Old Style Diary Archive - DEC 05

LearningToSave.

morning all,
only a quick post today as parents coming over for a visit this arvo.
wm on for the second time,have washed down fronts of kitchen cupboards and worktops.will be vacumming and vaxing all the downstairs floors after lunch.
also have drawn around dd1(age 3) on a piece of old wallpaper then let her colour,stick bits etc to make the person....she loved it,had lots of fun and it'll make a lovely keepsake.....may do some more another day ti give to grandparents for christmas.
lunch in a bit will be hm pizza with onion rings and buffalo wing....yum!! having main meal at lunch as dh is off out on works xmas do at 3pm!!!!!!

FREYALUCK......what about trying freecycle https://www.freecycle.org and seeing if anyone has a breadmaker going spare? i've used freecycle loads and its fab,i've seen breadmakers on ours quite a lot.

Bargain_Rzl

Morning all :hello:

Actually managed to produce a piece of work which IMPRESSED my boss this morning :j - and was in the office on time too, so no snide remarks.

ivyleaf wrote:

Bargain Rzl - hope the concert went well - I thought of you. I always say God hears only the right notes! and a large proportion of the audience wouldn't know if you made a mistake anyway.

Thanks! It was great. I only made one really obvious mistake in the whole of my two solos, and didn't feel like I sang as well as I did when I was practising, but it went down really well. Everybody else's acts were really enjoyable too - everything from show tunes to comedy sketches to Caribbean poetry.

ivyleaf wrote:

My DD got married last year and they chose "Protection" for her coming in (some of the words weren't quite appropriate but they both loved the music

Funnily enough, we were chatting about inappropriate wedding music after last night's church concert! Specifically, when somebody picks a piece of church music in Latin/German/whatever, cos they love the piece of music, without knowing what the words mean! Like having Schubert's Ave Maria (in German), even though it's the prayer of a young woman on her way to the scaffold! (not the same as the Latin Ave Maria) - or parts of the Faure Requiem committing the souls of the departed to God, while signing the register! (It's a bit like choosing names for your children and then realising after the event that you've called your child something that means something ridiculous like, for example, "miserable sheep" - which is what you'd have named your daughter if you chose to call her Dolores Rachel...)

On the other hand, I like it when couples have a sense of humour! An ex flatmate of mine came back up the aisle with her new husband to the sounds of the Star Wars theme tune :D:D I was sitting next to a good friend and I turned to him and said "May the force be with you!" He responded "And with thy spirit" :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Anyway, that's one concert down, two to go (Sunday this week and Saturday next) - all completely different. I also have 2 regular church services, one carol services, four rehearsals for one concert, one for the other, two after-show parties, and two work parties - all within the next 12 days! That's on top of working full-time and trying to sort out Christmas...

Hope everybody's having a good day :wave:

MATH

Bargain_Rzl wrote:

Morning all :hello:



Funnily enough, we were chatting about inappropriate wedding music after last night's church concert!

Hope everybody's having a good day :wave:

This has had me giggling for yonks.

As a church steward I work a lot of weddings and funerals and some of the choices are quite scary but not all are always the bride and grooms fault. I remember years ago (late 80's) a couple requesting the music from Robin Hood. I can't remeber who sang it but it was all romantic and slushy and very popular at the time. Unfortunatly our organist wasn't quite up to speed with the current trends and thought they meant the theme tune from the 1960's tv serial Robin Hood. This is the only time I have witnessed a bride 'canter' down the isle while the organist thumped out "Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen" - Oh go one - you can remember the rest yourself.

Another time was intentional. Some friend of ours getting married picked the most inappropriate hyms as a joke. The slection went something like this:

O God our help in ages past

Dear Lord and Father of mankind forgive out foolish ways

Oft in danger oft in woe

Turn back O man. forswear thy foolish ways

heheh

Ticklemouse

MATH wrote:

Unfortunatly our organist wasn't quite up to speed with the current trends and thought they meant the theme tune from the 1960's tv serial Robin Hood. This is the only time I have witnessed a bride 'canter' down the isle while the organist thumped out "Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen" - Oh go one - you can remember the rest yourself.

