Further financial faux pas and even more disasterous decisions

SamanthaA

Wordsmith wrote: »

I only wish I'd had the foresight to tell the cleaner just why there was a large leather collar chained to our bed …

rotfpmsl! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

moo2moo

Chaining her to the bed would be a solution to one problem but woud cause far more since this appears to be symptomatic of kidney failure. Am hoping its just a passing phase since we only got up once last night but I'm awaiting the day I prod her in the morning and nothing happens. Mind you I've been expecting that day to arrive for quite some time. Its going to be quite a shock when it does although I've got my head round it. The instant she shows any sign of being in any sort of pain or discomfort she'll be making a one way trip to the vets but since the cantankerous old dear is currently bouncing up and down on her front paws huffing at me for an early morning walk I guess shes feeling ok for the mo. Which is more than can be said for the hound from hell who has a spot of tummy ache. Self inflicted I might add. For the hound from hell has discovered that corpses stolen fromthe cats and abandoned at my feet, or if I'm not paying enough attention on my lap, are exchanged for a doggy biscuit. Note the crucial part of this agreement being corpses. I was not overly impressed to be presented with a somewhat dazed sparrow which reacted to being dropped on my lap by flapping its wings and taking off with a lurching lobsided flight around the house before being caught mid air by the kitten which resulted in a game of drag the flea ridden corpse around the house.

Having successfully sorted small corpse retrieval we rapidly progressed to rabbits, which madam was not about to hand over, in fact so adament was she that the bunny was hers and hers alone that she ran round the garden with its rear legs flapping from her mouth whilst I follwed waving a pork chop. Clearly rabbit is tastier than pork chop as she crunched and then swallowed, fur and all, before leaning against my thigh and looking up at me in the hopes of being rewarded with the pork chop too. Greedy cow. She'd be a useless gun dog.

Hopefully today will involve fewer trips to the wheelie bin with assorted body bags.

OH spent most of yesterday tidying Landrover land so the newly emptied wheelie bin is almost full. Have done two machine loads of overalls and lots and lots of grease removal as hes managed to get it absolutely eveywhere. Am ever optomistic that this is an indication of the fledgling stages of project Landrover recommencing. More likely its just the start of another E-bay shopping spree.

moo2moo

Another day, another load of laundry or two, or three or more likely four. At least its sunny enough to dry it on the line, thats always assuming it doesn't get blown away. Its been horrendously windy again and I have a whole load more tree limbs to clear up. At least we'll have a huge stash of wood for the log burners next winter.

Didn't make yesterdays truffle making demonstration. Got home and really couldn't be bothered going out again. Sat and read instead and went to bed ridiculously early.

DD2 is finally crusty - whoohooo - and is going back to school at long last. Will give me a couple of days to catch up on everything I've avoided doing over the past week. Have caught up with a back log of letters including £10 for this years school trip to the zoo. Am ever hopeful I'll get to go too. Missed the last road safety session yesterday, discovered its the last one ever because of funding cuts the organisers of the programme have been made redundant. The boss is already talking about running next years programme in house instead.

Have three more days of school to go before the holidays - whooppeeeeee. Need a battle plan in order to get as much done as possible between now and then so that I can have lots of me time whilst the DDs are elsewhere. Obviously this explains why I'm sitting on my bum drinking coffee when I could be doing the washing up.

Double_Trouble

We are having a trip to the zoo too but ours is £13.50 presumably because of the extra distance involved not going on 4th July by any chance?

DTxx

Sorry rechecked £16.50 :eek: bloody hell we've been robbed :mad:

moo2moo

Double_Trouble wrote: »

We are having a trip to the zoo too but ours is £13.50 presumably because of the extra distance involved not going on 4th July by any chance?

DTxx

Sorry rechecked £16.50 :eek: bloody hell we've been robbed :mad:

Blimey thats a lot. Fortunately ours is heavily subsidised. Will be there the first week after the ols and hopefully again at the beginning of July (although not the 4th) but with 90 3,4 and 5 year olds.

moo2moo

Having a quick cuppa whilst I wait for 2kg of caramelised onions to cool enough to lob in some vinegar and transform them into Red Onion Marmalade. Since this takes an eternity to do I've been running round doing 5 minute jobs and am getting on surprisignly well. First load of laundry is in, second is on the line and the third is in the machine.I've also washed up and had a v.v. quick tidy up which isn't bad at all considering I've only been home for an hour.

