Hello everyone!
We have just all arrived back home after a Great-Aunts funeral this afternoon.
Found out the details of how to sponsor my cousin (who is not well herself), who is bravely going to walk the Coast of Cornwall next April to raise money for Cancer Research and also Shelterbox.
Apart from sponsoring Dawn myself, I thought I would just try and shout about her efforts on Facebook, Twitter and also my blog.
If anybody is feeling generous, either now or at a later date, then please feel free to sponsor her
http://www.justgiving.com/dawnphilpott (This one if you want to support Cancer Research) or
http://www.justgiving.com/dawnphilpott1 (This one if you want to support Shelterbox).
Thank you to anybody that helps!
Until my next blog folks!
Kathryn
x
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Monday, 24 November 2008
Mamma Mia.......here we go again!!!
Hi everyone,
Today is a wonderful day for my son Mark..............Mamma Mia has come out on DVD!!!!!
He has been to the cinema to see it twice and just could not wait for the DVD release. We have been having a countdown for about the last three weeks. Naturally Clive had to pop into Tesco at 8 a.m. to get the DVD (and a nice surprise as it was only £7.99 - believe it or not, we sell DVD's and wholesale price is almost double that!!!!).
Instead of working this afternoon, I had a long lunch and watched the film - as already reported by Mark and a friend of mine - it is very entertaining. But I am not ashamed to admit that I have always been an ABBA fan, I will also admit that I am old enough to have been in my 20's when it was in it's prime.
It's nice when your children have the same music taste as yourself. Not sure if my 18 year old son is an ABBA fan (well, he will be 18 on the 18th December), but Mark and my daughter who's 14 love it. (ABBA music is blaring out as I type!). The whole family like Queen, Phil Collins and music of that era - so it's a very happy, full of fun music type of family.
I do also like classical music (the light hearted type) but the 1812 overture has got to be my favourite, so much so it HAS to be played at my funeral* to put a smile on everyones face - they can all picture me with it turned up full volume and holding my imaginary baton (good job I don't have close neighbours!)
*Not planning on having my funeral just yet though!!!
A piece that will always move me is Nimrod from the Enigma Variations by Elgar. But music that will always lift any mood, is almost anything from Strauss.
Isn't it funny how you sit down to type your blog and think "what can I type about today?" and I seem to have rattled on about our taste in music. Yet again, no mention of any business promotions - if I was employed I would have had the sack by now!
OK - here's the plug............ why not get your Christmas shopping done at Trewhellows Gift Shop and get in quick as there is 10% discount on all orders £50 & over on until 27th November!
And for the next one................... Fancy a holiday in Cornwall?......then why not come and stay in our luxury self catering Cottage which is ideally situated to visit any part of Cornwall. It's also next door to us, so you could come a see the crazy family for yourself! Rosia Cottage Holidays
Just in case anybody is interested (which I doubt! LOL), I have completed the DLA form for my son Mark (as mentioned in the previous blog) and it was not as bad as the last form I filled in. Apparently, the forms for under 16's are much nastier than the one's for over 16's (unless they have changed them all together). So, I'm feeling a happy bunny yet again!
Until the next blog folks!
Kathryn
x
Today is a wonderful day for my son Mark..............Mamma Mia has come out on DVD!!!!!
He has been to the cinema to see it twice and just could not wait for the DVD release. We have been having a countdown for about the last three weeks. Naturally Clive had to pop into Tesco at 8 a.m. to get the DVD (and a nice surprise as it was only £7.99 - believe it or not, we sell DVD's and wholesale price is almost double that!!!!).
Instead of working this afternoon, I had a long lunch and watched the film - as already reported by Mark and a friend of mine - it is very entertaining. But I am not ashamed to admit that I have always been an ABBA fan, I will also admit that I am old enough to have been in my 20's when it was in it's prime.
It's nice when your children have the same music taste as yourself. Not sure if my 18 year old son is an ABBA fan (well, he will be 18 on the 18th December), but Mark and my daughter who's 14 love it. (ABBA music is blaring out as I type!). The whole family like Queen, Phil Collins and music of that era - so it's a very happy, full of fun music type of family.
I do also like classical music (the light hearted type) but the 1812 overture has got to be my favourite, so much so it HAS to be played at my funeral* to put a smile on everyones face - they can all picture me with it turned up full volume and holding my imaginary baton (good job I don't have close neighbours!)
*Not planning on having my funeral just yet though!!!
A piece that will always move me is Nimrod from the Enigma Variations by Elgar. But music that will always lift any mood, is almost anything from Strauss.
Isn't it funny how you sit down to type your blog and think "what can I type about today?" and I seem to have rattled on about our taste in music. Yet again, no mention of any business promotions - if I was employed I would have had the sack by now!
OK - here's the plug............ why not get your Christmas shopping done at Trewhellows Gift Shop and get in quick as there is 10% discount on all orders £50 & over on until 27th November!
And for the next one................... Fancy a holiday in Cornwall?......then why not come and stay in our luxury self catering Cottage which is ideally situated to visit any part of Cornwall. It's also next door to us, so you could come a see the crazy family for yourself! Rosia Cottage Holidays
Just in case anybody is interested (which I doubt! LOL), I have completed the DLA form for my son Mark (as mentioned in the previous blog) and it was not as bad as the last form I filled in. Apparently, the forms for under 16's are much nastier than the one's for over 16's (unless they have changed them all together). So, I'm feeling a happy bunny yet again!
Until the next blog folks!
Kathryn
x
Thursday, 20 November 2008
Ohhh no... not again! Why ??????
Hi everyone,
Hope you are all well. I'm fine, but you will probably tell from reading my blog today that I am not my usual bubbly self.
Why is that you ask? Well, as you may have gathered from reading past posts, my eldest son Mark has Down's syndrome - he is a wonderful chap and Clive & I are extremley proud of everything he does and achieves and we love him to bits. But in the post today came an application to renew his Disability Living Allowance - *%@**&+++ Have a heart Dept. for Work & Pension - our life has not suddenly become a bed or roses you know - it's still bloody difficult and not likely to change as I don't think anybody has found a "cure" for Down's syndrome yet! So why do you need me to tell you all about it yet again????
Filling in those horrid forms just makes me so miserable as I have to write all of the things down that Mark can't do! Reality check or what!
Apart from those bloody forms, we have had to fight his corner all of his life. If he did not have us to do this for him, I dread to think what would happen to him. He is 20 next year and we have had to spend 20 years with one battle or another be it from health to education.
Do you know, in November 2006 I started the ball rolling to get things set in place for him for when he left school. Here we are, November 2008 and I am still trying to get everything sorted for him! He left school in July 2007 for heavens sake!
To get a Social Worker was a battle in itself and I think I deserve a bloody medal for achieving that alone! Thankfully, the Social Worker Mark has now (Jo Jobson) is the best thing since sliced bread! - Yes, honestly, I am talking about a Social Worker here!!!! I don't think I could cope anymore without her, she really is a breath of fresh air.
Oh I must shut up - I'm sure nobody is in the slightest bit interested in my problems! The thing is, Mark is not a problem - he has a huge sense of humour and as I said, we love him to bits - but Government departments seem to want to make life as difficult as possible for the Carers in this world and make us miserable.
If I didn't have a thumping headache today I might have felt a bit happier, but writing it in a blog has "got it off my chest" so to speak.
I'm off to bed now and am sure I will wake up my normal self in the morning.
Thanks for listening!
Kathryn
xxx
Hope you are all well. I'm fine, but you will probably tell from reading my blog today that I am not my usual bubbly self.
Why is that you ask? Well, as you may have gathered from reading past posts, my eldest son Mark has Down's syndrome - he is a wonderful chap and Clive & I are extremley proud of everything he does and achieves and we love him to bits. But in the post today came an application to renew his Disability Living Allowance - *%@**&+++ Have a heart Dept. for Work & Pension - our life has not suddenly become a bed or roses you know - it's still bloody difficult and not likely to change as I don't think anybody has found a "cure" for Down's syndrome yet! So why do you need me to tell you all about it yet again????
Filling in those horrid forms just makes me so miserable as I have to write all of the things down that Mark can't do! Reality check or what!
Apart from those bloody forms, we have had to fight his corner all of his life. If he did not have us to do this for him, I dread to think what would happen to him. He is 20 next year and we have had to spend 20 years with one battle or another be it from health to education.
Do you know, in November 2006 I started the ball rolling to get things set in place for him for when he left school. Here we are, November 2008 and I am still trying to get everything sorted for him! He left school in July 2007 for heavens sake!
To get a Social Worker was a battle in itself and I think I deserve a bloody medal for achieving that alone! Thankfully, the Social Worker Mark has now (Jo Jobson) is the best thing since sliced bread! - Yes, honestly, I am talking about a Social Worker here!!!! I don't think I could cope anymore without her, she really is a breath of fresh air.
Oh I must shut up - I'm sure nobody is in the slightest bit interested in my problems! The thing is, Mark is not a problem - he has a huge sense of humour and as I said, we love him to bits - but Government departments seem to want to make life as difficult as possible for the Carers in this world and make us miserable.
If I didn't have a thumping headache today I might have felt a bit happier, but writing it in a blog has "got it off my chest" so to speak.
I'm off to bed now and am sure I will wake up my normal self in the morning.
Thanks for listening!
Kathryn
xxx
Sunday, 16 November 2008
Hangover? Moi? Of course not.......
