Further financial faux pas and even more disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Postie has started bringing E-bay parcels and has reminded me precisely why I stopped buying clothes form E-bay in the first place....

Pair no. 1 - perfect fit but the scummy cow hadn't bothered washing them

Pair no. 2 - great condition... all apart from the hole where the fastener used to be

Three more to go.

beanielou

Cant believe that bleeping dod
With you on ebay clothes~gah.

Eager_Elephant

Moo,

((((Hugs again to you all)))

Either the dog was not as secured as it looked when you visited or the family had taken it off the tether (maybe to take it in the house). It's clearly not happy being tethered as I assume most dogs would not be if that it is all it has in life.:mad:

Any disruption within the hen population will start the cockerels off - mine sometimes fight for a few days and then everything is ok and one 'loses' so he stays away from the other.

I have noticed that if a cockerel (from the unpenned group) gets in to any of the fenced groups of hens the cockerels in there will start fighting as the heirachy is unbalanced and this can lead to bloodshed. Vigilance is key!!

Hope something gets sorted with this dog soon.

Glad to here your dog can meet people now - I have a spare few hours at the weekend, if I'm passing I'll call in! :rotfl:

Yesterday I went up to our chickens and noticed Mr Fox has been, luckily (?) he had only got one but one other had died of shock (bless her she was dead in the sleeping position)

The worst thing is the night before we had been to a meeting and people there had mentioned that Mr Fox had been to them 3 nights running and taken their adult turkeys, of course we said touch wood we haven't had any problems and then the same night this happens. :mad:

EE

Eager_Elephant

moo2moo wrote: »

Postie has started bringing E-bay parcels and has reminded me precisely why I stopped buying clothes form E-bay in the first place....

Pair no. 1 - perfect fit but the scummy cow hadn't bothered washing them

Pair no. 2 - great condition... all apart from the hole where the fastener used to be

Three more to go.

All I can say is :eek::mad::eek::mad:

Presumably you can raise a not as described to get your money back?

EE

moo2moo

Eager_Elephant wrote: »

Moo,
Glad to here your dog can meet people now - I have a spare few hours at the weekend, if I'm passing I'll call in! :rotfl:
EE

It may take more than a few spare hours to pass by here but you're more than welcome, I'll even bake a ceremonical calorie laden cake to mark the occasion. Puppy has been hindering the progress of the fence and is now v. muddy and sound asleep just like OH.

moo2moo

Tis gloriously sunny again. Mind you I said that yesterday and ended up drenched and battered following a hailstorm. Still the first section of new fence is up. Have also drafted an invoice to the neighbours. Will drop that off tonight and wait to see what happens.

Hoping to get another section of fencing done today although I noted yesterday that my car was sounding ominously loud, a quick fumble about underneath made it even lounder. Looks like I'll be needing a new chunk of exhaust in the very very near future.

Chicken deaths finally seem to have stopped leaving me with a total headcount of nine. Its very very very quiet outside. DD1 is particularly aware of this as one of them used to follow her around the garden and sit next to her on the bench and even climb onto her knee for a cuddle.

Got partial refunds for both pairs of jeans. Still not impressed at the amount of hassle involved but one pair is wearable as is and the other pair is repairable. Assuming I eventually get around to getting the bits needed.... or persuade OH to part with a pair of manky work trousers which would allow me to chop the fastener off them.

Had a bit of a blonde moment when at some point during the night I dreamt that DD2 had appeared to complaint that DD1 had wet her bed and sent her downstairs to watch telly. Actually arriving downstairs at 5:45am I came across a very bleary eyed DD2 watching Home and Away.... ooops.

moo2moo

Pair of jeans no. 3 has arrived. Brand new without tags...... but complete with frayed hems and a small hole from being worn by someone too short for them. Cheesed off? Me? Why are there so many dishonest sellers on E-bay? None of these people had any less than 50 feedbacks and one of them is even a power seller with over 4000. I can understand an honest mistake but some of these are really taking the mickey.

Meanwhile the garden of Chez Moo is looking less garden like and more like a muddy version of Fort Knox without the gold.

moo2moo

Just when you think the demonic four legged fiends behaviour can't get any worse it nicked the loo roll. Have had words about her taking my things and heaping them in her giant cardboard box. I lost two gardening gloves, a trowel, three shoes, several tea towels and the loo roll... twice yesterday. Nothings been chewed (yet) though so at least I should be grateful for that.

