Single and in Debt Part II

lilmissmup

I should really post here more often too as i joined the disappeared....

I am 25 and have two cats so your never too young to be a crazy cat lady.

Lula-Hula

lilmissmup wrote: »

I should really post here more often too as i joined the disappeared....

I am 25 and have two cats so your never too young to be a crazy cat lady.

:rotfl:Thanks hon, that's a big relief as Crazy Cat Lady is my plan B for life - to be honest I think I prefer it to plan A right now .

I am feeling full of virtue in the shape of some homemade allotment soup.
No no, fear not, it does not include a pair of wellies, mud & the old boy on the plot next door. It is made of onions, garlic, leeks, potatoes, carrots & a good grinding of salt & pepper. DD is actually eating it too :eek: although the baguette slathered in buttery stuff is helping.

Lulas Karmic Law is working today, on the way home form the allotment I saw a huge pile of paving slabs & bricks & a notice saying " free slabs, & bricks help yourself ". I threw the car into reverse, backed up over the pavement & started heaving some into the car . When I'd filled the boot, I threw some of the allotment veg into a bag with a note saying " Thank you, I've taken some of your slabs, please have some free allotment veg in return".

I have wanted to create a patio for years but am too poor/tight/busy buying bags, shoes & Pink Elephants .

I also feel that lifting 18 slabs into the car & then out again & then wheeling them up the path to the garden constitutes a good work out, so I too have consumed my soup with some delicious baguette slathered in buttery stuff.

Now just need to gather washing in from the garden, rearrange the airing cupboard, clean up the kitchen, throw DD in the bath & then relaaaaaax with wine ...

laters
xx

yorkshire-lad

Afternoon all,not been on this thread for aaaages!

Hope everyone is well:).

sarahb123_3

Yay to free patios:j:j:j Well done Lula:D Especially for hauling all those slabs in and out of the car. _pale_

Fire_Fox

Lula-Hula are you going to lay the patio yourself? It's actually not that hard, just like tiling a wall but without gravity fighting you. :T If the area isn't going to take heavy traffic you don't need hardcore foundations and can dry lay the slabs.

I have today blown the September grocery challenge. You guys will be proud of me as this was partly due to the purchase of essentials such as wine and wine glasses! Discovered the new glasses are larger than the old ones, not sure if this is a bad thing (they don't match) or a good thing (more room for wine).

Lilmissmup you should definitely post here more, I know it's cheered me up already.

lilmissmup

I don't really drink loads of wine as get major hangovers from it, but bigger glasses does sound good

Lula-Hula

Hmmm have just noticed that I sent a PM about flexi bars to someone called FireFox ... am guessing that's not the same person as Fire Fox . will now have to send another one apologising .

I love your description of laying a patio as being like tiling without having to fight gravity - brilliant :rotfl:.

I have a stupidly large & very uneven garden which is rubbish for growing food in as it's criss crossed by tree roots & backs on to fields with suspiciously large sheep in,& is also regularly sprayed with something . This is why I have the allotment for food. The garden is for playing, hanging washing, having bonfires, attempting to grow flowers, have barbecues & generally enjoy & celebrate nature in. To have less grass to mow would be fab & not to have to keep moving the table & charis around to even the wear on the grass would be even more fab .

Yet another project for me to get on with.

As to wine glasses, big is good :j as long as you remember that we are only meant to have 2 -3 units a night. Much as I love my wine, I love my health & hate hangovers even more so try to be a bit sensible. I really dont like white much & much prefer rose or red & as for a nice Gin & tonic well ... :drool:.

The washing is all in the airing cupboard so now I just need to throw DD in the bath & then do the washing up.

Off again ...

TDQO

Ello. I'm in a youth hostel in Chester atm, am on an industrial tour of UK mines and quarries this week spanning a line from Doncaster down to Bath! Was a mammoth journey up here from Cornwall and I'm pretty sure that I'm the only one NOT drunk in a pub somewhere. I've spent my £10 for today and can't afford any more if I'm going to be able to grab a bottle of wine or cider later in the week.

Hope everything is fab with everyone, hopefully I'll have regular internet access in a couple of weeks and will be bale to get back to regular posting...

Fire_Fox

Lula-Hula wrote: »

Hmmm have just noticed that I sent a PM about flexi bars to someone called FireFox ... am guessing that's not the same person as Fire Fox . will now have to send another one apologising .

I love your description of laying a patio as being like tiling without having to fight gravity - brilliant :rotfl:.

The garden is for playing, hanging washing, having bonfires, attempting to grow flowers, have barbecues & generally enjoy & celebrate nature in. To have less grass to mow would be fab & not to have to keep moving the table & charis around to even the wear on the grass would be even more fab .

Yet another project for me to get on with.

You would have giggled if you'd seen me lay the patio! I was only about 23, newly married with a cottage garden. Got it into my blonde head (redhead now) that I wanted a circular patio which of course we couldn't afford. So I snuck off to the garden centre and ordered the tiles, then booked a week off work: ex-hubby went nuts. :eek:

Out I went on the first day and had that sinking 'oh sh*t' feeling when you know you have bitten off more than you can chew. Ex-hubby nearly died laughing when he came home from work to find me mixing sand and cement in our plastic washing up bowl with a trowel and not on the floor with a shovel. :rotfl:

Send me another PM about the Flexi-bars, I have cleared some space in my in-box.

makeup

OMG, I am feeling soooo sick.

I rang my parents which was such an emotional thing as they've been so good in the past at helping me out with my madcap schemes and have been soo supportive.

They rang me 5 mins later to say it was ok! :j:j

Here is a link to it dream house

I'm so panicked that it is a big mistake but I haven't actually signed anything or that so I've still time to make certain it is right.

My only concern is that the transport links aren't as good as where I live now (and if it was here I wouldn't be able to afford it....)

Also I would have to severly curtail my social life...but then I'm fed up of living in one room and not having my own space and so that has to be worth something.....

I'm definitely gonna need to be good at the MSE lark if this works out as I'll not have much disposable income.

I can't believe this is happening but of course there are a lot of hurdles to jump over first and I may not get it so I thinnk I'm gonna need some virtual hand-holding over the next few weeks / months.....