Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

moo2moo

Men! For every sensible thing he does OH seems to manage to do two stupid things. Which is why he treked to the post office in the big city to collect a parcel a mere three hours after it wasn't delivered here. Unsurprisingly it was still on the van, the helpful hint being the card which asks you to wait 24 hours before collection. Being a clever chappy hes arranged redelivery today. Of course, like yesterday, there will be no one in when the postie does his rounds so it will be returned to the sorting office and I'll endure another spanish inquisition of the where were you when they tried to deliver variety. I wouldn't mind if it were something important but its a land rover part thats unlikely to be fitted until some time in 2014.

DD1 read another school book in its entirety last night. Not to be left out DD2 insisted on doing the same. Finally got dinner at 9pm. Whilst munching away DD1 drops the bombshell that theres a residntial trip in three weeks time that she'd like to go on. Basic details are a bit vague but the ski-ing, climbing, canoeing, sailing, aerial roping and wot not bits she managed to remember. Turns out she'd really like to go and its the week before her birthday so she'll gladly forfit all birthday gifts in preference. Told her we'd consider it once we knew when and where it was, how long it was for and how much it was. High school is considerably more expensive than I was anticipating.

moo2moo

Whooo hoooo its the weekend. No more impromptu furniture shifting or classroom rearranging until monday. Quite why they all decide to do this on a Friday and then !!!!!! orf half way through is anyone guess. The magic pixies are on strike nad classrooms have been left as they abandoned them. Have two classes away on a week long residential trip so the biggest whingers can use those whilst I attempt to sort the devastation on Monday. As it is I didn't leave until 7:30pm.

Managed to get a fair bit of housework tidying. Came home to find DD1 had done lots more. Seems a three day school resiential trip is quite an incentive. Cheque duly written. Places are allocated by lottery so she'll have to wait another fortnight to see if shes going. At least thats two weeks of lots of extra help around the house.

Plans for today involve chutney making. Possibly a spot of marmalade making, the ordering of more jam jar lids and the soaking of much fruit in readiness for x-mas cake making tomorrow. Hoping for a very laid back lazy weekend.

lucielle

That's not my idea of a lazy weekend. Enjoy!
L

rupe34

Moo - please stop talking about making Christmas cakes - as it is my absolute favourite thing to do and the only baking I enjoy - BUT if I make them this early, I will eat them by November:D

chevalier

the residential thing sounds just like DD1's thing so I hope she gets a place. And nice one that she realised that helping out would be a big plus for her too. And yeah to the reading
chev

moo2moo

lucielle wrote: »

That's not my idea of a lazy weekend. Enjoy!
L

WHat could be lazier than doing the thingsa that relax you?

Suppose this is the point we admit to a quick snatch and grab at the village library which has furnished us with local history books for DD1s geography homework, a stack of crafting for kids books and an awful lot of books for the sheer heck of it.

Have scoffed cheese and homemade chutney butties washed down with a vat of pucker coffee and am planning to take the hounds for a hike in the country park so that the DDs can vanish on their bikes for a couple of hours. Hopefully they'll then do their homework in peace leaving me to trash the kitchen before the glace cherry scoffing contest begins. Despite buying 600g and only making two cakes so far we seem to have used considerably more than the 100g the recipe required.

Rupe - you need will power gal. That and parents in far flung places on which to abandon the cakes at the earliest opportunity. It also helps to bake a couple of barm bracks at the same time which are rather scrummy, v. cheap to make and taste especially good when slathered in butter with a huge wedge of cheese.

moo2moo

Grated the rind of the fruit for todays unmentionables. Bunged the innards in the slow cooker along with all the citrus fruit from the fruit bowl in readiness for a spot of marmalade making later this morning. Have also lobbed in last weekends overly chewy lime marmalade and will add the batch of toffee like pink maramalade at the very last minute to get rid of that.... a concoction I'llbe labelling as four fruit marmalade.

Rescued the last of the rhubarb from the garden. Thats been sitting overnight in a vat of sugar. Will add a vanilla pod and transform that into jam in super quick time at some point today. Quite when is anyones guess. Need to visit Mr Ts to take advantage of a £12 off £80 spend and return the clothes I bought last week which don't fit.

Had to wrestle yesterdays Joe Browns catalogue from the DDs... purely for academic reasons. Its not like I've fallen in love with the stuff all over again. I'd be sooooo disappointed if I bought any of it. Doesn't stop me drooling though.

Finally finished knitting the not-really-a-darlek. Just have to remember how to crochet in order to add button holes. Its not at all bad though and must look reasonably accurate because OHs first comment was "what the !!!! have you knitted a darlek for?" Most infuriatingly it turns out my french press is a 12 cup not an 8 cup so I'd have to adapt the instructions to make one big enough for us. Was finally getting the knack of knitting on super pointy skewers, does take a fair amount of concentration though.

Spent yesterday afternoon supervsing homework. DD1 has had a reasonable attempt at a potted geographical history of the village before getting side tracked and helping DD2 with hers. Now have two fab sock puppets and four less googly eyes in the stash.

Eager_Elephant

Are we able to have pictures of all your lovely creations?

Glad DD1 is getting on really well at school.

moo2moo

Mice bums are still in the bottom of a bag awaiting a bout of enthusiam for sewing up..... something I'll avoid for a while longer yet.

Bitsy_Beans

Moo that dalek is fantastic