End of an era

fc123

chrisandanne wrote: »

This is perhaps why I see a lot of your posts...late is when I can get on too..it's ruining my beauty sleep .....I hope you're business is doing o.k fc123...I was in fashion (the business I mean) in the early nineties and it was very tough. A x

Well may as well hijack another of Mr B's threads to chit chat about moi.;)

And NDG is out there too, sitting by the fax or with toddler who won't sleep.

It's OK. Am up in Leicester factory on Monday sorting out big asos order. Shop busy busy (visitor season; though most are a little stout for our stuff...we only go up to 16......so we flog them a bag instead).
Dreading the winter but we are re-fitting and changing again in Sept.

Lifestyle (hate that word) store. My lifestyle; combo of derelict, remade chic and London, wannabe, sassy chic...all merged into products for twenty quid......and Made in UK.

Don't know why I bother really...but it's part of me.

fc123

chrisandanne wrote: »

This is perhaps why I see a lot of your posts...late is when I can get on too..it's ruining my beauty sleep .....I hope you're business is doing o.k fc123...I was in fashion (the business I mean) in the early nineties and it was very tough. A x

If I can manage my LL (Glass tower invstmt co) and persuade them to let us have a concession on the rent review as an Indie trader.....and not benchmark us to my Mosaic and Costa etc neighbours, then we should be able to tick over until my Grand Masterplan Lifechange kicks in in 5 yrs time.

TBH, it's never been easy. Kep reading about a retail boom. I thouight people just liked our stuff, so bought lots of it. One never stops learning?

chrisandanne

fc123. It sounds brilliant...and I wish it was in Yorkshire....very best of luck. A x

neverdespairgirl

fc123 wrote: »

And NDG is out there too, sitting by the fax or with toddler who won't sleep.

The latter. Isaac thinks sleep is for the weak. Unfortunatley for me, I am one of th weak!

Next time I hear someone using the phrase "sleeps like a baby" I might whack them over the head. This baby doesn't sleep much! And is fine with it.

fc123

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

The latter. Isaac thinks sleep is for the weak. Unfortunatley for me, I am one of th weak!

Next time I hear someone using the phrase "sleeps like a baby" I might whack them over the head. This baby doesn't sleep much! And is fine with it.

Another 12 years, you get the opposite problem. Can't get them up for school. Sounds like our son. Sleeping didn't really settle until he went to school (I mean 8pm - 7am ). It's a difficult one.
Sleep deprivation was my worst thing, I think.
Only 10 yrs to go!

epsilondraconis

fc123 wrote: »

Another 12 years, you get the opposite problem. Can't get them up for school. Sounds like our son. Sleeping didn't really settle until he went to school (I mean 8pm - 7am ). It's a difficult one.
Sleep deprivation was my worst thing, I think.
Only 10 yrs to go!

If I go to bed early I think that I'm missing out on something - almost like my life is somehow passing me by. I currently get only about 6 hours sleep. I really need to get to bed a bit earlier I suppose.

I'm currently watching sky news - hopefully something exciting will soon happen around the world. Its been the same news for the last couple of hours. I know it sounds horrible, but a mini disaster would be good - something to watch if you know what I mean. If not, I guess I'll just head off to bed.
I know it sounds terrible - I don't really want any disasters, just something exciting to happen.
Our cat is hiding because its raining. The wife is in bed.

Hopefully it won't be long before Mr B makes a more permanent return...

fc123

You need a good book. Try 'The Gods that Failed' by larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson. It'll cheer you up......not. That's if you want a bit of 'Disaster based leisure time'.....a new concept?

epsilondraconis

fc123 wrote: »

You need a good book. Try 'The Gods that Failed' by larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson. It'll cheer you up......not. That's if you want a bit of 'Disaster based leisure time'.....a new concept?

Cheers for that. I've just found the following summary on the web and its something that I would probably read.

http://www.andyhowell.info/Political-Futures/?p=149

Looks like we can hold off on the disaster for a couple of days.

I've got to say, Sky news is really beginning to annoy me. The problem is the batteries in the remote control have failed and I can't be bothered to get up to change channel. If only I could train the cat to come out of hiding when it is raining and to change the channel.

Whilst I'm here, is it only me that becomes paranoid that I may make a wrong decision financially. Whilst MSE is a superb site and has already saved me a lot of money, I just feel that because I spend so much time on here, that for some reason I should be making perfect financial decisions. Almost that I should now know what is going to happen with interest rates / fuel costs etc etc.

Anyway, I'm beginning to ramble.

Still nothing exciting on Sky news. Looks like I'll have to change the channel myself. Damn cat...

Thanks once again for the book recommendation fc123.

neverdespairgirl

fc123 wrote: »

Another 12 years, you get the opposite problem. Can't get them up for school. Sounds like our son. Sleeping didn't really settle until he went to school (I mean 8pm - 7am ). It's a difficult one.
Sleep deprivation was my worst thing, I think.
Only 10 yrs to go!

Isaac doesn't get up early - his natural awakening time is 9am, whatever time he's gone to sleep. Like his mother, not an early riser (-:

My Dad is the opposite - he goes to bed about 9.30 pm, and bounces out of the house for work about 6am. He also tends to think that when he's awake, everyone should be awake, and that when he's sleeping, a hush should fall on the whole neighbourhood (-:

epsilondraconis

Oh dear - 12.30am and here comes the usual CBS dross.

Looks like its time to watch an episode of mythbusters I recorded.