Olive Oyls 12-month Countdown

boredofbeingathome

Don't know what to say Olive, except puts extra straw in bottle for sharing thereof. x

OliveOyl_2

Thanks for all your kind words, and I hope that was a magnum or whatever a big one is Hypno, cos here are a couple of dozen straws

On Saturday we had a 24 hour power cut :mad:
It went off again on Sunday :mad::mad:
And again 8am Monday morning :mad::mad::mad:
And 7am this morning :mad::mad::mad::mad:

I laboriously (sp?) dial the 0800 number from a telephone with a wheel on the front, cannot press appropriate numbers but eventually get a recorded message saying "we KNOW there is a power cut in your area and our engineers ARE dealing with it, we WILL restore power as soon as we can"

And I'm wondering if we can withhold payment and say "we know you haven't been paid, we ARE looking into it, and you WILL be paid when we have sorted it" ? :think:

edited to add: the power cut should explain why I have rudely ignored your kind replies until now

OliveOyl_2

As for meeting up MoT - bring it ON! :beer:

However I have 3 rehearsals a week at the moment (My directorial debut with this group ) and curtain up in 10 days time :eek:

OliveOyl_2

Karmacat wrote: »

Angst. Know it well - and sympathise in the extreme, espec for poor DD, hope she's turned a corner.

she's on anti depressants, and refusing to see a psychiatrist as she "feels fine now"
I worry that the feeling fine is down to the tablets, and hasn't dealt with the underlying cause, Popeye said she should avoid seeing a psychiatrist if she can manage without, as that will be with her for the rest of her life "Have you ever....."

We've talked a lot, she and me. I heartily hope that I'm a help to her recovery, and not a hindrance, (if you really knew me, you would understand how irritating I can be :rotfl:)

OliveOyl_2

For the 5th day in a row we have powercuts :mad::mad: this time at 7.10 am, before I could get in the shower :mad:

On the other hand, when I got home last night EDF had written to each occupier in the street asking for details of the person to whom the £50 cheque should be made payable :j (No Prejudice :rotfl:)

No explanation of why we lost power for 24 hours on Saturday, 2 power cuts of a few hours on Sunday and Monday, a power cut yesterday morning and again today

Excess on my freezer contents insurance is £100 :eek::eek: Maximum payout for my size of freezer £1,500 :rotfl: But How do I value nearly 40 pots of home made stock? HM "mystery soup"? and HM ready meals?
On the other hand, we're having the 800g Langoustines for supper tonight which I got dead cheap in Lidl, but would elsewhere have been valuable. They'll have no idea of the bargains I've just lost/had to eat but they will value them at Sainsburys full price.

shaun40400

hi oo
glad to see your just breezing through life's little trials:rolleyes:

did i not remember you saying you'd ordered freezer packs from harrods and marks and Spencer :o

OliveOyl_2

shaun40400 wrote: »

hi oo
glad to see your just breezing through life's little trials:rolleyes:

did i not remember you saying you'd ordered freezer packs from harrods and marks and Spencer :o

:rotfl::rotfl:
Actually there IS m&S stuff in there! But that's because lodger works for them and the staff shop is ACE
But I think I may have received a lobster for my birthday from Fortnums and Masons :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

shaun40400

and dont for get the 3kgs of beluga caviare i sent you from Lithuania in January,

OliveOyl_2

Bleurgh I HATE caviar :rotfl:
(that's probably why it's lurking in the depths of the freezer :think:)

OliveOyl_2

Interesting (and honest!) list of freezer contents done.

And it has made for interesting meals this week:
Curry from some very nice steak for breakfast this morning :rotfl: