TUESDAY FLIPPING TUESDAY!!!

Evening everyone!!!
Well its tuesday the 10th of february 2009 and well ..its RAINING.....Am totally fed up with this weather realted lying from the tv and meteorlogical office....
First we are going to have copiuos amonts of snow,so its batten down the hatches...and NOTHING....and then we are going to have rough weather,cold,wet,frosty,and snowy and.....NOTHING.
To be honest i am sick of being lyed to by the meterological office i wish that once,just once they would say on their forcasts"we haven't got a clue what the weather will be for the next 24 hours,and have no idea whatsoever whats going to happen for the rest of the week" at least it would be the truth.....I wonder if i could sue the weather forcasters for lying and worried the living crap out of all the local pensioners in our area?????
No seriously i digress,
This week has been a bit mad,monday morning o took my hubs to hospital to the pain management clinic and the poor bugger was bent over double in pain,as soon as we even get a temperature drop he's in agony,don't get me wrong he's in pain constantly but it gets worse as the year gets colder...But this time we had a breakthrough,the doctor and therapist recommended that kips trys a TENS machine its one of those funny electronic pulse thingys,thats gives natural pain relief.....well the doctor told me and showed me how to fit these sticky pads to his back and how to wire him up and turn him on,within about a hour of him having this fitted the results were ASTOUNDING!!!He was walking upright,he wasn't limping,and he was for the first time in donkeys years pain free!!!!he said that he was comfotably numb and couldn't feel his back at all...but after an hour he was back in pain...but we had had a taste of what this TENS machine could do and the doctors told him to use it as much as possible but to have aboput and hours rest in between sessions so that his skin wouldn't irritate,,,
When i got home i found a carrier bag of yarn left on my front doorstep...it was full of black double knit in copious amounts with a note from one of the girls on the estate had left it for me,i called the numbe on the card and we had a lovely conversation about knitting and crochet and what she used to do as she is older than i am and doesn't feel that her eyesight is good enough
to carry on,she was more than keen to find out what i have been upto and what i had got planned in the future...but at the minute i was getting thoughtful and decided what i wanted to do with the yarn,io can't wait to show what i have done with the yarn,i think she will be pleased....i'm going over to see her later on this week and show her how i am doing so far...
I have decided to write another knitting pattern and have decided to have a go at my own cabled sweater pattern,have done the front and back so far,but i am making it on a pair of circular neeldes,so what i am going to do is type up what i have done so far and just add to the written pattern as i do it........Hopefully my knitting patterns will get looked at...i wanted to publish on ravelry but i haven't got a clue where to start.....i did ask once how to do it but the instructions wer so technical i got as far as clicking on to add a pattern and got toally lost and lost the plot completeley...but i will work it out eventually,its just i know i am a bit slow when it comes to publishing patterns on ravelry but i don't want to sell them i just would like to publish one just to say that i had done it!!!!
This morning is driving me mental....if i see one more drop of rain i am going to scream!!!last night at 9.30 pm it was snowing heavy and i got my hopes up for a lovely drop of snow only to have my hopes dashed because this morning it was heaving down with rain....had to take the little one to the doctors he has to have a check-up on his knees every 6 months,he's doing well but has to stay on the ibuprofen for the next 5 weeks to see how he does....he's finally started to grow,in the last 3 months he's grown 1 1/2 inches in height which is a vast relief he's 11 now and doesn't seem to have grown at all in the last few years,he's still in ages 6-7 years clothing,i still can't get him a school sweatshirt as he's too small and they don't go small enough,but we will get there......
We had to go and get some coal and wood today...in the last few months we have noticed that the gas price has spiralled out of controll,the electricity has stayed about the same which is a bonus,but the gas heats our home and water,,so because we have a open fire we thought that we would use the wood and coal to heat the house and just use the gas to heat the water.and to be honest its doing the job and makes our heating bills drop from£35.00 per week down to £15.00 per weekwhich is a much better way of doing things for us...we have also found that the kids actually sleep better when we have the fire burning,they are so much more relaxed in the evenings,and the house is beautifully warm,when the gas drops in price again and we let the fire go out i think i will miss it very much.....at the minute my father has got two chestnut trees in the back garden that he's taken down,so w are urning them at the minute...the council don't mind as our fireplace is still legal and can be used at any time,in fact the council where we are are looking at installing wood burners in all of their homes with open fires as its cheaper than installing gas central heating...I personally would love it!!!!
but we will see what happens.
Right am now going to have a go at writing my cabled top pattern.............so here goes on a new thread.......
bye for now!!!