LATVIAN READERS...

Welcome to MY Blog.... I know, I know a lot of YOU have been reading MY Blog right from the very beginning but this NEW Reader in Latvia has not and so WE must make them welcome to MY Blog which is where they will read 'FUNNY' stuff.

And yes, I mean 'funny haha' as well as 'funny peculiar / strange". If YOU read MY Blog on a daily basis, YOU will never have to resort to having Cosmetic Surgery in order to look as if YOU have facial muscles, for YOU will laugh so much at the sillinesses that SHE and I, not forgetting dear Dagga Parrot-in-the-sky, get up to, that YOUR facial muscles will be fit and toned and Dear Readers, let's say it loud and clear so they can hear it in Latvia....

"Fit and Toned Muscles keep everything UP" yes indeedy, they do!

And YOU know why else? It is so WE can truly be a BLOG STAR! And 'STAR' in a Video filmum ALL about ME and YOU!

Enough of all that foolishness. WE actually don't have any snow on OUR doorstep but the other parts of England etc have had and the whole of Europe has had huge amounts, even the seaside areas of Spain have had snow! It only seems a short time ago that the Alps in France has NO snow and they had to cancel some ski races. NOW, well I would be surprised if anyone could see where the race course was!

In Gmunden, near to Salburg Austria, where we have Dear Reader Gabi, she reported MINUS 18 degrees yesterday morning, but in places like Serbia and Moldavia it is way below that.. We feel so sorry for these people, some are living in their newer houses which were built with no fireplaces and they don't have any way of lighting old-fashioned fires, the supplies of heating oil are unable to get to these out lying places as the snow is too deep... what a bitter winter it will be for so many people, let alone the farmers, who have to struggle to keep the water supply from freezing and have to get food and hay to their animals.

Many birds, too, will literally freeze to death. And so will homeless people.

Do you know if YOUR neighbours are OK? Last Sunday WE had to be rescued by Gill-up-the-street as WE had a Power shortage, it was off for four hours, just imagine being in a place where there is NO power AND NO heating, so many of our homes are reliant on electricity, OUR boiler is although it is a Gas one but it needs the electricity for the control panel.

So please, if YOU know there are elderly folk who live nearby, go and check on them, a thermos of THICK HOT soup will be received with gratitude. Take them an extra blanket or quilt. When SHE was a child HER parents always kept, not just one but several 'eyes' on elderly friends.

The sad thing is that it is beautiful 'out there', WE are in central London and SHE would love to go and do some work at the garden, however, SHE does, sometimes, have ONE iota of sense and knows that it would be REALLY silly to do that, SHE would get hot and sweat and then that would turn to a chill all before YOU could say "Bob's your Uncle" yes I know SHE had an Uncle Bob but the Bob in the saying refers to 'Bob' Kitchener, did YOU know that?

YOU see Dear Latvian Reader, MY Blog is a fund of USEFUL information! "What was that?" I heard that.. someone muttered "useless" under their breath, there are a couple of YOU who are known to be are extremely cheeky and I'll lay a wager that it was one of those norty Goaty Folk down in Kent.

WE are having a little break for SHE is sorting through papers, I SWEAR that if one piece of paper meets another piece of paper .. well, they make babies and then one ends up with masses of paper..the wretched stuff breeds just like Mice!

But before paper meets Shredder it has to be looked at...

Next SHE is going to start sorting through HER clothes... SHE used to wear very smart clothes for work to see clients, now SHE either works in the sorting office of HER Volunteer work or at the Studio where SHE never meets clients. Next week SHE has to investigate a flood at a property, not somewhere that SHE would need to wear a pretty suit. And gardening clothes are different entirely!

SHE got rid of a huge amount of paperwork when all of the design files went... SHE only retained the original order books which have all the details, the rest.. all out of the door, Purchase Orders, quotations, supplier files, all went, SHE shed a small tear when SHE threw away the photographs.. and I had to be very gentle with HER for a couple of days as SHE said "Goodbye" to HER career of over twenty years.

Funnily enough another very old client of HERS called yesterday when SHE was at the Studio, Simon Playle, he is an Interior Designer who knew Miss Betty, aka Elizabeth Hanley. She was a wonderful mentor and great friend to HER, she died ten years ago this month. WHAT stories she told.. it was Miss Betty's Aunt, Fern Bedaux whose husband introduced HRH The Duke of Windsor to Adolf Hitler.

Simon and Cornelia (his wife) have two Parrots, little Amazons, very cheeky folk they are too!

Whooops, wait for ME, SHE is up and off to make tea... Lapsang here WE come... a quick slurp of that tea is just the ticket on a cold and chore-filled day. Adios, Farewell, Auf Wiedersein, Goodye...

See YOU later Aligator, in a while oh Crocodile, see YOU later Aligator, in a while oh Crocodile, doo de doo, oh doo de doo, toot toot oh tootie toot, WE're off to the YumYum HQ!

GeeGee Parrot.
February 4th, 2012.