Meanwhile the noisy exhaust decided to deafen me whilst filling the car with fumes and backfiring like a Wacky Races special. Made it home and looked underneath to find the pipe in two parts. The expensive bit is now sitting in the boot of the car ready for this afternoons trip to the garage so that I don't lose it on the way. Am taking the boys toy to work instead but have had to put the battery on charge overnight because that wouldn't start when I tried it yesterday.

And the saga of the jeans continues. I got a very snotty reply to yesterdays e-mail. Apparently the seller checked the "new" jeans over before posting them and din't notice the hole.... so no denial of the fraying then.... and who checks new jeans over anyway? I forsee this getting messy and ending up with a Paypal dispute. Oh joy.

Still its payday and my abnk account is fleetingly healthy which means I can pay the final installment of DD1s school trip and a couple of bills which are due imminently.

Moved several bushes to new locations so that we have full view of chicken land from the windows of the house just on the off chance the dog decides to visit again. Garden looks rather baren although not as barren as it would have been had OH not realised that having a hosepipe running whilst setting fire to the pampas grass that overhangs the chicken sheds was a good idea. May have been slightly more helpful had he realised this before lighting the blow torch .... still I've only a small patch of melted roof felt to repair.

Debt busting, like food shopping, housework and laundry seems to have been rather neglected this week. Will need to blitz the lot over the weekend. Have an astronomical amount of wet and smelly laundry to do thanks to puppy investigating the pond.

And today is come to school in your tracksuit and build wild animal habitats day... well OK its not entirely about that but the amount of stuff that the teachers are planning to get through will most likely take a week rahter than the 10 x 30 minute slots they have allocated. I get to be in charge of supervising drilling holes for ladybirds in offcuts of branches. An act which is to be performed with junior hacksaws and manual drills that look like old fashioned hand whisks.... will be sticking every power tool I can get my hands on on to charge the minute I arrive. Its going to be a very long morning. Still at least I can take my liberated copy of Cosmo to the garge to peruse whilst waiting for the various loose bits of car to be reattached.

moo2moo

Car is now repaired, amazingly it was done whilst I waited for a smidgen under £50. Next time I'm cheesed off that its a rattly leaky tin can I must also remeber thats its a very cheaply repaired rattly archaic tin can.

Jeans no 4 & 5 have arrived and amazingly they are exactly as described in the listings. Clearly not all E-bayers are con merchants. Just the purveyor of no. 3 whose latest drivel includes an offer of a 99p refund as he has "lots" of these jeans and didn't notice the hole in this particular pair. I'm assuming that means he was fully aware of the fraying to the hems and considers that normal. Perhaps it is for vertically challenged people but in my case they sit 2" + off the floor and frayed hems just look silly. Have suggests he excahnges this particular pair for another since he has "lots".

Have spent a very therapeutic morning making scarecrows , bird feeders and a rat magnet (aka a wildlife habitat). Unfortunately I have to go back to work later today to clear up the mess I made which was quite considerable. Also got to stuff my face with the gooiest choclate birthday cake ever. So gooey in fact that you couldn't cut it. We resorted to hacking chunks off it with a spoon although it would have been much more fun to grab a handful and lick it off my fingers.

moo2moo

Wide awake at 5:30am again. But not through choice. OH thought it would be fun to wake me up to apologise for rambling on about work all evening and brought puppy with him to make sure I was really paying attention. Sadly puppy wandered off before he'd got as far as waking me up and so I'm destined to have an overtired and very grumpy whingy whiney 7 year old for the day. Have promised her 50p pocket money if she stays in bed and tries to go back to sleep until 7:30. She hasn't appeared downstairs yet so theres a very slim chance shes managed to drop off again.

Plans for today involve lots and lots and lots of very short laundry because its gloriously sunny outside but the four legged fiend views the swoosing laundry on the line as her very own giant plaything and leaps at anything dangly thats even vaguely within reach. Will only be hanging out sheets and the like whilst I'm out and shes shut in so that I don't have to retrieve them fro mt he mud and wash them several times over.

In other most excellant news theres no sign of the chickens exiting chicken land which means theres an equally good chance of dog not being able to get in. Am going to atempt to grow courgettes and tomatoes in the hopes that if they can't get out they can't eat them either. Am a tad late for planting the seeds though..... but can't justify splurging on garden centre plants... perhaps a couple of ready to plant plants would be cheaper than compost after all... perhaps not. Will dig out the box of seeds this afternoon and see what I can do. At the very least I can get the DDs planting salad leaves which will keep DD2 quiet for all of about 5 minutes. Need to do lots of weeding before I can plant them though and I have a triffid like rhubarb which is threatening to burst into flower. Can't be having that.

Its gonna be a bright bright sunshiney day!