Reed Diffusers @ Trewhellows Gift Shop
Sarah with a sparkler
Kathryn BEFORE the drink!
Some of the girls getting together for a chat (Clive said that CAN'T be his tummy!!!)
Fireworks!!!!!
The party went well and plenty of wine and beer was consumed!
We were lucky with the weather as it poored with rain all afternoon. It stopped raining at 6 p.m. and the party started at 7 p.m.
Once the fireworks had finished (thank you Clive for standing at the bottom of the garden, all alone and giving us a good display), it started to rain again, so we all headed inside and tucked into some hot Cornish Pasties! Of course, they had to be washed down with even more wine and beer. hic!
My eldest son Mark managed to get plenty of sponsorship from drunken friends and family and raised £30 for Children In Need! Well done Mark. He did a sponsored walk around the special needs department at Cornwall College, where he is doing a Connect-Ed course. The students also had a sale on the Friday, selling bric-a-brac, cakes and hand made gifts etc. They all raised £224.06 in total - well, done all of you!
Sorry for the delay with my blog this week - I didn't have a hangover, honest! I just felt so tired last weekend after a late night on Saturday, so Sunday was spent as a very lazy day. The rest of the week seems to have flown by.
We have been getting busier (at last!!!) with sales @ Trewhellows Gift Shop
The Reed Diffusers seem to be flying out the window! (OK, so the photo of Reed Diffusers was meant to be here, but ended up at the top of the page instead). If you see some you want and they are out of stock, please just ask and I will get another order in just for you!
We still have the 10% discount on orders of £50 or more until 27th November, so get in quick if you want money off your Christmas shopping!
****************
Thought about your holiday for next year yet? Why not come to Cornwall where we have so many beautiful places to visit. The golden sandy beaches are so close, you can be on either the north or south coast within half an hour.
We own a luxury self catering cottage right next door to us and being in Camborne, it really is convenient to see all the attractions Cornwall has to offer, without being stuck in the busy seaside towns. Why not take a look at our cottage Rosia Cottage Holidays
Until next week folks.........................................
Kathryn
x
Tuesday, 4 November 2008
I'm back.... so soon!
I didn't think I would be blogging again so soon, but Martin from BT Tradespace directed me to the "add gadgets" on blogger and I just can't stop adding things!!!!
Thank you Martin, for your guidance!
Rather than repeat myself from Trewhellows Gift Shop blog, some fantastic stock has arrived today and I have just finished listing it, so if you want a peep, go here: http://www.trewhellowsgiftshop.co.uk/blog.asp
My daughter has already grabbed one of the Arab Scarves (just when I thought it would make a good stocking filler for her).
On my blogger I have added my BT Tradespace blogs - of course!
I have also added a photo of Godrevy Lighthouse. I took this earlier on this year when we had had a very stormy, wet and windy day. By teatime the bad weather was moving away and the sun just peeping through the clouds. I thought it made a very moving photo, so I am going to share it with you all.
Also added is a slideshow. I don't know if the title shows, but I have called it "It helps to be mad... if you know the Richardsons" As you will see, we are a very crazy family! I had a new camera for my birthday last year, and I somehow managed to take some very odd photos, especially of my daughter on Portreath beach - I have made her look like some alien!!!
The camera has also made me look very large indeed. Now this is just not so
! I am slim, blonde and beautiful! This is not a figment of your imagination - only mine! (LIES, LIES AND MORE LIES). At least you will know what I mean when I told you about the problem with the big boobies in a previous blog!
Anyway folks, I really must go - I have been playing around on the PC most of the day when I should have been working - I BLAME MARTIN! LOL
Until the next blog folks,
Take care,
Kathryn
x
p.s Almost forgot to tell you all - Argos are going to give me a new washing machine and will collect the broken one! RESULT!
Thank you Martin, for your guidance!
Rather than repeat myself from Trewhellows Gift Shop blog, some fantastic stock has arrived today and I have just finished listing it, so if you want a peep, go here: http://www.trewhellowsgiftshop.co.uk/blog.asp
My daughter has already grabbed one of the Arab Scarves (just when I thought it would make a good stocking filler for her).
On my blogger I have added my BT Tradespace blogs - of course!
I have also added a photo of Godrevy Lighthouse. I took this earlier on this year when we had had a very stormy, wet and windy day. By teatime the bad weather was moving away and the sun just peeping through the clouds. I thought it made a very moving photo, so I am going to share it with you all.
Also added is a slideshow. I don't know if the title shows, but I have called it "It helps to be mad... if you know the Richardsons" As you will see, we are a very crazy family! I had a new camera for my birthday last year, and I somehow managed to take some very odd photos, especially of my daughter on Portreath beach - I have made her look like some alien!!!
The camera has also made me look very large indeed. Now this is just not so
! I am slim, blonde and beautiful! This is not a figment of your imagination - only mine! (LIES, LIES AND MORE LIES). At least you will know what I mean when I told you about the problem with the big boobies in a previous blog!Anyway folks, I really must go - I have been playing around on the PC most of the day when I should have been working - I BLAME MARTIN! LOL
Until the next blog folks,
Take care,
Kathryn
x
p.s Almost forgot to tell you all - Argos are going to give me a new washing machine and will collect the broken one! RESULT!
Sunday, 2 November 2008
It's like Christmas here every week!
Hello everyone!
Yes, it's like Christmas here every week at the moment - no, the Christmas tree and decorations are not up and the fat man dressed in red is not coming down the chimney, we save all that up for Christmas!
Stock is arriving and it's fun, just like opening the presents. What's even better, none of it is that smelly stuff from Aunt Mabel that you don't really want anyway and I will sell it all and make money (well, in theory that's what should happen LOL). I thought I had all my Christmas stock in weeks ago, but I keep checking on the wholesalers and finding more and more good ideas that I just can't resist.
The truth is, I am doing my Christmas shopping for the family!
Sorry family if you are looking, but don't look too closely at Trewhellows Gift Shop or you will see what I have bought you!!! Of course, some things I have only bought one of, so you won't find them there - ha ha!!!!
Arriving this week I do have some very pretty and highly fashionable Shemagh Arab Scarves in various colours and also a selection of Shiny Winter Pashmina's. Put these with some nice accessories that are also coming like the pretty Indian Bangles and you have some happy teenage/young ladies!
Don't forget to check out Trewhellows Gift Shop this week, to see the wonderful items due in!
All this excitement and to add to that, I am going to have a Fireworks party!!! Yes, I am a big kid at heart, but I do have three children so it's for them really - honest!!! I am just hoping that the weather will be good for us next weekend as there is nothing worse than having fireworks in the rain! Don't expect a blog from me next Sunday though as I am anticipating a headache! No, I did not say a hangover, did I? (Even if it is the red wine that will be the cause of it LOL).
I have been a good girl today though and updating my blogs on BT Tradespace
Trewhellows Gift Shop Blog and Rosia Cottage Holidays Blog
I don't know what's going wrong with the gift shop blog, but the pictures are everywhere they are not supposed to be! In preview they were fine, but as soon as I uploaded, they were higgledy piggledy. (Is that how you spell that??) I hope that anybody who see's it will just think I have artistic talent in the way I arrange the photos! LOL
Anyway friends, I have been here all morning playing on the pc, so I had better go and feed the family!
Take care, until my next blog
Kathryn
p.s. no mention of any boobies today!
Yes, it's like Christmas here every week at the moment - no, the Christmas tree and decorations are not up and the fat man dressed in red is not coming down the chimney, we save all that up for Christmas!Stock is arriving and it's fun, just like opening the presents. What's even better, none of it is that smelly stuff from Aunt Mabel that you don't really want anyway and I will sell it all and make money (well, in theory that's what should happen LOL). I thought I had all my Christmas stock in weeks ago, but I keep checking on the wholesalers and finding more and more good ideas that I just can't resist.
The truth is, I am doing my Christmas shopping for the family!
Sorry family if you are looking, but don't look too closely at Trewhellows Gift Shop or you will see what I have bought you!!! Of course, some things I have only bought one of, so you won't find them there - ha ha!!!!Arriving this week I do have some very pretty and highly fashionable Shemagh Arab Scarves in various colours and also a selection of Shiny Winter Pashmina's. Put these with some nice accessories that are also coming like the pretty Indian Bangles and you have some happy teenage/young ladies!
Don't forget to check out Trewhellows Gift Shop this week, to see the wonderful items due in!
All this excitement and to add to that, I am going to have a Fireworks party!!! Yes, I am a big kid at heart, but I do have three children so it's for them really - honest!!! I am just hoping that the weather will be good for us next weekend as there is nothing worse than having fireworks in the rain! Don't expect a blog from me next Sunday though as I am anticipating a headache! No, I did not say a hangover, did I? (Even if it is the red wine that will be the cause of it LOL).
I have been a good girl today though and updating my blogs on BT Tradespace
Trewhellows Gift Shop Blog and Rosia Cottage Holidays Blog
I don't know what's going wrong with the gift shop blog, but the pictures are everywhere they are not supposed to be! In preview they were fine, but as soon as I uploaded, they were higgledy piggledy. (Is that how you spell that??) I hope that anybody who see's it will just think I have artistic talent in the way I arrange the photos! LOL
Anyway friends, I have been here all morning playing on the pc, so I had better go and feed the family!
Take care, until my next blog
Kathryn
p.s. no mention of any boobies today!
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