As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

ceridwen

Larumbelle wrote: »

Hi all!

I've got my hearing this afternoon, so I didn't sleep a wink last night. My plan is to go in looking as healthy and confident as possible, even though I feel like bleargh today!

Even though I know it is all going to be okay in the grand scheme of things, I'm still scared. Keep your fingers crossed for me?!

Fingers crossed here for you.

Deep breaths/calming music/Bachs Rescue Remedy/"walk around the block" - so prescribed as appropriate. I do the lot if need be and usually feel at least half way towards the "totally calm - no emotions disturbing the Ocean" state I strive towards:cool: by the time I've run through that lot.

Come back later and tell us how it went/how you feel about it.

BTW - What time is it?

GreyQueen

Larumbelle, all the best for your hearing today. Hope you'll come back online later and tell us how it went.

Softstuff congratulations on bribing an electrician into lower charges with baked goods; it is so OS that it's inspirational. Glad that you are getting to grips with the repair mountain. I've stuck my work shoes and my sandals together with superglue (10 tubes for £1 from £land) so feeling very self-sufficient-ish and clever.

I mentioned my horrible nightmare of being eaten alive by the walls to SuperGran when she visited me yesterday whilst I was plumber-waiting; she immediately asked if I'd had a temperature? Doh. She used to be a nurse. Reckon that my poor little grey cells were overheating. Slept peacefully last night but still feeling washed out by this rotten cold. On the mend, though.

I now have a working hot tap in the kitchen....yay! Am going to morph into Mrs Mopp to catch up with the housework, if I feel up to it, after work. I am now coveting a cherry pie for breakfast and I only have porridge and whoopsied walnuts.

Have a good day, everyone.

scottishminnie

Good luck Larumbelle - we'll be keeping everything crossed for you:)

My day couldn't be off to a worse start. The rain here is so bad that I've spent the last 15 minutes in the ladies trying to dry my trousers enough to be able to sit down (not successful and not very comfortable.)

I knew it wasn't boding well when I realised within minutes of getting off the train that I had left my little bag with my book, tupperware lunch box, lunch and cutlery on the train. I was just through the security barrier so I rushed back and explained to a member of rail staff. Tough I was told, it will be destroyed. Despite my protests that the train was still emptying and I knew exactly where it was they wouldn't let me through or have anyone look for it.
I was treated to a lecture about how my carelessness had now caused a security risk (that must be the explosive lettuce) and how any left unattended items were automatically destroyed.

So I'm now lunchless, missing my book and cutlery (from a set of course) and sporting sodden wet trousers. Some days I wonder why I even got up:(

Softstuff

GreyQueen wrote: »

Softstuff congratulations on bribing an electrician into lower charges with baked goods; it is so OS that it's inspirational. Glad that you are getting to grips with the repair mountain. I've stuck my work shoes and my sandals together with superglue (10 tubes for £1 from £land) so feeling very self-sufficient-ish and clever.

The only problem with bribing him with baked goods is his increasing girth. He ate the stuff I baked him in one night, but there was enough stuff there that it would have lasted hubby a week. Going to move on to savoury goods for him next week I think. I also obtained the necessary screws for my knobs (I only needed 7 brass ones, so not worth buying a packet), from another chap with the promise of scones. Not sure why he likes my scones, personally I find them too flat.

Superglue works far better on my shoes than whatever it is the cobblers use. Though I do recall shoe repairs in Turkey being far superior, one particularly troublesome sole on a pair of boots ended up being sewn on by them, I've never seen it done that way before or since. And all for about a quid.

Sorry to hear of your morning Scottishminnie, here's hoping the rest of your day passes more successfully. Can't believe the jobsworths at the station. Surely it would take them more time to destroy it than it would have taken for one of them to nip on the train and bring it to you.

jackieglasgow

Hugs for scottishminnie, what a numpty (the eejit at the station, not you.) Hope your day gets better, and you are right about the rain, my children were meant to be going on a day trip to Victoria Park but as they don't have galoshes, I have cancelled that!

