Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

beanielou

Great news on soon to be less hours :j

moo2moo

Why thank you all.

Finished the first of the plackets yesterday. Its a serious case of ruffle overkill. Tried it on and it looks ridiculous. Whether it improves with a second ruffle or looks even more like something you'd see on a circus clown remains to be seen. Could well be being over critical. I know DD1 will love it, I'm just not sure I will.

OH placed his shed order yesterday and has been in a super cheerful mood ever since. Really hope it lasts. It should be delivered in a months time which gives us a month to finish excavating and levelling the ground before treking up and down the garden with a couple of tons of hardcore and another couple of tons of sand. I'll be much fitter at the end of it.

The fabulous weather continues. It topped 20 degrees again yesterday which made me want to start growing stuff but since I'll be scraping ice off the car this morning I'm rather glad I didn't.

Have a small mountain of lundry to redistribute and much vacuuming to do now that the hound has decided to shed her winter coat.

Work is manic. One of the cleaners is off for two months and despite having given senior management three months notice sweet FA has been done about it. Had endless whinges yesterday about stuff not being done. Funny that. Fortunately there are only two days left until the holidays. Still haven't got round to figuring out what I'm doing although theres a three day food festival at Chester Race course which was most excleent last year. As much food as you can eat, far more than you can possibly drink, endless kids cookery classes, posh demos for the adults and free parking for the day which means a v. long wander round Chester for a fiver.

moo2moo

Seem to have got stuck in a bit of a rut, one which sees me wandering in from work, grabbing a cuppa, plonking my behind on a chair and surfing flea bay for all manner of tat. Obviously this is a form of excercise as my clicky finger does do an awful lot of clicking and I am slowly wading my way through the DDs camp shopping list. Todays £15 splurge (including P&P) covers a pair of chaps for DD2 in an approved colour, a pair of DD2 sized jodphurs, an official pony club metal badge and a pony club jumper large enough to swamp DD1 for quite some time. Obviously the jumper is in official pony club blue and not hideous purple with the riding school name on it for which one pays a further £11 more than the pony club charge for a sweatshirt. Will either of the DDs care? Nope. Will the riding school whinge? quite probably. Do I give a toss? Noooooope not in the slightest.

All thats left is to find hairnets, a plain black scrunchie (which at worst I can make if I can't unearth one in the DDs dumping grounds) and a set of jodphur clips. Total expenditure hasn't been as bad as I'd feared.... so far... although if DD1 keeps growing I'll need to buy bigger jodphurs for camp.

Off to do something vaguely productive.....

Igamogam

moo2moo wrote: »

Why thank you all.

FStill haven't got round to figuring out what I'm doing although theres a three day food festival at Chester Race course which was most excleent last year. As much food as you can eat, far more than you can possibly drink, endless kids cookery classes, posh demos for the adults and free parking for the day which means a v. long wander round Chester for a fiver.

I may just look in on that Moo - what are the dates ( cos I am too lazy to G00gle):D

moo2moo

Igamogam wrote: »

I may just look in on that Moo - what are the dates ( cos I am too lazy to G00gle):D

Sat 7th to Mon 9th kicking off at 10am. Prebook and its a fiver a ticket, turn up on the day and its £7 unless you're geriatric. Under 12s are free.

Piquant_2

Hello Moo!

How's things?

If you have a moment could you tell me how you posted that photo of the view from your kitchen window, can you phrase it for the terminally technophobic please If I succeed in posting a photo I shall dedicate it to you with love!

Piq

moo2moo

Piquant wrote: »

Hello Moo!

How's things?

If you have a moment could you tell me how you posted that photo of the view from your kitchen window, can you phrase it for the terminally technophobic please If I succeed in posting a photo I shall dedicate it to you with love!

Piq

Open a free photobucket account. Click the big button on photobucket thats says upload from my PC and upload piccie or three. Make cuppa. Save the uploaded piccies to photobucket and place mouse over piccie. Select edit from the pop up options. This allows you to turn the piccie the right way up and most importantly to use the adjustment and resize buttons to shrink it quite considerably so that it doesn't open as a full screen image. You can also crop the pic to show the bits you want. Click save. Hover over image again which brings up the same pop up box. Select the second option down "direct link". Start a post in MSE and at the point you want the piccie click on the yellow picture of a mountain just above the text box. Cut and paste the "direct link" info from photobucket and piccie will magically appear. Delete the piccie from photobucket and it magically diasppears. Simples.

moo2moo

I ache all over thanks to a long morning spent transporting hardcore from the front garden to the farthest flung corner of the back garden. The patio is progressing nicely.

DD1s riding jacket still hasn't arrived. Messaged the E-bayer yesterday who claims that my payment cleared yesterday, after 10 days, which is most impressive given it was paid for with paypal funds rather than a bank transfer. DD1 is most unimpressed.

Managed not to spend any money at all yesterday which is most miraculous.

Plans for today involve emptying one of the school libraries into a classroom to allow new carpet to be fitted on Monday. Hoping I can get that done in 8 hours. Suspect it will take an awful lot longer than that to put everything back at the end of next week.

Stayed up until I hit the point I couldn't keep my eyes open. Went to bed two rows before casting off the coat. Its far pinker than I'd expected. Still its almost done.

Piquant_2

moo2moo wrote: »

Open a free photobucket account. Click the big button on photobucket thats says upload from my PC and upload piccie or three. Make cuppa. Save the uploaded piccies to photobucket and place mouse over piccie. Select edit from the pop up options. This allows you to turn the piccie the right way up and most importantly to use the adjustment and resize buttons to shrink it quite considerably so that it doesn't open as a full screen image. You can also crop the pic to show the bits you want. Click save. Hover over image again which brings up the same pop up box. Select the second option down "direct link". Start a post in MSE and at the point you want the piccie click on the yellow picture of a mountain just above the text box. Cut and paste the "direct link" info from photobucket and piccie will magically appear. Delete the piccie from photobucket and it magically diasppears. Simples.

Thank you moo!

It must be me, but the direct link just gives the link to the photo on photobucket, meaning you need to click through. I cannot put just a picture in my diary, I wanted to put a picture of the Captain after his bath up.

I've fiddled with it for ages, half an hour, and can't get just a picture pasted in, never mind, the Captain will remain incognito!

Piq

Knitting_Nora

Piquant wrote: »

Thank you moo!

It must be me, but the direct link just gives the link to the photo on photobucket, meaning you need to click through. I cannot put just a picture in my diary, I wanted to put a picture of the Captain after his bath up.

I've fiddled with it for ages, half an hour, and can't get just a picture pasted in, never mind, the Captain will remain incognito!

Piq

Try the IMG link instead of the direct link - seems to work for me. Just click on the IMG text box, and it'll say 'copied' for a couple of seconds - then simply past into your draft message.

Will look like the text code until you preview your post or submit it, at which point it 'turns into' the picture.

Sorry for crashing your thread moo - and am very impressed with your view, your knitting talent and your reduced hours....

Nora.x