tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86090667963135209162024-03-13T12:13:00.149-07:00Indra LandIndra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-58901326276158772682010-01-10T14:57:00.000-08:002010-01-10T15:03:45.236-08:00Magazines and catsWhy is my cat in the cupboard? Why has she taken it upon herself to squeeze into the gap between a large bin bag of curtains and some other random junk? Why? Because she is a cat, and that's what cats do, especially this one, she is odd! Eddie on the other hand is sitting on the bed basking in the heat of the halogen heater, not to mention the electric blanket!<br /><br />As for the magazines portion of the title, I wish to rant about the art of crochet magazine! It doesn't exist, I refuse to accept it does! I have seen the website and and advert on the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">tv</span>, but the magazine itself is more allusive than a shop assistant in New Look! Many shops have been searched, only to produce nothing more than, 'oh we are out of stock, but trying to get some more'. I think this to be lies! I have instructed Mum to look in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Wigan</span> tomorrow, she is at the dentist there and so has to walk passed many newsagents and shops to get to the train station. I shall be oh so upset if she gets here tomorrow without it, I think issue 2 comes out soon too! *sulk*Indra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-11551262282150202852009-12-27T10:42:00.000-08:002009-12-27T10:51:59.810-08:00Christmasness!Bloody Christmas!<br />The best thing about Christmas has to be Christmas Day! The reason? It's the end of all the build and bollocks that starts in August! If you don't have something by Christmas Day then you aren't going to have it, so you can't worry about things anymore! Plus, it's a day of doing very little, which is more than welcome after all the frantic shopping and worrying about whether Aunty Margo already has this set of jams, or if Great Uncle Derek will like this set of rachets. Ragh!<br />Anyway, it's all over now, just got New Year to get over with! I always feel that New Year's eve is always a let down somehow, it's never the big amazing wonderous event that you see on tv and things, not to mention nobody ever knows what they are doing!<br /><br />Over all, I say RAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa......Indra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-48246066710374046862009-09-25T06:22:00.000-07:002009-09-25T06:33:46.248-07:00The gibbering idiot with midnight mashFirst week of classes is over, and I think the course is going to be good! I've met some nice people and my tutors all seem nice, which is always good! I just wish I could stop talking! I'm still in scared mode so I keep talking, I must look ever so confident and friendly and things but I just feel like such an idiot! All I want to do is sit in a corner with my mouth closed, but no it takes over and I waffle! <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">egh</span>! I should start to relax soon, and hopefully shut the hell up! I'm sure everyone hates me, I'm so sodding annoying!!!<br /><br />Met a Finnish guy too, and can I remember any of my Finnish, no! Always happens, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">I'm</span> fine but as soon as I need to use it the confidence and words vanish from my mind! May be a good excuse to get the books back out though, I'm sure my standards have dropped terribly with lack use, which is a shame really as I got quite good at one point! May help my <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">English</span> grammar too, get the verb classes and things like that stuck in my head. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Hmmm</span>...<br /><br />Went out last night too, that was weird, but nice! Cheap night at <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Adelphi</span> with Stu, Ian and Sarah. I like their company I think we make a nice little group of friends. Hoping to go bowling sometime soon with them too, it's only round the corner too. Not to sure how I will cope with bowling with my crappy hands, but it will be funny if nothing else!<br /><br />In random news, I burned my hand making instant mash at midnight last night! I blame the bowls, I poured the water in from the kettle and it <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">slouched</span> round and up the other side burning my hand, which was annoying, but at least I don't have much feeling in them ha ha!<br /><br />Nicky found a <a href="http://perfectpandas.com/2008/01/08/panda-bread/">recipe for panda bread today</a>, I'm going to have to make some, not too sure how it will come out gluten free, but it's worth a go. Could be good at parties and things, could make all sorts of shapes and colors etc....<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">hmmmm</span>Indra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-17919687583660490902009-09-13T10:21:00.000-07:002009-09-13T10:34:24.798-07:00soil and catsI finally got some soil today!!!! The garden centre we got it from was a bit wierd though, they were just about to close the gate but let us in anyway, and we got said soil (and some pansys) then they drove out after us. They don't even close the door, just put a piece of wood across so the rabbits don't get in! Weird!<br />We went to a garden centre before hand but it was one of those silly ones that's expensive and sells daft things like wellies and candles. They had a cat though, he was lovely I rubbed his belly and made plans to steal him!<br /><br />I start uni tomorrow and I'm starting to get scared now, I'm not worried about the course but all those people! Egh! I think I'm just going to try to get to uni a touch early each lesson, that way I can be seated and things already. I shall hide under the desks!Indra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-16065686963857556232009-09-07T06:21:00.000-07:002009-09-07T06:34:32.494-07:00Been attacking the nasturtiums today, they need cutting back, I've hacked back about half of them, didn't want to get rid of them all as the bees likes them, so I will wait now until they finish <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">flowering</span> and start to die off. I can't believe how many seeds they have made though! I have so many in tubs drying out, and more yet outside on the soil and still on the plants, I'm going to have to give them out to people on the street! :P<br /><br />I start back at uni next week, I can't wait, I'm so excited quite like a child at <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Christmas</span>! I'm bit scared though, so many new people and new schedule etc, I think I shall hide in a corner and become that odd girl who never speaks and is always in the library! Bit bothered about the lighting too thanks to my crap eyes, but the optometrist at the hospital said I should get some tinted glasses from the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">opticians</span>, shouldn't cost too much either as I don't need any prescription lenses. I had a bit of a look about the other day and I should be able to get some for less than £40 which is quite good, I may get some tomorrow when I go shopping with mum. It has also been recommended, by more than one doctor, that I get checked for dyslexia, as I can't focus on pages of text very well, even though I can read, I'm not thick before people start to think that of me!Indra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-68951476097317360672009-08-13T08:09:00.000-07:002009-08-13T08:15:59.966-07:00I'm making soap today! They are for my friend's hen night on Saturday, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">goodie</span> bags are being made for everyone and I said I would make some soaps to go in. I've done some strawberries, and some clear round soaps with red hearts in them. Just waiting for them to cool and finish now and then I will be packaging and photographing them, of course.<br /><br />Someone in the local area has lost their cat, I feel so sorry for them, I keep looking for it as it's only from two streets away. They have put adverts on the lampposts and I just heard it read out on the lost pets section on Radio <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Lancashire</span>, so sad, I hope they find her, I will keep looking!<br /><br />I've been entering magazine competitions again, just puzzles in the weekly magazines. I like to fill them in anyway, so I may as well send in the answers and see if I can get some cash out of it, costs nothing to do as you can enter online! May send in some 'tips' and some photos to see if I can get on those pages too! I shall take over the world of women's weekly magazines! That reminds me, it's Thursday, My Weekly is out today, I shall have to ask Stu to pick it up for me on his way back from work. I have a story in my mind that I'm going to write and send in, would be nice to see my writing in a magazine, don' know what name to use though, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">hmmmm</span>?Indra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-47516360309745975232009-08-05T06:50:00.000-07:002009-08-05T07:06:55.746-07:00Stu is off work this week and it's going quite nicely! Mum stayed over on Sunday night and she spoiled us with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Dominos</span> pizza and a bottle of red wine! Monday was spent in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Wigan</span>, sadly another trip to the dentist for a drilling of the face, but that's it now for another six months, and hopefully that will be just a check up with no work......hopefully!!! Anyway, as normal I got compensatory books, quite a few in fact, but The Works have another sale on so they were super cheap! I do love it there, I miss the one we used to have in Preston, I hope it will come back, the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Wigan</span> one re-opened so there is hope for it!