Daffy's 'patchwork dreams' diary

Cheery_Daff

thanks cheri Am very excited Like I say, the actual *leaving* is always pretty fraught round here... we have different conceptions of what 'let's leave in half an hour' actually means.... :rotfl: :rotfl: Still, I've got my fingers crossed for before 1pm - we're going to be on the road for 8 hours today even if we don't stop at all (which obviously we will!) so it's going to be a looooooooong day!

Pippilongstocking

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

STILL can't find Pipppi's present - goodness knows what I did with it! :eek: Sorry Pippi Going to stop looking now and concentrate on food Will find it as soon as I get back no doubt!

LOL get you here and then we'll have fun, nowt much needed apart from that :j

tomorrow tea in fridge

Cheery_Daff

:T :T :T thanks Pippi :T :T :T

Do you know, I think we may actually be ready :rotfl: :rotfl:

InaPickle

Hi Cheery! :wave:

Sorry I've been a bit thin on the ground as of late. I'm happy to see you are going on holiday - enjoy it laods - and we expect a virtual postcard! xxx

Cheery_Daff

Oops, sorry, didn't manage a virtual postcard - swore off the internet for the whole fortnight and had a great time

Back now though (after being marooned in severe gales for an extra day - sorry Pippi! ) 12 hours drive is NOT that much fun! (but worth it :T :T :T

Got home to a letter from car insurance people telling me payment hadn't gone through :eek: :eek: and if I didn't ring and pay by 25th they'd cancel my car insurance as of 9th August (which would have meant 2 whole weeks driving round without any) :eek: :eek: :eek: seems to all be sorted now though - but :eek:

Emptied all newly acquired treasures into kitchen when I got back - entire new charity shop wardrobe, typewriter, polaroid camera, spanners, a computer mouse, biscuits, mugs, six million eggs, crumbs of scones.... :rotfl: :rotfl: it was like Christmas all over again! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Had the most MARVELLOUS time, Pippi and her family are UTTERLY LOVELY (which we knew anyway, of course, and I've met them before, but still!). Thank you soooooo much again lovely pippi for having us :j :j :j :j

Oh, and I've enjoyed not being on the internet so much that I've come back with a whole new set of Internet Rules :eek: :eek: half an hour a day! :eek: (fortunately functional stuff like sorting car insurance and work doesn't count )

So - best quit waffling and have a very quick run round before I have to throw myself off!

Hope everyone is cheery :T :T :T

redsquirrel80

Welcome back! Glad you had such a lovely time :T (though :eek: to gales and car insurance!)

Good luck with your new internet rules! Ooh and.. how's the scales?

Karmacat

Fantastic! I thought you must've sworn off completely while you were away - I've just made the same limit in relation to mse, 30 mins a day, tho I'm already relaxing that to have another 15 mins at lunch, oops .... still.

You sound so energised! Wonderful

Pippilongstocking

Nice to see you back, but sad you're not here anymore.

I found a stripey sock, lurking under a beanbag, peedie thought it was great fun to attack it!

Have a great day - hope everything is OK and you're 'refreshed' from that long drive.

The soap is hard (YAY) - and I'm having MR cheeries gespacho today for lunch

x

Cheery_Daff

:T :T for hard soap :T :T And for leftover gaspacho (or however you spell it :rotfl:)

Gosh that was a long day! :eek: :eek: While Iw as lazing around on holidays I was wondering how on earth I managed to conduct normal daily activities - I still have no idea :eek: Today's up at 6, train at 7, work 9-5, train, joined gym :eek: and cycled home (10 miles in total) came as rather a shock :eek: :eek:

Oh, nd 30 mins of internet a day for me :eek: and none before work or while at work :eek: :eek: and I think I said none at weekends... :eek: :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl:

best start being a bit less waffly! :rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

Had a number of daft holiday impulse buys - some more daft than others.

Two that particularly stand out are a typewriter, and a polaroid camera from Pippi's womble shop :rotfl: :rotfl: I love typewriters, and saw one for £15, which I just couldn't justify. Then the next day, there was one for £1 in the charity shop. I snapped it up, all pleased with myself

Turns out they were produced as a toy, so the ribbons aren't available, so, as one office supplier put it - 'apart from throwing the machine away and buying a second hand commercial one from Ebay or such like, there is not a lot that can be done to help you.' :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Polaroid films are around £16 for 10 photos - so I would have to be rather more sparing with the use of it than the 1000+ photos I took on holiday :rotfl: :rotfl:

I was in giddy holiday mode, clearly... :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: