Audrey Hepburn - eat your heart out other lookalikes - what do you reckon? Anyway enough of the recent photos... The hot news from me right now is that I'm studying for a Masters in Criminology and it's sooo verry interrrestinggg!!! Seriously - part of the course is a study in human rights and global wrongs it's opened up a whole new world of global economical, political and social interests for me - so I've found a new focus that I'd like to explore further. Watch this space for further updates...

Hi Everyone a long time no bloggin' I missed ya all - this is me out celebrating my sisters hen do in Lytham St Anne's near Balckpool. We went to see a mad stage show - The Follies (men dressed as ladies singing and dancing, absolutely brilliant) - and we were all dressed as Audrey Hepburn - do you see me as her?? Anyway it was a great laugh and a very good spa weekend was had by all. The big wedding is next weekend... so I guess I'll have to post again soon :)
Love Liz xxx

Update - about blooming time!!

Well we've been touring again this time the East Yorkshire Coast and North Yorkshire. This was taken on Filey Beach it was a brilliant sunshiny day but blowing a gale and 'spitting rain' so we all had several layers on and a waterprof over the top! We had a brilliant time though (how mad is my hair in this pic lol) and drew closer together because of the fun we were having and being away from the usual work and school routine. We've got lots more 'tours' planned as I'm trying to ensure my kids appreciate the 'Wonders of the British Isles' as well as sampling other destinations.

Flood pictures

Here are pictures taken from the street leading to the new houses and from end of the local park, the water was still up a good 5 ft near the park and that was a week after the worse of the rains. Thankfully there has been a 5 mile dam erected here for the past 10 years as it is directly in line with a flood plain, this wasn't enough to save the newest houses however; locals couldn't believe it when they were given permission to build there. By the way these are luxery houses worth from 400-700k a lot of money in these parts! And all of them are occupied. I have heard that the water never actually got into the houses themselves but still a very bad time for all involved.

Strange days indeed...
Have you ever had one of those periods in your life where on the one hand everything is going great and on the other there's a whole load of bad things happening to people around you and a time of change and upheaval all round. Well I'm going through one of those times. I have a close friend who is very, very poorly in hospital and my thoughts go out to him and especially to his lovely wife and their children who have an awful lot on their plates at the moment. Other friends are also going through a rough time which was made much, much worse by the recent floods which totally swamped the whole area where they live, they were without electricity for days and completely cut off from the rest of the town, the clean-up is still going on. Where I live one of the main roads was closed for 9 days which meant a 20 mile round trip round several villages, some partially flooded, to get to essential places. Then there's the attempted bombings, change of prime minister and a long running family dispute. Yet in my own little world things are pretty good on all fronts... like I say strange days indeed.
Love and peace to all,
Lizzbee xxxx

Another funny shop name

I still haven't managed to snap those shop fronts in Leeds I told you about - 'Tanzinere' - tanning studio and 'Tile 'em High' - tile wholesalers.

So here's another from t'internet:

shophorror.co.uk. Enjoy!!

New Love!

I have just fallen in love.
My bro' is an out and out gadget freak and he's always updating his gizmos from his laptops & phones to his sat nav. And, he's always telling me how brilliant this or that gadget is and how I should get one. Anyway he's just updated his sat nav and I've inherited his old one which is only two years old and it is Brilliant! Especially as I'm forever getting lost and have a lot of travel to do for work. It also tells you the position of speed cameras and of course there are maps, you can even get it to show you where the nearest hotels, leisure centres and restaurants are. So even though I've only had it a few days (picked it up last Tuesday night in torrential rain, from Sheffield), I've fallen in love with it in a big way, I even have it on when I know exactly where I'm going.
By the way even though my brother thinks I'm mad for naming a gadget - I've called her Suki because she has such a lovely voice, she fits in just fine with Percy (my car).