Still no broadband access at home! Stupid laptop broke two weeks ago which means that my only access is via my dad's Mac (like now) which I hate! Can't get my internal dial up modem to work either - no idea what's wrong with it either - tried everything from trouble shooters to formatiing hard drive to reinstalling it - still no joy.
When I ring talktalk tomorrow they should have a go live date for me (cue hysterical laughing) as the "managers" are dealing with it now.
Spending the morning at my parents house waiting for a John Lewis delivery for them - been here since 7.45 after having only gone to bed at 3.15am - soooo tired. I've been even more racked by insomnia since moving than usual - seems like I just can't settle in the new house at all. Charlie and the puppy are at home with Bev - Charlie is predictably still asleep. That child just won't fall asleep until gone 10pm.
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Rang the ISP today...
Me: I've been waiting 20 days for my broadband access to go live, could you please tell me how much longer it will be?
Moron employed by ISP: Ermm,,, ahhh.....ermmmm well the marker went on the line today and thats BT's fault cos they wont let us put a marker on straight away so it'll be at least another 14-20 days.
Me: Hmmm, ok but when I called you 2 weeks before I moved to ask how long it would take, you said it would be a week after we moved. Then when I called the day before the move to check progress I was told it would be 10 days.
Moron: ermmmm,,,,ermmm ahhh
Me: Then when I moved I rang again and you said 20 days and thats today! I dont appear to be able to access the net today.
Moron: Ermmmmmmmmm
Me: So if it is going to be another 20 days can you tell me what I need to do to cancel my contract with you for my landline and broadband because I just can't keep waiting. I explained before that I do legal work and our clients don't like waiting for the work to be e-mailed to them.
Moron: Well now the marker is on the line we can't remove it for at least 14 days so you wouldnt be able to get another company to take it over anyway
Me: Arrrgggghhhhhhhh
Utter bastards!
Moron employed by ISP: Ermm,,, ahhh.....ermmmm well the marker went on the line today and thats BT's fault cos they wont let us put a marker on straight away so it'll be at least another 14-20 days.
Me: Hmmm, ok but when I called you 2 weeks before I moved to ask how long it would take, you said it would be a week after we moved. Then when I called the day before the move to check progress I was told it would be 10 days.
Moron: ermmmm,,,,ermmm ahhh
Me: Then when I moved I rang again and you said 20 days and thats today! I dont appear to be able to access the net today.
Moron: Ermmmmmmmmm
Me: So if it is going to be another 20 days can you tell me what I need to do to cancel my contract with you for my landline and broadband because I just can't keep waiting. I explained before that I do legal work and our clients don't like waiting for the work to be e-mailed to them.
Moron: Well now the marker is on the line we can't remove it for at least 14 days so you wouldnt be able to get another company to take it over anyway
Me: Arrrgggghhhhhhhh
Utter bastards!
Sunday, December 04, 2005
Quick catch up post!
Well we're all moved in to the lovely sparkly house although we still don't have internet access and I have to walk to my parents to use my laptop on their wireless network each day to check e-mails. If plot 7 wasn't in the way I could probably access it from my sitting room!
Our resucue puppy arrived with us yesterday after picking him up from Poole. We drove down to Bournemouth on Friday and mooched around the aquarium which was lovely. I'm convinced there was another HE family in there as the mother had five children with her and at least 2 if not 3 were school age. Made me smile anyway.
After a blustery night we picked Monty up yesterday morning and then spent 1.5 hours in a traffic jam on the A34 - grrrr.
Charlie is absolutely obsessed with Monty and can't do enough for him. I'll post some photos when my internet eventually gets connected!
Our resucue puppy arrived with us yesterday after picking him up from Poole. We drove down to Bournemouth on Friday and mooched around the aquarium which was lovely. I'm convinced there was another HE family in there as the mother had five children with her and at least 2 if not 3 were school age. Made me smile anyway.
After a blustery night we picked Monty up yesterday morning and then spent 1.5 hours in a traffic jam on the A34 - grrrr.
Charlie is absolutely obsessed with Monty and can't do enough for him. I'll post some photos when my internet eventually gets connected!
Monday, November 21, 2005
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Been a busy one today. We got the rest of the stuff down from the loft and put it all in the spare room. I packed up the car with 3 boxes of Charlie's playmobil so he has something to play with at my mums whilst we are unpacking on Tuesday. Also put all the curtains and towels in the car so we don't have to scrabble around looking for them on the day.
I've disconnected the two pc's, so all my surfing is done via laptop for now - I must get a cordless mouse as I hate the mouse pads - they drive me crazy!
