...if its not one thing its another....

Since Sirius put a rather sharp claw through my old one, and I was unable to repair it, I decided to get a new "inTex" one, that a bit posh and huge!! But I have discovered a BIG problam....my back garden, although perfect and private for a pool, slopes, and it slopes badly. On reading the instructions for the new pool I found out the ground had to be perfectly flat in order for it to fill properly....
Argggggggggggg!!!!!!!!!
The design of the new pool is a rather new trendy one, where you just inflate a ring at the top and the rest of the pool just fills like a bag, underneath, which is why the ground has to be perfectly flat, other wise I will propabally end up very wet, with an upside down pool!!! My garden dosen't slope too badly but there is about a 2 foot difference from my patio (lowest point) to the back of the garden, which is more than enough difference to make hassles for my new pool. I thought about putting it on the patio but its not wide enough, and a woulden't fancy the prospect of putting it on flagging anyway, even with a tarp underneath.
What a moaning old cow I am!!! LOL!!

In other news...as I have not heard from paypal or my lovely little scammer in NY, I am writing to the Ombudsman tomorrow to complain, as well as BBC's Watchdog as its about time someone spoke up about paypal and its buyer preffered policies, as some people have lost thousands in scams like mine, its just that folks are scared to speak up, and I think its about time too. I have already warned ebay I am complaining to the Ombudsman but have recieved no reply, so I am going ahead with it...might seem extream for just £100, but this is a scam and needs to be reported, whatever the ammount. I have also got a complaint form from the Post Office today too...I am not going to let this go, unless the buyer can somehow PROVE he did not recieve the dolls...crikey....and its only Monday!!

Looking forward to iced pink port tonight! ;-))

This morning my ear was more blocked than ever and its driving me bonkers!!!
Apart from the pain in my cheek and neck, my ballance is all over the place, and I am walking like I have been guzzling vodka!!! (not for a long time now) so I took the plunge and phoned my Doctor only to be told I could not get an appointment next week!!!...The receptionist put me on hold for a moment and then came back to say "would you like a call from the duty Doctor?" to which I answered "yes!!!" just get rid of this bloomin' ear thingy!! about half an hour later I get a call..."if you can get hear in 15 mins I will see you now!!"
What do they think I have got?? a bloomin' Tardis??
So "Battlestations" ensued. I called a Taxi and then went into a mad panic when I coulden't find my house keys!! (left in the car at the weekend) so I had to quickly call mum to see if she could pop down and let me back in on my return, which bless her, she did. As it was I managed to get to the Doctors in time but still had to wait 45 mins to be seen. When I eventually went in she was lovely and gave my ears a jolly good look at. Firstly she checked my "good ear" and announced I had a temprecher, then checked my dodgey ear, with much pain on my part. At first she said she was going to syringe my ear, but following a further exanination she said it was very likley I have an infection as I am in pain too, and lots of it. So she has given me Amoxillin (antibiotic) and asked me to come back on friday morning. I thanked the Doctor for seeing me so soon, collected my prescription and wobbled over to Morrisons for a bottle of water to take my first tablet, at the bus stop. I am just so desperate for it to clear up!!
So I have a nasty ear Goblin...goodness knows how I picked it up, but I just wish it would go away.

Hope no-one else out there gets one....its horrible, and I feel dreadfully ill.....

Woulden't it be lovely to blow up the swimming pool and relax in the garden in the sunshine with the umbrella up as shade for Sirius and his bowl of water, and a icey cool can of cream-soda for me???

*sighs* I wish..

No...its cooking day!!
I have to make a massive bowl of chilli, and a huge cauliflower cheese!! which I shall be starting very shortly.
The cauliflower cheese is easy enough...boil cauli, cover in cheese sauce and top with grated cheese and bang in a megga hot oven for 25 mins...but the chilli takes longer, and if I am not carefull I end up with red hot fingers, that I have to rinse for ages to get the chilli juice off!!! I am not a chilli snob but I never use chilli powder...only the real thing will do. I try to use a nice mixture of tiny megga hot "birdeye" chilli's and the larger milder variaty, for a nice smooth heat. Also once made it will keep for up to a week or more, so cooking day is worth it realy. It freezes nicely too, so if I make too much, it goes into portions, cartons and ends up in the freezer.
Chilli in Summer I hear you ask??
Well its not just somthing you stick with rice you know!!
Chilli and green salad, jacket potato, galic bread dip, and all kinds of other things...Infact the ammount of boiled rice I consumed during my travels around Asia, I actually hate the stuff now and rarely eat it, so my personal fav is with a jacket and a small salad.

In other news, I have totaly finished with ebay and paypal!!
They have ripped me off for £100 with no explanation, and no answer to my emails, and the dozens of phone calls I have made I have just been fobbed off and passed from department to department only to be told I will not get my money back!!! So a warning to all paypal will not honour a return chargeback even if you have a recipt of postage. and ebay are totally useless and unhelpfull...well they have been to me, anyway.
Oh and I still have a blocked ear....Grrrrrrrrr!!!!
I am reluctent to waste the Doctors time, but a trip there looks like a must........

Ok....on with the chilii....*puts on apron*

x

About 3 years ago I developed a nasty ear infection during a stay at my mum's, when she was living in St Helens, and I ended up on antibiotics and ear drops from my Doctor....now it seems I have picked up another nasty one!!...only this one is realy evil!! Its making the whole of the side of my face ache, is affecting my ballance, and Derek says when he puts ear drops in (standard Morrisons variety) all this horrid yellow gunk bubbles out!! Scarey stuff!!! Anyway if it doesn't clear up over the weekend, I shall be off to see the Doctor methinks! I think I am falling to bits realy as when I was at specksavers recently they noticed the "lazy" pupil in my left eye. A lazy pupil just means it stays at one size instead of opening and closing in bright light like a normal pupil...its so bad the optitician coulden't get a proper photo of my retina. I asked her about it and guess what??
"Oh you will have to see your Doctor about that!"
Why on earth should I see my Doctor about my eye when its an optitions job??...a bit of "passing the buck" I suspect...but I suspect it might need to be operated on. It dosen't realy affect my sight (which is awfull without my glasses) but close up it just makes me look a bit "evil" as one eye is a different shape to the other....eemmmm wonders if Frankenstien needs an assistant perhaps!!
In other news I seem too have a problam with my fishtank at the moment!
For days now the water has turned a horrid murkey green, dispite 3 50% water changes so yesterday evening Derek and took a mad dash to Pets at home for a whole new filtre set, and did yet another water change, but to no avail...the water is still green this morning and my poor fish look well depressed, so I can feel some water testing coming on...and perhaps another water change.....
Looks like I am in for a fun day!!!!!!!........NOT!!

BACK soon x x

Following the literal tons of recent hassle I have had with ebay, I phoned some customer service boy yesterday and "railroaded" him about the missing money from my account....this morning I find that half of it has returned and I am happy with that, but their answer to my "giving this little schoolboy" a piece of my mind they have decided to give me a warning strike. I can't be bothered with them again I am afraid...Their fees are far to high, their policies are all to-cock, and their feedback system is compleatly unfair...So Richard, you were right afterall...I have gone over to Amazon and listed my "Davros collection over there!!!
I have FINISHED WITH EBAY!!!
So I guess now I shall be going through all my videos!!! LOL....BOOKS, CD's to see if I can make some pocket money!
Anyway a kind gentleman has asked me if I will do some "job lot" stained glass work for him, but we still have to negociate a price. I am just waiting back for him now....I can do the work but I had to explain that my art takes ages to dry, so each piece wont be ready for a week....
Belive me...paint drying is the least of my worries at the moment.........