Further financial faux pas and even more disasterous decisions

thrifty_fifty

Sounds like you had a fabulous time. I have to say, we have a magazine like that round here. Aspirational magazine, full of various local rich people attending things like the Iceland golfing day and blah, blah, blah.

Have a good day.

xx

moo2moo

Almost £90 later I emerged victorious clutching what is possibly the last remaining bulk pack of loo rolls in the known universe. People were leaving the supermarket with 3 giant 24 packs precariously balanced on the top of their trolleys. Not because they were stupidly cheap but because we had half a dozen flakes of snow at 9am and clearly that means a mass diahorhea epidemic. Shelves were stripped bare of bread and milk and ready meals. More bizzare was the lynch mob surrounding the trolley unloading pot noodles. Fortunately poverty corner (aka baking and basic ingredients) was both v. quiet and surprisingly well stocked as was the fresh veg section. Now have enough of everything we need to see us through the next couple of weeks.

DD2 has decided that today is her day to be poorly sick. For the mo. shes just pale and quiet and v. v. cuddly. I envisage an afternoon spent huggled under a blanket on the sofa reading books and watching Ice Age or some other much watched favourite.

In theory we're now under a blanket severe weather warning with vast quantities of snow imminent. Will be loading DD1s hiking boots and snow suit into a bag just in case we end up hiking home. Don't have far to go but its all v. steep narrow twisty windy hills full of imbecilic morons who decide in the dip at the bottom to abandon their vehicle at a jaunty angle so that no one else stands any chance whatsoever of getting past and disappear up one of the many private farm tracks. Oh the joys of being in the countryside!

moo2moo

OH has arrived home with enough weights to open his own gym. Not entirely sure wheres he going to dump them all though.

Am now writing a snotty poison pen letter to Mr Ts compaints department as their own brand batteries have welded themselves into the Maglite. Second time I've discovered this in a month. Am not amused. Still 2 Maglites investigated, four more to go. Cn you tell we get a lot of power cuts?

Still no snow but its getting colder by the minute. Am wearing my coat in the house and I'm still suffering from numb bits.

MrsMoo2U

Well prepared there Moo! We have snow. It has been quite heavy here this morning but has now stopped. Typically this happens on the first weekend in a year that I am heading North to visit family. Added to which I am in one of the counties that has just been advised to only undertake necessary journeys and then only on main roads. My question is, if I live in a village without sight of any gritting and on non major roads, how the bloomin heck do they expect me to get from here to the main road for my essential journey?
Even more annoyingly, I love the snow and where I am heading to is, at the best of times miserable and even more so this weekend as there will be no snow there! Welcome to the joys of living in the country indeed.
I will be travelling back on Monday and so if you are around and fancy me stopping of with the monster to meet up with you and your monster fluff ball then give me a shout. I will be off the internet after tonight through til Monday night so give me a shout today if you do fancy a doggy walk in the snow.

moo2moo

cherisong wrote: »

Well prepared there Moo! We have snow. It has been quite heavy here this morning but has now stopped. Typically this happens on the first weekend in a year that I am heading North to visit family. Added to which I am in one of the counties that has just been advised to only undertake necessary journeys and then only on main roads. My question is, if I live in a village without sight of any gritting and on non major roads, how the bloomin heck do they expect me to get from here to the main road for my essential journey?
Even more annoyingly, I love the snow and where I am heading to is, at the best of times miserable and even more so this weekend as there will be no snow there! Welcome to the joys of living in the country indeed.
I will be travelling back on Monday and so if you are around and fancy me stopping of with the monster to meet up with you and your monster fluff ball then give me a shout. I will be off the internet after tonight through til Monday night so give me a shout today if you do fancy a doggy walk in the snow.

Aaaagh only just found this...... of course the answer would have been a resounding yes... assuming that is you're still going anywhere. The big freeze appears to have happened overnight and the road outside the house is liberally covered in ice.

moo2moo

We had snow! For an entier 20 minutes we had a blizzard and the carnage that entails. Parents panicked and started arriving to collect children 10 minutes in (shows how far some of them have to walk doesn't it!) others started phoning to ask if school was going to close... yes of course and we'll leave the kids standing on the pavement huddled together under the streetlight till parents turn up. Muppets. One of the cleaners decided it was going to be a nightmare getting home so didn't bother turning up leaving the rest of us to cram an extra four hours work into our evening and still attempt to leave early. Unfortunately by the time we did leave the remperature had dropped significantly to minus four and the big freeze had set in. Car didn't need snow chains so much as ice skates. Crawled home v. v. slowly but arrived unscathed.

All this weekends activities have been cancelled meaning I can veg on the sofa under a blanket with the DDs. DD2 was feeling much better whilst it was snowing but went back to poorly sick mode upon discovering ithere wasn't enough of it to go sledging. Am v. glad shes only feeling poorly rather than honking everywhere.

The fourlegged fiend has had another growth spurt. Spied Hairball no.1 walking under her belly earlier. Beginning to wonder if the fiend is actually a Great Dane in disguise, albeit a v. small one. Am assuming the secret to both this miraculous gorwth and her abysmal breath is the ampount of cat poo shes eating. Poor cat hadn't quite finished yesterday before she was shoved out the way. Will have to come up with a cunning plan to prevent this happening.

Am also going to have to give in and clean out the fire as the couple of logs I chucked on the embers are showing no signs of miraculously bursting into flame. Meh. Tis too cold to be running around the garden in pjs collecting coal and emptying ashpans.

chevalier

couldn't help laughing at what the puppy is eating. but i gather it isn't that there is some dietry thing she is missing. just likes to eat horrible things! I guess something to work on in puppy training class.

well done in getting home unscathed. we are just dragging out all of the suncream etc here - sorry!

Hope that the tree has stayed up and that the weather doesn't get any worse

chev

Wordsmith

Hello - just sneaking out of lurkedom to say my mutt eats the cats' poo, too. I don't think it's something missing in the diet - it's just that cat poo tastes good (I am, of course, thinking this from a dog's perspective). And why wouldn't it, since it is almost pure meat that has just been on a bit of a journey?

I wish I had come out of lurkedom to provide some truly insightful nugget that would be really helpful to everyone. Debt-busting and relationships have me defeated, but when it comes to cat poo, I'm your woman.

Mags_cat

Wordsmith wrote: »

I wish I had come out of lurkedom to provide some truly insightful nugget that would be really helpful to everyone. Debt-busting and relationships have me defeated, but when it comes to cat poo, I'm your woman.

:rotfl:

::wipes tea off computer screen::

moo2moo

Have been investigating the cat poo munching phenomenon and it appears the solution is to simply coat the poo in red hot chilli pepper or curry powder or other foul tasting substance. Of course the speed at which I would need to do this means I'll have one angry cat on my hands. Sometimes the cure is worse than the problem.