Financial faux pas and other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

My parenting skills obviously need some polishing. A bleary eyed DD1 has just emerged wearing yesterdays jodphurs. Had completely forgotten that she'd flaked out on top of her bed when she was sent to find her PJs. I covered her with a blanket assuming she'd wake up hungry at some point. Oops.

lucielle

At least they had a fantastic time and have made happy memories.
L

Intergalactic_Floozie

...and www.readitswapit.co.uk for those that you can't get rid of!

moo2moo

Tis another gloroiusly sunny day - perhaps summer has finally arrived!

Have almost finished the first coat of my marathon corridor paint using a mere 15 litres of the stuff. It looks fabulous from the perspective of a 3 foot tall person with a carpet fixation. Anyone taller will notice the vaguely more obvious mistake. I couldn't reach the ceiling at the far end of the corridor even from the highest rung of the tallest steps so for the moment theres a 6 inch wobbly patch round the top of the walls which increases to 12" where the benches are. Hopefully the boss will show his face at some point this morning and can be persuaded to hold the bottom of the ladders if not it'll annoy me until the next holidays. It does look a whole lot more cheerful though in a very sun shiney yellow rather than the grotty pale institutional green and dodgy pink that was there before.

Only working till lunchtime today. DD1 is spending the afternoon with OH at the shooting school attempting to zero her scope *again*. DD2 is having quality mummy time. Mr Ts here we come. OH was very helpful yesterday and shopped on his way home. Unfortunately the shopping list was in shorthand. Dog meat meant sliced meat for giving dog medicine. OH purchased 24 cans of dog food taking the household stock to something approaching 40 cans. Ended up giving her OHs pate on toast with this morning medicine.

miemie

Moo lucky you having sunshine, i'm in lancashire and it looks like we are on our 2nd day of rain.

Hope the dog enjoyed the pate:D,

moo2moo

Some people. *Aaagh* Feedback from one of last weeks E-bay sales reads "looks more worn than appears in photo". Ok. I can live with that. But why a week later would the same person bid on two more sets of identical things from me and all at 99p which incidently was what he paid for the previous 6 books. Even with postage he paid less than 50p each. They'd have cost more in a charity shop.

Rant over.

Half the E-bay tat sold for roughly £25 profit after fees. A stealth e-mail from Green Metropolis snuck into my in box too so thats another £3 book sale. The stuff I listed with them in January is finally starting to creep to the surface.

Promised DD2 we'd do something fun this afternoon so we're off to the post office *yipee* en route to visit her friend. Going to swap the washing on the line over next.

*Waves* to the Lancashire Lurkers.

miemie

Regarding ebay i've come to the conclusion that some people are not happy unless they are complaining, but your right don't understand why they would then bid again.

moo2moo

Still waiting for one of yesterdays E-bay purchases to be paid. The rest were parcelled up and posted yesterday. DD2 cycled to the post box with the first lot wedged in her dolly carrier and I posted the second lot when I posted the dog last night. Still have 70 first class stamps to use up though.

Didn't get to see DD2 friend yesterday as they didn't answer the phone when we called. They're half an hour away so it pays to check first. Didn't go to the supermarket either, really couldn't be arsed. Actually that sums up yesterday. A couldn't be arsed day.

Plan for today:

• Turn the kitchen into a scene worthy of a domestic godess rather than its current post major disaster appearance.
• Persuade DD2 that it is not warm enough to spend the day naked no matter what.
• Venture forth into civilisation and shop till I drop or until theres no further space in the trolley. Whichever comes first. I'm thinking 6kg of pasta for £3 from Asda and 24 loo rolls will speed the whole process up.
• List yet more tat on flea bay
• Check Music Magpie to see if they now want the stuff they didn't want last time I tried to offload tat One carrier bag full of dusty CDs and games sold for a rather pathetic £8.02. Still its way easier than trying to get to the charity shop.
• Laundry, laundry and more laundry - oh deep deep joy!
• Vacuum the only carpet downstairs which incidently has enough crumbs to feed a family of mice for a decade

moo2moo

Plans for the day went out the window when OH arrived home unexpectedly at 10am having run out of things to do. We're going to play tourist in Ruthin instead. Far more fun!

moo2moo

Yesterday ended up being a very spendy day indeedy. 2 handmade leather bookmarks with pictures of horses and a replacement leater key clip for OH saw a tenner disappear befor we'd even made the centre of Ruthin, a welsh card for a wedding in October and two ice creams took the afternoons spend to just under £15. Took DD1 to Valley Arms for a quick browse where the owner gave her a free magazine which kept her quiet for the remainder of the day. Popped into the mini Mr Ts which had next to no value range but instead was packed with premium priced genuine Welsh produce aimed at the tourist market. Stuck rigidly to the shoping list. Unfortunately DD2 came armed with a pen and was constantly adding items to the bottom of it. Even so it scraped in at £51.70 which included four bargaintastic energy saving lightbulbs at 2p each.

Got home to a free copy of Olive magazine but really wish I hadn't bothered reading it. Apparently wood pigeon is best served with the entrails in. Lovely.

Today started unbelievably early when I was rudely awakened at 6:30am by a ringing phone. Apparently the water pressure at 4:30am was rather low and OHs power shower was more of a hot drip. Aw well. Back to normal now.

Its fabulously sunny again making it the perfect morning to do all the laundry that I didn't get around to yesterday. Vaguely considering torturing myself with a mini E-bay listing session just to get rid of the box of tat thats sitting by the PC.

Must remember to slap sun cream on the brats before they go riding otherwise DD2 will glow in the dark.