How to Get Through The Tough Times The Old Style Way.

dollydaydream07

sammy_kaye18 wrote: »

Fingers crossed he comes home with a card but I know where yoru coming from - I do nice things on anniversary's, valentines day , birthdays etc and I might get a card and money which I think is impersonal as he knows Ill spend on the kids if its cash and Ive never had a birthday cake - adn I didnt even get an easter egg. .

flowertotmum wrote: »

Dollydaydream..the words "no flipping tea or anything food whatsoever" spring to my mind..unless he gets you a card then he is kinda forgiven..my hubs wouldn't dare do that to me..i might be small but i rule with a rod of iron,lol...
love
ftm

thank you both, we only tend to do presents at birthdays and christmas but normally he will get me a bunch of flowers even though i don't buy him anything

my sister has just posted on my fb saying happy wooden anniversary - asked her what she meant - apparently 5 years is wood - well i can think of a few things to do with wood that i can get him - a large wooden stick/object to knock some sense into him!! haha

jackieglasgow

I find a wooden spoon does that job rather nicely

calleyw

dollydaydream07 wrote: »

thanks, i realise this, but i am actually going for a No Spend WEEK!!!

I know that is why I said No Spend Day.

As I thought it might help some people start a new week with a new challenge.

Yours


Calley

GreyQueen

Mrs VP ((Hugs)) but no comment, just wishing you well.

Back at home for the first time since Thursday morning and it feels a bit weird. The lovely parental units brought me back from theirs to mine in the car and we went straight to the lottie and did 4 hours graft. I'd been a bit concerned about the contents of the greenhouse which I'd given a good soaking on Weds evening but had otherwise been left to shift for themselves.....needn't have worried, all was fine. The stuff planted on 04 April; toilet roll peas, courgette and 2 kinds of squash are all going great and will be planting peas outside soon. In the open ground, the mesclun salad mix and the marigolds sown 16/4 are up but the beetroot sown at the same time isn't up yet. It's like a dustbowl up there. Have broken the duck with watering and filled up the submerged 4 pint plastic milkbottles with holes which are planted in the broad bean rows.

The water butts are sinking fast without any rain to replenish them and I'm seriously contemplating saving some of the little water I use at home and biking it up to the lottie. I mean, if the garden was just outside the back door I'd be doing it automatically. Bit of a worry as the lottie is so very dry so early in the season. When you talk to your Nan (88 in June and a keen gardener) and she'd never known anything like it, you realise how exceptional this is.

Well, only a 3 day week then another weekday on the lam and playing in the dirt, so can't be bad.

Oh, and the blasted Nokia has fainted again and no amount of "dunting" a la Mardatha will revive it this time. Think I'll have to bolt-crop the chains off my purse and shell out for a new battery. Cheek of the blimmin' thing keeling over after 4 years.....:rotfl:

((Hugs to all who need one))

cat_smith

jackieglasgow wrote: »

I find a wooden spoon does that job rather nicely

Rolling pin or baseball/cricket bat:D

jackieglasgow

Now see, you've given away what end of the city you come from, now!

dollydaydream07

ah, i have both a wooden spoon and a rolling pin - which do you think would make him never forget an anniversary/birthday ever again???? :rotfl:

he will be home in around an hour, so we shall see if he has anything for me - i shall have both the rolling pin and the wooden spoon at the ready!!!:rotfl:

ifonlyitwaseasier

(((((((((((mrsVP)))))))))))

cat_smith

jackieglasgow wrote: »

Now see, you've given away what end of the city you come from, now!

Nah. Just a hangover from the army:rotfl:DH has a machete and sword on top of the wardrobe but I haven't ever got THAT angry yet.:D

cat_smith

dollydaydream07 wrote: »

ah, i have both a wooden spoon and a rolling pin - which do you think would make him never forget an anniversary/birthday ever again???? :rotfl:

he will be home in around an hour, so we shall see if he has anything for me - i shall have both the rolling pin and the wooden spoon at the ready!!!:rotfl:

Go with the rolling pin. It looks more intimidating. I solved the anniversary problem. Got married 11th September. He'll never have an excuse to forget.