**Will it be a wet weekend? Chat Thread 7/8th Nov***

Burlesque_Babe

morning all. Productive morning so far, one lot of washing done, big pot of bolognaise in the oven - half for tonight, the other half for after teaching on Monday night.

Helped OH choose a present for his DD, she is 18 today. He rarely sees her (once every couple of years) and usually shoves a card with £100 through the door in the middle of the night at Christmas and her birthday but I persuaded him to put a bit more thought in as she is 18 and to buy her a pendant which she can keep. I said that although at 18 money is what most kids want - how do you remember what it is spent on and as it is a landmark birthday to buy her something she will always have. He hates doing stuff like this so I had to majorly hold his hand but he has gone down to town to pick this up

http://www.ernestjones.co.uk/webstore/detail/R/6861881/

He is getting a bit reticent about bothering - she never contacts him and rarely responds to text unless it is 'what would you like for your birthday/christmas'. She is on my FB friends and I showed him a photo of her last night and he hardly recognised her - he said 'she isn't on the photo?' However, I can see it from her side - her mum has been with someone since she was about 4, so it must be hard having a non-biological 'dad' there 24/7 but also trying to know what to do with my OH and he acknowledges as time has gone on they have less and less to talk about. Hard situation.

elfen

How am I so tired? I slept loads and I am just completely knackered

schoolrunmum

That's really pretty BB....
I have lost 2 small sapphires from my eternity ring, went to jewellers to ask re repair, cost £150!!It was less than £100 to buy new-albeit a few years ago...
Tonight we have village firework display, and chilli at a friends first,tomorrow remembrance parade at church.
Good news front-BF has decided to take the chemotherapy...........:j

Pooky

:mad: Friends have cancelled so now have a fridge full of food that will need eating up. I guess I shall have to be brave and get stuck in :rolleyes:;)

DD1 is going out with a friend later....2 boys have offered to tag along......one of them is 16 :cool:.

BB - That's lovely - I've got one similar with a sapphire in.

SRM - Glad your friends gone for the Chemo option....lets hope it helps.

Ohh and exciting post......council have agreed to HB and CTB at full rate (still doesn't cover the rent but it's better than nothing)

Burlesque_Babe

he's now called me 3 times from town - dithering He loved it on screen but thinks it looks really small. He wanted to buy her some earrings as well - I said these matched best

http://www.ernestjones.co.uk/webstore/detail/R/6861458/

and it is buy 1 diamond piece, get the second half price. Online and selected stores - Poole isn't one of the selected ones :rolleyes:. He bartered 10% off the pendant but is now fretting trying to find earrings. He wants diamond ones but I've said not to get earrings as there is every possibility she will lose one at some point and I wouldn't personally pay half price, let alone full price for a pair of diamond earrings!! I've said - you've bought, just leave, it will be fine, go home, but he is down there panicking :rolleyes: Typical last minute bloke. He wants the earrings to be the gift from his DS to give to her, but I just think it is a bad choice - I can see her wearing them, getting trollied and losing one not realising they were expensive ones. OH said - 'she'd better not lose one out on the drink' but I said 'you can't decide when she can and can't wear them'!!

SuzySu

I agree BB - just give the pendant. One piece will look classy and expensive (which it bloomin' is...) but to add earrings almost says "the pendant didn't cost much so here are some earrings as well".

I know it's supposed to be from DS but she will probably know where the money came from (unless DS is earning....don't know?).

Anyway....that's just what I would do.

Burlesque_Babe

he's a student Suzy, I agree with you. As it is he is going to still give her £50 or so along with the pendant. It's all gone quiet so he has either given up or is melting in a pool of male gift-buying panic in the middle of the shopping centre :rotfl:

You have to remember - this is the man who went to town last Christmas Eve with his son to buy my present. In a blind panic, he thought I would like a sat nav (because that is what he would like). He kind of forgot I have a driving phobia and already have an inbuilt PAYG sat nav system built into my car I never use ..........guess who now has the sat nav :rolleyes:

SuzySu

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

You have to remember - this is the man who went to town last Christmas Eve with his son to buy my present. In a blind panic, he thought I would like a sat nav (because that is what he would like). He kind of forgot I have a driving phobia and already have an inbuilt PAYG sat nav system built into my car I never use ..........guess who now has the sat nav :rolleyes:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I got a sat nav too one Xmas.....but it was something I had been hinting about so I was well pleased. Shame BB....hope you gave him hell!!

Burlesque_Babe

right, he's been in with it. He only got the pendant. It is small but it is lovely. DS is going to put £20 in a card to her and OH is on the way to get that from him now (he comes home at weekends to work in Tesco) and he is going to drop it off. Phew, sorted, I can go to Asda to get my stuff for class Monday and Tuesday night!

Burlesque_Babe

SuzySu wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I got a sat nav too one Xmas.....but it was something I had been hinting about so I was well pleased. Shame BB....hope you gave him hell!!

well, this is it - for most people a sat nav is a 'most wanted' gift but to me it was as useful as a ride in a hot air balloon to someone with a morbid fear of heights :rotfl:

I think I looked like Mrs Doyle in the episode of Father Ted when they gave her an automated teamaker for Christmas to save her time not realising it was her only passion in life!!