Mary

My partner is 15 years younger than me. With all the snow we have been having we decided to have a snowball fight....after 5 minutes there was some wheezing puffing and panting, but she kept up bless her!
Had a nice afternoon in Tutbury today. The castle there is great and boasts one of the most haunted rooms in England. Visitors have fainted and seen things in the small upper bedroom. I would love to spend the night there and see what happens. I once had an experience with an Ouija board that was extremely disturbing.
Sun is back to Big Band night and all my practice has been geared around Concert work so I need to try and get a more flexible lip going before that.

Drain

After listing 70+ floral tributes today i realised what an utter waste of money it was. At an average of £40 per tribute, how much more good would that money do to a health charity like Heart or Cancer. I still think family flowers should be sent, but why not make all the rest donations? The flowers after the funeral are usually just left to rot? At one Crematorium the rabbits eat them during the night?
A very busy and strange day today. I wish the show would hurry up and start as I want to get cracking now, although I have not had that much time to look at the dots.

Wear Wolf ? There Wolf

I had to drive all the way to work today in second gear!!! I made it though even beating some of the local lads in, but I have to say that i saw some shocking driving today. Even though the conditions were bad we completed every Funeral without incident. Everyone who knows me, knows that I love dogs. Just before I knocked off today, a lady came into pay a bill. tying her old dog to the railings outside. I asked her if it was friendly, she said yes, but a bit lively. She told me the name of the dog ,so i went outside to say hello. Putting the back of my hand gently to the dog's nose and saying her name in a friendly tone, I reached out my hand slowly towards the cute little ball of fur. 5 seconds later my hand was in the dog's jaw and it had bit me!!!! I didn't tell the lady but she knew something was wrong? So I hope my Tetanus is up to date and I don't start howling in the middle of the night.....mind you I do that anyway when I don't sleep lol.

Dwarf

Ok, so going in the right direction again now. A good day at work and very busy what with dressing digging carrying etc. I now need to catch up on the jobs that I put on hold these last few days. It was strange not playing last night but I still did 30 minutes practice to make up for it. Was wound up this morning with the local news. It was about a man who lived on a narrow boat and had fallen in the water losing his life. That night vandals went up and trashed his car and boat. I tell you unless the decent people start to stand together and give these parasites a good hiding (as there mum and dads should have done when they were tots) then the problem will never stop.
Did you also know that alot of funerals are paid for by you the Tax payer? We still have a few people come in and arrange the Funeral and after say they can't pay......They never tell us before so that we can work out some other way of helping them! The G in GB should now stand for Gutter and not great!!

tails

Thankfully my head did switch off for a while last night. giving me enough chance to part recharge my batteries. I can survive (as I have done for years) on 3-4 hours sleep but it gets extremely anxiety producing when i get none at all.. I managed to train to day so all is not lost yet. Extremely bad news today that a trumpet player that I know has passed away. He was a gentleman and a very very nice man. We are doing the Funeral, although I am off that week I will be coming in to work, to carry on the day. I also write some stuff for Insomnia/Anxiety/Depression web sites and was surprised to be contacted from an ex member of my Regiment. He to was having probs but he sent advice to me which is great when you are in need of support through bad times. I hope I will return the compliment some day.

Taxi

Ok so this is how it is. Last night I got absolutely no sleep at all. My head would not switch off and it became extremely stressful knowing the amount of work ahead of me today. I still got out of bed and did the work although my thoughts last night on how I would cope were all consuming. I did cope, I always seem to, but it takes a little more of me away each time. There is a chance I will not drop off tonight either judging by the pattern of insomnia and I have to ride it out until it goes. I am still making myself practice though although it is half hearted. The weather has cancelled Tue concert so a bit of respite there thank goodness. Oh for some Zzzzzzzzz

Egyptian PT

Looking forward to a lay in but did not happen. I have to laugh to myself when it is like this as there is no other way around it. However did get a blow today and did my yearly hoovering so all is not lost yet.