Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

stripes

Hope you are ok Moo, I am in the South so not affected but know how awful the flooding can be in the West.

Piquant_2

That amount of water sounds scary moo. I'm glad you're okay and hope you didn't get another deluge today. Unfortunately, we did and my drive is under a few inches of water, meaning I have to carry the cat out to do his business, wait for him, then carry him back home...

At least the shed hasn't washed away!

moo2moo

The shed hasn't washed away although I had to wade through thigh deep water to shut the door after discovering the little darlings had left it open. V. glad its raised as high as it is.

Went to work for a couple of hours. Walked in the door to the smell of damp and high tide marks on the carpets. Spent far far too long with a carpet cleaner sucking the worst of the water out of the carpets. About 25% of the school is affected but fortunately not any of the major classrooms. So much for a quiet evening painting. Now have to wait for the carpets to dry in order to wash them with carpet cleaner to disinfect them. Seriously unimpressed by this. I hate carpet cleaning.

Splurged and treated myself to some fluff to spin. Figured I deserved it.

Shed is now connected to the mains. Much tidying has taken place. More stuff has been shoved into the loft. Still a lot more to get rid of though. OH is most enthusiastic about life at the mo and rather randy with it. Surely he realises we've been married long enough for that not to occur every single day and most definately not twice or three times and as for 2am. Well. Humph. Theres a lot to be said for the days that he sits morose on the sofa. At the moment he could easily be mistaken for a hyperactive octopus. Hoping he'll be asleep by the time I go to bed.

beanielou

You do make he laugh!

moo2moo

The DDs came home from the riding stables in deathly silence on the point of tears. DD1 sat at the dining table put her head on her hands and cried. DD2 tucked herself up in bed with her favourite monkey and did much the same thing. OH was livid. But without a clue. Ten minutes of cuddles and chats later it seems DD1 was told of for removing a bridle without putting on a head collar on the yard which resulted in 16 hands worth of horse trying to walk in the kitchen door. Unsurprisingly she was reminded that she neded to be in control of her horse at all times and complacency leads to accidents which in this case was the munching of the geraniums in the hanging basket by the door.

She went on to say that the same pony threw a wobbly strop whilst walking round the jumping course and careered off like a loon. Which got her another ear bending for choosing to cling on rather than deal with it. When she eventually lost her temper and yelled at him whilst doing whatever it is one does with the reins to stop half a tons of snorting sweating beast doing whatever the heck it likes, he behaved impeccably. She did manage to take him over the same jumps in a clear round against the clock to come out with a first place rosette at the end of the day but was beyond exhausted after it all. Hence the tears.

DD2 on the other hand had put herself to bed to avoid the wrath of her mother. Having been told off for cantering when she was supposed to be trotting she took the pig headedly stubborn attitude that since she was already in trouble she might as well be in a bit more trouble, and went for another canter or two ending in a quick gallop around the field. Seems she was grinning like a sweaty daemon as she was being berated for ignoring the instructor which got her a bigger ear bending. Knowing this would be followed up at home by another for ignoring her instructor she decided hiding was the safe option. It didn't work.

Today they're back at the stables for another nine hours of hardcore instruction. I suspect they'll be rather achy after yesterday which will make today quite hard going.

My day was spent pottering about, scrubbing classroom chairs, vacumming up damp sand and painting bits of wall. Avoiding carpet cleaning for as long as possible. Doubt I'll get away with that beyond tomorrow though.

OH is still pottering about at the bottom of the garden. More tat has disappeared down there and more tidying has taken place. Need to do lots more though. An amazing amount of stuff has accumulated on the PC desk and on the floor surrounding the dining table. Will be spending today relocating that to the back door as a not very subtle hint that its destined for the shed whether he likes it or not.

Piquant_2

I am, often, that horrible person that does the telling off of the miscreants at the yard:o For pretty much the same sorts of misdemeanors. The kids have such fun that they just don't realise the potential danger that a horse poses!

It is best to get the stuff by the back door for OH whilst he's still in full shed love mode. He's probably happily stacking and sorting, well, maybe not the sorting, all his tat into organised chaos that only he will understand...

beanielou

Happy Wednesday!

moo2moo

Collected the demonic daughters from the stables yesterday, took one look at them and madet hem strip off in the car park. Drove them home in their underwear. They'd had a water fight whilst scrubbing the stables. Water was running off them and they squelched with every step. The cheesy grins on their faces were huge and they giggled all the way home. DD2 objected vociferously to being made to sit in her cat seat in her knickers as they were cold and wet too. Got them home, lobbed them in the bath and fed them the dregs of the freezer for dinner. Having problems with the RCD tripping randomly so rather than waking up to a freezer full of defrosting food I figured I'd reduce the contents and use it as an excuse to defrost the freezer whilst I figure out whats causing it. That and it saves me going food shopping for quite some time.

Ended up a A&E yesterday after the holiday club supervisor demonstrated rather effectively why one should never play on a climbing frame whilst wearing flip flops. Suspecct she'll be very sore today and quite possibly in plaster too.

School is very very smelly. Carpets are drying excruciatingly slowly although they aren't so much drying as reducing in moisture by means of the walls absorbing it instead as ominous looking high tide marks are appearing in the plaster. Need something miraculous to happen as today is my last day in work for a fortnight and I really don't want to spend that fortnight popping in to see how its drying and then popping in to clean the carpets. Thats not what holidays are about.

OH spent another half day pottering in his sheds. The new one is loooking remarkably organised whilst the old one is suspiciously tidy and hes busy generating more shelf space to put the remainder of the stuff from the house into it. It does mean a bike has materialised in the kitchen but thats not staying. I'm going to turf enough tat out of shed #3 to wedge the bike in there, although thats going to take several hours to do. Bored of tidying but theres still an awful lot of carp to sort through.

Plans for today involve clearing the PC desk which is currently occupied by one mug, two clean cereal bowls, three cameras and several empty cases, six assorted chargers, four catalogues, two pots of pens, several school projects, a small heap of scroll saw blades, four pairs of headphones, several clothes pegs and a whole lot of bits of paper. And thats just the stuff I can see.

moo2moo

Meh. First phone call of the day is a summons to work. So much for planning a laid back day.

beanielou

Not so good.