well after a hectic week trying to get a letter to authorise the boy to play rugby we finally managed to get it - had to go private but hey ho never mind and i now have a disc with a picture of his spine on it - apparently there were no fractures - its all a developmental thing but its handy to know for future reference.

got another order for a leather item - so all good and im booked in at an arts and crafts fair in december.

spent another lovely weekend in lancaster - such a beautiful city and such wonderful people - up there again in a fortnight - whoo whoo.

gonna get busy now making stuff - got a mirror frame to make in red leather so that will be good :)

well the new business is underway - for those interested the website is www.rockchickdesigns.co.uk. I have already got some orders - which is a blessing. I have a lovely new man in my life. I met him at a friends record label launch although I have known him for some time through an online radio station :). He lives in a gorgeous part of the country - right near the lake district, and when i say near - when i say near i mean you can see it from his house.

The boy has recovered from his motorbike accident and is playing for essex again and the mens team at the manor. He is also taking driving lessons and has his own car. the house is now looking lovely and we are both very very happy hear.

my oldest niece is pregnant again and this baby is due in february - cant wait.

the songwriting is going well - spent a week in poland with my friends band, doing sound and wrote a couple of songs - so that was great.

what else is happening - well i am helping out on previously mentioned radio station - trying to get funding and acting as an administrator to help out.

guess i had better get on with cutting out bits and pieces so that i can take them with me up north - have to have something to do while he is at work - cant wait to get on the road and be with him again :)

long time no blog - well here goes - one of the reasons for lack of blog was due to the boy coming off his motorbike at 50mph and being rushed to hospital with suspected spinal injuries on account of him being unable to feel his feet - all turned out ok in the end - his fractured spine was not in fact caused by the accident but by rugby - the funniest thing was seeing him with his ipod touch, i phone 4 and macbook pro in the hospital - all of which had to be operated with him laying flat on his back - very amusing for me. also amusing was the wheelchair rota that we tried to get his mates to sign up to - they were all horrified at the thought he might be in a wheelchair.

Leather making is going well and i have sold a couple of things - website is now under construction so hopefully in the not too distant future i will get that up and running.

Got a weekend away at a rock festival from 6-8th august - whoopee and then im off to poland touring with a friends band - cant wait for that. even more surprising was the fact that one of my songs got played on a radio station a couple of weeks ago and now people want the cd - so need to get my co writers arse in gear and get that sorted.

the irish country singer is being a little distant which is annoying me intensely - but hey im too busy to worry too much.

so onward and upward - maybe this time next year i will have my own burgeoning leather accessories business and a singing career to boot lol

Having picked up his scooter on 16th June - the boy rode it for two days and decided that it wasnt fast enough for the A12 - which is fair enough - I had warned him lol. So last Friday found us back at the shop part exchanging his 50cc for a 125 - its very nice and I only lost £600. So now he has a new bike - not bad at 17 - two brand new vehicles in one week.

I have progressed with the leather work - I have now made a belt (my dad Father's day present), a pot to put all my leather work stuff in and a round pot for the boy to put stuff in. Yesterday I bought a huge white skin to make a guitar strap with (my man is most happy that I am making this for him and it will match his guitar) - only thing is what will I do with the rest of the white leather - christening gifts come to mind as do items for those into minimalism. I also bought a whole load of new tools to use on the leather - cant wait to use them.

So today finds me making a guitar strap and delivering it to the owner on Sunday - can't wait - havent seen him since the middle of May on account of him being on tour and just generally busy.

I am also off to Poland in August with a friends band - three gigs a day for 8 days - hopefully the voice will hold out and all I need to do now is learn the guitar parts so I can help out with the playing as well. And I have been asked to speak at a women's conference in November in Kenya - that will be 25 talks in 8 days - not sure about that one - but we will see - I have a couple of weeks to make up my mind - so not to much pressure there.

Lets see what else - oh yeh the embarrassing dancing last Saturday - hmmm - my mates band really should only perform in pubs with seats otherwise they will have my dancing inflicted on them again and again and again lol.

So guess I had better get on with the guitar strap - think I might rename this blog - although for the most part I am still on the edge of reason - most of my friends think I have already tipped over and am now in a world of complete fantasy.

