Olive Oyls 12-month Countdown

taxi73

Sorry to hear that you got stung by two CCs this month OO..that's awful...
Bet you can't wait until next week to be with Popeye somewhere nice and sunny.

mumoftwins

Morning all ,

Sorry about the mess up with the CC companies Olive, I'm delighted that I don't have a CC anymore as they are such a nightmare to deal with when you have a problem aren't they?

Woke through the night in such agony with my hip, its driving me mad :mad::mad:
Got up at 5.30am to see all the snow again - guess schools will closed again then eh? Never mind but will make sure that the twins use their time off wisely and clean and tidy their bedrooms as they look like the rooms have been burgled :eek::eek: and Fliss' chest of drawers has a white layer on top of it which looks like a sprinkling of snow but is in fact..............DUST :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

Rang NHS Head Office yesterday they are still waiting for my CRB check to come back so looks work won't start for another 3-4 weeks.

Olive, let me know if I can help with a lift to H/row or in any other way, won't you?

Have a good day all, stay warm and cosy xxx

ampersand

Hope light off means you're back in bed, mot.
Sorry you had such a rough one.

Good morning to all.

Looking out, I see more snow has fallen since midnight.

Wonder if it's Kettle's Yard drivable today?

OliveOyl_2

Apologies for being such a grump at the moment, I shouldn't really be as in 2 days time I'm flying out to see Popeye :smileyhea but while I'm in a complaining mode:

I love my lodger she's a very nice woman, we've known her for years, been on holiday with her and she is coming to SA on Saturday with me and the 3 of us are travelling for 2 weeks
But I'm not very good at living with other people. Took me a while to get used to Popeye and I adjusted some bits and he accomodated some of my eccentricities.

But she has a way of raising an eyebrow at my DFW ways......

• we met in the street the other day and returned to the house with every light ablaze :eek: (It did look lovely and welcoming by the way ) she said "oops" and I said it was nice to have the outside light on when you return in the dark, that the hall light was the meanest of mean lights but I would have turned the other lights off. (was that tactful of me - I'm hoping it was )
• Last night we talked about eating the contents of the fridge before we go, so she helpfully started going through the contents and she and I differ in our approach to "best before" dates :rotfl: She wanted to chuck SO much, I manage to rescue the humous. It was within date, but "had been open for more than two days" (I'm having it for brekkie ) But I lost the dips she'd bought, some of which were growing fur (if I liked them I bet I'd have removed the fur ) I shan't tell her the dates in the Date Cake were best before Jan 08
• The Shower, she gets up one hour before me, and sometimes I hear her. I think she may have had a slow-to-warm-up shower in a previous home. The other morning she started the shower off, and then went to her room, came back, chatted to the cat (traitor!) and finally went back into the bathroom, the shower having been running hot water down the drain for the duration :eek: :eek: -this one is beyond me I would never have been so wasteful even in my profligate days.

Last night she told me that she'd just had a windfall, and she'd entrusted it to her brother to safeguard as she just frittered money. I suspect that after a few months of OliveOyls School of Correction she'll have absorbed some DFW ways :rotfl: :rotfl:

And maybe I'll grow into a more tolerant person

OliveOyl_2

mumoftwins wrote: »

Morning all ,

Sorry about the mess up with the CC companies Olive, I'm delighted that I don't have a CC anymore as they are such a nightmare to deal with when you have a problem aren't they?

Woke through the night in such agony with my hip, its driving me mad :mad::mad:
Got up at 5.30am to see all the snow again - guess schools will closed again then eh? Never mind but will make sure that the twins use their time off wisely and clean and tidy their bedrooms as they look like the rooms have been burgled :eek::eek: and Fliss' chest of drawers has a white layer on top of it which looks like a sprinkling of snow but is in fact..............DUST :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:.

Rang NHS Head Office yesterday they are still waiting for my CRB check to come back so looks work won't start for another 3-4 weeks.

Olive, let me know if I can help with a lift to H/row or in any other way, won't you?

Have a good day all, stay warm and cosy xxx

Sorry about your hip MoT, wish there was a way to magic the pain away, it's exhausting. ((((())))) or even the dodgy :grouphug:

We cleared DS2's room at the weekend :eek: :eek: to the dust under the bits of furniture. :rotfl: I've suggested he becomes minimalist, and then he'd be able to move around and clean more easily.

And thanks for the offer. I hope we won't have to take you up on it

mumoftwins

OliveOyl wrote: »

Sorry about your hip MoT, wish there was a way to magic the pain away, it's exhausting. ((((())))) or even the dodgy :grouphug:

We cleared DS2's room at the weekend :eek: :eek: to the dust under the bits of furniture. :rotfl: I've suggested he becomes minimalist, and then he'd be able to move around and clean more easily.

