Thank God It's Friday

Well it's Friday already! What has happened since last Saturday.... Last Sunday am my sister text me to ask if she could come and do some ironing for me - this is her way of escaping from her husband & the kids. Not an ideal position for her to be in but who am I to refuse getting a load of ironing done :-) I bought some plants to spruce up some hanging baskets outside the studio and the troughs outside as I want to create a nice impression.

Well Monday morning before little sis arrives I nip off to get the car cleaned at my mate Adam's new car wash business in Staines - if your over that way he can be located at TW18 1EH (Langley Road). What a nice job - all looks clean & sparkling now - took off the Hindhead Computers sticker as I want to advertise for me and not the Dreaded Dan!

Popped into Kingston with little sis & called into the Apple Store in the Bentalls Centre - my favourite place. What a shame they don't serve coffee there as I could then spend the whole day there soaking up the atmosphere. Last week I invested £79 in buying ProCare now I get one-to-one training for an hour a week and priority support - GREAT! So I decided to see if I could get a lesson booked & managed to have an hour tutorial in using iMovie. How great it is just to be able to have someone devote some time to teaching me new tricks ;-)

Tuesday morning I fitted a really nice client in for a cut & colour. She bought me some lovely roses for the studio and some really nice cakes from M&S. We had great fun talking about how to control kids with a cattle prod - we were only joking of course! Mandy (little sis) started digging up weeds on the patio which made it look much better. A friend of mine came over and mowed the grass for me & he got 9 full bags of cuttings - could only fit two lots in the compost as there wasn't enough room.

A friend of mine was over on his cousin's boat in Chertsey and asked us if we wanted to spend the evening on the river but Mandy's feet were killing her and she decided to stay at home and have a bath & chill out so I had to go alone.

Wednesday morning we discovered Mandy had lost a diamond out of her ring - well it was the only one actually as it's a solitaire :-( That has overshadowed the whole event and every available opportunity we looked around the garden or house. Its a reasonably busy day today with a couple of colours thrown in for good measure. Lots of nice conversations - busy making people coffee and washing up. Times like this I wish I had a personal slave! Managed to finish reasonably early and my neighbor loaned me his electric chain saw - no I wasn't going to use it on any client's - it was to chop off a few branches in the garden.

Kelvin came over early and discovered me & the neighbor chopping away at trees and so Mandy entertained him till I finished (actually I think it was the other way round). Off we rushed to the Weir at Walton for a Smart meet; Craig turned up with his new dog Eddie - boy is he cute. Of course we forgot to take any jumpers and got frozen and so Kelvin; MCC; Mandy & myself came back to mine for a coffee - just had to show MCC my 24 inch iMac running windoz to impress him.

Thursday I didn't start work till 4pm - I do hate these late starts but hey I must not complain. I knew it was going to be a pleasant evening as Sandra; Corven & June were coming over and we always seem to have a bit of a laugh and some interesting conversation. I finished the evening off with a BBQ but it was too cold to sit outside and eat. Mandy & I decided to have an early night as for some reason we felt a little tired - I don't think it was the red wine... or was it?