Update There is now a petition for Alan Bates to get a recognition for his hard work over the years to get thus sorted out

We are promised a very cold ARTIC few days, which will notch the heating up.
personally I can't with cold weather because of Asthma so walk round outside with a mask on.
My recovered hedgehogs in the shed are sleeping but I still need to go in there each day to put fresh water out etc in case any wake up.
Roll on summer - lets have a heat wave - oh noo maybe not a good idea as we will then be short of water 

Happy New year to you all.

Hubby likes bubble and squeak Smithy


We're just doing the turn around ready for NEW Y ::)ear
Daughter's gone home with bags of pressies.
We've just been in her bedroom to freshen bedding and make up her boyfriends  bed as it's 2 single beds in there.
They'll both be back On Saturday for  the new year

It's a fine day so delivering a few local cards and a visit to the three Church yards will be our day's work

Reply emails from large areas of potholes and poor surface reported have been
This street is on a list of rolling repair work to be carried out and will be done when it reaches the top.
Or something like that - sorry exact wording I can't remember but that is basically what I have been receiving
Hagg Hill I believe has been reported ( unsure how long ago it was submitted) however it wasn't filled in yesterday as I went up there myself.

I saw a couple of minutes of Big Brother the other day.
Now I'd happily blow our TV up, if only I had some explosives.

I'm not a Big Brother fan so never watch it, I'm a celebrity get me out of here is also another one I tend to switch off these days. We used to watch it but there's so much boring stuff in between the trials it's either record and skip the crap bits or don't bother - we have chosen the 'don't bother'

According to my daughter Tesco Clay Cross has now put up signs in their car park basically about length of parking and how long before you return, so quite obviously they must be having the same trouble as the Royal did a few years ago where people were just using it as a car park whilst going elsewhere.

Not seen them myself but no doubt there will be penalties for the miscreants.

Yes I noticed the new car parking rules.
I think the café may well lose out on custom there.
We have three shops, if a visit to all three is on the agenda it may well leave very little time left to sit in the café for a leisurely hot drink or lunch - it's going in the way Ravenside has gone!

Plus - Tesco need to sort out those large amounts of standing water they have in their car park - !!