Unexpected HERO's ....

You know who you are .. no names mentioned ...

I learned a lesson yesterday, 3 rotten things happened through other people .. and 3 very nice things happened 2 by people i had never met before!! the other person was you ...

after accidentally locking myself out yesterday, and no hope of the other 5 people who lived in my small block coming home any time soon .. the wind was howling cold, i only had a t-shirt on, and trousers, and my health not being all that .. i could have stood there at the entry door and cried!

2 people who live in the same vicinity, i asked for help in one way or the other, but they were in a hurry to go do what ever it was they were doing... not one offered me the mobile to call the number i had. also the ones that had windows open, who i could hear talking .. did not bother to answer their buzzer.

So yesterday was a day to find that my instinct that i cannot trust anyone anymore has been swayed, and one of them people i am going to try my best to help that man who let me use his mobile phone, after i had been buzzing on the security buzzers in the other blocks around me... he is obviously not in good health from a disability, obviously in need of help .. he has basic living and i hope i can help him get the help he needs

I am very fortunate, i have my laptop that allows me to enter a whole world that on the most part makes me very happy, last night, i put myself in that mans shoes yesterday and the outlook was very depressing to me! so i will try and find out how i can help him.

The delivery man, Paul, had no need to help me the way he did, he said he had a flask of tea, and he gave me his tea, and his puffa jacket, so at least i was warm while waiting for the 'highway man' of a locksmith! 'dick turpin' has nothing on that bloke!

The locksmith (dick Turpin) when he arrived, his first words were, the charge is £65 for being called out! i cringed .. and when i said i dont need the lock changing as my front door upstairs was on the latch, it took him a few minutes to put a sort of T shaped hook through the letter box and snagged the knob to open the door .. £65!

i did not say what i did on that post on my fb wall, hinting that i needed any money from anyone .. i was doing it to try and get a laugh out of a really bad situation ... and i did .. and then this morning i saw your email!

I usually dig myself out of the 'skint' hole eventually .. but you helped me quicker, thats why i cried!

No one has ever been this nice to me before, i have always been the giver, and never wanted anything in return .. thats my nature, some people really took the piss because of my giving nature, so eventually i clammed up ...the trust eventually left me.

I sincerely hope that i can show you that you can trust people .. as i know you find that hard too .. and i hope it will not be too long either, i will find a way, and i hope you can then find some peace.

Dont get me wrong, i am not over the trust issue by a long chalk, but it at least restored some faith, that hero's come by when least expected.

I wish i could give you a really big hug .. but this will have to do for now ((((((HUGS))))) xxx

I also want to say to the rest of you also, who gave me warm 'cyber' hugs, made me smile, and feel better, i will not forget!


Laters Tatty xxx


no rolling of eyes today .. this is straight from the heart :)

Babies and ....

Old people ....


Have you noticed, a new born baby will be ‘coo’ed’ over, and most will say ‘awww how sweet!’ you know, and rightly so in most cases, although no one will ever say ‘OMG where does jnr get that ugly mug from?!’ no one will pull a shocked face at a new baby.

No one will want to upset the new mummy, and rightly so, new borns are perfect in its own mothers eyes, she will see no fault, her child is perfect, even with ginger hair! Right from the start a mother’s instinct is to protect her baby, child, teenager, adult, that feeling of ‘you will die for your child’ never fades, and it will not until the day you die, that’s a fact.

We love the fact that others revel in the beauty of our child!

Her child can do no wrong as a toddler either, she will not bite, she will be just ‘mischievous’, but if she is bitten, that horrible child needs to be taught a lesson! You know what I mean.

If your child ‘catches’ something. Any run of the mill child hood illness, you blame the other for not staying away, not thinking that really your child needs to catch it and be immune, so as not to be a risk when she becomes a parent. Illness that you have no control over, that risk your childs life, a mother blames herself, no one else.

No matter how perfect you think your child is, you will see no bad.

You may be wondering why I am saying all this, not that I am assessing myself, I needed to point out how we behave towards babies really, because, this morning on TV an 80 year old Granny, was on because she still abseils down high rise buildings etc, a feat in itself let alone a lady of that age, the two interviewers seemed to be talking to her like a new born baby, in that ’high pitched’ voice, I have to say she really was the sweet little granny type we all see in our child hood books, sitting in a rocking chair with glasses at the end of her little snub nose, small and cute, the two were talking in the high pitched ‘aww’ voice that we do with new babies lol … even when she was listing what she had done throughout her life! aww

What age do people start talking to mature people like that? I changed the ‘old’ to ‘mature’ just in case I get loads of emails saying I am ageist! LoL yes I have been accused of that before! Another subject, so I am not going there!

And is the ‘high’ pitched googoo voice only for certain mature people, ie: because they fill that image we have of sweet and innocent older people? Babies have no past, mature people do, how do they become sweet and innocent, if they have not been very good in the past?
I know I do not talk to my father in that voice, and he is getting close to that age of 80, he will probably kill me now for outing him hahahaah this may be the last blog I ever do, pheww did I hear someone say? :O in my own defence he must have been really mature when he had me LOL

Anyhoo I have a theory on this that may make sense to some …

If the age between a baby, and an mature person is say up to 2 for the baby and then starts at 70 for the mature person, where we talk in that ‘high pitched’ voice, what are we in between?

Really does that mean that all of us in between them ages are not worth a toss? That we do not look angelic anymore? Or are sweet but not innocent?
People just waiting in the wings to put you down, and do bad things themselves, why do some people just see bad in others? Nothing good? Is it because they themselves were not that ‘cute’ baby, they have seen photo’s of themselves, and now know that people were lying to their mother when they said ‘how cute’!! hehehe is this why?

Or are they just ignorant of others? I myself do sometimes get accused of ‘ranting’ a bit, if I did not have this blog, I would have all that ranting building up in me .. So this is a good place to release, even though I am jesting!! Its just that some do not ‘get my sense of humour, that is because YOU DO NOT KNOW ME! Tsk

This is why I have to put the odd ‘lol’ and ‘hehe or hahah’ in there or no one would know I was messing about.
That is because written words can be misconstrued. Or Is this because I am in between the two mentioned?

Besides that, the thing here is, my theory, is that now I understand why people do not want to get old, because they must know deep down somewhere, that as soon as people start talking to them in the high pitched baby voice, they will absolutely know they ARE OLD and considered past it by others, even if in their heads they feel young, regardless of the age, aches and pains if they are unlucky, you never know when you yourself are soo mature to be talked to like that.

And!! Am I the only one that realises this? If someone starts to talk to me in that ‘high pitched’ voice, I now know my days are numbered!!

But, When are we now ‘middle age’ even?? Another question lol



Laters Tatty xx







*rolleye* generated.

Credit Crunch ...

NEW Government ....


I may be a tad late with this, but you know me, I never just jump into these things without a thought, so this was suggested to me by a friend, I suspect is to test my skills really *cough* … so I suppose I will have to try me best on this one.

Credit crunch came about before the last new government.

Is that right so far? LOL

No seriously, how did this happen? How did we get into such a mess? Not us personally, I mean the country, owing soo much to others? I thought others borrowed from us!! Just shows how wrong you can be about something.
Thing is, the last government, get us into this position, then tell US we have to tighten our belts! Can you ever imagine any of our lovely politicians doing that?? Well no they don’t because they would rather put in bogus ‘claim’ forms and put us into more debt! They are alright, sod us little people I hear them say!

