Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

butler_helen wrote: »

Hi moo... I'm a lurker but I have said hi before! I am at hobby craft tomorrow - what colours are you after if I see them?

Squeeee .... whatever colours they have, I don't think there are any in the offer I don't like. They're all bright stripey balls.

If theres a colour you particularly like I'd gladly knit you a pair of socks as a thank you.

butler_helen

I shall take a gander and pick up lots if they have them. *fingers crossed for you*

moo2moo

Whoooo hooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's finally the weekend which marks the end of the week from hell.

Monday started with a request from the ex-useless cleaner for a reference. Nightmare to write. Ended up having to say that she attended regulalry and could perform to a satisfactory standard under constant supervision. Even then thats stretching the truth rather a lot but since you're no longer allowed to actually say what you think if you think negative thoughts its going to have to do.

Tuesday the relief cleaner, who is covering for the ilegal immigrants relief cleaner announced she had other commitments at the end of the month. Eeek.

Wednesday the illegal immigrant announced her return to work, after a year and a half off. This was swiftly followed by an e-mailed request to be paid cash in hand as her work permit has been revoked. Fell about laughing and forwarded the e-mail to HR. She won't be returning.

Thursday submitted a request for an advert for a replacement cleaner to the powers that be filling in enough forms to eradicate a small chunk of rainforest.

Friday was informed that my employee request will be actioned when the person responsible for job adverts returns from their holiday in a fortnights time. Jolly good.

Came home and had a very large glass of wine. Then realised I'd forgotten to have lunch and hadn't got around to dinner. Was !!!!ed as a fart in super quick time.

Still haven't got round to telling the wrinklies that I'm not going to my grandads funeral. Not expecting that decision to go down well.

On the brightside today is gloriously sunny and we're off to muck out some horses. I love the smell of horse manure

anakat

:hello:
De-lurking to thank you for mentioning the Hobbycraft sale. I have 10 balls of sock wool and 2 Kidsilk haze, for which I paid £18

moo2moo

anakat wrote: »

:hello:
De-lurking to thank you for mentioning the Hobbycraft sale. I have 10 balls of sock wool and 2 Kidsilk haze, for which I paid £18

Lucky you Thanks for the PM. Happy knitting!

moo2moo

Spent most of yesterday sunbathing. The demonic daughters were delighted to have an extended morning at the stables and mucked out more boxes than usual, they were even more delighted to be rewarded with horse exercising duties and made the most of that by investigating the fields they don't normally get to ride in. I read half a book in a sunny spot.

Spent the afternoon doing domesticated things, washed all manner of smelly stuff thankful that I could get rugs out on the line. Then realised we'd run out of loo roll and legged it to Makro. Ambled round the store collecting all manner of whoopsies. Bargain of the week was a commercial pack of printer ink reduced from £320 to £15 (85p a cartridge). Convinced myself that it was a typo, but it wasn't . Now have to hope the printer doesn't wear out before we've used it all up.

Spent the remainder of the day helping DD1 to latch hook whilst DD1 continued trying to master freehand beaded embroidery. Cleaned the bathroom at 8:30pm rather than watch The Falklands War having already sat through The Falling of the Berlin Wall. Still I did manage to knit half a sock whilst trying to ignore the presenter droning on monotonously, repeating himself at each and every opportunity. I don't mind history programs but I wish the presenters would credit the viewers with a modicum of intelligence.



Today looks like being a grotty day but we have to venture out to pick up the ingredients for DD1s instant cookery lesson which requires her to take everything pre-prepared Blue Peter style.

Looks like theres no getting out of the funeral or the visit to the crem although the mid-afternoon bun fight is up for negotiation. C'est la vie.

Igamogam

moo2moo wrote: »

Today looks like being a grotty day but we have to venture out to pick up the ingredients for DD1s instant cookery lesson which requires her to take everything pre-prepared Blue Peter style.

Its not a cookery lesson anymore its an exercise in assembling pre diced/chopped/ cooked food then negotiating a half mile walk to bus stop after school and the journey home with the said assembled food together with PE kit, Clarinet, bulging ruck sack,art folder and coat that is never worn:eek:

Lovely socks BTW

Eager_Elephant

Igamogam wrote: »

Its not a cookery lesson anymore its an exercise in assembling pre diced/chopped/ cooked food then negotiating a half mile walk to bus stop after school and the journey home with the said assembled food together with PE kit, Clarinet, bulging ruck sack,art folder and coat that is never worn:eek:

Lovely socks BTW

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

So very true.

DS was making a pasta bake one day and the plan was that him, DD & DH would have it for tea but you can guess what happened.........

Yup he dropped it :eek:

So there was a lovely pasta bake covered in ceramic shards!!

The worse thing was that we were supposed to mark it for appearance, taste etc - I wrote in the comments that it would have been a bit crunchy if we had tried it :rotfl:

moo2moo

Whoooooo hooooooo I got a pay rise..... I mean I didn't actually get a payrise because we're on a pay freeze but I paid less tax to the government which means more money in my bank account and as thats going to happen every months it's almost as good as a payrise. It should be noted that I'm still slaving away full time because the powers that be aren't capable of changing my contract, apparently they've lost the request form.... and they still haven't advertised the vacancy for the cleaner... quite what these people do when they'#re not doing what they are paid to do is a tad unclear.

In the meantime I splurged extravagently and bought a new sewing machine. I suspect new is pushing it a bit as shes approaching 90 years old but that aside shes new to us. I spent most of yesterday stripping and degrotting her, tracked down a 50p replacement for the only dubious looking bit so she now looks considerably shinier than the before picture which follows.




Next on the to do list is remembering how to sew .... for it has been quite some time... not that you'd know this from the growing stash of fabric crammed in the overflowing crafty cupboard.... is it wrong that I'm already searching fleabay for a treadle machine and table????????

moo2moo

Eager_Elephant wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

So very true.

DS was making a pasta bake one day and the plan was that him, DD & DH would have it for tea but you can guess what happened.........

Yup he dropped it :eek:

So there was a lovely pasta bake covered in ceramic shards!!

The worse thing was that we were supposed to mark it for appearance, taste etc - I wrote in the comments that it would have been a bit crunchy if we had tried it :rotfl:

We have the joys of homemade pizza to look forward to.... wholewheat with anchovies and olives, assembled at 9am and carried around an overheated building for 6 hours before its bus ride home. A slice of food poisoning anyone?