camera problems

Not much has changed here. Still struggling to survive. Last 2 weeks have been dire but before that it wasnt looking too bad so no idea how I am really doing. This saturday we have a vegan fair in Brum. Its only £10 to do so you cant really do badly! That at least is hopeful. Several neighbours are trying to sell the bottom of their gardens. I dont want to - neither does M. After all the garden is the only reason for moving here and the house is pretty naff so again we are annoying them all cos there is about 10k each involved but for us the garden is worth much more and in the long term 10k would be spent really quick and we would have a rubbish garden again. The police are being very supportive since we are putting up security cameras and the neighbours have all complained to the parish council. In the end apparently it will be down to Daventry borough council to decide and we will probably be able to keep them by the sounds of it all. I spoke to the parish clerk who gave the impression they could do little about it really - neighbours that is. We will know in next couple of weeks. Having police to give mediation will help I think. All in all we are annoying all our neighbours! hey ho! They are currently acting very smug too since we couldnt get the cameras working so took them back to maplins - would never buy from maplins again. Their policy is to send them away to be fixed not to replace! I dont even want the money back just working kit and they have been very unreasonable. Anyway I think the neighbours believe we have been told to get rid when infact no decision is yet made! Nasty b1tch next door stood on back door step with phone to ear and talked very loudly which to be honest is not at all like her down the phone telling whoever that the cameras she had told them about were gone! I have doubts if there was even anyone on the end of the phone! The rest are also being very smug. still what is that saying? Something like he who laughs last laughs loudest? Cant quite remember now. Anyway we will have great fun replacing them in a couple of weeks! Not sure if I wrote about it but besides our sheds being robbed of everything worth anything we have also had our heating oil stolen from the tank at least twice hence we need the cameras to catch culprit! We have also been reported to the police for having pit bulls which we have not - they are most definitely bog standard mongos! thankfully police are not stupid and came round to check and believed us - well they could see what R&R are! Sort of long legged labradorish/collie-ish with a bit of staff but no where near enough to be called pitbulls! AND the wrong nose. Then we got a letter from the DSS saying M owed them 26 quid from 1990! In my experience you only get that kind of investigatin if someone reports you. We are not on benefits so they couldnt do anything else and 26 quid is hardly what you would call serious fraud especially when its so long agao. Its all cos I am a trader I am sure and nasty woman next door doesnt like living next door to and in same kind of house as a lowly factory worker - M! Snobby cow!!!! Course if they knew I was writing freelance for a magazine and also a part time A level chemistry teacher things might be different but its none of their business what I do for a living so I am not telling! No doubt about it though we are currently feeling somewhat like victims! What will hapen next I wonder?

dyeing tonight!

well I have been mega slack and am sure no one will ever bother to read any of what I say again unless by shere accident! loads and loads has happened but at least this time no one has died! I have done all sorts of events some brilliant, some rubbish. I suppose that is life if you are self employed. Right now I am in the midst of lots of dyeing- as in cheap black dye from supermarket ( sainsbury and asda -asda cheapest!) and am doing up all the rubbish coloured but ok designed clothes I have bought in the last 4 years or so sales. I missed the Next sale for the first time in about 5 years - had to work it tho not so sure I should have bothered since it was rubbish and next year maybe I should have that weekend off! so am making up for it by altering -to black/charcoal all the stuff I bought the last few years and you know what I bought £18 worth of dye and most of my naff coloured clothes are suddenly lovely. Black is cheapest- supermarkets sell no other colour tho I am intending to buy one full priced dye and do several other items I am eventually sorting. they are currently sitting on the back of the chair while I have done all else black. Maybe another colour like red or purple would be good - very goth all this - a new image eh!!!!!. There are just a small number of things I reckon will be better any other colour but one thing is certain - NO MORE BEIGE! I do not work in an office and I HATE beige. No offense intended here to all who do like this colour but it just is not me!Never has been but when you work in an office and all you have to wear is second hand stuff which is what I was doing once long ago when IO finished uni so I bouht everything that was reasonably ok and cheap and it seems to be mostly beige. Well its some of iot been in a box for years and is really ok and wearable if the colour changed so black it is going. I have several piles here. Some to be tiedyed some flat dyed and some to go seriously black! allawaiting its turn. Tonight I update my wardrobe goth style and so far its looking really good. At least I will no longer wear faded drab old cloths thta have lost their style and surprising really you add some black dye and it looks new and not exctly up to date but definitely stylish. makes me feel much better about what I wear and much less sad that I have no cash for clothing and infact I am seriosuly looking forward to wearing some of this new stuff/old stuff cos its really good!