As many of you know I have had an on going battle with my Housing association,regarding my garden fences.

I have been waiting for my fences to be mended for over 6 months now after they were damaged in the storms at the beginning of the year.

Since then I have rang them many times to see when they would be coming to fix them.

As a single mum I have felt very insecure and vulnerable with no garden fences anyone could just walk into my garden day or night.

Today while I was out they arrived to take a look and will be round to fix them tomorrow.

Shame I will be at work because as James has found out you need to watch workmen if you want the job doing right.

Tomorrow I hope to be able to quote ” everything comes to those that wait “

So watch this space……

I had a visitor to my blog called ….Knifepainter, its nice when you get new visitors.

Being a good blogger I went over to check his blog out not only is he from Mundesley near Cromer in Norfolk but he has some fantastic paintings too.

Geoff has a collection of nudes in his house the last one purchased last week from an open art studio we visited.

My personal favorite is Adam by Alan Richardson, who stands at the top of the landing and I just want to stroke him every time I walk past him…

Think Geoff and I will be paying Knifepainter a visit sometime…..

I am sure most of you know that I work on the fish counter at the most loved supermarket 🙂

I have worked at this store since the day it opened so know all the staff and most of the customers.

Like most people some days I love my job other days I hate it….

Last week we had whole salmon on offer at half price and I only had 4 salmon in during the whole of the week.

Today I went into work, the offer had finished and I had 15 boxes of whole salmon . That got my day off to a real good start.

Then to make matters worse while filleting a whole salmon I sliced my finger quite bad.

I never knew I had so much blood in me it was everywhere and took for ever to stop bleeding .

As from this week some of my fresh fish is now coming in frozen . The fresh fish is just not available at the moment ,too much fishing in the past and I wonder how long it will be before its unavailable altogether.

Geoff has a big birthday coming up soon.

He hinted that he would like me to make him a birthday cake, something I have not done for a very very long time and never a proper fruit one.

Not to be put off doing one I looked through my favorite cake book…. Mary Berry’s Ultimate cake Book .

Last week I made the classic fruit Celebration cake, it took over 4 hours to bake and turned out looking and smelling very nice.

I am now feeding it with brandy preparing it for marzipan and icing.

What I hate most about making these cakes is that you wont actually know if its any good till the day its cut and eaten.

After doing our 10 lengths of Jesus green this morning with Caroline, we went into town as I really needed some new jeans.

While on our way we passed the craft market and some bags took mine and Carolines interest.

Some really nice bright unusual bags, so we stopped to take a look.

The bags are made in Cambridge by Ruth Schmid… her company is called Q here    

They are made of new tarpaulin, which is light and easy to handle. The advantages of this versatile fabric, is that it’s also strong, heavy-duty, long-lasting and waterproof, making them just perfect as a swimming bag.

I just had to have one and I choose a bright yellow and green one with added circles as decoration.

We then carried on into town where I got treated to the most girlie skirt you have ever seen plus a girlie top to go with it, thinking my walking boots would just not match my out fit I then just had to get some girlie shoes to match my new out fit.

I am not quite sure what came over me…I have never had anything so girlie before.

There is a special birthday coming up soon so now I have a special outfit to wear and you will have to wait and see what my outfit looks like 🙂

Earlier this week I received an unusual request from Maple Kiwi, her blog is called

Love in a tent.

Hopefully I have been able to help her out but I am not going to tell you what this request was…..

To find out your going to have to buy her book called sex in a tent, which will be available from Amazon in October.

if you read my blog on a regular basis you will know that some time ago I canceled my gym membership…. then sulked for weeks.

Well today I went to look around  Lynn sport ,after finding out I could get a real good discount as I work for Tesco.

My 19 year old son also wanted to join a gym so we can get a joint membership and he can take advantage of the discount too.

I am used to small quiet gyms , at my last gym I was often the only person there when I went. This gym is big, busy, and bursting with energy I found it very hard to leave. I will get a personal program and a target to aim for, the program can be changed every 6 weeks and will include some weights for toning.

After all that hard work there is a sauna to relax in and a coffee bar too.

Maybe I will even get to meet some real people and make some friends in this area.

The only down side is that it is an 8 miles drive from here …but for the sake of my sanity I think I will over look this.

As someone pointed out to me , 3 hours overtime a month and my monthly membership is paid for…put like that I can hardly wait to go and sign up