25th April 2006: Catch up Special…..
Ok I’ll try my best…..Basically at the beginning of the month..well about the 12th I had the need to attend Inhospitable for a Colonoscopy…No great drama, so you’d think just routine (ok that’s not true)…

This basically meant that the day before I had to stop eating after lunch at midday…this was fine until about 7pm when I was quite literally ‘dying’ of starvation!!!...

Luckily the time slipped by nice and quickly and by 2pm the next day I was at the hospital being introduced to all the clever people…A couple of quick injects in the arm and I really couldn’t care less…Mr sleepy…I distinctly remember asking the Nurse what the two figures were in the blood pressure measurement, but I can’t for the life of me tell you what she actually said…still that was all done I had the Thursday off, well coz you’ve got to haven’t you…Friday was good Friday so I basically had the whole week off plus a bit for the bank holiday…excellent…!!!

The weekend of the 13th we went to my Sisters and played some cricket (yup in April)…

Speeding up to date Mandy and I then decided that we’d put our house on the market…just like us to do this the wrong time. It suddenly occurred to us (just after we’d gone on the market) that actually next year would have been a better time since Jack (POD) would already have his place at Portsmouth MinorLump school, the same school his brother is at…In fact putting the house on the market before this time would be completely stupid…ahhhaaaa….So we’re stuck with only considering properties in the school catchment area (our current area),...and to be honest I really don’t know how estate agents get away with the pricing on most if not all the houses they have on their books….It’s somewhat easier to understand if you note the word ‘Agent’ in their job title…Anyone with this word in their job title…are well something less than honest shall we say.

Our ‘Honest’ estate agent curiously enough is the only one to have valued our house something resembling an accurate figure !!! odd that ….!!!...So now Mandy is in mental mode…cleaning up everywhere…basically every time the phone rings…it also means she now has the ‘Right’ to moan at me for not helping her enough…well to be honest she had the right already (so she’ll tell you)….but not to be out done I would point out that it is the Male Lion that sleeps under the tree all day whilst the Lioness kills the prey for her partner...well I can try...


23rd April 2006: We’re reading through the properties on line…when Mandy turns to me and says “I’m not sure that’s a very nice thing to say about someone’s house….”…I look down to where she’s pointing,”…There aren’t enough superlatives to describe……” it reads…I look at her quizzically and repeat Superlatives….she goes slightly pink, and starts laughing uncontrollably….followed quickly by me, once she tells me that she’s read it as Super-Laxatives!!!….now, quite why an estate agent would of all phrases use Super Laxative as a description I don’t know…only Mandy knows in her mind…..still it lightens the painful process that is looking at over priced too small properties they have on this excuse for a property site......