Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Successfully avoided the housework by spending the entire morning mucking out at the stables. Came home for lunch, mucked out the chooks and then gave another chunk of hedge a crew cut in my bid to reclaim the quagmire that was formerly a front garden. Whilst I was having fun the OH washed up, ironed, swept and mopped floors. I have a sneaky feeling I'm in for an expensive conversation.

stripes

Men are so predictable!

Hope the conversation wasn't too many £££££££!

moo2moo

Spent the morning enjoying the sun whilst walking the hound from hell. Not entirely sure a carboot sale was the best location for this but it did make things interesting. Spent a fiver mostly on tat for the OH although the sortof tat that is guaranteed to keep him out of m hair for hours, days even so am considering that money well spent. Blew a rather decadent 20p on a knitting magazine. Tis as yawnworthy as it sounds.

Came home via Lidl where a weeks shop set us back £3.59p. Figure at some point the store cupboard will eventually run dry but thats not going to be for quite some time.

Have listed five things on fleabay and amassed a small pile of tat for which Zapper are willing to give me a tenner.Not brilliant but its another box of stuff gone. Sold a book on Ravelry for a fiver. Avoided spending a tenner on wool simply by taking too long to make my mind up about it. Its not like I need any more wool any time soon.

Trying_to_be_good

Oo - I've not heard of Zapper before, but the 25 acceptable items is likely to stump me - I seem to have the same stuff to get rid of as everyone else!

I spent over two hours listing just 12 items on ebay, but at least it was time mainly spent sat on the sofa (except collecting the stuff, photographing and weighing it) as a reward for time spent gardening and lawn mowing earlier. With the woodburner lit - really quite wintery after being blown about in the garden!

And I finished my second knitting project - the first was a knitted hat for OH in Afghanistan (where he managed to stay safe today), and the second is another hat, slightly smaller as it's for my nephew who's currently refusing to be born - all inspired by you getting into knitting, moo, as I've dug out my Nanny's needles I inherited and am enjoying it! Thank you, as ever :-)

Might need to pick brains on sheds, as OH has plans for the garage that involve shifting out all of the stuff stored in there and demolishing the brick-built shed... How big can you go without needing planning permission?!

Igamogam

Trying_to_be_good wrote: »

Might need to pick brains on sheds, as OH has plans for the garage that involve shifting out all of the stuff stored in there and demolishing the brick-built shed... How big can you go without needing planning permission?!

Depends on how big your house is,where new shed will be built,if you have had any previous extensions and how high the building will be - lots of info on net - google sheds planning permission - think thats what we did. Local authorities often have info on their websites too

chevalier

can i just say that marmite and peanut butter sounds horrible. i like both of them but not together.

hope the conversation wasn't too expensive moo

moo2moo

Igamogam wrote: »

Depends on how big your house is,where new shed will be built,if you have had any previous extensions and how high the building will be - lots of info on net - google sheds planning permission - think thats what we did. Local authorities often have info on their websites too

and most critically how close toy our boundary you plan on putting it. You can do pretty much what you like as long as you keep under 16 sq. m of floor space and 2.5m of height, 0.5m from a boundary and you only have a temporary base but the rules change quite considerably outside Wales.

moo2moo

chevalier wrote: »

can i just say that marmite and peanut butter sounds horrible. i like both of them but not together.

hope the conversation wasn't too expensive moo

Still awaiting it, but he and DD2 are going to Machine Mecca today so I suspect he'll place an order for a lathe.

moo2moo

Trying_to_be_good wrote: »

Oo - I've not heard of Zapper before, but the 25 acceptable items is likely to stump me - I seem to have the same stuff to get rid of as everyone else!

I spent over two hours listing just 12 items on ebay, but at least it was time mainly spent sat on the sofa (except collecting the stuff, photographing and weighing it) as a reward for time spent gardening and lawn mowing earlier. With the woodburner lit - really quite wintery after being blown about in the garden!

And I finished my second knitting project - the first was a knitted hat for OH in Afghanistan (where he managed to stay safe today), and the second is another hat, slightly smaller as it's for my nephew who's currently refusing to be born - all inspired by you getting into knitting, moo, as I've dug out my Nanny's needles I inherited and am enjoying it! Thank you, as ever :-)

Zapper is rather surprising. All the Music Magpie rejects are heading their way and a surprising number are over a quid. Best of all I an keep ading items to my order for almost a month before the prices will be reviewed which gives me plenty of time to go through all the bookcases and media storage. Have even managed to get shut of a few archaic Uni books from almost two decades ago. Obviously I should have parted with them long ago but never got round to it.

Glad you're enjoying knitting! Mind you I enjoy anything thats not housework.

moo2moo

Back to normality with a bump today. Its going to be a very very mad day. Although it wil have its entertaining side too when I repeat yesterdays conversation with the illegal immigrant back to the boss. Turns out that not having paid any tax or NI means she didn't qualify for any form of maternity pay, quelle surprise, and would like to return to work considerably earlier than Janaury 2013. The job centre have helpfully suggested she comes back on a part time basis. Quite how thats going to work is anyones guess. She only does a couple of hours a day as it is and its been hard enough to find someone to cover that temporarily so getting that same someone to do even less will be a most interesting conversation.

Meanwhile I have a contract guinea pig for a half day today on a trial basis. I need that like I need a hole in the head. I have an entire department upside down with furniture and tat stashed in half a dozen locations so really don't have the time to give them and the agency boss a guided tour and health and safety lecture. And thats without figuring out what to get them to do knowing full well that the stuff that really needs doing can't be done until late afternoon when the teachers have all departed otherwise they keep getting underfoot by which time the guinea pig will be long gone too.

That said I am rather looking forward to going back. DD1 is back today too much to DD2s delight as she still has a day of holiday to go thanks to them being in two different counties for school.