And thanks for the offer. I hope we won't have to take you up on it

Thanks Olive, it is exhausting thats for sure!

Twins are off school again and have been sent to their bedrooms to clear each bomb site :eek: will be lovely later when I can walk around their rooms, so I totally understand what you mean Olive :rotfl::rotfl:

Ampersand, how did your facial and 'concert' go yesterday? Are housebound today like me? Jayne is trying to get to me but the buses aren't running properly at the moment - she wants to orgainise her finances as she's getting in a pickle with who to pay and when .

Spoke to my sister who lives in Rutland earlier, she and her OH are 'working' from home today - she was actually lying in bed (fully dressed :rotfl:) reading a book - and not one to do with work either :D:D

ampersand

First, dear Olive - I will go beyond saying 'I suspect..re:living with a.n.other and say I'm CERTAIN you voice what many of us sense or know.
mot and I spoke of it over the weekend.
The facial(first in my Life) was a freebie, resulting from having superificality of Officially Ancient Person hair coloured cheaply(still enough)by local College students.
As for the Gig(last concert was seeing Queen at the NEC, circa 1980? - oh the glorious Freddie.......), I'm v.glad I went and was able to offer spare tkt to young guy next to me in queue. He couldn't believe it and was very sweet, also knowledgable and unembarrassed enough to wish to stay with me throughout. Think he felt protective. With another young guy, whose coat I was minding while he took off to hurtle around down the front(and came back glowing when he caught Matt Skiba's plectrum to keep)it really was a whole new experience for moi and I apparently gained further Brownie pts when I spoke of other groups in relation to the support groups. Both were great company and I kept feeling amazed that they included me in their mutual fan talk/enthusiasm/questions/knowledge. Tkt boy regrets he was born too late for the music he loved via his Mum(age55) and Dad's(age59)era; mine, too, of course. Texted A, let some of it go through 'phone to him, took pics, but no t-shirt bought.
Shall attempt to leave again today for lunchtime talk at Kettle's Yard - Hans Richter.
Woke to more post-midnight snow and there's some feebly falling now - no matter.
Fiddled some time away yesterday in old Uni haunts viz. the pawnshop, where I've sometimes had some nice bits and pieces - their Long Time No See greeting astonished me, but semed genuine and felt lovely.
Was looking as we chatted/caught up and saw a ring with, possibly, my initial on it - hard to discern for sure.
But it had some age, was probably plate on early monkey metal and had no price.
I asked - was it on old Britannia metal? He said it was gold, which I doubted. He looked again, said 'blimey', tested it and said 'You're right - it shouldn't be there. Take it as a present!'
They're people I always enjoy dropping in on, even if-in this case-it turns out to have last been 18 mths ago.
Being away so long chez A has skewed the last year.

It's on my finger now and, against all my usual prejudices, I like it, very much, especially the odd engraving. Losing precious irreplacable things when bag was stolen(included jewellery from my late R) still hurts/scars. But yesterday's sort of happy happenstance works into the round and Makes Nice, in the Marge Piercy light.

People and chance and Life can be interesting and good - and that's not only simplistic, but pukeworthy, I suppose.

:j 2 days, oo:j - and may all be settled in the sandpit/bearpit by the time you return:D

ampersand

Mini hijack fao:mot, please Olive - there is a Poundland where Uni Bookshop used to be in Grafton Centre(now there's a punchy juxtaposition Essay topic!)and I bought the 100gm Red Mountain coffee for said £1. Didn't dare while time away down back where I was told garden things linger. Another - post-buspass - day.....

mumoftwins

ampersand wrote: »

Mini hijack fao:mot, please Olive - there is a Poundland where Uni Bookshop used to be in Grafton Centre(now there's a punchy juxtaposition Essay topic!)and I bought the 100gm Red Mountain coffee for said £1. Didn't dare while time away down back where I was told garden things linger. Another - post-buspass - day.....

Yaaaay :j well done A!!!! Did you buy the lovely creamy Johnsons shower cream?

ampersand

No.... am still well-stocked for smellies from OD.
BUT, Mr T now has the 200gm jars of Redmountain for £2 anyway, which is the same. However, the smaller jars are more useful for some preserves.
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Feel free to join in on your own Thread, Olive:rolleyes: - think I've finished now.:D

Mind you, we'll probably chat away during your absence, although we'll expect SOME missives from afar.