Further financial faux pas and even more disasterous decisions

beanielou

Oooooops :mad:

Itsadogslife_2

I think when it comes to cleanliness, men have no brains. I am not particularly house proud, we have dogs and a child so my house is never going to be dirt free, but I would draw the line at that.

My OHs best tricks that he will drill something like a cupboard, without moving the stuff out of the cupboard so it gets all covered in drill dust. Or the other good one was when he was sanding something down and he had left the garage door open and the whole contents of the garage were covered in dust - just shut the bloomin garage door! :mad:
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moo2moo

Thanks guys.... at least thats confirmation that being annoyed is not an irational feeling nor an over reaction. Times like this call for a cunning plan and so I'm going to be cool, calm, collected and completely unperturbed by any of the Landie shenanigans providing OH tidies up at the end of his stint off work I can cope with anything especially since the pile of parts is shrinking daily. Even ventured into the loft to retrieve a boxful yesterday which meant I could bung up some stuff which I've been tripping up over for months. In an ideal world I would have taken it to the tip but OH is adamant it might eventually come in useful, not that theres much demand for 20 year old stereo systems.

Today looks like being gloriously sunny. Plans extend as far as transferring the newly painted foot pedals and the biggger parts of the clutch and breaking system onto the new chassis. Am also rather hopeful that the wiring harness will make it too although I've a feeling thats rather unlikely.

Haven't a clue what my day at work will bring. Teachers are a bit on edge with the pressure of end of year reports and the threat of striking collegues, although school will be open as normal for me even if there aren't many children in. Last time this happened only the affected children were off school but parents also kept off siblings and others used it as an excuse for an extra day off which meant school ran at half capacity.

Seem to have a steady drip of E-bay payments coming through. Two more items to parcel up this morning. Am nudging my way to £80 profit with whats been paid for so far. Will need to do the great monthly money shuffle imminently but not before figuring out childcare for the summer which means also sorting out a cleaning rotor too. Suppose I should get a move on with that because I need to have talked the cleaners into doing some of it by the middle of next week.

firesidemaid

hi moo. hope you have had a good day?

OH has picked ****loads of blackcurrents today, so am gonna be jammin tomorrow. i really don't have the time or brain capacity to be creative at the moment, so am going to try 2 sorts of blackcurrant jam - one with orange.

am starting to run out of jam jars, so am trying to research cheap prices for alternative options - what do you use?

chevalier

glad to hear that project landy is making forward progress. Is this because he wants to do this desert tour thing suddenly again? Sorry though that he is making such as mess.

Nice one on getting some ebay sales, every little helps....especially if it makes landy purchase money neutral...
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chevalier

firesidemaid wrote: »

am starting to run out of jam jars, so am trying to research cheap prices for alternative options - what do you use?

What about local charity shops? or ask on freecycle
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mooomin

moo2moo wrote: »

Seem to have a steady drip of E-bay payments coming through. Two more items to parcel up this morning. Am nudging my way to £80 profit with whats been paid for so far.

Well done on the Ebay profits. I'm trying to write up listings for this weekend's free listing at the moment but it's so bloody BORING

moo2moo

firesidemaid wrote: »

am starting to run out of jam jars, so am trying to research cheap prices for alternative options

It would be very scummy to liberate them from kerbside recycling boxes as you're passing wouldn't it... best not admit to doing that then... normally I bung a wanted note on the staffroom notice board or harass a few friends. Tis simply too expensive to buy jars. Postage is stupidly expensive. However in total desperation give C. Wynne Jones a try.

Will be jam making asap having purchased tons of whoopsied raspberries yesterday for a tenth of their on the shelf price. Planning to make them stretch further by adding redcurants which are finally starting to ripen. Need to get some picked before the squirrels eat them all. Spotted a few pink strawberries too yesterday so am hopeful of munching those mid-week.

OH should be working today but has swapped his shift to do this afternoon to allow him another half day on the grimy wiring loom thats still occupying the dining table. Hopoing he'll have figured out what goes where by the time I return from the DDs riding lesson. Am planning to detour home via the cash for clothing place having accumulated another four bin bags of stuff. Wil then venture forth to the farm store for giant dog bones and munchy sticks before descending on Mr Ts with a list which stretches to two pages. Wil be cramming it all into one trolley which should be interesting considering I'm starting with 12 pints of mik and 10 loaves of bread. Hoping to do a mega shop covering a fortnight as this seems to be working out a heck of a lot cheaper than monthly or weekly shops.

Further plans for the day involve listing the next batch of tat on flea-bay and relisting the unsold stuff. At least its raining so its not that awful a prospect. Further plans for the day involve cleaning the kitchen floor which is liberally splattered in gravy after the very naughty overgrown teenage hound decided to chow directly from the pan and made much mess in the process. Considering she did a runner when I came downstairs I figured she'd done something really really naughty. Seems the dog has a conscience after all.

moo2moo

Raspberry jam is most definately the easiest jam I've made so far. It was far quicker than I'd anticipated and so I was still mesing about removing labels from jars when I should havebeen bottling it. It tastes delicious and is completely unike any raspberry jam I've ever had before. I forsee a trip to the pick your own fruit farm in the not too distant future.

Arrived at the riding school shockingly early and got drenched in a sudden thunderstorm. Ventured on damply yet bravely to the cash for clothing place where I exchanged my boot full of tat for a crisp tenner which survived the 200m journey to the farm store unscathed. Sadly I left the store without it. I do have enough dog chews to guarantee being able to retrieve 500 random objects from the jaws of the hound. Both dogs are now happily destroying giant pork bones. Floor is covered in crunchy bits.

Continued on to Mr Ts. Pulled into the fuel station just after the warning light went on which meant a whopping £75 bill. Continued on to the store and blew a further £118. About a tenners worth of that is jam making supplies. Figured I'd start stockpiling jam whilst the fruit is abundant.

Need to hang out the washing now that its finally stopped raining and then figure out where the heck I'm going to put all the shopping.

moo2moo

Started making another batch of apricot and cinnamon jam this morning. Because I've increased the qunaities quite considerably its taking an eternity and so I've put the time to sensible use by quaffing coffee and rejaring a couple of other jams into Country Market approved jars. It does mean I have another couple of varieties to try at next weekends market.

Haven't listed anything on E-bay. Yet. But I'm going to aim for 10 bulky items by them end of the day. The space is more of an incentive than the money.

Spent yesterday evening removing the remaining wiring loom from the rear of the old landie. Apparently this means that OH can figure out what connectors he needs to buy to make the old wiring talk to the new wiring. Thats not going to be cheap either. Next on the cards is the removal of the entire rear body of the vehicle to allow brake lines and exhaust pipes to be rerouted. This means rounding up half a dozen friends as apparently it comes off in one. Side walls, rear panels, floor and bit behind the seats. Theres the slight problem of having to lift this up and over the rotten landie. Haven't pointed that out to OH yet though. I'm anticipating another week of much landrovering coupled with minimal housework and not a lot of anything else.