"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

taxi73

morning KC....glad you're happy with the dress and have jeans that fit you.Nice to see games evening went well.All looking good

Karmacat

Morning Taxi! I've just been working on the ebay parcels - my little baby sewing machine takes a *lot* of wrapping, plus sending invoice info - still, as my sister said, its free money

Just finishing off my listie-room-thing & tidying madly.

And in a sort of moneysaving exercise - I popped out of the house last evening to check how much roof I had that was southfacing - since I feel settled here, I'm wondering if I should do the solar panels offer (Sainsbury is offering it at the mo) .... and I met a neighbour I hadn't met before. He has a woodburning stove, and so he'll happily have any big branches I prune from my trees. Which saves me a trip to the tip and/or lots of sawing to hide them in my ordinary landfill bin (which feels bad anyway). Result.

And I have lots of more-or-less southfacing roof

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, lots of good news there for you KC! :T :T Fab news on the dress You just ignore those 'rules' - if it feels nice and you think it looks good, go for it! :T :T

(must investigate sainsbury's solar panels offer!)

Karmacat

:hello: Okay! If anyone mentions it, I'll tell them Cheery said so Its a great dress to wear to a long event, it really is, because it looks figure hugging, but isn't quite

beanielou

Great news on jeans & the dress.
I hate hate buying jeans as theey always gape at the back.

redsquirrel80

Morning! Got the photos - stunningly lovely!

Your clothes sorting sounds good and glad to hear the dress is as fabulous as you hoped

On the tree/ plant identification - I used to be quite good as my parents used to point everything out to me when I was younger and help me to use books to identify plants, forgotten a lot of it now, but I do have a couple of books which I like to take out occasionally and try to identify things. I still love working my way through the keys to figure it out.. blue.. five petals... etc etc

Double_Trouble

Err I have been catching up but I notice that there is something missing no posts about you know what do I have to start bum kicking or are you going to come up with some perfectly reasonable explanation - I warn you it will have to be good :rotfl:

On another note I am still getting more and more annoyed with the census people have you heard from them? Had a holding email on 2nd Feb saying I would hear in 2 to 3 weeks yeah right isn't that what they said on the 15th December :mad: Then I had an email from them yesterday saying that there were jobs available in areas where they hadn't had a lot of response why would I want to apply for another job in an area which is miles away from me when they can't tell me whether I have got the job I have already applied for Really hope I can find something else soon in the hope if they do offer me a job I can tell them to stick it where the sun don't shine especially as if memory serves me right it was supposed to start on 16th March and they want us to do online training and a course before then sorry I am ranting and its not even my diary:o

DTxx

EssexHebridean

Well done on the jeans KC - I tend to buy cheapie ones from Matalan as they fit me well and are always comfortable - I've found now that I always look for the pairs with a bit of side to side stretch in them as they are far more comfortable.

Another one here with a gasted flabber at the comment that woman made to you about being able to feel your ribs! You should have responded with a big smile and "well there's no chance of me being able to say the same to you, is there love!" and wait for the reaction - anyone that rude deserves being told a few home truths, in my view!

Had to smile about Beanie's comment about hating buying jeans because they gape at the back - I had the same problem for years but my shape has changed slightly over the past few years and so it's not so bad now. I'm 5'1" and around a size 16 - as someone described it recently the B00b fairy has visited me too! I've got long-ish legs for my height, but am very short bodied, so my clothes-buying hate is dresses - my wedding dress was a corset style top (in deep red velvet!) and separate ivory satin skirt for this very reason!

Did you sort all your eBay stuff out in the end? I listed over 30 items, sold 24 and have made about £70 on those so am quite happy! Will have to continue working through the photos and typing up text ready for the next free listing weekend I think!

youareallhelpingme

Afternoon! lots of positives on here again :j.

I had loads planned this morning but trapped my fingers in between a concrete drain cover and its hole. _pale_ Felt soooo sick, DH and DS were laughing at the faces I was pulling. Ended up laying on the bed for half hour.

Mind you DH then felt bad and washed up for me

EssexHebridean

youareallhelpingme wrote: »

Afternoon! lots of positives on here again :j.

I had loads planned this morning but trapped my fingers in between a concrete drain cover and its hole. _pale_ Felt soooo sick, DH and DS were laughing at the faces I was pulling. Ended up laying on the bed for half hour.

Mind you DH then felt bad and washed up for me

OWWWW! You OK?