Having a Bad Day (by sarah)

First off the flood damage was a liddle more extensive than we had realised, secondly it turned out there has been some confusion over the insurance in that Barbara had apparently started a claim also for the Bakary contence 🙁

We didn't realise she had contence insurance and it was only becuase it was the same company that came to deal with us as my insurance had said was coming that this became apparent.

We realised something was up when we'd just sent the guy off with an excess cheque and checked our paper work to discover that we had already paid automatically on oour policy - a quick phone calll/emial later and the mistake of two claims became apparent. Then come to the explaining to Barbara that it doesn't matter that a couple of bits of furniture were her's there can't be two claims for the same thing.

Unfortunatly all the assessment that went ahead this morning was on her policy which she has since cancelled - so we're waiting to her from the company (as its the same one both insuriers use) as to weather they have to come out and do exactly the same thing again 🙁

Also apparently Barbara is upset that we have decided to get rid of the bed setee even though the matrice got absolutely sodden and it smells quiet bad.

Then too the insect bits - me and Alaric are absolutely covered in them and they are painful and every time we turn round there are more of them. We think its becuase there is now bright sunshine and lots of festy water about for them to breed in - we are considering moving into the tent!

I'm afraid I did get very annoyed when after sorting all this insurance out the guy to fix the waterfall tunnel turned up and in moving the furniture without checking Barbara managed to destroy one of the glasses my friend Helen got us for our wedding. It would be one of a set wouldn't it :'(

Feeling quiet drained I sorted out our clothes for a wedding we are attending at the weekend and then went for a lay down were a cat proceeded to diarrhia on me - Hydrogen had been unlocatable when the decontamination spray was being done and they warned us it can upset cats tummys at bit but isnt harmful. But I repeat - she did this ON ME!!!!

So all in all I personally am not having a very good day.

Of Gravel and Bogs (by sarah)

I've had two falls in two days - the first was on Wednesday Al was mucking about with the spring and I felt we needed to get on with tidying the house up so I decided to go back the longer but slightly easier way across the field rather than through the barb wired fence.

this turned out to have been a bit of a mistake as half way across the filed there is normally a little boggy patch - said patch was now a little stream which me being me, still tried to get across - whilst wearing sandles. As predicted I sank up to my knee in filthy cow juice water and fell over in the bog. Sigh.

Then today I was out in the stable rotating the luandary when I hard a loud crash from the house - fearing that somehting horrible had happened to Al I ran out of the stable only to go skidding on the gravel landing hard on my right hand and hip, somehow I also managed to highly graze my left knee - not entirely sure how I managed this nor how comes I ended up laying on my back in the pouring rain with Al standing above me asking if I was all right looking a bit panicky.

Grrr... and ouch is all I'm gonna say and that this is going to make waxing my legs for the weekend interesting :/

Possibly Officially an Artist? (by sarah)

Yesturday at the Scouting Sunrise Ceromony which I'm hoping to do a more indepth post about over on the scout blog I found out that my painting of cricket gear has finially come back from the framers and has been hung in the Village cricket club 🙂 I will take a photo of it on the Feast Weekend so you know what I am talking about!

I donated it to them but was too shy so actually just pounced one of the people I knew and said, 'do you think they'd like this?' They've had it framed and basically put straight up and I painted the thing when I still 14 right at the very beginning of GCSE's!

I am amazed that its gone up and was wondering if now that I have artwork out there in the * cough * big wide world, weather I count as an artist or something 🙂

The Bowser Song (by sarah)

Sung to the Badger Badger Badger tune in an annoyingly enthusiastic way normally by me.

Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bucket,bucket,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser, Arg! A peeing Teenager, no a peeing teenager Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,Bowser,....... (loops)

There is a Bowser dance that goes with this too which involves dipping at the knees and bobbing staight back up again whilst holding a bucket or container of chioce!

Today in the disastor zone (by sarah)

I had stomache cramps that wouldn't let me sleep so got up at 3 am and started clearing stuff out of the cupboards in the kitchen. Then went with Barabar to look at linos and rugs for down stairs, got back and was ill - crashed in a big way and slept until Clair arrived at 5 pm. Feeling dreadful but we managed to get quiet alot of stuff cleaned up - which is hard due to there being no water - then Al cooked dinner and informed me an animal had shredded one of the black rubbish sacks so had to clear that up - probably a cat after the dispossed of cat treats.

Hurting lots, feeling sick - the lump in my belly is very pronounced and hurting lots and I just generally feel low and wiped out.

Sorry this isnt more upbeat.

Oh and we had to put the flood defenses back up becuase they'd warned of more rain to come 🙁