A Sad Tale

What is to be an American socialite and philanthropist who has partied with elite of New York society? Living your life in the luxury and donating millions every year to charitable causes. It’s another thing to find you self at the age of 104 living your final days sleeping in squalor and unable to have the proper medical care and amazingly you still have £27 million in the bank.

This friend’s is what Brooke Astor is reduced too, in need of physiotherapy and vital drugs to help battle skin cancer. Who is thought to be stopping this, Non other than her own son.



Let’s start with a bit of background. The wealth of the family stems from John Jacob, who was a son of a German butcher who then emigrated to America. Trading with native Indians he became very successful. Becoming America’s first millionaire in 1840. and with the help of his son and grandsons adding to the fortune.

The British Astors were formed due to family funds when JJ’s Grandson came to my lovely England in 1891. William kinda went a little loopy when a fortune-teller said he would die a violent death. Wanting to know what people thought of him he announced his death in 1982 but went on to live 17 more years.

Back in the US scandal was about to hit in 1909 as Williams cousin John Jacob divorced his wife and married an 18-year-old girl and touring Europe. Becoming pregnant meant they needed to return back to the states booking a place on the most famous vessel in the land Titanic which in 1912 sank. Madeleine, J.J. wife survived and gave birth in the US and named her son John Jacob. Are you with me so far??

So how has this latest scandal hit the family?? Back in 1952 Vincent Astor was head of the US family and the 10 richest man. He then fell in love With Brooke who already had money and a son Anthony. Now in her 50’s, Vincent was so in love with her divorced his second wife and married Brooke in 1953. The marriage was short lived as he died 6 years later making Brooke the head of the family. You can just imagine that, that did not go down well with the other side of the family.

This brings us to the battle Brooke face’s with her son 84. Brooke grandson filing paper’s in New York trying to get financial and legal guardianship passed to one of Brookes friends. It is thought the fall out is due to Brooke disbanding the charitable foundation left to her by her husband meaning her son is unable to take over. There is is more scandal involving her son which I will leave out as I’m already going on! If you really wanna know then I will tell you!

Brooke now is in a private hospital but still the problems continue! Sorely is this not a way she should live her last days? Her son gets £1.5 million every year being her guardian.

I just find stories like this, fascinating. Thanks for taking the time to read it and sorry it’s really long! If i had the money dear i would pay for your care.

Thanks Glenys Roberts from the Daily Mail for this story.

Extreme Weather

It looks as if this heat wave is coming to an end this week with possible thunder storms today and tomorrow! Today we can expect 28 degree Celsius = 82.4 degree Fahrenheit with 47% humidity and a 7 mhp Southwest breeze. Now this is what I call prefect weather conditions.

Okay so now we move on to the storms we had on Saturday. I do love a good thunder storm that is really loud with lots of lightning, how exciting!

Let’s set the scene I was a work as I am every Saturday in my shop and it was very hot and humid with not a lot of sun increasingly dark clouds gathering. It had been trying to rain for well over half an hour when finally the heavens open up and at this point I thought I was being taken to a better place, no such luck!. I was on my lunch at the time in the safety of my staffroom when my manager came in and said have you seen it out there? We opened the fire escape door to find gallons of water overflowing all the drainages pipes.

What’s wrong I hear you ask?? Nothing at this point fast forward half an hour I was on the till and there was no one in sight. So I make the only other staff member doing nothing go on the till so I could go and investigate. Little did I know we had just had a shower installed in a little cupboard we have out the back with stock in. How refreshing you think, in this hot weather!

So I open the door to the back of the shop and find another member of staff holding the cupboard door open and my manager inside trying to rescue the stock, all the while litres of water are pouring from the ceiling making him rather wet! The water is still pouring down and running along the ceiling trickling down the lights heading towards the computer. So here we are rushing around turning off everything, mopping up water socking things up with cardboard.

