Botanical blunderings on a budget - good life starts here.

lucielle

Thanks for the heads up. We're ok
L

MatyMoo

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

Morning all

Well we didn't blow away in KW (138.5mph at the turbine at the peir!) - I hope you're all good. Hens all present and counted - brb trailer over the fence and huge tubs everywhere but thankfully they snuggled themselves into a nestle of a byre and a gate and kinda jiggled about there was too bad after my first attempt out there to go out again. Oddly we didn't lose power.

Major damage in scotland by the looks of it and north of england etc.

Hope you're all warm - all schools and colleges shut here except for exams (I'm invigilating) got to get me butt in gear!

Coffee!!

Incredible weather, not sure I would have liked to be out in it. Even here in the south it was very windy so we didn't get out for a walk, thank goodness I have the garden for Rodders to run about in!

Just keep safe

Keiss_21

Wow, what a windy few days!!! KC is right, that was definitely a Hurricane!!! :eek::eek::eek:

Glad you haven't had too much damage Pippi , a bit of a bummer having to invigilate, but the exams have to go on I suppose. Hope your students turn up, I've had a spate of students just not bothering to come in for their exams...they just don't have a clue some of them!!!

Bet you didn't spend too much time in your sitting room upstairs! Watching window glass flex and creak in the wind always makes me fell queezy and a bit nervous, and there's soo much in your sitting room, a great view of it all though.

Thanks for your kind comments KC, yup I am getting there, though I am still guilty (and probably always will be) of trying to do to much. Just have to make sure it doesn't get to the stage (again!) that it affects my family and my health in a bad way IYSWIM.

In the process of parcelling up the Canada pressies, need to print of an address label, as well as one for DS2's new weightlifting shoes. They sent the wrong ones, so they are being returned asap to get the others for his Xmas. Paying for it with some of his Xmas money he has already been given (so presents can be bought to open on the day).

Hope the weather improves for everyone today and over the weekend. We have a glorious, yet chilly morning. Second load of washing on the go, with another waiting in the wings. Oh good grief...my neighbour is cutting his grass!!!! :eek:

Have a great day xxx

greenval

Hi all

Wind dying down but the hail, oh God the Hail, it's awful even snow is starting to look like an attractive proposition. It's not helped by the fact that I keep half remembering one of those carry on films about Julius Caesar, you know, Centurion enters Caesars tent and says
' Hail Caesar', all join in 'Hail Caesar'
Caesar says 'what is the weather like out there?'
Reply 'hail, Caesar' all reply 'Hail Caesar'
Caesar 'Yes, but what about the weather?'
Reply 'hail, Caeser'
It goes on like that for quite a while!

starnac

:rotfl::rotfl: greenval. I've never really watched the carry on films as I find them a bit too daft but that made me laugh.

LT your sister sounds really sensible. Maybe I should be a bit more like her. I remember when DD was about 3 weeks old we took her to a firework display and she slept right through it. I was so pleased cos I was worried she would cry all the way through. When I mentioned it to the health visitor (so proud) she said "you don't think there's something wrong with her hearing do you??" :eek: "well i certainly do now thank you very much" what a thing to say to a nervous first time mother :mad: I was paranoid for weeks, sneaking up behind her and clapping my hands or calling her to make her look at me. People should definately think before they make a flippant comment to a mum about her child.

Keiss sounds like you are doing well in your crafty stuff. Make sure you take it easy though as well. your health is the important thing remember.

Pippi glad you made it through the night and didn't wake up in Kansas. oh wait isn't Kansas where Dorothy was trying to get back to? Oh dear I've confused myself now

Lemon_Tree

Starnac i remember the health visitor telling my sister that she was overfeeding her second and would kill him (i mean she literally said those words), only trouble was she was weighing him and not measuring him and therefore wasn't recording the fact that my sister gives birth to very quickly growing babies (ie DN1 was in 18-24 clothes for length when he was 9mths old and is currently topping 6ft 4inches and he's only 14! (dad is 6ft 11 though).
they also told my mum that i failed my 1year hearing test and was therefore deaf because i didn't respond to my name - turns out my mum had been calling me the name she'd asked my father to register me as for the whole year not the one he actually gave me. does that make sense??

Pippi please be safe on your driving around for invigillating, hope you've got a nice relaxing weekend planned.

starnac

:eek::eek: can't believe they told your sister she would kill her child that's terrible.

didn't your dad notice your mum calling you by the wrong name for a whole year?? :rotfl:

gilligansyle

starnac - don't worry, nobody gets a manual in this child rearing malarkey, and what the 'professionals' tell you changes from year to year anyway. Do what works for your baby, they're all different. When I think back mine was wrapped tightly in a blanket, put to sleep on his side, fed on demand, solid food at 3 months, etc. etc. and he's still here aged 24 so I can't have got it that far wrong.

Hope the weather's calmed down a bit pippi

starnac

gilligansyle wrote: »

starnac - When I think back mine was wrapped tightly in a blanket, put to sleep on his side, fed on demand, solid food at 3 months, etc. etc. and he's still here aged 24 so I can't have got it that far wrong.

my mum says that to me all the time "something something something (the latest rant) ....and there's nothing wrong with you or your sister" maybe I should start listening to her :eek:

MatyMoo

starnac wrote: »

my mum says that to me all the time "something something something (the latest rant) ....and there's nothing wrong with you or your sister" maybe I should start listening to her :eek:

You can always listen, doesn't mean you have to do what she says :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Seriously, stop doubting yourself and repeat the mantra as you look at your daughter - "I have done a great job with her"