This afternoon I will mostly be cleaning HM minestrone soup off my monitor :rotfl:

And yes, I'm sure I will be singing this to myself as I go in search of long-ago bought and well hidden Christmas pressies :xmassmile

freyaluck

hello again to all :xmassmile
wellllllll I have been down town this morning annnnddddd wait for it




bought a new bread maker, morphy richards , although the panasonic had £20 quid off I just couldn't stretch my budget that far so i got the mr for £40 £10 off :j all in robert dyas
Now just need to go and make space for it as it is a lot bigger than my old one.
Have finished off all my xmas shopping apart from the chocolates for stockings, I just can't help eating them if they are around too long :rolleyes:
going to put up the :xmastree: at the weekend which should take up a day.

hugs to all
frey

Icemaiden

Afternoon everyone,

Nipped into town after dropping DD at pre-school and got some lovely lustre wine glasses from woollies which were reduced from £9.99 to £6.99 so got two packs, these will look fab on christmas day and go nicely with my gold and burgundy colour theme.

Had some good news today that my blood count is up to 11.5 but still need to get to 13 by the end of the year. It was originally at only 5 back in sept when I was rushed into hospital for so fingers crossed I can keep it up.

Anyway haven't had lunch yet so better go and eat!

Have a good day

Ice

moggins

Thank heaven I wasn't drinking coffee when I read this thread

Can't remember all the tracks we had played at our registry office wedding but I know we had Marry Me by Neil Diamond while everyone was getting settled, From This Moment by Shania Twain while I was coming up the aisle and one of the Batman tunes when we were coming out, I think it was the overture that had the bells ringing at the end

Bargain_Rzl

MATH wrote:

This has had me giggling for yonks.

As a church steward I work a lot of weddings and funerals and some of the choices are quite scary but not all are always the bride and grooms fault. I remember years ago (late 80's) a couple requesting the music from Robin Hood. I can't remeber who sang it but it was all romantic and slushy and very popular at the time.

If it was the early 90's rather than late 80's, it would have been Bryan Adams singing "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You".

MATH wrote:

Unfortunatly our organist wasn't quite up to speed with the current trends and thought they meant the theme tune from the 1960's tv serial Robin Hood. This is the only time I have witnessed a bride 'canter' down the isle while the organist thumped out "Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen" - Oh go one - you can remember the rest yourself.

:rotfl: :rotfl:
Reminds me of a story a former choir conductor of mine used to tell about a funeral. The family asked for a certain Bach chorale, the one that's used in the St Matthew Passion at the moment of Christ's crucifixion (best known to churchgoers as "O sacred head, sore wounded"). Organist misheard and the coffin went out to the lilting strains of Offenbach's Barcarolle...

MATH wrote:

Another time was intentional. Some friend of ours getting married picked the most inappropriate hyms as a joke. The slection went something like this:

O God our help in ages past

Dear Lord and Father of mankind forgive out foolish ways

Oft in danger oft in woe

Turn back O man. forswear thy foolish ways

heheh

My sister's godparents had a baby when I was about 7 or 8. I thought it would be nice to make a present for the parents - a bookmark with a Bible verse on it - to go in the congrats card my parents were sending. Trouble is, I picked the Bible verse by opening the good book and sticking a pin in it - the verse on the bookmark, aimed at parents of a newborn, ended up being "Listen to my prayer, O Lord, and hear me cry for help!" Didn't notice the funny side at the time but my mum thought it was hilarious.

sallypurple

:rudolf: Love the Xmas smilies!

hello all,

Hope you're having a good day. Me and OH haven't got round to getting married yet, I think after 12 years we've left it a bit late! I think I'd have "stand by your man"! or DIVORCE! if I had to do it now.

I've just got in from taking DD to pre-school and all my Boots tokens have come from Pigsback and valued opinions so I think I'm going to go shopping.

Take care all
sally XX

:xmastree: :xmastree: :xmassmile :xmassign: :xmastree: :xmastree: :rudolf: :santa2:

tattooed_lady

Curry_Queen wrote:

Would you believe their van had broken down YET AGAIN!!!! :rolleyes:


Finally got it in the end though, after many tears of frustration down the phone, but it arrived far too late for me to cook the special dinner I'd planned for me and DS, so hopefully we'll have it tonight instead!

That's terrible! :mad: I hope they gave you some money off! Enjoy your meal tonight