Financial faux pas and other disasterous decisions

Dex

Hi Moo2Moo,

I don't think I've posted before, but I subscribe to your diary and read it religiously, you have me in fits of laughter (which is always difficult to explain sitting in a office:rolleyes:)

Just wanted to say am sorry to hear the news about your friend and give you a dodgy hug :grouphug:

Take Care

Dex

moo2moo

Morning Dex and everyone else! Nice to read I'm not waffling away to myself, although I wouldn't care if I was. Diary writing is quite a nice way of getting things off my chest without exploding and giving myself a kick up the bum as required. Sometimes writing things down makes me feel vaguely guilty for not doing them, mostly I just think aw !!!!!!!! it'll keep until tomorrow.

Once again male logic completely defies belief. OHs daily workload is rapidly diminishing, they're losing more and more contracts, we're expecting him to be outsourced to alternative and random sites within Europe at any moment and so yesterdays news of a 3.25% company wide payrise came as a bit of a shocker. Not that I'm complaining. Its a very strange industry though. At the same time BA has announced 5000 redundancies, told those pilots not being made redundant that they'll have to agree to a £15000 a year pay cut and asked all non-redundant employees to work for a month without pay.

Hot weather is playing havoc with my appetite. Other than cereals, a packet of crisps and a pizza I've pretty much not eaten over the past couple of days, really can't face anything much. The weight loss is already very noticable which really isn't good. Off to buy calorie laden frozen cheesecake today to see if that helps before the OH has a dicky fit. Its taken me 6 years to get from the emaciated 8 stone size 6 I ended up post pukey pregnacy and breast feeding of the baby elephant masquerading as DD2 to a much more robust almost 10 stone size 10.

mooomin

Hey Moo,

Just wanted to pop in and say hiya

I'm very sorry to hear about your friend

beanielou

Wish I had your problem wth my weight (& thats not make light of it BTW).

moo2moo

Teachers are all in mega declutter mode. All bins are now full with 5 days to go until they're emptied again. Being a good girl (and wanting an excuse to be outdoors in the breeze) I donned my marigolds and sorted the contents into the various recycling bins and those with E-bayable potential including 50 or so sealed maths books perfect for homeschoolers which retail for £3 each also came across a whole heap of M&S summer school dresses which will fit the DDs next summer. One of the cleaners left with a huge bag of clothes for her grandson too. Happy days. Just need to wash the clothes and do lots of flea bay listings. Seems ridiculous to have just turfed it all in the bin though. Had the teachers given it some thought the books could have been rehomed to another school with very little effort. Still I'm not complaining.

Have booked to go to Chirk Castle in September for a Ladies Day - I'm a lady (said in a very camp voice in the style of David Walliams from Little Britain) for the day. £35 including lunch, afternoon tea (cucumber sandwiches and fondant fancies anyone), clay pigeon shooting, bird of prey flying, airgunning, gun dog demonstrations and goodie bags - will be most interested to see whats in a goodie bag for loaded ladies what shoot. DD2 thinks it'll be a dead rabbit to cook for dinner. DD1s hoping for a sticker or a badge or even both. OH reckons it'll be lots of leaflets on joining the BASC and as many out of date hunting magazines as they can find. Owl droppings aren't out of the question either. Although as a useless fact of the day owls don't do droppings instead they regurgitate so dried owl puke it is.

Should have been at school for a 6:45 start this morning as the cricket team are off to the semi-finals in deepest darkest Aber- something or other. Fortunately the Head volunteered to open up so he can get lots of paperwork done in peace.

Going to an impromptu BBQ tomorrow, need to whip up potato salad for 40 between now and then which means a trip to civilisation, probably with the OH in tow as hes working 3 on 5 off for the remainder of the month. Hopefully he'll find something useful to do with his extra time at home. So far hes put a different set of wheels on the Landrover with the MOT raising it a further 3" from the floor. Helpfully I've been warned that its now lurches into corners at 30mph and feels a bit like its going to roll. Great!

skipton

Hi Moo2moo

If your dad can get over to Huddersfield, The Samaritans are having a book sale on Saturday 24th July.

Intergalactic_Floozie

moo2moo wrote: »

Going to an impromptu BBQ tomorrow, need to whip up potato salad for 40 between now and then which means a trip to civilisation, probably with the OH in tow as hes working 3 on 5 off for the remainder of the month. !

