Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

beanielou

Glad you have got the holidays organised.

moo2moo

It rained and it rained and then it rained some more and just for a bit of variety we had thunder bolts and lightening, very very frightening, scaramoosh scaramoosh, shall we do the fandango?

Meant much housework and much more housework avoidance. Haven't braved the quagmire at the bottom of the garden to see if the shed roof was leaking. Yesterdays school sports day was cancelled and todays riding lessons have been canned, instead we're going for a hack. Not that we're all going for a hack because one of us will be going for a long walk with a pony on a lead, whilst the younger family members will be off for a jolly nice hack and will delight in telling me just how deep each and every flooded dip in the road is.

Plans for the afternoon will involve clean dry clothing and much chocolate.

moo2moo

Piquant wrote: »

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

There are so many better ways of relaying this information to the populace:

Moist with a chance of frizzy ends
Slightly damp with a take your hair straighteners to work with you warning
Wet - forget hair and make up until you arrive at your final destination
Rain of biblical proportions - a great day to work from home.

Igamogam

moo2moo wrote: »

There are so many better ways of relaying this information to the populace:

Moist with a chance of frizzy ends
Slightly damp with a take your hair straighteners to work with you warning
Wet - forget hair and make up until you arrive at your final destination
Rain of biblical proportions - a great day to work from home.

Or how about its going to rain all bloody day - use your common sense. Took me 2 hours to complete a 10 minute journey last night - 1 hour taken up waiting for 1 policeman in his car and a few cones to 'take charge':eek: We all knew the rain was coming - I could have built an ark in that time - and the puddle that everybody was so scared about driving through on our side of the carriage way was a couple of inches deep:mad: Now on the otherside that was a different matter...........thigh deep water. So what was the real hold up - people stopping to look and take photos of the other side of course:mad::mad: So is the amber warning for 'Caution. Heavy rain. Twonks about'

moo2moo

Ten miles, much jogging and a heck of a lot of walking later I surived the hack. Really enjoyed it. Came home via the farm store. Didn't buy any riding boots for DD1 because they're having a 10% off sale next weekend with an extra fiver off for pony club peeps. It makes the boots a slightly more sensible price and way cheaper than any of the internet offers I've found so far. Of course whilst we're there she will need new riding gloves because hers are too small and I'm sure there will be some other essential bit of kit that life isn't complete without. Not that I can talk as I splureged on Amazon. Again. And bought a book on dyeing yarns. Its not like I don't have enough other things on the go at the mo.

moo2moo

Spent much of yesterday teaching the demonic daughters to play table tennis in Decathlon. Whilst there we finally bought DD1 a show jacket for camp. Rather bizarely the kids 32" was considerably larger than the ladies 34" which made it £20 cheaper. Also splurged on a new pair of trainers for me so I'm totally and utterly out of excuses for not getting my bum off the sofa and out pounding the pavements.

Stayed up far too late agin but am now one row from completing the shawl and casting off. You have no idea how much I'm looking forward to doing that. I even considered setting my alarm super early to get it done before work but decided against it purely because I'd be like the living dead for days if I did.

9 days of school to go!!!!!

Igamogam

moo2moo wrote: »

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9 days of school to go!!!!!

Only 4 more sleeps here:j And then into the land of the unknown in Sept.Have a feeling its frying pans and fire stuff:eek:

moo2moo

Runs in to announce I finally finished the fricking shawl with a whopping 0.25g of yarn and more than one bum squeakingly hairy moment when I convinced myself I was going to run out and would have to undo about six hours worth of knitting to have another go at finishing it. Now have to wait for a dry day to wash it and stretch it to reveal the holey bits. Should really do some housework in the meantime.

Piquant_2

Oh moo! It is lovely, I know it's been a pain in the proverbial but it was worth it. What will you wear it with?

moo2moo

Piquant wrote: »

Oh moo! It is lovely, I know it's been a pain in the proverbial but it was worth it. What will you wear it with?

I haven't a clue. Not even sure if its something I'll ever wear. I liked the idea of the challenge of making it rather than the idea of wearing it.