Big Sis Hi Matt Well a week on Friday & you'll be home with the Dines/Fower gang. We can't wait till your back! Sounds like your still having a good time - with the exception of the sickness bug/food poisoning! Hope you & Laughing Liz are both feeling better. Are you sure it wasn't because you were missing me & Tim so much!! Anyway best go now - back to work - I've just had my lunch - Chicken noodle soup, a granary bap & a fromage frais! We have discussed your food requests & have a weekend of eating planned for you! As Dad will be in America when you get back (big BOOOOOOOOOO) we will have the Big Christmas Extravaganza the following weekend I think. Really had best go as I am 2 mins late going back to work. Bye for now Hel xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Ollie and Suzie Dearest Dines, we are the late king and queen. Bet you're well jealous. What's the deal? Where are you? When are you home? We miss thee. When are you back in work? I have already asked Bill to bagsy you for our team! You love it. TTFN x

georgie Happy Christmas! I'll text you that too - got to leave you a message on your board though! Hope you have maximum amounts of fun with the time you have left, don't think about home and work too much. Not that you will, in a bad way that is. P.S: Dines family! I got my card thanks :) I have one my Mum worte weeks ago and asked me to give to you.. I will do that soon. Happy Christmas, hope Mr Claus brings you all you desire!

georgie HELLO MATTHEW JAMES DINES It is a cold, misty day today. I am supposed to be at a Private View in Whitstable, Kent but have told the curator that my car's not starting. It didn't start yesterday but Rich charged the battery up and it works now, for now... We'll wait and see what happens and maybe it needs new boxes plugging in under the bonnet... The show is my solo show but it's a 4 gallery space on top of a wine bar. This means the show's not all about me but more all about the new wine bar/gallery thing they've got going on so it's not so bad me not turning up.It took us 5 hours to drive down there on Tuesday to hang the show! Are you really locked in the attic at the Aunties'? I like the idea of that! All these photos you're 'on' are probably photoshopped somehow, the originals are stolen from someone else's blog. I think Rich & I might have a chilli and nachos for our tea tonight. We had toasted cheese sanwiches for lunch. On Thursday we had a meal from Ikea, it was a bargain! P.s - Mrs Dines! (ha ha... Chris), quick fried cabbage sounds horrible but it really isn't. Onion, thinly sliced cabbage and lots of black pepper... It's quite a treat! A cabbagey treat... Enough about cabbage! Bye! From Georgie :)

georgie You lot are nuts!

Me Woo.. at last some more Corrie updates! Sounds like its all kicking off! Yeah I cant believe its been over a year since we did Children In Need - they did it again this year at Ofsted! I hope you and Amy are both enjoying your dad free time with the heating wacked up and Maccy D's! Sounds good. Buster - you have an over the top imagination! Or do you?! Maybe there is some truth in what you say.. Hope nasty Helen & Tim were not too mean to you!! Nasty Helen. x x

baby buster boo hi huncle maffew. didn't think she would ever get hoff the computer. she types soooooo slllllooooowww not like me. well hi have got so many hexciting things to tell you. first hov all grandma got it wrong - its johns dead grandma, not auntie - she dosn't pay attention you know ! but - what hi ham really, really wooried about huncle maffew is this ---- well you know that the house next door to hus that the aunties who died lived in. hits been hempty for nearly 3 years now hand hime very worried cos huncle john comes hup to visit it hevery day and when grandma hasks him what he's doing he just says he's going next door "for a look !" now huncle maffew - don't you fink that sounds a bit strange. why would someone go to visit a house that no one lives in unless thay have something to hide!!!!! i'm so so scared huncle maffew - are you in their attick ?!?! hive got a little plan - next time huncle john goes "to have a look" hime going to sneak out with him and you could write a little "help" letter hand put it in my coller - or - we could attack him. hi could bite his ankle and you could hit him on the head with a candlestick. let me know what you think huncle maffew - hi can't believe your so close hand everyone thinks that your hin australia. we'll have to do it soon tho cos your due back in feb and he might decide to get rid of you before then !!! Well henough hov that, i went to the hairdressers hon thursday hand i look soooo gorgeous. the very nice ladies there were having ha maCDONALDS when hi got there and they gave me some chips. yum yum grandad is away next week and nasty hantie helen and huncle tim are looking hafter me and amy while mum goes out with andrea. can't say as hime looking forward to that cos they make me sleep in my dog bed and not on the sofa like hi normally do. well think that hi will go now huncle maffew as hi have been playing football with nasty huncle john and grandad thisafternoon and hime a bit tired now. don't forget, the next time huncle john brings you some food, look out for me hand put the help letter in my coller. wuff you xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

mad mum Hi Matt, this message may be quick, as buster wants to speak to you. Its sunday and its a miserable rainy day. Think its about time that you had a corrie update. hayley comes back this week but don't think she is staying as i think that she has "found herself" in south africa. well the big story is - john (remember fizz s john) kidnapped rosie webbster and kept her in his dead aunties attick in a deserted house for weeks and weeks. he kept telling fizz (cos he got back with her again) that he was going to feed his dead aunties cat and fizz belived him. Liam is dead - killed by a hit man set up by carlas tony (don't like him) he killed him cos he was having an affair with maria who is incidentally pregnant but liam never got to find out cos he was killed first. Kirks new lady is brill but can't remember her name. You would like her. not much else happening in the street really. It was children in need on friday. dosn't seem a year since we were manning the phones at offsted. really enjoyed that night and would love to do it again. Hi georgie, sorry i missed you in tesco. i love reading about what you have to eat. never tried fried cabbage though - don't like the sound of that. don't listen to amy, i didn't say the b word 4 times in 5 minutes the other day. i don't swear and you know i don't. Bonfire was good and pies were great !. Went out for a meal to the frozen mop for my birthday which was lovely. Amy took some really funny photos of us all shaking our heads loads, so that our facial flab wobbled! we look so funny, but it wouldn't work on amy as her skin was too young and taut. Well can't think of much else to say matt. dad is off to the usa on tuesday again, so amy buster and i will whack the heating up and be at macdonalds every night he's gone. Love the picture of you and kate looking reallyl sensible and lovely. i think perhaps that you are both growing up at last. hi kate ! must go now as buster is growling at me xxxxxxxxxx

Lil Sis Buster you're just too right, these sums are crap ( excuse my french, mother taught it to me, she also said the B word about 4 times today in 5 minutes). Life is great at the Dines household, Mum is waiting for me to go to bed (even tho its soooooooooo early). I saw Georgie the other week going into tescoshe just said OMG *laughs*#A: HiG*laughs* HiG: Have you heard from Matt ?A: Yes got a drunkern message on phone the other day *laughs*G: Ah so who r u with thenA: My gran and my mum *sips costa hot chocolate*G: Ok say Hi to them for me thenA: OkG: Bye *wanders off*A: Bye *Drinks hot chocolate* Were having a bonfire on wednesday with FAMILY with PIES, dad told me to put this , he said it would make you very jealous.I havnt spoke *phone* in ages but you're coming hope soon,,,,,, i guess Hows Kate and whoever is with you ?Takin lots of piccies I hope ! BTW dance conway was brill- quick update- Very SleepyLearnt ballet, street, contempory, jazz, "chicago", Jive + moreDid a show + mum and dad enjoyed itSHared a room with another 9 people getting no sleepPictures will go on facebook when i cbb (cbb = can be bothered)Happy to be in my own bed again Anyway g2g now bye xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

georgie Oh Buster, I do believe you're right! Maybe we both have too much time on our hands Or should I say paws! Well I am glad everything is good and I enjoyed the Guns and Roses mug story, I laughed out loud! LOL. OUT LOUD. Everything is good here too. Rich and I had sausage, mash, gravy and quick-fried cabbage with black pepper for our tea. I couldn't finish my sausage because it was massive. To be honest I don't really like sausages that aren't wrapped in bread with ketchup. Aldi have started selling Welsh Cakes! I love Welsh Cakes. One time we went on holiday, the family and I, and we were in Wales and everyday Mum bought a packet of Welsh Cakes and we ate them before our tea. That was the holiday when I spilt cherryade on the cream carpet where we were staying and blamed it on poor Josie! The stain didn't come out so we moved the furniture around a bit to cover it. I haven't spilt anything for a few days now although I did put a packet of Flash disinfecting wipes onto the hot hob last night and didn't notice until I smelt melting plastic. Rich very patiently scraped it off, it took ages. Have a nice week!

baby buster boo Gosh, that was an easy sum ! Need harder ones than that now that hi hav my maths tutor. Well huncle maffew hi just can't belive that the only people who really stay hin touch with you har me and Georgie ( hi would so luv to meet her bunny). Grandma says that hi must say hello to mad kate. She sounds very strange huncle maffew. Hi don't think that you should mix with people like her ! Do you know that great grandma says that she has got a tattoo and a nasty rottweiler called buttons. Hi mean, who hin their rite minds would call a rottie, buttons !!! Best steer clesr of her hi fink. Nothing very hexciting has happened to me apart from - yet again - hi have lost another ball at astbury ! Hit was hin my mouth hon the way to the car hon the car park and then it was gone... Some lucky dog will find it won't they. Hi think that i will put my name on my balls then if anyone finds them, they can contact me - Hit could be a new way to make friends couldn't it - like a dating agancy !!!!! Well hime off now as hime a bit tired,. Grandma says hi stink so hive got a feeling that i might be having a bath on saturday. Happy halloween. Love busterr boo xxxxxx

Me Mr Wakeham.. he was a strange man indeed! Everone was terrified of him. I remember when I had forgot my red pen and also my homework and was the only one remaining standing.. that was awful! Then he went mental at me for melting my pen on a bunsen burner saying I was going to poison everyone. Good memories. Lisa - dont tease me with Pie stories.. I get very upset as I miss such things as a homemade Pie. Fiona - Luna Park is ace yes! What Camera are you looking at getting? I'll let you know if its good. I have a new job now everyone which makes me happy. Its scarily quite similar to Ofsted though!

Fiona yo!! Luna Park looks ACE.. I can't wait to go myself! Not much news from here.. erm Jen and Adam made a lamb roast for Ad's birthday on Monday which was nice. All the boys are messy and everything in the house leaks.. I've resorted to go swimming every other day so I don't have to use the shower there!! I've started Spanish lessons so I don't look like a lemon when I'm in S.America but it's really hard. I can't even pronouce my name properly! oh well I've got 8 lessons left so maybe I'll improve. I've been debating whether to get a SLR camera before the travels next year - there is one on Amazon at £220.. maybe I'll treat myself at xmas! Think that's all for now! Miss you lots, xxxxxxxxxxxxx

georgie Hello, Well, today I don't know what to write. I had cereal for my tea because I have indigestion and I feel sick now! I have a new boss at work who everyone called Man-chelle instead of Michelle. She's a bit of a slave-driver type but she doesn't know I hide in a store-room pretty much every day reading my book! Ha ha! I sometimes do some of my knitting in there too. In the mornings I will usually pretend to be getting things from the fridge but I will have a cake or sandwich in the fridge and I will be eating a bit of it each time I 'get something' from it. I had a caramel shortbread this morning. Maybe that is why I have indigestion, from wolfing my food down as I am hiding. I will get caught one day. I got caught eating my sandwich under a desk in French at school and I used to keep dried pasta in my blazer for when I got hungry in Physics. On a Physics note, do you remember Mr Wakeham and how he'd say 'Stand up!' at the beginning of the lesson then, 'You may sit down if you have a ruler, an eraser, a pencil, your homework...' Oh, those were the days! Anyway, I enjoyed your last blog, it was mighty fine. Rich and Pie say hi, so do the family.. Say hi to Kate for me. I do say hi via email but she never replies... Perhaps I should take the hint. Take care! (P.S: Thanks Helen! That's high praise indeed!)

Lisa Matty!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Guess what, we have a giant pie in our fridge, a meat and potato one! almost as good as the ones we had at the Dines'! It has been feeding everyone and there is STILL some left! Just thought you might like to know.