I said waaaay back in 1997 that the government will get us into trouble, and what did they do?? Make me right AGAIN! that’s not a bad thing really, I don’t like being wrong hehe

So after all that, another election, and good ‘ole Gorddy Brown, makes one absolute blooper in saying that an OAP was racist etc, when he thought no one could hear him! WRONG! I am soo happy they did not win, BUT neither did the others, they made a coalition government, which I have to say seems to be doing ok so far.. Well ok, they brought out a new emergency budget, because the last government would not give anyone any idea, as they should have done, where it all was .. Shows how ashamed there were about the whole situation … NOT! Cos they were still trying to lie there way back to winning another election! Did not work though did it? *V* << my new sign of the week hahaha

And now, here we have our happy coalition peeps, and the new budget, which I understand that they need to rake money back from the scroungers, but why hit the disabled? AGAIN, yes I know full well that a lot are not even ill .. I have seen and know some! If I was a grass, I would dob them in … but kiddies are involved! So they are not even ill let alone disabled, which takes money from those who need it ME is one! .. Shame on you all for that one! BUT I can guarantee you I will get yet another letter, which I have had in 2006 then all monies stopped for a year .. Because their stooped doctor deemed me fit to work! Funny how just after that, I had to have the operation on my broken neck, to try and stop me from being fully paralyzed, just how fit do you have to be? Long story short, I won that tribunal, the chairman, felt sorry for me, YES he said so in them very words “I feel sorry for you” .. so at least I got everything back, but not the point.
The point is, I should not have someone saying ‘they feel sorry for me’, I should not have been there in the first place, as the chairman also said, and I hope that doctor got to see the notes on all that.

BUT I do hope also, that people who are claiming for things they should not be, knowing full well they are not that ill really, just lazy, will do the right thing, and get off their lazy backsides, and give the money back to those who really do need it! I dare ya!

The credit crunch really does not affect me much anymore, LOL well lets face it, where do I go? What do I spend on me? Apart from essentials like, ohh lets say .. Food! should I be cutting down on that? I did stop smoking to be able to afford better food for myself, so how do I tighten my belt more on that one? OK so I put on a bit of weight since stopping smoking, but it is not because I am eating myself silly … not smoking does that to you lol maybe I should go back to smoking and not eat as much? I would be thinner, back to my normal self, naaaa bad move!

So I do not smoke, I buy food instead, I do not go out to socialize much, I am not capable, beside I would not be able to afford to socialize .. So am I better off not capable? I may have the odd glass of wine .. If I treat myself, is that allowed if I am trying to tighten my belt more? Also I really do need heating in winter, hypothermia is not a good look on me, so I am paying for my electric every month by DD to be able to afford to heat myself in winter, so see, I have to budget for that all year, I cant tighten my belt any further than I have on that score .. Even though I am very eco minded .. Electric is not lol
Next on the list is .. My kitteh, how do I budget my kitteh? She does not know anything about the state of affairs, I know she is a very intelligent kitteh, but not unless I show her how to do things, although, I do not know where she got the ‘tapping me on the head while sleeping’ thing from, I think its bred into them as a normal thing to do to us slaves .. Pft
She eats what she needs, never over indulges, I give her the odd treat, cos she make me giggle, she really does need that litter stuff in her ‘closed-in’ tray .. That is because you do know kitteh’s are shy about people watching them do their business .. Same with us, So that was a bit extravagant, but she likes it .. And it does contain some of the smell! I know what she eats, why is it soo smelly? Anyhoo, so no I cannot make my kitteh suffer cos the government cannot get their act together!


I would probably be reported to the RSPCA! By my kitteh I bet, Lol then what do I do?

So I come to the conclusion, that, I can do no more than what I am already .. So what is my theory on this?

I MAY NOT be able to do anything, but why oh why punish the pensioners too? They are in the same boat as me .. They get colder than I do, I am young-er … bus passes are their sanity of not being alone all day, if they live by themselves! Leave them alone!

Radical idea … POLITICIANS should take a pay cut, and be paid by commission! Yes! I knew I would suss it out eventually lol
Lets see how they do then! Lets see how long it take us to get out of the rut THEY have put us in .. not long I bet .. Lets see how they ‘tighten’ their belts if they are only living on a basic wage, of lets say £25,000 per annum .. I put that amount because it seems fair to me, maybe a bit over, but I give the ‘benefit’ of doubt if I can, unlike some … so yes the rest is paid on commission, of how you perform, yeeeesss I do mean in the office! how many hours they actually put in, the expense chitty’s that need to be scrutinized … everything that goes with being paid commission, lets see how they fare then, AND it all has to be approved by a governing body!

Which leaves us with this question .. WHO would be suitable to be in charge, who is incorruptible, to head the governing body? Lets call this body the ..

‘TATT(b)Y- JEST ombudsman ….

Take All That Trash(back) You - Just exploited Sad Twat’ …

Names will be carefully looked into .. So chose your person wisely, SHE eerrrmm she or he *cough* … will need side kicks too, so make your list and put them here ….




Laters Tatty xx





*rolleyes*generated.

April 23rd .. every year ....

Is St George’s Day!!!!


Yes we English do celebrate the fact that St George did that dragon, go read I am not giving history lessons here lol and we celebrate every April on the 23rd!

I was brought up in a church of England school, where we learned about our history, we celebrated St Georges day.

England is visited my millions of visitors every year who tour our historical places, usually start of with Buckingham Palace, who knows why it is called Buckingham Palace? Westminster Abbey, we have many historical people buried there .. And for those of you who know and have visited Windsor Castle which our Queen loves, you will know that this is the resting place for our patron saint, well you should do if you paid attention to your tour guide, that is what you pay for, to know what you looking at.

Not many people will know that a Roman soldier is in fact this very person! That the dragon was slayed supposedly in Turkey! This legend has been passed down for a very long time.

Our English history goes back centuries, how many countries can say that? How many countries have proof and places still in tact that show the history of their country? How many of you in other countries are proud of the fact that your country is visited by millions for this very reason?
England is steeped in history … it would take a lifetime of reading to learn it all, to see it all, all the nooks and crannies that can be overlooked, then you realise where it was and go back. The centre of London which is know as the ‘square mile’ is still mostly in between the new high rise office blocks, riddled with alleys and small places that hide many church’s and buildings that are soo old you would not believe. Even pubs/bars from centuries ago are still as they were then! Trust me I know, I have frequented a few hehehe

And me having been brought up in this very area, yes my father always at Buckingham Palace, he was stationed at Wellington barracks across the road, I was always outside daydreaming about life in there, I played in the park opposite, St James park .. Hyde park was where I went swimming, Westminster abbey just up the road from me, Westminster cathedral I could see out of my front room window!! The old Scotland yard, the new Scotland yard round the corner from my very first school, who has heard of Kings Road? My secondary school was round the corner, not far from Chelsea Barracks, I could go on.

MY SON, I had christened at the Church of St Lawrence Jewry, in that square mile of London, which would enable him to be married in St Paul’s Cathedral! If he wanted. The Guildhall, we had a party to celebrate, How many people can say that?

I could go on about England’s history, because I live here, work here, and I will die here, this is where I was born, and I am proud of it!!

AND SO ARE MILLIONS OF OTHERS!!!!

Who else knows this amount of knowledge of their country without having to read first right at this very second?

I am not ignorant of other countries, and there ‘days’ that are celebrated, and it is not because of the history that I learned this of other countries, because few have no centuries of history .. BUT I am saddened by the fact that we get passed by from other countries on this day.
I am saddened by the fact that the ‘PC’ brigade of this country will bend over backwards NOT to offend others, why?? Why would anyone born and bred in England do this? Why do we allow others to celebrate their days in our country, and yet the ‘PC’ people want our own shunned??

And lets face it, it is because of these ‘PC’ people that it has been watered down in the past years .. BUT since I got up this morning, and turned on the TV every single program that has been on has started with ‘Hello, and Happy St Georges day!’

So you tell me, where is it that we do not celebrate this day? Who says WE do not celebrate?? And why??

I can point two out right this very second why, and how they celebrate and why it gets into the news …

St Patrick’s day, March 17th … A days holiday, oh yes no one on earth I do not think has never heard of this day, and why?? Because of the little green men (leprechauns not aliens .. Well *cough*) and the fact that they drink themselves stoopid for days on end, cos they forget when the day ended, they are that out of it LOL funny, I love the Irish, I love the country, I have been there and fell in love with it the very first time!
But, who here that is Irish, can say off the top of their head who and why is the day celebrated?

And then we have America .. Independence day, 4th July .. Celebrated with a days holiday too, again with drinking, BBQ’s fireworks, which is televised the whole world over … hangovers the same size as the Irish I don’t doubt because, the Irish have probably just about sobered up from their own celebrations Hahanah so they have a ‘hair of the dog’ and join in with the Americans! LOL it is a never ending circle! haha

I can name others, the list is long! And I guarantee not once while writing this have I ‘googled’ anything.

So why does St Georges day get bypassed? My theory is this ….

Because we do not get rip roaringly peed out of our heads LOL well we do, but usually the world do not want to see English people in this state anymore, they have seen enough on TV of football hooligans!!
Trust me we are all not like them!

We don’t even get a day off … why?? Cos it would mean that we would have to have the next day off as well ,to get over the hangover, unlike the Irish who carry on with guiness til they can swim in it lol … they take til July 4th to recover, remember?

We do celebrate, again, .. YOU google it and see how, it will be on the news, but not on the scale of the other two mentioned above.

And most of all, the main culprit in why we do not get enough coverage .. Is because our Labour government that has been in for like a gazillion years started with the ‘PC’ in earnst when they came in in 1997 .. Yes I point the finger firmly at them!!
They would not how to have a good time if it came up and slapped them in the face!! Lol

So I make a proclamation … that WE the English in our own way, which includes stiff upper lips and all that hahaha do celebrate, and to get noticed next year, I proclaim you get the whole day off .. To do that celebrating in what ever fashion you want to .. Eat drink and be merry like it was in the 15th century … and get blind drunk, sing out loud with pride, that WE are ENGLISH!!! And proud of it!!

I am off now to get a couple of bottles of mead (wine really) and will drink myself silly tonight, with whoever wants to join me! CHEERS!


Laters Tatty xx





*rolleye*generated


My ENGLISH pride I will not hide,
My ENGLISH race I will not disgrace,
My ENGLISH blood flows hot and true, My people I'll stand by you,
Through thick and thin till the day we die our ENGLISH pride stands so high!

In Adversity ....

RUN & HIDE!!!

Icelands Volcano special.

Seriously! .. We the people of the UK are well known for our ‘stiff upper lip’ … in everything we do, we never show emotion, now I am talking about massive things here, not trivial things that we loose the plot over, example a man will get flu, BUT he will not jut have flu, he will be dying!! Moaning and groaning, take to bed and complain endlessly, and expect his other half who also has flu to be at his beck and call, it does not matter to him that she is suffering, he for some reason she has a slight flu, that does not compare to his deathly flu.

But in a life and death situation, we Brits do not run around like blue arse flies, we visually pull our selves together and get on with it, you can throw anything at us, literally, and when we are in that ‘mode’ we will not show emotion.

Everyone else will run in the opposite direction, and try to avoid a bad situation, men much quicker than women lol and children come to think of it, because obviously they will be far worse off than the latter two!

Through history, we have been well known that in the thick of it, we will stand our ground, and not bend under any circumstances. This proves that although a small country in comparison to most around the world, and an Island to boot, and lets face it, bigger will always think they can beat the hell out of smaller, but the smaller will stand firm, take a beating then come back and win the war! Literally!
No I am not war mongering, I honestly do not like bloodshed of any kind, especially my own, I pass out, and then end up in an even bigger mess, ask my head what happened when I accidentally stabbed my hand .. Yes collapsed in a heap cos of blood spraying all over, but went backwards, hitting my head on the marble worktop behind me, knocking myself out, leaving me with having to have 5 stitches in my hand and the same in my head :P so no need to accuse me of the war thingy, if I do go on the warpath you will know about it :O

Am I making any sense here? Let me explain, the Iceland volcano, that has been gushing since March 20th, a month now, and for nearly a week, the UK has been on air travel lockdown! Yes because the muck that has been spewing from the volcano has dire consequences on aircrafts flying at low altitude, messes it up big time, I will not go into the ins and outs of what most people would not understand cos then I will be asked questions, this is not Q&A time, I don’t have the time for that ….. Trust me.
Anyhoo, you can look on the net for videos of what is happening with the volcano, and do you know that other things also happen within and around a volcano when in full spewing mode .. Nature has a way of showing us what it is capable of, lightning is one, yes you can visually see flashes of it in and around a volcano, awesome sight! All sorts of things will go on when a volcano is off on one.

So brings us back to why I am going on about this, because, holiday makers from the UK and Ireland have been stranded abroad, now in my books that’s not such a bad thing, especially if you are in a lovely hot place, where you can sit on the beach all day chilling, I could max out my cards no probs hehehe
BUT it seems some people are moaning that they need to get home, and go to work or what other things they are missing out on in the normal every day lives, and because no flights are allowed to land in the UK the prime minister and the powers that be came up with a solution, oh yes! Send in the navy!!! Good grief as one main newspaper said, its like D-day 70 years ago! Even flotillas of dinghy’s are helping people get back to the UK, I jest not here peeps!
People are flocking to all ports in France, Spain and other sunny places, in the hope of hitching a ride on a Navy ship, that is probably filled to the bows’ with all sorts of explosives!! hahaha

(1) Why would anyone PUT themselves IN harms way? (see ship & explosives)
(2)WHY more to the point would you not wait it out and fly back?
(3)WHY would our Prime Minister do this ludicrous thing, in ‘helping’ holiday makers get back?

More importantly .. WHY, would anyone in their right mind want to come back to a country that is clouded over with all this muck?? You cant tell me that it does not have some sort of affect on us people!

The theory to all the above why’s??

Answer to (1) & (2) Because no matter what the risk, in these circumstances we are drama queens, oh woe is me I have to get to work or I will get fired! I have to get back because the kids have to be back at school! (even breathing in ash), I have to get back because I can not afford to stay. I have to get back because my family are worrying about me! Really?

Or is it just because you want to tell your envious friends you hitched a ride on a Navy frigate filled from bow to stern with all sorts of explosive materials!

Com’on! Your family worry? Would it not be the other way round? Surely YOU being stranded in another country would make you worry about your family and friends stranded in the UK breathing in all the muck? No? you still want that ride a?

And then we have answer to (3) why would our prime minister at the tax payers cost send in the Navy to ‘rescue’ our holidays makers? Who I might add, still went abroad even though they knew that this volcano went up in the air on 20th March!! And the winds being unpredictable .. And sods law that its going to happen to us when the chips are down!

BECAUSE its coming up to the general election!! He will do anything to try and get as many votes he can for his wearying party .. That is up the swanny without a paddle! And STILL IS, even with the rescuing! LOL tsk why oh why does old Gordy think so little of us mere people with no brains??

What would I do? I said I would max out my card and stay out of this country .. But then again, I do not really want to be here in the first place .. So any excuse will do for me hahaha

Anyone willing to whisk me of to sunny climates? ….. On a posh cruise ship of course!! lol



Laters Tatty xx








*rolleye* generated.

Happy stay in hospital??

Well, did you?

How many of you have had a stay in hospital? For how long? Do not tell me what for … unless you want to that is.

I ask because as some of you know, I am waiting for two separate operations … NHS! :O yes I know, don’t say it lol

So I am sorry for those of you who have not had the pleasure of our NHS system, yes sorry because then you would appreciate the private sector of it even more!
The NHS hospitals, waiting for appointments, going in, getting prepped for surgery, you are so lucky if you go right in and have your surgery done, and wake up later knowing that the endless waiting has gone now.
BUT for the others not soo lucky, you know the drill, those who have been there .. The sight you do not want to see, the ’sister’ comes along and say’s ‘sorry, but an emergency has come up, you will not be having your operation today’ … now this may be followed with ‘so we are sending you home, and will let you know when we can fit you in’ .. or … ‘we will try and fit you in later on today, or worse first thing in the morning’.

Now we all know, you are not allowed to eat or drink anything for 12 hours before an op, so if it is the latter you have been told, you sit there, starving hungry, thirsty, and you can smell the lunch that has been delivered to everyone else, who are now sitting in view stuffing their faces!!! If you are then told at 6pm that you will be first in the morning, you are soo hungry, you shovel what food they give you so quickly, it makes you feel ill .. Then you have to starve for the next morning, and your new surgery time!

