Financial faux pas and other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Morning all. I'm super bouncy today (despite the sore throat that suggests impending illness) as I've won an entire fiver on the free scratchcards which has allowed me to withdraw my next tenner. Whoop whoop.

Thanks for the DooYoo suggestions. Writing them in Word and pasting them across is rather sensible although dependant upon being able to get PC time in an evening which rarely happens unless OH is away. I could review the vile coke but I have to filli na form to request it adding to their data base and this seems to take a week to do plus theres no guarantee it'll actually happen so I could write a 150+ word review to find I can't use it. Will stick to stuff thats alredy on the site until I get really stuck. Inspiration seems to be coming from the oddest of places at the mo.

OHs laptop induced grumpiness has been explained. When he said my laptops really slow I assumed this meant it took a few minutes to boot but no really slow means after two hours it was still trying to decide whether it was going to do anything at all. Since the hard drive was formatted and everything reinstalled after the last trip hes fairly convinced its a hardware problem which added to the worn out touchpad looks remarkably likely, especially as its coming up eight years old. Hes off to look at netbooks later today between jobs as he has a couple of hours to kill and will be on the doorstep of one of Manchesters biggest PC warehouses. Will be most surprised if he doesn't arrive home with a cheesy grin on his face.

moo2moo

Got ferry tickets sorted but had to fork out £1.80 to the ladies at the Post Office to send the vouchers and our RAC renewel form via the signed for service just in case they get lost.

OH is stuck at work for yet another 15 hour marathon. Still it means I can surf away without complaints that all I ever seem to do is sit on my bum staring at the PC screen. So not true. I get up to make endless mugs of coffee too!

Off to collect the piggy wig this morning. Need to have a huge freezer reshuffle first if I'm to stand any hope at all of getting it all in. The "whilst you're at the Farmers Market" requests look like being more expensive than the pig, fortunately I've been able to point out the lack of space for anything else at all. Will be restrained although not so restrained that I don't sample all the freebies.

moo2moo

Barely lunchtime but I've spent a fortune already. £110.61 to be precise. Still the freezers are both full and OH has a buffalo joint to take to his mothers as promised.

Have munched my way through a pack of Ham & Mustard crisps as research for DooYoo - the things I have to put up with. Now up to 21 reviews despite having one rejected for too much waffle and insufficient detail. Me waffle? Still at least I've learnt from it. Write the review you're going to write and then ramble a bit more to be on the safe side. If you top 200 words they seem to be happy whilst anything under 200 is dubious. Have gone back and added wafle to the reviews already written which is why its 12:30 and I haven't done much with my day yet. Still I'm over 10% of the way there.

mooomin

moo2moo wrote: »

Still the freezers are both full and OH has a buffalo joint

***Stupid question alert***

Actual buffalo?

moo2moo

Yep actual dead Buffalo, theres a specialist buffalo farm about 15 miles away. I was very restrained and avoided goat but had a wee splurge on local venison too.

mooomin

moo2moo wrote: »

Yep actual dead Buffalo, theres a specialist buffalo farm about 15 miles away. I was very restrained and avoided goat but had a wee splurge on local venison.

Om nom nom to venison.

Alligator is good, kangaroo is quite chewy. Zebra is awesome but I'm always disappointed that it's not stripy all the way through :rotfl:

Lunchbreak over in five minutes, should go back to work now

moo2moo

The DDs like crocodile, ostrich and springbok and insist on refering to meats by their proper names so pork becomes dead pig which is priceless in Tesco when they announce very loudly that they'd like dead pigs belly button for dinner. Some poor fella doing in store sausage demonstrations was mortified that they happily ate dolphin, seahorse and elephant sausages without batting an eyelid. Turns out he'd been trying to put the kids off having second and third helpings.

moo2moo

Arrived home to much sqwarking and a neighbouring farmers terrier randomly killing chickens. The aftermath is not pretty. Can't face dinner for a bit. Phoned the farmer and asked that they tether it in future. Fingers crossed they will. Heres hoping the DDs don't notice the absence of Henrietta and friends. Not very likely though.

moo2moo

Morning all. Finally managed an imitation pot poodle at 11pm last night having spent a fun filled evening retrieving traumatised chilckens from their hidey holes. All but two accounted for. Haven't been to check yet but I'm hopingthat we haven't lost anymore overnight due to delayed shock. Farmers wife came round to help us search and has offered to replace the dead hens next spring.

Gloomy news over.

OH did as predicted arrive home with a new gadget. Hes a very happy little boy. F_F I'm not including this in the challenge as OH has purchased it using expenses claiming its a work related purchase which it is in a way. If it stops him watching pay-per-view hotel films at £10 a time then it'll pay for itself rather quickly especially as hes off somewhere else in a couple of weeks for either 5 or 17 days. Once again we're clueless as to exactly when, where or how long.

Other exciting news - tomorrow is a free listing day on Flea-bay - whooo hooooo. Yep its gonna be a dull weekend. DDs have a riding lesson this morning. OH is insiting we all go to the supermarket this afternoon which means hes spotted somthing he daren't purchase without me there in case I go ape and take whatever it is back. Incidently I do this an awful lot. Not because I'm a tightwad (which I am) but because when I say we're running low on washing powder him purchasing a 10 wash box of Ecover is helpful in a £4.50 a box way. Almost as helpful as him buying a huge box of enzyme laden Value washing powder which we can't use thanks to having a septic tank, not that I would use it having tried it once because I'm somewhat of a washing powder snob and like the marginally better than rock bottom budget brands.

DD1 should be shooting tomorrow but the competition has been moved from 5 minutes down the road to somewhere near Southport, about an hour and a half away. Decided its too far to go so we're going to do something else instead, unfortunately most of her plans invole a 72 hour long day and a trip to McDonalds. Bleugh.

moo2moo

Two DooYoo reviews written taking me to 13800 points or 13.8% of the way to target only 174 more to go.

DD2 came home from school with exciting news yesterday, so exciting she forgot to mention it. She was given this weeks Head Teachers award in assembly. Gave her a £2 coin for treats as an award. Thinks shes a bit more excited about the money than the award itself.