Joe.  It's strange how different days can make you remember things.  Mr C went through that horrible thing the other day when he mentioned that we really ought to pop round and see his parents, then horrible realisation hitting him.

For the last 2 years there's not a day goes by where I don't miss my dad. He was my dad and my best friend. 

  You're scaring me now...I think I need to get a Clear blue.....

the amount of times I teared up over the weekend...

and again 

once more 

The whole thing Kaffy. The royals, the bunting, the parades, the people....It just made me emotional. We're a divided country but we came together to celebrate the Queen...our Queen 

...I still automatically reach to ring my dad about things,then it hits me I can't.I was going through my answering machine a few weeks ago deleting messages and fast forwarding ,next I heard my dads voice saying it's your dad ring me when you get home,an old message I'd missed but hearing his voice again, I sobbed for hours .

I know what you mean, Cagney - I'm not a mad Royalist or anything, but as the years go on  I like them more and more - hell, I even like Camilla.  There was a point on  the flotilla when the Queen saw the horse thing on then bank and she was looking around to grab Camilla's arm and point it out to her and I thought 'they're just a family like any other'    Not to mention all the footage of her when she was young and then Phil ending up in hozzie.. she looked like a little old widow woman (albeit in nice togs) standing on that balcony.   

Aww Lee... I don't think that ever goes the thinking 'wait till I tell Mum about.... etc'  I still do it sometimes and it was 8 years yesterday.

Lee  I've got messages from my dad on my phone. I can't delete them. 

I don't think it'll ever go away kathy, I'm just hoping the stomach churning feeling that happens when you realise you can't eases someday.

Cag's I'll never delete either,never...I have another message it's just I didn't know that message was there and it totally blew me away hearing dads voice so unexpectedly especially hearing him say my name.

I loved that moment kaffy, and then them all having a little jiggle along to the music later on when they were back on shore.

Lee   I can imagine a whole host of emotions must have gone through you.

You know you made me cry?

The message between us (me and dad)has always been just that.....between us

is wire same as wick ha ha? 

Yes 

I'm just watching BB bit on the side.  I didn't know that Sophia Brown had recently died.  How sad for her family.

It's absolutely chucking it down here.  Mr Cinds thoughtfully put washing out earlier, it's staying out 

! Cagney! 

Talking about dads.. I drove home from work the other night and thought I would nick in and see my dad . Got to the house, saw the storm doors closed, and realised I must have been on auto pilot. I sat in the car and had a big sweary rant and drove away again .. hope the neighbours never saw the shouty madwumman  

Not at the botton of a form:-

This person walks with the aid of a stick.

Innocuous enough I hear you say, but it was in capitals and the way the 'L' ran into the 'K' it made it look like an 'N'!

hahah!! Used to work with a guy who wrote " workers" in that kind of stylee  

Slinks  even if the neighbours did see, I'm sure they would have understood.

I'm wrapped in cling film, and I don't even know why. 

Now i think that's worthy of a thread of it's own. Why?

It's not worthy of it's own thread.

We just thought it would be funny.  Although I think it's a way of me sweating some fat off 

 ! 

hahah !! We did the old stylee body wraps at work today .. if you're into bandage, this is for you ! 

We have a caterers cling wrap what went wayward and I got hold of the bit that was stuck while he unravelled it and I did a bit of spinning. Nothing untoward happened.  Much to my chagrin  

Big Brother

nekkid spinning sounds a bit untoward to me  ! 

It is absolutely tossing it down here, so much so the noise of it has woke me.  I hate being woke up.  That'll be me up all night now. 

I rescued 2 bats yesterday 

they were pipistrelle bats,...  I found them on the office floor (They had fallen through the ceiling).    I called the local Bat Group & they deployed the Bat Ambulance (seriously..  they actually did!!!)

I had called them Ren & Stimpy...     but I had a call from the bat people last night and apparently they are girl bats & are preggers.    They were dehydrated & very underweight (its a really really bad year for bats, because of the weather they are struggling to get enough insects to eat)...    Anyways..   they are going to feed them up a bit, and then in a few days we are meeting up again at work so we can rerelease them.

(oh...  and there is gonna be a licensed bat protection person come to look at the roost in the barn where I work.    I don't think the boss is gonna thank for me for this )

Here are some pics of them (I had been told to put them in a box, with a milk carton lid of water, and some soggy loo roll - for them to suck water out of)

Stimpy is having a drink...  Ren is eyeing up the bog roll:

Stimpy has drank her fill...    Ren is latching onto the bog roll:

REN LOVES HER SOGGY LOO ROLL!!!

CUTE AREN'T THEY!!!!!

One word Ditty .......ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Sorry but bats make me go a bit funny - they make my skin creep. I see them like flying rats. Those pictures make me feel a bit - (just looked for a suitable smiley there isn't one)

I think this is the closest-

Well done you for taking care of them - I'd have been on my bike screaming if they'd have fallen through my ceiling!