so are you know expected to give up the summer holidays to cover summer camp in school?
so folk have no idea usually them not involved in the profession

Your right summer has left the building its freezing here and by the looks of things its cold all over the place come back summer we need you.

Me@ hope things are picking up with you
Plum we miss your witterings hope back soon
nothing much else to report same cr@p different day but we plod along.
love hugs and healing vibes to those who need it

I think it's the 1st, but I'll check when I'm there in July. Luckily it gets dark early so we could still do it, then get you to the plane early evening. The airport is very close and if you do hand luggage it's very quick to get through. I give myself 40 minutes to be on the plane and there's still usually a wait. So it's doable!

Here, Victoria Sponge news is that it's all gone. It was a heroic effort, polishing it off in 4 days, but we did it!

ooo good evening

cold here

Still cold here also snowy
Can't sleep duvet on duvet off grrr

It's certainly been a weird summer so far. I actually popped the heating on the other day. In bloody June!

funny old day here again....quick bits of sun in Essex and deep gloom in Suffolk

Evening Snowy
Good night all hoping to get some sleep its been a looooooong day

I need to get me some of that lavender stuff for my pillows.

I need to stop nodding off after i put Melony to bed and then waking up at about midnight with no jobs done in the kitchen and not having had a shower. Polo sleeping - bleh!

In other news - today is M's Sports Day ... yay!

Hugs all round!

aw sports day

Hope M's sports day went well Handy
Evening Snowy still at the scrabble board? no need to answer
Bats you still travelling?
Me@ hope your picking up
Twingle hope toe is better and kitties settling
Amica keep breathing it will be all over soon
KJ travelling? bring some hot weather back pretty please
anyone heard from Collette, Mal, OMG, Jessika, and Plum?

Yes handy, we need sports day news!

LL - I've got a spell at home at the moment, which is just as well because I've loads to do, and the more time I spend travelling the less I have for everything else, so it constantly feels like I'm playing catch up.

evening, what a lovely hot day to day
and apparently more to come

Morning!

I'm taking the rest of the day off, so the weekend's about to start...

wow Batty
way to go.

so busy at work today

am tres knackered

Sorry for being MIA - currently the only way I can get access to the internets is by tethering my mobile to my laptop as BT have been utter shite for the last few weeks. I can do things like FB on the mobile and email is tolerable but can't cope with DS since the format changed and am not sure how much data I have left to play with. Apparently it will all be fixed in 48 hours... we're just not sure from when as they have told Mr Sad and I two totally different stories

Amica - I think I have the same issue with the November trip this year I am currently meant to be delivering training that day. But they cancelled at the last minute last time so I might be tempted to do likewise so that I can come with you lot It really is awesome to see all the candles. FB friends can check out my pics (I think - it's possible my security settings have removed half my photos as I was doing some tinkering recently and may have messed some things up )

good afternoon all

what a beautiful day here in East Angular

Morning!

We had summer yesterday and made the most of it. Bike rides and a hike in the woods.

Autumn's arrived this morning, though. I feel like curling up on the sofa with a book and a mug of tomato soup.

it is chucking it down here

Oh well, the good weather's arrived, and I've a very 'orribly-left-by-a-tenant property to get into shape. So I'll be indoors for a while.

Grumpy.

Mr Sad flew to Alicante with his mum this morning - flightradar show his flight has landed but the airport thinks they're still on the tarmac in Luton - welcome to Spain

Here I'm mostly enjoying the fact that I have the same weather this week as he does with none of the associated stress

Been internetless for the best part of a week - can only do so much on my mobile. In some ways it's been quite nice.

*RANT ALERT*
The youngest managed to scare us witless on Sunday - had a fall while warming up for cheerleading comp, went ahead and competed anyway, then collapsed and had to be dealt with by paramedics. Ended up in A&E in a neck brace for four hours before the x-ray determined that nothing was broken.

Lots of pain still but zero sympathy from the so called team mates who should have broken her fall but who have instead led a campaign to get her to remove all references to the injury from social media as 'it shows the team in a bad light'.

To say that I am disappointed with the coach for being caught up in this and endorsing the viewpoint is ... an understatement. Nothing was posted to over-egg what happened as I'm sure those of you who saw them will testify (if anything we played it down as we were trying to reduce her anxiety during that four hour wait and also didn't want the younger members of the team to be aware of our concerns). Apparently it was our flippancy about it that caused anger... pure soap opera stuff this. So immature in the way it's been handled too. And not so much as text from the coach to enquire as to how she was the following day, which really rankles. Just a request to take the pictures down!

She has another competition in a fortnight but the whole thing has left a very sour taste. She's dedicated and loyal to the team - we travel 120 miles round trip, twice a week, to get her to the practice sessions - and wait while she practices - so including the time spent travelling this takes up 15 hours a week. No small commitment.

She's now been summoned to a meeting prior to training this week to 'sort out the differences' between her and the ringleader of this campaign. She's not in a good place emotionally and cheerleading really is her life at the moment so she's terrified she will lose her place on the squad. I'll be with her on the journey but probably not in the meeting itself (she's 21...) yet really want to stick my oar in and give them what for.

It's hard being a parent innit.

On that note best get to work - someone has to pay for the bloody fuel for all this

Aw dear. What an uncaring lot. Sounds like someone knows they are guilty of not catching and is trying to blame the victim- there's a novelty! There are surely more cheer leading squads in the country. Please pass on a gentle hug - and I'm so glad she's ok as it could have been awful for you all. Hope it gets sorted and she tells them how she feels xxx

aw what a bummer, glad she is on the mend

Sorry for the rant ... it really got to me, partly because it had been such a horrible time anyway.


Hope all grumpers are healthy and happy and bearing up if affected by the phenomenal heat we're getting here