If you was given the first of the ‘sorry’s’ you will have to wait for that relaxation drug they gave you to wear off .. Then you go home, and wait, now this can happen up to 3 times!! Yes I jest not .. After the 3rd they have to stick with the arrangements for your operation .. It think this is still norm, if not please do not shoot me … I do not want to be told ‘sorry but we cannot operate ……..’ lol

So, this morning, Dave from my pharmacy came to deliver my meds, we always have a quick chat, and I was telling him that, 2 days ago the hospital had called about my nose operation, and that if I answered the questions they ask me correctly, as long as I do not have anything serious wrong with me, like heart problems etc, they will send me to a private hospital in London for my op!! WOW!! The reason I was picked for this is .. No! I had not won the hospital lottery for that day hehehe but because while filling in the form for my op, I had ticked that I would be willing for the surgery at short notice … so the lovely nurse asked me the questions, at the end of them, she announced that I had passed … best exam I had ever taken, with a 100% score hahahah and she would forward my details to the private hospital, and they will be in touch within 3 weeks! Wow better than the 3 month or more wait I would have had!
So I am now waiting for that call .. If I suddenly vanish, you know why, they have come to take me away …

So, while saying this to ‘Dave the delivery man of meds’ … we both said that it would be soo much better, as I would more than likely have a lovely room all to myself, now this brought back memories for not just me, but for Dave as well, we both had been in hospital before, and both had the same experience … yes … mixed wards!!!! :O
For those of you who have never had this while in hospital, you are lucky! Me and Dave exchanged stories, his was … he had a heart problem, and while he was seriously ill, he was in a small 4 bed ward all men … as he got better they moved him to a ward of 16 beds, all women!! Now I know any man reading this will think … YAY!!!! BUT not so, because you know what people are like, the ’war-wounds’ have to come out, all these women wanted to show poor Dave their scars …. Hahahah yes even on their legs .. Quite high up!! Omg!
He said he was having nightmares, and was soo happy when he was let out … he celebrated lol

Well, I told him that mine, was that I was put in a ward, and either side of me, was two old men … look I was only about 29 at the time … these men were in the 60’s or more, so it really was not a pleasant experience! … and the disgusting noises that came from them .. Especially during the night was terrible … the smell also!!! OMG terrible. I will probably have nightmares now tonight because I have remembered this!

Thing was, if you asked why they had done the mixed ward thing, they all come out with different answers .. None of which made any sense at all!!
So you can imagine, I am not really too happy about going into hospital if this practice is still going on.

But I did come up with a theory as to why they started these mixed wards on the NHS … and we all know how hard pushed it is, in all departments, the only person making any real money doing their job on the NHS is the ‘area manager’ yes while the poor staff are swilling out bedpans, the contracts they get, are soo mind boggling, they do not even have to be doing a good job, because in their contract even if they get sacked they will get a nice big golden payout as compensation!! Go figure??

But the one and only reason why these mixed wards came about … was to get YOU out of hospital quicker!!

Mixed wards benefited NO ONE!! But, the NHS, what would have kept you in hospital for about a week some years ago .. Now is down to the lovely stay of 24 hours if you are lucky!! You are normally now given a ‘what to do’ sheet of paper, and a list of things that may go wrong, if it does what to do, which may end up with you back in there .....

Would you go back to that mixed ward??? NOOOOO! lol


Lets face it, you hate being in mixed wards, you do not lay in bed feeling sorry for yourself, because you are too busy trying to get yourself up and about and outta there … making space for the next poor bugger, who does not know about mixed wards.

Question for you at this point, do you try and leave a secret note for the next person, in the bedside cabinet under the mattress or anywhere you can think of … noooo you suffered, so they must!! Lol

So yes, while I am extremely happy that I will now be going to a private hospital … I now wish that they would get both op’s done at the same time, in that private hospital, one because saves beds for the future, two I will be in a better place … and three I will not know which part to hold cos it hurts soo much, pain diversion rules!! Haha



Laters Tatty xx






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Kayakoy - Turkey ....

Kayakoy … Turkey

I know this is not my usual thing that I talk about, but some of you know that I was in Turkey for a while, and I wanted to share with some of you a spectacular place I was always at … you really should be there to really appreciate it, BUT these photos on the link will give you a very good idea of it. A very good friend lives there, as do a few others, but it is protected so they cannot change anything of the ‘homes’ but they can obviously make it very nice, as my friend did with his home .. It is sweet and adorable … he also has a hotel, the picture above is the pool and bar area, where live bands play, this used to be a field, but he still had to stay within low building.

It is an eerie place, very quiet, mainly goats bleeting, its like you can touch the ‘past’ and imagine how it was to have lived there in that time soo long ago.

I loved it there purely for them reasons, I took lots of my own photos, but the link is far better and each picture is described with emotion and awe, just as I would like to express it (saved me a job really) LOL

So read below, and look at the pictures, I know you will love them just as much as me, please let me have your thoughts, I would love to hear what you think.

The history of Kaykoy - Turkey.

The earliest recorded name of the city is what is no the Kaya Valley was Karmilassos, a Lycian city probably of minor importance within the federation. Most remaining signs of that city are seen today in the north of the valley but there are several tombs still surviving amongst the houses of what is now called Kaya.

Between the Lycian and the current Turkish names, the town called Levissi and became an important town on the Turkish coast. The original Levissi (actually "Lybysium" at the time) had been the island we now call St Nicholas or Gemiler Island. It is thought that the Greek speaking Christian population fled the island around 700AD as the coast fell into the hands of pirates and raiders. They fled to the hidden and easily defended valley just a mile or two inland and there they settled in comparative safety.
There are few remains from that early settlement left, the ruins you see today date from just a few hundred years ago.
The new Levissi prospered and grew, and on a map by John Speed dated 1626, Levissi is distinctly annotated but Megri (Not renamed Fethiye) not at all.

At its peak, the town had about 2000 houses, two large churches, 3 or 4 small churches and perhaps 30 chapels. There were half a dozen shops, a printing press producing a local newspaper and two schools. The buildings and the roads improved over the years as did the water supply. Most houses collected rainwater from the roof to be stored in cicterns holding from 4-8 ton of water. The public suplly came from Hisaronu, first in covered channels, then in clay pipes, ald latterly in steel pipes. That water fed several tanks and at least 4 public fountains, two of which still in use today.

Levissi continued to prosper until the end of the first world war when, for reasons too complicated to be properly covered here, civil war broke out between the Greek and the Turkish populations of western Anatolia. There was no recorded fighting in this region but many of the young men of Kaya went to the front and never returned.
The founder of modern secular Turkey was Kemal Ataturk and it was he who led the Turks to victory and drove back the Greeks.
The British brokered a peace treaty in September 1922 and as a solution to remaining tensions the treaty of Lausanne in 1923 agreed an exchange of populations based on religion. Some 1,200,000 Greek speaking Christians were to be sent to Greece whilst 400,000 Turkish speaking Muslims were displaced from the Macedonia region of Greece to be resettled in Turkey. In the months following the treaty, many of the Greeks left voluntarily, some to Greece proper and some to Kastelorizon and on to Australia.

Following the treaty, the compulsory (but not violent) eviction of the remaining Greeks took place and the valley was left with only the peasant farmers scattered around the valley overlooked by a "Ghost Town".
Attempts to settle the folk from Macedonia failed, only a handful stayed in the valley; those people had been farmers and needed land. They may also have been influenced by rumours that the Greeks had poisoned the wells.
The roofs of the houses were of straw and mud and without regular maintenance were prone to weather damage, one by one they collapsed beginning the slow deterioration of the houses. Some timbers were no doubt pilfered but the death blow came with the earthquake of 1957 after which the local government gave permission for the local farmers to use the remaining timbers for reconstruction. The use of stone in vernacular architecture is rare in Anatolia so over the years the beautifully built, but slowly decaying town became known as The Stone Village or Kayakoy.

In the mid 1980's the Government recognized the importance of Kaya as an historical site and it is now protected as such.

This may give you some insight about me, I may be mischievous at times, but I do know beauty when I see it, along with the historical factors in most cases.

