Taking my finger off the self-destruct button

startagain_2

It sounds to me like the astrologer is covering all eventualities.... Working hard, shop girl?

SA

Horace

Hi all

Just popped in to say hi really. Today, is the first time I have been able to access MSE for 2 days..dunno why but it would take for ever to load the page so I tended to give up.

Work is now manic - there are not enough hours in the day, I have a new breakfast group launching soon (a second one) and now I have venues asking that I meet with them because they too want me to run events at their premises. Soon, I won't have time for my 8hr a week job.

Yesterday time was spent setting up an online shop so that folks can pay in advance for breakfast - this is so much easier than scrabbling around with cash. Today, I need to code up the other pages so that the shop displays correctly..grief, I am sounding like a computer expert when I am not really, I am just copying and pasting some code.

I have a nice new neighbour (I think she said her name was Dolores or Doris?) she sounds Spanish but I think she is English as she has spent time in Spain and she is moving back to the UK and living next to me until the tenant moves out of their home in Halesowen. I had to show her where the immersion heater was.

As usual I am working like the clappers - my new business is taking off and there just aren't enough hours in the day. I managed to bash my leg the other night which knocked me a bit sick because I managed to catch the bit where I had my procedure_pale_ best crack on I guess, I have blogs to write and coding to do.

Despite the warmth, the sky seems to be seeping with drizzle.

Wordsmith

I am working hard, SA. There is all sorts of excitement here today. The milk fridge broke down and the man has just been to fix it. Now I am going to move the milk back out of the Coke fridge and then stock up the Coke fridge again. The bread man has been for his money. The other bread man is due any time now. Sometimes I wonder how I can contain the excitement.

There have been a lot of customers, but this afternoon is likely to be fairly quiet as there is a big (BIG) wedding in the next village, but the people who are getting married live in this village as do a number of their families. Apparently there are 360 guests to a sit-down reception (my mind is reeling at how much this is going to cost) and then about another 300 to the evening do. I am not much of a romantic, and I can't help thinking how the money for all this could be better spent, especially since the couple have been living together for several years and have a child ... and the groom is widely known to have a girlfriend in town and casual flings on boys' weekends away (but I am gossiping because I don't actually know - I also hope I am right in that they are not likely to ever read this diary _pale_). Rumour also has it that the priest officiating at the wedding thinks it is all ridiculously flamboyant and they may not make it to the first anniversary. I should point out that this last bit of gossip was passed on to us by someone who hadn't received a "summons" (her word) to attend and therefore may not be impartial.

startagain_2

Oh dear,

Increasingly it seems to be a sign of the times that people spend a fortune on the actual "act" of getting married but either don't have the foundations, ingredients or inclination to actually make it work. I know of 2 or 3 couples that got marrried after a long relationship as it seemed to be the next thing to do - all of them failed after a relatively short time. Sometimes relationships go stale and come to a natural end - getting married doesn't neccessarily revive what they once had. My opinion, anyway....
Have you thought about writing a book about the quirks of life in your little village, Wordsmith? It sounds like it has all the makings of being hilarious, and there is something about the Irish way of life that is so naturally humourous - funny without even trying to be, and with your style of writing the two seem to naturally go together.
Is it all day in the shop today.... a real "Open All Hours" isn't it?
Do you have a bicycle with a basket on the front for home deliveries?
What a hoot!
SA

Horace

I had a distant cousin who loved getting married, she always decided a few months down the line that being married wasn't for her so she would get a divorce only to meet some other sucker who proposed - she did this at least 10 times - after the first 2 or 3 marriages the family gave up giving her presents because we figured that it was the present receiving and the flouncy frock that she liked and not the marriage itself.

