Ram Raid and Strikes

Holiday at home has been over for two days now and I still feel exhausted. Not what you are supposed to feel after a restful holiday. Caught up with the washing and now have a large pile of ironing for tomorrow. But tonight I have to go and face fat club with something like 3 extra pounds on my body. Ugh! I now have two and half months before my Ruby anniversary to get it off and fit into some decent clothing. I have walked to town and back with the dog yesterday and today. Hope that helps.

There has been a ram raid on a little Post Office the other side of Dawlish. I am not surprised. They said on the news that crime was creeping up due to the bad economic conditions. There are no jobs, something like 80 people or more going for every job. A friend’s husband applies but does not even get answers.

Public workers are going on strike tomorrow, mostly school teachers but others are joining in. Schools are closing and airports are in trouble as the immigration department are closing. I am not surprised. They want them to work an extra 8 years before retirement, pay more than now and get less! I don’t think they will win any reprieve as there is no money in the national kitty.

Twittering, Grand Prix weekend, Diabetes 2 cure?

PLEASE NOTE that this is not a diary but an attempt to leave writings intended for future social historians in 2525 and beyond. The 2525 is taken from the song by Zager and Evans,,,,

In the year 2525

If man is still alive

If woman can survive

They may find….. 

I am becoming quite a good social twitt – er. I have been collecting followers lately who seem mostly to be reacting to the fact I have put ‘writer’ in my profile. Now in the shape of things five followers is so minimal as to be almost the same as none. When I go on these ‘followers’ sites they have thousands of followers and follow thousands more. I think they will be most disappointed in me. Still it a bit of fun in my quiet life. I am maybug76 on Twitter.

It’s a Grand Prix weekend so cars squeal across my room today and tomorrow. I can stand it for about half an hour then I disappear upstairs to my bedroom, the only other room I can go to in our small house. Even dog knows not to bother my husband on GP days. Oh yes, it means I have to get the food ready without any help at all, surprised he can find his mouth to eat it! I get so bored with it – yak,yak, yak from the presenters. Still, I suppose it is a male thing - cars.

Had a problem with Google Chrome browser in the Cloud Printing. Tried to start it but it would not work and I got left with an error message that still won’t go away after many tries to reset. Think It won’t work from anything but tablets and phones yet and I shouldn’t have tried it. Have to take it to my IT fellow to mend it.

My weight saga. Not having much to do this week of holiday due to the bad weather I have stuffed myself with goodies. The scales this morning groaned and I screamed. Oh dear, right back were I was a months ago. Weeks ahead on ‘The Plan’ which is supposed not to leave you hungry – BUT DOES.

Interesting news yesterday re Diabetes 2 cure. Due to so many obese people having gastric operations which cut down drastically what they eat, they have found if they had diabetes 2 it went away. So they now think if you starve at about 600 calories a day for about 6 to 8 weeks (Boy, you’d really be hungry) it kick starts the pancreas producing insulin again. The fat around the pancreas had stopped it  and eventually causes the illness. It would be great if something as simple as cutting down calories was a cure. For years they have said don’t eat this or that but this is just the amount you eat. I haven’t had this problem myself but might have had I stayed at the 4 stone heavier that I was. I am now only need to lose half to one stone but have been in this no man’s land for some time now. Must try harder so I am at my best for my Ruby Wedding anniversary in September.

Anniversaries mean  a lot to us in 2011 and I would not be surprised if they still do in 2525. It seems to be a very human thing.

The drama of the new tablet computer

PLEASE NOTE that this is not a diary but an attempt to leave writings intended for future social historians in 2525 and beyond. The 2525 is taken from the song by Zager and Evans,,,,

In the year 2525

If man is still alive

If woman can survive

They may find….. 

I am supposed to be telling you what it is – sorry it was – like in 2011. It is my premise for this blog. I liked the idea because I have no one that will be interested enough to read my doings and happenings so I can make up for it by addressing people in the far future of 2525 and beyond. The good thing is they can’t answer back or criticise. So Here is what we are interested in 2011. Gadgets. Particularly computer type gadgets. Though I like others like my new halogen oven and my electric cheese grater.

I mentioned before that we have exchanged our holiday going out places from home, eating nice meals out and visiting places for – a new tablet computer for my husband. Well….. it’s been raining all week and it is not supposed to get better until next Sunday so …

From the moment that the button was pushed and the tablet computer – an Acer Iconia tab A500  with Android Honeycomb OS – was ordered it’s been - looking up the delivery times, yes it’s been sent, yes its coming tomorrow, I had a voice mail. ‘Jule, it could be here anytime from 8’. ‘I’m taking the dog out don’t have your bath yet.’ ( As it was raining again I had decided to have a long morning soaking in a bubble bath and reading this month Digital Photo mag.).