Did a load of filing too and printed off the last few moving house letters. Scrubbed the oven shelves too which was exciting! Done loads more I'm sure but can't recall what!
Luckily we don't have to do any cleaning before we leave as its a condition of the tenancy agreement that we have the place professionally cleaned. Cleaners are coming in after we've left on Tuesday
I've disconnected the two pc's, so all my surfing is done via laptop for now - I must get a cordless mouse as I hate the mouse pads - they drive me crazy!
Did a load of filing too and printed off the last few moving house letters. Scrubbed the oven shelves too which was exciting! Done loads more I'm sure but can't recall what!
Luckily we don't have to do any cleaning before we leave as its a condition of the tenancy agreement that we have the place professionally cleaned. Cleaners are coming in after we've left on Tuesday
Saturday, November 19, 2005
Quiet but expensive day!
Had a lovely long lie in this morning which was well deserved after spending over 7 hours driving yesterday! We all mooched around until lunchtime and then went to the hell that is Ikea on a Saturday to finally get the last curtain pole we need for the new house, the finials for the poles we had already bought plus other bits and pieces we never even knew we needed! Ikea is just such a dangerous place!
We then went over to Pets at Home and little Monty has two more bags of toys and more than enough poo bags! We had planned to pick up some Nature Diet for him but it was totally out of stock. Seems that the posts on Champ Dogs about raw feeding becoming so popular that they are selling out is true.
We've not been home that long and have had dinner and are all settling down to watch the Harry Potter thing and then X-Factor of course. It's Chico Time!!
We then went over to Pets at Home and little Monty has two more bags of toys and more than enough poo bags! We had planned to pick up some Nature Diet for him but it was totally out of stock. Seems that the posts on Champ Dogs about raw feeding becoming so popular that they are selling out is true.
We've not been home that long and have had dinner and are all settling down to watch the Harry Potter thing and then X-Factor of course. It's Chico Time!!
Friday, November 18, 2005
It's a long road....
To Poole! It took 3.5 hours to get there this morning - leaving at 9.30! The traffic was hell, according to the Sat Nav (oh how I love my TomTom) it was 79 miles. Took 4 hours to get back from Bournemouth as we'd gone there for lunch.
So, no education of the typical type today, but as we went to see the rescue pup we are getting and the lady who was caring for him is a trainer and does showing too, this meant that she spent some time showing Charlie how to train him to "sit" and "down" the proper way the reward based training. She also explained about the BARF diet to him and let him do Monty's lunch.
We all had a lovely time and have totally fallen for him, he's so gorgeous. Just need to pass the home check - which we're confident of as its just a fence height check really and he's all ours!
So, no education of the typical type today, but as we went to see the rescue pup we are getting and the lady who was caring for him is a trainer and does showing too, this meant that she spent some time showing Charlie how to train him to "sit" and "down" the proper way the reward based training. She also explained about the BARF diet to him and let him do Monty's lunch.
We all had a lovely time and have totally fallen for him, he's so gorgeous. Just need to pass the home check - which we're confident of as its just a fence height check really and he's all ours!
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Sometimes I just love the Council - not very often admittedly but on days like today when a big fat Council Tax Rebate cheque arrives because you're moving, they become my favourite people.
Just off into town with Charlie to pay the said cheque into the account and buy a puppy collar and lead. Oh yes, must remember to put petrol in the car too or else it won't get very far.
Just off into town with Charlie to pay the said cheque into the account and buy a puppy collar and lead. Oh yes, must remember to put petrol in the car too or else it won't get very far.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Had a nice quiet day today. No work for Charlie other than the new routine of one page of a maths workbook, which was done with relatively little complaning.
Charlie and Bev went for a long romp over the fields this morning and then this afternoon our friend from Home Ed group came with her two boys whom are Charlie's best friends.
All three children ran upstairs excitedly and stayed up there all afternoon. God knows what they were doing but there was manic laughing from them all. Pretty sure it involved various PS2 games. It was lovely to catch up with Heather, and the 3 adults drank tea and coffee and gossiped, making plans for the Heather and the boys to come and stay the weekend with us in the new house in the new year.
The bowls and dog bed arrived today ready for our hopeful new arrival.
I've finished my work for the week now and am chilling watching telly. The next few days are going to be busy with our move coming up on Tuesday. Several more trips to the tip are in order and I've been freecycling the last few useful bits too.
Charlie and Bev went for a long romp over the fields this morning and then this afternoon our friend from Home Ed group came with her two boys whom are Charlie's best friends.
All three children ran upstairs excitedly and stayed up there all afternoon. God knows what they were doing but there was manic laughing from them all. Pretty sure it involved various PS2 games. It was lovely to catch up with Heather, and the 3 adults drank tea and coffee and gossiped, making plans for the Heather and the boys to come and stay the weekend with us in the new house in the new year.
The bowls and dog bed arrived today ready for our hopeful new arrival.
I've finished my work for the week now and am chilling watching telly. The next few days are going to be busy with our move coming up on Tuesday. Several more trips to the tip are in order and I've been freecycling the last few useful bits too.
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Goodbye My Lover, Goodbye My Friend
Oh, I do love James Blunt - his insight is .....well insightful! Listening to this song driving down the M5 on Saturday having spent the afternoon with an ex of mine was poignant. It was the first time we had seen each other for almost 7 years and it was lovely. We went to Bodenham Arboretum which was beautiful and walked her two dogs. It was a great way to really gain closure and to allow us to really move on to being the great friends we always knew we could be, given half a chance.
I've been really coming down hard on Charlie boy in connection with Maths, his pet hate. I am making him do at least a page a day. I don't usually make him do anything he doesn't want but I really think this is the only way to crack his abject hatred of the subject and to help him as he struggles so much. I'm also covertly doing the same with writing - that is even tougher than Maths - he despises writing soooo much - yet also writes me little notes when I've decline his request for something - like co-sleeping.
So after Maths today (which he did amazing well with) he did a picture from DWN and wrote the little sentences. He really enjoyed colouring today - using pastels and his artists colouring pencils and took great pride in this.
Tomorrow we have his best friends and their mum coming for the afternoon and I have to finish all my weeks work by midday! Been working all day and have literally just finished now.
In other news, it seems we have finally found our rescue dog! Well he will be 5 months when we get him but I can't say any more on here as we haven't passed our home check and the lovely rescue lady has totally not followed protocol. The pup was rescued from a really awful situation and if they hadn't managed to persuade the owners daughter-in-law to hand him over, the owner would probably have had the pup put to sleep for no reason!
I've been really coming down hard on Charlie boy in connection with Maths, his pet hate. I am making him do at least a page a day. I don't usually make him do anything he doesn't want but I really think this is the only way to crack his abject hatred of the subject and to help him as he struggles so much. I'm also covertly doing the same with writing - that is even tougher than Maths - he despises writing soooo much - yet also writes me little notes when I've decline his request for something - like co-sleeping.
So after Maths today (which he did amazing well with) he did a picture from DWN and wrote the little sentences. He really enjoyed colouring today - using pastels and his artists colouring pencils and took great pride in this.
Tomorrow we have his best friends and their mum coming for the afternoon and I have to finish all my weeks work by midday! Been working all day and have literally just finished now.
In other news, it seems we have finally found our rescue dog! Well he will be 5 months when we get him but I can't say any more on here as we haven't passed our home check and the lovely rescue lady has totally not followed protocol. The pup was rescued from a really awful situation and if they hadn't managed to persuade the owners daughter-in-law to hand him over, the owner would probably have had the pup put to sleep for no reason!
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Yet another productive day - something fishy is going on here! Charlie did several pages of maths - some very quickly and managed to finish the whole workbook. He did really well at some quite hard taking away sums and at some time stuff.
I downloaded and printed some Narnia stuff from the Film Education website and he has just started to look at that.
He and Bev went over to the playground and spent an hour or so running about and they have just spent another hour in the garden, sorting out the shed before we move and generally larking about.
We've not done any Sonlight this week and don't intend to do any for the next 2 weeks either due to the move. We've stopped at a convenient place, just at the beginning of the Egyptian stuff and as its something Charlie is very interested in, we'll be adding loads of extras in to this. Having said that, he appears to love all history. We're seriously considering a trip to Egypt early next year which would tie in beautifully, but the heat worries me as does the food/tummy upset situation! We think a Nile Cruise would be perfect as there are trips everyday to places like Abu Simel, Valley of the Kings, various temples etc and it all sounds fabulous.
My parents are probably doing one in April, but as we can't afford their kind of holiday, and April would be toooooo hot, we won't be joining them. Hayes & Jarvis have some promising holidays, and are posh enough to allay my fears of illness, whereas looking at the Airtours cruises frightened me!
I downloaded and printed some Narnia stuff from the Film Education website and he has just started to look at that.
He and Bev went over to the playground and spent an hour or so running about and they have just spent another hour in the garden, sorting out the shed before we move and generally larking about.
We've not done any Sonlight this week and don't intend to do any for the next 2 weeks either due to the move. We've stopped at a convenient place, just at the beginning of the Egyptian stuff and as its something Charlie is very interested in, we'll be adding loads of extras in to this. Having said that, he appears to love all history. We're seriously considering a trip to Egypt early next year which would tie in beautifully, but the heat worries me as does the food/tummy upset situation! We think a Nile Cruise would be perfect as there are trips everyday to places like Abu Simel, Valley of the Kings, various temples etc and it all sounds fabulous.
My parents are probably doing one in April, but as we can't afford their kind of holiday, and April would be toooooo hot, we won't be joining them. Hayes & Jarvis have some promising holidays, and are posh enough to allay my fears of illness, whereas looking at the Airtours cruises frightened me!
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
It's been a pretty productive day today for a change.
With no fuss whatsoever, Charlie sat down and finished his diary entry about his little climbing expedition and then did a page of maths. THEN he asked to make a maths game and I fell off my chair with surprise!
I'm not quite sure how it works - its some kind of cross between a dot-to-dot, board game and addition sums. But the important thing is that he just spontaneously asked to do it and its maths related!
I'm flabbergasted!
With no fuss whatsoever, Charlie sat down and finished his diary entry about his little climbing expedition and then did a page of maths. THEN he asked to make a maths game and I fell off my chair with surprise!
I'm not quite sure how it works - its some kind of cross between a dot-to-dot, board game and addition sums. But the important thing is that he just spontaneously asked to do it and its maths related!
I'm flabbergasted!
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
We both had a lovely time at our local home ed group last week, but it was also sad because it will be our last before our move two weeks today. As yet, I haven't managed to unearth a single home ed group in our new area, and there is no way you could persuade me to join in with the weird "closed group" in Oxford! Who wants to drive 45 minutes to be "checked out" and "assessed" by other people who then decide if you are good enough/the right type/or whatever it is they think you should be before you can join in???
I can't believe that a town as big as the one we will be closest to has *nothing* going on - but apparently it doesn't! Nobody on the Oxfordshire yahoo group appears to be anywhere near us either - pah.
We've such a lovely group here and to go from being a founder member of that to a place where there is nothing isn't pleasant. Charlie was very upset to say goodbye to all his friends last week, and sobbed all the way home. Even being allowed to hold the TomTom and tell me which way to go didn't cheer him up!
In fact he was so upset there were murmurings of maybe thinking he wanted to go to school just so he can have friends. Arghhhhhhh!
Today was interesting - it took 5 hours 15 minutes to write a page in an A5 exercise book! Double arrgggghhhh. I could scream, I really could. I just don't get what he hates so much about writing! He hates writing even more than he hates maths and yet when he does write, its incredibly neat with wonderful spelling. Today was soooo painful!
At the weekend I showed Charlie the neopets website and help him set up his pet gelert. Cue hours and hours on neopetness. He is addicted! Then again he is addicted to all the weird documentary channels on Sky too. Sometimes his knowledge is scary. He started lecturing my parents about something or other the other day and their mouths were hanging open. It was to do with physics I think - I was a bit busy trying not to spit out the mouthful of red wine which I decided to taste! Ugh it was vile....definitely a spirits and champagne woman! Charlie didn't care much for the red either but quite liked the white apparently.
I can't believe that a town as big as the one we will be closest to has *nothing* going on - but apparently it doesn't! Nobody on the Oxfordshire yahoo group appears to be anywhere near us either - pah.
We've such a lovely group here and to go from being a founder member of that to a place where there is nothing isn't pleasant. Charlie was very upset to say goodbye to all his friends last week, and sobbed all the way home. Even being allowed to hold the TomTom and tell me which way to go didn't cheer him up!
In fact he was so upset there were murmurings of maybe thinking he wanted to go to school just so he can have friends. Arghhhhhhh!
Today was interesting - it took 5 hours 15 minutes to write a page in an A5 exercise book! Double arrgggghhhh. I could scream, I really could. I just don't get what he hates so much about writing! He hates writing even more than he hates maths and yet when he does write, its incredibly neat with wonderful spelling. Today was soooo painful!
At the weekend I showed Charlie the neopets website and help him set up his pet gelert. Cue hours and hours on neopetness. He is addicted! Then again he is addicted to all the weird documentary channels on Sky too. Sometimes his knowledge is scary. He started lecturing my parents about something or other the other day and their mouths were hanging open. It was to do with physics I think - I was a bit busy trying not to spit out the mouthful of red wine which I decided to taste! Ugh it was vile....definitely a spirits and champagne woman! Charlie didn't care much for the red either but quite liked the white apparently.
Thursday, October 27, 2005
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