Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

PasturesNew

Ellie2758 wrote: »

...Not sure what an aquadraw mat is.................

Me neither, I googled it ... it appears to be an EXCEEDINGLY expensive toy!!!

About £30 for something kids draw on. We had colouring books for about 1/- for Xmas when I was a kid.

http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=%22aquadraw+mat%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi

carolt

Ellie2758 wrote: »

Neat Fairy Liquid springs to mind for the wood. Not sure what an aquadraw mat is.................

Oooh, thanks, I'll try that - worth a go. An Aquadraw mat is a water play mat for little ones - you draw on it WITH WATER ONLY - great for non-messy messy play, IYSWIM. But not WITH A BIRO.

Just so livid because this is our SECOND aquadraw mat. DD2 knackered the first one by biroing on that one, many moons ago.


On the positive front, muffins now made. Came up beautifully as always.

Marking beckons...

lostinrates

carolt wrote: »

Oooh, thanks, I'll try that - worth a go. An Aquadraw mat is a water play mat for little ones - you draw on it WITH WATER ONLY - great for non-messy messy play, IYSWIM. But not WITH A BIRO.

Just so livid because this is our SECOND aquadraw mat. DD2 knackered the first one by biroing on that one, many moons ago.


On the positive front, muffins now made. Came up beautifully as always.

Marking beckons...

Oh carolt, You are braver than me! I can't imagine giving the nieces when they were little something to draw with water only!

It makes sense that enquiring minds will think drawing means drawing tools, regardless of what mummy says...they are little investigating scientists, and water.....non messy play? :eek: better than pens and crayon I suppose but....don't they get soaked?

misskool

congratulations treliac

Aspiring_Writer

lostinrates wrote: »

igs are harder to keep ethically than people think. I would ind it very very hard to drive a pig to abattoir.

We have a land rover. Now my car has gone my back is always just a little strained and I'm guessing it was the car thats been hurting my knees

hmm, me too possibly, but i think i could do it. As for the Land Rover, is it a Defender? thats what i want, my neighbours got an old one, I am so jealous...:mad:

lostinrates

Aspiring_Writer wrote: »

hmm, me too possibly, but i think i could do it. As for the Land Rover, is it a Defender? thats what i want, my neighbours got an old one, I am so jealous...:mad:

Yes, an old defender.

Sheep I could drive to abattoir. I need a partner in smallholding so I can have pork.

fc123

Congrats to Trels DD.:)
Mine has last GCSE tomo and we move 11am Saturday.
She will go back to collect her results in person in August....then I can gossip about her 'diverse' schooling experience.

I don't want to have move again for a long time.

I have recovered from my Freecycle 'experience' and last item, a 3 yr old working washing machine collected today....and if SS had been local..would have suited her down to the ground. Gutted....but I offerred it before she posted the other night so couldn't back track.


We moved Ginger 3 days back before I started packing up as, due to his rescue cat status, he has ''issues'' when we move, so I keep it a secret. The female is fine about it though.

OH thought he was going to have a heart attack in the car, he was so stressed being in his cage. Howver, he remembered our house and just sat in the garden sniffing the wind, came in and slept on the sofa...didn't even explore the house at all..like he knew what was what. Today he was stretched out at the neighbours on their sofa.
Daphne, the 84 yr old couple of doors down, who Ginger adopted as second home down here, came to see me as she was so upset he had gone. She did know roughly when, as I told her but I forgot to tell her exact time. I feel a bit bad.:(

Hve had lots of boring hassle with the LA over the place this month and, after 20 odd viewings, they can't let it and have suspended viewings until I leave and some works, recommended by EHO are done but they have kept it on RM.
Tonight, I see a bloke (deff not local, I can tell) walking back and forth past the front hedge tonight...looking in.

So, I pop out and he had come all the way down from London to see it, despite the fact he couldn't look inside.....so I showed him around. He is American and having a 32 yr old life crisis. High paid job, central London lifestyle and he looked on St view and just got on the train on a whim.

I reckon he'll take it, even with all the maintenance problems as he had the same feeling I did when I walked in. LL will have to do some of them anyway. He wants to build a boat in the garage as a hobby and seemed blown away at having resident badgers.

New neighbour next door who bought at auction...bit unfriendly at first......but pleasant enough....and not a developer. I said Hi .


Sadly, OH stepfather's father went in for an op today and is on life support and they have been told no hope. He is 87. This means that the holiday we are treating MIL and OH stepfather to on 26 June won't happen...and I can't transfer the flights to anyone else.

I have had a bit of a week TBH...:o but I am looking forward to living at home again.
I think I have just had the strangest 3 years of my life where every single thing that happened wasn't what I expected at all. What's that saying? ''Always expect the unexpected''.

*Therapy Post*:o

Ellie2758

I am intrigued, that's wot comes of being nosy I suppose. I have so many questions; why have yu lived away from "home" for 3 years etc etc.

Sorry to hear about your OH's stepdad

fc123 wrote: »

Congrats to Trels DD.:)
Mine has last GCSE tomo and we move 11am Saturday.
She will go back to collect her results in person in August....then I can gossip about her 'diverse' schooling experience.

I don't want to have move again for a long time.

I have recovered from my Freecycle 'experience' and last item, a 3 yr old working washing machine collected today....and if SS had been local..would have suited her down to the ground. Gutted....but I offerred it before she posted the other night so couldn't back track.


We moved Ginger 3 days back before I started packing up as, due to his rescue cat status, he has ''issues'' when we move, so I keep it a secret. The female is fine about it though.

OH thought he was going to have a heart attack in the car, he was so stressed being in his cage. Howver, he remembered our house and just sat in the garden sniffing the wind, came in and slept on the sofa...didn't even explore the house at all..like he knew what was what. Today he was stretched out at the neighbours on their sofa.
Daphne, the 84 yr old couple of doors down, who Ginger adopted as second home down here, came to see me as she was so upset he had gone. She did know roughly when, as I told her but I forgot to tell her exact time. I feel a bit bad.:(

Hve had lots of boring hassle with the LA over the place this month and, after 20 odd viewings, they can't let it and have suspended viewings until I leave and some works, recommended by EHO are done but they have kept it on RM.
Tonight, I see a bloke (deff not local, I can tell) walking back and forth past the front hedge tonight...looking in.

So, I pop out and he had come all the way down from London to see it, despite the fact he couldn't look inside.....so I showed him around. He is American and having a 32 yr old life crisis. High paid job, central London lifestyle and he looked on St view and just got on the train on a whim.

I reckon he'll take it, even with all the maintenance problems as he had the same feeling I did when I walked in. LL will have to do some of them anyway. He wants to build a boat in the garage as a hobby and seemed blown away at having resident badgers.

New neighbour next door who bought at auction...bit unfriendly at first......but pleasant enough....and not a developer. I said Hi .


Sadly, OH stepfather's father went in for an op today and is on life support and they have been told no hope. He is 87. This means that the holiday we are treating MIL and OH stepfather to on 26 June won't happen...and I can't transfer the flights to anyone else.

I have had a bit of a week TBH...:o but I am looking forward to living at home again.
I think I have just had the strangest 3 years of my life where every single thing that happened wasn't what I expected at all. What's that saying? ''Always expect the unexpected''.

*Therapy Post*:o

lostinrates

FC123, dear one, I'm sorry about step-f-i-l.

The 32 y o mid life crisis is all the rage...our friends are dropping like flies (not the ones who took longer to orient themselves mainly, although one of them too...I told him in an email last week he was greedy and if he has a crisis now I won't stand for another one till way past retirement.)

Your all going home. It must have been an interesting three years, I've loved hearing about it.

fc123

Ellie2758 wrote: »

I am intrigued, that's wot comes of being nosy I suppose. I have so many questions; why have yu lived away from "home" for 3 years etc etc.

Sorry to hear about your OH's stepdad

Thanks. OH isn't close to him (is it a step-grandfather?) as it is father of his mothers new husband....but she (and he) can't come away with us if there is a death, then funeral to organise.

Can I explain in less than 5000 words? A bit of precis practise for me:D.


6 years ago, we had a shop in Brighton (since 98) and a design/wholesale business in London. The London bit did well and shop too but the shop then lost a rent review (a boom phenonemon) and I had a 7 day notice for 27k back rent or the LL would send in Bailiffs (which I have since found out probably wouldn't have happened) and I was unprepared as our surveyor said we would 'win'..which we didn't. He cost about 6k too.

I did the sums and with the new high rent, the shop wasn't as viable as it had been.....my first concern was culling a 56k pa wage bill.

The same month my OH got done on a contract for about 50k all in...and that amount got stuck on CC.

What else? Son had got to 18 and was prepping for a Gap year and DD was 11 so relocating and new school not as traumatic.

I was very unhappy and on a hamster wheel in London and had gotten myself tangled up with some 'not very good' people and the agent from hell....turned out she was a cokehead and it cost me 4k to get rid of her.....my label had kicked off and was sold in 80 places but it was all a nightmare to manage.

There was lots of ££££ sloshing in...and even more £££ sloshing out again and when I did the end of yr accounts (at 2am) it showed a 50k loss..which was sprinkled around in various debts.
So, I closed everything in London down, found a place to rent in Brighton, we left son at home for the time being (which he loved) and OH, DD and I moved down and took over day to day running of shop, pulled back on everything and paid down a mountain of debt whilst establishing a more...for want of a better word, holistic lifestyle.

Do you want to know what happened next?:)