Wol's Riverbank tales: Part 3 Restoration

Wol2

'Tis snowing.

I am prepared :cool:

Piggie Palace nicely heated up and all guineas safely to bed. "Ma maison aussi"
Car on main road.
Rock salt and de-icer at the ready as are wellies and thick socks.
Enough milk and freezer items to sustain me til next week.
Tax return beckons :D

Love to all
Wol-wuss
:beer::beer::beer::beer::beer:

GeorgeUK

Hi Wol - just caught up with everything that's been going on.
You've really been put through the mill in the last week or 2.

Hope it's all good news from here in with the piggies.
Take care.

Nargleblast

Hello Wol, in siege mode I see! Apparently we are not alone - Beijing is having the heaviest snow since 1951 at present!

I suppose your new theme tune must be "I am the Wol-wuss goo goo goo joob" ? (Dare I say it - I used to know all the words to that song!)

Numpty_Monkey

Have you packed up all your windows and doors:rotfl:

Horace

Hi Wol & Co

I had to venture out in a blizzard yesterday to go to the docs (I walked there and back:eek:), he kindly gave me loads of meds to save me waiting for days for repeat prescriptions and even took my blood pressure and was pleased that it was normal 120/80 - to think that back in 2007 it was something like 146/94:eek::eek: Have to go back to the chemist tomorrow (I went to the poxy one next to the docs) as they hadn't got everything I wanted. Nipped into Sainsbury to get a few bits and then came home and battened down the hatches.

I watched Maid of Honour on my new DVD player yesterday evening and watched a bit of telly before going to bed - got woken at 5.30am (probably by the girls upstairs) and then nodded off til 9am when I got up and slobbed in front of the telly eating junk, drinking coffee and occasionally slurping the peach vodka that I poured last night (too much vodka and not enough tonic and no room left in the glass for more tonic):eek:.

I am being thoroughly lazy but I have done the risk assessment and the risk assessment has told me to laze around until I feel able to work again (probably the weekend).

penguin83

Sounds all cosy in Wol-place at the min hun! Hope you and piggies are ok and not snowed in. We are starting to thaw out but kids off school until Monday - they havent been back since before Christmas!

Sorry to hear you have had crappy family news, hope you are ok xxxx

Wol2

GeorgeUK wrote: »

Hi Wol - just caught up with everything that's been going on.
You've really been put through the mill in the last week or 2.

Hope it's all good news from here in with the piggies.
Take care.

Hi George

Nice to see you - hope you had a good time over the holiday and family behaved themselves.

Have to admit I was starting to wonder what I did wrong in a former life....but then I was reading another thread today where someone quoted Michael Scott Peck from The Road Less travelled:

"Life is difficult.

This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters"

Time to come out of hibernation and get back to with the process of living I guess (well maybe I'll wait til the snow has melted )

Hope you;re keeping well....and warm!

xx

Wol2

Nargleblast wrote: »

Hello Wol, in siege mode I see! Apparently we are not alone - Beijing is having the heaviest snow since 1951 at present!

I suppose your new theme tune must be "I am the Wol-wuss goo goo goo joob" ? (Dare I say it - I used to know all the words to that song!)

Hi Nargle

Yep - in seige mode. Car is buried up to the wheels in solid iced-up slush so not even going to try and dig it out. Cancelled appointments early next week as more snow forecast. Not taking the car out until the roads are more or less back to normal (probabky weekend after next :rotfl:) Just been up to town and back by taxi to pick up more vet supplies.(£20 for a 5 mile round trip :eek:) ..only the main road is clear and I had to mountaineer down the side road to reach the vets :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Have enough veggies/rubber chicken stew to last the weekend and about 2l of milk (none in Tatco Express at all when I went in earlier - that'll teach me to splurge my coveted supply on Banana Angel Delight last night ).....

LOL - I too used to know all the words to every Beatles song - (teenage boyfriend was Beatles fanatic...and I was young and impressionable :rotfl::rotfl:) ....I stil remember the moment of disbelief when I found the Sgt Pepper LP in my mum's classical record collection - and then she told me she also liked Cream :eek:


Hope the chickens are OK - have they stopped laying becuase of the cold weather?

xxx

Wol2

Numpty_Monkey wrote: »

Have you packed up all your windows and doors:rotfl:

Bubble wrapped all those with no curtains...apart from the landing window which I can;t reach easily and have no intention of doing household mountaineering while on my own..It has made a signifiant difference to the downstairs temperature this morning in the Piggie hospital (lounge) which yesterday morning was very chilly despite the heating being on all night. However don;t think it's particularly money saving as it now means I need lights on all the time as very dark :cool::rotfl:

ZTD

Wol2 wrote: »

Bubble wrapped all those with no curtains...apart from the landing window which I can;t reach easily and have no intention of doing household mountaineering while on my own..It has made a signifiant difference to the downstairs temperature this morning in the Piggie hospital (lounge) which yesterday morning was very chilly despite the heating being on all night. However don;t think it's particularly money saving as it now means I need lights on all the time as very dark :cool::rotfl:

The lights will also help to heat your house... (even the energy-saving ones, but they're not so good)