Pig Sick

I have said this before.... but there is not enough hours in the soddin day!

We were short staffed on intensive care and still had to deal with the admission of another critical care patient in the middle of the night, but the staff on duty were jolly hockey -sticks types and we all pulled together with generous helpings of bubbling hysteria!

Chris has taken Sorrel to Manchester for a spot of "proper" shopping ( quality shops in Wales are seriously at a premium) so without sleep I have tried to catch up with the weekend jobs I missed out on.

The hysterical ducklings are now almost a month old and have just entered their "disgusting duckling period" This is where they constantly wet their surroundings and shit on their own ....feet.....so the inside of the shed looks remarkably like a mucky pig had exploded in it....I cleaned the whole shed out whilst breathing through my mouth and spitted out the odd "shut the fuck up" when they got too out of control which  caused a neighbour from the main road who visits the hens daily with bread titbits to sing out "language Timothy!!!!" as he passed by.

I walked the dogs, made a curry, picked up a load of layer pellets,sorted out Janet's blog bollocks and sought out the owner of Nigel and Brian called Jayne, who will be dropping the sheep down to me as soon as all the relevant paperwork is completed. 

Jayne has some delightful Gloucester Old Spot piglets ............and despite my tiredness all I could think of was "be still my beating heart!!!".............hummm wouldn't a breeding pair be a cracking buy?

watch this space...............

Anyhow....enough of my pipe dreams.......off now to scrub some more hen houses , the dogs need another walk and I have eggs to deliver to the village..............

Perhaps I can catch up with some interesting blogs tonight....humm like I said before...there is not enough minutes in the day!

Brian and Nigel

Interesting things always happen over the briefest of conversations... this is a snippet of a conversation I had on Friday at the animal feed shop up at Lloc


Helen (shop owner): "Are you sick of strimming your field every couple of weeks or so?"
Me: "........Yes?"
Helen: " Does your lease cover you for grazing animals"
Me,  a little uncertainly: " yes but not horses!"
Helen " do you want a couple of sheep to keep your grass down?"
Me; "ok"
Helen : "That's good!"

so Brian and Nigel will be arriving in the week I have repaired the Church wall and the holes in the fencing anyway, and of course the new fencing between my field and the Church yard is robust and safe, so there will be no escapes into the village. Natural grazing will make the field look a little neater, though I will have to organise the hen feeders to be situated out of the way of hungry ram mouths!!!)

Last night we all had a lovely meal at my brother and sister-in-laws home. Chinese Chicken, a huge leg of lamb, mouth watering sausage meat, roast parsnips, potatoes,a whole array of cooked vegetables and a sponge pudding the size of your head.! I could hardly waddle to the car!Just what the doctor ordered after a particularly busy day at work!
Working again  today.. this time on night shift!

The wrong Hat

 Sorrel is visiting and we all went to a rather stormy seaside for a brisk walk this morning ( I didn't have the heart to tell Chris his hat was NOT a good idea

This evening we all went to the BARROW in St Asaph for a nice meal and I have just managed this quick blog before bed! I am working from 7.30am to 20.00 pm tomorrow then we are all off to my brother's for a meal... so apologies no blog tomorrow!
How will you all cope?

Wonderful service

This coffee was left for a rather bad tempered customer in a coffee shop in Ohio...priceless
Now I kind of like the waitress that was responsible..... we all have done something similar in our dim and distant paths have we not?
Years ago ( and I mean 1980) I worked as a bank clerk in the National Westminster Bank in sunny old Rhyl.
I hated it.
I was an awful clerk.
I never balanced my till,
and I especially despised organising the customer statements in the morning.
One customer had to have a hand typed envelope only because he had 15 ( yes 15) letters after his name......he was also an O.B.E.!
so every day for two soddin years I had to type out his name,status and address!
I always got it wrong somewhere..... perhaps I had put a comma where a full stop should have been and several times a month he would be on the phone , yelling at someone that the Bank had showed him no respect....yadda...yadda
On my last day at the bank ( just before I started my psychiatric nurse training) I gleefully typed out his statement and added a few choice letters of my own
Instead of Sir Peter -------- O.B.E. CB.E. etc
I typed Sir Peter--------- S.O.D. A.R.S.E. F.U.C.K. W.I.T. M.O.A.N.E.R.
a small but satisfying victory 

