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hugs blue_monkey

Also gong to do a to do list:

• Send 2 invoices
• Finish new display
• tidy shop

That's enough, have a head ache so not in the mood to do much til it clears.

blue_monkey_2

Thanks everyone, feeling OK today. I read this about crumbs while I was eating a sandwich though. Ha ha!! I do tend to hoover it but it has always been like this and I really do not like using it but at least I have something to work on.

Last night
Sorted though Invoice and packing notes, ready for putting onto Sage
Had a moan on DT about the NHS (really trying not to get involved in DT these days!!)

Today:
Been to school Parent Council meeting
Stripped beds and done one load of washing and hung it out
Checked bank account online (money in - thank goodness)
Paid a couple of accounts off - one to do now
Sent some emails
Called about laptop, being collected tomorrow
Eating lunch
Have Autism/ADHD Support Group today at 12.30. So nice to have other understanding people to talk to about it face to face. Today is our 'let off steam' day!!
Have had 2 deliveries since so will invoice and pack tonight.

The sun is shining - going to rain again tomorrow so making the most of it.

Does anyone want some housework... my house just seems to collect duct all over. What with people being unable to put anything away after them as well. ARGH!!

Horace

I have an appointment to go and view some rooms at a local hotel (it used to be an old coaching in and 300 years' ago was a courthouse that used to try highwaymen and hang them on the local gibbit). I wish I hadnt decided to do some washing today, as I was getting the washing powder off the shelf in the pantry I knew that something was going to go wrong and so it did, I knocked a new jar of beetroot off the shelf, it must have fallen about 4ft - it didnt break but the screwtop lid popped off and beetroot went everywhere:mad: It splashed up the walls, all over the floor, over me, up the pantry door, all over the washing machine - in true MSE style I spooned up the beetroot, taking off any hairs and plonked it back into the jar and topped the jar up with sarsens:D I reek now of eau d'beetroot:eek:

I am getting to like this wedding business malarky.

blue_monkey_2

LOL Horace, a few years ago my friend was making a pie and her son knocked it off the side while she was in another room. So she did the same as you.... and fed it to her husband that night. He said it tasted really nice.

I guess 'one of those days' must be in the air then. Sorry for sharing it.

Have a nice time today, sounds like fun.

TCM_3

Here's another funny kitchen tale to follow on from H's beetroot trauma.

Last night i was making pasta and a sauce from Jamie Oliver's book the mother in law got me for Christmas and I had the radio turned up full blast and was dancing round the kitchen like a disco diva to Footloose. I was doing a high speed twirl with the frying pan when in skulked Odd George (the cat) looking at me with a most peculiar face. As I shimmied back to the hob - still with frying pan, there was a strange crunching noise under foot. George had brought home a mouse (thankfully dead - well it was when i trod on it) and i had danced over the top of it. As I squealed the frying pan containing the bacon, mushroom and cream sauce got tossed in mid air, hit the light then the fridge, ended up on the cat who proceeded to grin at me and eat it.

I went to the chippy.

Horace

Thank you for sharing TCM - that is funnier than my beetroot escapade. At least I am not the only one to do daft things. I keep looking at the pile of stuff next to me and think that I really must do something about it so I am looking at filing cabinets (a foolscap one) which is much needed and maybe some shelving of some sort - I was promised some by a friend but she is taking for ever to buy a new second hand wardrobe so I can't get my hands on it:mad: Trouble is the money needs to be spent and I hate getting into debt, the plastic has already taken a hammering and it looks as though I might have to shift the contents of two cards over to my 0% virgin one (I never spend on that), or do I dare try and get another card?

starxtrouble

Why not try Freecycle Horace? Theres always filing cabinets being given away on my local one

Horace

Thanks Star but I don't have the means to transport them let alone get them up the stairs to my flat (no lift). The shelving is easy I shall go to my local hardware shop and buy some galvanised ones that can go in sheds plus they will deliver and all I need to do is get my screwdriver out to fix them together.

Hollyberry

I'm sorry for the tales of misfortune here. blue_monkey, I was screwing up my face in fear as you described that crunching noise from the laptop. :eek: What a nightmare!

Horace, I too have done that beetroot boogie. Fortunately the floor tiles didn't crack, which was my main panic. TCM, you spoil that cat...mouse in sauce, huh?

On a more productive front, I have been looking up online the details of all the most suitable B&Bs that are currently up for sale. I have been trying to work out what my likely income is from each of them, offset against the estimated fixed and variable costs. The margins are so different on each of them; it's a real surprise how much variation I am seeing. I know how much "profit" I need to replace my current income, and so far it's looking feasible.

Now all I need is to sell my house. :rolleyes: A friend is coming round tonight to give us a quote to paint the exterior, so here's hoping it's reasonable (and that he has his own scaffolding, which will save us a fortune).

nzmegs

Hello everyone - feeling much more positive today. Did some more of the website re- re- rewrite! I think I might have cracked it now as I haven't heard anything more from her....

Also wrote some DIY stuff. Still have a load more to do tonight tomorrow to meet deadline but confident i will get there and then have friday off in celebration!

Wrote myself a pro/con lists regarding my thoughts on going full time as a writer. The con lists was short but serious - we will have less money.... that is probably the clincher really considering the debt we also have...

However contacted one of my clients to ask what he thought about me providing more articles (if i was to go full time) to test the waters. Hoping to hear back positively.
Yet to speak to hubby as he is working 7 day weeks right now and a little grumpy.

Off to make sausages for tea (well put them under the grill anyway) with yorkshire puds and gravy - yum!