The Matrix - Re-Evolution!!

troglodyte

TMIF I've had lots of holidays on my own, if I want to go somewhere I just go there whether anyone else wants to (or is able to) come with me or not!

As far as meeting people goes though, it can be hard to meet people if you are just in a strange place on your own (although it certainly does happen; I'm still in touch with a friend I met in Norway back in 1987!). If you just want to visit somewhere then that's fine, you can do what you want, see the sights, go to events etc and take a book to read in restaurants! If you would like to meet new people then it's best to either go on some sort of activity-related holiday (SCUBA-diving is my 'thing'; I've travelled to plenty of places on my own but then met new friends once there), or to join a group guided holiday where you go along with a group from the beginning. A lot of these tend to be a bit more than 'just' a holiday lying on the beach but all sorts of activities are available, like historical tours, bird-watching, walking, cycling, safari trips, boat tours, dancing holidays, yoga retreats... loads of options, what floats your boat?

Memory_Girl

OliveOyl wrote: »

And I had a job interview this morning (only temp, but money's too tight to mention at the mo) so Popeye has returned leaving me behind and I got the job :j Start Wednesday

Go OO - I had no idea you were back in Blighty - I's missed that somehow

Went into T*sco after the interview and have some work clothes (everybody wears black, why?) and the assistant gave me an extra voucher so the bill was only £32

OMG!! Thought is was only thesps that still did the black thing - or Goths I suppose - you are not going Goth on us are you? -Souk would NOT approve

people at HMRC were always nice to me But for a £14.50 refund this year I received FOUR letters advising me how my claim was progressing :rotfl:

What stopped me wearning black was when a playwright wrote a monologue piece about me in a play ............... from that day I was over the whole black thing. Oh and a couple of other less savoury habits (like toyboys :rotfl:)

"I always got what I went after
so when I heard the music of his laughter
across the bar
where every self-appointed star
thought it wasn't cool to smile.

I clicked my heels across the tile to his side and said
I have something to confide
I am so over black apparel
it signifies to me a total lack of individuality
but I like your smile
and you're wearing red

I knew he's fall into my bed
just one more slightly spoilt kid
who had it all but wanted more
spinning my revolving door ........................"

the rest wasn't me, he made it up as a warning


"Then one fun night of take-out with Nintendo
He up and cries I'm bi and I am sick
You're not sick I cry real quick
You're just hot, no wonder guys want what you got

Not this he cried, not AIDS
and then he died, leaving me these
His crimson shirts and his disease

I never thought I'd end up dead
because I loved a boy in red"


Cracking musical in the West End and Shhhh!!! I was played by Amanda Mealing (Connie Beacham in Casulty BTW:D)

Thankfully begin to be a piece of social history - but a sad time to live through. OMG that was like 20 years ago and the poem still sticks!! Nice to know there is till stuff in there apart from "The Sun'll Come Out Tomorrow!!" :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

MG

Horace

I wondered where you had gone Olive as I hadn't seen you on the forum for a while. I know what you mean about being skint...I am currently skinter than a skint thing if that is possible?

Just had the most hellish call with Virgin Money which left me on the verge of tears and pretty much suicidal so I made a call to CCCS who told me to keep paying my £1 a month and if they called again to remind them about CCCS and how I am not going to talk to them any more - I was asked why I was made redundant, what I did in my last job and why I took out a credit card and what did I spend it on - I discovered they are not allowed to ask these questions:mad: I don't mean to be in this mess and I am doing what I can to get out of it.

Well, I am out tonight listening to someone yak about aloe vera - I hope there will be food because I am feeling rather peckish despite me eating leftover bols for lunch.

Hello Soup - forgot to say hello earierl.

clairewop

Good evening I have a headache from hell.

groatie_queen

Hello Soupy!

And OO, nice to see you here and congrats on the job.

Having had my interruption to my holiday, (7 hrs overtime to claim back), I'm now on annual leave again. :j:j

Lovely plans - lunch at my sister's tomorrow and having evening meal at good friends on Wednesday. I've decided Thurs I'll go back to where I was meant to be today, and do the museum exhibitions (which end next month so I want to catch them) and pottering, or I will feel I missed out on something long planned. No overnight stay though. Friday morning is my regular cuppa morning with a friend and his black labrador, so the week is looking good!

I've now got room in the freezer for the 3 chickens I was given, and I'm about to convert the displaced frozen blackcurrants into creme de cassis. This is a first, and if successful will be as given Christmas presents.

Commiserations to MG and Horace for dealing with officialdom on the phone. It's hard going at the best of times! Glad you both ended up with sympathetic ears and hope it all comes out in the wash.

Souk08

Hi all,

Tmif I havent holidayed alone yet, but I plan to as soon as I know whats happening with my life! Rome first or maybe Barcelona. I'll be doing it as cheaply as possible but it will be fun! Next year Im planning Goa to stay with friends. For this I will keep spending as little as possible on food.

Horace, Ive had the same chats about my food spending with the bank. They thought I should be spending £200 a month. On my own! God Id be the size of a bus if I was!!! XXX

Dorastar

Lol at the different amounts banks think we need for food - once had to tell ours that £500 was a bit excessive imho! Don't know where they shop but I aint going there - although one of their staff also does shifts at morrisons and last time I went shopping he told me to go and swap some orange juice for a better brand at a cheaper deal that I'd missed!

Work, 15 mins gardening, dancing (tap tonight eek), then more schooly work. I like life trundling along, apart from a broken washing machine everything is going ok. Had a big chat to dh in the half hour I saw him over the weekend and we are going to try to get some serious saving done over the next year to pay off CC then knock some off mortgage in time for remortgage next year as would like to cut LTV down a bit. Not sure how much is realistic though? Our childcare costs have just been slashed to about £40 per week so we should have an extra £60 most weeks we can just save but beyond that not sure really.

Memory_Girl

Just settling down with a book and a pot of tea - what did you think of my snazzy "ole-fashioned" tea cosy BTW?:D Pattern on the blog if someone is feeling creative.

When DS1 asked how his "Science Experiment" was going - so we went off to have a look at the vanilla extract we are making - it has turned a gorgeous dark brown and smells - well, of vanilla (which is a relief).

I'm not planning on making cake until the weekend - but will report back how it flavours a sponge then - but I am very very hopeful.

Yay!!! to chemist friends who love Making Do and Mending:D

MG

tenmah

Which blog MG? Have looked at both and can't see it!

greenbee

tenmah wrote: »

Which blog MG? Have looked at both and can't see it!

I'm glad I'm not the only one!