shiny new toy
Finally, after days of looking we found a car that will suit us. The Hyundai i30 Sports Wagon. we looked at various makes and models and none of them were good value for our money or they had some fault that displeased us in some way. None of them grabbed us as something we would want to drive for the next 3 – 5 years. We liked the i30 from the start. We test drove it and made sure it was comfortable. The sus

a vet for a pet
Many of you know that my old cat is diabetic. At the moment, she is getting low on insulin. Very low. She has a day’s supply left. Two at the most. So today, we went to the vet to get some more. We recently changed vets because since we moved house, I felt that she’s too old to travel the distance and a closer vet would stress her less. She’s nearly 15 years old and the focus is to make her as comfortable as possible. When I first contacted the surgery, I asked them if they were comfortable taking her on as a patient and asked them if there were going to be any problems supplying her insulin. I was assured that it will be fine. Today, they refused to sup

a day for triffids
Some psycho keeps calling my office wanting to lodge a complaint with the manager that someone was rude to her.  She has made about 5 calls already. That would have been me. I took the call. It was an enquiry for a price. She was told the price, she said it was too much and would look elsewhere. I said, “that’s fine, thank you for your call” and hung up. Apparently that’s not good enough. What else are we supposed to do? Chat? What are the obligations to someone that is not bringing any income to the business, has no cause for complaint and is not a client or ever likely to be? Anyway, I’ve just added number display service to the busin

sunset – a new kit
I don’t often put together kits, but this one turned out nicely.  

Autumn Garden
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been building up the Autumn Garden Collection using the Zig Zag Scrap Autumn colour palette. The collection includes a set of papers, an alpha complete with international characters and punctuation, glitter styles and some glitter page borders.