Further financial faux pas and even more disasterous decisions

moo2moo

For that I can only apologise Floozie

honeybear_2

OMG! Moo, I'm sorry if this is too late but apparently there's an exhibition in London atm of the walkmans of the cassette playing variety - a nosy online perhaps before you ditch it?

moo2moo

Thanks Honey Bear. Its another "vintage" item. I would slap it on this weekends E-bay free listings but theres zero chance of that happening which is a bummer because I have a hug pile of stuff to bung on. I won't be popular if I do, not unless I get up at 4am so as to do it before everyone else starts moving but its going to be a long enough day as it is so being knackered before it starts isn't a good move.

My decluttering frenzy backfired. OH arrived home whilst we were walking the dogs. He took one look at the kitchen and went for a kebab. Reason being it was spotless and therefore I hadn't bothered cooking anything. He was most sheepish when the DDs and I sat down to eat dinner with him by bunging an assortment of stealthily concealed dishes on the table. Guess I should have left him a note.

Today will be a mad mad day as I attempt to remember where we bunged all the necessary kit for our various holiday jaunts. This could take quite some time. Also need to visit a post box before the last post of the day at 9:30am which means getting dressed sooner rather than later.

Tesco_points_addict

Moo

My mum listens to lots of cassette books at night as she has trouble sleeping, she has Parkinsons disease and drives my Dad batty!!

If you are going to list the cassette player please give me the auction number and I will have a bid on it and hopefully get my Dad a goods night sleep.

TPAx

moo2moo

Hell is a unisex chemical portaloo on a moonless Saturday night.



Hell on earth is that self same portaloo on Sunday morning when you can see precisely what your nostrils were warning you about.

Trying_to_be_good

Eek - was that your own private family portaloo, or a communal facility?

Helen105

Good holiday then?

moo2moo

Surprisingly it was a fabulous holiday despite being the oddest place ever. Imagine Fawlty Towers as a campsite and you're not even close to the catalogue of catastrophes that was our annual family holiday.

Imagine arriving at your destination in the middle of nowhere to a note reading "cash only" thanks to some friendly campers that hacksawed through their phone lines the previous night before barbequing them. Cheque oooh noo.... child as a deposit to secure a pitch (no prebooking allowed) whilst we fetched cash... uh oh... in desperation we emptied pockets, piggy banks and upended the car seats to scrape together enough to cover the first couple of nights... could they then discount this from a week long stay? Computer says naaaaw.

Continuing the eccentricities they then invite you to find your own pitch merely requiring that it is a minimum of 20m from anyone else. On a 300 acre site that should be a breeze. Half an hour later we're still circling the place discounting areas for being too flooded, too steep, too close to a cliff edge, too close to a toilet but mostly too close to other people. The nicest pitches were those in an area labelled no dogs in four foot high letters every 25m of road just on the off chance you hadn't noticed the giant no dogs signs on the gate posts.

Eventually found ourselves lodged between teens with a penchant for Amy Winehouse (just the one album mind you) and a bunch of 20 something winos who I'd like to imagine were into grunge but I fear the reality was they just hadn't washed for a couple of weeks. With a mere 20 showers for each sex its quite understandable why. Doubt that the daughters will ever forgive me frogmarching them into the portacabin that was the gents overflow shower block purely because you could see the tumble weed rolling around inside the cubicles fighting the giant spiders for space whilst the ladies were queueing when we arrived and still queueing when we left. Think the single hair straightener socket had a fair bit to do with that.

moo2moo

Spent hours and hours and hours on the beach, catching crabs (fortunately not from the communal portaloos although the possibility did cross my mind) more crabbing and tons of reading. Managed a little over 1000 pages in the time we were there and I can most definately recommend Andrew Davidsons Gargoyle although its stomach churnigly graphic in places.

Puppy managed not to eat the tent at any time although it did "escape" from the tent in order to chase off the delightful children who were tormenting her through the window. It should be noted that the dog in question was tethered at all times unlike the ghastly thing which urinated on my towels and the tent. Extending the puppies rope to 15m stopped that rather quickly.

Seem to have done nothing but ewat but considering the amount of exercise we got thats hardly surprising. Shocked the DDs by skipping. Apparently old farts like myself aren't supposed to do things like that..."mum you're too old". Humph.

Arrived home to a cat with "a bit of something in its eye". 15 minutes after walking in the door I walked out again with a cat on its way to an emergency vet appointment with a punctured eyeball. Fortunately the vet in question is a genius and performed surgery minutes after we arrived on his doorstep. Won't know for another week whether shes likely to regain full sight and theres still the possiblity the eyeball will have to be removed. Its times like this that pet insurance is a godsend. Brought her home still drowsy last night with tons of instructions. Woke this morning to discover she'd houdini'd out of her cage and removed her head from her giant plastic collar. Fortunately no further damage done but at least I know shes feeling ok. If she'd yowled loud enough I would have filled up her biscuit bowl rather than her climbing onto the table to help herself.

Mags_cat

Delighted to see you back, moo and only sniggering slightly *honest* at the tales of chaos!

Not sniggering at all, mind you, at the poor moggy's predicament - hope it can be sorted quickly.