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  • Wordsmith
    Wordsmith Posts: 1,164 Forumite
    chevalier wrote: »
    Wordsmith was it you who needed a new mobile phone?

    Well, I thought I did, but mine has started behaving now, so I think it might have just been catching the grumps from me.
    "Green pastures are before me,
    Which yet I have not seen;"
    I'd love to be a good example - instead, I am a horrible warning.
  • DDpimp
    DDpimp Posts: 335 Forumite
    hello, got a cheeky favoure to ask of your good self if possible.I am using a spell cheacker and such and was wondering if I in box you something you can scan through it quickly for me and give me your opinon?
    In Blackest Day,
    In Brightest Night,
    Beware Your Fears Made Into Light.

  • Horace
    Horace Posts: 14,426 Forumite
    Sorry to hear that the bride and groom got the stomach bug but not sorry to hear about your colleagues getting it - serves them right for being cows:rotfl: (what goes around comes acround as they were rather devious then they deserved what they got).

    Fancy ringing from the beach to talk about coal though - really:rotfl:

    Hope you have a good day
  • Radish72
    Radish72 Posts: 2,075 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    I know you said you were not going to get a present on their return

    But the best present someone could get me on returning from a holiday, especialy if early morning, would be some milk so I could have a cup of tea
    Mortgage Aug 12 £165K, Aug 19 £0
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  • and.... maybe some small cakes eg sponge one's (like fairy cakes) to welcome them back and cheer them up!!!

    I love cakes. Can't you tell? :j:j:j:j
    Aiming for a minimal spend 2022
  • Wordsmith
    Wordsmith Posts: 1,164 Forumite
    edited 9 September 2011 at 12:50PM
    I am wrecked. Seriously tired. Favoured friend has come to visit - I asked him not to, as I knew these next two weeks were going to be full-on work-wise, but he insisted and I am trying very hard not to add guilt at not spending time with him to all the other things I feel guilt about. (And I'm not even Catholic.) He is quite happy going off on adventures with the tart, and is used to me not being around. I have to keep reminding myself that I did tell him and it was his choice to still come - he has worked hard all summer and just wanted to get away for a rest. He brought lots of cider with him, so I didn't turn him back. And it's good to see him, of course, even though it is for only about five minutes a day.

    I am losing it slightly. I had to work at home the other evening (before favoured friend arrived) and went to make a cup of tea, but instinctively reached for a wineglass (hmm, that might need a bit of thought, too), and put two tea bags in it (two? yes, not very MSE, but they are posh ones that I bought as a present for someone but ended up not giving it to them and being delighted that I could use them myself and then being very disappointed that they were so weak, and after persisting with them for a while I gave in and just used two and got a much better taste, even though every cup of tea is now costing me a fortune) and only just stopped myself from pouring boiling water over them. I blame Lula for this, as I was thinking about adding something to my 101 list and wondering what she would say about it, which made me not concentrate. I really have to try to get out more.

    Moneywise there is not much to report. I have just paid the rent for the month, and I had better get on and pay the solicitor's bill for the abortive house sale. I bought a bit of equipment for work (well, it's for fun, but if I think really convolutedly (and believe me I can) then it's for work). I'd better lob a bit favoured friend's way for the cider, and I suppose seeing as I have a visitor I'd better buy one of the domestic goddess's cakes - sigh, the things I have to do. I think I can avoid buying a new mobile phone, which is excellent news. I haven't bought favoured friend a birthday present yet (birthday was last Monday :o) - so I'd better do something about that - and take him out to dinner (another sigh - but, oh, I do so love eating out [just for the budgeting record, I hardly ever do]). I didn't have to buy him a card, though, as the one I bought for him three years ago surfaced again so I gave him that (only three days late).

    My main priority, though, is to work out why I am working so many effing hours but still have so little money coming in.
    "Green pastures are before me,
    Which yet I have not seen;"
    I'd love to be a good example - instead, I am a horrible warning.
  • Wordsmith
    Wordsmith Posts: 1,164 Forumite
    DDpimp wrote: »
    hello, got a cheeky favoure to ask of your good self if possible.I am using a spell cheacker and such and was wondering if I in box you something you can scan through it quickly for me and give me your opinon?

    Of course, go ahead.
    "Green pastures are before me,
    Which yet I have not seen;"
    I'd love to be a good example - instead, I am a horrible warning.
  • Wordsmith
    Wordsmith Posts: 1,164 Forumite
    Radish72 wrote: »
    I know you said you were not going to get a present on their return

    But the best present someone could get me on returning from a holiday, especialy if early morning, would be some milk so I could have a cup of tea

    Ah, but the time of day they will be returning, he will not be able to resist coming into the shop to check everything is straight on the shelves and so he will be able to buy his own! In fact, he has already asked us to text him a cigarette list so he can go to the wholesalers on the way back from the airport!
    "Green pastures are before me,
    Which yet I have not seen;"
    I'd love to be a good example - instead, I am a horrible warning.
  • Wordsmith
    Wordsmith Posts: 1,164 Forumite
    and.... maybe some small cakes eg sponge one's (like fairy cakes) to welcome them back and cheer them up!!!

    I love cakes. Can't you tell? :j:j:j:j

    No doubt domestic goddess has already thought of this one. :(

    I must stop being a cow. I must stop being a cow. I must stop being a cow.
    "Green pastures are before me,
    Which yet I have not seen;"
    I'd love to be a good example - instead, I am a horrible warning.
  • Wordsmith
    Wordsmith Posts: 1,164 Forumite
    Wordsmith wrote: »
    When I drove back up the lane to come to work he was still in the same spot we had left him, and he meandered across the road, and sat in front of the car for a little rest, and then walked calmly in front of me before deciding - in his own time - to hop into the hedge. Do you think he recognised the car and was having a bit of a larf, or do you think he does this to all the cars going down the lane? _pale_

    Discovered this morning that it's certainly me and the dustbin lorry._pale__pale__pale_

    [For those of you who can't keep up :), the tart is a dog (after a fashion), Mama is a cat and is Brian's (also a cat!) mother (but she is not very maternal towards him), and Finn is a five-month old kitten (who Mama cat also can't stand). Charlie also features occasionally - he is my lovely landlady's dog and is the tart's sometimes-boyfriend. Mama cat doesn't like the tart or Charlie, and Brian has discovered that if he sits on the wall and Charlie gets up on his tiny back legs to say hello, his nose is within swiping distance. Charlie, although the cutest dog ever, is not very bright and hasn't yet associated hello with a sharp nail up the nostril.]
    "Green pastures are before me,
    Which yet I have not seen;"
    I'd love to be a good example - instead, I am a horrible warning.
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