Wol's Riverbank tales: Part 3 Restoration

GeorgeUK

But I'm sure Lula goes all the way

Now where have i hear that before?

Horace

Lula will probably come along and slap your legs for casting nasturtiums on her reputation.:eek:

Nargleblast

Good morning Wol and co

Wol2

Nargleblast wrote: »

Wol - at least Dad is safer whilst "under the thumb". If that is how they have been with each other since before you were a filthy thought in your father's mind, then there is little you can do to change things. You are a product of that regime so hopefully can learn from their successes and mistakes. Que sera sera and all that. It is hard, of course, when you are standing on the outside watching people behave in ways you wouldn't. I bet they watched you at some points in your life and were itching to step in!

Spooky Nargle - are you my counsellor in disguise? That's exactly the message I got from her last night -they have been in this regime for years and clearly both get something out of it otherwise they would not still be together. So it's causing dad less stress than I think it is.

As the eldest child I always used to have to be the peacemaker (or the buffer)..staying netural instead of siding with one or the other and during one very bad patch when i was in my teens I was asked by both of them to decide the future of their marriage:eek: ..I never had the chance to be a stroppy sulky adolscent as I was too busy trying to be a Relate counsellor :rotfl::rotfl:

As an adult I learned to avoid getting involved...(although the emotional pull was and probably always will be there)......but since my meltdown I am now learning to realise how much potential harm these types of situations can actually cause me as I have a tendancy to get drawn in to satisfy someone else's needs/problems to the detriment (exclusion ) of my own...

(It would appear that I have taken the Brownie Guide motto -A Brownie Guide thinks of others before herself and does a good turn every day- to the extreme :rotfl::rotfl:)

...so until I am stronger and have new protective mechanisms in place , I think a limited contact time is best (hence only a day visit at Christmas)

Hmmm I quite like the idea of being a filthy thought

xx

Wol2

Horace wrote: »

Yep, that was the book we used at high school - I admit that I ditched home economics in favour of Latin and I had to ditch Music as the lessons clashed with the French ones and I wanted to do French too:rolleyes: I remember moving on from Puella & Cornelia onto Virgil and Pliny, I had to learn pages of Virgil's poems in both Latin and English and to this day I can't remember any of them. Although I did create my little signature semper in faeces profundum variat:D

Wol..to find new clients you need to get yourself onto 4Networking.biz, join the online forum and if you can manage it do a few breakfast meetings. Re the band, I admit that I havent done much with them lately although when I do the networking events I talk about them and get useful contacts for me and them - found a PR company yesterday who will write the press releases and submit them to 50 magazines and online:cool: I am active on twitter and talk regularly to Captain Sensible and Boy George (they react) in the hope of landing some gigs for them, I am also cultivating Sonisphere who organise rock festivals around the world. I have dared to approach a bloke called Andy Copping who books bands for the Download Festival but he is sooo rude, he slammed the phone down on me once and has taken to ignoring me when I send him messages asking questions..the ignorant !!!!!!!
Got up late this morning as I was exhausted..too many early mornings methinks, it was this morning that I eventually dropped off to sleep after reading my new business book GOYA (Get off your @rse).

You will laugh at me as I had a sticky problem at the breakfast meeting yesterday, I went along in my new coat (bought in the sale at countrywide) and the coat has a two way zip, I had opened the bottom zip but couldnt do it back up so had to climb out of my coat and ask the group leader (I wish she was my mum) to see if she could fix it because I just couldnt do it myself:o She is great fun and plays the piano and teaches music - she even made us have a sing song yesterday morning - we sang the chorus whilst she altered the song to sing funny lines instead of the original ones:cool:

There is no hope for me in the age stakes - I had a rosewater facial on Tuesday afternoon:eek: I dont use lavendar bags though as I would rather use those perfume sample cards that get shoved at me in the department stores - I dont care if my undies smell of aftershave or perfume:rotfl:

Hi Horace

LOL.....the things you get up to! Boy George, Cpt Sensible...whoever next? Maybe better not answer that question :rotfl::rotfl:

I had a look at the networking stuff and realise I have to step "outside" the public sector circle I currently inhabit.......but won;t be starting that til next year.....

.I have also finally found a product/person who I think I can work with and am talking to them about us starting a company together in the New Year - this won;t bring in any income as it will involve working for "sweat" (and it will need a cash injection so I hope the Ombudsman comes up trumps) so I need to keep up the day job to pay the mortgage. However the grand plan is that if it looks like the business proposition is a goer..(will know by end of next year when prototype has completed trials and patent examined) ..I will start to work full time on it to make my million(s) (and therefore have a pension) before I retire at 55 . I know I can do it -and have been looking for the right opportunity for the last 5 years...hopefully this is the one and I have 7 years left to fulfill the dream :cool:

:think::think:...how very MSE about the undies.....

Wol scurries off to nearest department store :rotfl::rotfl:

xxx

Wol2

Nargleblast wrote: »

Good morning Wol and co

Morning Nargle

Trust your Chirstmas preparations are still on course and that the chickens are enjoying the sunshine...(well it's sunny dowm here :T)

I have decided after listening to Chris Evans yesterday to stop being a humbug and buy a tree this weekend to sit outside in a bucket of water for a week

My new disinfectant (Virkon) has just arrived so my job today is another complete disinfection/cleaning of both the piggie cages and also this time Piggie Palace itself.

(Hopefully now the danger of flooding has receded, I will also have a chance to empty the freezer and put Fleure in her final resting place :cool:)

Really must get out of my dressing gown and get on with things......

xxx.

Lemon_Tree

Lula-Hula wrote: »

Eeek scary :eek:, yes it was indeed ecce romani with a brown cover & I seem to remember that cornelia went off down the Via Appia in search of city life or similar

blimey someone else was tortured with that book as well! only nice thing my Latin teacher ever said to me was ....... please don't come back for the second compulsary year.

Nargleblast

Sounds like you're a bit more upbeat about things Wol. Remember the saying - you can't look after anyone else if you don't look after yourself first.

I usually listen to Chris Evans when I work nights - his Gobsmackers section comes when I am halfway to work and often they are really a blast from the past so the volume goes up and I am singing my head off. I always turn the radio off at the sports interview bit as I don't want to fall asleep at the wheel.

Horace

Lemon - I think that Latin text book was standard issue..I endured 2 further years of Latin:rolleyes: I do remember that in my second year of Latin that Mark Williams (Mr Weasley in Harry Potter) came into my class despite being two years' above me because he had realised that he needed Latin to get into Oxford Uni (I think the universities have dumbed down since the late 70's).

Wol - you are too hard on yourself just like Lula..chill and all will be right in the end. S'pose I had better go and do some washing up and bung the dinner on.

Nargle what are you going to do when Chris Evans moves to the breakfast show to replace Terry Wogan?

mark55man

Hi Wol - how you doing - looking forward to the weekend I hope

christmas tree time here - apparently our preferred type is in short supply - will see what I can pick up from the forest :rotfl: