The World of Siân

Well lo and behold another wet summer for us. As usual the met office lied and said we would have a nice hot summer, I scough as I sit here at the end of July in my winter clothes!!!! Of course the met office is trying to back track now and say that the media misinterpreted what they had said. To be honest I don’t mind the rain that much but I do like to have a summer. One of my best friends is getting married in about 2 weeks and so I am hoping the weather brightens up (the sun shines on the blessed and all that), also they are having a BBQ as their wedding reception. Each to their own I suppose, definitely wouldn’t be my choice. I can see it now, sausages and burger grease all down your lovely outfits, eeep!!! I much prefer the idea of a nice meal or lot’s of different cheeses and breads, with dips and oils. On a different note, I purchased a lovely new bike the other week in a bid to get fit and as of yet I haven’t ventured out on it. I have been waiting for some nice weather...

I am really not in the mood for much today and I can’t really place my finger on why. I am just going to put it down to the fact that it’s a Monday. I have to stay on in work until later today as I am helping lock up, not that I mind but I don’t want to do it today. Still at least it gets it out of the way for the rest of the week. Himself has actually agreed to go to the cinema with me this evening. This is momentous because we rarely go to the cinema as he doesn’t like it but then if I go with my friends or family he will sulk that I have been without him. There really is no winning with him. We are going to go to a late showing so there shouldn’t be too many children around; we both find them really annoying when they can’t behave in the cinema. Well, I have been ok most of the day but now I am resorting to clock watching. Booo!!!!! I hate doing that as it seems I am wishing my life away, which I am not really. Me and the girls did have a lovely weekend making and drinking co...

Well, that's all of my previous ramblings that were typed out else where, I can now start getting up to date. When I am feeling inspired of course...........

Ok its November now and I am not much closer in getting my Christmas presents bought. This is due to my damn car!!!! I never have any money because of it grrrr. Well I have bought his nibs Christmas present which is a few bits and pieces and a mini break in London with tickets to an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. Ooo how cultured are we? Luckily me, my mum and my sister have put limits on how much we are spending on each other this year for Christmas, this is great as I don’t have to worry too much then either. I long for the day when I don’t have to fork out loads of money on my car, or for the day when money isn’t so much of a problem. Why does it always feel like you are on a constant struggle against the world? It makes more sense now as Britain heads into a recession, that we’re going to have less money to spend and more and more people will be made redundant and loose their jobs. As reading back on previous rantings I can see I have had many a car trouble. After ...

I am so tired today, I feel like I have had no sleep, although I know I at least had some. Right it’s the beginning of October tomorrow, and knowing how I like to be organised, it’s time to start shopping for Christmas presents. I have no idea what to get his nibs; he has said he has already bought mine!!!!!!!!! This amazes me for a start that he has been that organised and bought it. I really need to get my thinking cap on. It is also his 21st next year and I have a few ideas what to get him for that. We have also started planning a party for him, which he doesn’t know about yet, I am hopeless at keeping secrets from him as well, and I am going to try my hardest not to let on what’s happening. I also have to have a big think what to get my friend, as I normally get her some sort of Archers product, but now she finds herself with child, obviously she can’t drink. It looks like I will have to resort to her second favourite thing, of pigs. There might also be an extra person to b...

Autumn is upon us and yet I am amazed at the amount of people who refuse to believe it and are still wandering around in flip-flops!!! I mean come on……who in their right mind likes soggy feet? I know I certainly don’t and can think of nothing worse. Don’t they know they could suffer horribly and get trench foot or something?!?!?! I can see the point of little dolly/slipper type shoes, to make one look dainty or to go with an outfit, but flip-flops, when it’s raining, complete escapes me. I suppose there is an exception, if you are in hot weather, and all of a sudden it rains, like it would in say places like Florida, then I am sure you could quite easily find yourself in that situation and it would be no fault of your own. (September 2008)

Ok so it’s been heavy rain here for weeks, so I thought I would finally invest in some wellies. I thought there is a need for them considering mostly when it is heavy rain I am walking to or from work and get drenched. My jeans become like sponges and soak up all the water from the pavements within a certain diameter of where each leg is and I leave a trail of dry pavement behind me. So at the Eisteddfod the other week (yes, I was being cultural), I went into one of the hippy type clothing stores and there were some delightful wellies. Needs must, as I was also up to my knees in mud as trust me I went on the wettest day of the Eisteddfod. So I donned my wellies and was very pleased with myself. I have however tempted fate and it has been dry every time I have had to walk to work. I have found myself yearning for a heavy down pour and me to be stuck in it with my wellies. The time came this morning, I was walking to work and it had been dry all the way until I was 2mins from the d...