Oh and if anyone reading this wants to order a leather item feel free - I can cost it for you and at the moment I have black, tan and white leather - so a choice of colour - although if you fancy something a llittle more outrageous I can get red, purple, blue, dark brown, in fact almost colour you fancy - so onward and upward ......................

well the course went really well on friday and I now have orders for a number of items, including a couple of belts and guitar strap - marvellous. The nature of the course - leather working - and what did i make - a beautiful leather corset (a rather bad picture of said corset). It was great fun and i thoroughly enjoyed myself. So now all I have to do is get my sorry arse down to the leather suppliers and the tool suppliers.

Irish country music is becoming my favourite music - this is a sad fact - i find myself listening to radio stations that specialise in the genre - I hope the gentleman concerned understands the sacrifice that I am making - he has now told me how much he likes me :) - cant wait to see him again - although bearing in mind he only works at weekends it does seem to be inordinately difficult to make arrangements - however if all else fails i will definitely be seeing him in northampton on 27th. Admittedly he is recording the other days of the week so I shouldn't be too harsh I guess.

Today the boy is taking his CBT and tomorrow he has his first driving lesson and in the afternoon we are off to buy a scooter - watch out romford and east london is all i can say. His own transport is now a necessity as his construction course in september is in rainham - and now we are investigating architect degrees because he can go on to do that after his btec - he seems quite excited about the course and his future prospects.

Wel i guess i had better get on - housework to do and things to make - and txts to send lol

my niece's wedding was fantastic - she looked beautiful. i thoroughly enjoyed catching up with anyone and cant wait to meet up with them some more over the next few weeks

i have booked myself onto a course - i shall divulge the nature of the course at some later date when i am sure that I am going to pursue the whole idea, but I am very excited.

Well my 40 year old friend has managed to survive - he was so pleased with his presents from me - he cant stop smiling - he had his party on sunday - unfortunately i couldnt go but he brought round some food from it on Monday - absolutely delicious curries - the boy thoroughly enjoyed them.

Irish country music is definitely growing on me lol

so being unemployed is not all that bad - I have bought the most luxurious bed - it is marvellous - ive never spent that much on a single piece of furniture but it is soooooo comfortable. A friend was 40 this week and it seems to have hit him rather hard - poor thing it really does seem to be a bit of a shock to him that he has entered the same decade as me.

went to my nieces hen night on saturday - a tame affair for me - i wasnt drinking - everyone else was and as usual it was fun to watch them getting progressively more drunk. My younger niece was mortified when a guy guessed our ages - me being 38 and her being 36 - she even sent me a text the next mornign saying how mortified she was

this morning i am off to makro to get a couple of bbqs for the church bbq the weekend after next - which also includes the appearance of a friends heavy rock band at the church - and for some strange reason i invited them to stay at mine and offered full english breakfast on sunday - oh dear what was i thinking.

the garden is now looking lovely and i have made the most of the lovely weather and developed a lovely tan - want to look healthy for the wedding on friday.

life is so good and i am taking stock of my life - which to be honest couldnt be better

so ages since an update .......

I have started to sort out my garden which is starting to look very very nice..... I am now officially a lady of leisure although it might not last long .....

I have had a complaint that I have failed to mention my music composer - he who is so amazingly talented that he can take my lyrics and make them into wonderful songs - well Adonis here is your mention ..... your talent is amazing and I am forever grateful for the magic you do with my lyrics :) In all honesty he is the most amazing musician and a great singer to boot ....

I had my leaving do at work last night which was really great except for the behaviour of one person.. who reallyshould know better .....

Well its a been a bit of a time - however things still going really well. I have been asked if i would like to apply for redundancy - erm lets see now - difficult one - of course i do - i have been telling them thats what i wanted for 4 months.

I have purchased a new toy - well several actually - i now have a lovely new car - she's called Baby on account of her being baby blue in colour and is a convertible C3 - she's so lovely. Then I splashed out on a new laptop - but not just any old laptop a lovely macbook - oh it is grand to have one of these. I can record on it, mix on it, its just marvellous!!!!!

So they are my new toys although if I do get paid off I will upgrade macbook to macbook pro - yay.

I went camping last week with CG and guy who is into bushcraft and survival stuff bigtime. It was fantastic - not only did it rain - it snowed as well and the whole experience took me back to scout days lol.

