The revenge of the stripey socks - a DFW adventure

chevalier

i have had my phone for 8 years fay, so I know how you feel. I am desparate for a new one, mine doesn't even ring.....

mine would have to be in purple though, and I think I would be afraid of losing a new one...
chev

Piquant_2

fayjmck wrote: »

Dearest Hamster

Posh bird :rotfl:rofl. I will leave that one to Piq - (I am assumming she is very classy )

I know its shocking to splash out on something so decadent in these desperate times. I promise to recycle my chip fat in the mower to run it on bio-fuel and will use up the grass clippings old style and feed ourselves as well - cos lets face it there will now be no money for food over the next 3 months.

I know Piq told me NSD's aren't supposed to be followed by a huge spend day - but I forgot I am hoping its balanced out. I might need to go in later and say - OK £50 from this card, £25 from this card - etc until its all paid. I did offer to swap it for a 14 year old boy - but they weren't that interested - lol


Hope you are all good today - about to move some money around to pay for the pimp-mobile - xxxx

Posh bird, hmm not sure....apparently I sound like Joanna Lumley and act like Patsy, even my kids say Patsy must have been based on me :rolleyes:

I do think you should expect hamster any time soon, [STRIKE]to play[/STRIKE] with help you with your lawnmower, I detect a note of envy in his posting:rolleyes:

...and a fat lot of notice you took of my advice about nsds not being followed by a heavy spend:rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

Piquant wrote: »

Posh bird, hmm not sure....apparently I sound like Joanna Lumley and act like Patsy, even my kids say Patsy must have been based on me :rolleyes:

I do think you should expect hamster any time soon, [strike]to play[/strike] with help you with your lawnmower, I detect a note of envy in his posting:rolleyes:

...and a fat lot of notice you took of my advice about nsds not being followed by a heavy spend:rotfl:

Well I like to think I took your advice extremely well. Extreme budgeting - followed by extreme shopping - this is one of those extreme sports they talk about isn't it??

Hamster can come cut the lawn before the party if he likes:D on the bright shiney red beast - it does need a name - will get my thinking cap on. I don't think I own anything red - so it might be difficult.

You sound very glamourous indeed - if I could be anyone it would be Barbara from the good life - especially when she is covered in mud from the garden or soot from cleaning the range.

Chev - A purple mower would have been so much more us - I don't really do red. Poor phone - sounds very lovely if quiet.

hampsterpoo

fayjmck wrote: »

Hamster can come cut the lawn before the party if he likes:D on the bright shiney red beast - it does need a name - will get my thinking cap on. I don't think I own anything red - so it might be difficult.

I dont mind cutting grass , I find it thinikng time ,
its just I have lots & a bumpy lawn and a very small mower :eek: ,
keep meaning to get a larger (wider) one so it doesnt take so long as Im normally out there a good three hours each time:eek: (hence the thiking time).

But they cost , so Im making do till either I get a really good bargin or till Im DF which WILL be this year okay might be dec 31st but it will be this year ,,,,,and then i can get one in the jan sales of 2010 :rotfl:



oh it just as well I never talk about work on here or I could be in trouble like that girl on the news this morning :rolleyes:

Pippilongstocking

The only time I cut our garden grasses (all of them) it took me the almost whole day:eek: although I did stop for lunch and a cup of tea

The red beast (as yet STILL) unnamed - was about half its retail price - so even the guy at the office here (our technician) reckons I got a bargain. And it looks immaculate

I was thinking of calling her something like Bridget or something - but then I can hardly tell my son to 'go and ride Bridget', Take Bridget for a ride' for the afternoon can I?? Its just wrong on so many levels.

Maybe it will just be the BRB (Big red beast).

I am quite excited - you can tell can't you? Lol not much of a shopper for girlie stuff but bits of kit - now you are talking.

Next purchase will probably be a chain saw as I can't keep 'borrowing' the one from work - ahem. They have started to notice:rolleyes:, but it is handy working outdoors and being allowed to borrow things from the farm.

Weekend plans anyone???????

1 Blackadder fest with DS and his chum
2 .....thinking

Piquant_2

fayjmck wrote: »

I was thinking of calling her something like Bridget or something - but then I can hardly tell my son to 'go and ride Bridget', Take Bridget for a ride' for the afternoon can I?? Its just wrong on so many levels.

Maybe it will just be the BRB (Big red beast).

I am quite excited - you can tell can't you? Lol not much of a shopper for girlie stuff but bits of kit - now you are talking.

Next purchase will probably be a chain saw as I can't keep 'borrowing' the one from work - ahem. They have started to notice:rolleyes:, but it is handy working outdoors and being allowed to borrow things from the farm.

Weekend plans anyone???????

1 Blackadder fest with DS and his chum
2 .....thinking

'go and ride Bridget', Take Bridget for a ride' for the afternoon can I?? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I suppose not....

Fay, are you sure about the chain saw, I don't like the thought of you with one and a large freezer....wasn't there a film with a plot a bit like that? The Shining Halloween on Friday 13th or something???

Pippilongstocking

Piq - why would I keep my logs in the freezer???????????

I have a certificate, and the nifty safety gear and everything - for the chainsaw not for being a mass murderer.

Problem is difficult to find pixie sized chainsaws around - think they get called electric carving knives??

Piquant_2

fayjmck wrote: »

Piq - why would I keep my logs in the freezer???????????

I have a certificate, and the nifty safety gear and everything - for the chainsaw not for being a mass murderer.

Problem is difficult to find pixie sized chainsaws around - think they get called electric carving knives??

That's started me laughing, in spendid isolation at my desk, folks will think I've lost it :rotfl:The thought of a pixie chainsaw....aka a carving knife, dear me you no longer seem very lethal....

I'm sure you have a certificate....just didn't realise you had another one for the chainsaw:rotfl:

Fay, you make me laugh so much!

Pippilongstocking

I have lots of certificates Piq - sometimes they even let me keep them!!

I was also once nearly a certified accountant - or was it chartered - can't remember, I preferred the idea of running away to a remote scottish island instead and escaped the rat race. Much to the disdain of my chums - and married Pie-O (the man who ate all the pies - my ex hubby).

How very silly of me indeed - I desperately wanted to be a tax specialist or a lawyer - the foolish young dreamer that I was.

Instead now I can drive a tractor - much more satisfying for me I guess - and before you ask - yes I normally need a ladder to get into the tractor and a cushion when I want to drive - but no indiana style blocks on my feet - the seat moves up sufficiently.

Back to fuel poverty on the islands .........must get finished .........meeting Nutthead in the library at 5pm.

Kittikins

I wanted to be a lawyer too years ago, even did most of the postgrad conversion degree, but ended up not finishing. Oh well, wouldn't have the lovely life I do now if I was a high-flying lawyer, lol

Laughing out loud at the thought of a purple pixie wielding an electric carving knife....My daughter has a cuddly dog called "Prize Winning Pup" because I won doggie for her at a fair (not sure why prize winning rather than prized, but hey, when you're 3 things have a different meaning), so I think BRB for the lawnermower sounds perfectly reasonable to me!

Down here we had a gorgeously sunny day, had a picnic in the garden with DD and neighbours and spent the afternoon outside. Ex turned up VERY late (as per blooming usual but irritating every flipping time) to see DD and I went out to a leaving do at work, now have invite to Prague any time I like

UNIX - hope you got on okay today with your appointments xx

Hope it was sunny for everyone today, gorgeous day down here, more of the same please!!