Frozen

Helllllooooo *brrr*
Everything is white with frost outside. Bloody freezing. The heating is on full blast and thank god, it seems to be working this year.

Its Wednesday and I'm off to work in a minute or two.

Went to Bluewater on Sunday and found a gorgeous blue dress that I'll wear to the ball, together with some glitzy heels and a lovely little fluffy shrug thing. Can't wait til next weekend. Steve is having his dinner jacket fitted tomorrow morning.

Need to do some serious christmas shopping.
I've only got my mum something...

In the evenings we are doing research on local Wickford guys who died during WW1. We've got hold of some really old newspapers from 1914-1919 which we are ploughing through for information. Amazing what you can find. We've already found photos of 6 of the guys.
Among with other exciting news like:

"Man held up at gunpoint. A two-barrelled shotgun was pointed in his face and the gunman said: - Hands up!"
I mean...who says that shit nowadays? Can you imagine, someone out of So Solid Crew going: "Hands up". Ehm, no.

"Wickford Market News. Poultry 12 shillings. Eggs 2 shillings. A cow £55."

"A young lady was standing on the corner of Southend Road when two dogs started playing next to her. They then ran towards her and knocked her over. She fell and broke her ankle."

I wish the news were that innocent now as well, although I should be grateful not to have to go through the newspapers looking for news about my loved ones being wounded or killed in that war. They were so young. So the least we can do is try to write a bit about them and put a face to a story. We are going to donate the research as a little booklet to the British Royal Legion.

Now off and away for another lovely day!