break (scheduled for Sunday the 23rd, the 23rd being our preferred day leaving Christmas Eve for preparing food and any emergency items we need to rush to the supermarket for before early closing time).
And those are just the tip of the iceberg for the coming week, also tomorrow (Tuesday) and Thursday are childminding days when we look after my youngest nephew then put him into his nursery class at 1pm. Also my youngest nephew has come down with a stomach bug which is a shame as he is just getting over a horrid cold.
Also my eldest nephew is going into the hospital on Thursday to have an operation on his big toe, he has a horrid ingrown toenail which is causing the toe to become continually badly infected. It’s an in-patient appointment for a short operation which means he goes in early (around 8am actually) and hopefully will get out in the late afternoon at the latest.
Also on Thursday (or Friday) depending on my schedule (with my eldest nephew going into hospital that day we might have the school run and feeding the eldest two that afternoon/night) to drive across town and hand in our (my parents and I as well as a couple of small things on behalf of my nephews) presents for our aunt into her house as well as pick up the bags she generally has. Not all ours, mostly gifts for my three nephews, my brother and sister-in-law as well as our own from her to save my Dad struggling home on the bus with multiple bags of gifts.
So all in all a busy busy week!!
So hopefully it will be worth it on the day(s) to come.
So if I don’t get back to you before then, have a great holiday season regardless of your religion or beliefs on the season, I wish you all well and hope you have a great time.
Sunday, 9 December 2012
Sunday
Today is Sunday, well duh!!
So my youngest nephew is being dropped off while his Mum goes Xmas shopping, she is also going to pick up/drop off my Mother, Brother and two other boys at the local football park for there is a match there today between the two home teams I believe.
She will pick them up afterwards and drop my Mum off home and pick the youngest up at the same time afterwards.
So I will have my youngest nephew for at least two and a half hours, so there goes the plan to do some blogging or vlogging this afternoon while it was quiet.
So my youngest nephew is being dropped off while his Mum goes Xmas shopping, she is also going to pick up/drop off my Mother, Brother and two other boys at the local football park for there is a match there today between the two home teams I believe.
She will pick them up afterwards and drop my Mum off home and pick the youngest up at the same time afterwards.
So I will have my youngest nephew for at least two and a half hours, so there goes the plan to do some blogging or vlogging this afternoon while it was quiet.
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Apologies
Excuse my lack of updates here, but my PC died and had to go away to be possibly fixed. It was away for around a month when it was finally returned by the courier service fixed with a new PSU installed inside the tower itself.
Since it returned a couple of weeks back or so it's been tricky. Half the time it crashes when I attempt to shut down which concerns me. So I'm babying it as I think it's not quite right. While the new part got the darn thing to switch on, which it wasn't doing hence the need to send it away to the repair-shop but I think it's dying slowly. So I've spent the past week or so transferring content off my PC to external drives so if it does die again I won't suffer too much of a loss to personal data.
Since it returned a couple of weeks back or so it's been tricky. Half the time it crashes when I attempt to shut down which concerns me. So I'm babying it as I think it's not quite right. While the new part got the darn thing to switch on, which it wasn't doing hence the need to send it away to the repair-shop but I think it's dying slowly. So I've spent the past week or so transferring content off my PC to external drives so if it does die again I won't suffer too much of a loss to personal data.
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