Why Do People Do That! It's So Annoying! This is about what really drives me mad...like cats sh*tting on my lawn!
Feeling really down this week. It's my birthday on Tuesday and it'll be the first birthday without either my mam or dad so decided to take the day off. Otherwise I could find myself blubbing uncontrollably at the least little thing. Roll on Wednesday!!........cassie
Having watched 'Tonight' I have re-examined my feelings towards the McCanns. Did I change my mind?
No! & here's why...
When the news first broke that Madeleine had been abducted her parents stood in front of the media begging for her safe return. Like everyone else at the time, my heart went out to them. I watched as he took control of the media spotlight while she held his hand looking like a rabbit caught in the headlights. In the days that followed we were drip fed bits of information that was gradually dispelled. For example -
the parents had gone for a quick evening meal at a restaurant in sight of their apartment. In truth, they had gone out for the evening with their friends;
they were not in view of their apartment;
they did not check on their children as regularly as first stated;
it was not the first time they'd left them alone to go out for the evening.
Relatives went on TV stating that the apartment had been broken into, the window had been forced and Madeleine taken. This was later denied by Police; doors were left unlocked, giving easy access to anyone who had watched the family.
Speculation has been rife as to why Madeleine didn't cry out; was she given a mild sedative?
What sort of parents would leave a three year old alone with two babies? What would have happened if they'd woken? If this didn't cause them concern, why not? If they are to be believed and they did check every 30 minutes, were they not concerned about leaving such young children alone for so long? A lot can happen in 30 minutes - watch any soap if your not convinced. How far can you drive in 30 minutes? How far can you walk? Her abductor would have been long gone by the time the alarm was raised.
But the main reason my mind won't be changed is because they were wrong to leave one child and two babies alone in a foreign country. Whatever has happened to her is because of their actions, not because she was snatched in a moment. They failed to keep her safe.
Like many, I have been involved in heated discussions about this and why I do not have sympathy for them. It always comes back to the same questions - were they right to leave them? Were they responsible for what happened to her? Should they have paid for the child sitting service? Would you have left your children?
Some times in life we have to accept responsibility for our own actions. The McCanns should stop trying to fool us into believing they are victims. I personally would be more sympathetic if they hadn't patronised us in the beginning............cassie
On Saturday morning there was such a commotion. When I went to check it out, a hawk (Yes, a hawk!!), was ripping to shreds another bird on my back lawn!
Was I scared!!
Thought about trying to 'rescue' the victim but decided that it was more humane to let the hawk kill it quickly. Besides, I don't think me and my brush would have been any match for the big bird with the big hooky beak!!..................cassie
Now that I've calmed down.....
Went to Spain on holiday a few weeks ago and had a great time except for...
when our bags were put thru' the baggage thingy coming back we were charged 88 euros for being over weight! Now, I wouldn't have had a problem with that but...
I had nothing more in my suitcase than what I flew out with! & to make matters worse...
some people were carrying very large bags as hand luggage that probably weighed more than the excess that I didn't have!
So, the low fares airlines are just a con.....they over charge you on your baggage to make up the price.....blideybuggers.....................an infuriated cassie
People who talk over the top of you! It's so ignorant! It's as if your opinion doesn't count and theirs is the only one that does. Buggers!
People who do not take responsibility for their actions and when challenged make weak excuses. Buggers!
People who think they can do as they like, when they like irrespective of who it affects or upsets. Buggers!
I suppose you've guessed? Yes, I've had a bad day, a very bad day!!...........cassie
Sometimes I think the world has gone mad or I've wandered into a twilight world...
Why would you want to work in retail if you don't want to serve customers?
Is it acceptable to choose what items you sell or don't?
Imagine standing in a busy line of customers only to be kept waiting because the checkout person doesn't want to sell the customer in front of you bacon/alcohol. Where will it end!!
Lets hope the supermarkets exercise their rights as employers and keep these people stacking shelves. Shopping is stressful enough without being held to ransom by selfish, narrow minded individuals ...................cassie
I have the dubious responsibilty of being executor on my mams will. Not a problem with that I hear you shout but......
have you ever filled in probate forms?!
What a bloody nightmare! Been wading my way thru' two forms all morning. And before you ask, no! they're not massive big booklets; they're only 4 pages long and the answers require a tick = Yes or No...
but you have to wade your way thru' all the legal jargon for which you get 2 very nice handbooks!
Have to go lie down in a darkened room!!.......................cassie
Gosh! How you've changed! Or is it so long since I've been here?
Not a lot has happened since I last blogged. Hadn't realised how boring my life is at the moment! Get up, go to work, come home, go to bed, sleep! There must surely be more to it than this!
Good things that have happened -
TB has gone; the lying schemeing no-mark
ManU won the Premiership; Chelsea lost
Sunderland were promoted
Been on holiday - twice!
Bad things -
GB has taken over and is trying to make out he had nothing to do with what's gone before
Still waiting for summer
Madeliene hasn't been found
Its dark really early and its cold
Never mind, it could be worse. ....................cassie
My new knickers are really comfortable!
What's so surprising about that, I hear you say.
Well, they're very sexy, little shorts (& very see-thru!), that look as if they'll get stuck up your bum, but they don't!! Well done M&S!!
I bet you all thought I wore apple-catchers!!
..............cassie
So, our esteemed leader has finally sold us down the river!
Oh yes, he is bleating on about what a good deal he's got and how we should be thankful to him but why is he going to see the pope today?
TO CONFESS HIS BLOODY SINS!!.....................(a very annoyed)cassie
I have just spent the last 2 hours 10 minutes clearing out my email in-box!
If I get anymore spam emails I'm going to sink!
Mind you, it would help if I took better care - some of them have been sitting there since Novemeber!
& I'm bloody sick of those that are just gobbledegook! What's the point of that? Well, I just bounced them back to sender - see how they like it!!
Going for a lie down in a darkened room..............................cassie
I'm in bed cos there's nowt on the telly.
Usually I read when I come to bed this early but, stupidly, I forgot I don't have a book at the mo (unless you count the God Delusion which I think is a tad heavy for bedtime reading). So, I've got my laptop perched on my knees and trying to type! Not a good position!
But (there's always a but), I've really got nothing to write about unless I bore you with the totally sh*te day I've had (the reason I've come to bed!) or I could give you my opinion on the Rushdie affair =
how did they not see that coming!
how stupid is the person who agreed to it!
now the British taxpayer will have to fork out another few million £££ to protect him!
I wouldn't care, but he's not that good a writer!.................cassie
Lewis Hamilton is one lucky young man!
He's earning £500k to drive a very fast car round and round a race track.
Did you know that next year he will be the highest paid sportsman on the planet (allegedly), earning -
wait for it -
wait -
be patient!!
£52 million!
Yes, fifty two million pounds per year!
Thats one million pounds per week!
Not even I'm worth that! & I drive as fast (well, nearly!)
But, not being the jealous type I wish him all the luck in the world and for god's sake
DRIVE CAREFULLY.........................................cassie
Usually my Sunday mornings are about getting up (around 9am), soft boiled egg for breakfast with soldiers (gave my bread to bro cos he had none), shower, and then settling down with the papers. Today's all to hell because I didn't do the ironing yesterday (sis came yesterday afternoon), so I've had to do it this morning which has messed up my day.
I want to go to the cemetery to say Happy Father's Day to dad.
I also have the Sunday lunch to do for self and bro (forgot to put the beef joint in the oven so I'm running a bit late).
So instead of rushing round like a headless chicken I'm here blogging! Prioities girl, priorities!!...............cassie
It's maybe why I'm sitting alone on a Saturday night. After all, it would seem that the rest of the population are -
watching Dr Who - I don't see the point! It's got silly plotlines and really cheap effects (Yes, I heard you all - that's the point!)
Big Brother - why?why?why? I'd rather poke my eyes out with a rusty nail!
out to dinner - I turned down an invite to Newcastle cos I'm sick of getting wet!
Now before anyone sez "Wear a coat!" this is NEWCASTLE, uk. We don't wear coats in the depth of winter never mind bloodybuggeringsodding June!
So, I have a choice of things to do -
go in the bath, have a long soak, slap on loads of moistuiser, paint my nails (including toes even though we'll be still wearing wellies next week),
go back to reading my book - The Blind Man of Seville which I'm finding hard to get into,
do the ironing - mmmmmm no don't think so,
open a bottle of wine and watch House, Medium and Shark
Voting closes at 8.30 due to blogger being in the presence of a very nice bottle of chardonnay............cassie
Sorry, foot fetishists, it's not that kind of post!
Conversation last night with friends degenerated into raucous laughter and real idiotic comments so if we disturbed any of you, I'm really sorry.
Anyway...it started because
Ali reckons she would have perfect feet if it wasn't for her hairy toes!
Just watched Jonanthon Ross from last night only because ROB LOWE was on. How gorgeous is he? On a scale of 1 -10 he's about 15! swoon....................cassie
Nadia Sawalha...
Not my choice! Far too messy in the kitchen! She didn't have room on the benchs for her dirty dishes so she put them on the floor!
I know she's come a long way from the pile of poo she served on the first day but she didn't learn to have an orderly kitchen. Everything was in a muddle and left dirty.
Craig Revel Thingy
Couldn't eat food prepared and cooked by someone who dripped sweat all over the place! Yuk!
Midge Ure
I think was by far the most accomplished. He was calm under pressure; no girly tantrums and both judges said that his food was packed with flavour. He learnt from his time in the professional kitchens and throughout the competion didn't make any major gaffs.
HE WAS ROBBED.........................cassie
....going to stop bloody raining?
Has nobody told the rain gods that it's June? It's suppose to be sunny and hot, not welly and windcheater weather!
Ho-hum.....
5 things to do in the rain
Plodge
Sing
Waddle like a duck
Swim like a fish
& get feckin' wet thru' when you have to bring the bins in!!............cassie
Some cheeky git has put an advert on my blog for....................
BIG MUSCULAR WOMEN!!
& when I find out who it is..............cassie
PS - I'm no FatJabbaLardArse!! & whoever sez I am is a LIAR!!
People are strange! They never cease to amaze me!
Today at work I was explaining to staff why we had to do certain things in a certain way. One 'clever' woman suggested that we get the people at the receiving end to do it that way it saves us.
When I asked her if she was volunteering to transfer she looked at me with wide-eyed disbelief until I carefully explained that, as we weren't spending time doing the task we were staffed for then it would be reasonable for us to provide the staff to the people who were!
Yes, she chuntered and moaned all day. After all, it was only a suggestion! .............................cassie (not as popular as I was yesterday)
Whatever next!
Women are going to be allowed to breastfeed virtually anywhere in public!
Don't get me wrong, if you want to breast feed, feel free but please don't subject the rest of us to the sight let alone the slurping sounds that baby makes!
Then there will be the inevitable woman who objects to be stared at and wonders why!
Come on girls! There are plenty of places to feed baby without embarrassing the rest of us........cassie
Well done Lewis Hamilton!!.....cassie
How sexy is he!
& it's nowt to do with the money he's making!
If only I was 10 years younger!
But in the words of Blanche Hunt;
"You'd still be old enough to be his mother!"
You may not be prepared for what you find if you try to rob me tonight!
Been in the bath;
deep moisturiser on hair so it's clagged on my head;
face mask has left me a bonny pink colour;
feet have been smothered in moisturiser so I'm wearing black socks!
Nice!
But are you brave enough?...........cassie
...is to find me a lovely pair of sandals for summer. Size 33 (not childrens!) Toeposts are optional but not essential.......cassie
ps - there is steam belching out of my washing machine so if there's a plumber out there....
ps - they must have a heel..........cassie
I've been blogging for a while now and find that bloggers fall into three main groups -
those who do it for fun, who share their lives with others and raise a smile and a laugh; they don't take themselves too seriously,
those who write to stay sane, who do it because it's their link to the outside world, who, rather than burden friends and relatives with their feelings put it down in print; it can be very therapeutic (believe me, I know!)
& those who do it to have their ego's stroked! Those who are selective about the comments made on their blogs, who will take even the flippest of comments as a personal slight, who's list of 'friends' are carefully selected to indulge them.
Which one am I?
I aspire to the first but sometimes fail miserably!
I started as the second - my mam suffered from Alzheimers so I used to write to stay sane.
I hope I never fall into the third but if I do please shoot me!!...........cassie
Cleaning the car!!
Been and had it hand washed.
Now I have to clean the inside.........yuk!!
How the bloody hell did it get so mingingly dirty?
& where have all those parking tickets come from?
I can think of better ways to spend my Saturday afternoon but ho-hum, got to be done.
I'll be back - don't know when - this could take a while..................cassie
There's bugger all on telly!!
& it's a Friday night!
No change there then.................................cassie
Caught next doors cat in the middle of a poo on my lawn. It didn't half get a fright! But I'll get it next time! Shame it ran into the house with the turd hanging from it's bum!
Someone tell me to do some work!!........cassie
Sorry, but I'm working from home...
A plane is about to crash. There are five people on board but only four parachutes.
The first passenger says,
"I am Ronaldo, the best footballer in the world. The football world needs me; I cannot die on my fans."
He grabs the first parachute and jumps out of the plane.
The second passenger, Hillary Clinton says,
"I am the wife of the former President of the United States; I am the senator for New York and there is a good chance that I will be the next President of the United States."
She grabs a parachute and jumps out of the plane.
The third passenger, George W Bush says
"I am the President of the United States of America. I have huge responsibilities to the people of the world. Besides I am the smartest President that ever lived and I owe it to the people of the world to live."
He grabs a pack and jumps out of the plane.
The fourth passenger, the Pope says to the fifth passenger, a little boy,
"I am old. I have lived my life as a good person as a priest should so I will leave the last parachute to you; you are young and have your whole life ahead of you."
To this the little boy says,
"Don't fret old man. There is a parachute for both of us. The smartest President in the history of the world took my schoolbag..."
If you're a Scotsman, an Englishman or an Irishman don't read this!
Y'know" said the Scotsman, "I still prefer the pubs back home. In Glasgow there's a little bar called McTavish's. Now the landlord there goes out of his way for the locals so much that when you buy four drinks he will buy the fifth drink for you."
"Well," said the Englishman, "at my local, The Red Lion, the barman there will buy you your third drink after you buy the first two."
"Ahhhhh, that's nothing," said the Irishman. "Back home in Dublin there's Ryan's Bar. Now the moment you set foot in the place they'll buy you a drink, then another, all the drinks you like. Then when you've had enough drinks they'll take you upstairs and see that you get laid. All on the house."
The Englishman and Scotsman immediately scorn the Irishman's claims. But he swears every word is true.
"Well," asked the Englishman, "did this actually happen to you?"
"Not me meself, personally, no," said the Irishman. "But it did happen to me sister."
You know during the day when your brain gets bored and instead of listening to whats going on round you, you start to daydream?
Well, I had one of those moments today.
Sixteen people, sitting round a conference table and my mind starts to think naughty thoughts about those present.
I'll not share my fantasies with you but I impressed myself by not laughing out loud!!....cassie
Is he getting better looking as he gets older?
Shame Alan Shearer isn't!! TeeHee.......cassie
So the banks are getting their own back!?
Rates are going to rise again!
We'll have less to spend!
Never mind! It's only money!!................cassie