<br /><br />Saturday was <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">meant</span> to be a day rest for me, however that morning I got a letter from the hospital telling me I had an appointment that day! So off we went to the eye people and spent a fun filled three hours in Royal Preston Hospital. My eye sight is great I have no problems with the usual glasses type stuffs, and they did my eye pressure too which is weird! They put numbing drops into your eye and then touch your eyeball with what can best be described as a giant ballpoint pen. It's so strange as you don't blink or move away or anything! So, I'm going back in two months time, and in the mean time I will see (pardon the pun) some other eye folks, to test for micro squints, dyslexia, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Irlen</span> syndrome and various other randomness. It's looking like I do have some sort of eye/visual type <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">rubbishness</span>, but what it is still remains a surprise! :)<br /><br />We are having some friends over for dinner tonight which should be nice. Stu is cooking as I'm half dead, honey and mustard chicken, which I'm looking forward too, it's something I quite like! I'm going to make a chocolate torte, but Stu is going to have to do the whipping of the cream, under my direction of course! ;)<br /><br />Cat related news: Lucy likes <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Doritos</span>, Eddie likes chocolate, so we have to hide these things now to stop them getting ill, and both cats can't be fobbed off with crushing worming tablets into their food!<em></em>Indra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-62987229068008653632009-07-23T11:55:00.000-07:002009-08-05T06:49:28.980-07:00Death and GarlicDiscovered two of our fish have died today, and the others are seriously not looking good, severe fin rot has set in! I blame Pets at Home, the tank was fine, we buy two new fish, and *poof* death and destruction in an aquatic type manner! As I type Stu is wondering the aisles of Pets at Home with a sample of the tank's water and a generally saddened and annoyed manner. Let's hope we can save the others! Stu has threatened to get rid of the tank if they all die, I would find that quite sad though as I do like the fish, but it is a lot of work for Stu, cleaning them out and things. Anyway, we shall see how it goes.<br /><br />I have done a tiny bit of gardening today, not too much though as I feel rather off at the moment. I trimmed back the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">nasturtians</span> and hanging tomatoes, I'm hoping to get quite a few tomatoes in the next couple of weeks, it's full! I also <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">re potted</span> the garlic, as it has been slowly drowning! I took the bulbs out, which have come on loads, emptied out the waterlogged soil, popped two holes in the bottom of the trough and replanted with new soil. Hopefully, they will come on a little faster now they don't need armbands!<br />I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">rehomed</span> some <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">caterpillars</span> too, they are most welcome to chill out on the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">nasturtians</span> as there is an abundance of them, but they get <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">forcibly</span> removed from anywhere else! After looking at a website I have found out that I moved two cabbage white butterfly <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">caterpillers</span>, one <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">drinkermoth</span> and another <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">spikey</span> one that seems to be 'helpfully' labelled 53, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">ahhh</span> well!<br /><br />In cat news, Lucy has decided she is partial to coffee cake! *sigh* Part cat, part <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Labrador</span>!Indra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-84926072772488621372009-07-22T04:12:00.000-07:002009-07-22T04:47:14.050-07:00University and presentsI got a letter yesterday telling me I've got into university, so in September I shall once again be gracing the corridors of UCLAN. I'm really looking forward to it and wish it was next week I was starting! I hope the funding won't be a problem, it shouldn't be, I know I'm eligible for various things, but the worry is always there. I will fill in the forms soon, most of them aren't available yet. And yes, me being me, I have even started my book list, I think it's good to be organised and I just knew that I wouldn't be able to afford lots of books all in one go at the start of term, plus if I know in advance I can keep an eye out in the charity shops, and hopefully save some money, which I always need to do!<br /><br />My friend has given me lots of soap making things, so I have been playing with it all and I have to say I think I'm addicted already! Practice is the key to these things, and if lots can be put in, then I'm hoping to be able to make some to give out as presents at Christmas.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVNVjt2BmRuvJsZMqkceyDrWx1rx9tCENlNVvR3LM_QLcj1hBz0lr2D7aZ46xWbVvZ0-MZ_N0mxUuJGTwpLEUQE2eODA2NLAXRvWvt15kLGMpCSgh8QjrFKlwTuqmzuaWgBPz0T_Kfpzo/s1600-h/DSCF1803.JPG"> <img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVNVjt2BmRuvJsZMqkceyDrWx1rx9tCENlNVvR3LM_QLcj1hBz0lr2D7aZ46xWbVvZ0-MZ_N0mxUuJGTwpLEUQE2eODA2NLAXRvWvt15kLGMpCSgh8QjrFKlwTuqmzuaWgBPz0T_Kfpzo/s200/DSCF1803.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361249465902198098" border="0" /></a><br />Another thing that I'm thinking of as an option for presents are notebooks. I bought a cheap, very tack notebook the other day and yesterday I backed it in a lovely poppy print piece of material, that incidentally cost me nothing as it was part of the free sample horde! I'm very pleased with the way that it has come out, well, except the fact that there is an image on each page, I didn't know this when I bought it as it was plastic wrapped! Lesson learned; check pages!