Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Another gloriously sunny day!

Spent my morning shift at work pootling round the fields with a bin bag. Saw an amazing array of butterflies, managed a spot of gardening and cleared a few bags of leaves from the ledges in the pond now that the water level has dropped low enough to expose them. Planning to do more of the same now I'm home.

DD2 refused to wear a summer school dress and liberated a pair of rather creased trousers from Mount Ironmore. Really should get round to doing something about that.

After four attempts at casting on a triangular garter tab I've finally figured it out and have started a proper little old lady-esque shawl. It should keep me out of mischief for quite some time.


..... and I got round to washing the dead sheep wrap. It still honks.

Trying_to_be_good

It might smell rubbish but it looks fantastic - is the pattern available? I thought I might give it a go (if there's an odour-free version!).

And the garden is looking lovely and lush!

moo2moo

Trying_to_be_good wrote: »

It might smell rubbish but it looks fantastic - is the pattern available? I thought I might give it a go (if there's an odour-free version!).

And the garden is looking lovely and lush!

The pattern came from this book. Its so simple its untrue. This linkie is the same book but with the option to flick pages online.

You're right about the garden. It looks fab but the weeds are growing just as fast as the plants.

moo2moo

Sold another item on Ebay which bumps the spinning wheel fund up by a tenner. Almost at the halfway mark already.

The DDs have other things on over the holidays which means no riding lessons for a couple of weeks, since I usually fund this from my pocket money not speninding on lessons more than covers the other stuff I've splurged on recently and allows for a mini spending spree at Woodfest.

Igamogam

Will you find a spinning wheel at wood fest?

moo2moo

Igamogam wrote: »

Will you find a spinning wheel at wood fest?

No, but that doesn't matter because I've been offered one from a most unexpected source which means I have a target figure to aim for .

Woodfest is more chainsaw carving and coracle building than fine crafts, although they do have the obligatory craft marquee and food hall and wot not. Mostly its just a great day out and one which I'm looking forward to.

Got an invite to a wedding yesterday from one of the kids I used to babysit for. Feeling decidedly old ,but v. happy for her because shes had some complete muppets of boyfriends.

Up incredibly early again thanks to the OH crashing about the place at 4am. Means I could get plenty done before work, not that I have, I've been randomly surfing t'internet for the past hour. Will need to get my bum in gear and do some serious housework tomorrow as Granny is due on Friday. Made a start by scaling Mount Ironmore yesterday and hoovering upstairs, DD2 helped by rearranging her bedroom furniture which meansa theres even more dog hair to hoover up and a patch of wall to replaster. Need to blitz downstairs but thats not happening today because I'm going to brave a knitting group at the v. posh yarn shop in the big city. Have cunningly timed it to coincide with a shopping trip for work so my fuel will be covered, as will my travel time.

Meanwhile the ueless cleaner has been given the boot.The boss was umming and ahing about it till one of the teachers asked if she'd been off sick the previous day as their room had been skipped. She hadn't, shes just crap at hoovering and getting crapper by the minute and the excuse given..... it was too hot to vac properly. Means I now have 3 days till the end of term to get an advert on the council website, interview and employ a replacement. Fat chance. Ho hum. The first couple of weeks after half term will be rather interesting.

moo2moo

Bah. Completely screwed up the lace shawl and have frogged the lot. Cast on for another dead fish hat instead. Will try the shawl again later in the week when I have pointier needles. Total waste of a morning.

lucielle

Sorry about the shawl, but yippee to the hat!
L

moo2moo

The day didn't go according to plan thanks to a pipe deciding to part company with the tap it connects to. End result one flooded bathroom and a lot of flooded corridor. Got very wet. Nipped home to change and hang washing out and put more on. Legged it to the shops, bought the bits I needed for school in super rapid time and arrived at the knitting group 30 minutes late to find the place heaving with people. Had a fab time which really surprised me, had a go at drop spindling and came home with the smallest hank of yarn ever. Am well and truly hooked.

Didn't get much done in the way of knitting, was far too busy sampling the cake and biscuits and drinking endless cups of coffee which was fab considering its a free group. Had a miniscule splurge in the shop on the dreaded lace needles and was most surprised to get a discount for being at the knitting group.

Means today has to be spent doing housework. I'm out of excuses and out of time.

moo2moo

and so the saga of the shed continues.

It wasn't delivered a fortnight ago because of the weather causing delays to the installation team, not that its being installed. We were given a vague revised delivery date of sometime this week or perhaps the week after that or maybe the week after that.

The next communication from them is to inform us that the shed is in transit from their factory and they'd like more money..... they didn't get any. But we did contact the credit card company to report this as a possible con and they've helpfully frozen the amount we paid and initiated fraud proceedings as they were in agreement.

Yesterday we got a phone call to say its now ready for delivery, not that they know when its going to be delivered but they'd like more money anyway. Rather amusingly when we pointed out the clause in their contract that allows them to deliver without payment being made in full they got a bit aggressive and said someone in management would phone back. Unsurprisingly they didn't.

Quite whether the shed will ever arrive remains a mystery. Its already two and a half months since we ordered it, so I'm not holding out much hope.