Now promise you won’t laugh but I have had terminal insomnia for the last 2 days. This is totally due to a slight mishap which I had the other night.
I was tired on Tuesday night and went to bed early, I settled down quickly and drifted off for the night, or, so I thought. At half past midnight I woke up in pain, it was excruciating, I couldn’t move my head and the pain was shooting up the back of my neck and down the back of my left shoulder. I think that I have somehow flipped over in my sleep and pulled a muscle. I was up for the rest of the night, I tried hot milk and a couple of Brufen but to no avail.
I went to work on a late shift and was walking around like Frankenstein’s monster for the duration of the shift. By the time...

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I posted a nice long blog entry yesterday but am experiencing some technical problems at the moment. My blog entry never made it and has become lost in the ether.
My computer has done nothing but play up for months but in the last few weeks it has become worse. I am now at the point where I cannot access my e mails without internet explorer closing down and re-starting and it periodically closes me down just for the hell of it, hence, the lost blog entry.
I am going to ring Acer today, I have only had this computer for 9 months. The machine itself is lovely but the operating system Vista is a pile of poo. It is not compatible with well, just about anything really. I can't even get my printer loaded onto it because it is incompatible....

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It was me.......

I won the lottery in December and all due to a twist of fate. I'm not a massive believer in fate or what comes around goes around although, those are the sort of things which everybody says or partially believes. I have had to have a bit of a change of heart though.

There I was in WHSmiths, early December, queueing to put my lottery numbers on. My well worn ticket with my usual numbers was neatly folded in my hand awaiting scanning. I always put just one line on for saturdays and usually do 4 weeks at a time, it's all there, ready prepared on my ticket. I don't know why I bother really because I have only won about 3 lots of £10 since the bloody thing started.

My turn came and I gave...

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This is a bit of a catch up from last year. For anyone who has read the 'Wobbly Tour' thread in User Photos, you will know what a superb time we had in Australia last January. It wasn't all plain sailing though because my holidays never are. The travel arrangements went swimmingly but my financial arrangements took a sharp downturn on the very first day of the holiday and I had to rapidly resort to plan B.

It all started in Hong Kong, we had a stopover on our way to Sydney, just for one night. Hong Kong is a brilliant city and a shoppers paradise. For anyone who loves to get an electrical bargain or a designer bargain, this is the place to go, honestly, you can be Gucci, Fendi and Manolo'd to death here. I had been saving...

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I had to go to Manchester today to pick up a pan.......that's right, a pan!!!!! Since Sparks moved in I have turned into a domestic goddess. Ok, the bit about being a domestic goddess is a fib. I still can't abide cleaning up but I have had a bit of success in the cookery department.

People who have read my blog know that I use my oven for storage and the only thing that I have successfully made in the kitchen is a mess or a fire. In the last few months I have learned how to cook a bit and now make a mean Ocean Pie. I have found that the only pans which even I can't stick anything to are the Anolon pans but these are quite expensive.

On Saturday, we went to the Printworks at Manchester to see a film. Before going...

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