Postie has v. kindly brought a £10 Asda voucher along with a whole heap of bills. Am resisting Amazon having discovered a £10 off a £40 cltohes spend on Quidco. I do not need to randomly clothes shop. I'm still getting over the shock of my last two E-bay purchases actually fitting.

Off to work wonders with onions and hopefully sort out last weeks underfilled jam jars.

moo2moo

Onion marmalade is truly disgusting. What imbecile thinks up instructions like "add salt and papper to taste" to something thats predominantly vingr. Bleugh. Hopefully it'll taste betterin a copuple of months time when its had chance to mature. Its not something I'll be in a rush to make again.

OH is bored at work and surfing E-bay. He phoned to see what I thought to him buying a rigid inflatable for the summer. I was calm and polite but at least I now know what the incentive was for tidying up landrover land. Cynical? Moi? Oh yes!

Off to scoff a donut before figuring out what I'm going to do with the 85 minutes left before returning to work.Vegging with a book is strangely appealing even though the book I started yesterday is a rather odd tale of a gay man doing what gay men do... quite why I stuck it on the Kindle escapes me.

moo2moo

I've had an uninterupted 8 hours sleep and I feel like I could handle another 8 hours. The geriatric old dear is clearly feeling much better too since she attempted to get on the bed this morning resulting in a very loud thud when 35kg of dog discovered this wasn't going to happen and collapsed in a heap with a very waggy tail wopping against the bed and wrecking any chance of staying in bed beyond 5:30. Shes now mooching up and down between me and her lead huffing in the hopes of a walk. OH has already left so theres no chance of this but shes not taking no for an answer. The way shes going by the time we reach the park later on today she'll be too kettled to get out of he car.

Arrived home yesterday to toal and utter carnage. OH was sorting through boxes of oily landrover bits wearing latex gloves to protect his hands from the grease. Only wish he'd shown the same consideration to the kitchen worktop. Now have what I think are surplus or broken bits liberally strewn across the path outside the back door. More and more space is appearing on his shelving. howeverhe then proceeded to bore me to tears with in depth musings on the sort of outboard motor his non-existant boat will require. Have made it very very clear that I think hes mad and that a boat would be a huge pain in the !!!!.

Meanwhile in several other rooms the DDs were going about the very messy process of packing for their holidays resulting in two sofas covered in clothes, more clothes on the floor and an abundance of stuff on the dining table. Managed to reduce this considerably although DD1 wasn't at all happy when informed that disco clothes weren't essential campsite wear. Bags are now packed and surplus cothing abandoned on their bedroom floors.

Plans for today involve being in three places at once, also need to sort yesterdays clean laundry and put that away in between spending a couple of hours at the park and mopping the downstairs floors which are covered in muddy paw prints despite it only raining very briefly. Further plans involve running away from school as soon as humanly possible as theres a conference on meaning an extra 80 cars descending at 9am. Parking is a nightmare anyway so even a few extra cars causes a headache. It will be carnage and I'm on car park duty to make sure that schools disabled staff can get parked. Unfortunately if not I'm tasked with operating a valet parking service. Oh joy.

firesidemaid

just an odd thought.....but does your OH think to go thru Quidco when he does make his Ebay purchases?

moo2moo

A better question would be "Does the OH think?"

If I'm around I insist on everything going through Quidco even if its only a 99p bid. He claims Quidco is just too much like hard work. Can't even persuade him to register his cards on there to get cash back when shopping in store.

He does attempt to do money saving things which is why we ended up with a multi-pack of shower gel that smells of sweaty socks. He'd rather just work the overtime or do the away trips to cover his spending splurges which I have to admit I'd see as the easy option if someone was prepared to pay me double time for an 8 hour day yet only expect me to do two hours work. Admitedly it costs £15 in fuel to do this and the tax man takes a huge chunk of it but even so its not to be sniffed at. Tis most annoying though.