I really hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed showing this to you, if you ever get to Turkey .. This is one of the places you must see, along with the ‘fairy’ place …. Another story!

link ... http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Middle_East/Turkey/Aegean/Mugla/Kayakoy/photo1089855.htm

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Laters Tatty xx

New Years Eve 2009/2010 ....

AND ….. Drum roll .. Ddrrrrrrrrrrr

My Kitteh’s birthday!!! She is 3 today!! Woohoo

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear Kitteh Tatliiiiiiiiim
Happy birthday to youuuuuuuuuuu

She says .. ‘fank ou vewy much! My mummy brought me to her house on the 30th December a year ago, and I have not looked back since, she came and got me from the rescue place I had been in for 6 months, with the 4 months old kitties I had, my previous mummy, did not look after me very well, and by the time I got pregnant for the 3rd time, I was exhausted! And very thin. I was very young when I had my first litter, just about 6 months old, the mummy then did not bother to take me to the vets to have me spayed, I would have welcomed that operation with open paws, it would have saved me a lot of heartache, I can tell you!!
So with the 3rd pregnancy on the way, that mummy left me at the rescue place, where I was fed and ok, but I was not allowed outside the cage, so me and my litter was there until the Christmas came, it was just before xmas that I first saw my new mummy, at the same time was another 2 people looking at me, as others had been before, but for some reason I was waiting for someone special, so I was growling at the other 2 people, my new mummy was behind them, they 2 walked away saying I was nawty, but my new mummy looked at me, and we knew we was meant to be together, she had been grieving for her animals that she had lost, I was sad because I just wanted a safe place, and I could see that this new mummy had a lot of love to give, so I purred at her, she gave me a cuddle, then I heard her say she wanted to take me home .. So on 30th December 2008 she came and got me, I was scared at first, but I could see my new mummy had got me lots of new stuff to play with, pee in, and lay in … but you know what? She did not mind me being with her and wanting lots of cuddles, she is always with me, she plays with me, and has taught me lots of cool tricks!! And I love it!!
Thank you also to mummies friends who always say hi to me, when they see me online, when mummy is out of the room, msn is soo funny!!
MY mummy is the best, I am the happiest kitteh in the world!!’

Tatlim dictated that to me LOL as she does with everything, dictates!! Feed me, change my lit tray, comb me, give me a treat!! it’s a never ending circle hahah

What kitteh is trying to say is, when you take an animal on, it is a very big responsibility, you have to treat that animal like a child, it depends on you for everything!! Do not bring endless litters into the world that cannot be homed, have it spayed! You be good to that animal, it will love you forever and give you soo much joy! So think about what you are doing, ALWAYS!

Some of you know already, that in the new year I will be trying to get a special project off the ground, and I hope if I do, that I can ask for your support. It is for people in my situation, I broke my neck in two places some years ago, and have different problems, health and money wise, I do not want to go into it too much at the moment, but its about time, I helped others like me. So watch this space.

On reflection, the past year has been a chore at times, BUT I have some lovely friends, online I am talking about now, who have helped me no end, who have cuddled me in their own way, and cheered me, in return, I hope I brighten their lives, I know I am ditty and mischievous at times, but if I can make someone laugh or just smile that makes my day!

Making people smile is my way of coping with the pain I am in 24/7, it is very true, laughter is THE best medicine, so if you are down, feeling ill, for whatever reason …
Smile, it always makes others wonder what you have been up to!!

Just doing that, will make you shine within.

So happy birthday to my kitteh, Happy New Year to you!!

I hope 2010 brings you everything you deserve, and wish you health, happiness, peace, love and enough wealth to make sure you do not go without!

Never wish for the impossible, the smallest will always be possible.

Go to this link, it is soo very true!! People come into your life for a reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLltt5cPDOc

You may have to copy and paste, but it sums it all up!!

And to finish on a smile ….

Paddy had been drinking at his local Dublin pub all day and most of the
night celebrating New Years Eve. Mick, the bartender says,
'You'll not be drinking anymore tonight, Paddy'.
Paddy replies, 'OK Mick, I'll be on my way then'. Paddy spins around on his stool and steps off.. He falls flat on his face. 'Shoite' he says and pulls himself up by the stool and dusts himself off. He takes a step towards the door and falls flat on his face.
'Shoite, Shoite !'
He looks to the doorway and thinks to himself that if he can just get to the door and some fresh air he'll be fine. He belly crawls to the door and shimmies up to the door frame. He sticks his head outside and takes a deep breath of fresh air, feels much better and takes a step out onto the sidewalk and falls flat on his face.

'Bi' Jesus.... I'm fockin' focked,' he says.
He can see his house just a few doors down, and crawls to the door, hauls himself up the door frame, opens the
door and shimmies inside.. He takes a look up the stairs and says 'No
fockin' way'.
He crawls up the stairs to his bedroom door and says 'I can make it to the bed'. He takes a step into the room and falls flat on his face. He says 'Fock it' and falls into bed.
The next morning, his wife, Jess, comes into the room carrying a cup of
coffee and says, 'Get up Paddy. Did you have a
bit to drink last night ?'

Paddy says, 'I did, Jess. I was fockin' pissed. But how'd you know?'
'Mick phoned . . . you left your wheelchair at the pub.'



HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!





Laters Tatty xx








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Christmas day special ...

Now I really do have to be careful with this, and I will change names to protect the innocent .. I am innocent of course, it’s the others, they make me do the things I do, cos they are boring, or just not doing anything, so I have to get a reaction of some sort …

So .. It all starts with me being picked up by the two old people that are close relations, I will call these two ‘D’ (male) & ‘B’ (female) .. We head off to Kent, where ‘B’ had put the bird in the oven earlier, so that it would be ready to take with us to ‘Dot’s’ for our actual Christmas dinner.

When we arrived at said D & B’s house it smelled loovely! Makes a cup of tea, B takes bird out of oven to check it, and then a little storey comes out about this bird, apparently, B had bought it, and picked it up out of the place in the store, where it said ‘TURKEYS’ .. now this bird cost £28!!!! Yikes!! It was not until Christmas morning when the bird was brought out of fridge to be put in oven that the actual label on the bird said ‘CAPON’ ….. not a turkey LOL no turkey for us this Christmas!! Hahaha
Thing was also, I think the bird had shrunk! and for the price that was paid for it, I would have thought it would not fit into the oven!! BUT, Certainly did not look big enough to feed 7 of us, and B did say it was much bigger before it went into the over, so I think the heat had shrunk it lol also they had told Dot and the doctor, who was down from Manchester, where he is training to be a doctor, about this, that the said bird was not an actual turkey, but not the other couple Pam & Rover, yes I have changed their names …
So with the ‘chicken in disguise as turkey’ done, we heads off to Dots, first time I had met the Doc and he was very nice, so I told them not to say about the ‘chicken in disguise as turkey’ and see if the other two realise …
Anyhoo, Pam & Rover turns up, we all sit down for Christmas dinner, and I am sitting next to the Doc, and with plates loaded, I looked at B and said ..

“this turkey is soo succulent!”

Well the Doc sitting next to me, is trying to contain himself, the two who thought it was a turkey agreed … ohh dear, so all through dinner this is what was going on, about the ‘chicken in disguise as turkey’ and a very lovely dinner it was too .. we never told the 'in the dark couple' about the bird they had just eaten, that they thought was turkey .. we did not want to spoil Christmas dinner for them!! sort of takes the fun out of it all too! Wine was a flowing .. little me was drinking, Dot I was told was a lush, so I stuck with her hahaha

After sitting at that table for nearly 3 hours, we retire to the living room, where ’D’’ had been hiding for the past hour, and was sleeping in the armchair!! So no more said, out came the phones, and video’d him, with someone else in the background doing the snoring noises .. We were falling about!!
More drinks flowed, jokes were being told, you know how it is, then Dot suggests we have a quiz, and to make it fair the two couples will be split, so I was with Rover, Pam with D, and B with the Doc, Dot was the questionnaire person .. And poor old Rover, who had been ill recently and lost a lot of his memory kept apologising to me cos he could not remember the answers, and there was Pam & D, boasting that they will win, well not fair really is it, so I kept telling Rover not to worry, leave it to me, so I started being the funny one, to the amusement of all except the two who wanted to win, I was spoiling their glory, but I was making Rover feel better about it all lol .. So they questions I did not know, I left blank, to be filled in when I had the answers hahaha …. But the question that came up …

‘what was Margret Thatcher’s middle name’

All I could think of was Ogden .. Really weird, but of course when the answers came out her middle name was Hilda, which I must have associated with ‘Hilda Ogden’ out of the soap ‘coronation street’ that has been running for 50 years in 2010!! So of course I told them that and gave Rover and me half a point LOL and then promptly filled in the rest of the answers, so we came half a point behind the two that did win, Pam & D … who were moaning like mad cos I had put them off and cheated!! MOI!!! :O how dare they, how very dare they!! Hahaha

So at the end of a very nice day, we called it a night at 10.15pm, went home, watched coronation street which 'D' had recorded, then headed off to sleep.

