Redsquirrel's 'Striving For Better Days' Diary

pepe2008

things keep turning up to rescue you. As they say 'what goes around, comes around'. you must be a good person Squizz.;)

Children in Need tonight, you can keep McFly and Take That......Girls Aloud are on ooohhhh Nicola:drool:

redsquirrel80

Well thank you Pepe

Hmm none of the above appeal to me I'm afraid! :rolleyes:

redsquirrel80

MMmm watching Rick Stein in Sicily, mmm seafood pasta.. mmmmm swordfish.. mmmmmmmmmmmm...

Ahem! Morning all, it's the weekend! Today is the day/ night out I've been planning for - the separate £20 budget - already spent £5 on bus ticket home for the early hours of the morning, so £15 left. OH is buying lunch so should be ok

Friend paid the money she owes me back into my account yesterday but had to do it by phone banking so I don't think it'll be through till Mon/ Tues. Will be handy for next week though!

pepe2008

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

MMmm watching Rick Stein in Sicily, mmm seafood pasta.. mmmmm swordfish.. mmmmmmmmmmmm...

Ahem! Morning all, it's the weekend! Today is the day/ night out I've been planning for - the separate £20 budget - already spent £5 on bus ticket home for the early hours of the morning, so £15 left. OH is buying lunch so should be ok

Friend paid the money she owes me back into my account yesterday but had to do it by phone banking so I don't think it'll be through till Mon/ Tues. Will be handy for next week though!

Siciliy, my favourite place. If I could emigrate, i'd go there. Oh well.
What was going on with Nicola ( Girls Aloud ) make up on CiN ??

redsquirrel80

I didn't see it Pepe - was it a bit strange?

I've not been to Sicily.. but love Italy in general... sigh...

Karmacat

Sicily is fantastic! I went round there on the train, I'm a big fan of Greece so I was looking at the ancient monuments - Syracuse, Agrigento, all sorts of stuff. Went up Etna (almost couldn't cos it was smoking that day). Ate my first prickly pear. In those days (maybe still? Pepe might know) a lot of Sicilians were migrant workers in Germany, and the trains were full of homecoming migrant workers with huge boxes of stuff they'd bought in Germany. I came home being able to argue in Italian!

Ooh, your night out! What are you going to wear????

redsquirrel80

Aww.. sounds fantastic Karma. I've been looking at Perugia recently as a possibility for next year (the evil Ryanair fly there), want to go back to Naples and that coast too though.

*looks out of window at rainy Yorkshire *

Karmacat

Yep, any of it would do nicely! Even the Yorkshire moors, actually.... but to enjoy that, you've got to have sort of "expedition" clothing - its not a gentle amble, is it I hope you get the holiday you want next year.
xx

pepe2008

Went up Etna twice, once to North crater in 2ft deep snow and the second time 2007 to the Southern craters and she began to erupt while me and DS were there. We watched the ash falls for ages, with the whole ground shakling ( we were about 1000ft below the crater, about 1 mile away ) we had to leave for our flight and by the time we were back in the UK there was rivers of lava. My ambition is to be right by the side of a live lava flow so the next time she erupts I'm on my way.
stromboli also erupted a few weeks after I was on it, lew away te ridge where I was standing! Been back since and it was just a bit shaky and steamy.
Is there a name for a Volcano addict?
Geysers are good too, Iceland was a 'blast'.

boredofbeingathome

Looks out of window at grey lancashire..*sheesh* It could be worse though i could live in Wigan:rotfl: (sorry any wiganners:cool: )