The revenge of the stripey socks - a DFW adventure

Lemon_Tree

we're going to have a lovely huge house in the suffolk countryside, with a wrap around porch (double glazed of course), and an attic with huge windows so i can scrapbook up there in bright clear light. All the windows will be huge and let in loads of light and we will have a lovely library for all my books. Of course this is a complete dream so you can also expect there to be an indoor swimming pool and a maid and finally we WILL have sausage dogs.

makeup

EH - you managed to guilt trip me into cleaning the bathroom!!! I read your post and it reminded me of all the cleaning I should be doing. I turned off Flylady for my hols in March and haven't turned back on and the flat I live in, is a complete tip!

So I thought I would clean the bathroom before I settled down to movie-fest!

LT - hope you feel better soon, that sounds really horrible. I've had problems with dizziness before and it is very disconcerting indeed.

I'm totally with you on the unrealistic dreams. I'd love a big house with a pool and a library! I had a friend who lived in LA and they had the most gorgeous house but they weren't precious with it. They had a fabulous garden with a patio covered with an arbour with a big table for eating outside. That was next to the massive BBQ then you went further down the garden and they had a pool with a waterfall and a hot-tub and it was surrounded with decking for sunbathing. The house was lovely too and as you went in had a massive hall with stairs going up and at Christmas it looked amazing with a huge Xmas tree in the hall...... I'd love a house like that! (at present in a flat-share so have my own room - quite big and then share bathroom and kitchen......but I do have use of the garden for hanging clothes to dry and lying in the sun reading books)

My more realistic dreams are a nice 2-bed flat with a balcony...and that is what my savings are working towards.

lucielle

Whilst we are on the dream house theme, I think we would want a small holding plus pool and cleaner.
L

Lemon_Tree

oh i'd also like a cottage kitchen garden, walled of course.
these dreams aren't good for morale are they? we're lucky really that our one bed flat is a fair size and we have front and back gardens, with patio doors out onto the backgarden. And we now have 4 lovely dining room chairs. lol

jo1972

Morning Fay, where you at girl?

Lemontree, just reading about your dizziness, I've also got that and was diagnosed with Benign Positional Vertigo a couple of weeks ago, still not gone so now on the second lot of tablets (stemetil) and gonna be referred to an ENT specialist if it doesn't clear up in a week or two. Its horrible isnt it? Especially as you look normal and so people don't realise you're not feeling well and everyone seems to think you should carry on as normal (or is that just me?). I've been going to work, but find that that makes me worse as enclosed spaces make me really dizzy, think I'm going to take the day off tomorrow, get my eyes tested just incase that's causing it and spend the rest of the day in the garden as I don't have a problem when I'm outside without anything restricting my view iykwim

ETA: just to say, I'm not intending to take the day off to skive in the garden, Fay will back me up here, gardening is...ummmm....not really my forte :rotfl: so it's more of a punishment, but I don't get dizzy out there!!


Sorry, back to Fay.....how's the siblings doing

xx

Pippilongstocking

Hello all

I'd like to say I have been working but I have been fending siblings what is it about men and thier ability to try and monopolise your time??????


Jo garden indeed is the best place for you think of it as therapy rather than torture though eh??

Dream house

ohhhhh

Beach at bottom of garden
Walled garden
Huge long conservatory, type tiing on side of house
Enough rooms to have lots of folks to stay


Waves to you all - trying to wrok meeting only sufficed to give me mroe work to do in an impossible timescale - hey ho - everything due in on the 15th

However, to add ot my lovely lovely carefree and oodles of time life it got complicated this week when my youngest sibling who turned up out of the blue at 48 hours notice for 10 days - without telling his partner he was coming (who is now in a state) is here - looking for work expecting to be driven everywhere - fed, nutured and to bond iwth me and my family. We last spent any time together 25 years ago when I was 16. His partners got a lovely new job and he's struggling to find work - hes acting in my opinion like a complete bratt. He's decided hes having a mid life crisis now. Oh boy get a grip.

Have I told him that - um I think the phrase I used was something along the lines of his turning up without letting his partner know, leaving her completely beside herself and just arriving with no money etc expecting for us to fix him thank you very much

'I have no idea how anyone can be so utterly thoughtless, self centred and selfish.'

There was however alot more french in it that that.

Do you think the gods up high are telling me something - ie give up now??

Pippilongstocking

And for some reason he thinks we are rich

Lol if only he knew the extent of my unrichness

lucielle

Tell him then. Give him a list of jobs to do for board and keep. Bread and water at meal times.... you get the picture.

Hope the writing is going well.
L

Pippilongstocking

Waves to L

My other brother is fending him off for me today he's out fishing - and when i mention debt - he just rolls his eyes saying no one is a badly off as they are.

I have put the value spread on the table - and its bread and water for tea - with fish

EssexHebridean

Glad you're OK Fay - although it sounds a little like the end of your tether may have been reached and indeed passed with regards to family/siblings. Am I lucky to be an only child I wonder?!