The Norty Corner

Having trouble comprehending that the last time i put finger to keyboard and wrote something to enter into the cyber world was back in September 2012, Where did that time go!!!!!!!!!! I suppose a lot of it was to do with the fact that my scribbles become like a grain of salt in all of the oceans put together, and that a blog is kind of an online diary and who needs all the ins and outs of a ducks ass put on there...especially when you have Facebook and twitter and all the other various social media sites so geared around hits and likes and re-tweets. I do believe i set up a twitter account many many moons ago but i don't ever recall tweeting. Of course i have shared gems and status's and comments on Facebook over the years but even that of late has lost its addicitivensess and in fact since coming back from holiday several weeks ago i have not shared one status...and guess what no bugger has even noticed or cared!!! Its funny though reading back on my previous blogs how ha...

i seem to have missed the whole of july and august...aaah well. Well what have i been upto.... 1 thoroughly enjoyed the Olympics and watching all the dedicated athletes perform. Thought Team GB did fantastic, what a fab effort by everyone taking part in whatever area. The opening and closing ceremonies were amazing. i cant believe tho that it is now nearly all over . The Para Olympics has been a fabulous success with even more medals... what truly amazing athletes and people there are in this world, they should be on the front pages every day not all the horrendous other things that sick people do. i have been busy at the Gym im trying to go 3-4 times a week around looking after my family and home and working the weekends. i have so thoroughly enjoyed it, setting myself new targets each week. i have managed to lose 1 stone 10lb so far, and have had the satisfaction of retrieving all the clothes that were resigned to the loft several years ag...

July is here!! July has always been a special month in that it is the month i said " I do", and also that my first and oldest son was born. all within a day of each other although 2 years apart. So this month we are celebrating our 22 wedding anniversary and my son will be 20.... 20...my gosh am i old enough to have a 20 year old son when i still feel like i am 18 myself. i will never forgot the moments after he was born and they laid him in his fish tank and he just lay there looking around with those big brown minstrel eyes of his sucking his 2 fingers, taking it all in. I was so scared just looking at him, thinking i was going to be responsible for him for the rest of my life, and contemplating asking for them to put him back. Well what a journey i have had with him over the years, he is just wonderful. He has been through many things in his early years and has remained solid and grounded despite what tragic things life has placed along his path. He is funny and kind,...

for some reason whenever it is miserable and wet and raining i always think of Winnie the pooh and piglet when piglet was bailing his home as it was flooding and the song went .."he was unaware stood on a chair..whilst bailing he was sailing"...... Quite random i know but i thought i would blog about it on this late cold miserable evening in June!!! We are on alert for gale force winds as well....no BBQ's in the foreseeable future it would seem as rain is forecast for the next 10 days, so we will most probably be doing "the Piglet". I have little news...i'm beginning to think that my social life is non existent as my diary for the next few months consists of nothing more than school reminders for various activities and the odd birthday reminder.lest i forget through the fatigue of what is known as my life....Although wait..stand by your beds.....we have a wedding evening do to look forward to... i can dust off the cobwebs and rejoice!!!! i have been surfin...

what a glorious week we have had although as i now type the sun has all but disappeared behind thick cloud on this dull Friday morning. However this will not dampen my mood as i am on holiday from work this weekend yippee!!! Got a busy weekend planned as well... dinner with the Bonds tomorrow evening and then nephews birthday and BBQ at the parents on Sunday...although Sunday could well be spent indoors as rain is forecast lol. Had a good week , hubby and i went for a walk along the seafront.. something we rarely do considering it is less than  2 miles from where we live. The sun was beating down and everything looked vibrant and fresh...even our sea had the sky reflected in it giving it a hint of blue instead of the usual brown. Birnbeck pier was first opened in June 1867, that's some 145 years ago!!! People used to arrive on steamers to the jetty and spent many hours in the cafe , and amusements and on the funfair. The pier fell...

Well what Glorious weather we have had, i confess that although i had to work the weekend i did get to enjoy the sun in all its glory the week leading up to said weekend. I couldn't believe just how warm it was yesterday when i finished work and went and sat up on the decking with a cup of tea and not an alcoholic beverage, i could feel the sun sizzling me and that was at 5pm. As we have had a marvelous heatwave...my fridge freezer decided to go bang...fortunately i took out extended warranty on it...unfortunately the problem is down to a manufacturers error and the earliest an engineer can get out to look at it is Tuesday...so we are living out of a cool box at the moment. Alongside that everything is good. i had a good sort through some of my old photographs early this week, it was lovely as memories came flooding back from them and sad because many of the subjects in my pictures have now passed over, i confess i did blub quite a bit, i am so tha...

I am pleased to announce that despite Minnie the cats best efforts at trying to get to my little nesting birdie babies that they are still in the bird house and i managed to get some pictures of them today. We found in the end that a plant sprayer was a valuable learning aid for Minnie...much more effective than me running around frantically in the garden yelling " Minnie GET DOWN NOW!!!". I can't say how chuffed i am to have managed to snap these pictures and that these little birds actually came to live in our garden.  Have had quite a busy last week in that my parents went away for a week and my brother and sister in law wanted to give something back to my parents for their wedding so decided to update their bedroom for them. I have no before pictures although  sister in law did take a couple but i'm gathering they would have to be censored as it had not been decorated for over 30 years and the stuff they had accumulated...well i won't...