Did you get back in one piece. Did you encounter many people you didn't know? LOL

moo2moo

Skipton - thanks for the book sale details. I wouldn't trust my dad to choose books specifically for me though. I'd end up with Dennis Wheatly, Mills and Boons and lots of self help books (his wife is forever giving me them for Christmas) far better to read his cast offs which are at least interesting although mostly biographies he does surprises me with the odd graphically detailed book about the exploits of ladies of the night.

Floozie - BBQ postponed until today due to thunderstorm. Theres only so much space in their stable block to shelter, equally there are far too many of the local farmers who would cop a feel in the semi-dark regardless of whether their wives or our OHs are around.

DD1 went to bed exhausted at midnight for the second time last night. OH promised to take her hunting if she went to sleep at 6pm. Amazingly she did. Not sure what she was expecting but it wasn't what she got. I get the impression she was anticipating driving up to the fields. Climbing out of car, shooting nearest rabbit in daylight at 15m and returning home some 20 minutes later with a pot load. Her evening didn't go quite like that. Firstly she wasn't allowed to take her rifle in case she shot her dad, a sheep or a late night pub-goer on the footpath by accident. Then they didn't leave until 9:30 at dusk. It was pitch black at midnight some 5 mile hike later and they shot nothing, mostly due to the amount of noise a small child being really really really quiet makes. OH said she spotted a rabbit and then boomed out across the valley "Daddy daddy its over there" even the dozing sheep did a runner.

I made good use of the peace by plonking DD2 in front of the laptop with headphones and allowing her to watch Horrible Histories whislt i settled into a mega flea bay listing session. Took photos of almost everything thats dummped in the to flea bay pile but only got round to listing 6 lots, mostly because I wrote long and detailed descriptions. Still it paid off. One of them had a bid 20 minutes later. Now the piccies are done I really don't have an excuse for not listing things.

Plan for today:

• Cook 5kg of spuds and miraculously transform into spud salad for 40
• Visit cash point and hope it feels I'm worthy of £20
• Take DDs to riding lessons and part with the £20
• Clean out 3 hen houses and a chincilla cage
• List more tat on flea bay before the DDs emerge from their pits
• Do lots of laundry
• Attend BBQ trying v. hard not to be groped by letchy elderly farmers

moo2moo

Scuppered by flea bay. They want 10p to list PS1 games and then they enforce free P&P. Thats 20 less items to list. I'll either wait an eternity for a free listings day or stick them on as an eclectic job lot for monkey nuts. Still I'm up to a whopping 9 items now. Its just sooooo dull.

moo2moo

Made it home from Saturdays BBQ shortly before 1am yesterday morning. The DDs were fabulously behaved. Darkness put a stop to the trampolining marathon shortly before 11pm after which all the children headed indoors to watch Madagascar 2. That finished and they announced it was time for bed. Unfortunately DD2 was wide awake again at 9am. We had a great time. Highlight of the evening being the attempts of three relatively unfit generously proportioned alcholically enhanced 50+ ladies attempting to climb up a ladder and through a net enclosure onto a trampoline. Once they'd finally managed this... after 5 minutes of giggling, a lot of pushing, even more pulling and the assistance of two unsuspecting OHs.... one could only lie giggling on the mat, another tried a tentative bounce and then the splits (cue ripping of posh party frock with insufficient space for walking let alone trampolining) and the third was heard to mutter about Tena Ladys limitations (free samples are a perk of her job). Fellas were treated to flashes of underwear - not the thongs and matching panties they all hope girlies wear under such outfits but full blown sucky belly and bum in knee length body suits. I'm already looking forward to next years bash.

Dispatched OH and DDs to retrieve our garden furniture from the farm yesterday morning which gave me two hours of peace to do lots of tidying and even more laundry. Spent the afternoon making gingerbread men with the DDs and somehow never managed to make it out of PJs all day.

OH goes back to work tomorrow for 3 days. Have booked a lazy mystery shop for tomorrow morning. £3 for sending an e-mail and forwarding the response. The rest are all stupid ones which I won't be doing because they waste other peoples time. I imagine Job Centre employees are stressed enough at the mo. with the sheer number of people requiring their help without the added hassle of secret shoppers pretending to be hard of hearing.