Daffy's 'a nice cup of tea cheers you up' diary

MrsMoo2U

Agree totally about the film, biggest load of drivel I have ever seen. Glad I didn't pay to watch it. Still the music was good.

Raining here Have to entertain Mr C's parents so I think a little trip to the museum might be on the cards maybe! Enjoy your day.

ZTD

cherisong wrote: »

Agree totally about the film, biggest load of drivel I have ever seen.

You haven't seen many films then...

Cheery_Daff

hypno06 wrote: »

Just catching up a bit - it seems aaaages since I last popped in here :eek:

Glad to see things still cheery - and you certainly are not incompetent as regards the money situation - savings are being built up, and you can account for everything, so I can't see any negative there!

Enjoy the sunshine - that is one thing that can be pretty much guaranteed to increase my personal cheery levels :cool:

Thanks you lovely lot :j (and glad to see you agree with me about the film! :rotfl: don't know why I wasted half the night watching it )

Thanks Hypno, and the rest of you, good to see such MSE experts as you lovely lot think I'm doing alright I think I've just been on such a tight budget for so long, with nothing at all to spare, that now I've go a bit more wiggle room I'm frightened to death of going overboard, so feel like I have to keep a really tight eye on it, which I'm not very good at doing

I'm not as strict with myself as I was, but I do occasionally forget that Because so much is going into the various savings funds, I've not actually got *that* much more than I had before to play with - the right decision, but I occasionally forget

Mind you, as long as I still consider a £3.50 cardigan from a charity shop 'splashing out' then I figure I'm not doing too badly :rotfl: :rotfl:

WI done and dusted today :j Still got cake left over too Sooooo tired after late night, 2 hours sleep early evening, staying up til 3.30, then a couple of hours, then woke up again when Mr Daffs came home at 5.30, then another 3 hours and up again <yawn> So much lazing around done today I reckon!

Want to get back out in the garden too... (but another cup of tea first )

(oh, and nice to see you hypno! you diary seems to have vanished from my subscriptions list, so I have no idea what you're up to at all, must investigate...)

MrsMoo2U

ZTD wrote: »

You haven't seen many films then...

Well, I am sure that there is lots of drivel out there but I am quite discerning dont you know? I had to endure Mama Mia when I had house guests over Christmas the other year and they brought it with them. So, in my case, it is the biggest load of drivel I have had to sit through ever!!!!

Cheery, you are entitled to be "lazing" around, it is a holiday. That is what holidays are for, doing precisely what you please.

Cheery_Daff

Thanks cheri, I am indeed doing exactly as I please Been lying in the sun on the living room floor, with Mr Daffs on the sofa, both pootling round the internet and occasionally showing each other things :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Modern couple indeed

Mind you, it's not all been idle. We had the most almighty hailstorm earlier, proper shocking, all the blossom gone from the trees, and half the leaves too :eek: So once it had finished and the sun came back out, I donned wellies and headed out to investigate the damage

And I've made chocolate cornflake nests That's as close to domestic goddess status as I'm going to get today

I've got 5 extra days off over the next couple of weeks (well, including yesterday), and while I'm not planning to go anywhere in particular (other than a day out for my birthday on Wednesday), I've decided to take a good long look at my goals list, and make some progress towards as many of them as possible on these extra days off. So that means things like spending a lot of time in the garden, booking swimming lessons, running, pricing doors (<yawn>), and investigating myself a little weekend away on my own In fact, I might do a post about just that in a bit

ZTD

cherisong wrote: »

Well, I am sure that there is lots of drivel out there but I am quite discerning dont you know?

I bet you say that to all the boys...

cherisong wrote: »

I had to endure Mama Mia when I had house guests over Christmas the other year and they brought it with them. So, in my case, it is the biggest load of drivel I have had to sit through ever!!!!

Well if you're comparing stuff brought by houseguests (why do I think of fleas when you say that..?), surely you must have seen "Our First Holiday After We Bought a Video Camera and Videoed Everything Including the Back End of Donkeys."

If not, then you surely haven't lived...

(Or suffered - your choice...)

Cheery_Daff

Well, Mary Poppins was on this afternoon, and I can't resist a daft cheesy musical, but didn't want to sit inside just watching the tv, so decided to fix my bikes instead while it was on

Actually, you could think of it as my "frog", my thing I've been putting off My 'bike' (ordinary) bike needed new brake pads, I've had these for weeks (months!) (from Wilko's, £2.50 a pair :money:), and not go round to it. So that was first on the list, took about half an hour, but pretty straightforward.

Then I turned to the folding bike - definitely a frog if ever there was one. I had a flat tyre on the back wheel, an ordinary bike I can manage no problem, but this is one of these, and there's all kinds of paraphenalia round the back wheel, so it's an absolute pain to get off, which is why I'd been putting it off

Took me AGES, but I did it, and then (inevitably) I couldn't figure out how to get it back on :rotfl: Got VERY frustrated, until Mr Daffs came in and described it as a 'worthy opponent' :rotfl: which made me feel like I was fighting a dragon in a Sinbad film :rotfl: :rotfl: So that's how I'm thinking of these bafflingly frustrating things that I'm tempted to kick from now on :rotfl:

Fortunately, we have 2 bromptons, so we lugged the other one out to figure out how it went back together, then I managed to accidentally dismantle the second one too (very nearly putting a bolt through the tv screen in the process :eek:)

Anyway, lots of swearing, a mini argument, and a lot of washing up liquid later, all three bikes are back together, have their full quota of nuts, bolts, fully inflated tyres, and seats, and I have no excuses for not cycling part of my journey to work, thus saving me £5 a week (and rendering my newly bought 20 trip bus ticket entirely superfluous, but it doesn't have an end date, so that doesn't matter).

Feeling quite pleased with myself now Faced the dragon and won :rotfl: (not that I killed it mind, but I managed to persuade it that sitting and playing nicely was better than fighting :rotfl:)

Tea anyone?? :coffee:

DedicatedDFW

Cheery - big congrats on facing the dragon and winning :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Though i think you deserve :T:T:T for tackling what sounds a very complicated job in the first place

Always feels better to get those sorts of jobs out of the way doesn't it - the ones that need to be done but are neglected because we suspect they are complicated :cool: i've never had a name for them before but think i'll borrow "frogs" from you if thats ok Precisely one of the things i've been doing on my pottering today is doing a job i've been putting off - nearly there with it now though and feels tons better for it :j:j:j - though thinking about it i have been tackling 2 frogs this weekend. Hoorah! For bank hols and nice weather i say which give us extra long days off in lovely sunshine

One of the other things i've been doing is thinking about personal goals - so as well as doing some of the things i don't want to do / are hard work 'frogs', i've been thinking about all the lovely things i want to do too I'd like to use some fabric paints /pens to try and rescue some clothes - and have some fun customizing them - i've been looking around on the net but don't know which are the best ones and will be permanent and wondered if you have any recommendations for painting/drawing on fabric?

Take Care x

Lemon_Tree

i've got a frog at the moment i'm trying to sort out, my bloomin outlook and email connection. I just knew i shouldn't upgrade my office package! best laid plans and all that. My other frogs are some letters i need to write to my neighbours.

Cheery_Daff

Oh gosh, don't take the word frogs from me! :eek: I only used it because people on the matrix thread have been using it recently and I originally wrote that whole waffly post over there, then thought it'd be better over here so copied and pasted it before I posted it I actually *hate* the use of the word 'frog' for something horrid - because I actually quite like frogs :rotfl: :rotfl:

So by all means use it - but I'm never going to use it again, and don't say you got it from me!

I'm thinking of them as dragons now, but because I don't like thinking of anything being horrid, I'm thinking of them as being slightly pesky dragons who are being a bit of a nuisance, and in a rather tedious way I have to climb up a giant hill to get to their cave where they live and ask them *again* (in a slightly bored voice) would they please keep the noise down



so - no frogs to tackle here, but rather Pesky Dragons :rotfl: :rotfl: Because that about sums it up for me - I didn't want to fix the bike, not because I was scared, but because I couldn't be ar*ed climbing up the big hill and I knew the Pesky Dragon was going to be slightly petulant about it (albeit nice in the end)



Gosh, anyone would think I'd been drinking