The morning went by and no delivery van. ‘He’s got lost’. Then my husband went up stairs to the loo. That did it. ‘Jule quick, quick, answer the door, there’s a big green and yellow van outside’. Thank goodness for that. The parcel was soon opened and the tablet put on charge. The rest of the day has been ‘Look at this Jule – come and see this – you must see this, its really great’  only to be presented with a picture of a woman that gradually lost her muscles, blood system and on down to her bones – Oh yes, she revolved as well. ‘Lovely dear’. (OMG)

As I write this at half eleven he is still trying to work it all out as there were absolutely no real instructions at all. I belive you can down load a manual online but that would indubitably be too easy!

Me, I had a short walk with the dog, read my new downloaded book (very sexy) and have been very lazy. I have continued to eat nice holiday things and drink white wine. The latter two thing are usually not allowed as I put on weight very easily. Tomorrow is another day.

Rainy day on our so called holiday at home

PLEASE NOTE that this is not a diary but an attempt to leave writings intended for future social historians in 2525 and beyond. The 2525 is taken from the song by Zager and Evans,,,,

In the year 2525

If man is still alive

If woman can survive

They may find….. 

It has rained and rained all day. We did get as far as PC World/Currys big store in the outskirts of Torquay when the heavens opened. We looked at fridges and then tablet computers. This led to a disaster in the evening of buying a tablet computer for my husband online, one he had seen in the store but cheaper by £50.00. Well I can see this week is going to be wet, wet, wet so the money might just as well go on something tangible and what he wants (We would have to buy it sometime anyway and the money is available now). So I hope the fridge will work OK for a while longer.

Then we went and looked at a big pet store and bought the dog a new water dish that holds a litre of water in an upside down bottle and lets it out gradually and a food mat. Next door is a household store and we bought a glass oven dish to go in our new Halogen Oven. That’s like a big glass bowl with the heater in the roof. We are hoping that it will save on power. So far it seems quite good. I had wanted to go into Torquay proper but by now the rain was, to quote an old saying, stair rodding down so we went back via Newton Abbot stopping at Asda’s to pick up some nice food to cheer us up, pizza and nice bread. I bought a Bra and Phil bought some socks and then – we went home where it rained and rained and as far as I know is still raining.

Dog was not very sure about the new water bowl as she thought the feet on it were toys that she couldn’t get at. She spent the rest of the day barking at it but later did drink from it.

In the evening there was nothing on TV so we watched a silly film on a DVD we bought some years ago and never watched. What was good about it as far as I was concerned was it had George Clooney in it.

Apologies for not writing this blog

PLEASE NOTE that this is not a diary but an attempt to leave writings intended for future social historians in 2525 and beyond. The 2525 is taken from the song by Zager and Evans,,,,

In the year 2525

If man is still alive

If woman can survive

They may find….. 

I have not done too well with this blog for posterity, half a year gone and mostly I have not posted anything even as short as a Tweet! Do you still have Twitter? It is writing a short blog on a web site called – Twitter. You can follow other Tweeters and lately I have followed the presenters of a TV Programme called Spring Watch, about wild life in Britain. Most people have actual friends who follow each other and keep in touch with what’s happening to them. I haven’t got anybody that as daft as me to tweet, well not in my age group of friends. Most of them can hardly use a mobile phone yet. Then my few followers are hoping for some kind of pecuniary happening i.e. to sell me something. I have no idea how they find me but I expect there is a program that if a particular thing is mentioned they latch onto it. But it has gone on to greater things and is part of the worlds happening, particularly in the Middle East revolts along with Facebook, more bloggy. Oh, I am maybug76 on Twitter

So this is not a Tweet, it’s a blog and I people don’t get to hear of a little old lady writing in a small town in southern Britain and I have not kept up with my idea to tell the future about life in 2011. I have brought down my notebook computer from my bedroom as I realised that my downstairs computer is often monopolised by my husband. Today we are technically on holiday but have not gone away. We are supposed to be going out for days but the weather is very rainy and cold for June and so far we have stayed in. Hence not being able to get to the downstairs computer. I am determined to go out for a little bit of retail therapy today, whatever, so have sent husband and dog out for a longer than usual walk and then we can leave her to go to Torquay Shopping or at least window shopping. Torquay is a famous holiday resort and is only just over a couple of hills from home. So I can pretend I have gone away. Actually going to look at refrigerators as we have just discovered ours has a bad cracked casing.

Will try hard to keep in touch from now on even if it only as short as a Tweet