Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

Igamogam

Inspections................boo:(

chevalier

Hope it goes well

chevalier

Hope the inspection has gone well.

moo2moo

10 days without a post. me thinks thats a record. I'd like to say its because I've been having tons of fun but its mostly due to having a head full of snot, working 7 day weeks and being bitten by the domestic goddess bug. The house is marginally tidier than normal. Given how much tat I've chucked out you'd expect it to be a gleaming haven of minimalism but vaguely tidier than normal suits me just fine. I still have the tale end of a cold but thats not prevented us from visiting several of the local parks in order to paddle in the river whilst munching ice creams. Its a lot harder to do than you'd think.

The OH is on a course but is travelling from home which means his day starts at the same time as everyone elses, he doesn't need his mid afternoon nap, seems to be sleeping better at night and is a tad more enthusiastic about being dragged along to various fetes and bazaars.

Am attempting to spend less time at the PC and more time doing stuff I enjoy. Sometimes they're the same thing but mostly I find I've sat down with a cuppa for five minutes and an hour has whizzed by.

Have done sweet FA about all things Christmas, haven't even baked cakes yet..... but am already sick of the endless christmas tunes on the radio but have yet to remeber to take a cd out to the car which means I'm stuck with the radio or The Wurzels. Tis enough to make me want to drive around in total silence.

Off to wash anonther wall before returning to the grindstone. Its non stop fun here!

Igamogam

Wondered where you had got to! I am also already sick of Christmas and it aint started as far as I am concerned! Took me over 6 hours to do 45 min journey home from work the other night due to the floods on the major route that shall remain nameless - put local radio on in the hope of getting decent traffic udpates - not a chance in hell - they decide to play Christmas tunes to keep everybody 'jolly if you have been stuck for 6 hours' on the infamous main arterial road that at the fist signs of bad weather ( rain fog snow wind or ice) compeletly implodes and turns into a country lane - aaaarrrgh!! So I am already Christmassed out Oooh rant over - sorry!

moo2moo

Rain, rain, rain, reain, beautiful rain. Not. Had to phone the boss 20 minutes after he left to tell him that someone had ingeniously shut a door, labelled it do not use and forgot to mention the reason for the label was a small roof leak which by 6:30pm was bulging like a balloon. Punctured the ceiling to let it drain through the plasterboard but fully expect to go in this morning to a collapsed ceiling. Oh joy.

The garden is boggy but not ridiculously so, the lane outside the house is more babbling brook than raging torrent but can't go much beyond our house as the dips in the road beyond us are full of water and impassable by car, wellie and dog.

Haven't left the house for days other than to go to work. Got bored of doing housework. Am back to my usual minimalistic attempts to keep the ironing pile under control. Much book reading is being achieved simply because theres nothing on the telly box and it beats staring out the window looking at grey skies and rain. Next doors sheep are huddled on a hillock as their field is slowly shrinking, theres no where to move them to as about a third of the fields surrounding us are covered in standing water.

On the brightside the Christmas holidays are rapidly approaching which means almost three weeks off work Still haven't bought any Christmas prezzies nor come up with any ideas at all.

Igamogam

Floods are quite mad - and according to Met Office we are no where near the average rainfall - what the heck is going on!

moo2moo

Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink. The temperature has plummeted and the roads surrounding my house are like an ice rink, as are the fields. Turns out this is sue to a burst water main so we have no water and can't report it as a leak because having phoned the emergency helpline I was cheerfully informed in Welsh that the office hours are 8am -5pm (at least thats what I think they said). Jolly good. Will be leaving early to grab a shower at work, or at least I would if the staff shower wasn't the designated dumping ground of choice for donations of tat for next weeks x-mas fair. Will go to work smelly instead.

beanielou

Oh you do make me laugh.

moo2moo

*Cartwheels in* ....because for the first time ever I can see out of the windows without having to open them and lean out.

Admitedly it would have been 3K cheaper just to keep leaning out of the window but the tilt and twist mechanism for opening the windows didn't so much tilt and turn and plummet unpredicatably. Add to that the herculean effort required to open the patio door and it was money well spent. Of course that means one of the springs has chosen this week to poke its way through the matress thus starting the great bed replacement debate. I want a matrewss like a paving slab, the OH wants one like a sponge and we're both in agreement that whatever it is will need to be super kingsize in order for us to get any sleep now that the hound from hell has figured out how to slither up the bed, place her head on the pillow and stretch out full length before shoving one or other or both of us onto the floor.

Whilst I'm on a spending spree I need to splurge on a new keyboard as this one is sticking and the o key doesn't always want to work, nor does the space bar or the e key.