Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Drum roll please........... for, after much fun and very little housework, I have achieved the transformation of this



into this



All that remains is for me to return the fluff from whence it came for which I'll need an address please.... you know who you are!

Trying_to_be_good

Beautiful, moo!

Igamogam

That fluff transformation is fab

MatyMoo

Wow, fantastic!

moo2moo

Whooo hoooo its the weekend. Plans involve Zumba-ing at a birthday party and much ruthless detatting on Fleabay. I am most determined to make some headway into the dross. Mostly because I'm skinter than a very skint thing so anything that involves generating cash rather than spending it is most definately good.

Oh still has 10 days more at home before returning to work. Timme is not flying, not for me anyway although he is starting to help round the place, more out of boredom than anything else. Hes not bored enough to clean the loos though.

DedicatedDFW

Wow! moo that is absolutely amazing :j:T:j:T:j:T

moo2moo

Today has been tediously dull I listed 28 items listed on E-bay, sold one three hours after listing it for far more than I'd expected given that thisis the third time I'd bunged it on.

Birthday party was dire. Zumba and small children aren't a good mix. The instructor spent more time demonstrating very very slowly whilst singing than the kids did dancing. Need a change of career though. £75 for an hour is just a bit excessive.

moo2moo

Another tediously dull day. This time one spent rather productively wading through my i must get round to it eventually pile. After a mere two months I've fianlly sewn on DD2s cub badges, finished the tango handbag, sewn up the hideous 1960s style tea cosy for the lady in the village shop which is far more hideous than i'd imagined. Think 1960s toilet roll cover and you're not far out. I listed 3 more items on E-bay which meant cleaning out something we'd been using for storage and chucking 80% of the contents. Still have to sew badges on DD2s riding jumper but avoided that because she couldn't find it.

All of which means I have to apologise profusely to the person who requested the mouse bum tea cosy quite some time before the school holidays.... for I can't find your address.... not that this is critical because I'm a couple of bums short ... but it would be helpfu in the not too distant future... unless you've grown bored of waiting and got one somewhere else instead in which case I'll drop it off at the village shop.

Need to iron todays school uniform before braving the biblical downpour. Suspect school will have many internal rain showers today.

Plans for this week involve finishing a whole load of part started things and listing more tat on flea bay at 99p starts to tidy the place up a bit. Much directing of OHs stuff to the bottom of the garden is on the cards especially as he appears to have bought the stuff to make a prototype hovercraft and was muttering about needing the dining table to achieve this... I think not!

Had to hand over £70 in dinner money to the oiks. Most glad the weekends E-bay pick ups were cash on collection. Tis a mere 3 weeks to pay day. It's going to be a very interesting month. Started by ordering a winter and a bits worth of firelighters for £20 from E-bay which is considerably cheaper than the local shops who charge £2 for 20. Not looking forward to the coal delivery since its gone up again to £19 a bag. I've a feeling we'll be using more logs than coal.

chevalier

Nice one on the sewing, the quicker my two learn how to do it themselves the better! As they are 11 and 8 I think I may have to wait a bit...

Hope the down pours are OUTSIDE of the classrooms rather than inside.

Did they toss the carpet at work in the end?

Well done on the ebay sales, good for keeping things ticking over.
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moo2moo

The world outside my window is a tad on the damp side. The village is slowly being cut off from everything. Haven't been able to get beynd DD2s school for 2 days and now the road the otherside of us is impassible. Much excitment was had at work when one of the natives was spotted on Daybreak, admitedly from a distance in wellies, but a television appearance is a television appearance, and is undoubtedly one of the most exciting things to happen for ages. As yet work hasn't flooded although the ceiling is leaking in a few new places. DD1 has given in and worn wellies to school despite muttering about how uncool it was. She'd rather have waded up the road in her school shoes despite the water reaching over the top of them.

No inclination whatsoever to do anything vaguely outdoorsy. Even the dash to the tumbledrier is pointless as the dry stuff is soaked by the time it gets back to the house.

On the brightside I have finished a sleeve. One more to go before a spot of sewing up and something way more fun can be tackled. not that I'm expecting the electrickery to hold out, it usually plays up in grotty weather. Have already filled up the storm lanterns in anticipation and have candles at the ready in all the downstairs rooms and torches and light sticks everywhere upstairs. The phone lines are already sporradic, but again thats normal for here as the connection box is submerged.

The DDs are rather excited about the whole thing, its not often next doors garden becomes a raging torrent nor that parents drop in at lunchtime to collect pupils by tractor so as to get them home. Even the local animal sanctuary put out a plea for temporary homes after their kennel block flooded. Really hoping the rain stops before the weekend despite the forecast suggesting it will get much worse between now and then.