Why?

Posted on January 24, 2010
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Why do I still bother?

Maybe because I care…

Why do I care?

Maybe because I’m human, or just stupid.

In the end the result is the same: a waste of time and patience and nothing changes…

Not even I change, cos I keep trying and hoping even though there are no results… sigh…

All is white

Posted on January 7, 2010
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A fantastic picture of Britain! Nothing but white.

I love snow but it getting too much. Fortunately we haven’t had to leave the house lately but tomorrow we do and I can’t think of leaving the driveway with our car that has no fancy technology to control it (no traction control or even ABS).

Even though I haven’t left the house today I can tell it’s cold – the normal setting for the heating are not enough to keep us cosy as before. -10 is the forecast for tonight :o.

The only problem is that there is no sign of things getting better – more snow for the weekend- and the councils are running out of grit which means even more icy roads! Lets hope for the best and that if Tubbs decides to make an early appearance, we have a safe trip.

In the mean time I am enjoying the white!

Snow – is it me?

Posted on January 4, 2010
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Or has it snowed more on the last couple of months than on the last 4 years?

Weather warning again tonight, although precaution is advised on trusting weather predictions.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

Posted on January 2, 2010
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Means staying at home though.

It’s alright for some…

Posted on December 17, 2009
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The Portuguese consulate in London is closed on English holidays AND Portuguese! Nice place to work…

English language

Posted on December 17, 2009
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It makes it very difficult for foreign people to learn how to spell in English when you have 300 different ways of spelling the same name!

Not to mention that some names are good for boys and girls which can be rather embarrassing for me. I usually get it wrong :$

That said, I’m sure Portuguese has some of these problems as well – it is a very complicated language to learn.

Mmmmmm

Posted on December 12, 2009
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Because there is not much I can do to help around the house I decided that I should at least do something useful and do the… cooking :o

People who know me know I’m a disaster in the kitchen and that I hate cooking but since it’s about the only thing I can do that doesn’t require too much effort I decided to give it a go.

As I don’t know how to cook and have to follow a recipe I thought it’s best to follow a Portuguese recipe (without veg cos Russ doesn’t like them). Something with chicken which we had defrosting. So I went with the chicken rice in the oven recipe and also use the Portuguese chorico my dad sent me.

One hour later (and a few rest breaks) it was done. I am happy to say that it really tastes like home! Mmmm! Unfortunately for Russ this means it is a taste he is not very used to but considering we have enough for a couple of days, he’ll have time to get used to it ;)

Maybe it’s because I have a cold but it’s really tasty, I’m impressed :D

Happy Cat

Sick

Posted on December 12, 2009
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As if it wasn’t enough that I felt useless because the pregnancy is preventing me from doing everything that needs to be done, I decided to get ill. It’s not a very common thing in me. I get 2 or 3 colds in a year and they only last for a couple of days. Not this one tough :(

I’ve been feeling miserable for 4 days now and no signs of getting better. I sleep even less than I did because of the blocked nose, sneezing and bleeding from my nose and there is nothing I can do about it. The only thing I can have is paracetamol which never worked for me anyway.

Just last night I couldn’t sleep after 3am so I had to get up and try to get some rest on the sofa so that Russ could get some sleep. A flea wouldn’t find this sofa comfortable and with my big bump and runny nose I can tell you rest is not a thing you can do on it.

So more pressure on Russ to get things done. He’s been very good though and the fact that I lost my appetite alerted him to the fact that I might be really ill and he makes lovely honey and lemon hot drinks ;)

Because I can’t do anything for more than 5 min without having to sit down an rest, my frustration is turning to bad temper. I hate being sick!!!! :@

Anyway share a thought for Russ hat has to deal with a pregnant, ill, bad tempered woman and to all the business work and house stuff by himself. Besides I decided that tonight I won’t be he one sleeping on the sofa, seems fair to me… :P

People – shocking!…

Posted on December 1, 2009
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I still get shocked by some people’s behaviour. Maybe it’s just my impression but I have been faced with some very unpleasant behaviour in this country. Maybe I was just lucky to never see it in Portugal or my general group of acquaintances were just very special.

Two examples:

When I was waiting for an ultrasound at the hospital the waiting room was packed with pregnant women and their partners. I was lucky that there was one seat left and Russ just stood next to me. One heavily pregnant woman came in with her partner and she was clearly tired and uncomfortable and looking around desperate for a seat.

NONE OF THE MEN GOT UP AND OFFERED HER A SEAT! How is this possible???

It was only after she stood there for ages, got out and then came back and stood again for ages that a young man got up and asked her to sit down. Even though I was tired as well (and very big) I was about to get up and give her my own seat (not without making a loud remark that would get some faces red). This is unbelievable in any country but especially in the country famous worldwide by it’s gentlemen’s politeness!

On a less shocking note but that I had to endure for longer, on a restaurant table a conversation was going on between 3 women and a man. They worked at the same place and the man was the boss in some department. The women looked like a pack of wolves surrounding the lamb and asking him all kinds of confidential questions about work. The one that excited them the most was interrogating him on who would be fired next (not them of course as they weren’t in the same department). They started naming people asking if they were next, saying who they would think should be next and the guy just tried to be polite and was obviously uncomfortable not wanting to give away anything. My only comment to Russ was how can people find so much pleasure on gossiping about who will lose their jobs next? Specially in this current climate! There are some very small people in this world.

I just hope that when I get back to work I don’t have to put up with this kind of behaviour. Or that I never need a seat anywhere while I’m pregnant.

Moving: It all comes together

Posted on November 27, 2009
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After 4 weeks living at Russ’s parents, not being able to find any of our stuff and living with boxes all around (see this post), the day we got the keys to our house finally arrived! 18th November :D

We started bringing things as soon as we could but because we didn’t have a van this time it took a lot longer. Some of the furniture we had to take apart cos it wouldn’t fit in either of the cars. Endless trips from us and Russ’s dad (we couldn’t have made it without him) later we finally had all our stuff in the house by Sunday. With a little extra help from Scott, Lee and Sophie, all the heavy furniture was on the right floor of the house. Now all we had to do was unbox everything. Uff…

First things first: the kitchen so we could live and a bed. Then everything else could take its time. And it did. We still have loads to do but the main rooms of the house are done. We finished the living room yesterday, our bedroom and en-suite today together with the study and the cloakroom. All that is left is the 2 other bedrooms, family bathroom the garage, and get everything else in the loft. Oh and we need to paint the baby’s room as it is a very strong blue at the moment. Even if it was a boy it would be too dark for a baby.

It is really starting to look like a home now and I love it more and more. The only problem we encountered was the smoke alarms setting off randomly in the middle of the night. There are 4 of them and they’re all connected so when one is on the others are too. You can’t imagine the noise they make and being woken up in the middle of the night with that noise not knowing what is happening it disconcerting :S There is no apparent reason for it either-no battery problem, air freshener, or anything else. I think we found the one the causes the trouble but after it happening 3 times already we still need it to happen once more to find out exactly.

Other than that it’s getting used to the size of the house – it’s going to take ages to clean so we need to come up with a plan. The living room is what impressed us the most. Although it’s not huge, compared to what we had it’s a monster. We were used to have a TV too big for the room and a sofa just right. Now the TV is far far away and looks tiny and we need another sofa twice the size of ours to add so that the room doesn’t look like the desert :P Plenty of room to play the Wii though :D I can’t believe it costs the same as our previous tiny 2 bed flat!

Oh and we have the internet since yesterday so all the essentials done.

Hopefully it won’t be long until it’s all done and we can start getting visits :D



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