Archive for December, 2011
Posted by Shirley Anne on December 22, 2011
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I looked at a picture that had been posted on AOL which purportedly showed an angel in the womb of a mother-to-be. The ultrasonic portrait of the foetus was in the foreground but there appeared to be a face in the background looking onto the baby. Well that was the claim. It was suggested that the image was that of an angel who was watching over the unborn infant. Now angels are Gods messengers, that’s what the name means, but why one should appear so tiny and only as a head is anyone’s guess. Angels, it is claimed, can manifest themselves as living beings, humans, but they are far from human. Accounts of angels appearing in the flesh are recorded in The Bible, the most remembered account being that experienced by a young virgin called Mary who was informed of her forthcoming pregnancy and the birth of Jesus Christ. This was the angel Gabriel who had also informed Elizabeth of her pregnancy after years of being barren. She bore a son called John who became known as John the Baptist. Many other accounts of angels are found in the pages of Scripture. The picture in the womb probably bore an accidental similarity to a face which prompted the angel claim. People read so many things into what they see with their eyes. When pictures from the Martian exploration satellites were processed some of them appeared to show faces in the rock formations but they are obviously accidental comparisons caused by the angle of the light shining upon them coupled with the shapes of the rock formations themselves. It has even been suggested that some of the formations strongly resemble constructed buildings. Famous faces such as that of Elvis Presley have been seen in such photographs according to some views. Angels do not hide from us but they are normally invisible and only manifest themselves when instructed by God to do so. People have entertained angels without realising it on occasion. Angels have no need to hide away in pictures and photographs do tell lies now and then.
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 21, 2011
I have not moved far away from my place of birth nor the places where I grew up. I was born in the heart of Liverpool on one wet Wednesday morning in the city’s Royal Hospital in November 1945. For the first three months of my life I lived with my parents in my aunty’s home after which we moved into our own home almost in the city centre and stayed there until 1958 when my family and I moved to the suburbs. By 1955 our family was complete, five children for mom and dad to look after. When I married in 1974 we couldn’t afford to buy our first house so we decided to rent an apartment for two years until we had a big enough deposit for a house. The apartment was in Bootle, just a couple of miles outside Liverpool city centre. Our first house was bought in a small town north of Liverpool about sixteen miles as the crow flies. We moved there in 1976 and left again to move into the house we now live in which is about 22 miles north of Liverpool, in Southport. We came here in 1988. Our decisions to move where we did were all based on our work and the need to be reasonably close to it. Had our circumstances been different we may have decided to locate in another part of the country. Compared to some parts of the country this area is perhaps lacking in dramatic scenery but it has a great heritage and history. The people who live hereabouts are some of the finest you will meet anywhere and some of the most friendly and welcoming. Having said that though I do find that people who were born in this town are less friendly than those who migrated here from Liverpool but that is a generalisation and it would be unkind to suggest that folk here are not friendly. I like being here because it is near the shore, the weather is fairly reasonable and the air coming from the Irish sea is fresh and clean. I think people grow to like the place where they live. When I first came here I was a little apprehensive as to what it would be like but I settled down soon enough. I have travelled across the globe but each time I have been away I longed to get back to my home territory and all these familiar places. It is good to live here as I am sure it is for those who live elsewhere. I suppose we make the places we live as our home and make them places where we can feel at home in a world that is often hostile and unstable. Home is where the heart is and my heart is here
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 20, 2011
The diagram below depicts the timeline for all mankind, from the beginning of man’s creation until the final judgement. According to the author the beginning of the Great Tribulation begins around the year 2026 and ends seven years later in 2033. According to the diagram we are presently late into the Age of the Church. The year 2033 would indicate the beginning of Christs one thousand year rule here on Earth, called The Millenium. If Scripture has been interpreted correctly these dates are ones to watch but today is the day of salvation so why wait? It may be too late soon.
Credit for this diagram goes to http://ichthys.com/Bible_charts_and_illustrations.htm
Here is a similar but more descriptive diagram below
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 20, 2011
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This is the final working week before the holiday that is celebrated as Christmas. I say celebrated but in fact not everyone celebrates the day in accordance with its sentiments. When I was younger it was always the run-up to Christmas that was exciting, less so the day itself which always seemed to be a little of an anti-climax. Yes, the food, the presents, the giving and receiving, the family and friends were all good things to enjoy although the expectation had all but disappeared. I never was sure what that expectation was until much later in life. In those days I wasn’t a Christian and, like everyone who isn’t a Christian, my heart was set on other worldly things and having a good time. The message of Christmas never entered my thoughts. Christmas itself is a celebration that has hijacked a much older celebration or celebrations that were in existence long before. The early Church did not celebrate the birth of Christ for good reason, it wasn’t part of Scripture and therefore wasn’t a command of or from God. It was many years later that the early Catholic Church introduced the idea of celebrating Christ’s birth but to encourage people to join in the worship and subsequently become believers they introduced many of the artifacts and traditions of the pagan and mystic religions that people were drawn to at that time. So all the things which are now part of the modern celebration of Christmas have their roots in these non-Christian belief systems and really have no place in Christianity. Over the centuries these customs have become tradition and have become accepted as a right way to celebrate Christ’s birth. The early Church was warned to steer clear of the practices of ‘foreign’ religions by God Himself, not only in His word, The Bible (then the Old Testament) but also by His prophets. The New Testament follows in that same vein. The Church became corrupt when together with the celebrations instigated by the Catholic church, the ’festival of Christmas was declared to be celebrated as a normal practice by Emperor Constantine. Those who declared themselves to be Christians followed the practice through ignorance, mostly because the general population couldn’t read or write and relied upon the Church for instruction. It was only much later when people became more educated and were given the opportunity to read The Bible for themselves did they learn the true message it contains. However, old traditions were so ingrained that they remained and the celebration of Christmas went on unabated until today where it has taken on a whole new meaning, especially for the unbeliever. Notwithstanding, Christmas is not Scriptural and in fact goes against God’s will as a means to praise and worship Him for it is through Jesus Christ that we worship God. I look on in despair at the goings on in the Christian (so-called) world where believers still choose to ignore God in this instruction and think there is little harm in doing so. People may not think what they do is wrong and may even believe that it is perfectly alright to choose how they worship God but God says otherwise. Look at the mess that is the Christmas celebration. It has become hijacked itself being reclaimed as a pagan festival but is also now a totally commercial event coupled with old and new traditional values that have no root in God’s word or His will. What an obstinate and disobedient people we are. No, I do not like the run-up to Christmas as I once did and for reasons I once knew little about.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 20, 2011
The small mirror in the picture on the right now has lighting surrounding it. I installed that last week. Near the bed on the floor is an alarm unit I made which sounds when one of the floodlights in the front of the house is activated. (Click on pictures to enlarge)
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 19, 2011
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Having enjoyed a lovely afternoon on Friday and having consumed a fair amount of red wine I wasn’t particularly interested in having some exercise on my treadmill the morning after, which was Saturday. During last week I had not been able to exercise for a couple of reasons, not least of all was the fact that I had been suffering with back pain so I really needed to exercise even if I didn’t feel like it. As it happened I didn’t get to bed until two o’clock in the morning and didn’t fall asleep straight away as usual but when I did I had a good night’s sleep. I awoke at seven, a mere four and a half hours after falling asleep, very much what I do nearly every day and dressed for a session on the treadmill. Forty minutes later I felt great, had a quick light breakfast then bathed and dressed for the day. Nothing to do on Saturdays I caught up with some reading and played around on my guitar. I always find that when I am not in the mood to exercise I do it anyway and never regret it. It is all about discipline of course and I suppose if I were to give in to laziness rather than exercise I would be in a sorry state. What professional footballer remains so if they refuse to exercise? How long would a boxer last in the ring if he decided not to prepare himself because he didn’t feel like it? I sometimes don’t like the idea of exchanging a comfortable bed for a stint on the treadmill but I force myself to do it. A few years ago I would be up and about at two-thirty in the morning and out on the street at three o’clock running a few miles come rain or snow. That takes dedication and determination and it didn’t do me any harm, in fact quite the opposite! I therefore make a special effort to exercise the day after some self-indulgent eating and drinking when it is time for me to do some exercise.
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 18, 2011
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When my friend Jane and I went out for the afternoon last Friday, that is a week ago, everything seemed to go wrong. Our first choice of venue told us that they could not provide us with food as the gas supply to their ovens had failed. We were not charged for the drinks we had ordered and received. It appeared that they had been having difficulties all morning but had somehow managed to provide a service until the moment we arrived when all went pear-shaped as they say. After trying a couple of other places we finally found somewhere to eat. It wasn’t the best of places but we were so hungry it didn’t matter. I decided to invite Jane out again this Friday by way of compensation and to go somewhere completely different. As it turned out we had chosen well and subsequently enjoyed a very nice afternoon. It was so nice that the afternoon turned into an evening out too but eventually we had to leave so that Jane could return home, however we went via the supermarket so that I could re-stock on some red wine and we got back to my house sometime after ten-thirty in the evening. Jane is always welcome to stop over but this time she wanted to go home as she had her archery meeting on Saturday morning and her equipment was at her house. She stayed for a time and departed a little after eleven. I shall not see her now until the new year as she plans to stay with another friend over the holiday. It is lovely to enjoy the company of friends and it is something I cherish very much in my life. I wish that I could see my friends more often but it isn’t always possible for many reasons. This time was so different from the last time we met and much more enjoyable. I look forward to our next afternoon/evening outing! Thank you Jane.
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 17, 2011
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I’ve been considering my life quite a lot lately, much of that about my gender transition but also about my life in general, work, relationships, health, lifestyle and so on. I suppose it is all to do with age and how I am reacting to the changes that come naturally with it. Some things I have no control over but over much of it I do maintain control. I know I am not able to do things as quickly as I once did, in all areas of my life. I am finding that I like the free time I get when not working and the fact that I can accept work or not. I have turned down a few jobs of late, mostly because they were too big to take on when I don’t want to work full days, especially as the work was highly labour orientated. I get much satisfaction in doing smaller jobs whilst still earning a decent wage, not that I actually need the cash but one day I might so I save what I can too. My health has been suffering a little lately, aches and pains in my back muscles for a few days forced me to take things easy for a while. I am generally quite a fit and healthy person and I do look after myself, eating the right food and getting exercise when I am able. All of my life I wanted to transition and there have been a thousand and one reasons for me not doing so early in life but when I did transition over nine years ago, well nine years since my operations, I was as happy as I could be. The change in hormones fuelled a change in my perceived sexuality which was rather confusing at first but I finally settled down to what is normal for me. These days I feel I am asexual, having no urges to indulge in any kind of sexual acts either with myself or with anyone else. I have never enjoyed self stimulation of my vagina but was readily aroused if someone else did it! I now have a vagina that gets no sexual activity at all so dilation is pointless and this is the way I want it to be. Some might say that is a waste of all that I have gone through to get where I am but life is not about sex, especially when no interest is taken in it. Yes, I could still be stimulated and probably, no, certainly would get aroused (I still get feelings of arousal but take no action on it) if I pursued a life that involved sexual activity. However and although I have a high but suppressed libido, I choose not to. Some things in life I can choose to leave without missing them, sex is one of them. I still get advances from guys though. How does the saying go? I would much prefer a pan of Scouse (similar to Irish stew in Liverpool for those who may not know). So where am I now? Well apart from my family and one or two friends I am quite alone, no relationships. no lovers and happy as I can be.
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 16, 2011
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This post will be number 1208 if my calculations are correct. That means a lot of posts for my readers to mull over if they’ve an inclination. Lots to read to be sure. I wonder what happens to all the posts we’ve written in the past, many of which have no responding comments and yet we plod on and write more. Of course they sit in the memory of some colossal computer located somewhere in the world like books on a library shelf collecting dust. 1208 posts represent something like 1 to 2 Mb of space I would guess, not exactly a huge amount but that only accounts for the text. Pictures will take far more space but even so in this day and age it won’t be an enormous amount relatively speaking on an individual basis. I suppose the amount we write would be impossible to read by everyone so if we miss something that’s the end of it. Having categories and tags occasionally brings old posts back into circulation to be read in reference to new posts written by others and sometimes by ourselves. Posts are there to be read of course but bot everyone reads the same material do they?
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 16, 2011
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I love watching old movies and shows on television. The later ones bring back memories of times gone by when I was young. I was born in November 1945 and I can remember many things from the late forties, from the fifties and sixties right up unto today. I remember the ration books that people had to have in order to buy food and other commodities because many things were in short supply due to the second world war. Gradually things improved and rationing was abandoned in or around 1954, the year following Queen Elizabeth’s succession to the throne. I remember the bunting and the decorating of bicycles, prams and other things with red, white and blue crêpe paper as we celebrated the coronation of the queen as children. I would be almost eight years old then. Many houses had been destroyed during the war so many people had to live where they could, usually with relatives. My parents were fortunate to get accommodation in one of the newly built prefabricated houses, prefabs, that were erected to ease the housing shortage. We stayed in that house from 1946 until 1958 when we moved to a semi-detached house in the suburbs. The prefab had many things in it that most people couldn’t afford to buy for themselves, things like a refrigerator, an immersion heater, a boiler (as opposed to a washing machine which came later), a built-in cooker and what was commonly called a ‘all night burner’, a fire that also heated the water by having a water pipe coil linked to the storage tank (indirect heating) and a modern electrical control panel. We didn’t have a telephone in those days, not many people had. We didn’t get a telephone until many years later after we had moved into the semi-detached house and even then not until about 1970! We had a radio but no television until 1953. The things which altered our lives more than any other were the telephone and the television. We could hear the news over the radio but to see the news was a real eye-opener. We could see places we could only dream about visiting until the advent of cheap flights and overseas accommodation. The telephone most certainly changed our lives. We had embarked on the journey into a faster way to communicate with people. When I began working for myself the mobile telephone had been developed enough for anyone to own one and it was that fact alone which enabled me to run my electrical business efficiently whereas before I had to telephone home for any messages, now people could telephone me wherever I was. Now of course the mobile phone is much more than just a phone, it is a tool for visual communication too, a device which can connect us to the Internet enabling us to get information from anywhere in the world. The Internet enables the world to come into our living rooms, we can see those we are talking with, we can watch television, listen to music without having to store it at home on discs. Technology has advanced so rapidly over the last sixty years and it has done it exponentially. Progress begets progress and is running away with itself. I wonder where it will all end? Things we can do almost immediately today would have taken days to do when I was a child.
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 15, 2011
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On Monday evening I got called out to a little emergency job in town, an elderly (90) woman had lost electrical supply to a few circuits in her apartment and was desperate to have it fixed. I knew before I went what the problem was and was proved right when I got there. A table lamp bulb had blown which caused one of the two RCD units to trip, switching off power to half of the apartment. The distribution board would have been out of her reach even if she knew how to reset it. I ran this by her before deciding I had to go and do it myself. I got back home and just wanted to relax. I had eaten my evening meal prior to that call and just wanted a quiet evening. I have been suffering with pains in my back (feels like lumbago) for a couple of days so I was not in the mood for much activity, although I have been doing some electrical work. The house phone rang and then stopped. I checked 1471 to see who it was but they’d concealed their number. It rang again after a few minutes and someone asked for me by name. Thinking it was a request to do some work I answered that it was me they were asking for. My name is listed on my advertisement and cards so people often ask to speak with Shirley Anne and it is nothing unusual. It was a mans voice and he gave his name. It didn’t ring any bells so he asked if I remembered him. Then it dawned on me that this guy was somebody I had met some ten years ago and at that time he took a great interest in me, I think you know what I mean. However I rejected his advances but accepted him as a friend. He reluctantly accepted that I wasn’t interested in anything more than friendship. We met occasionally in the clubs in Manchester and once or twice he came to visit me. I must point out here that there is a 32 year gap between us and I felt a little uncomfortable with that at the time we were together. When he began to shower me with gifts I knew he couldn’t be satisfied with just friendship and I felt he wanted to go further. I broke off the relationship and he was hurt by that but I figured all would be ok and he would get over me. Well he had to. Now another thing I ought to mention (up till now I didn’t want to say) is that when we met this guy was in the early stages of FtM transition. This had no bearing on our friendship or my decision to break it off, it was simply that I didn’t want a sexual relationship with anyone at that time. So here he is calling me ten years down the line and making tentative steps in rekindling our friendship. I was a bit taken aback but I still do not wish to meet up again even though it could be harmless. He was keen to tell me about his operations and how much he had changed but it was all falling on deaf ears. I am simply not interested. I told him this several times but I am wondering if he will get the message. Why would anyone keep my telephone number for ten years knowing that I had broken off our friendship if he didn’t still have an interest? I feel that if I allow him back into my life I shall never be able to get rid of him. Hopefully he will respect my wishes and accept the fact that he is barking up the wrong tree.
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 14, 2011
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I have always been interested in the news and make every effort to watch reports on television or listen to them on the radio whilst driving. Over the years I have noticed the increased frequency in the reports of violence, especially murder and also of other crimes in general. In years gone by a murder was reported at national level but sometimes crimes of this nature are only reported locally or only given brief attention elsewhere in the country. Murder it seems has become so commonplace that it doesn’t shock us like it once did. This past week alone I have heard reports of three murders. As for lesser crimes most do not even make the news because there are so many of them being carried out. It is symptomatic of today’s society. Values have deteriorated, we as a society have become morally deficient and the result is an increase in the crime rate. Some people would blame that on a decline in work opportunities, too much taxation, insufficient remuneration or the rising cost of living, anything but a diminished personal morality. What is becoming of this country? Why does it seem to be getting worse? One factor could be the increase in drug abuse and the need to fund it. The cost of drugs forces users to a life of crime in order to pay for the habit but of course had they not indulged in the first place no problem would exist. The same goes for people who drink far in excess of what they should, they see a rapid decline in their living standards to pay for the alcohol they consume. It is down to individuals to take proper control of their lives and say no to things that will lead them down the wrong paths in life, maybe to a life of crime.
Shirley Anne
- Why violent crime is set to rise (traditionalchristianity.wordpress.com)
- Crime on the rise during recession (autonetinsurance.co.uk)
- Civilized Crime Today (misswhiplash.wordpress.com)
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 13, 2011
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People do some funny things. Whilst watching the evening news, well it was more to do with the weather, I saw a young man holding his jacket over his head to catch the wind. We have been experiencing some very high winds these last few days and on Thursday in particular it was blowing 60 to 90 mph depending on where you were. The young man could have been lifted off his feet and thrown backwards a few yards (metres) perhaps injuring him but he was going for the moment. In a later program we were shown a huge open-structured tower similar to electricity pylons but much taller. It was, or is, the only one of four that stood in the area and was used as an early warning radar aerial during the war. We were told that it was built in 1939 but it looked perfectly safe standing there in a remote part of Lincolnshire. Today it is being used by the Royal Airforce as a training utility testing cadets capability working at height. The camera showed the view from the top of the tower and I felt insecure just looking at the television screen! I’m afraid I couldn’t attempt climbing that height even with the safety gear the presenter and RAF members were using. I get nervous at height but strangely enough in certain circumstances I lose all fear, for example when in an aeroplane or building (as long as look down out of the windows in the case of a building), ridiculous as it may seem I was never frightened when climbing scaffolding but I get nervous if climbing too far up a ladder, say more than fifteen feet. I was amazed to find that parascending was thrilling and I wasn’t in the least scared of climbing so high even though the parachute might have developed a fault. A few months ago I went up in a basket suspended from a hot-air balloon and felt quite safe. Strange isn’t it? Some of those fears are irrational I know but there is always an element of danger in any of them. It just seems peculiar that some things I am not happy doing yet others, equally as potentially dangerous I don’t mind. When I transitioned I was told that I was brave doing what I did but I find some of the things mentioned here require much more a certain amount of bravery. Me? I am not really brave at all, when something needs doing I do it if I am able or if it is necessary but I refuse to do things I am not that happy doing. No I’m not brave at all.
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 12, 2011
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I guess I have been in love a few times in my life and in some of those times I loved the person for who they were too. There is a difference between being in love and loving someone of course but sometimes the both are true at the same time. I was in love with my first girlfriend but I didn’t get to know her that well to say that I loved her as a person, we split up before that could happen. When I met my wife I was in love with her but I also loved her. Now that we are divorced I still love her very much, more than she perhaps knows but I am not in love with her. There have been other people who I fell in love with but didn’t love them simply because I didn’t get to know them for long enough. In reality I love all people but that love is completely different from loving them on a personal level, it is a love borne out of my love for God and His creation. Yes, I am in love with my maker and I also love my maker. This kind of love never fails because God never fails in loving me. It is the same love He has for you too. It is a love that has no comparison to the kind of love we experience with other people. It is pure love, without blemish, without fault, totally unselfish, totally reliable, totally faithful. There is no earthly love to match the love of God. Why God even gave us His Son for the forgiveness of our sins! How wonderful, how marvellous is my God’s love for me! How can I not love Him? He who gave me life, He who loves me and sacrificed His only Son deserves to be loved in return. It doesn’t matter whether you believe in God or not, it doesn’t diminish His love for you. How amazing is that? Yes, I am in love and it makes me very happy indeed.
Shirley Anne
- Holiness of God and His Love (anotherchristianblog.org)
- Ima-obong (pritihorangereflections.wordpress.com)
- God’s Love Flows (learning2hear.com)
- “The Ultimate Giver of Love” (pjsprayerline.blogspot.com)
- God’s Love (victorychurch2943.wordpress.com)
- Questions From Bible Study: How do I know God loves me? (ptl2010.com)
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 11, 2011
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I didn’t have work scheduled for Thursday as the job I had planned was put back until next week so I thought I would get up early and spend some time on my treadmill. I did get up reasonably early at nine o’clock and about half an hour later I was running. I have been slowly building up my stamina on the machine so I was able to go that extra distance on it. It was something like 11 o’clock by the time I got dressed and went out to deposit some cash in the bank and run another important errand. When I returned home I wanted to wash my van and remove the (locked) ladder from the roof. I set everything up and began cleaning the vehicle when I began to feel light rain falling. At first I thought it was just the spray from the hose pipe because it was rather windy but by the time I had almost finished it began to pour down heavily. Somewhat soaked I managed to put the van into the garage and went indoors to prepare my lunch. I had the afternoon free, so I thought but late in the afternoon I got a call to do a job. From what the guy said over the phone his shower wasn’t working so I said I would be there in fifteen minutes. It turned out to be the wall switch not allowing power through to the shower. I had a replacement in the van and thought it would take no time at all to fix but I hadn’t planned on the very poor workmanship of the original installer. Absolutely no spare slack on the cables and the wrong box fitted in the wall. The switch was also placed in a rather awkward position close to an adjoining wall making working on it difficult. The job took much longer than it should have done but I managed in the end. I get annoyed with the quality of work that some of my peers produce and I put it down to poor training. I am glad I don’t have to rely on them to do an electrical job for me. Shortly after I returned home my eldest son and daughter-in-law arrived to unload most of their belongings for storage in our house. They have an interested party wanting to buy their house and hopefully they will finally be able to move as they planned. They will live at her parents house but use our house for storage as it is far larger with plenty of spare rooms. The idea is to buy another house at some point in the future when they can save enough to do that. They won’t have as much expenditure to worry about once they’ve sold their present property so saving will be far easier but of course with a baby on the way they will need money for that. Happy days or maybe happy daze!
Shirley Anne
- Time is a funny thing… (thegirlinrouge.wordpress.com)
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