I would like to thank everyone, for a very lovely time, Dot for the lovely dinner (and chicken in disguise as turkey) everything was wonderful!! The Doc must have thought I was off my head, but nothing new there then lol

So Happy new Year to them .. And see you lot new years eve, when I will be doing a very special blog for a certain birthday that day … all will be revealed then …

Take care, do not eat and drink too much in the meantime!!




Laters Tatty xx



psst .. the pic is of 'B' & Dot .. not me anywhere cos i was taking the picture :)





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Christmas ... part TWO!!

OMG good really there is not two parts for Christmas!!

Yes I thought you would need some more advice on the matter, lucky you!!! lol

I left you last time with a hangover I think … yes I did, I was drowning my sorrows in anticipation with you hahaha

When I brought up the subject of buying the presents for the children I may have gone a bit far some might say, well not far enough I don’t think! For those of you who have grown up children, think about the presents you bought them to keep them happy AND their mouths shut from the endless tantrum that would have progressed had you NOT bought them presents.

You see, you have to look at it this way, you only have about 7 maybe 8 years before your child’s dreams are squished to tiny little bits, treasure that innocence, I sincerely mean that, and now know there really is no father Christmas, it is their own father and mother buying and laying them presents down, under that sparse tree, cos you have spent every penny on that present that is on the floor … now they wait, until they are a couple of years older and then they hit you where it hurts, IN YOUR POCKET for the deceit of letting them think that Santa clause really did exist!!

Now fast forward a few more years, when your little darling are now grown up and working for a living, (under 22’s are more likely to do the following) now they know and understand how much it cost in the true sense of xmas presents giving, but do they get you an extra special present that cost hundreds of £/$ whatever currency you use? NOOOO you still get that tat that you thought soo cute when they were younger .. Do you still think its cute??
They have spent their money on the latest fashion/cd’s/dvd’s/make-up so there is no money left over for you sweetie .. Selfish or what? You should point out right now for those of you in this situation, just how much you pandered to their needs and left your own behind, and how selfish they are being .. Go on make them feel guilty, tell them what YOU really want, I dare ya!!! All you will get is ….

“you are soo lame, you do not understand me, and how I have to keep up with my friends, THEIR parents don’t complain like you do, and ask for stooped presents that cos soo much money!!” then storm of to their bedroom to sulk to very loud music.

Ohh don’t they?? LOL but brings back memories a?? of course we were born ‘old’! never were their age before! Why are they soo stoopid to not realise this??

And then there is the endless family member who will bah-humbug the whole way through Christmas, or the friend who will belittle you for shopping and talking about this dreadful time, *coughnotmecough*, well actually they started back in September when the shops started their Christmas, you just did not notice it as much.
Trouble is and I have had this conversation with you before in a previous blog about oldies, did you take any notice?? we just think they are getting more grumpy the older they get, come out with all sorts don’t they, BUT really, they have always complained! You just thought when they were younger it was funny, you are laughing at these blogs are you not?? Just wait till I am older, I will go all out hahaha

My dad is THE worlds worse, I may have mentioned this before, about his grumpy~ness, and you know what, I think I must take after him, because NOW I think he is funny!! LOL!! And I join in, but I do tease him, you want to know what I have bought him as one of his presents, a musical xmas tie!! Oohh yes …… AND I am going to make him wear & play it before he gets his nice pressie! Which I will add, I asked what both, dad and step-mum wanted for xmas …. Yes I did, so they both have exactly what they wished for hahaha oohh plus the extra shite like the musical tie! I just have to spoil my little old people after all I have said here hahaha but they do not know about this blog *sniggers behind hands* ..

To add to all this, I hate snow!!! For all of you that live in warmer climates LUCKY YOU! So guess what? it has been SNOWING!! yes snow! The picture above is outside my bedroom window :s Good job I do not go out much, its cold enough inside, let alone go out in it!! I wish I was a bear, then I could hibernate the whole of winter and xmas away! Wake up next spring with a smile on my face .. Well no, that’s not true, when I wake up I am THE worlds worse person, not just grumpy, I am angry for some reason hahha so I suppose if I hibernated then woke up in spring, I would say give it about a week for that angry feeling to drift off into the sunset, then I will have a smile on my face … well as long as it is after I have had a dozen cups of tea, then all should be well with the world, fingers crossed!

So on that note this is where I sign off so you can all go do your shopping .. Whatever that may be …. I will be doing a very special blog, that I will be posting New years eve, because I have a very special someone’s birthday to celebrate that day .. Hopefully with short videos LOL .. Get yer brains outta the gutter!! Hahaha

SO again .. I wish you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!!


That is from the heart that, take it now … before I change my mind! Lol





Laters Tatty xx






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Christmas .. another one ....

And why it needs MY take on it, which probably a lot already agree with, unless you are insane!!

This is the time of year when we all come together, with happiness and joy, where we treat each other with a bit more tolerance than we usually do at any other time of the year.

But why? Why do we not do this all year round?

You will start some of you looking at Christmas from September these days, and as the big day nears you will decorate your home with lovely baubles, tinsel and balloons. You may have the odd raggy angel or tree ornament that is sentimental, and does not really match with anything else, but because its has sentimental value, there it hangs, in all its glory and history.
You may even go and buy the very latest up-to-date accessories for the fashionable tree and matching ornaments that look soo lovely.

But it is YOUR tree, you took the time to lovingly decorate it.

A lot of you will go all out to give your child that pressie that he/she has been asking you for, did we not used to say if you have been good all year then Santa will bring what you wish for?

Just to see the look on their face when they open that lovely present. It could be the latest play station game, doll, Nintendo or board game, but it is what they wanted.
A loved one, your wife or husband, you will try and get them something they do not have already, to show them how much you do care and love them, and appreciate them.

Some I know, do really start to plan their Christmas from January 2nd!! And put aside hard earned money, to pay for the Christmas coming, now that’s what I call planning ahead!
The excuse is, well the January sales I can get it loads cheaper, which is true! But they do it to make sure that all around them at Christmas, really will have a lovely one.

The time of year when hopefully all the family get together and have fun, exchange them socks and hankies, the endless perfumes and men’s after shave, sit and have Christmas dinner together, pull them crackers, put on the silly paper hats, because its all in the fun and spirit of Christmas!

You all have your own way of celebrating this lovely time of year, to make is just as special as the last, one that will last a life time of memories.

Merry Christmas to you ALL!!

On the other hand people who know me have probably read the lot of dribble above that I have just written and thought I had lost the plot!!!!



CHRISTMAS does not start in September!! There should be a law when you can only see any sign of it when the month has a ‘D’ it starts with and the numbers ‘20-something’!!!!

I do not want to see the adverts on TV on Christmas half way through the year! I am still trying to get my head out of the last one, 6 months previous! Jeez!

