Its Biggles

Well my fellow bloggers and blogetts yet again Biggles hasnt appeared to be up to his usual Blogging standards and for that I apologise.

Life sees Biggles very well today really!
Ive had a lazy and relaxing one so far today
Spent the morning on the sofa watch "The Lion the Witch and the WArdrobe" All snuggled up under a duvet and you know what?? I LOVED IT.
Now this may seem strange for many people this is how the usually spend their Sunday morning. However dear reader this is not the case for me.
A typical sunday morning sees me up at 4 am packing the car and off car booting or up at 6 doing house work then off to dads to help him out with this that the other, but today I thought Ba Hum bug! No Im doing things for me.
So A nice casual lazy ish day so far.

Dad is coming over later and its off to the MOATHOUSE for a carvery.
So I'll blog some more soon
MWAH

An apology to all my readers for not blogging for quite some time - 3 whole months actually. I would like to say that I dont know where the time has gone to, but i do and his name is Mark

He'll probablly kill me for putting his name in the public domain, but Im sure he'll forgive me when he read this.

Yes folks it's true - Biggles has met someone, but not just anyone, not just any old sole, Biggles has met a MARK!!!!!
A charismatic, charming, sexy, funny caring and pasionate MARK.

Mark is the same age as Ole Biggles 37 - well hes 38 next week but I wont hold that against him - lol
He has made me feel wanted, feel special, feel loved, feel needed.
Mark is a lovely lovey chap, someone who makes me laugh out loud on many occassions - not all of them appropriate, but he ALWAYS brings a smile to my face.
He's the tonic the doctor ordered.

Now readers you may have started to get the picture here, but I would like to point out a couple of things:- we are not labeling this as anything. At the moment we just know :-"we wanna be togevver"

Mark you sexy sexy sexy wee mon Biggles wants to be with you all the time

Thank you readers for letting me get that off my chest.

XX

Well dear readers I have to admit the last few days have been fun and madness all rolled into one

Fun because of the snow and it was my days off work so I got to play in it and build both a snow man and a snow dog - yes you read that right a snow dog.
Being my days off was lucky and meant I didnt have to drive in the worst of it but did end up driving on Friday in the thick of it.
I love the snow. I guess i have never really grown up and grown out of it. Its good fun to play out in it I reckon..
So Thanks for the snow :-) Even though its all gone now!

Madness - Why?
Well for the last few weeks my computer has been on the blink. Not behaving itself at all.
I use my PC everyday. In fact I spend more time on here than I do in front of the TV so its important for me that it does what I need it to do and it does it quickly and without problems.
Ive been relying on friends for advice on how to rectify the problems and sometimes put a bit too much pressure on them when it hasnt been behaving.
Im ok about things when I know wot Im doing but the internal working of the modern PC scare me to be honest.
Any how after 3 days, numerours phone calls to the saint (Steve) and bending his ear when hes up to his neck in work and numerous times of taking the side panel off and some £150 later the PC is now fixed. All programmes work fab and I would like to make an official statement and Thank Steve for bearing with me (again)
I am very lucky he didnt jsut tell where to go.

PC all working and thats down to Steve's patience with me.
Biggles loves you Poppett.

But we could do with some more snow :-)
C ya all

Hello everybody and I wonder how Blog Land finds you all today?

I'm well, I'm good thanks, very good.
I've had a busy few days off as usual spending alot of the time with my father helping do things for him - knocking down an old shed, laying slabs and general gardening and had to jump start his car but all in all a good weekend.

So the point of todays blog is?????

Aha, yes the point - the reason detra.
Well my freinds I went on a date last night - woo hoo :-)

It has been some time since I went on a proper real date and last night was just awesome.
Now I'm not one for counting chickens before they are hatched but lets just say it was smashing evening.

We went for an Italian meal. It took us four attempts to find a restraunt that wasnt packed to the gunnells though. It was as if every one in Burton had gone out to eat and blow their January pay packet on food. But we did find a nice quiet Italian.
Then we went back to his and watched Coyote Ugly on DVD a smashing film - great plot, excellent music and stunning people.
To follow Cotoye there could be only one film for us to watch, a film he dearly loves and I understand why, Yes, you have guessed it was the one and only:- The Muppets Christmas Carol.

A bizzar choice you may think NO not at all, an entertaining film and great company to watch it with.

So my friends, there we have it;- Biggles went on a date and came home with a smile on his face.

Will we meet again?? - I hope so, I certianly do.
If nothing else comes of this other than freindship I know I had a lovely night out in good company with a genuinely nice bloke.
I can still picture his smiling eyes as I type.

Heres to the future and whatever it may have in stall for me.
love ya all
Biggles

Another good day? - what on earth can be wrong with things?

Yes readers I am getting sceptical in my old age.

I've had so many highs brought back down to earth with crashingly, painful bumps, that I have now got to the stage in my life where I expect every good time to be followed by a large and very usually painful bad time.

So why has today been good? Well to be honest the day itself wasnt that good at all. I haven't done anything special or spectactular. Havent seen or spoken to anyone really.
But
(There is always a but)
But this evening I took my two freinds and my father to the Chinese State Circus at Star City in Birmingham. and What a FABULOUS evening it was.

I have always been a fan of live entertainment - theatres, music shows, even the mime artisits that do the "Fake statues" but I do not think you can compare any of these to a circus.

The Chinese State Circus has been around for many years and to the best of my knowledge this is the first time Ive had the pleasure of seeing them.

We arrived at Star City quite early and were shown to our seats - only three rows from the ring side not a bad vantage point at all.
Then we were entertained by two hours of ...... to be honest breath taking spectacular human acrobatics and stunning beauty and also terryfying feats of human endeavours.

The acrobats dived through rotating hoops, tumbled across the ring, used each other as climbing frames, jumped from 20 feet high poles, juggled heavy clay jars (massive flower pots) and climbed a slack wire.
The dancers brought colour and beauty to the ring with the electryfying marks of the Dragon dance and shear magic of the lion dancing including walking on huge spheres across a see saw.
The Human Candleabra was a contorstionist who twisted and turned into some very unusal and surely uncomforatable situations with groups of candles on her head, feet and hands - How she ever discovered this ability is just mind boggling.
Then finally the super human super fit Shaolin Wu Shu Warriors performed thier martial arts fest of sword and stick work.
Through special breathing techniques they enter a state of deep meditation and permit the inner spirit to assume total control of every action and emotion through positive thought and clarity of purpose. This not simply a style of martial arts - it is a way of life controlled by religious culture. Through their actions, you could see the incredible power of combining physical and spiritual strength.

Not to mention breaking bricks or slabs of concrete on their bodies or climbing onto the centre piece of a pointed trident and rotaing themsleves around on their belly or even headstands and flips using their heads to spring from the floor.

Readers all in all this is why last night was so amazing. How the human body can achieve these things is only is beyond my imagination.
But a truely truely amazing night.

Thats all for now folks
Chat soon

Those of you whom have watched the best thing on TV this Christmas Day will know that is the response from The Doctor when asked by Catherine Tate's character what his former loyal subject was called.

This has absolutley nothing to do with my Blog today, other than being inspired to put finger to keyboard from watching Doctor Who.

I haven't blogged for quite some time, Ive been struggling with lots of things such as the prospect of redundancy, fathers health situation, money worries and facing things all on my own.

So it doesn't make sense that I should choose to have Christmas Day on my own does it?

As Her Maj The Queen said in her speech today:- Christmas should be a time for families and forgiveness.
Well my dear readers, I have had about all the family I can handle for one year and so I turely need a break.

At the end of October I decided I needed to take some Biggles Time and the best time to have this is when I know my dad is safe and sound and this usually only happens when he's in hospital.

So I hatched a plan with my sister in law that she would invite dad to theirs (some 40 miles away in telford) for the break. I then made my excuses about leaving the dog alone all day and it not being fair and decided then and there to celebrate in my own company.

And I can tell you readers it has been GREAT. a very wise choice, and please remember folks it was my choice.
I love my dad very much but he does take a lot of looking after and I therefore dont think its too selfish to say that I need a couple of days to recharge my own batteries so I'm in a fit state to look after him better in the new year.

I've spoken to him on the phone this morning and he's having a good break. In fact I've spoken to many people on the phone today, friends all concerned about me being alone, and I've told them all the same thing - I AM FINE TODAY THANK YOU. I have had a great day!

Went to Midnight Mass with a friend (Thank you Princess Rumble Tums), did some house work (yes I know dont pass out) watched telly with the dog curled up on the sofa with me - ate cake and nibbles like they were going out of fashion, watched really good stuff on TV and went a long walk with the dog, chatted to loads of mates and spent a bit of time in cyber space too.

Already I feel my batteries are showing good charge. Another couple of days of me doing me things and I'm sure I will be right to face the world and the new challenges it has insall for me.

Of course readers, those of you in relationships or with very close family may find this attitude very strange and I have to admit that a partner to share my happys and my sads with would be brill, but there is nothing doing in that department at the moment, but please do not feel sorry for me.

Things in the new year will be different, very different and I will prepare my self to the best of my abilities to tackle the challenges that lie ahead.
Thank you all for reading this far and not nodding off.
Take care, grab things with both hands and do what you want to do.

Love you all Biggles

Well as you can see its been about three weeks since I last entered the world of blog-dome and wrote my feelings after rowing with my father.

When I was introduced to blogging I was determined that I wasnt going to let it become just negative things - this wasnt going to be just me ranting and raving and getting things off my chest - it would be a chance to celebrate the positive things that happen in my life, the good as well as the bad.

Unfortunately there isnt that much good to write about really.
I could write about work and how we have got to lose 180 jobs in our region, how it looks like my boss is potentially one of the ones to go and so the moral is rock bottom - even though I love my job its so tough trying to keep the troops spirits up whilst your manager faces the axe - especially as hes on holiay at the moment.

I could write about all the help and support Im getting looking after dad - but that would just be a lie.
I could write about the lovely neighbourhood chavs letting off fireworks at all hours and scaring my dog half to death.

I could write about all my friends who come and visit me regulary but again that too would be a lie - instead i find myself spending most evenings just watching videos and drinking lots and lots and lots of wine.

I could talk about how my diet has worked instead of mentioning the 2 stone I have put on.

So you see readers Biggles is not a happy bunny at the moment. His life consits of no excersize, eating and drinking far too much, attending his fathers medicine routine every morning at 7am, going to work, coming home eating drinking and generally feeling sorry for himself.

There are some freinds who do try to perk me up :- E - but she's in love and is busy looking for a job. D - but hes got his new business and family to look after, V but shes got three kids(4 if you count her hubby) S, but hes busy preparing his wedding, so everyone has their thing and have there own life.

I cannot remember the last time someone just turned up at my house for the evening, for a coffee, for a while.
But I can remember the last time someone phoned me to unload their worries and woes on my shoulders. Why can I remember that - because its (almost) everyday.

From an overweight, balding, ugly, depressed and so so so lonely Biggles with no obvious signs of breaking the chains.

Right ok tonight I am angry, upset, dissapointed, hurt, fed up, lonely - all in all HACKED OFF!

As some of you know I am acting as my fathers carer as well as trying to hold down a full time job.

My father does not have the best of health having already suffered 4 TIA's (mild strokes) and 2 heart attacks. He suffers with arthritis, is an insulin dependant diabetic and to cap it all off appears to be starting with Alzheimers to boot.

Two weeks ago he was admitted to Good Hope Hospital in a sorry state having forgotten to take his insulin for three weeks.
Ok so I should have spotted this a lot earlier than I did, but ask anyone who knows dad and they will tell you he would report a clean bill of health and feeling as fit as a fiddle even if he had a knife sticking out of his chest.

Anyway. On Monday just gone I had arranged a meeting with the District Nurse and his Diabetic Nurses at dad's house to discuss a way forward to keep dad fit and healthy - a care plan if you like.
The result of the meeting was positive with the Diabetic team agreeing a plan for his insulin and the District Nurses team agreeing to go to his house every evening at 6pm to supervise his insulin injection. Sadly they cannot provide a morning person as Dad takes his insulin at 7am and the nurses dont start till 9am. So it was left to me to sort out the morning supervision myself.
I admit this wasnt something that I relished the idea of - going to his every morning at 7 am, but something I accepted was necessary.

Then on Thursday I took dad to see his GP who has put him forward for some tests with the mental and brain injury team to look at his short term memory loss. Which is also a step forward.

However.
I overslept this morning so I didnt go. Dad phoned me at 10 ish to inform me he'd done his injection and all was well but the reading was a tad high.

I went over to see him this afternoon and discovered that yes he'd taken his insulin but he had forgot to take his pills - one of which is also used to control his diabeties along with injections.
Ok so again my fault I should have gone as soon as Id got up.

This evening I took dad out for his annual school reunion lunch over in Walsall. I was going to drop him off and his brother would bring him home.

It was aboslutly pooring down with rain during the journey and so I had my wipers on - dad instructed me to turn them off as they were noisy.
He was then un happy with the volume of traffic on the roads
Now I didn't have to give up two hours to take him tonight. I did it because he doesnt like driving at night and I thought it would help him.

You know I sometimes wonder why I bother?? I mean is all this trouble worth it??
I love dad. I love him dearly but he has two sons. The eldest of which cannot be even bothered to phone him in the evening to see how things are.

I am angry at my brother for not helping me or his dad in any shape or form.
I am uspet that dad is as poorly as he is.
I am dissapointed that I et this get to me.
I am hurt that dad had a go at me in the car.
I am fed up at doing all this alone.
I dont want to be lonely anymore. I want people to turn up out of the blue. I want people to understand how this is totally messing up my head.

Sorry.
Ive turned my phone off
Please do NOT try to contact me I will NOT answer.

Good evening my fellow bloggers and blog readers.

Just a quick one tonight from me to the rest of Blog world

CASUALTY IS BACK

YAY

I did think Charle and Duffy were going to get it together though bit dissapointed they didnt.

Thank you BBC for a lurverly prog

Hugz Bigggggggggggles

People say the funniest of things dont they?

Like:-
A mother to her son :- If you fall off that wall and break both your legs dont come running to me!"

A mother to her daughter who is pulling faces:- "If the wind changes your face will stick like that forever"

A father to a car full of children who keep asking the "are we nearly there yet?" question :-"Yes just another 20 minutes"

But my favourite has to be said by a colleague at work today who said:- " We went to see the stage show 'puppetry of the penis' and I couldnt believe my eyes when these naked men came on stage, I mean they have their, well you know Penis's out on show"

I mean like dur. Does the title not give some form of clue?
What did she think she was going to see - A childrens punch and judy show?

Sorry just had to get that off my chest.

Good ole GBP (Great British Pulic)