Well FP has me completely baffled - I have decided that he really is not worth pursuing - he seems to only chat when he wants to and I really cant be bothered with him - and as for the new love interest - he totally bemuses me - in fact I am waiting now for a chat with him about our relationship - he seems very serious and unusually for me he is older than me - and when I say older I'm not talking a couple of years - he's in a different decade - oh my what am i doing - really I think I should just stick to mr on/off.

Right off to do some work and see whether my new man talks to me or whether he chickens out - lol

well white goods have arrived, sky is on, new telly for me has arrived and I must say is very nice - mr on/off has done a very good job in securing that for me. Only got BT to turn up tomorrow and get my landline and then I can get my broadband back on.

The bedrooms are looking very nice and the boy is somewhat pleased with his new bed. He had a good birthday which he seems to think should be some sort of public holiday.

Made a bit of an idiot of myself with the FP - his marital status on msn changed to married so I wished him all the best - to which he replied what are you talking about - I'm not married. oops!!!!! spoke to him last night for about 2 hours and it was very nice - mr on/off has also been in contact more than i have ever known him to be - he is very pleased that this house is nearer than the old one.

my only problem is a slight difficulty with new bedlinen. i keep finding sets i like only to find the store doesnt have everything - its a real pain. however i will persevere. well must dash - got a telly to watch lol

well we have moved - hooray - completion is on friday - just got to clean and tidy the old place. the new place is absolutely lovely - i just love it - the boy just loves it and candy just loves it - so all is good. I have unpacked downstairs - so it feels very homely - just got to sort out the upstairs. Gonna do my bed and hopefully the boys wardrobes tonight. Had a great Sunday catching up with friends - was really nice.

FP was online the other night and we had a little chat so that was nice.

Applied for a job with BIS so see how that goes. Might try and pop in to work early next week :)

Well we exchanged on Tuesday with a completion date of 22nd. So we are moving into the new place this weekend - hooray. All the beds and wardrobes are now disassembled and almost everything is in boxes. The van is booked for 7 o'clock this evening and I will take some stuff over tonight and pick the boy up from his girlfriends at about 10.30 and tomorrow will be the big move. CG will give me a hand on Sunday with any left over pieces. There still seems to be so much to do. Got to get the post redirected and make sure I have the numbers for gas and electric. The phone is being connected on 29th Jan and Sky are turning up Monday morning to give us telly. Its all very exciting!!!!!!!

For the boy the most exciting thing is the fact that we are off to Bicester next Saturday for a shopping trip in time for his birthday. He is not even that bothered that we will not have internet for three weeks lol.

The three weeks lack of internet except for mobile modem will be a chance to get the house in order - i do not want to be still unpacking then so will knuckle down and get on with the unpacking over the next week.

I do however feel a little sad that I am leaving the house - but hey ho life moves on and the new place is already feeling like home. Its all very exciting really and a new chapter in our lives. Its also very near Romford and I have already seen some lovely lime green towels for the downstairs shower room.

Have applied for a couple more jobs - all I need now is for work to come up trumps and pay me off which will make me even freer to pursue my ambitions. I cant believe how much stuff I have, including about 300 clothes hangers - with so many it seems incomprehensible to me that we can never find any lol.

Well on ward and upward - the next time I write on here I will be living in my new house and hopefully be completely unpacked :)

well stil no move - i wish they would bloody exchange - its boring now and quite difficult with all the boxes - its like living in a warehouse lol

given all that im not sure i want to be moving in this freezing cold, but i bet if it goes into nexgt week it will be raining - which will be very yuk.

the packing is endless - bathroom stuff is now in a box - most of the bedroom stuff is in boxes and bags, most of the kitchen is in boxes.

just need the exchange and then i can start movign stuff - will be so exciting

the rest of my world poodles along as normal - have started working on another business plan for the FD - this one is a horror movie - hope he gets the funding for his studio and other film soon

still havent seen baby sapphire - will try and do that - its difficult coz i dont know when the move will be so until i get that date sorted im just playing each day as it comes and that doesnt allow really for long hauls over to south east london.

Was meant to be going to bradford 15-17 but that will have to be cancelled now as i reckon thats when i will be moving so better let my host know - hey ho another time.

Right onward and upward with the packing

PS - hopefully today i will manage not to tripover every piece of dust i come across lol