New Additions

We have two new additons to Chez Smith. Not content with four cats, Ffion went out on Monday and bought two Chinese Dwarf Hamsters who are now in situ in her bedroom in what can only be described as a spaceage hi tech hamster cage.... personally I think she only bought them for the cage.


They are called Iggle Piggle and Haribo... I have absolutely no idea why, personally I wanted to call them John and Edward but as they are two girls that wasn't really appropriate... or maybe it was!

This is a fleeting glimpse of one of them... not sure if it is Iggle Piggle or Haribo. Ffion and Craig can tell them apart but I can't yet. The cats have not yet twigged that they are sharing their house with what to them would be a light snack and we are all under strict instructions to make sure Ffion's bedroom door is kept firmly shut... I still have a horrible feeling it will end in tears.

It's Beginning to Feel a Lot Like Christmas

As the title of the post says its actually beginning to feel a lot like Christmas for the first time in the last couple of years. I think its because I know I won't have to work Christmas Day this year and that makes all the difference, I am really looking forward to the festivities this year.

We put the tree up yesterday and finished most of the rest of the decorations today, I need to get a few more bits and pieces and by the end of the week the house should be completely Christmasified.

This year the tree theme is red and gold and it looks very warm and welcoming. I usually buy decoratiolns in the sales for the following year and last year I got these super spirally baubles which look really nice on the tree. I also bought this really unusual wreath which we have got on the wall in the hall.

Nickname

I don't know about where you work but where I work nicknames are rife. We have Chunky, Shenko, Yuppie, Yomper, Mad Marine, Yorkie, Clarance, Fidgit, Gunner.... do you get the gist?

We also have a new recruit who needs to be trained and as I have been on watch the last two days it has fallen to me and as a result my boss has decided to grant me a new nickname and I have a horrible feeling it is going to stick...

I am now "The Headmistress"..... oh well I suppose it could be worse... marginally!

How much worse can it get?

I truely didn't belive that my life could get more mundane and ordinary than it is. But this week it reached an all time low, when on a rare sortie to "big" Tescos in Haverfordwest I became overexcited because I found a red cabbage.

Yep my life is officially dire. It must be if the sight of a red cabbage can become the highlight of the week. It also proves that our Tescos in Milford is crap, you never get red cabbage there. The red cabbage rush was only equalled by the sheer excitement of buying a bulb of fennel... shall I just shoot myself now?

To add to my depression I went back to work last week, it was a major anti climax. Due to the high winds recently everything was delayed and it was just a case of trying to move what we could when we could and arrange overcarries/undercarries of all the others, eventually we ran out of Pilots, so nothing much moved at all.

In an effort to escape this dull humdrum existence I am slowly becomeing a "Twigh-hard"... I know they are all supposed to be 13 to 17 but I am loving the films and the books ( I have read all four books and am on my second reading of Twighlight) and went to see New Moon in the cinema last week. It was full of lots of gratuitious shirt removing which was very pleasant and pleasing to the eye.. Robert Pattinson is certainly fit... even though I am old enough to be his mother.... is it so wrong to perv???

I also bought the sound track to New Moon which is brilliant, I have it on in the car all the time... oh well I suppose it is time to head for bed with Twilight and escape my dull boring life with a little romance with Edward and Bella. Nos da xx

Randomness

Erin and I went shopping in Haverfordwest yesterday. It was a normal day out.. nothing to write home about at all. We found a nice car parking space... not too far from the shops, 2 hour limit, nothing much to shout about. We parked up, we locked the car, we strolled towards the under pass to the shops... and then there it was.... tied to the barrier... round and red and..... SCARY!!

Yes... a red balloon... not somthing you would worry about normally.... but have any of you actually read... or seen IT!!.....

Well if you have then you will realise the significance of an innocent floaty red balloon... Erin and I looked at each other, we both knew what it meant, we both felt the terror!! We bravely walked through the underpass, we held hands, we tried to be brave...me knew what it meant... then there tied to the barrier at the other end of the underpass was ANOTHER RED BALLOON!!... we knew it meant one thing and one thing only.... PENNYWISE HAD COME TO HAVERFORDWEST!!

We battled on we were brave, we knew we could overcome.... who were we to be frightened by a clown?? We ventured forward we knew we were strong, we knew we could overcome killer clowns, giant spiders and any other horrors Christmas shopping in Haverfordwest could throw at us. After all we had lived through 6 weeks of Jeward on X Factor.. how much worse could it get?

We made it to New Look, we made it to Dorothy Perkins, we crossed the bridge and made it to W H Smith and there finally outside Argos we faced IT... our nightmare personified.... a dork with a bunch of red balloons.... advertising a 99p sale.... ok so it was an anti climax.. but hey welcome to my world... everything is an anti climax!!

So the Christmas Shopping has begun.... I bought stuff.... not much stuff but enough stuff to justify saying I have started.

Last night we went to St. Davids to the Cwtch for Julie's birthday. It was the first time we have stayed in their new house and it was lovely... the house is stunning and it was a joy to sleep in a proper bed not the dreaded bed settee... Unfortunately the meal in the Cwtch was a bit disappointing, not the best we have had but still very enjoyable.. I had spinach soup, ribeye steak, and creme brulee.

Today was rugby again and we triumphed over the mighty Pumas (Argentina)... hopefully this will take us back above them in the world rankings... next week it is Australia... who are looking more beatable now they lost to Scotland... well done the Jocks.!! Tomorrow we are all going to Bridgend to the cinema to see New Moon.... even I have to admit Robert Pattinson is fit!!

Bad Behavior

I am sat here watching Men Behaving Badly on Dave. I remember it from the first time round, ten years ago or so.

Back then it was really funny.... it is still really funny. Unfortuately now it is my life!!.... I have my very own version of Gary and Tony (alias Noel and Meurig).... I would laugh out loud but I am afraid it may come out as a sob!!

We Shall Remember them

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.