Of course they are, bless 'em.

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Mum phoned me up this morning for a quick chat and so if I was alright. So we were on the phone for 40 minutes.

She asked me if I'd bought an iron yet...

"No."

"You slut!"

Honestly...

I don't have an iron because my washer dryer has a programme that leaves clothes uncreased.

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Total Online Duration: 5 Weeks, 6 Days, 16:04:53

Not as much as Chrissy's 9 weeks plus, but I've made more posts.

I really should get out more.

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Yep, you really should hit the roads, Reenie

Say hello to Glasgow, for me too

(There is one little thing I'd like to ask about that dustbin, however. What was the name of that green creature that was it's original inhabitant? He really was "a treat", to watch, when I was a kid )

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Thanks.

He was a ...Grouch, alright...

I had an "I saw this and thought of you" moment this evening, Reenie.
Wedmore was on the news, something to do with trucks getting stuck after being directed through there by satnav.
Looked like a nice village, shame there were dirty great lorries trying to squeeze through it over the pavements, lol.

There are two main roads through the village. One connects Cheddar to Glastonbury and the other connects Burnham-on-Sea and M5 J22 to Wells as the news said. All of these places have substantial industrial estates. There is considerable HGV traffic through the village. Many trucks have Dutch plates.

My old cottage is located on the roadside where the road narrows. There is a two-foot wide pavement outside, but if a truck is trying to get past it will squeeze up next to the front door. My bedroom upstairs had the bed next to the window (there was nowhere else for it to go) and so I would often be woken by a Scania tractor unit within three feet of my head.

I don't miss it, nor do I miss the racket of modern agricultural vehicles which the young farmers will race around in at 40mph. Then there's the Royal Navy helicopters. Lynx are particularly noisy.

Watching it made me cringe and I'm glad I don't live there any more.

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The rest of the news will have to wait 'til later. I have to put my face on now because I'm going to the endo to see what potions he has lined up for me. They've buggered me about over appointments for a whole year so I won't be surprised if it doesn't happen.

The weather is clear and sunny at the moment, but rain is forecast for lunchtime, just in time for me to get a soaking at the endo.

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Well, the rain turned up, as predicted, but I was enjoying the glasshouses at Glasgow's Botanic Gardens when it struck. It's wonderful in there: full of tree ferns and exotic plants from around the world. It's called the Kibble Palace and one of the side-rooms has an enormous collection of carnivorous plants with the most impressive pitcher plants I have seen. The venus fly-traps look very healthy too. I'll go back again soon because it easily needs a day to appreciate the place.

The Western Infirmary is at the other end of Byres Road and the rain had stopped by the time I decided to walk to my appointment.

I was early but I was seen promptly. The results of my blood tests were all satisfactory and so was my blood pressure. Dr McLellan was still obsessing about boobs and erections, so I told him everything was happy in both regards, but I was concerned that my figure was still too masculine.

He has prescribed me 5mg per day medroxyprogesterone acetate to go with my 35mcg ethinyl estradiol and 27mg cyproterone acetate.

Afterwards, I decided to go to Brantano Shoes in Clydebank. On the way, the bus changed drivers and barely two stops into his day's work, a man of about sixty staggered drunkenly onto the bus loaded with grocery bags. He stumbled along the bus and managed to take a seat. He hadn't shown his pass to the driver who came out of his cab to check that he did indeed have a pass.

So we went on our way. Two stops later and this guy in his thirties rang to get off and made his way to the front. When the bus stopped, he launched into a stream of invective the like of which I have never witnessed before. Every Anglo-Saxon expletive and Glaswegian too, and what he wasn't going to do to the driver...

The driver was sealed in his cab while this guy was stood in the open doorway. I could have kicked him straight onto the pavement, but he had his young daughter (about ten, and presumably used to this behaviour) with him.

The staggering man got off shortly afterwards and by this time, I'd figured he wasn't drunk. He didn't smell of booze and his grocery shopping told of an abstemious lifestyle. I suspect he has suffered cerebellar damage in his time.

Brantano didn't turn up what I was looking for so I made way back to Glasgow and had a look in Evans. This time I found some ankle-length boots and some slip-ons for a reasonable price and a nice skirt too.

I picked up a couple of tops in Sainsbury's on the way home, too, so it's been an expensive day.

Tomorrow I go for my IPL treatment which will deplete my resources even further, but for now, it's time to rescue a pizza from the oven.

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There are times I miss Glasgow, and there are times I don't. Hope you had a good pizza.

Pizza filled a corner, thanks, Mole.

I went for my first IPL session today, near Falkirk. I was very early - I'd forgotten that trains go a lot quicker than buses. I thought I had enough time to go and see the Falkirk Wheel and got within a mile of it before I realised I had to turn 'round and go back.

The lady I saw has her treatment room in a front room of her house and it's a relaxing environment with her good bedside manner as well (I think she's been a nurse at some point.)

She did my whole face in just under an hour, pausing after every half-dozen blasts so I could have some respite. The amount of pain depends on the number of hairs being killed at any one time. The hair on my neck and under my jawline is the thickest and darkest, so it was making me jump like I was holding an electric fence. Now I see what the fuss is about.

Fortunately, the dreaded top-lip turned out to be a damp squib. It barely even registered.

I'm going back in about five weeks' time.

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what it will take
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first we admit our mistakes
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The QE2 was in Greenock today. It's big, so to photograph it, you need to stand back a bit...

...like across the Firth of Clyde in Helensburgh!

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j64/bujman/share_it/08OCT/20081005S05_0095_02.jpg

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Yep! Thats pretty big.

Looks like you stood back a long way

Nice pic, great aganst the back grownd.

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