Wol's Riverbank tales: Part 3 Restoration

taxi73

Hi Wol ..have pmed you back as requested.
Hope you're having a good day.

Lemon_Tree

numpty how did you control yourself? i would never be able to if there was one little one all on it's own

taxi73

Hi Wol..just to let you know I got your e-mails but I have a problem sending replies at the moment.I will deal with it when I get home as I need to go to work in a few minutes.

Wol2

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

numpty how did you control yourself? i would never be able to if there was one little one all on it's own

Me too LT - good job i wasn;t with you Numpty as I'm pretty sure that wee piggie would be safely snuggled up in Piggie Palace by now :cool:....

......I really am finding it very difficult to resist the tempation to get OH's for all my boys - apart from brothers Maple and Willow, all the rest are now housed individually (not for want of trying - but these boys refused to [STRIKE]play nicely [/STRIKE] bond with each other once they reached adolescence :cool:)

Looks like my boys will soon be internet dating Penguin and LT's girlies

xx

Wol2

taxi73 wrote: »

Hi Wol..just to let you know I got your e-mails but I have a problem sending replies at the moment.I will deal with it when I get home as I need to go to work in a few minutes.

Thanx Taxi - hope work went OK...and the tooth is now behaving itself :cool:

xxx

Wol2

Happy monday everyone

I have slightly come off the rails this weekend and am not sure quite why (insert confused smiley)

I fell asleep on friday afternoon and woke up at 8pm. Didn;t feel at all tired and ended up ironing until 5am saturday morning (watching the Jack Hunter movies I'd sky-plussed) before going to bed for three hours.
Woke up and had a long bath and finished the book. Beds changed; two lots of washing done; RBL Minutes done, copied and distributed (plus handed in my letter resigning from the Cttee). Mid afternoon went into villlage to buy milk only to find power cut had shut Tatcos but went to Co-op instead and got spinach for piggies, milk for me.....oh...and a bottle of wine :mad:
Dropped in to see my neighbour (he came round earlier in the morning for his weekly snog but I was in the shower :eek:....so I didn;t answer the door..:cool:.clearly his timing is "improving" with practice .:rotfl:).....and I ended up nattering with him for two hours :eek:

Came home, phone natters and dinner (and said bottle of wine :mad:).....took me to 11pm when I fell asleep on the sofa, went up to bed a couple of hours later and woke up sunday with this streaming cold

Sunday I sent out a load of emails and generally waded my way through three rolls of Andrex feeling petty carp. Didn;t start the BBC stuff until 9pm and stayed up going through the flood file and putting together the bundle which was finally sent at 3am this morning :eek:

Today the cold is as bad (thank goodness I cancelled the interview) .....and I have done nothing this morning towards my list except sort out my house insurance - basically I can;t get cover with anyone else - spoke to Hiscox, Barclays and Swinton - the latter will cover me but owing to flood claims, the application will need to be sent away for review and they can;t do that in time for the renewal date so I have agreed to approach them again next year in plenty of time.

On the plus side, I have however had a very long conversation with my bank manager, arranged a full financial review in mid April to address pensions, life insurance etc; transferred required end of year monies for expenses etc from the business account into my current account and also sorted out my ISA for the tax year about to end and for April (the ISA stays in my offset for now until the mortgage is paid off ).

It's now gone 3o'clock and I MUST get these business write ups done.
I really don;t know why my weekend went so pear shaped - maybe it was beause last week really was the busiest week for a long time ........

.:idea::idea::idea:....scratch the above......I'be just worked it out - a difficult conversation with ex boss on friday afternoon plus writing the RBL minutes on saturday and having to recall a rather turbulent meeting when i was rounded upon by a little old lady for asking the "wrong" questions . Both examples of the same thing - commercially naive people making commercially naive decisions ,partaking of my advice/past experience to sort it out and when I give them the correct solution they argue the toss or come up with new information/reasons as to why they shouldn;t act on my advice..it's their own defense mechanisms cutting in...But I am "buying in", trying to assume responsibility and seeing it as a rejection when in fact I should just adopt the "take it or leave it" attitude and walk away...Except in both these instances their decisions could seriously impact on my future financial and emotional wellbeing..hence I actually DO have a stake in their decisions as I am directly affected. In one case, the decision could put me in a situation where by virtue of my position I could be held legally liable for any mismanagement (sorted as resigned :T) and in the other, the decision would impact on whether it would still be viable to pursue my plans for the coming year...:(...difficult one this...needs more thought.

Right - feel better already now that I've worked all that out . Off to stock up on toilet roll and do some work

Hope everyone is well and snot-free

xxxx

Nargleblast

Hello Wol, hope the cold is working itself out of your system. No doubt it played a part in your topsy-turvy weekend, but I am sure your body clock will soon right itself. As far as difficult conversations go, you can give all the advice you like to people but there is no law that says they have to heed it. It is very frustrating when you know you are right and people just don't listen, and sometimes people ask for advice but when the advice they get is not what they want to hear then they play the classic Ancient Greek game of "shoot the messenger!" Not a lot you can do about that, I am afraid, that is human nature for you. Best just to give your honest advice/opinion and let them get on with what they want to do, you have bigger fish to fry and a life to get on with. Imagine how the prophetess Cassandra must have felt - having the gift of prophecy and being right every time, but nobody ever believing her! bet she wished she had given Apollo a snog behind the laurel bushes after all.

taxi73

What Nargeblast said...
Hope you get better soon..I'm sure you'll come up with the right thing for you.After all it's you thats important in all this.

ZTD

Wol2 wrote: »

.:idea::idea::idea:....scratch the above......I'be just worked it out - a difficult conversation with ex boss on friday afternoon plus writing the RBL minutes on saturday and having to recall a rather turbulent meeting when i was rounded upon by a little old lady for asking the "wrong" questions . Both examples of the same thing - commercially naive people making commercially naive decisions ,partaking of my advice/past experience to sort it out and when I give them the correct solution they argue the toss or come up with new information/reasons as to why they shouldn;t act on my advice..it's their own defense mechanisms cutting in...But I am "buying in", trying to assume responsibility and seeing it as a rejection when in fact I should just adopt the "take it or leave it" attitude and walk away...Except in both these instances their decisions could seriously impact on my future financial and emotional wellbeing..hence I actually DO have a stake in their decisions as I am directly affected. In one case, the decision could put me in a situation where by virtue of my position I could be held legally liable for any mismanagement (sorted as resigned :T)

Good for you.

Wol2 wrote: »

and in the other, the decision would impact on whether it would still be viable to pursue my plans for the coming year...:(...difficult one this...needs more thought.

Are you sure you're thinking about it from a personal point of view and aren't just frustrated because you're not saving someone from their own stupidity?

Karmacat

Or maybe both ... we're complex, us humans .... it *is* frustrating when someone won't hear that 2 + 2 = 4, but it can feel personally rejecting too.... I recognise that one myself Wol, except when it happens to me, I go right down - I shut the anger and frustration down so hard I end up feeling really down and almost despairing for a while...

Take care of yourself - a balanced meal and an early night sound indicated, if you can, I know you've got an awful lot of work on ......