I went out and had a fantastic meal. It was exquisite and I really enjoyed the atmosphere and every mouthful of food!!!

Then, in a moment of weakness, I went clubbing with some of the younger folk at work.

I would not mind, but I was a touch squiffy, but not that bad. Sometimes I am just so easily led!!!! Anyway, it seemed like a good idea at the time, so off I went!

I danced, was involved in dance offs with work colleges, and generally kept moving right through until the end of the night, 2am.

I got home, feeling good, had some toast and watched some telly before slipping off to bed.

Friday morning, I woke up feeling remarkably well and rested and looked forward to working my way through my list of things to do, I was in the shower and nothing could stop me.

Well, I say nothing, but after my shower and slow leisurely cooked breakfast and a bit more random telly watching, I realized that my back ached a bit, and that if I walked down the hallway a bit sharpish, that my hip was kind of twinging.

By about 1 I had decided that I ached too much and was really too creaky and tool old to walk and do my errands!!!!

By 2pm, I had enlisted the help of my quilt, encouraged the cats to curl up, and the 3 of us settled down to some classic Miss Marple, well, we stayed awake for the first 10 minutes and then wafted off!

So, whilst I had a great birthday, I did feel my age and the after effects of dancing and clubbing till 2am, and to be honest, the aching hip and back were far worse than the state of my head!!!

Thanks for your kind wishes, it was a good one and next year is the big 40, so I will have to take 3 or 4 days off to recover if this year is anything to go by!!!!

I have survived to celebrate another year.... 39 years old!!!

I can still remember being 19 and been incapable of imaging even being this old!!!

As luck would have it, we are going on a works night out to celebrate our MD's 10 years with the company, and we are going to a very exclusive restaurant!!!!

How handy is that?

I have booked tomorrow off, not to cope with a hangover, but to have a lovely day of nothingness, to go to the bank and spend my some money that my money sent me by my mother, which was a complete surprise as I had my presents when she came up on Saturday!

Have a good time, and catch up next week!

Don't forget to put your clocks back!

Well, Fake That on Thursday night was, without any doubt, one of the funniest nights out that I have ever had!

They did not look or really sound like the band, but put on a great show and I laughed all night! I will have to come back and tell you more of that in the week!

Saturday I had a lovely day as my mother came up to see me. The last time she came up was 10 days after I had moved into my flat.

I had such a lovely day with her as we went shopping whilst her husband kept the boys company in the flat and she treated me to fish and chips before she left!!!

It was lovely to see her and nice that she saw my flat after almost a year of living there. I really did have a great time and it was so nice to see her and hear all her news!

Next time I will go down to see here again.

I am in agony though at the moment as I am suffering with a pain very similar to the whiplash that I suffered 2 years ago in a car accident.

I have no idea what I did to start it off, but I have been unable to sleep or really move much for the last 3 days!

I am hoping that I can relax my back and shoulders abit more today so that it can start to ease up. Even breathing is hurting at the moment and I can't lift anything heavier than a cup of tea without being in pain! I look rather stiff and rather silly so tonight it will be another soak in the bath and a hot water bottle all night to try and free me up!

Hope you are all well and if you had beautiful sun, I hope that you made the, most of it!

Tomorrow I mainly be going to see Fake That.

I have saved and am getting a taxi there and back.

This will help me through myself whole hearted into the experience, with the help of a few large vodka's.

I am going with a few girls from work and their friends.

I will be the oldest by at least 7 years.

I just don't care.

I am soooo excited!

Well, here is a brief story of me setting up my BiOrb, ending with photos of my fully stocked 30 litre wonder!

It all started with JennyBio posting some photos of her BiOrbs on a VW forum.

16th July 2007 – I took delivery on my BiOrb and set it all up though I did not have a heater!

20th July – the heater arrived and I set that up and left to settle down for 3 days before I went to get my first fish.

29th July – I bought my first 2 fish, Stan and Ollie, two zebra danio’s.

10th August – after waiting to peak, and that not really happening, I took the plunge and added Maz and Mauld, two black widows.

16th September – I went and threw all caution to the wind and bought a BiOrb Intelligent LED light. This has transformed my fish watching beyond belief!!!

13th October – I added another 2 black widows as my original 2 seemed abit lost in the BiOrb, called Dave and Jaz.

16th October – I added 3 sunset platy, which are called Jen, Jenny and Orange!

I have now completed my mission to set up my BiOrb in time for the long nights in during winter.

I am very surprised at how much I do enjoy watching the fish and how I already know how they behave etc. It is very peacefull and chilled and now I can just leave things to settle with weekly 10% changes.

At the end of October I will be attempting my first sponge and carbon pellet change! I am nervous but will seek helpful hints for that later!

Here are some photos that I took over the weekend. If you look hard you can see my 2 zebra danio, 4 black widow and 3 sunset platy.

Thanks to all of you for all your help and support over the last few months. You all made it a lot easier and thanks for making it so friendly that I am never afraid to ask any question!!!

Special thanks to JennyBio, the guardian angel of my fish!

I do not seem to have any food in my bowl......

If you look, you can clearly see an empty bowl.....

For the love of cod, please feed me!

and last night I got the chance to see him, yet again!!!

I went to The Cliffs in Southend with my 2 lovely and wonderful mates.

Ross was on top form and by the time that we left, my face was really hurting from laughing so hard for the best part of 3 odd hours.

I have now seen him a fair few times, and never is it the same.

He is so talented and very under-rated, in my opinion.

It was just what I needed as we have changed all our computer systems at work and method of working.

To say that it has been a stressful time of late would be understating it!!!!

I hope that normal daily service will resume soon!

Either that or I will melt away in my paperless pod.......

As readers know, my Vinnie has a crystals in the bladder thing going on. This requires him to be a very strict diet of dried biscuits. On the whole, this diet is proving to be working, although I know have some weight issues with Vinnie.

It seems that you can’t have it all, he is healthy, but now overweight, and being overweight increases the chances of crystals. Round and round it all goes!

So, now that his antibiotics have finished, and as soon as I can get some digital scales, the diet of Big Fella Vinnie will commence.

Scooter on the other hand, has biscuits for breakfast and a mixture of wet and biscuits for dinner. It works well and he is healthy and at a good weight.

So, anyway…… last night I decided to treat them both with a small piece of coley each. I get them in packs of 4 and they get one each once a month.

On went the microwave, and as if by magic, the world breaking gold medallist cats for getting from the lounge to the kitchen appeared. From their deep slumber they realised that I was not cooking for me, but fish for them. How could they know that without seeing what I was doing?

The plastic box went round, the fish smells came out and my 2 silly black sausages sat there, almost in a trance, watching it all happen. As soon as the dinger went off, all hell broke loose. Cats wrapped round my feet, curling round my ankles, meowing in the loudest fashion, and creating an impossible task to get past them to put the fish in their dishes.

As we all waited for the fish to cool off, my 2 cats really did, for those 3 brief minutes, become the most loving creatures on this planet. Face rubbing, chirping, purring and generally full on loving. Lots of sweet nothings and big eyes staring lovingly at me.

The fish went down, the sound of cat eating echoed round the kitchen.

At the same time, they both cleared their bowls, and it looked as if there had never been any fish placed in there.

They looked up to me and meowed again, somewhat pitifully, begging for more fish.

I bent down and said “there is no more boys”.

I never saw them again for almost 3 hours. Talk about fickle!!!!

Honestly, for the love of fish.......!!!!