Feh!

What the heck have NTL/Virgin done now - well they've given our home number to some new customer. What a complete shower of idiots! So we apologise to anyone trying to reach us at home but please use our mobile numbers until I blog that we have our original number back!

After a long phone call to customer services - nothing changed in our predicament - we were going to have to wait until the 11th before they could get an engineer out to fix it. In the mean time any calls I make would be on the other customers bill and vice versa.

So kick butt, I emailed 2 MD of Customer Service's explaining what had happened. An hour later I got an email from one of the Directors Assistants saying that she was passing this onto his team. Later on that afternoon I got another call from Michaela, who is the VP's assistant, saying that she is speaking to an area manager and was was hoping to get this problem fixed within the next 24 hours. She also agreed waiting 2 weeks was just ridiculous. We're still waiting...

OMG!

Emily will be 1 in 6 and a half weeks! Can you believe it, time goes by too quickly. Can someone please make a pause button so I can enjoy this phase more?

I'm already thinking about birthday parties, shall we have one at home? Shall we do the Brewster's (yuk!). The only reason I say yuk to that is that Lisa and I had some lunch there last week and Jesus the food was awful, Lisa had a Mediterranean platter which was plastic prawns, cold cooked vet, and some mozzy cheese chucked ontop of cold tomato slices - even those weren't drizzled some some oil and basil!. My soup was ok, but had a thick scum on top indicating that it had been sitting under the heat lamp for some time. Phoebe had been outdone by 2 chicken nuggets on her plate (even though I did point to the large size on the children's menu when I ordered). None too pleasing lunch all round and I certainly wont be recommending Brewers food to anyone. Good thing was I did complain and the manager was very apologetic and removed most of the food items from the bill. But still poor Lisa had very little to eat. :(

On the road to recovery

Well after 10 days of feeling utterly crap I'm finally starting to feel better. Whatever it was it was nasty, damned nasty and I hope no-one else gets it.

So what have we recently been up to - well we had a BBQ on the 7th - which was successful. The kids had a fab time running around playing with the bubble machine, pinata and the chocolate fountain (boy you should have seen the mess). We finally made it to bed at 2am.

Next we took my local pack of Brownies (notice I said pack - as in like a pack of wild animals) off to the butterfly farm. I forget how many times I told them not to run, wait and finally told of them off for running off. Pah kids!

Anyway here are some photos of butterflies, I love butterflies!

This one hitched a ride on my bag, sadly I had to force him to leave as he didn't pay the fare.

This one I managed to photo was outside (a real live wild butterfly!)

3 headed goat

The pack!
OK so he isn't a butterfly but still kinda nice

Still here

This viral thing is still affecting my sleep. but I'm glad to say that the throat spray is helping to alieve the pain. I've lost 2 lbs over the last week as I'm struggling to eat (for once)!

Sick as a parrot

Turns out I have some strange viral infection that has hit my nose, throat and eyes. It's been making life hell as I've constantly have a sore throat, my eyes are now all crusty and my nose feels like some one has taken the cheese grater to it! I now have 3 medicines to take, 1 nasal spray, eye drops and throat spray.

I feel like a toxic dump

Apologies

Normal Service Will Be Resumed...

Shortly

Pout

More BBQ Photos

Emily
Jack - EXTREME CLOSE UP!

Paul trying to deny that he isn't really into kiddies toys!
It's a BEAVER!
The boy who blew bubbles
And the girl who enjoyed them
Gabi and Andrew - mull over the idea of baby-napping (I did say they could borrow her for an entire weekend!)

It's a puppet!

It's Canadian Day! Horrah and that means it's also beaver time. So here is a picture of this years beaver pinata in the making.

This week we also took a trip out to see Tosha and her family
Emily wearing her new sun bandana.