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnH53aPnd_uvq-TGtKuvldZ0FtyKKmEG9-vWi2KxAHXCB3Ij1OhkRgdWEUDk3NQTuR-NNvlPRL-f4UzikLNqN__mzmHa82TklhSIyrYedLhM_lm2mdRYmYJvt5DbOk12S69OB2BlvUXc4/s1600-h/DSCF1799.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnH53aPnd_uvq-TGtKuvldZ0FtyKKmEG9-vWi2KxAHXCB3Ij1OhkRgdWEUDk3NQTuR-NNvlPRL-f4UzikLNqN__mzmHa82TklhSIyrYedLhM_lm2mdRYmYJvt5DbOk12S69OB2BlvUXc4/s200/DSCF1799.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361248688031534354" border="0" /></a>Indra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-17251458151797455112009-07-13T14:54:00.000-07:002009-07-13T15:06:11.217-07:00Fleas!!!!They are driving me mad!!! Both of the cats have fleas at the moment and seem to be determined to share them with anyone and anything! The house has undergone a severe deep cleaning in an attempt to kill off the little buggers. My poor ankles are bitten to bits, I don't seem to react well to bites either, they puff up in big lumps. We seem to be getting on top of things now though, so hopefully a fleafree end is in sight.<br /><br />University is still a situation of great stupidity! I decided that I want to English so I went to tell them this and found out that the course I had applied for wasn't running now, so I would have had to have chosen something else anyway! So, I'm now awaiting news of a place on BA English Language Studies! *sigh*Indra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-22780378528343483042009-06-26T05:13:00.001-07:002009-06-26T05:24:55.322-07:00I blame Stufor my lack of posting! I have to share the laptop with him at the moment as his has sadly keeled over and died, so I haven't really been spending that much time online, so I'm blaming that for the HUGE gaps in space between posts :D<br /><br />I'm still waiting to hear from uni about if I have a place or not, but it has been exams and results etc so I was kinda expecting them to be a bit slower than normal, but I would still like to know! I'm starting to panic too as to whether or not it's the right choice for me, I'm sure it is but if it isn't and I really hate it I can always drop out or simply swap over to something else.....again! I just wish I could do Medicine, that would make things so so much easier, but I can't and so I have to do something that in the back of my head I will always know is something I wouldn't be doing otherwise, it's second best and will never have the whole of my heart behind it.<br /><br />In other news, I may be getting a charity shop! I have emailed the muscular dystrophy folks and told them that I would like to start up a charity shop and they have said they will have discussions about it, so there is a glimmer of hope there! I'm not too sure how I will cope with all of this but I have decided that I will be a behind the scenes person. I don't think that it would be fair to put me on a rota for work as I can't say when I would be able to do it.<br /><br />I went to watch the Sally <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Naden</span> show on Monday with Mum at BBC Radio <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Lancashire</span> and it was really good! We are most certainly going to be going again, and they even asked me if I would like to be a guest on the panel! I think I will wait for that though until I'm back at uni and/or have a charity shop, that way I actually have something to talk about! :PIndra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-46021475010504230002009-06-02T11:51:00.000-07:002009-06-02T11:59:09.754-07:00Well, I've been told I have mitochondrial myopathy, not been tested exactly or been told which version of MM I have....but this is what I've been told to write on forms and stuff, so we shall go with that :p There's a link in the side bar bit if you wish to know more about it.<br /><br />In other news, I hate summer!!!!!!!! I hate the heat,, I hate the clothes, I hate the way people turn into idiots in beer gardens etc etc......<br /><br />As for uni I'm still no further on, should fill in some forms though really, in fact I may well do that now!Indra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-48066442000131167472009-05-16T15:06:00.000-07:002009-05-16T15:16:38.045-07:00EurovisionWell we didn't win but we got into the top 5 which considering the run of nil points for the last few years I think we did quite well!<br /><br />Anyway...still no hospital news, as per, I'm awaiting some more <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">NHS</span> letters to appear as I'm being <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">referred</span> to other departments and being recalled to Neurology etc, there may even be a day trip to hospital if they want blood tests as I have a HUGE phobia of needles and so need to be given <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">diazapam</span> and so they may want me to go in and sit on a bed for the day to make sure I don't explode or something, to be honest I'm not too sure why, but hey it will be a fun filled trip out for me :p<br /><br />University is getting closer, ever so slowly! I feel at the moment like I'm just doing things so that I can tick the boxes to say that I have