The Quest

moo2moo

Random????? Eclectic perhaps, excentric probably, completely barking most definately but random? you can do better than that. Your sub challenge of the week is to pick one completely ridiculous mostly unused word from the English language and use it in context in conversation three times (preferably the same day) that way its retained in your brain forever. Harriden is a good start (although I've probably mis-spelt it).

Most of my fabulous knowledge stems from sitting in a very tiny room, spanner in hand thinking ooh noo, ooh noo, oooh no. The most recent one being a non-flushing toilet. How hard can that be? Well for a start you have to remove the whole chuffing thing from the wall to fit a £1.75 bit only to discover that its not quite the comprehensive repair kit it claims to be and so you wing it anyway thus flooding the bathrooom on attempts 1 and 2 before nipping to the plumbers merchant for the missing bit. Then 3 weeks later someone says that loo you repaired is leaking again so you lean over to find out where its leaking from only to discover some fella has absolutely no control over his wedding vegetables (a James May quote and far better than any reference to trouser snakes). Lovely. Not quite as lovely as fising a banana skin from the u-bend but lovely all the same.

I'd like gold shoes but I have feet like barges. I buy my essential girly footwear from a specialist transvestite shop and I already have enough problems convincing them that I really don't need pointy toes or 6" heels which make me 6'5" high, men talk to my boobs enough as it is, its even worse when they (the boobs) are at eyeball level, and the blue sparkly glittery ones whilst being lovely are definatley not my cuppa tea.

Lula-Hula

Oooh Moo2 I do love a challenge of the wordy variety

I found many fab ones but although they seem quite ridiculous to me it turns out that many are relating to various religions so I do not wish to cause offence to anyone & have come across one that I think will amuse all ...

!!!!-shy :rotfl: & no actually, it has nothing to do with either nuns or lesbians. It's a bit medieval & the first person to use it properly gets a prize .

On a far more serious note I declare that I have now officially started my new plan of action on the Quest by paying £60 to Barc (to be called CC1 in future) which brings that blalance to ... £ 3,654.77p to be precise

DD & I had our dental check up this afternoon & neither of us needed any work doing :j so a mere £22 paid & another check up due in 6 months time. I'm quite chuffed as I had £50 saved up so will keep on saving & if I get away with no work again the next time, then I worked out that I'll have enough to pay for a years worth of contact lenses up front in October , so wont need to have amonthlydirect debit.

I got my tv licence bill & although it's only gone up by £1 every quarter apparently they're charging me £5 for paying by quarterly direct debit :mad: so I obviously need to start saving up to pay that in one go next year too. Why oh why didnt I do all this years ago :rolleyes: .

All in all a NSD but I'm not going to achieve my target as I have a very important meeting on thursday - supper at the pub with my allotment friends in order to plan the year ahead .

Cant wait to start the leaflet job as I seem unable to resist putting food in my mouth at the moment & desperately need to burn off some calories

bye for now

lula

makeup

Lula - they've censored your word of the day...am having much fun imagining what it could be.

We used to do this at a job I had once, however the only word I remember from then is woolgathering...which is actually a brilliant word to use to describe some people I know.......

Lula-Hula

oh

it's meant to be the first four letters of a cockerel now off to check out woolgathering...

moo2moo

Blimey Lula thats a bit risque. According to the urban dictionary (on-line font of little known knowledge) tis a game requiring three gents in birthday suits in a state of considerable excitement standing in formation (the mind really does boggle) whilst the opposing team throw donuts, apparently its a bit like quoits (not like any game of quoits I've ever played, note to self - must get out more). Must remember to suggest that to the vicars wife for this years church fete.

I've got my TV licence set up on a monthly direct debit. Its a bit steep to start with as you pay 6 months in advance, 6 months in arrears but theres no monthly fee. You should be able to change to pay monthly even if you're part way through the year.

T'other half dropped a bomb shell yesterday. Apparently he's planning on pulling 150 Euros from the cashpoint on arrival in Belgium (tomorrows business trip) to see him through 5 days. Jaw has since been collected from floor. Apparently that should just stretch to 5 lunches and dinners for one person. I can see his warped logic. Previously he would have paid for everything on plastic racking up a £1.50 charge per transaction for the privildge of being overseas so a one off £5 doesn't seem too ridiculous but I'm still in shock. I could feed four of us for two weeks on that. Fortunately his company do give them a daily allowance to spend as required so at least he'll get it back and more in another two weeks time but its still really really annoyingly frustrating.

Hope your allotment planning meeting is lots of fun. I'm hoping to get out in the garden to do something this week even if its only nettle removal and hedge trimming. I ventured down to the bottom yesterday and discovered my rhubarbs awake already and even bigger than normal despite the chickens eating it as it appears.

Lula-Hula

:eek: to your definition of my word Moo - that's not what my dictionary said :rotfl: it is a game indeed but there was no mention of naked hombres .

I very nearly did sign up to your method of tv licence payment some years back but didnt & still dont like paying for the next year in advance :mad: so thanks for that tip but I shall just save up the old fashioned way & keep the money in my account rather than theirs. Too much of our money ends up earning interest in large corporations accounts as far as I'm concerned.

Spoke to DD1 last night & she's walked to work (6 miles) for the last 3 days as she's run out of petrol :rolleyes: . My previous efforts at getting her to budget have always failed & been met with sarcy comment like " yeh, & you're really good with money arent you". Well, no, but have never had to abandon my car with empty fuel tank. So, budgeting lesson it is & I do wish my parents had given me one... little DD will be far cannier I think; having taken her purse with her to the shops on saturday she stood behind me in the queue, handed me her comic & assured me that she would pay me back when we got home :rotfl: .

Have you thought of supplying DH with a box full of pot noodles to take with him Moo ?

bye for now
lula

moo2moo

I did consider the pot noodles but I fear he'd have them for elevenses followed by posh nosh thus explaining the moobs and the ever expanding waistline despite his frequent claims of not feeling hungry at meal times. Then again my cookings enough to put anyone off. Perhaps I should market that as a diet plan. Moo2moos food anihilation plan. Start cooking dinner, bimble off to do something else and reappear some while later to rather overdone food. I did once throw a dinner party where I managed to burn the boiled potatoes, that really does take some doing.

RosaBernicia

moo2moo wrote: »

Start cooking dinner, bimble off to do something else and reappear some while later to rather overdone food.

:j I am not alone!

(the Rosa version is start cooking, stare at it for 10 secs, decide it isn't going to do anything interesting, then raise nose from book to smell of burning!)

Rosa xx

makeup

I'm the same as well.....I overcooked my roast chicken last night by nearly 45 minutes although it seemed fine...at least no risk of salmonella.

I frequently overcook boiled potatoes, I now quite enjoy the crispy bits it gives you!

Despite all this, I am actually a good cook!!!!! When I stay in the kitchen! I'm like you Rosa, think 'this will take ages' so go into the other room to watch TV or read a book....cue minor panic when realise has been cooking forever :eek:

Lula-Hula

RosaBernicia wrote: »

:j I am not alone!

(the Rosa version is start cooking, stare at it for 10 secs, decide it isn't going to do anything interesting, then raise nose from book to smell of burning!)

Rosa xx

Same as that :rolleyes: I can even burn stuff when reading while perched on a stool in the kitchen :rotfl: but unlike makeup I'm not a great cook ; it bores me I'm afraid unless I have some good male company & a bottle of wine to accompany.

I'm exhausted as I've been updating threads all evening, must stop people from joining them somehow