Update

I know I have been very lax in updating my blog..life just gets in the way :(

I had a fairly quiet weekend and visited my parents yesterday - Mum gave me the talk about what I should do if she passes on before Dad because she was worried as to what would happen to him so being flippant I said that he would find another woman but them Mum said that no-one else would be stupid enough..now my Dad is profoundly deaf and spends his time twiddling with his hearing aid..I said to Mum not to worry as I would put Dad in a home to which he said "you will not!" now I wasnt facing him at the time so he couldnt lipread so Mum and I guessed that his deafness tends to be selective. As he is getting older, he is getting lazier and so Mum does everything - the cooking, the cleaning, the garden and he doesnt lift a finger. You should have seen his face when I suggested that he polish the cloakroom. Still we had a laugh because Mum wants some new shoes and has to buy her shoes mail order because she takes a AA fitting so I had to draw around her feet and then measure her feet - its not easy when she makes you laugh. I came away with a joint of beef and a box of freshly picked tomatoes.

I started tidying up my office today in preparation for a visit from Access to Work as I am hoping that they will buy me a computer with a bigger screen and that I can have more up to date zoomtext - anything to help my sight really because my right eye does all the work and I get quite fatigued. I also went to Webbs Garden Centre today and bought some prepared hyacinth bulbs and I wandered into the silk flower section and admired their arrangements in vases with solid water but thought that £29.99 was a bit too much to pay - there was one which was gorgeous but on closer inspection it was just a mound of oasis with silk flowers stuck in it. I then noticed the sale shelf - so I looked on there, they mainly had a single ranunculous in shades of pink and cream for £1.99 instead of £7.99 but then I noticed two small posy arrangements one in orange and one in white - these were also £1.99 instead of £7.99. All that was wrong with the white one was that a leaf was hanging off and the glass vase bit needed a wipe with a damp cloth to remove sticky finger marks. I bought the white one and tried to glue the leaf back on but it didnt work so I carefully snipped it off. Now I have a lovely little arrangement that I can put on my table at wedding fairs rather than wasting money on fresh flowers which will last all of 5 minutes.

I have managed to make an appointment at the day spa on Wednesday afternoon as I want to discuss ways in which I could possibly promote the spa (I already have a link from my website) at the wedding fair - I am hoping that they will donate a voucher as a prize.

I have also been looking at my professional development and have booked onto a seminar with the great Brad Sugars (my FB friend) as he is giving a series of seminars on business growth - he is a self made multi-millionaire. He kindly gave his FB friends a code to use but when I went to the site to book there was another code there for the event to get in free so I used that, maybe I shall ring them tomorrow to say that I used the wrong code and see what they say. It serves me right really for not reading what he had put on FB and only reading what one of my friends had told me.

My ex work colleague (he temped in the office next to me when he was a student) who is now a superb photographer has updated his blog. I knew that his wife Kat was pregnant and that they already had a little boy Joshua, well Kat gave birth at home on 6 Sept to another little boy called Joseph Harker Crockford . What was amazing was that James had set up a birthing pool in their front room and took some stunning pictures of his wife (at least not the gory bits) and these he has posted on his blog. It must have been a great surprise to Joshua when he got up in the morning to find that he had a baby brother. I can remember a boyfriend of mine saying that he can remember going to school one day and when he came home he found a baby brother as his mum had given birth at home (she did with all her kids). In some ways I regret not having kids but could never envisage myself with them - I feel sure that spending my holidays in the children's home that my aunt ran and being given the job of fetching the nappy bucket..boy did that thing stink..that it put me off for life. How could that sweet little thing that I used to push around in the pram around the rose garden produce something so stinky? Don't tell me that Johnsons Baby Powder disguises the smell - it doesnt LOL.

My catalogue came from Cavania today and I have been looking at things I can get and have had the idea that I will get some of the office files that look like handbags and give them away as gifts to my brides. Another catalogue came in the post too - this one from Lakeland, it is full of Christmas things...for goodness sake its September and I don't think about Christmas until 1 December...sigh.