WHY do you put up that Christmas tree and the decorations in November??? To hide the dust that is already there and will accumulate behind it all for the next 6/8 weeks?? Cos lets face it they will not come down until the middle of January! Tsk not very clean are you?? All them dust bunnies lol

Why oh why do you people put yourself in debt to give your ungrateful lazy children, now I am talking about 7/8 above now, they should be helping with chores round the house to EARN their pocket money and the Christmas present they soo desire, this is teaching them that they have to work for what they want on life, not live beyond their means on credit and store cards. Trust me, you will be doing them a favour, they may not realise this now, lol but ....
Give them something they can learn from, like coloured pencils and drawing paper, and books … OK who threw the tomato???
Look at your child, have they really been good ALL year? Do they deserve that expensive present? That costs an arm and leg?? Think about it.
What ends did you go to get that present that the manufacturers so handily let run low on stock?? More to the point, how much did you actually pay for it because you could not get it for love or money and did not want to see them tears on Christmas day .. Why can they not wait the extra 3 days later when you will be able to get it at the proper price!!!
Do they really need the very latest ‘PS8’ (whatever model number it may be now) that was only the very latest last year??? And still in good working order.

Fed up with your loved one?? Get that extra special pressie, that not many others will have, do they like jewellery? buy the life size chain and pendant … go to the local ship yard, the salvage part of it, and find the biggest, rusty old anchor you can find, with chain already attached, if they complain when they open it … you know what to do with it, don’t you!


AND then we have Christmas dinner … nightmare or what?? Relatives turn up with cheap tat that they probably had as a present last year, and now passing it on to you! Truthfully now …. How many of you have done that? *cough* ok I will stick my hand up Hahahah I even save wrapping paper for re-use, I even have a home made recipe for hangovers, and its cheap!!!
How many bottles of that cheap nasty ‘perfume’/ ‘au-de-toilet’ can one person have, that will later do a very good job of cleaning the limescale in the loo.
Who uses hankies these days?? The germ ridden squares of cotton that should be burned or even better ‘nuked’ for the health of the rest of mankind.
Why oh WHY do you all stuff yourselves silly to the point that you feel so ill you fall asleep (men mainly do this, cos you leave the clearing up and all that shite to the little woman) until the next round of turkey sandwiches, and mince pies (yes mozzie I am watching you).

Why buy all that food and eat in one day, that should probably last you the next TWO MONTHS!!

I have an endless list of all the stuff of why Christmas is a test on how strong your nerves are .. Or how near to an actual breakdown you are! lol

My theory on all this?? There is one, read between the lines of the above, and then read below ……

Where does all the sanity go at this time of year????

I will tell you where, the bottom of that wine bottle or whatever alcoholic drink you are drowning yourselves in hahahah
No wonder you need to drown your sorrows, thinking about that credit card bill that will drop through your letter box at the end of January. :O Lol





Merry Christmas to you all …. Sincerely, no really I mean it! Hahaha

& Happy New Year 2010!!

Laters Tatty xxx





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Ps. Sorry for the lack of blogs the past couple of months RL got in the way, new year will show more of these! AND there may be a part 2 to this, I don’t know yet …..

In the year 2029 ...

Which is only 20 years away, how do you see it? What do you think it will be like to live 20 years from now?

Fewer cars on the road due to the exhaustion of fuels, electricity will be solar or wind generated for all, airplanes a thing of the past?? Or the main form or transport?

As someone who hardly moves outside, I have reasons people, its not cos I am lazy!! Hehehe I think I can honestly say just thankfully for online shopping and browsing for whatever you want, I would be well up the creak without a paddle otherwise, and would have to rely on others to get all my stuff, like food!!

When I came back from living abroad, and got myself this place I am living in, I had to start from scratch, right down to knives and forks! Everything you could possible think of I had to get it, and you know what? It was soo much easier and pleasant buying furniture on the net, no hassle from sale people, able to browse 100’s or places at my leisure, with no carbon footprint in the making, as I did not use cars etc …. it was heaven shopping online and still is.

So this is what I see …

Computers will be the ‘norm’ in every single home, no one even the poorest will be without one.

No ‘shops’ they will be all under one central warehouse units in the major parts of our countries. You will order online from the shop you want to use, and it will come from that place, items will be cheaper, as there are no overheads to pay for in having actual shops.
You will be able to see a virtual vision for your item, if it is clothing etc.

Cars will be only one per household, as run on solar or battery power, with meters car parks to charge them with. Transport will be far better for the public, and faster.

Mostly everything will be recycled, you will be fined if you do not recycle!!

Recreation, will be in ‘centre’s’ too, everything you can possibly think of will be under one roof. Cinemas, fitness, swimming you name it, it will be there.
The only one thing that will be ‘stand alone’ is the pubs/bars/clubs, this is because we are still individuals, and really not liking what the next person may.

Hospital’s will be smaller, for simple procedures and ill’s, and main hospitals, in the larger cities, and counties for major ill’s.
This will make far better appointments for everyone, no waiting times!

No one will smoke! Lol that’s a good thing surely hahaha

Prisons will be on offshore rigs, to make it harder for the luxuries they have now, as they do in the west … now that is a good thing!!!

Housing for all, even seabed complex’s or ‘islands’ for those that can afford to live there, more people working at home, only manual workers will be travelling to work.
Banks will be a thing of the past, one main office block, will suffice for all your banking needs … cash points will do everything, from money to making appointments to see your given bank in person, at your nearest building complex.

I could go on and on, pointing things out, that will be the brighter future … showing how more positive our time will be spent …

And my theory on all this lovely brightness??

If you believe most of that garbage up there ^^ you need your head testing, the shopping online may well be the truer of it all, but as far as the rest goes … greed will still be uppermost in some peoples minds, they do not care about earths resources, they only care what lines their pockets … MONEY!!

I kid you not lol this is why most projects are thrown to the wayside, because the ‘bigwigs’ will not make as much money!! Shame on you lot!! Lol

But if someone out there, feels they need to offload a shed load of money, going to a good cause, and sponsor my very simple needs, my bank details are ……



Laters Tatty xx




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SORRY!!!!! .....

So sorry!!! ….

Well I am sorry at the beginning, will have to wait and see how it goes as I get near the end.

Well we hear this practically every day, don’t we? I am saying sorry because, since the last time I spoke to you, I have had swine flu!! And then my internet went down for two days!! OMG!!! I was nearly in tears … I knew it was nothing to do with my end, as I have a ‘map’ of connection, so I can see where the problem is at a glance, the map shows my ….

My pooter >> router >> internet

And there was a horrible red cross between router and internet, the router was working fine, just the internet had deserted me *sobs* so I called my provider (*coughskycough*) they went through all the stuff I had just done, I am not stooped, I may be blonde but I do know my pooter stuff, but she insisted that we went through all this stuff, no joy! Now there was a surprise.
So she pass’s me onto the next section, as I found out from this section, the first section is to see if the problem was my end … tsk *rolleyes* now this section was to connection .. Yeeess ok explain to me mister, so we went through some other check points of his on his list, still no joy, now I am not happy, the mister tells me he can do nothing as it is a problem at the exchange, and he will pass the problem on to the right people, and they will get back to me .. “how long will they be?” I ask .. the mister answers “ up to 48 hours” in a voice that would make you think that he is doing you a favour. Well I am sorry … I nearly broke down, and I know my voice was cracking cos he must have felt guilty, cos I explained something to him why I need internet soo badly, and I then had him nearly in tears, so he did say that he would put a note on his report to the next section ..
Anyhoo cut a long story short, I still waited over 48 hours really it was 49.18.23secs yes I was counting believe me lol
Do you want to know what it was? I will tell you, a card needed changing at there end, they changed it the day before (24 hours after me reporting me having no internet) but it needed to be on slow speed for 24 hours, hence why my connection was like going back to the dark ages … yes remember them days? When it was dial up, and you waited forever to get to one site? Yes the dark ages, so they called me and while I was talking to them and online they changed it back to the speed it should be, and now *ding* its even faster now than before lol still was not happy though, cos I was cut off from my lovely ‘net’ friends, and I panicked I can tell you, yes panic attacks cos no internet, do you think that has happened to anyone before? Well I do mean a normal person when I ask this question Hahahah

So since then I have spent most of my time catching up on what I was not able to do in the time I had no internet, I did not realise how much crap I was doing before this happened, I do now though!! I stretch myself very thin by the looks of it, with everything I do, no wonder I am knackered at the end of the day!

