Robert Smith or George Clooney ???

Ells.x I hope you and the baby are OK. 

Cinds i need you!!!

My family are coming to stay for a couple of nights tomorrow and i just can't get motivated to get the house ready.... Come clean my house for me pleaseeeeeeee?

Oh if Cinds is cleaning houses I'd like mine done too!

My OH has me on 'no housework'....which would be great if he would actually do it instead!!  

Baby update.... rang GP today but he has also rang the ESU and they can't fit me in until Thursday like they said.  He thinks because I had some spotting earlier in the pregnancy then maybe I am likely to have this every few weeks and for now to rest up and wait until Thursday because there's no pain and hopefully nothing bad is happening.  He thinks it's best to let the ESU scan me as sometimes A&E aren't best equipped to figure out what is happening whereas if everything is ok on the scan on Thursday ESU will do more tests to see why it keeps happening whereas A&E will only check on baby and not the underlying problem.

Normally I like doing nothing all day but I am BORED and my house needs scrubbed from top to bottom.  My kids have been off since Friday and the place looks like a bomb hit it.  I am praying no-one visits unexpectedly!

Forget housework Ells ,take it easy until you have the scan on Thursday.

Fingers and everything else crossed for you and baby(not that you will need it) 

Ells, nobody will mind whether the house is tidy or not. Keep your feet up and take care of yourself.

Ells, You and baby are what matters not how big the washing pile is etc. Anyone important wont judge and anyone who does you shouldn't care what they think

As Erin and Yogi say... just look after yourself and take it easy Ells  And never mind the house xx 

Welsh beach named in world’s top 10 best beaches

Rhossili Bay on the Gower Peninsula was today named one of the world’s best beaches in the Travellers’ Choice Beaches awards, announced by TripAdvisor.

Rhossili Bay beat beaches in Spain, Greece, Italy and Turkey to be named the third best beach in Europe for the second year in a row, and also keeps its title as the UK’s number one.

The Welsh beach even managed to jump up the ranks in the world list this year, moving from 10th to ninth place. Rhossili Bay’s triumph against beaches in such glamorous destinations as Mexico, Brazil and Australia goes to prove that travellers don’t need to travel half way around the world to find a great beach.

“These awards recognise the best beaches in the UK and worldwide, according to the travellers that have visited and given them the highest levels of praise,” commented James Kay, a spokesperson for TripAdvisor. “To have British beaches named among the best in the world just goes to show how lucky we are in the UK to have such stunning scenery right on our doorstep.”

Based on that picture I goggled hotels nearby.

Just made an enquiry to the Worms head Hotel,cheers.

£1 coin to be replaced with this.

It's giving the 50 pence piece a money for it's run.

Urgh i have so much to do and can't get motivated.... I need to shower, wash and dry hair.... get Minime ready for Nursery and drop her off.... finish tiding/cleaning.... do all the floors while Minime is at school..... Change bedding etc.... Pick kids up from school...... And probably some other stuff all before 4pm when my Dad, Brother, SIL and baby Archie arrive for a few days.

Right turning PC off! That's gotta help

I just spent the last hour cleaning my recyclable wheelie bin out. Boy, did it need it too

Ooooh well done Moonie   was it stinky 

Fankoo Rog

Lots of going on when I was doing it

But its squeaky clean now. Dunno if I want to get it dirty again after all that effort

The Chancellor has used his Budget to introduce a major change for the nation's pockets - a new pound coin to be introduced in 2017.

The high-tech coin will have the same shape as the 12-sided threepenny bit and will be the hardest in the world for criminals to copy, the Government said.

"After 30 years loyal service, the time is right to retire the current £1 coin, and replace it with the most secure coin in the world," a Treasury spokesman said.

"With advances in technology making high value coins like the £1 ever more vulnerable to counterfeiters, it's vital that we keep several paces ahead of the criminals to maintain the integrity of our currency.

"We are particularly pleased that the coin will take a giant leap into the future, using cutting-edge British technology, while at the same time paying a fitting tribute to past in the 12-sided design of the iconic threepenny bit."

The threepenny bit went out of service in 1971

Currently, 3% of the current pound coins are fake, meaning a total of more than £45m in circulation are forgeries, according to the Treasury.

Several features of the new £1 coin should make it harder to fake, including its shape and its construction from two differently-coloured metals.

It will be similarly coloured to the gold and silver euro and the £2 coin.

The historic three pence piece, fondly known as the threepenny bit, was in circulation from 1937 until decimalisation in 1971 and was in the first group of coins to feature a portrait of Queen Elizabeth. 

The new coin is similar to the £2 coin in colour

As with all coins now, the Queen's face will be on the heads side of the new coin, but there is to be a public competition to decide the design for the tails side.

The design, which will be roughly the same size of the existing £1 coin, means vending machines and parking meters will have to be overhauled.

But it already has the backing of the Automatic Vending Association, which said the cost for adapting existing machines would be "minimal".

Kelvin Reynolds, of the British Parking Association, added: "Parking operators have long expressed concerns about a rise in counterfeit £1 coins and the inconvenience this causes to motorists when coins are rejected by parking payment machines and the losses incurred as a result."

I wonder what the monetary cost of replacing all those old one pound coins will be and how long it will take the forgers to copy them?

I did like the old threepenny bit - it'll be quite be quite nice to have something similar although now nit's value being ONE POUND

 Bet it probably buys around about the same too.

I love rhossili beach ... Imwant to live in that one house that is on it!

What is the weather like in summer?

It's a bit blowy on that beach erin, mainly becase there's no ice cream kiosks and hot dog stalls to act as windbreakers!

I've had great weather there, and even if it isn't you are close to Swansea and The Mumbles, which are both great places ... and there are some fabulous walks around.

I might just have to book a weekend there myself. This is reminding me of how nice it is!

Cheers, I am so going there.

How are you doing after your fall Erin?  Hope you're feeling better. Has the bruising healed up?

Bruising almost gone in the face but still bad down my right hand side. Bump much smaller and it's not painful to move my forehead now. I am hoping to get back to exercise class tomorrow. I will do two days this week and back to normal on Monday. Cheers for asking  

Poor Erin you sound really beat up    take it slow.

 <<< crash helmet  

Wow Erin sounds like it was a bad fall Glad to see you're starting to get better

 Erin

Cheers, but it was a stupid mistake by me that caused the accident. Lesson learned, I need to slow down!!

Ouch Erin that sounded like a nasty spill. Hope you're ok.

After tweeting about Putin tonight I had the joy of some Russian insults. 

When I translated them, I was so hoping one of them would say "you will die" so I could quote Rocky. 

But what worries me more is that people are supporting him. All I can think is he is going to annex every neighbouring country and try to relive the 'Eastern Block'. 

Am I wrong?