Pinot's Potty debt free journey!!!

kerri_dfw

Brizzled if you do that I fear we may all end up the same shape as a doughnut

armchairexpert

Isn't it ridiculous that you and DH work so hard, and are clearly so great at your jobs if he's at the top of everyone's lists, AND you're ebaying and sewing and cooking from scratch, and yet here you are scratching around trying to find money to put food on the table...all because of some f*cker on a yacht somewhere. It reminds me a bit of Vanity Fair - the Thackeray book, not the magazine! - where all the posh people are swanning around keeping up appearances, meanwhile the tailors and the butchers and the cleaners are going hungry waiting for their bills to be paid...

Skint_but_Optimistic

I know I like to wrap the clothes up nicely too. I also pop a tumble drier sheet in with them, so they smell freshly laundered!!

It is so much nicer.

PinotGrigio41

brizzledfw wrote: »

Great news PG...the phone ringing has to be good!

Re doughnuts..a Spanish friend makes some great aniseed ones..they need Sambuca though:rotfl: and you then dip them in chocolate oh and then eat them ...they are yum yum yum..

Shall I post a recipeep?

Have a good eve folks
X

Ooh yes please ............:D:D

PinotGrigio41

kerri_dfw wrote: »

Brizzled if you do that I fear we may all end up the same shape as a doughnut

Sambucca and Chocolate doughnuts are well worth the risk I think Kerri !!!

PinotGrigio41

armchairexpert wrote: »

Isn't it ridiculous that you and DH work so hard, and are clearly so great at your jobs if he's at the top of everyone's lists, AND you're ebaying and sewing and cooking from scratch, and yet here you are scratching around trying to find money to put food on the table...all because of some f*cker on a yacht somewhere. It reminds me a bit of Vanity Fair - the Thackeray book, not the magazine! - where all the posh people are swanning around keeping up appearances, meanwhile the tailors and the butchers and the cleaners are going hungry waiting for their bills to be paid...

:rotfl:Now that made me laugh, he is indeed a f***ker. Actually the same Mr Big Shot Yacht that tried to screw us over 10 years ago.....but that's yet another story !

He didn't manage it then, we are still here to tell the tale and he wont get the better of us now either !

But yes I am in total agreement, its all so wrong but sadly the way of the world I think. We will get the money out of him by hook or by crook .x

PinotGrigio41

Skint_but_Optimistic wrote: »

I know I like to wrap the clothes up nicely too. I also pop a tumble drier sheet in with them, so they smell freshly laundered!!

It is so much nicer.

The trouble is though, as lovely as they look and smell it is a bit time consuming isnt it ?! I might steal your trick, I wash and iron all of mine before I send them. Am I a bit daft doing that ?x

PinotGrigio41

suburbanwifey wrote: »

Well, it goes back to when we first met. I was a city chic type of gal, he was a rough, tough soldier (I liked a bit of rough back then, nice guys were boring lol) and he had this old Barbour coat that he had had years. I thought it was the ugliest thing I'd ever seen! He suggested I would look *gorgeous* in one ah hem!:eek: I told him where to go and suggested he change his job so he could afford my designer habits as no way was I ever wearing Barbour (I was horrible and spoilt back then, sorry! ) anyway ... cutting a long story short, we got married 3 months later ... he told me his dream was to live in the middle of nowhere in Wales one day. I said I would never leave the city. But .... some 10 years later I took a day trip to Glasgow (all that Scottish stuff going on ... kilts, haggis, bagpipes, it drew me in and I fell in love for the 2nd time, only this time with Scotland :T) I ended up touring Scotland for 4 full years. During a year living in Inverness (and popping back every month to see hubby who had to work) I bought my first Barbour jacket - brand new, costing a fortune and I fell in love with it. Over the next few years I bought several more styles - all brand new including my first gorgeous long green trench (very stylish!) and it started from there. I arrived back from my touring of Scotland to announce we had to move to Scotland. A year later I found my dream cottage in a rural village and we bought it. My Barbour collection continued to grow. I team my Barbours with my designer boots and it works! but nowadays I love more my walking boots, my Gore-tex and my Barbours (I have a lot!) last one I bought was a few weeks ago a brand new Ladies Durham (bought with the sale of the unwanted gold, remember?) and hubby bought me a Barbour waxed leather Tarras bag for Valentines Day - told him to stop wasting money on flowers, they die. In Scotland I live in Barbour, in England (as we still have a home in England at the moment until he moves to new job in Scotland in few months) I wear my city clothes. I'll be selling a lot of those when the move in complete. So, its his fault and Scotland's that I love Barbour.

One of my best bargains on eBay was a vintage Barbour that I bought on there, sent it off to Barbour in South Shields and their magical ladies re-waxed it and it came back looking like new. So I have new Barbours and one's I've bought from eBay that I revamp. Its fun.

If someone had told me at 20 that I would wear Barbours one day I would have laughed.

:rotfl:

What a lovely story Mrs Wifey, thankyou for sharing.

kerri_dfw

PinotGrigio41 wrote: »

The trouble is though, as lovely as they look and smell it is a bit time consuming isnt it ?! I might steal your trick, I wash and iron all of mine before I send them. Am I a bit daft doing that ?x

This amazes me as we all KNOW how much you LOVE ironing *snorkles*:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

PinotGrigio41

Now I have answered you all above, I had to just tell you that DD2 managed to sing in her concert last night.

Despite her nasty cold and throat she overcame her nerves, didn't need DD1 who sat in the audience whooping and clapping wildly and she sung her socks off ( actually she wasn't wearing any, she sung her tights off !)

Its the first time she has sung a solo to a big audience without DD1 standing alongside her doing some backing vocals for moral support.:D:D

This morning my manic grin isn't forced, it is genuinely a huge, wide proud grin. DD2 said "Enough already mum, you are scaring me with that crazy grin, and please stop telling me how proud you are , I think I get it by now mum !!!) Oops , best I stop now then ! :rotfl: