Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Did tons of weeding yesterday. Planted all last weeks veggie plants and a whole loada geriatric bean seeds in the hopes that at least a couple of them will germinate. Used the larger 'hedge' prunings to make a bean support.

Took the DDs to their riding lesson, discovered DD1s feet have grown, need to get new riding boots at some point this week and hope she can break them in quickly enouugh to have them on her feet continuously for a week at camp. Still need to source a show jacket for that and a pony club tie and fill out the medical forms that have been lurking on the desk since February and pay the outstanding balance by next weekend.

Made some inroads into booking childcare for the summer. Pony club have four days that fit in with things. DD2 will be going to football camp for a week whilst DD1 is at pony camp which just leaves the small matter of another 7-10 days to sort out. Need to figure out how much holiday I have left in order to know how long I need to spend slaving.

Plans for today involve a heck of a lot of laundry, much tidying and the deboning of a rabbit that was skinned and gutted before being lobbed into the slow cooker at 4am.Wasn't awake enough to do anything else with it.

OH is busy making arrangements to borrow a trailer to collect stuff for his still not even vaguely water tight shed. Was hoping he'd get rid of the carp from the house before more stuff was aquired. At least hes taken the hint that the train set would be more suited to gathering dust down there than filling a vast number of cupboards in the bedroom.

moo2moo

The shed has a vinyl floor. Admitedly the roof still isn't water tight but at least it will be easier to mop up the small puddles when it rains. OH is getting quite excited about furnishing the interior although he obviously has spatial awareness issues, that or the shed is a smaller, cheaper version of Doctor Whos Tardis because theres simply not enough floor space for all the carp hes planning on cramming in there. Still as long as its out of the house I really couldn't care less.

Did lots of housework yesterday. Almost managed to reach the bottom of the ironing pile, dealt with a huge mountain of filing and evicted a lot of geriatric paperwork from the filing cabinet in order to shut the drawer. Wrote the first of many cheques to cover the dregs of the school year and a small chunk of holiday childcare. It seems to be averaging out at £20 per child per day which seems rather cheap until you add it up. Then 20 days child care for two comes to a rather eyewatering £800 or a months salary and only just covers my summer working requirements, assuming I still have a weeks worth of holiday left to use.

I've been harassed about cleaning holiday club over the summer. They've aranged for someone to clean one day a week which leaves me two evenings to do, on top of the two eveings I need to be at school which means I'll be there four evenings a week. What sort of a holiday is that? Only planning on doing one evening, more because I'll feel awful if I turn them down completely but I really don't need the added hassle. I'll be runing around enough as it is. Only two and a bit weeks to go to the start of the holidays

moo2moo

OHs first large gadget is in the shed. Slap bang in the middle of the floor since that was the only drip free bit, but its in there. Hoping that alone is enough of an incentive to get him to trim the roof edges and get some felt on. Somehow I doubt it.

Reached the final chart of the shawl but still have far too much yarn left so decided to repeat part of the penultimate chart. Hoping it will only extend the knitting experience by 3 days because I'm thoroughly bored of this now but determied to use up as much yarn as possible because there isn't enough of it to do anything else with but theres still rather a lot left.

Had the mother of all days yesterday thanks to a botched break in attempt at work over the weekend generating much unplanned clearing up outside in the rain. Did track down my holiday usage and was pleasantly surprised to find I have a lot more left than I thought..... about 60 hours in total which is most excellent

beanielou

Good news on the holiday hours

Igamogam

Why do you have to be in work in evenings in holidays - cant holiday club be trusted to lockup? They do in our place - cleaners in for 3 weeks then rest of holiday off and they dont clean up after holiday club! Hope the holiday club is paying you too!

Shed n shawl making progress

moo2moo

Igamogam wrote: »

Why do you have to be in work in evenings in holidays - cant holiday club be trusted to lockup? They do in our place - cleaners in for 3 weeks then rest of holiday off and they dont clean up after holiday club! Hope the holiday club is paying you too!

Shed n shawl making progress

Holiday club let themselves in and out of thier building but we have rentals in the main building so lights need turning off and alarms setting and once in a while I have to shove a hoover round too as their contract covers that and bog cleaning. Holiday club pay for cleaning so theres no getting out of that either and the cleaners don't work holidays, unless they opt to work overtime and then I have to be there to supervise and because they both have other jobs they like to stick to late afternoons, evenings and weekends which is a major pain in the deriere. Whinge whinge, whine, whine.

On a far more positive note the shed is almost water tight, there just the small matter of felting the apex and tucking in all the ends but we ran out of time yesterday, even so I was an hour late going back to work. The OH is already muttering about moving stuff down there, not that the floor is edged nor the storm braces fitted, in fact theres still a large pile of timber to work through and I haven't a Scooby Doo where the vast majority of it goes.

Posh precision scales finally turned up yesterday. They're fab. Unfortunately they indicate that the other scales under read which means I have far more lace yarn left than I thought. I swear the stuff is breeding in the box. Surely it realises that I'm thoroughly bored of lace knitting now and want an excuse to cast off and continue with something much quicker.

Igamogam

Hope that shed is water tight - weather forecast tomorrow is a delightful amber warning variety! What the hell did we do before the weather person graded our weather for us?

moo2moo

Spurred on by that same weather forecast we got the remainder of the shed roof felted yesterday and it was watertight by the time I returned for work hich was just as well because its rained non-stop all night, not just light showers but huge thunderous deluges of the stuff. Whilst on a roll the OH also finished off the flooring and creosoted all the remaining bits of timber although we need another couple of dry days to get the exterior trim and guttering on at least we can do the few remaining things on the inside.

Unsurprisingly I've done nothing else this week.

Ventured to the village to post a few things and emptied my bank account of cash to cover DD1s outstanding pony camp balance. Hoping I don't need cash for anything else between now and payday which is a very very long nine days away.

Have had my holiday hours approved by the boss. Managed to get away with two lots of pony camp, a week at soccer school and three days of pony clubness in the end. Means I'm mostly working afternoons as soon as OH gets home from work which will be a little problematic if I have to paint outside but otherwise shouldn't make a lot of difference. It does mean I get to spend a large chunk of the holidays with the demonic daughters which is fabulous.

Still slogging on with the shawl. Have 28 rows to go which is about 20 hours worth of kniting. My enthusiasm is hiding in a corner.

Piquant_2

Igamogam wrote: »

Hope that shed is water tight - weather forecast tomorrow is a delightful amber warning variety! What the hell did we do before the weather person graded our weather for us?

:rotfl:Good point! I for one appreciate an amber warning rather than the words heavy rain, makes it so much easier to understand :rotfl:

chevalier

moo2moo wrote: »

Still slogging on with the shawl. Have 28 rows to go which is about 20 hours worth of kniting. My enthusiasm is hiding in a corner.

:eek::eek::eek: That is only slightly more than 1 row an HOUR! No wonder you are bored of it! I have been getting bored knitting a baby blanket, but I will have that knocked off in another hour or two!

Well done for manic shed finishing. I do hope you have been surreptitiously moving his tat into there BEFORE he fills it up!!!!
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