GreyQueen

Softstuff wrote: »

The only problem with bribing him with baked goods is his increasing girth. He ate the stuff I baked him in one night, but there was enough stuff there that it would have lasted hubby a week. Going to move on to savoury goods for him next week I think. I also obtained the necessary screws for my knobs (I only needed 7 brass ones, so not worth buying a packet), from another chap with the promise of scones. Not sure why he likes my scones, personally I find them too flat.

A surprising amount of fellers are bribable by h.m. goodies, in my experience. I feed my Computer Wizard and he charges me summat ridiculous like a fiver for several hours working on my PC at home. I reckon a girl wanting to snare a bloke should take up baking.;)

I know of an elderly widow lady who has an arrangement with an elderly widower gent. She has little jobs about the home and garden which her late hubby used to do. Her platonic pal is happy to do these in trade-off for her excellent fruit cakes and an occasional Sunday roast. Neither of them want to partner-up again but each misses the skills of their departed other-halves.

I love arrangements; they make the world go around. We share a lot of help/ plants etc on the lotties and it always warms the cockles of my shrivelled and sometimes cynical heart.

scottishminnie ((hugs)) that's a rubbish start to the day, what a blinking horrible jobsworth at the station. Hope you're drying out a bit by now. How well I recall those extra-special Scottish rains from when I lived there; there were times when every blessed item of clothing and footwear I owned bar jammies was soaked.

Right, it's now coming up to 9 am so will put the washer on, inc the oven mitt which has soaked overnight in soda-crystals-and-hot-water to loosen the grease. Time for a quick flit to Scruffy Centre and Shabby Street before w*rk if I get a wriggle on. The Magic Greengrocer is down there and who knows what may be in the bargain box at 3 for £1 today...........:rotfl:

cat_smith

larumbelle everything crossed for you.

scottishminnie what a p**t. I'm soaked too. But because the beast has been lying in the back garden while it pours, then walked in, walked up to me, put his paws on my knee, and shook. Oh how I love my dog.:D

maryb

Scottishminnie so sorry about your lunch. The staff at the big destination stations are often like that, but the local staff are much better. I left a back pack on the train once and spoke to Arthur in the ticket office at my local station. He phoned down the line to Tonbridge and got someone to get it off the train and send it back up on the next train. He said it was helpful to be able to tell them it WASN'T a bomb. But I left a GAP carrier bag on the train going into London one morning with clothes that I wanted to take back for a refund. The bag was slippery so had fallen off my lap. I realised as I got to the barrier and rushed back - I can't have been more than a minute but it was gone and the platform staff denied seeing it. Someone made a few bob selling that lot on Ebay

Reverbe

wmf wrote: »

:money:.
. Bought more of the cheapie penne at 17p although I bought quite a lot when it was only 9p. Not sure if it will go up further in price. I find it fine for arrabiatta etc.
W

Crikey.. our Tescos is charging about 50 odd p for value pasta now...:eek:

Reverbe

scottishminnie wrote: »

Good luck Larumbelle - we'll be keeping everything crossed for you:)

My day couldn't be off to a worse start. The rain here is so bad that I've spent the last 15 minutes in the ladies trying to dry my trousers enough to be able to sit down (not successful and not very comfortable.)

I knew it wasn't boding well when I realised within minutes of getting off the train that I had left my little bag with my book, tupperware lunch box, lunch and cutlery on the train. I was just through the security barrier so I rushed back and explained to a member of rail staff. Tough I was told, it will be destroyed. Despite my protests that the train was still emptying and I knew exactly where it was they wouldn't let me through or have anyone look for it.
I was treated to a lecture about how my carelessness had now caused a security risk (that must be the explosive lettuce) and how any left unattended items were automatically destroyed.

So I'm now lunchless, missing my book and cutlery (from a set of course) and sporting sodden wet trousers. Some days I wonder why I even got up:(

can we say the word JOBSWORTH boys and girls??/ jeez:eek: