Why do cars let you down

when you really need them????????????

Right, driving DD to school this morning and my bloody car decided to have a heart attack, exactly half way between home and school (luckily it was raining) but there we are no mobile and no money arrggggh.
So we abandon the car and do the only thing we can do in this situation and walk home, no I know you're all thinking why didn't DD carry on to school if she was half way there, well I'll tell you, she'd no way of getting home safely if she did that as there is a stretch of road that's got a 50mph speed limit and no footpath - definately not the safest option - anyway we get home and she gets some money for bus fare (to and from school) and I ring my breakdown service and she asks "if I was with the car or at home" 'at home' says me "how long will it take you to get back to the car" '3/4 of an hour' "well go back to the car and wait for the breakdown truck" WHAT!!!! can he not pick me up and take me to the car? 'just a minute I'll check' so she puts me on hold and I get to listen to wait for it


RESCUE ME - this is what I'm hoping a knight in shining armour will do, or failing that a breakdown recovery truck, so she says the breakdown guy will pick me up at home but he'll be about an hour, so while I'm waiting I start thinking (as you do) should I ring DH at work to pick DD up from school later or not? We'll before I have chance to ring the breakdown guy arrives (30mins) so I wouldn't have had chance to get back to the car anyway, and when we get to the car the bloody thing started first time adopts best Victor Meldrew voice I DON'T BELIEVE IT
so there's me looking a right numpty nothing wrong with he car but breakdown guy very kindly follows me home and gives the engine the once over just to check and no gives it a clean bill of health and when he gives me the form to sign that he's done the job - the description of job is COWS - me thinks he writes STUPID above that although he denied it apparently it stands for Cut Out Won't Start - oh yeah......

Just hope the ruddy thing starts later when I go to work...

Enough for now off to see if its recovered enough to get me to the supermarket..

Laters..............

Where has October gone????

I can't believe is been sooo long since I last blogged, so whats happened in my boring little life....

Oh yes Halloween, DD decided she was going to dress up as a Funky Fairy so an outfit had to be sourced, this I ended up making, but even if I do say so myself it turned out pretty good, then of course the pumpkin needed carving, again I ended up up doing this and after a few 'words' as to the design of said pumpkin it was off to the kitchen to carve and this is the result(above left) and as for the costume (above right) DD's friend is the skeleton. (one day I will work out how to put my photos where I want them).

Then last Sunday I got a phone call, it was Dad and immediately knew something was wrong but then he says "hang on your Mum wants you" and she wanted to know if A & E was open 24hours " Why?" says me " I've fallen and hurt my thumb" so I got ready for work 3 hours early, and went to pick her up, anyway long story short and she'd broke her thumb according to the Doc at A&E, yesterday was her check up and the Doc took the backslab off and had a good feel around her thumb and said he didn't feel it was broke, this put a big smile on Mum's face - then he pressed her wrist - well she nearly hit the ceiling so he thought it was her wrist thats broke, so off he goeas to check her X-rays and comes back not too sure as they didn't X-ray her wrist last week but he says "We'll put a plaster on that and come back in 4 weeks" mum's not too happy but she is now sporting a purple (when asked what colour she said black but I said purple and thats what she got) cast on her right arm.

So thats it for now (as if anyone reads this rubbish) off to do some chrimbo cards.

Laters peeps