HOOOOOOORAY! I'm so excited! And it's PAY DAY too! YAHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

It's only my pay day on Monday, but I should have enough cash to get me through the weekend.

I'm sure you'll manage! Mine has just gone on the humungous credit card bill I got in the post yesterday! It's funny how they increase your credit limit once you stop paying off the balance every month! "Here, have some more debt..."

By the way Frus (or anyone else who entered), has your FLM cheque been cashed? Today was meant to be the day that successful cheques get cashed (according to rumour anyway), but no-one on the RW website seems to have any movement on their accounts, so I'm kind of hoping someone got the date wrong rather than that I didn't get in!

Not that I have noticed! I'll check again, but I don't think it's been cashed.

Nope, no cheques cashed. I think if no-one on Runner's World has had their's cashed either, the date's probably wrong.

Payday is always good!

I am off to Pizza Express tonight with the girls (all ex work mates). Then on to Toxic friend who drains all my energy but I have managed not seeing her for a year so I am due more drainage!

This is the one who suffers like no one else has suffered in the history of suffery. I will hear all about her ex, the filipina lady who now knows all about his bank account, etc etc etc.

This is the one who is fine until she steps out the door and then watch out. She was a total b*tch on holiday. It ruined Turkey for me so I am no longer going on holiday anywhere with her. In fact I usually prefer to go alone but just recently a book club friend and I have been on holiday twice together and managed not to b*tch or even remotely fall out with each other - so what does that tell you???!

Funnily enough after the Turkey holiday - her son (who is the only adult in that family!) said "You are never going away with my mum again are you?".

Good luck for getting through tonight Peacock, I hope she surprises you and that you manage to have a really good time

Peacock - I've got a friend like that. Her and I meet up once or twice a year which is more than enough because I always come away feeling exhausted and wondering why I bother. She hasn't got a good word to say about anybody and nothing nice EVER seems to happen to her - probably because she always looks for the negative in any situation. Its not so bad now I'm married to DH and live up here. She came up for a weekend a few years back and decided that she didn't like him (no reason given) - so its always me who goes to visit her - which I'm quite glad about really because when I lived near her she used to regularly pop round for elevenses and still be there for dinner!

Well, the weather forecaste for tomorrow is showers but Sunday is sunshine / 16c /10mph wind which means that it'll be too damp for doing ditches but okay for using the chainsaw and chipper. One of the benefits of always being the only female on the volunteer crews is that the lads get to do the heavy work while I do the fun bit.

<lecture> BTW, if you're wondering how chopping down trees can be conservation - its because the Moor shouldn't have trees on it. This Moor is a lowland raised peat bog (it used to be the biggest in Europe) which was harvested of a lot of its peat a few years ago for use in grow-bags (Fisons = ) and the trees have grown where they shouldn't. The theory is that if we can get rid of the trees (and other intruding plant life) then the natural ecology will eventually start to re-assert itself. The trees we chop down don't go to waste - they get cut up and made in to walkways in the nature reserve section or they get chipped up and sold as mulch to get new equipment. </lecture>

Sarah Ann- Yeah my friend is just like that. She can be the nicest person but has these psychotic moods. She is almost permanently angry with everyone and everything. NOw her bloke moved out it is worse as he lives across the road! I feel sorry for her son (my Godson - the reason I am still around her). You cannot give her advice because " You don't know, you hae not been in that situation!!" however she still asks me but now I shut up.

Alcohol makes her a lot worse, unfortunatley but as long as we stay indoors she is usually ok it is out in public especially in restaurants and on holiday. One time in a restaurant she got a bee in her bonnet about whether I had a pension or not. She was convinced I did not. I did but I was not going to tell her and the whole restaurant how much it was!! She got very aggressive about it and then said "I was only thinking of you!". Right.

Her poor son has been piggy in the middle. She ruined one of his birthdays by getting absoluety pissd and got in an argument with everyone and ended up at a neighbours house when she should have been there for his birthday!..

I have a feeling when he leaves home he will not be a frequent visitor to his mum.

Regarding the trees - I did not even think aobut the environment thing. I think we are quite good over here as regards chopping down trees - we just get them from somewhere else where money matters more than the environment!!

She sounds like a real nightmare!

DH's ex was a bit weird at public events. As soon as she'd had a drink or two she'd start getting angry and/or aggressive. I am always being told of horrendous things she's done at family gatherings. Why do they do it? Surely they know it ruins everyone else's enjoyment??? And they never apologise - its always someone else's fault!

Oh well - I'll be thinking about you tonight....

Ooooooo, Peacock and Sarah... your friends sound scary! I'd prob end up giving them a pop on the nose, although I'm not a violent person at all...it sounds like the drink turns them though...hope your night turns out ok Peacock

Hi CG, glad you made it in... see what a friendly bunch they are here, all nattering about all sorts, told ya didn't I? Nananana

Have fun with the chipper and chainsaw Sarah...and thanks for the lecture, it was very interesting, I didn't know any of that...they say you learn something every day... and I have.

Helen, glad you cleared your pavement slide up for me, I was really beginning to think it was something you did as a new craze or something after a good run, some bloke who was running a marathon here the other day, was first to the line to finish and he slipped as he was crossing, so went under the ribbon, but the next day, they said he'd injured himself by slipping...shame really, cos he didn't get to go through the ribbon.

Supposed to be nice and calm and dry here today, calm before the storm apparently, tomorrow, gale force winds, local flooding, downed trees, sounds like a day indoors, better walk Pen and Lew further today, as we may not get out tomorrow...I don't fancy a tree landing on us.

Ok, time for curves...have a good one all.

Pavement slide!! Yeah, make it a new craze! Perhaps not - I don't want surgery on my hips - not that sort anyway!

Is it going ape weekend? Is Frus doing the London marathon? I've just added the word Frus to my firefox dictionary.

It is indeed monkey weekend!

Frus has applied for the London Marathon!!!!

I am so tired of this bloody wedding photographer caper and Mr Frus has just said "Oh I'm not bothered about getting a photographer, we can get one of the guests to do it." He is SO getting a yelling at! SO MUCH YELLING!