Further financial faux pas and even more disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Lula-Hula wrote: »

The popular thing to do with windscreens in winter around these parts, is to cover them with a blanket overnight ... works a treat

Doubt it would be there in the morning though... its likely to join our TV aerial in some far flung corner of a distant field that is forever England.

As for the Wii Fit in my defence your honour all but £1.21 of it was covered by gift vouchers. Just got a bit of a shock when the bill came in £300 more than I was expecting. That'll be the coal for the winter then and the car speakers and the mahoosive Boots shop for OHs family. Tis all too easy to get carried away and more importantly to forget all about it as its stuff I bought almost five weeks ago.

moo2moo

Made it back to work vaguely on time, all be it with blood splattered boots, and commenced pootling about doing quiet things on account of all day interviews with some external big wigs going on. Clearly telling me to be quiet is like waving a red rag at a bull and hoping it will amble off in the opposite direction.

I pootled about quite happily doing irrelevant pootley things to fill the time before coming across a. v angry buzzing queen wasp. Being an enterprising kinda person *RSPCA employees look away now* I whipped out my trusty can of WD40, zapped the wasp mid aerial acrobatics and then promptly stood on it as it crash landed on the carpet. It was about this point that all hell broke loose. The aerosol drifted leisurely onwards and upwards into the smoke detectors which set off the fire alarm. Despite sprinting down several hundred metres of corridor to cancel it the boss had made it first. Seconds later it triggered again and again. Spent five minutes standing underneath it in the middle of the corridor wafting with a tea towel to clear any lingering particles from the air whilst a stampede of almost 500 bemused children rapidly exited their classrooms pausing briefly to stare at the mad woman in the middle of the corridor before rapidly returning from whence they came. Did dispatch passing students to inform all classes it was a false alarm but even so some classes had already made it outside in the darkness of the biblical monsoon to get totally and utterly drenched for no reason whatsoever.

Had to endure an afternoon of children pointing at me and going "it was her, she did it" like I was a relative of Fred and Rosemary West. Opened the door to my office (aka glorified broom cupboard complete with brooms) and was confronted with several dozen bright yellow balloons with black marker pen strips and faces. Have been told that I will have to attend assembly in the morning to publically apologise to the whole school. The apology itself doesn't bother me, its doing it with a straight face that going to be the problem having seen the papier mache creation in Early Years.

pennywisepoundstupid

PMSL:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

MrsMoo2U

oh boy your life is so entertaining! keep it up I look forward to your musings every morning

lucielle

You make my day.
L

Mags_cat

lucielle wrote: »

You make my day.
L

Mine too :T

moo2moo

I survived even if I did have to make the walk of shame from the back of the hall to the front to a recording of a lesser known piece by Rimsky-Korsakov. I was duly presented with the previously mentioned slightly damp papier mache beastie and a few dozen pictures of wasps. Children duly thanked for their gifts and apology delivered with the required straight face even if one of the teachers was standing at the back miming an aerosol can. Barstewards. No doubt secret santa gifts will be similarly themed.

Plans for this morning should involve puppy school but I've done so little housework recently that I should really have a mega blitz, especially as the DDs have tomorrow off.

peaceandfreedom

Mags_cat wrote: »

Mine too :T

And mine, hilarious stuff. :rotfl:

chevalier

oh boy. is that cruel and unusual punishment having to apologise to the school! oops. *sn iggers*
chev

moo2moo

After the excitement of the previous few days I'm hoping for a very dull one indeedy.

Had a visitation from the Governors yesterday, one of them had come up with the cunning plan of borrowing the commercial buffing machine to polish his wooden floor. Resisted sniggering at the thought then helpfully plugged it in in a wide open space and watched as he went whooshing out of control into a wall several metres from whence he started. Turns out he likes his skirting boards too much to risk it and will be doing it by hand instead.

Spent a happy half hour being paid to read the various incontinence adverts in Womans Weekly (Oh boy does getting old sound fun) whilst waiting for the martial arts class to finish. Both DDs went along and came out tired and sweaty having had a fab time. Instructor was a bit surprised at the amount of upper body strength DD2 has - that'll be all the horse riding then - apparently she was told to do a double handed punch but managed to miss the practise pad with her second fist and caught him in the stomach. Wondering if he'll charge danger money next week. Was amazed to find both DDs sound asleep 20 minutes after being dispatched to bed, thats totally unheard of.

In rather depressing news yesterday was a v. spendy day indeedy, again *sigh*. Having done a fiar amount of homework it turns out the the crucial bit of broken chainsaw has been on back order with the importers for 18 months, we've hit a point where bieing chainsawless any longer is simply not an option well other than paying a tree surgeon the £750 we've been quoted which is not going to happen. So we've ordered a replacement chainsaw which saw off a large chunk of cash rather quickly but hopefully we'll have it by the start of OHs next few days off. Am hoping the problematic tree survives that long.

Ventured on to Mr Ts where baking gubbins were on 3 for 2, rather decadently splurged on bread machine mix in the hopes of regaining my enthusiasm. Should also finish reading the River Cottage guide to homemade bread but have been too tired to concentrate recently. Spent almost £100 which is truly ridiculous but should keep OH and the DDs in meat for the next two weeks as well as stocking up on all the esentials. Seem to be back to doing a big shop once a fortnight and topping up with milk in between. Not convinced its any cheaper but the less time I spend in supermarkets the happier I am.

Did a wee bit of housework and an awful lot of ironing, doubt I'm even a third of the way through the domestic stuff I'd planned to do this week. Can't get enthusiastic about it. Other stuff seems to get in the way.

Kitten is off to the vets for the first of its vaccinations today. Still needs to grow an awful lot before I let it outdoors. Its far too tiny yet.