So by the end of the day we got everything cleared up and dried. Please note the ceiling is made out of these tiles that are really shit and stink when they are wet! Sorry for the crap story I could go on by I’m sure you don’t want to read page and pages of the great flood! I also managed to stay completely dry throughout this ordeal while the others got soaking wet! We had 1.6 inches of rain in a couple of hours.

For some reason you have no pictures as blogger is being retarded or that could be me!

Mad About Harry Potter

A few of you said you liked Hermoine Granger like me so here is your chance to find out if you are really like her and what house you would be put in. Ther are hundreds of these tests, I don’t know which ones are good so I’m going with these, if they are good enough for me, they are good enough for you! Okay so here are the two quizzes I did find another charter one but that had over 100 questions! I really don’t have the time and I bet nether do you!

Okay my friends i was Hermoine Granger and would have been put into Hufflepuff. What did i do wrong i so wanted Gryffindor!

http://www.matthewbarr.co.uk/harrypotter/

http://www.thealmightyguru.com/reviews/harrypotter/docs/quiz-house.html

To find out what happened in the evil plan click HERE.

Happy 17th Birthday Daniel Radcliffe

Who would have thought that Daniel Radcliffe is 17 today! I must admit that I thought he was older maybe 18, I know that’s only a year be it seems like he been around for years. So the next Potter film is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix . It would seem the film is set for release for 13th July UK and USA. My favourite of the film had to be Hermoine Granger, who is yours??

Evil plan

Apart from the fact that I’m very mean anyway it’s also nice to be mean to other people. You can get some good results! Working in a shop from time to time we need to order things that we don’t stock.

This mean trick has been going on for years; you fill in an order form out as if a customer was buying a product. Of course at this point you need to think of some funny name that the retarded old lady (Remember this) that works in our shop will call us up and ask for that person! At this point I bet you are thinking surely she knows the number of the shop! Well we have three different lines of course.

So today Deb and I decided to order some lovely red parker ink and came up with the following names! Mike Hunt and Ivanna Hupmalot. Hope I spelt that right! There are however a few problems with our plan, when we answer the phone we have to say our store name although this does not stop said person from trying to get the person she needs! So all we need to do now is tell our manager to answer the phone with out saying our shop name! Please note this works almost every time! Stay tuned you will find out on Monday, well maybe Tuesday if I’m lazy!


EDIT

People I’m afraid the mission failed due to a number of reasons.

1) Order came in early (WTF it always comes in at lunchtime!)
2) Said person did not look at the order
3) Some other staff member almost rang the number!

Fear not we still have another order to come in. I will keep you posted!

One A Little Hot

The Queen had a garden party on the 18th of which I was unable to attend due to other arrangements. Looks like I made a good choice as 39 palace goers fell pray to this heat wave and were treated for heat exhaustion.

Currently over here in our lovely country we have a hosepipe ban in place and a long list on what you can and can’t do with our water! The Queen is clearly unhappy with the hosepipe ban, pointing at the lawn as she told one guest "Have you seen my garden? It's just like this. We're only allowed to water the flowers.”

I say you would have thought as out earth is coved half in water. Is that right?? I can’t remember and really don’t want to look it up! Also what with the polar caps melting, again fresh water I think! I may just be talking a lot of crap! Anyway why not ship some ice over here and fill our reservoirs with it. Problem solved! There just melting and it will save the sea level rising and a “The Day After tomorrow” style disaster happening!

On a complete random note, I have just run out of “Hollywood Smile” toothpaste at £4.49 ($8) a pop I must be crazy!

Things Are Heating Up

We are yet again amongst another heat wave here in Britain with tempters set to reach a record 102f tomorrow which is pretty hot this side of the ocean. PG I wish I had your pool! At last I had a few days off with nice weather. Normally when the weather is nice, let’s see all last week and over the weekend I had to work! Finally today I had a day off and tomorrow I have another! So Thursday I will be sporting the golden face that is my profile picture! (Please note I don’t really look like that!)

Today I enjoyed a leisurely bike ride and dinner with my mum. Also I found that wearing flip flops is not a good idea when riding a bike! And I really can’t be bothered to write any more, over and out! Also no picture today.

The End Is Near

You thought I was about to say I’m not blogging any more. No such luck, I’m talking about “The OC” yes tomorrow sees the last two episodes on T4. Just my luck it works out that I have to work this Sunday. So that means I will miss it. Then the new series of Charmed started straight after. I hope I make it home from work in time for that!

To make matters worse they had no OC last week when I had the day off, they just put some shit I don’t watch. PG you may be needed to fill me in at some point. Let’s take a moment and prayer. Yes that means you bitch!

Damn my broke DVD recorder and my lazy arse for not buying a new one. Right that’s it I’m off to play.com to find a replacement. Also no C.S.I:NY tonight, WTF!

Failed Pirates Mission

Yes the much awaited Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is out in the cinema and what better day to see this film when you have nothing to do on a Wednesday night. All was well, the sun was shining the sky was blue so I decided to walk into town and go by the cinema tickets. Little did i know what was about to happen!

So I arrived at the Odeon two hours before as I was meeting a friend and wanted to make sure we got seats. On the rare occasion a film is good we have to share with other people WTF? Are yes I was in the middle of a queue and the lights went out. Had a stumbled onto the set of a horror movie, was someone about to have there throat slit?? Just stay still and don’t move, its okay they are still taking money for the 7pm show. I almost reached the desk when the screen in front when dead! Don’t panic, the queue is still moving everything is okay.

So I reach the desk give the guy my Orange Wednesday’s number and pay him the money, a done deal so I thought! The computer freezes and no tickets, following this, lots of confusion happened with people asking questions and the retarded people behind the counter not knowing what to do, until a trusted manager came from out the back. Err sorry we have some problem with the electrics and the electricity board need to come out and fix this. What do you mean?? You’re still showing the film right? I just paid! No such luck I was given my money back and had to break the bad news to my friend who was devastated. So we decided to go to the put stuff our faces with chips and then order desert. All my friends fault of course, I really wasn’t hungry, about a days worth of fat was consumed with an hour or so. Join us next week and find out if Deb and I make it to the cinema!

All Work And No Play

What a lovely day it is today the sky is blue and then sun is shinning and I never work on Tuesdays. What I hear you ask is wrong with this situation??? Only the fact that I had to go on a training course with my manager! Okay so my manager is really nice which is not the problem, he even took me to the place.

Being someone that has power I was forced to go on this adventure to learn about our lovely new till system which will make things a hell of a lot easier. Having said that I can just image the problem certain people are going to have with this new technology.

The day started off with us ariving half an hour late even though we live the closest to Milton Keynes. If fact the training session was in the centre:MK. WTF! How mean is that?? I didn’t even get to shop!

So there was about 16 of us all sat around these hi-Tec tills while someone explain how they worked. This was really rather boring but had to be done, I just wanted to be left alone to play with them as I’m sure I could have learnt most of it in half the time! We had lunch around 1:30 just at the time I discovered I had blister on both my ankles. How the hell do you get blisters from sitting down all day?? So I had to run to boots which was at the other end on the centre and fond a toilet as I was about to piss my self. Thus coming back from lunch late with everyone waiting for me!

The course went on for what seemed like hours really only an hour. I was so tired I kept yawning throughout and had a throbbing headache. I’m glad I’m home I think I will pop some pills and watch the last episode of C.S.I. Hey it wasn’t such a bad day I got a day off normal work!

More Stupid Things

It’s a shame these days you have to be subjected to stupidity around you just the simplest of things is sometimes hard for people to grasp! Okay so I’m not talking about those people that can’t use computers, believe it or not I’m really not that good!

Again this will come as no surprise but this is another thing the retarded old cow (ROC) that I don’t know came out with. Remember this and this. So this one is a little old but I thought I would share it with you anyway! Let’s set the scene, old confused biddy rings up asking about a label maker.

Biddy: Hello, do you sell those label machines that can be used with computers???

ROC: Err, yeah we do, you can make all your own labels and everything!

Biddy: Really how does it work???

ROC: Err, is you computer PC compatible??

Biddy: (really confessed at this time) what do you mean, how do you print from it??

ROC: You use the computer hook up cable that comes with it!

I really can’t recall what happened after that, needless to say no one ever came in! Can’t think why!

Also the other day this hideous looking creature came in, clearly been eating more than her fair share of pies and wearing this pink monstrosity that was 10 sizes too small. You can image the support she needed on top and well let’s face it more cloth to cover her belly. It turned out she wanted some sort of sticky things which was decided glue dots would be the best thing. You will never guess that someone came out with?? They are little dots of glue. Of course I instantly thought what a stroke of genius.

Happy 38th Jorja Fox

I wish I could be a C.S.I like Joyra! You get to parade around in your own cloths looking as if you own the place, Wait I think I might do that now! They do make it look very cool. You just turn up, take a few photos and sample. Then it's back to the lab, have a sit down while someone else does all the work then go back out and bring the fucker that killed someone in for questioning! All in a days work! Check the picture, someone got the art of waving like the Queen.

What's My Countries Flag???

Oh what it is to be a fifty something retarded old cow who likes nothing more than bitching about everything and talking about the most vulgar of things. This person of course who I don’t know also comes out with the most stupid of things, who would have thought! Now I’m not saying all women of that age are like this, far from it. I’ve meet some really nice no so retarded people in this blogging world who have lots of talent! When I put it like that it kinda sounds wrong doesn’t it??

Okay let’s set the scene, as most of you know I work in a shop and as the world cup is on at the moment someone thought it would be a good idea for us to sell the England flag! Which sadly we have no need of it now. So this conversation took place between my sister and the unknown.

Unknown: Why do we sell these stupid flags away? It’s not even our flag anyway! Ours is the Union Jack.

My Sister: OMG you’re so thick that’s St George’s flag the England flag. How retarded can you be?

Unknown: Oh I don’t understand, the Union Jack’s our flag.

To think that they go on about the young these days knowing nothing! Foe those of you that don’t know, a little history!

Union Jack is the national flag of the United Kingdom. It depicts the union of England, Scotland, and Ireland through a combination of their respective heraldic emblems: the cross of St George, St Andrew and St Patrick. Wales was already joined to England by the Act of Union in 1536, so was not separately represented on the flag.

Please note all members of this story were born in England! For some reason I also put, well did put Union Jake! Can’t think why! Lucky I read over my work this time!

Th U.S loves Fans

Here in England we are enjoying some rather nice sunny warm weather with temperature reaching 30/32oC and as you Americans say high 80s early 90s. Okay so I’m getting to the point, I really don’t want to sound mean in the way I say this but you Americans can’t take your heat! Well neither can some English!

Living in a fabulous town such as I do we get lots of American student and visitors over the summer and about a million of you came in my store today and brought loads of fans so much so my area manger went to another store stole them, brought them to us. No sooner had we brought them into the store and check them in a pile everyone was hovering around as if I just taken freshly baked cookies out of the oven.

Okay so I know that all you guys have pools, air-con in your homes. So you must miss it when you come over here and find that we have a heat wave! I also had a few staff members moaning how hot it was and switching on any fans that we’ve not sold. I’m so hot. It’s so hot in here, this heats not good for my ankles. You can’t win can you, we moan when its hot and we moan when its cold. Maybe I’m just abnormal, I really like the hot weather and rarely get over heated. Having said that I miss my cousins pool in Maryland. So I’m really chatting a load of crap as you can see. All these Americans remind me of my long lost friend, you know who you are!

A Little Sad

This current location is very nice this time of year as you can imagine. I take this walk most days into work, well its better than going on the bus! There is a sense of sadness the last two mornings as a 15 year old boy drowned in the river on Thursday. Read more HERE.

This part of the river is known as 'the Rollers', which many a young children play around this area and in the river. Even though everyone tells you don’t play in the water we all do, something in fact I did with my friends when I was younger.