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Had a lovely day yesterday with Kat & O's at a friends wedding despite the rain! Kat looked gorgeous in her bridesmaid dress and O's scrubbed up pretty well too. Felt a bit of a numpty having to have my food cut up for me, can't wait to be able to the simple things like that.

Wow Pontalba that is amazing. Not much happening here, my elbow is slowly improving just have a dull ache now until I try and move it too much! Work have been very accommodating, I have a couple of minnions to do my fetching and carrying and quite a few colleagues who keep offering to make my brews I am lucky to have such wonderful work friends. I am mainly on desk duties and no helpline calls which is a blessing and my one handed typing speed is getting better by the day

The elbow is not too bad, mainly a constant dull ache with some sharper pain when i move it (which I have to do to stretch it ) I have stopped taking to strong painkillers as they left me feeling spaced out so just sticking to paracetamols to take the edge off. Went out for a bit of a drive today with hubby, took some flowers to the cemetary and called in to see my mum which was nice, then back home through the torrential rain. Just realised that Endeavour is not on tonight so will have to console myself with a book

Thank you x Congratulations poppy x Thank you, yes it is a nuisance and I am being looked after. Hate not being able to even the simplest of things, got to go out today with the dogs and hubby which blew the cobwebs away but it will be a while before I will be able to take them out by myself

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Oops been absent for a few weeks again Lets see what have I been up to? Well not a lot really, Had a week off work at the end of March and managed to read 4 whole books, The Mrs Brown trilogy from Brendan O'Carroll and a Diane Chamberlain one which i quite enjoyed. Since then my mojo has been awol again. Then had a few weeks at work followed by another week off at the end of April which I have not read a single page! I did go fishing with hubby on the first 2 days then spent the rest of the week pottering around and going to a couple of car boots. The bank holiday weekend was the anniversary of Freya joining our household and we even managed to get a picnic in which the dogs also enjoyed Last Monday was the date we selected to celebrate Freya's birthday and I also managed to take a birthday bump for her, well a fall actually which after a trip to A&E confirmed a fractured elbow I can't believe how hard it is to do things with only one arm! But at least I got a few extra days off, should be fun on Monday when I go back not sure what I will be able to do or not! Ah well off to browse the boards........

Hope your feeling better soon Muggles, I feel your pain with the cough I was like that too. I was rudely awoken at 6am yesterday with a bad headache which then turned to migraine last night, first one of 2013. Today I have struggled through work with the after effects but I am now almost fully over it. Not a lot else happening up here on the Fylde Coast apart from the horrendous wind and rain, please bring back the snow!!!!

I survived my week on helpline and now have 4 weeks till I have to do it all again (I hate doing phones!) and also got told that I won't be doing any acting up for a while. Not a happy bunny, going from 5 days to 2 was bad enough but now I'm going to be about £200 a month down in wages which wouldn't be so bad but after Hannah's birthday last August child benefit and tax credit stopped so we are really feeling the pinch now. Loved the snow yesterday just a pity it was all gone this morning. I'm still struggling with the bad cough but feeling loads better in myself and I'm managing to do some reading too.

O M G that's amazing you lucky thing. Slopes off slowly to join the queue.......... Here here!!! Ok I'm guilty as charged, I've lost count of Mt TBR but I don't care Even loss of my mojo didn't stop me buying more books, I have started to refrain from looking in shops but only cos' i can buy for my kindle and that way hubby doesn't know I've bought any lol

Same here I can go from prolific reading to nothing, I am just coming out of a non reading phase now. I find lots of stress and worries upsets my mojo and this last couple of years has been more down than up and my mojo went completely. Thankfully it's coming back - 4 books in 2 months is the best for a while. Missing mojo doesn't put me off buying books though!!!!

Thank you Well I for one am bitterly disappointed in the lack of snow around here we have had a light dusting which has now disappeared and today it has been snowing all day and not one flake has stuck! So not fair. I've almost completely recovered from the man flu just left with a horrible chesty cough every time I move. Work is still pants, I'm halfway through my week on helpline and only 5 weeks till I do it all again

I've surpassed myself and finished a book in under 3 days! Watch Over Me was a light easy read, no need to think too much but still very enjoyable. Now starting A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness and this may take a while it's huge!!!

My mojo left me last year and as a result I barely managed to get into double figures I did manage to read the 3 Rivers of London books by Ben Aaronovitz (sp?) and just before Christmas read Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult. I just finished The Glass Painter's Daughter by Rachel Hore which I really enjoyed and I am about to start Watch Over Me by Daniela Sacerdoti - fingers crossed my mojo will stay for a while

I've now read all 3 of these books and really enjoyed them. They are not what I would usually read but managed to get hooked! I do hope that there will be more in this series.

Hi peeps it's been a while since I have been on here! Been meaning to pop in but just never got round to it. The last few months have been very up and down, my working at the higher grade has ended which has impacted our finances greatly but we are getting by just had to tighten our belts a bit more! To add to the stresses I also have to do more work on the helpline phones which now include spending one full week in 5 on the damned things, originally we were told it would be one week in twelve but they lied! My reading has suffered even more but touch wood things are looking up I have managed to read 2 whole books since the New Year! Well i'll go for a mooch around the boards and see what I've missed, speak soon

We've had a really good weekend, Hannah's birthday was fab she got a tattoo on her leg and her dad got a matching one, we also had a family meal out which was yummy. Hannah then went on out with her friends and finally made it home at 5,30am Sat morning! Ant is still with us which is great and tonight hubby and I went out for tea just the two of us, first time in years. Also managed a bit of a spending spree on amazon including six books for my kindle! Now catching up on the olympics before getting ready for work

I only have 20% left to read of Rivers Of London, off to spend some hard earned money on more books soon

Happy anniversary Kell. Hope your dog is ok Noll, keep us posted Let's see what has happened so far this month???? Well son came home for yesterday and is here till Sunday or Monday which is great as we normally only get one or two nights stays when he does come home. He went out last night to see a friends dad play in Blackpool (it's punk festival time) got a bit drunk fell over and hurt his knee as well as losing his phone! The phone was found and a nice girl rang me at 2am to say so! Today was busy at work and I also went to pick up Hannah's birthday cake - she is 18 tomorrow Not long back from playing with the dogs on the beach so just chilling now till bedtime.

Well over half way through Rivers Of London now,

Big hugs karen.d It's not been too bad a weekend apart from getting a heachache which lasted from 2pm Sat to 8am this morning Looking forward to payday so that I can indulge in the Amazon Kindle marathon oh and I managed to get my hair cut and coloured so feel loads better now the badger stripe has gone lol

I watched the womens GB hockey match against Japan, nice 4 - 0 win. Bring it on

Got a lovely surprise in the post today, my copy of Split Second by Cath Staincliffe which I won on here I'd totally forgotten about it

Not a bad day today for a change Son has gone back to Manchester but will be back later next week for Hannah's 18th. Working a short day tomorrow as I'm going fishing with hubby! (well he can fish and I will read )

Congratulations Tim Well it's been a mixed weekend here, yesterday was great got loads done including weeding the veg patch! Also went to see a friend I haven't seen for a while for a catch up which was fun. Today has been good up until an hour ago - hubby has took himself off to bed cos he was feeing low. Son has come home till tomorrow but we have only seen him for an hour as he has been at a christening and is now at the pictures lol Can't believe it's Monday again tomorrow I really need some RnR time!

My day just gets better and better....not! Hubby is very down again, work was pants, I broke my shoe and now have a weekend of hubby to contend with, oh the joys