ah, I am a roll now
After I started my psychiatric nurse training I worked for a while on a male long stay ward... The surroundings were austere and at times rather bleak, but the staff ( many institutionalised as bad as the patients) were generally warm hearted and helpful.
The charge nurse was a big bluff Irishman who brewed his own beer in one of the patient bathrooms. He absolutely HATED the sister of the neighbouring female ward,(I never got to find out why the bad feeling was so marked but a patient told me the two had been engaged many years previously and that she had broken off the romance!)
Anyhow the ward sister had advertised all over the hospital  for donations towards a spectacular four and a half feet glass aquarium she had bought for her day room and these notices seemed to infuriate this charge nurse.
He called me in to the office on my second day and sent me and a patient to her ward with two buckets of water and a note!
the note said
" hope these donations for your fishtank will be useful"

Camp or Not Camp

Now it has got back to me this morning that a regular blog reader ( From the North West) has let it be known to a relative that I have been a bit too camp recently! This amused me greatly as generally I think I come over just that little bit butch (I can hear Nigel laughing from here at that one!) I may write a bit camp at times ( I will take that as a compliment girlfriend!) but I am far too mucky and dishevelled to be well and truly camp.......( I would be kicked out of any camp school for wearing my wellingtons in the supermarket )

However my humour is campish in nature....I adore waspish one liners ( Just read some of my friends Nigel's and Bel's blog comments) Thelma Ritter, "The bed looks like a dead animal act" and comics such as Joan Rivers "Is Elizabeth Taylor Fat? her favourite food is seconds"

I adore movies like Priscilla Queen of the Desert " That's just what this country needs: a cock in a frock on a rock"...... AND anyone who employs a shocked and hammy "YOU BITCH" halfway through an argument will always get a round of applause from me!

hummm perhaps, on reflection I am camper than I would care to admit......

Waves hand gaily "whatEVER!!!!!!"

Anyhow It has poured down all day. The dogs have got a bit stir crazy in their enforced inactivity but I have cleaned and scrubbed everything in preparation for Sorrel's visit. I have even baked a ginger cake....... how camp as that?

tee hee

End of the World ~ I Love Disaster Movies Launch Video!

well apart from Shelley Winters and her death defying underwater swim and Carol Lynley's inability to sing "The Morning After" dressed in impossible to wear hot pants... this is why I love disaster movies!

Maddie 2003-2010

Chris finally got to Prestatyn at 11am. I took him home and he promptly went to bed. With Sorrel coming tomorrow for a visit, I got on with sorting the cottage out and bought in a few items that she needed. I also picked up Maddie's headstone from the engravers and placed it carefully onto her grave, which is located next to my first allotment on the field.
Surrounded by the hens , geese and one of the serious looking turkey hens, I took a moment to sit next to the simple headstone and remember our loyal, grumpy old Scottie who was so much part of our lives since 2003.
With Winnie nibbling gently at my wellingtons, and with a light rain starting to fall, I shed a few all-too-late tears for a dog that had dug herself so gently into my heart

A night alone

I had to laugh at the pithy comment on show at the Pope's recent visit to the UK (above)I have been trolling the news websites this evening as Chris has been stranded up in Glasgow due to an unexpected cancellation of his flight but there is only so much you can flick through on a tiny netbook when your your eye sight is failing ( I need an eye test! another sign ( with my exercise intolerant flatulence)that I am getting older!)

Anyhow without Chris here, I have resorted to "single man" ish lifestyle evening! I have eaten fish finger sandwiches in my underpants, had a long gossipy telephone conversation with Nuala and am now just about to watch The Poseidon Adventure with the volume full blast

Bliss