I am getting really excited now, honestly, I can barely contain my bladder. We are off to New Zealand on thursday, I have just 2 more nights to work then off.....

I haven't yet packed, or even started. I don't know why I leave things until the last minute but I always do. I'll chuck everything into a case about 30 minutes before I leave for the airport, that's the way I've always done it.

I remember holidays as a kid, we used to go to Butlins at Skeggy. My mum would start packing for all of us at least 6 weeks before the holiday. We would have new socks, white ones instead of the slightly greyish ones which had been ruined in the wash. We would also have some new clothes too, clothes which we were dying...

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There I was yesterday afternoon, just out of bed. I had worked the night before and by eck...it was a busy one. I went to bed for a few hours to get some much needed shut eye. I crawled out of bed feeling achy and creaky and made a brew. I was just sipping my coffee when the phone rang. I can't stand it when I've just got up and am one of those unfortunate souls who need to come round a bit before actually having to speak to anyone. As it was late afternoon, I reckoned that the constantly ringing phone would be somebody trying to sell me something so.......I picked it up to give the unlucky caller a flea in his ear (I'm really not a people person when tired)

The caller was my mum who said that she had some news. My mum never...

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I haven’t had much time to blog lately. The truth is that I am on nights so not much has happened except for boring work stuff. Sparks has been working damned hard and I have barely seen him. He is doing 7 day weeks from 6am til 5.30pm and is too tired to go out when he comes home. All in all, I have been feeling a bit bored and miserable…. I hate Winter.

Yesterday, Sparks finished work early and we took the opportunity to get on the bus to Manchester and go for a meal and a film. The only thing is…… we couldn’t agree on which film to see. Sparks wanted to see the new Coen Brothers film which has had rave reviews. I wasn’t so keen as I have seen trailers and didn’t fancy sitting through 2 hours of the usual Coen Brothers Banjo...

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I have had 5 days off sick with my neck pain and have taken my fair share of Voltarol. I have to say that the Diazepam were fantastic, they didn’t take the pain away but they did put me to sleep. In fact, they put me to sleep every time I so much as sat down, this went on for the best part of 2 days and I only took one tablet……Yikes!!!!!!!

Maybe I am just not used to taking tablets but I have felt quite sickly at times, the Voltarol doesn’t take the pain away completely but it is bearable, so yesterday I went back to work. I must be totally stupid, by the end of yesterday’s busy shift I was in pain, despite the pills. It is my day off today and I’m still suffering. I have changed my pillows to those memory foam ones but it doesn’t...

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I’ve taken the tablets and despite still being sore I have been to bed and slept like a log. I feel better for having a sleep and only hope that it continues. I wish I had gone to the Urgent Care Centre last night now but thought that it was probably just a stiff neck that would resolve itself and didn’t want to waste anyone’s time.
Sparks now has a work e mail address so I am now able to e mail him. I have no idea when he will be home but he says that Wroclaw is a nice city and it’s not as cold as he expected.
I’m off to make some tea now before I take the next lot of pills and end up zonked out again.

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