Never work with children or animals!!!

Portmead Primary School rock!!!!! They've been practicing their school play for the last 2months and they are amazing!!! There's something for everyone, music, dancing, drama and plenty of comedy moments, (and that's just some of the teachers)!! Owen will be attending tonight performance and recording all the action while i dine with the Lord Mayor. I'll be sure to let you know tomorrow what we eat for our posh nosh and how many times myself and the other do something embarrassing....should be funny!!!

Monday, Monday!

Yes..... its Monday again, where does the weekend go??? I started my weekend with a delightful trip to the dentists on Friday afternoon. Left the office late because i got a little too involved in clearing my office and moving all my stuff to Bobby's room. Yes Bobby gets the joy of sharing an office with me for 10weeks....luck him, though i will have to learn to talk quieter, could be an experience...well for bobby anyway!!! lol. The dentist started OK though with quite a handsome young blond dentist staring into my eyes (my mouth is close) until he pocked me in the lip with his needle...blood that i didn't expect and an experience that cost me £12!

I then spend most of the remaining of my rainy weekend in the not so sunny rhondda valley visiting the family! A trip never returns without a story!!!!

and today.......today has been manic!! the morning starts with a diary meeting at the ARC to fill the gang in on Owen's and My exciting plans for the week and then a lovely trip up the valleys to Banwen for our pop-in session which today was filled with a tutorials on video editing and downloading images from a mobile phone to a CD. ohhhh the fun we have! Then this afternoon was filled with tales in the life of two teenage girls in Ammanford. It makes me feel so old talking to teenagers sometimes! But during the miles covered on our journeys Myself and Owen did manage to put the world to rights!!! so you can all rest well tonight, Oh the wisdom of youth. heeehee!!!

Poor Betty!!!

I can’t believe it!!!! Yet again Betty didn’t won’t to go anywhere this morning soooo…. I’m currently sitting at my table at home doing some work while I wait for Owen to come to the rescue again! However while I play the role of damsel in distress Owen loves playing the hero (all he needs now is a black cloak) and he’s learnt some valuable skills in how to jump start cars, he’s getting pretty good now too! I was meant to be in DOVE Workshop in Banwen this morning helping some of the PC Surgery volunteers to set up a blog so they can tell us some tales from the mountains but Sorry guys Betty had other plans, me and Betty (hopefully) will be with you next week instead!!

The last two days have been pretty busy for myself and Owen, one of our local primary schools have been working on a play (200 kids, all mad heads dancing, acting and singing) that show next week and we have been helping the kidz to make a dvd of the practices and the finally event! Step back Steven Spielsburg!!!! So we’ve been working on editing some of the hundreds of hour’s of footage that has been taken, with the same song going round and round and round and round in my head. I even came home from work singing it yesterday, “living in a coal mine, coal mine, coal mine, living in a coal mine” catchy I know!!! I even sung it to the head master for a special treat! I’m sure that the night will go off with a bang and that all the kidz will do an amazing job but still… Good luck guys!!!!! Break a leg!Looking forward to see you in action!!!!

p.s - thought you'd like to see Owen playing in the rain!!! heeeeheeehe!

What a weekend!!!!

Man alive it's been a busy bank holiday weekend!!! The weekend started with me heading down into the welsh valleys of Tairgwaith to complete the first part of their digital story. Del boy and co did really well, almost finished now! I then returned back home to start work on my new adventure!!! Yes, the gardening's gone one step further...... I've now got a veggie patch!!! Amazing!!! Can't believe how excited i am! My 'little' veggies have been doing so well that they are now growing out of the pots that I've put them in and are starting to take over the whole garden so i decided that it was time to give them a proper home...bring on the veggie patch! It wasn't quite as easier as i thought i would be though. The first thing i learnt was not a go to the tip to collect compost with bin bags and a spade while wearing flip flops!!!! I could tell that all the other men there collecting compost didn't quite take me seriously!! But we live and learn! It took me a whole 4 hours of Manuel labour, removed a two foot wall (underneath my garden) and filled 5 bin bags full of grass, weeded the 'grave', then 'fed' it all before any veg can go anywhere near it!!! My excited started to dwindle.......but then .........amazing ...yes the first fruits of my labour...........food...eatable food!!!!!Awesome! Then today came!!!!!! I was up comparatively early for a Tuesday morning after bank holiday only to discover that blinking Betty wasn't having such a good morning!!! So this morning i've had to abandon her and i'm in Glynneath without her! Poor Betty! she's not doing well of late but it was of cause a pleasure to be driven around by Mr Owen! Saved the day again!

Del Boy!!!

Awesome....look what i managed to take a photo of in Tairgwaith on Saturday!!!Our very own little Del Boy!lol.

Pretend it's Friday again!

Its Friday morning again! Back in sunny Ammanford on market day….how exciting! I’ve just past the stall with the tiger towel that Owen had lust in his eyes for last week, so tempted to buy it for him!!! Lol. But look what a found!!!! heeehehee! We've had a few interesting characters in today looking at doing digital stories, can’t wait to see what they come up with! It’s like being ‘big brother’ having an insight into people’s private lives. If you haven’t already taken a look at some of the digital stories that we have already created click here at view our website! There are some really funny photos in Nicky’s story which will make you laugh.
I’m back in this neck of the woods completing our first digital story in Tairgwaith with the circle of youth tomorrow. No doubt I’ll run into a few chickens, stray dogs and a wanna be ‘Del Boy’! I’ll try and capture it on film for you! And then…….YES….bank holiday weekend!!! I’m planning a spot of gardening (one must look after ones baby veg and give them lots of tlc) and getting Betty (my car) fixed still! She doesn’t like mornings very much just like her owner! Have fun sunbathing in the garden, nor star!

Old ladies with attitude!

As you may all be aware (i know that certain people read my blog everyday) that i haven't updated it since Thursday! Although I can understand that you don't want to miss out on the action of my exciting life!! I could write a book...... a day in the life of an ex-valley girl, got a certain ring to it i think! Take a look at this photo.....went to Bristol on the weekend for some retail theory on the same weekend as the Italian car festival, there were loads of amazing cars with some very 'cool' men in their motors but what i didn't expect to see were two old ladies with headscarves and sun glasses strutting their stuff!!! amazing!!! you go girls!! They were loving it and even mangaged a smile for the camera!!! class!! I also had some other car activity during the weekend, poor little Betty (my car) wont start after i'd abanned her in a car park for 2 nights!!! So ...yes...we had to push her, with the help of our AA man down 2 levels onto the main street for her to have a little mini operation to make her better again! She did get us home again but she's currently undergoing heart surgery at a local car doctors!!!!! Get better soon Betty!!!! Mean while i'm driving Terry the Tank!!!! The fun!!!!