Yet more financial faux pas and many other disasterous decisions

Wordsmith

It certainly is. I am still aspiring to dishcloths!

MrsMoo2U

Absolutely Brilliant Dalek there. Cant wait to see the mouse bums.

RosaBernicia

:rotfl: Dalek is marvellous - get it on a Dr Who forum NOW, hire help, and prepare to make your fortune at Christmas

Rosa xx

MatyMoo

Loving the dalek Great colour too :T

Igamogam

Fab not-a-dalek-coffee-cosy!

chevalier

I loved the not a darlek too. And it is even in a similar colour to the old TARDIS too!

moo2moo

Thanks guys!

Managed a rather productive day yesterday. Whipped up 14 jars of marmalade, 6 jars of jam, 2 unmentionables and a roast dinner as well as another mamoth trip to Mr Ts where we were in whoopsie heaven. Between us the DDs and I aquired 9 pairs of leggings, one jumper and one knitted dress for a gobsmacking £28. The foody offers were almost as good. Tinned tomatoes with herbs were a mere 8p, giant packs of meat were £1 instead of a fiver, pasta was a third cheaper than previous weeks, bread was 10p a loaf, OHs razor blades were half price and doggy chow was on promotion too and I had another £12 off voucher. Happy days. All in all I overspent for the second week in a row. Will not be setting foot in store for quite some time.

Plans for today involve a whole lot more washing up. Seemed to do it endlessly yesterday but theres still tons to do. The DDs managed to whip up a batch of very chocolate fridge cakes which explains some of it. Need to fill OHs car with go-go juice because hes whipped mine and his is ominously low. Getting half way to work and realising he'd left his pass at home didn't help.

Further plans for the day involve locating DD1s PE socks which are lurking somewhere in the leaning tower of laundry. A spot of ironing wouldn't go amis either. Oh the joys of domestic drudgery. OH has kindly left the chimeny sweeping brushes handy just in case I feel the urge. Need to get that over and done with sooner rather than later. Also need to order a coal delivery because the bunker is rather low. Suspect the price of that will have rocketed up too.

moo2moo

RosaBernicia wrote: »

:rotfl: Dalek is marvellous - get it on a Dr Who forum NOW, hire help, and prepare to make your fortune at Christmas

Rosa xx

I would rather gouge my own eyes out with the extremely pointy doubly pointed needles than knit them endlessly for the next two months. Besides at an average one a week I'd starve to death. I suspect the fee for knitting them is likely to average about 5% of the national minimum wage in relation to the time taken..... mostly correcting my own mistakes..... kept losing stitches off the other end of the needles which then have a nasty habit of disappearing taking a few friends with them and before you know it you're pulling back half a dozen rows to sort it out. Still at least I'll know for next time.

moo2moo

Did shed loads of washing up but the worktop is still liberally strewn. Will have another go at the kitchen today. Did lots of small tidying jobs in the hopes of reducing the amount of stuff lying around. The DDs get more like their father with every passing day. Labelled up the weekends jams and marmalades. Had a quick tidy of my craft stash which is growing exponentially. What was a couple of balls of wool is already a cupoboard full. Arrived home from work late. Got a bit too carried away decluttering the PTA stash in the hopes of cramming it all onto a shelving unit half the size of their current one. Its going surprisingly well. Collected DD2 from cubs on my way home, discovered I'm on duty next week. Oh joy. Still its better than being on duty the week after for elecktrickery free day. That'll be fun.

DD1 is currently arranging the ultimate birthday party. Having to persuade her that seeing the smurfs at the flicks will not endear her to her new high school chums. The revised plan features Footloose and pizza the hut. Need to time it so that OH is around to amuse DD2 because its a 12A certificate. Also need to make sure DD1 doesn't get carried away with her invites and end up with more kids than seats in the car.

moo2moo

Despite having two extra long showers yesterday my skin is still grey. The chimney is much cleaner though. Removed three large bags of soot, mostly fro the soot plate, the walls of the chimney themself weren't that bad. Didn''t make as uch mess as anticipated until Oh materialised to help. Whilst I was in the shower he used a high pressure air line to clean the bits I couldn't get the vac into. Meant the soot spread into other rooms so much wiping down was required. More scarily he mopped the laminate floor with lots of water and bleach, quite why is anyones guess ... I mopped it twice more in the hopes of minimising any damage. Did three loads of washing to get the duct out of the sheets I'd used to cover the furniture. Have two more chimneys to tackle at some point.

Ordered more coal. Its £1 a bag more than last year until October 1st when the price goes up again. That worksout at an extra tenner a month or £50 over the winter. Wish my wage wqas rocketing up as fast as everything else is.

DD1 arrived home with another deluge of paperwork. Todays include an invite to a book shopping evening to promote reading and a trip to the theatre at a bargaintastic £13. Cheque duly written. Once its cleared I'll have £12 left in my bank account and another £80 to find if she ends up going on the trip.

Discovered I'm going on a residental jollly at the end of the week. Not entirely sure if I'm going for breakfast or the entire day. Seems there are as many cars at the centre as there are teachers and somone has to supervise the little darlings on the bus. Hoping I get to take a carhome rather than supervise the pukers.

Plans for today involve much domestic drudgery whilst OH pootles about outside repairing stonechips on his car.