done them! Still at least I'm getting closer to being back in the classroom! I have even thought up an idea for a future career, greeting card designing! I'm going to start now, then when I get to university I will already be able to use <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">photoshop</span>/flash/<span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">illustrator</span> at a basic level at least. I do have a new found love of illustrator though, may be getting a graphics tablet off a friend soon too, which should add unknown dimensions of joy! :DIndra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-49153229714890862822009-05-03T05:17:00.000-07:002009-05-03T05:26:58.357-07:00So, I'm applying for Creative and Cultural Industries (web & multimedia), apparently there's no moving them on the A level thing with Neuroscience, so sod them! I think this is a very unfair way of doing things, it doesn't encourage mature students back to education at all. Anyway, I don't have to re-apply or anything as I'm going through Fresh Start, the bumf should arrive in the week so I will fill it in and send it off asap, I want to <span style="font-style: italic;">know </span>I have a place at uni, I can start organising myself then, I find it hard to cope with open ends and unknowns.<br />Still no hospital news though, I rang the doctors on Friday and they haven't heard anything so I'm going to have to ring the hospital and moan at them a bit more! It's been 6 weeks since my MRI and 4 weeks since the response tests, I'm so fed up with having to wait! I know several people who have got ill, gone to the doctors, been diagnosed and treated in a couple of weeks or months, after 6 years I'm getting pissed off!Indra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-36911704058350357542009-04-24T11:27:00.001-07:002009-04-24T11:32:19.297-07:00Don't know what's going on with uclan, they rang me to say they don't think I can do Neuroscience as I don't have an A level in science (I'm 25, how is it relevent!?) but I explained that I was told there wasn't going to be a problem and that I actually want to go part-time anyway. This apparently should make a difference so woman on phone has emailed the Neuroscience course leader and is ringing me back....yesterday! I assume the course leader hasn't emailed her back so there is no news as of yet. I'm so confused I really don't know what I'm doing at all, and if I don't do Neuroscience, which is something I'm mearly settling for anyway, then I don't know what to do, I've thought about web and multimedia though. I was thinking I like to design websites etc and was going to teach myself flash anyway, plus if I could do web design I could work from home, maybe with Stu on some projects, never know! It may be worth a try but I'm not too sure if I would be able to stick at something I didn't choose first off.<br /><br />Still no hospital newsIndra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-14568724254642501412009-04-20T14:15:00.000-07:002009-04-20T14:26:43.075-07:00The weather is very nice at the moment, we went to the pub on the docks yesterday with mum and jeff and it felt so nice to be able to sit outside. May go to the park tomorrow, I haven't been to the cafe there yet and it's been open about 12 months!<br />I was in garden this morning, it's coming on really well, I've planted up all of my hanging baskets and there are seeds and bulbs sprouting everywhere. I planted some more seeds this morning so hopefully they will take soon, chilli plants, melons and hanging tomatos. I planted an onion too, I took it out of the fridge as it was growing roots! I'm not too sure what will happen with it, but it will be fun finding out!<br />I'm hoping to go to the doctor's tomorrow, will have to ring up in the morning let's hope that we have some news from the hospital!<br />I still haven't heard anything from uclan yet either which is starting to annoy me, they said that I would have heard before Easter and I haven't. ahhh well!Indra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-69431337888383081332009-04-14T12:49:00.000-07:002009-04-14T13:03:19.549-07:00I haven't posted in a while but then again I haven't really been online that much, the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Internet</span> is boring me at the moment, all those pages and I can't seem to find anything interesting!<br />So, what have I been up to while avoiding the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">interwebs</span>?<br />I didn't make it to the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Rasmus</span> gig, I got as far as the train station, and while waiting for the train realise there was no way I was going to be able to get the train, walk to the gig, stand there for two hours and then get home, as much as Manchester hospital is <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">meant</span> to be nice I didn't fancy a trip there. What a shame I had spent all that money for nothing; gig tickets, train tickets, taxi to the station! Stu was very good with me though and we had a glass of wine on the station while I tried to contact people who may buy my tickets (couldn't find anyone) and then we called into the pub for one, we had to walk past anyway on the way to the taxi place, so it would have been rude not to, and anyway, I needed to rest! It was quite nice to be out having a drink though, so all wasn't lost, just angry at myself for buying the tickets in the first place, I'm always too ill to go to places and do things, so I don't know why I buy tickets anymore, never again.