Irish villages can be strange - not wanting to be rude but the occupants all seem to be related to each other. I feel I can say this because I used to go out with an irishman who was as slippery as an eel, and he seemed to have a lot of relations who would be forever donating furniture and junk - all this stuff seemed to circulate. They also seemed to have a habit of changing their names according to the situation - twerp used to pass himself off as his dad as dad was Patrick Leo and twerp was Leo Matthew - twerp calls himself Matt or Leo - his dad calls himself Leo or Patrick and dependent upon the weather will sign his name on contracts as Leo and no mention of his first name at all. All of them seemed to be a bit dodgy in that respect including the sisters.

I have managed to get rid of some cardboard boxes today (wonders why Mr Porsche Boxster keeps putting plastic cartons in the paper recycling bin? - I am going to bill him for my time because I have had to shift his rubbish into the general waste bin - he has forgotten that the green bin that he filled up with plastic bags and food has been taken away so we have nowhere for glass bottles, plastic bottles and batteries). I think I will fill that bin.:rotfl:

I was working last night until nearly 9pm - I was having so much fun - I wasnt writing my blogs though but was sorting out the payment system and sorting out mailchimp lists. I learnt two new things yesterday - how to do campaigns on mailchimp and how to sort out the payment system and add recurrent events.:cool:

Wordsmith

startagain wrote: »

Increasingly it seems to be a sign of the times that people spend a fortune on the actual "act" of getting married but either don't have the foundations, ingredients or inclination to actually make it work.

Just in case anyone from my village does read this ... I am not saying the couple in question aren't going to last the distance ...

Favoured friend used to be a chef in a very upmarket venue. Oooh, the stories I heard. On one occasion, the mother of the bride didn't like the colour of the carpet in the extremely large marquee, so she paid to have a new one the right colour put down. :eek: Quite often, between the reception and the evening do there just wasn't time to clean the carpet, so they would lift one, put it in the skip and lay a new one. I just cannot abide this sort of waste.

startagain wrote: »

Is it all day in the shop today.... a real "Open All Hours" isn't it?

Yep. A twelve-hour day on Sundays, too. There have been a few sorry-looking villagers crawling in after getting home at about 4 this morning. Some of our regulars haven't appeared at all yet. It seems like they had a good time (although the "I was so drunk I don't remember much of the evening, therefore I must have had a good time" view of a night out is something I've never understood). The party continues today, with lunch at another hotel. And quite possibly that will spill into the local pubs this evening. Still, sales of Lucozade have risen today. Ah, the Irish certainly know how to do weddings and funerals.

startagain wrote: »

Do you have a bicycle with a basket on the front for home deliveries?

No, but I'm sure if I mentioned it to lovely boss man he would approve the idea. So, I am not going to mention it.

Horace wrote: »

I had a distant cousin who loved getting married ... she did this at least 10 times

Good grief! :eek:

Horace wrote: »

Irish villages can be strange - not wanting to be rude but the occupants all seem to be related to each other.

I couldn't possibly comment.

Kitten-still-with-no-name is still with me. Judging by how annoying he was when I (stupidly, stupidly) let him out of the bathroom at 5.30 this morning, he is feeling better. But he is still very sneezy.

Domestic goddess 2 gave me some home-grown mustard greens this morning. I've never heard of them, but I am looking forward to trying them this evening. You cook them as you would spinach apparently.

Wordsmith

Chap from pub has just been in to buy sandwich-making stuff so he can feed wedding guest people to try to help sober them up before he lets them out.

savingwannabe

Oh Wordsmith I am laughing. I watched Miss Marple (the Joan Hickson Version) - Murder in the Vicarage this morning. It sounds like your village!

Wordsmith

Forgot to say (sorry, I seem to be liking the sound of my own voice today ) noises are that my tenants are still aiming to buy my house but, reading between the lines, they are having a bit of difficulty getting the whole of the deposit together. They say they will be paying it next week, so completion may be in about two weeks' time. Hmmm. We'll see how this pans out.

Wordsmith

savingwannabe wrote: »

I watched Miss Marple (the Joan Hickson Version) - Murder in the Vicarage this morning. It sounds like your village!

Good grief. I am propagating enough rumours without adding murder to the mix. :eek: