For a few short hours we were top of the table today following our one nil win against Sheffield United. Following Stoke's win later this evening they have gone above us alphabetically only. But hey this is a great start for Watford.
Finished the magazine page I was stuck on last night...but no time for any other scrapping. No time tomorrow either as we are off to Keele University.
Saturday, 18 August 2007
Friday, 17 August 2007
Four days off !
Yay! I love long weekends!
Today has been a lazy day. I just did bits and pieces this morning, sorted out my banking then went over to Ickenham to meet Sam for lunch which is the first time in sooo long. I must be getting predictable because the girl in the sandwich shop knew exactly what to put in my panini, right down to the redcurrant sauce. I really must try something new lol.
As I walked back to the car I noticed a kite for sale in the charity shop so picked it up for the little boy next door. Only it wasn't a kite, it was an Indonesian kiteboat! As I found out when his dad and I tried to put it together. It needs a little repair work but it is pretty cool....I'm just not certain whether you fly it or sail it!! I'm guessing on the sailing but this is what it looks like....
I think Dave will take Andrew up to the lake at St Albans to try it out. Could be a photo op here :)
Other than that I took the car down to a new carwash to get it washed and hoovered out. It looks a whole lot better but it really needs T cutting and a good wax to bring the paintwork up. I tried to talk Roy into doing it but he wasn't having any of it... guess I will be heading down to Halfords tomorrow!
I did a little scrapbooking tonight. Not much. Just started a page for the magazine. It seems so wierd to be scrapbooking Christmas photos in the middle of summer....except that the weather hasn't realised that it is summer! Kind of got a little stuck on it. Thats what happens when you have no idea what you are doing before you start lol. Oh well...I'll give it some thought tonight.
Holly is doing a fab page based on one I did for Banana Frog recently. I really love what she is doing but she has no confidence with her scrapbooking and it is sooo hard to get her to do something with me. Cheryl is gonna love it though....
Today has been a lazy day. I just did bits and pieces this morning, sorted out my banking then went over to Ickenham to meet Sam for lunch which is the first time in sooo long. I must be getting predictable because the girl in the sandwich shop knew exactly what to put in my panini, right down to the redcurrant sauce. I really must try something new lol.
As I walked back to the car I noticed a kite for sale in the charity shop so picked it up for the little boy next door. Only it wasn't a kite, it was an Indonesian kiteboat! As I found out when his dad and I tried to put it together. It needs a little repair work but it is pretty cool....I'm just not certain whether you fly it or sail it!! I'm guessing on the sailing but this is what it looks like....
I think Dave will take Andrew up to the lake at St Albans to try it out. Could be a photo op here :)
Other than that I took the car down to a new carwash to get it washed and hoovered out. It looks a whole lot better but it really needs T cutting and a good wax to bring the paintwork up. I tried to talk Roy into doing it but he wasn't having any of it... guess I will be heading down to Halfords tomorrow!
I did a little scrapbooking tonight. Not much. Just started a page for the magazine. It seems so wierd to be scrapbooking Christmas photos in the middle of summer....except that the weather hasn't realised that it is summer! Kind of got a little stuck on it. Thats what happens when you have no idea what you are doing before you start lol. Oh well...I'll give it some thought tonight.
Holly is doing a fab page based on one I did for Banana Frog recently. I really love what she is doing but she has no confidence with her scrapbooking and it is sooo hard to get her to do something with me. Cheryl is gonna love it though....
So....
the results were better than we expected considering Holly wasn't well during the exams. The worst mark came from the exam she couldn't do anything for the last 20 minutes because of a coughing fit. But they might just not be good enough to be offered an interview or place at one or more of the Universities. Well not to study medicine anyway. It now depends on her predicted marks.
However an A for maths and Politics were great. Politics in particular because she really struggled with the revision. Then a B for Chemistry, so with a lot of hard work over the next year she could easily bring that up to an A. And a C for Biology, just 6 marks off a B but this will be much harder to make up.
But I am really proud of her, regardless of the marks. I just hope this is a wake-up call for the next year; that studying and revision must come first so that she has the best possible chance of becoming a Doctor.
Well, after a 14 hour day I finally got home, spent the next hour on the Internet and phone to my sister looking for flights to Boston and now we have them booked. For November! A long weekend which will be great fun because I think that the last time I went away with my sister on her own was about 24 years ago when we backpacked around Europe! I just hope we don't fight anywhere near as much as we did during that month lol.
Then I spent the next 3 1/2 hours trying to sort out invoices from the last year and a half as it had to be done by Friday. Somewhat frustrating as from my end they were accurate. But that is another story and hopefully the mess is now sorted.
So to bed at 3.30am....I must be mad. At least I don't have to work tomorrow...or today as it is now!!
However an A for maths and Politics were great. Politics in particular because she really struggled with the revision. Then a B for Chemistry, so with a lot of hard work over the next year she could easily bring that up to an A. And a C for Biology, just 6 marks off a B but this will be much harder to make up.
But I am really proud of her, regardless of the marks. I just hope this is a wake-up call for the next year; that studying and revision must come first so that she has the best possible chance of becoming a Doctor.
Well, after a 14 hour day I finally got home, spent the next hour on the Internet and phone to my sister looking for flights to Boston and now we have them booked. For November! A long weekend which will be great fun because I think that the last time I went away with my sister on her own was about 24 years ago when we backpacked around Europe! I just hope we don't fight anywhere near as much as we did during that month lol.
Then I spent the next 3 1/2 hours trying to sort out invoices from the last year and a half as it had to be done by Friday. Somewhat frustrating as from my end they were accurate. But that is another story and hopefully the mess is now sorted.
So to bed at 3.30am....I must be mad. At least I don't have to work tomorrow...or today as it is now!!
Thursday, 16 August 2007
Results day
So today the A1 results come through. Holly could have looked online at midnight but she didn't want to. And I have to go to work today so I can't go to the school with her this time. Although she has arranged to meet her friends so I won't be needed once she arrives lol. She is quite sressed about them, she needs the grades to even stand a chance of studying medicine but she wasn't well during the week she took them and she didn't think she did well in them.
So I guess I will get a text sometime this morning.....
So I guess I will get a text sometime this morning.....
Tuesday, 14 August 2007
Watford win again!
Although it was a cup game. Against a lower league club - Gillingham. Which funnily enough used to be MY team when I was growing up in the Medway Towns. I spent a few of my teenage years going to Priestfield Road and a few away games, watching the Gills play.
So tonight we won 3 nil. And Saturday is our first league home game. BUT I really, really hope it is a nice day. As much as I love my football, sitting there in the wind and the rain is not my idea of fun...especially when we are losing! I love the first few days of the new season when the weather is hot and sunny and I meet up with the people who sit around me and catch up after a few months off.
But tonight was a good result and I am happy.
No scrapbooking tonight. It has been a long couple of days at work and I am too tired to be creative. May be tomorrow. I have a lot to do for the magazine and the next two weekends are tied up with University visits; Keele on Sunday, Liverpool on Monday and Nottingham the following weekend. Holly is going to Brighton with a friend on the 29th, so we just need to fit in Bristol now. Oh and St Georges in London. But that should be fairly easy although as usual their open day clashes with Brighton's...as has happened with quite a few of the actual open days. We are planning on seeing Aberdeen in September although Holly now thinks that that is too far away. Expensive to get home for visits as flying will be the only option...but we will probably still have a look.
Hey - what is it with the weather? It was more like winter than summer today. I almost couldn't see the cars in front of me on the motorway this morning...it was so grey and the rain was non-stop. And this is summer? Did I miss something??
So tonight we won 3 nil. And Saturday is our first league home game. BUT I really, really hope it is a nice day. As much as I love my football, sitting there in the wind and the rain is not my idea of fun...especially when we are losing! I love the first few days of the new season when the weather is hot and sunny and I meet up with the people who sit around me and catch up after a few months off.
But tonight was a good result and I am happy.
No scrapbooking tonight. It has been a long couple of days at work and I am too tired to be creative. May be tomorrow. I have a lot to do for the magazine and the next two weekends are tied up with University visits; Keele on Sunday, Liverpool on Monday and Nottingham the following weekend. Holly is going to Brighton with a friend on the 29th, so we just need to fit in Bristol now. Oh and St Georges in London. But that should be fairly easy although as usual their open day clashes with Brighton's...as has happened with quite a few of the actual open days. We are planning on seeing Aberdeen in September although Holly now thinks that that is too far away. Expensive to get home for visits as flying will be the only option...but we will probably still have a look.
Hey - what is it with the weather? It was more like winter than summer today. I almost couldn't see the cars in front of me on the motorway this morning...it was so grey and the rain was non-stop. And this is summer? Did I miss something??
Sunday, 12 August 2007
Ickenham
It was a quiet crop today...only eight of us. But it was good to get away and catch up with friends. Saw Debbie for the first time in ages which was great but no Mary Anne - she couldn't make it. I also haven't seen much of Amy and Sam recently and Amy had some fab news to share with us; but it was also good to see Lynne, Sarah, Julie and Lucy. Monday lunchtimes have kind of gone out of the windows recently, summer holidays and not working locally to Ickenham during the last few weeks have not helped.
I spent the day working on a project for the magazine. It is going to take forever I think...I only manage to to do about a third of it!
What was with the rain today? I thought it was going to be another lovely day like Satuday - not so. Good old British summers...you gotta love them!
I spent the day working on a project for the magazine. It is going to take forever I think...I only manage to to do about a third of it!
What was with the rain today? I thought it was going to be another lovely day like Satuday - not so. Good old British summers...you gotta love them!
Saturday, 11 August 2007
Yay!! Watford FC win 2-1
First game of the seeason, away to Wolves, back down in the Championship League where (realistically) we belong. And we won. 2-1!
To be honest, after we gave away a goal in extra time at the end of the first half, I thought...here we go again, same old Watford. We are so good at that. Then in the 87th minute Jordan Stewart scored from a free kick followed by Marlon King putting a goal home from the penalty spot in the dying seconds. So we start off this season in 6th place...one abnove Blackpool so I shall waste no time tonight sending a 'ha ha' text to my brother-in-law!
I don't have any photos as I watched the game in a local pub. However here are a couple of photos from last year...
Holly and I at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff when Watford Beat Leeds 3-0 in the Championship League play-offs.
And Watford at home to Manchester United during our year in the Premiership.
I'm not sure whether I will go to the cup game against Gillingham during the week but next Saturday it is our fist home game. Lets home the sun is shining and we have our second league win....
To be honest, after we gave away a goal in extra time at the end of the first half, I thought...here we go again, same old Watford. We are so good at that. Then in the 87th minute Jordan Stewart scored from a free kick followed by Marlon King putting a goal home from the penalty spot in the dying seconds. So we start off this season in 6th place...one abnove Blackpool so I shall waste no time tonight sending a 'ha ha' text to my brother-in-law!
I don't have any photos as I watched the game in a local pub. However here are a couple of photos from last year...
Holly and I at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff when Watford Beat Leeds 3-0 in the Championship League play-offs.
And Watford at home to Manchester United during our year in the Premiership.
I'm not sure whether I will go to the cup game against Gillingham during the week but next Saturday it is our fist home game. Lets home the sun is shining and we have our second league win....
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