And you know, it was only a month ago, that I bought myself a lovely new lappy, as a backup to the one I had in case something went wrong with that one, and I could not fix it … usually I can, but sometimes it does take someone with electric pooter knowledge to sort it, so now I need a back up for my back up by getting some sort of backup internet connection if ever this happens again.

And of course while I am trying to catch up on all the usual stuff I do all over the place, low and behold a site I use then open another site connected to them ‘live cloud’ its called, so now being the curious person I am, I have to go looky … I GET BORED easily ok, so I need new stuff to keep me occupied, seriously!! people start running if they hear the words ‘I am bored’ come out of me lol
Anyhoo, yes so I go to have a look at the new place, and its rather nice really, like a mixture of other well know sites, under one roof, so I will be posting this blog on there as well hahaha see what happens.

Oh yes so, where I am all for change and looking forward, others do not, now, I understand why some people like to stay with what they are used to, but really, it does widen your horizons to try new things, but then again its like talking to my dad on this, as he is still in the very much in the dark ages with everything, so I suggested that for those that do not want to live with and move with the new stuff, that we build a place where you lot can all congregate, and I suggest as I did before we call it ‘Ye old village hall’ … lol you can use it like the old style you are used to, to all your hearts content!!

Another thing while I am on the subject, I do worry about people who do not like change, makes me wonder what else they are stuck in a rut with *rolleyes* *cough* hahaha lol

oh dear I really should not go down that road … so before I dig myself a hole that I have to bury myself in I am off …

Before I do, my theory on saying sorry is .. Some people use it all to readily, they do things that they know they should not but do it anyway, with ‘sorry’ already on their lips ready!!
Now under these circumstances should you except the apology?? Depends on the misdemeanour, really, if its something you can laugh at, by all means accept it, otherwise no, I‘m sorry. *sniggers* at the pun hehehe

But it this instance I do mean it, cos I really did miss lots of people that I have become to know and love.

So to add to all this, another way of looking at this theory, is to get out while you can, before that hole gets waaaay too deep lol




Laters Tatty xx





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Forum mob mentality ....

AND THE TROLLS ...

I know in the past i have joked on my Farm town blog about 'tree trollers' but in this instance, I am talking in a more serious offence toward others


Yesterday I was ‘pounced’ upon by the little ’SK’ forum cronies, which is connected to the farm town game. Now while you all know most of what I say is in jest, and this happened because I started a thread, tongue in cheek, AFTER mine and many friends, neighbours, buddies on my list had been trampled upon by the ‘farm town hacker’, yes there is an actual hacker, for all of you who do not read my farm town blog.
Now this hacker, can only take your crops and tree fruit, all it it still goes into your storage, you still get the full amount of coins for it.
BUT, some people when they see the word ‘hacker’ they think the worse and assume he will the hack into their own computer, then it has to be explained not so in THIS case.
Also a few people do get upset at the thought of all this, I understand that, they report the problem on the ‘SK’ forum. And then its split 50/50 as to whether you get sympathy or vilified for it. I have read some really terrible comments made against the people who have experiences this form of invasion, not nice I can tell you.

Now, because this happened to me, and everyone connected to me, I reported the matter with the ‘jest head’ on this is basically what I started the thread as ….

OMG … OMG … (thread title)

Then inside post …

My farm has just been raped and pillaged by the farm town hacker and so has …

Get the gist? Now not only was this in jest I was using the ‘Queens English’ I am English after all, and using the words in that post in the right context to what I was saying about my trees and crops, of others too, a couple of people even saw the funny side of what I was saying and said so to the people who the jumped on my back, and told me I was upsetting a vilifying those that had been raped in real life!!

As I tried to explain, and I did post exactly the same words on my FB profile, no one turned a hair on it there, I would never want to upset anyone in this case on that subject. One particular person who is well known for making HER point, often wrong I might add, and very restrictive in attitude, would not even read my posts after of what I was saying, I told her, she should go to spec savers and read my post again!! Someone called tom, did actually post the 4 points of the dictionary description of the word ‘rape’ .. and agreed and told everyone that I had it in context of what I was saying ..

“The violent destruction of trees, crops, etc across the countryside.”

Do you think anyone would read and listen to that?? NOOOOO

I even thanked tom, on his post and did say he was wasting his time trying to educate such ignorant people, because at this point I was getting really upset from what people were saying… I ended it with a bang though, which I am not going to repeat here because it is too personal to me. I left the forum, and that is when Farm town crashed, so did the forum, as the devs decided that was the time to sort out the problem with the hacker.

The this morning this is what I walked into on that forum, as the thread I did was deleted and replaced with this one, this is the actual post by the OP …

I understand all the points of view on trees.
Love my trees and love seeing everyone's trees.
I understand the respect issue.
I totally agree with the MY FARM....MY RULES concept.
But people...all this whining and crying about TREE Rapers, and TREE Snipers, and TREE Bandits, andTREE Hackers needs to stop.


Please for the love of GOD...be thankful for your fingers that allow you to play this crazy game.
Be thankful for the real flowers and TREES God has given us to enjoy.
Be thankful for the bees that give us honey and pollinate our real crops and TREES

DON'T GET MAD....SAY A PRAYER FOR THE TREE SINNERS!!!!

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Oh yes … plain for all to see the ‘word’ I used .. What do you think the posters replying were saying?? Were they telling this OP she was vile etc?? NO they were no cos it was her friends who vilified me yesterday, so the whole place thought it was now funny!!!

This is my reply

seems like there are various rules on this forum for SOME people ... one day they are slating you about a word, the next, the same word appears, and hey presto!!! it is acceptable???? well not to me, remove that word at once please, i find it very offensive in my situation!!!

i did actually have quite a few people come to my farm and leave messages of support for me after what happened yesterday and i would like to thank all of them for being soo kind, i appreciated the kinds words and wish's, for what i went through some time ago.


must say seems my 'sermon' yesterday seems to have gotten through to some people, but double standards still for others, and before you start jumping on me again, for now 'spoiling' a funny thread ... i seem to remember the funny thread yesterday that was 'tongue in cheek' and in the right context for the Queens English language (noooo, was not a reference to gay people, i have some very lovely gay friends) and then 'ripped' and 'plundered' to shreds do not bother!!

see what happens when you start to think about what you say??? MOST words you write can be misconstrued.

but for those of you who do want to read about forum mob mentality, trolls, etc i will give you the link to the very nice blog i will be writing today, on theories lol but i will warn you, although it is tongue (can i use that word) in cheek (or that, after all it refers to a section of the anatomy some might find offensive) there will be an underlying piece as it resulted in someone self harming because of the abuse HE was getting.

i am off now to enjoy some people who have a real sense of humor.

again most of this post IS in jest.

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Why is it that I have to now justify myself? I would not even say that all these people are uneducated, but I will say one thing, they are downright ignorant to others!!

For those of you who have behave like this towards another, think again, yes I did get upset, about this what happened to me, and for very good reasons, BUT not everyone can take it then bounce back as quick as me, and if it is relentless day in day out, stalking from one forum to another, then it will ware a person down, I know of one person who has self harmed this week because of this sort of behaviour, but they actually had the gall to the try and include a very dear friend of mine into this situation, wrong move!!
I could say its just childish and juvenile … but we are talking mostly about grown people, ADULTS!!

I am prepared now, for what will be thrown at me, and ‘snappy dragon’ I hope you or one of your friends are reading this, YOU lot need to sort your heads and yes … get a life!! Outside of making other peoples life miserable!!
I may have posted that what I have said above in that thread, but do you think I will let it rest there? Only difference is, I will go the right way round, I will also report the ‘Mod’, that joined in on this thread, to the appropriate people.

For the others, the trolls, a some like to call these people, who have seen posts on another forum by me in defence of a certain person, you are slowly killing!! … just carry on *wink* … what goes around comes around!!

Rant over .. I am sorry to all you regulars, but sometimes it just needs to be said. This subject hit home over the weekend, so I had to say something.

Normal service will be resumed asap.



Laters Tatty xx


PS .. the picture included the faces that could be seen, have been spotted out to protect the innocent, this was an innocent mob/crowd lol




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