round up

Since my bitch of a buyer pulled out I have been putting my flat back into some sort of presentable state.Most of my bits & pieces have been packed up and are now stored in my friends garage,so it looks quite bare but hopefully still with enough features to make it stand out from the rest.The lady whose place I still want to buy is house hunting again and so am I ,just in case.I went to see another place very similar to the original property but £15k more and in a slightly different location,it was very 'me' inside and looke dbigger but on checking the measurements it was actually a bit smaller so it gives me more of an idea of what 'my' property will look like when its done up.

this chest of drawers (Ebay sellers please take note,its not 'draws' or 'chester draws'),it needs painting or re-waxing as its somewhat dull in finish,when I went to collect it I thought it wasn't as good as the description as the man carried it out for me and it looked paperlight.When I came to get it out of my car I realised it was heavy and made of solid wood.

I really want a 50's vibe in my new place,and I thought this table was a good way to mix in my mirrored and shabby chic furniture with my wooden pieces.I also cheered myself up with these...

hand knit cardie

Chanel-esque cardie

beach kaftan

close up of kaftan buttons

linen mix trousers,good for smart workwear

cat shopper

River Island rose sandals

lace parka

All Primark except the sandals,I wasn't sure about the lace parka but thought I would regret it if  didn't pick it up,I wore it today when it rained so I love it!

unfuckinbelievable

that, if you know me, is a saying of mine when other words just won't do.



I fully admit I am one of life's pessimists because I seem to get the shitty end of the stick way too often so my observations are that anything that can go wrong will etc etc.My buyer has pulled out without telling anyone.I heard this today at 4 o/clock so have no time to sort anything out, why can't anything go right for me?The flat is back on the market and I am trying to salvage the chain because I want the place I am offering on, if I lose that I won't get another place comparable at that price.
Bloody bitch!
My friend has been here all evening luckily, so I am just gobsmacked rather than upset at the moment.She is joining the job as a special, God help her, so I have been googling dead bodies to show her what they look like.She is hiding her face.

RIP Sugar Minott

5 years

ago, I was 5 weeks out of training school and thought the job would always be as dramatic as that day. Thrown in at the deep end, on my own with no tutor to tell me what to do (not that mine really ever did anyway) you just get on with it and do what feels right but the one thing that nearly made me walk away from the job wasn't the things I saw or had to deal with it was the hours we worked for weeks and weeks afterwards, being forced to spend hours on end standing up, sweating in tube stations and eating McDonalds (yuk!) in dirty rooms with not enough chairs to sit down on. My feet have never hurt as much as they did at that time and now I always have spare kit/clothes ready in my locker 'just in case' after that because you just never know do you?




*not me in the pic by the way!

summer....

strawberries..
maxi dresses
BBQ's-I did my 1st one today, I thought they were supposed to be hard??
wine
car boot sale bargains
new job.

this weekend I got a maxi dress at last!!  (photo in a bit) so I've been in that today as well, I wore it to a BBQ last night with a 30's arm bangle I bought ages ago. (I am quaffing wine now so thats the reason this may not make any sense!!)

AT the BBQ last night my friends friend was there whom I have never liked. We used to always be at the same events and night outs years ago and she was always dismissive and not interested in anyone else other than our friend in common, she aso NEVER used to buy any drinks or bring any when we gathered at someones house,anyway she hasn't changed at all. She turned up last night empty handed which I think is rude, yet she happily drinks the wine I bought with me. rude, especially when someone has spent ££££ on food!

My new job is hard atm, the work isn't but its hard not being with people who know me and get my sense of humour etc. I know it will come in time but I feel a bit lonely atm at work.

Sunday

I got up early and did 2 CBS today, I managed to get myself some bargains then came back and did some gardening which was mainly me digging up plants I am taking with me-there's no way I am leaving things I've grown from seed! It was so hot I cam ein and now I'm watching the England V Germany match which I didn't intend to as I'm not a football fan. I just popped out in the garden at half time and you could hear a pin drop, there's no one out in their gardens which is unusual for my area, they must all be watching the match.

This is my haul,

a rose china tea set, there is 1 saucer missing but thats ok for £2.

a giant glass bowl vase £1.50

2x Elle McPherson gift sets £1 each-I love this range, I really rate it if you are looking for something that works!

3 pieces of BedHead make up £1.

a New Look silk tea dress £1-I think I'll Ebay this though because even though its gorgeous it does nothing for me shape wise.

a BNWT Urban Behaviour dress £1.

2 new tops £1
some bits of haberdashery, I was clearing out my stash of fabrics and sewing bits yesterday and decided to try and start making things again. I used to make soft toys and customise them to reflect the person I was giving them to. Anyway I thought these were too good to walk past.
white oval platter 50p.

hand painted bowl with rose pattern 50p.

a book about Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire 10p-I think I have read this or another one before but I like to keep these historial books.
a plastic Japanese style cat filled with play dough for my friends little girl £1.
a couple of dvd's 31 each.
Juicy Couture hand towel for the gym, not 100% sure this is real but it was 50p.

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Even I could see Lampard's goal was OVER THE DAMN LINE! What a con.

just like

everyone else, I managed to get all 3 Glamour magazine's Benefit giveaways-Bad Gal black eyeliner, IT concealer (actually my colour!) and Eye Bright, all for £6 and the newsagent man was asking me if he should get some for his wife (yes!), I gave the spare magazines to the other ladies on my course.

bargain!

Y/N

Yes

• buying 2 x 23" plaster ceiling roses for £7 for my new flat from a car boot sale, what a bargain!
• to have actually transfered at long last
• selling some bits on Ebay and making money£££, I also sold some bits I bought at a CBS and made money on them!
• Paris print longline vest.

No

• death by E-learning!
• realising how much I haven't achieved in my old job due to lack of opportunities.
• my hair-its doing my head in atm because its not behaving!
• packing!!! where did all this stuff come from?
• I am finding it easy to stick to my new eating pattern but I seem to have stuck at a certain weight for awhile now, although I have lost 10 lbs so it has worked.

sloths like me

I am feeling sloth like at the moment and saw this brilliant blog all about sloths, so cute you must look at the videos on there!

pinktreefrog

congrats to my friend B

on the birth of her baby boy-I am very pleased its a boy as I find little girls hard work and because I bet it would be a boy at her baby shower! Welcome to the world little T!

goodbye

Yesterday was my last shift. Thanks to useless T/PS, I have been busy instead of a wind-down for the last couple of weeks, so I have had some last minute things (paperwork)  to sort out, and I wanted to actually work with my relief for the last time rather than all be split up so that I could say goodbye to them. Thankfully U-T/PS wasn't there and within half an hour of the shift begininng I blubbed when the lads gave me a leaving card and pressie, which was a relief getting it over and done with as I could feel myself getting emotional as soon as I walked in, then it was business as usual for most of the shift. We went to the relief's favourite takeaway place and then I had to give all of my uniform back, well most of it as every cop loves to collect uniform, anyone would think I can't be trusted as they made me sign for it all! I had a whole car of 'stuff' that I had somehow crammed into 2 lockers and I was done. How I managed to keep my nose clean for my resignation period, I don't know but I did it! Gone.

zzzzzzzzzzz

I am so tired. I finished a run of night turns last week, I was knackered throughout all of that even though I can usually cope with it. We worked quite a few hours OT during the week as well, mainly trying to work around those who should know better (yes duty officer and T/PS I mean you) and we were down to 2 officers throughout the week, so that meant we suffered all the extra work whilst the skipper sat reading a book and booking off on time. Anyway my sleep this weekend has been all over the place, I thought getting drunk would make me fall asleep so I could slip back into day mode, which it did, but I spent all last night awake again! I am stressing a bit now as well because I am so tired I am not making much headway in packing and as I start my new posting soon I doubt I will be able to take time off to move so it will all be a rush.aaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhh stress!

Farley Jackmaster Funk

I heard this for the first time in ages whilst driving home from lates. There's nothing better than blasting out a tune whilst totally sticking to the speed limit down an A road, the video has to be seen to be belived!!

I went to a car boot sale today. I was supposed to be doing a sale of my own but got drunk last night and didn't sort anything out, yet strangely woke up really early at about 4 am so I got up and went to a sale for a reccy. I bought quite a bit but only clothes, which is the opposite to what I normally come away with, some of it will be going on Ebay-not that I can be bothered with all that faff anymore but I got some things so cheap that it will be worth doing. The things I'm going to keep are;
River Island pale skinny jeans-a sample and a great fit
River Island linen shorts-another sample not 100% sure about these.
a pink silk kimono jacket/top-by a make I've not heard of before.
Teal Miss S slouchy top.
a fringed jersey scarf
Ash wedge sandals
H&M military style cardy.
I'll upload photos when I can be bothered to take some, I'm so knackered today I should have been out for drink tonight but my drinking mate stupidly nicked someone and has to work a bit of OT, this may mean I will get out of bed and sell some stuff instead of buying it tomorrow morning.

everything happens in 3's

or so they say, I do believe it and I hope its about to happen again. Flat move is finally at its end stages (the world's slowest move!) and I have handed my notice in and I'm about to transfer to a different force-nearly 7 months after the last escape attempt, not in the place I originally wanted, but a good one nevertheless so I'm told and it is close to where my ex-colleagues work, so I will hopefully be able to cross paths sometime. I'm going to go with the flow on this and hope its FATE intevening for the best. The 3rd thing should man stuff right? I thought so last week as I had an unplanned snog (no one says this anymore as its uncool apparently) with a friend who I realised I really liked a few months ago but did nothing about as he is not single (don't bother with telling me off) , so I was happy to just be mates, but we went out for my birthday, got drunk and suddenly, hello! I was gobsmacked as was he, had to tell a few lies to our colleagues who we lost en route and decide what we were going to do about it. After last time, I am not going to lose a friend by getting involved with them so it just goes in the 'mad moments' box and we will stay as we were. Its the story of my life though, I meet the good, funny men who are already taken and miss out.

Oh, and I have now lost 10 lbs although my weight goes up and down by a few lbs every day.

so excited!!!!

by my latest purchase for the new place, I bought this Graham & Green 50's style chest of drawers for a bargain price and it was delivered safe and sound today. I have lusted over this but never thought I could afford it as it retails at around £900, the photo shows it with Sidney checking it out and in my living room where I have statrted the arduous task of packing already.

I love this clock but its £299! Its fab though.

RIP Malcolm McLaren

Very unexpected news, I hadn't known he was ill and he was such a big influence on music. The Sex Pistols everyone knows about, but also my favourite, Adam Ant, and in the 80's he was also involved with bringing hip hop to notice with Duck Rock (I remember buying that and skipping just like it a few years earlier, only we used washing lines which bloody hurt if they hit your legs), and the NY gay scene with Waltz Darling.
He also directed a short film called The ghosts of Oxford Street  which I loved. If you've never watched it you should.

update

I am not sure I like the way my blog is going, I read lots of other blogs from people I know,and don't know in cyberspace and mine was only ever intended to be me ranting about stuff, posting my new purchases etc rather than a specific theme and I think I am becoming too influenced by some other blogs and not being true to the trivia that I used to post,so I am going to try and get it back on track if I can.
I know I post less of the day to day stuff nowadays, but thats often because I don't have time and then forget the funny stuff or feel like I can't because its work stuff that I dont want to be too open about and also I am more boring than I used to be.

So, I found out that ex-M@W is now living with his new GF.This doesn't come as a surprise as I could see it happening and I predict she will be pregnant by the end of they year.I know her ex (randomly) who told me and surprisingly it didn't hurt me in the gut like it might have done, but obviously I have thought about it because, yet again I put up with the fuckwittery and then he goes on to be happy.What a bastard.Still, I am trying to never think about him again.On a good note, I bought a set of these chairs which I have coveted since I first saw them

x2 and 2 of the Louis carvers

these new boots for work

it pisses me off that we have to buy our own boots for work,I always have done as I don't like the ones they issue us but technically we have to have certain requirements for our boots because of the environment we work in (not that I do!) yet the job want us to pay for them??These replace the ones I was wearing that were knackered-the tread had gone completely and these are very bouncy so I have been running around to test them out!
And these for the new place

a Habitat daybed, a bargain from Ebay.This is for the second bedroom as I dont think it should just be a bedroom, more of an office/wardrobe.
This cushion, I got this from a fab little shop my friend introduced me to in Essex.It was only £10. Oh, and I have lost 6 lbs and learnt that you are supposed to put a space after a full stop or comma when typing, which I honestly did not know before. I also have learnt that pressing F5 on your laptop refreshes the page!! How did I not know this stuff?

Kristian Digby-one of the few I liked

Kristian Digby,RIP.Such sad news.