Reference to earlier post (um, Dec 18th last year!) - can anyone yet enlighten me on the Jeffries Farm Unbeatable Car ad jingle?
Does anyone else out there (well, reading my blog anyway) have teenage boys?
Mine's lovely but is living in a world of his own as far as sending birthday/Christmas cards, thank you letters etc. He's nearly 18, I shouldn't have to be nagging him now, surely. Oh, hang on a minute, didn't I have to do the same for every partner I've ever had?!
I saw these snowmen while walking from Ore to St.Leonards on Saturday afternoon.
My son did two paper rounds in half the time it usually takes to do one today - only the Sun and the Times were in. My guess is that a lot of people will switch to reading papers on line during this weather and never return to hard copy.
My teenage son insisted on visiting his girlfriend in Camber come what may yesterday. When he thought there were no buses from Rye to Camber instead of coming home he insisted on walking there in the snow. I was relieved to get a call saying he had arrived safely but then was panicking at the thought of him doing the same thing in the dark coming home - and, typical teenager, (i.e. think they're invincible) he was wearing trainers and no coat, just two t-shirts and a hoodie. Even more relieved to get a text saying he was on the bus coming home!
The summer before last he insisted on walking from Hastings to Rye on the hottest day of the year.
I suppose I would rather he did these sort of things to prove his manhood, so to speak, than get into fights, mug old ladies, burgle houses, smoke or drink himself silly. When I look at the problems some families are encountering I know how lucky I am. But I'm a mum ... and worrying comes with the territory!
I am envious of his ability to ignore the cold. I am wearing three pairs of socks and my feet are still cold. I haven't been able to get over to Bexhill to finish the job I started on Tuesday so am stuck at home burning gas. I have just stuck bubblewrap on one window to try and keep the heat in. I don't care how silly it looks!
What a great start to the new year: apart from the glorious sunshine and blue sky that makes you feel that it's good to be alive, I've got work lined up for the next couple of weeks - I actually got a phone call on New Years day asking for an estimate!
Now I just need the weather to stay like this so I can actually get to the sites and have some light to work in ... and it would be handy if I could get a parking space near the house for when I load up my ladders and equipment, but maybe I just have to do the double yellow lines, like all the people who use the cash machine. The difference is, I am bound to get a parking ticket and they never do - even when they park on the bus stop!
O.k. rant over...
God, my feet are cold! I have two pairs of thermal socks on under my slippers but the draught through this double glazed (ha ha) window is still making them (and my hands) cold. The frames are the wrong shape for that temporary secondary glazing you can get:-( so I guess I'll just have to buy bigger slippers and more socks!
I originally put this blog up to moan on, but doing so has actually made me realise life is O.K.! I am not feeling that grumpy right now ... of course could be something to do with the wonderful man in my life returning to this country at last... and generally counting my blessings when I see so much unhappiness and injustice around me.
I would like to have warm feet though...