<br />Over Easter we have seen both sets of parents, met up with Stu's family in town on the Friday and had a mooch about the shops before getting soaked and coming home again! We saw Mum and Jeff on Sunday and went to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Bowland</span>, with a picnic as it was a nice day. I spoke to a lady from the local owl <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">sanctuary</span>, she had a sweet little owl with her called <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Tiddles</span>, it's made me want an owl now ha ha!<br />Bank holiday Monday we did the traditional trip to the shops and bought <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">stuff</span> for the garden! <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Poundland</span> has a great range of things, even plants! I'm <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">hoping</span> to get into the garden maybe tomorrow and plant up the things I bought, it's been too miserable today, and to be honest so have I!<br />In general the garden is coming on, I have things starting to shoot up all over the place, even in tubs on the various window <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">sills</span> inside, the office is quite a greenhouse! I need to get the walls painted and some trellises put up now really before too many things start to grow, I'm thinking it will all look rather nice by the end of the summer, I shall have to take some photos of it's progression.<br /><br />Still no news from the hospital or from <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">UCLAN</span>, bit miffed with both if I'm honest, I may start ringing people if I don't hear anything in a few days.Indra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-47569955771558919062009-04-08T08:13:00.000-07:002009-04-08T08:20:02.217-07:00Just come back from the tests at the hospital, was a bit <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">weird</span> and slightly boring if anything. The first test I had some wires stuck on my head (with goop that I'm going to have to wash out) and I had to watch an alternating checkerboard, was annoying but hey. The second one I had some more wires put on my hips and spine and an electrode attached to my ankle, it sent a pulse out which made my toes switch. I think the worse thing about today would be the way the EEG ward is at the other side to the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">entrance</span>, so you have to walk for what seems like miles!<br />I'm going to watch The <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Rasmus</span> with Stu tonight in Manchester, I'm going to be so tired, I wish I could just click my fingers and be there, getting to places and be so tiring.Indra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-69946598721804675652009-04-03T11:37:00.000-07:002009-04-03T11:43:22.689-07:00Had quite a productive day today considering I had a late start due to not being able to breathe very well this morning! I've made a pin cushion out of a free sample of material from my sample stash tin, and I've planted up some pots with some salad seeds that came free in the post, and with some of the bulbs I bought ages ago from the pound shop, they were starting to sprout so I thought I should plant them up really! The living room window now has tomato seeds in it too as the pepper seeds I planted are sprouting <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">wondrously</span> in there, it gets so sunny and warm during the day! The other things are in the office window, just until they establish themselves, then they can be put outside.<br />I need to get some more planters and things really so I think a trip to <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">pound land</span> is in order, I shall work out what I need to get first of all and stick to the list, as I'm on a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">super saver</span> fortnight at the moment!Indra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-60722940013312438732009-03-31T12:51:00.000-07:002009-03-31T12:57:14.401-07:00Been into town shopping with mum today, of course as it's tuesday I have bought some excellent broken jewellery off the market stall, and a few pieces of cheese may have been gathered too (not off the same stall!) I picked up some books from the oxfam bookshop, and even manged to get one from the list of things I saw in borders, so that was a bonus!<br />A man in the coffee bar we went to was talking to us today, he was so nice and friendly, but not in a scary way, he was asking about my walking stick and why I had it, again I longed for the day to come when I can just say I have...but I explained it all and he was nice. I felt so sorry for him though, he was telling us how he was engaged about ten years ago to a girl he had been with for five years, and one day he woke up, and she was dead. That must be so horrible, you must ask yourself so many what ifs, what if I had woken up earlier, what if I rolled over and hurt her, what if she had been shouting and I didn't hear....would take some time to heal that wound.Indra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-62034667548171484682009-03-27T16:04:00.000-07:002009-03-27T16:11:17.965-07:00Today was to be draftproofing day, I got a letter saying they would be here 'in the morning' (vague as always) so I got up and dressed at 8am. This is difficult for me as I'm as ill person and normally only get up at 11am at the earliest. So I sat about since then, and nothing! I rang them when it was about quarter to 12 to find out what was going on etc. Apparently, the details of my house were wrong (I have 20 doors according to them!) and everyone was confused etc, so nothing happened with it. They coming on Monday now, in the afternoon, I would like to note! I would be less annoyed if they hadn't done a half arsed job of my cavity wall insulation, gah to them! They came to do it, at silly am, messed about for aaages with the van and came to the conclusion that they couldn't drive it down the backs, so I could have have the front of the house insulated. They start to unload everything and finally realised they did have everything and would have to come back the next day at silly am, of course!<br />I told the woman on the phone this today, she was actually nice, and she said she will send a different team on Monday, John and John are coming, they proper builder men in their 50s, not the dizzy useless 20-odd year old div's I got last time!<br /><br />After all this I went to Borders for coffee with Nicky and AK, this was most soothing, as was the cross stitch magazine I simply HAD to buy, hee hee. I've subscribed (again) to it today, as I keep buying it anyway! I cancelled the writers magazine subscription too, so it balances out well! :DIndra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-55842402731040774832009-03-25T15:23:00.000-07:002009-03-25T15:25:20.292-07:00The MRI went fine, the images are being sent to my neurologist and it should be a week or two before he gets back to me, depending on how many <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">patients</span> he has at the moment etc. I'm still hoping it will be sooner rather than later, also hoping that they will know what's wrong with me from the images and that I won't need a lumbar punch, that scares me!Indra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-89697759054812472952009-03-25T09:28:00.000-07:002009-03-25T09:35:45.855-07:00I'm going for my MRI scan tonight, I'm excited about the actual scan, but I'm scared about the results, but I guess that's quite natural. I hope I don't have to wait too long for the results though, knowing the NHS it could be years til I get them, have to allow time for them to lose them and accidently send them to Africa and back first!<br /><br />I've started work on a Howl's Moving Castle cross stitch, it's looking quite good and has lots of block colors so I'm getting through it quite quickly. I'm stitching it for Stu and it's going to go in the office when it's done.<br /><br />Anyway, just a short post, I'm going to make a quick cake, before I have a bath!Indra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-30465636184347440662009-03-22T16:57:00.000-07:002009-03-22T17:02:43.081-07:00I've finished the cherub!!!!!! I'm so happy that's over with, damn thing, it's been going on and on for so long! Will take a photo tomorrow, maybe when it's framed, I think I'll put it in an oval frame I bought the other week, I have quite a few frames, so I can play about and see what it <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">looks</span> best in.<br />I stitched a card for Mother's day too, I got to use my pretty <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">variegated</span> thread that I've wanted to use for ages too, so that was a bonus!<br /><br />I got a card and some presents off the cats today for Mother's day, I got a shower cap with a big pink cat on, and a candle holder with <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">dangley</span> cats on that turn round when the candle is lit, it's really nice! :D<br /><br />Anyway, bedtime now!<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span></span>Indra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8609066796313520916.post-31121614296603952472009-03-21T19:46:00.000-07:002009-03-21T19:50:58.063-07:00Egh! Just come back in from taking the photos at Darkcide, I'm not exactly feeling amazing! Tomorrow is going to be a fun filled day of pain and general eghness! I should have stayed in tonight really and rested, but no, I had photos to take and things so I went, and danced to about 3 songs, I'm a div!<br /><br />Not done much stitching or anything today, just sat about being ill really. Hoping to finish the cherub of doom off tomorrow! Stu picked me up some threads I wanted today from the market, I sent him with a list which he handed to the lady on the stall, in a confused manner.<br /><br />Mum coming over tomorrow, briefly, I think they are going on to Glasson Dock, I have been invited too (Stu going to Kendal to see his Mum) but I think I'm going to have to stay in a be sore instead :( Ahh well, Mum dropping off the fabric samples that I posted to her house, so I will have them to play with! I may be able to start a new project tomorrow if I get this infernal cherub finished!Indra Wignallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630451043660772571noreply@blogger.com0