Olive Oyls 12-month Countdown

skint_spice

The dress "is lovely" and makes you look good - this is the way we should all dress with a few gorgeous items and accessories instead of buying ten dresses for £20 over the years and not one of them making you feel so good. imagine how much less clutter there would be in your wardrobe...looking in there and only seeing things you love...

says she who dressed almost head to toe in supermarket clothes today...:o

beanielou

Glad you enjoyed your day MOT & great bargain~wonder if I could find a bargain Radley?!!

OliveOyl_2

I do love the dress, and it will look even better when I lose a bit of weight
It made people remark when I wore it, so I shall be wheeling it out for a few more years

skint - those are the sort of things fashionistas say - but we mere mortals get bored. And I've looked, my outfit today is supermarket sourced too, except the jeans which I bought on a mystery shop assignment :rotfl:

OliveOyl_2

beanielou wrote: »

Glad you enjoyed your day MOT & great bargain~wonder if I could find a bargain Radley?!!

Radley is the one with the little terrier dog like your avatar isn't it?

If you cut the label off would it be worth less?

Although I'll admit that posh stuff is *usually* finished MUCH nicer than the chinese finished stuff.....

OliveOyl_2

ampersand wrote: »

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Unfortunately Olive, A would say I am ' the most easily moved to tears person I have EVER met.'
Some triggers:
Michel Delpech singing 'Le Chasseur'.
Maxime Le Forestier, George Brassens, Catherine Lara singing...
Opening music and scenes of La Gloire de Mon Père' - the whole Pagnol thing, in fact.
'Adam Laye A-bounden'
The 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn' chapter of Wind in the Willows.
Kettle's Yard and Alfred Wallis pictures and anterior associations.
Standing in a certain high place with ....
Some private horrors.
Watching Mrs Mummy shelter Princess Lucky under her wing on the perch when PL had been savaged by A's other chickens.
Seeing A carefully doing something mundane for me just before I left.

They'll do for this particular moment - yours?

Any act of kindness I see.
Anyone hurting (even a bl**dy contrived advert)
Even a pathetic song like tie a yellow ribbon - the bit when the bus goes round the corner and he sees "hundred yellow ribbons round that old old tree" has me welling up
The end of the railway children always gets me
Music - lots of that stuff. Put a violin in and I'm sunk

I can remember once crying in the dark after listening to late night radio. The couple being interviewed - he was a POW in a Japanese camp and was being calm, and stoic as he recounted his story. The interviewer asked him if he still thought about it or had nightmares and he replied Yes. The interviewer pushed gently and asked how often, how recent? and the wife replied that he'd woken up screaming only the night before. Then both the interviewer and I cried. The other interviewer had to take over and they went to a music break.

I cry when I'm tired, when I'm sad and when I'm happy. I cry if people shout.
But I didn't once cry when I went through my divorce or when I was homeless for 17 weeks with a baby and a toddler as a result

Is this a competition? Have I won?

mumoftwins

OliveOyl wrote: »

Any act of kindness I see.
Anyone hurting (even a bl**dy contrived advert)
Even a pathetic song like tie a yellow ribbon - the bit when the bus goes round the corner and he sees "hundred yellow ribbons round that old old tree" has me welling up
The end of the railway children always gets me
Music - lots of that stuff. Put a violin in and I'm sunk

I can remember once crying in the dark after listening to late night radio. The couple being interviewed - he was a POW in a Japanese camp and was being calm, and stoic as he recounted his story. The interviewer asked him if he still thought about it or had nightmares and he replied Yes. The interviewer pushed gently and asked how often, how recent? and the wife replied that he'd woken up screaming only the night before. Then both the interviewer and I cried. The other interviewer had to take over and they went to a music break.

I cry when I'm tired, when I'm sad and when I'm happy. I cry if people shout.
But I didn't once cry when I went through my divorce or when I was homeless for 17 weeks with a baby and a toddler as a result

Is this a competition? Have I won?

We would be in joint first place if this was a competition Olive as I am the same as you!

skint_spice

I watched the evening news twice this week which I never usually do - usually read on line or newspapers - and ended up in tears both times.:o so no more tv news for me! I do sometimes watch the BBC breakfast news though and don't cry then so maybe I was overtired...:o

TKMax trousers today so not completely supermarket for once but not items of great beauty either!

ampersand

Being moved to tears means we have heart.
That makes us Real Living People; we are therefore Prizes ourselves.
Yes, Olive, I know what you mean, too, about the self-awareness of some of those things being 'pathetic' and knowing oneself manipulated..........all that.
I remember being horribly pleased when once thinking thunks on 'cheap emotion. being all she could afford'.
Oh, it'll end up in The Novel, un de ces jours....and of course it's in everyone else's too.

Note to all - please pop out and have a look at the new moon and evening star, if you haven't already - it's beautiful tonight, if nippy.

Right, must get on with things - have 11 bedslats, mot. Will bring saw and tools, in case you don't have, but it will be Adam in charge of the repairs,
under my Hefty Hoof.

Anyone watching HFW and others in the meat thing tonight?
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aaaaagh....brain was wearing purple(as now Officially Ageistly Permitted).
I've missed that one, but there's Victorian Farm. That'll do and JO+piggies.
I bet they're on at the same time - and I can't do the recording thing. Have had a few goes, but never successfully.

mumoftwins

Thanks Ampersand! It'll be good to see you, have you any idea of what time roughly you'll be here?

boredofbeingathome

Have a good time mending beds and whatnot, MOT and Ampersand..

Olive have a good weekend, i was going to share a moment about what makes me cry but i would blub all over again. So i won't.