It was getting tough in 2006 and the workhouse still threatens us in 2011

Hobsons_Choice

I find I can't wear flip-flops for the same reason (sore toes). The lovely (southern) weather has now departed and I can't say I miss it! I was dragging myself around in the heat...October....?!
A heads-up for the M&S Sale that starts today. I might go and look for some new shoes, mine are all a bit down at heeel (pun intended).
All those that live north of border, hope the weather's not too bad for you and the gales abate.

GreyQueen

ceridwen wrote: »

GreyQueen

Hope the author thing goes well. Surprised that there will be a charge for that?? I've just gone to listen to an author giving a talk once (more to see what these type of occasions are like than owt....) and it didnt cost anything. Coulda been because it 'twas in a bookshop and maybe yours isnt..

EDIT: Just had a quick check - and obviously I "got off lightly" in having a free author talk then...as I've spotted that £3 or £5 often gets charged for these things. Will cross fingers its the £3 mark for you then...(could be part of the "A lot of things that used to be free are now chargeable trend" I've noticed...

There will be ample change from £5 if my informant is accurate. Sometimes I can get to hear authors speak for free, sometimes there is a fee. If it is modest and I like them enough, I may well go. It's always entertaining to hear creative people talk about creating..........

HariboJunkie, please accept a gentle nudge from a very clean bare foot to motivate you towards your errands etc.......hands across the interweb etc. I ask you to recipricate by giving me a gentle shove into the kitchen to finish the dishes before w*rk.

Softstuff

Hope you get to see your author GQ, I love talks like that. Over here though it can be silly, we went to see Dr Karl at Brisbane and as far as I recall that wasn't much change from $100 for the two of us, but we booked instantly knowing we *had* to go. I think we would have lived on packet noodles for a month if it had been necessary!

I've long since given up on flip flops, but I chuckled about the "eternal toe post optimism", because I've tried them on countless occasions but to no avail. It's holding me back from being a true Australian :rotfl:

culpepper

Yesterday I was out digging onion beds. One is finished and planted up,one finished not planted yet and 2 more to dig.
I had a weird dream last night about going to the garden to find a car parked over the bit I have just dug LOL.
I got my needle and thread out and sewed a button back on my trousers,they have been lacking a button for about 6 months due to my laziness . I used a button from late MIL's button collection.It brought back memories of asking Mum if I could play with the buttons from her collection (did everyone play with buttons?).
OH saw me and this morning he mended the sports bag he found thrown out looking brand new, with only a little tear where the zip had come unstitched .

GreyQueen

culpepper wrote: »

Yesterday I was out digging onion beds. One is finished and planted up,one finished not planted yet and 2 more to dig.
I had a weird dream last night about going to the garden to find a car parked over the bit I have just dug LOL.
I got my needle and thread out and sewed a button back on my trousers,they have been lacking a button for about 6 months due to my laziness . I used a button from late MIL's button collection.It brought back memories of asking Mum if I could play with the buttons from her collection (did everyone play with buttons?).
OH saw me and this morning he mended the sports bag he found thrown out looking brand new, with only a little tear where the zip had come unstitched .

This happened to me for real a few weeks after I got my lottie which had been allowed to get entirely derelict and had reverted to a rough meadow.

Anyway, I went up on a Sunday morning about 10.30 and found a car parked over the bit at the end which I had laboriously cleared and dug; the passenger would have dismebarked and stepped right on the dug ground. It wasn't a case of being a little-bit-parked-on-my-lottie, either; it was the whole blessed car entirely on it.

I was a wee bit cross, as you might imagine, and could see that there were two old boys on the next door lottie, the first time I had met my neighbours.

"Oh great," I thought, "Our first meeting and I'll have to make a complaint. Joy."

Anyway, I put on a friendly face and went over to the fence and introduced myself; "Hi! I'm GreyQueen, your new neighbour. How are you doing? Errmmm, is that your car?"

Old Boy 1 admitted it was his car; Old Boy 2 turned out to be his mate, my lottie neighbour. Who had been fly-tipping his carp onto my plot before it was mine btw.

GQ; "Would you mind moving the car off my allotment please? I'm working on that bit of ground." (Smiling with manic friendliness, determined to make this new relationship work against all odds).

Old Boy 1; "But we always park there."

GQ smiles harder. "But you can see that it's tenanted now, I've put a shed up and I'm digging it. Would you please move the car?"

:mad: They move the car, with ill-grace, about 20 minutes later, but for the next several months, uproot a low fence and park on the end of my plot when I'm not there. There are new people now, thank goodness. :mad:

Laters GQ x

Glitzer

Becky_2 wrote: »

glitzer, hope you are feeling better soon and that the visit to the GP goes well. I don't know what kind of work you do but if your work involves a lot of standing up don't return to work to early if you are going to be in a lot of discomfort, it's not worth it.

No I don't do manual work nor do I have stand so I think I will be OK to go back although the GP wants me to go for an x-ray to be sure I haven't fractured my leg. The private hospital I've just got back from after my sinuses CT scan was running 90 minutes late so I am dreading getting to the NHS one for my leg x-ray. But I guess it is best to be sure! I've got some stronger pain killers so here's hoping. If I do go back on Thursday it won't be so bad as I am off on Monday; tempted to ask for Thursday and Friday as holiday and have a fresh start back on Tuesday! I still have 22 days to use before the end of the year (though currently at risk of redundancy so also tempted to save them!).

redlady_1

Just a quick visit today to let you know what is happening in my world and before I read the posts.

Eventually I have got to the stage where I just cannot cope with doing two jobs anymore, studying and doing up the house. After talking to the OH it has been agreed I will give the pub up. It seems that the manager is leaving too and this has prompted a flurry of resignations one of which mine is one.

It does mean a drop financially but I will gain something valuable called time! No more 15 hour days!!!! It also means I will be able to dedicate time to my studies again as I have no desire to fail. I am so fed up of wandering around with a foggy head too as I am shattered and keep bursting into tears.

Hope you are all well

rachbc

redlady - sounds like a sensible decision if you can absorb the finacial loss - time is one of those comodities that money can't buy.

redlady_1

I will pay off the cellar (saving me £100 per month) and all the pub money was thrown at the cellar debt anyway - with a few luxuries thrown in. I should be ok. It will be weird having my life back again.

Becky_2

Glitzer wrote: »

No I don't do manual work nor do I have stand so I think I will be OK to go back although the GP wants me to go for an x-ray to be sure I haven't fractured my leg. The private hospital I've just got back from after my sinuses CT scan was running 90 minutes late so I am dreading getting to the NHS one for my leg x-ray. But I guess it is best to be sure! I've got some stronger pain killers so here's hoping. If I do go back on Thursday it won't be so bad as I am off on Monday; tempted to ask for Thursday and Friday as holiday and have a fresh start back on Tuesday! I still have 22 days to use before the end of the year (though currently at risk of redundancy so also tempted to save them!).

Glitzer, hope the x-ray goes well so that there is no fracture. I really hope you can escape the redundancy. Let us know how you get on if you do go back to work on Thursday.