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Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions
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Gobsmackingly school is shut! Found out at the bottom of the steepest hill. Built a snowman on the way home. Up to 8" of snow so far and it's only been snowing for four hours. Happy sledging
Whoo hooo for snow days......yes we are shut too. DD2 not happy as her school is open and to add insult to injury her geography teacher was just passing as OH digging car out so offered her a lift:rotfl:
That Chester Roman trip is a killer...........I speak from experience. We did it in a heat wave!
Holidays have started and there is a lot to do...........doubt it will be done at the same lightening speed as Moo though!
Enjoy the snow:)Be the change you want to see -with apologies to Gandhi
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Whoo hooo for snow days......yes we are shut too. DD2 not happy as her school is open and to add insult to injury her geography teacher was just passing as OH digging car out so offered her a lift:rotfl:
That Chester Roman trip is a killer...........I speak from experience. We did it in a heat wave!
Holidays have started and there is a lot to do...........doubt it will be done at the same lightening speed as Moo though!
Enjoy the snow:)
The OH is attempting to make his way home from work. The local news is a steady strem of impassable roads containing jack-knifed lorries and vast amounts of snow so this is likely to take some time.
The DDs ventured outside to build snowmen several hours ago. I have been at one with the sewing machine and have finally finished the bag for the knittery swap and have made one for me too. Can't believe how complicated something seemingly simple turned out to be. Most chuffed with the end result but now I really want a sewing machine with an arm instead of a table, that would have made life so much easier. Perhaps in another lifetime.
Meanwhile the decluttering continues. Four more books have been finished and plonked on the charity pile. I'm almost at the end of the stuff I was given and never really fancied shelf. It's now covered in the detritus of everyday life.... much like the fruitless fruit bowl.
Mostly though I'm slobing around doing naff all and it's great! Although I suspect another two weeks of that will be incredibly boring.Saving for a Spinning Wheel and other random splurges : £183.500 -
Still snowing. Had almost a foot more overnight. Now have drifts halfway up the door and windows on one side of the house and bigger drifts against the outbuildings further down the garden. The fourlegged fiend is most bemused. In the shelter of the house she's knee deep in snow, a couple of feet away from the house shes belly deep and beyond that she disappears completely.
It's very pretty but too soft and too deep to sledge on so we're building an igloo instead.
Wandered into the village yesterday to collect a neighbours prescription. Ventured into the village shop to find it stripped bare. They'd even sold out of sweets and chocolate. Rather glad I have enough food stockpiled here to keep us going for several weeks. OH is not impressed with coffeemate when theres a perfectly good dairy herd 1/4 mile away. The milk tankers can't get to the farms so they're overloaded with milk and will end up having to dispose of it.Saving for a Spinning Wheel and other random splurges : £183.500 -
The snow's arrived here too, I was hoping it would get lost on the way, no such luck.
The OH isn't in to scrumping the milk then? Quick dash across the fields with a jug?Total debt at October 2008: £67,213.30
Total debt today: £0 - debt and mortgage free 29th November 2013 :T
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Its an ill divided world, Here I am , The furthest North of all of you, as in Go to John O groats then swim 7 miles ....... and I have no snow ... nada .. zilch .. Tho it is windy & bloomin cowld ! Stay safe & warm you lot
.. espcially those of you brave enough to wear onsies ! ... Oh and if anyones out of milk, I have some newly calved cows in the byre, plenty milk here
Its just a bad day, Not a bad life .. :cool:0 -
Still snowing. The garden ranges from ankle deep to thigh deep. Having to dig the chicken coops out each morning to get food and water to them. Most fortunate we still have electricity. A falling tree half a mile away took out the supply to those beyond it. Kids are starting to go stir crazy. It's not much fun playing out in yesterdays wet boots. This in turn means I'm going stir crazy too.
DD1 was bored enough to learn to knit. DD2 spent the morning building a working model of a petrol engine with the OH.
Have promised if they behave they can watch our local team in todays footy final, even if it is in Welsh on S4C, I fear my head may explode. Especially if the excited Welsh commentator yells "O C'mon reff! Roedd e'n camsefyll!"Saving for a Spinning Wheel and other random splurges : £183.500 -
It's finally stopped snowing. It wamed up enough to start to thaw and then froze leaving some very impressive icicles, much very crunchy snow and a heck of a lot of ice.
Ventured out to the civilised world having run out of pasta. The village shop hasn't had any deliveries since last Thursday so tried the village at the bottom of the hill. Turned out to be a most surreal trek. We left the house in full winter gear, boots, thermal undies, down filled jackets, hats, gloves, scarves and sledges wandering along lanes full of snow drifts. Reached the bottom of the hill to find the snow suddenly disappeared. The fields are green and full of daffodils. Managed to stock up on everything we needed before returning home to the frozen wasteland. Still no chance of getting the car out as the lanes are impassable but at least the end is in sight.
The DDs have finally got bored of being bored and are happily playing card games and board games together. DD2 even vacuumed in the hopes of being allowed extra telly time.
Meanwhile I finally finished the sheep socks and am well on my way to a drawful of handmade sockiesSaving for a Spinning Wheel and other random splurges : £183.500 -
Love the socks Mrs Moo and some partial leg!0
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ooooh very cute socks!
It keeps snowing here but so far mainly flakes falling to scare everybody in the middle of the day and then it's not staying. I hope... *looks round for something wooden*
Rosa xxDebt free May 2016... DFW#2 in progress
Campervan paid off summer '21... MFW progress tbc0
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