A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

mardatha

PAH, this is why I'm not scared of ghosts or spirits the living are far, far scarier! We hardly ever get anybody at all at the door, except when I get a parcel or a neighbour wants a hand with something.

SDG31000

Morning All
(((((((((((((Shegar, PIC and ginnyknit)))))))))))))))))

Mrs Chip The best of luck for the grand opening. I hope it goes really well

How frightening kidcat. I hope you managed to get some sleep.

I've been MIA for a few days as I've been baking up a storm and helping our neighbours move house. Thankfully they were only moving across the road so there were a few of us just carrying the contents between the houses. Apparently I was the voice of calm in the chaos, i.e I was a bossy boots who managed to deal with D (our neighbour) and focus her enough so she could tell everyone what to do. Then we had to go and have a drink with them in their new home, so DH and I spent yesterday nursing huge hangovers as D is incapable of hearing the word "No" when it applies to refilling glasses.
DS1 and DS2 are now on school hols, so I get to spend the next two weeks listening to various computer games and rushing back and forth between Leicester and DPIL's house down South. I think I'm going to end up as Chef for the duration. I'm planning on taking a few tins of goodies down with me to feed the masses.

With regards to spelling and proper grammer, I was at school from 1979 to 1991 (when I left Secondary School) and I don't recall ever being taught grammer. I must have being taught the basics, but can't remember it at all. It definitely wasn't taught at Secondary School. When DS1 and DS2 were younger and doing English homework I had to research what a noun is because I just didn't know.

The plan for today is to go grocery shopping at some point and maybe visit the gym if I have the energy. At least in the gym I get away from Skyrim and Assasin's Creed.

Take care everyone xxxx

oldtractor

Morning Mardywotsit and HH. ( and everyone else)Good grief HH take-awaydrugs!
Reminds me of a recent newspaper article where a woman phoned the Police to report a burglary saying the thieves had taked £10,000 worth of her belongings, turned out the belongings were cannabis plants. Priceless.

westcoastscot

Sounds grim guys, we don't really get strangers around here, suspect we scare them away! It's a bit of an Argyll thing to talk to someone when you first meet them, see who you know in common and who each is related to :rotfl: drives folks nuts and potential wrong-doers soon lose the will to live. I think they forget what they planned to do by the time we've finished with 'em!!

Mar nothing is growing here either - its lovely in the sun but freezing otherwise. Way too early yet.

Hope you get on well with your Kenwood once you jump in - mine has been a godsend, although I hated it at first - felt like "giving in" to an illness.

Have a good week everyone if work keeps me away, particularly those struggling with health and other issues just now

WCS

mardatha

Sounds like here WCS, this village would talk the burglars to death!
Re the nukey thing, I hid behind the door and switched it on and it et a carrot then sat there looking at me - so I threw the RV in and he fed it. Phew.
Other good news is that Furball is now speaking to us again since we caved in and bought him posher cat food. You cant feed the husband and family cheap carp but not, apparently, yur cat.

kidcat

Mardy - its a well known fact - cats don't do economising or recession!!

maryb

Where is everyone? Enjoying the last bit of sunshine, I suppose. Yesterday was a lovely surprise because Saturday was quite cold and I assumed that the cold spell had arrived. But another day of glorious sunshine down here in the London bit of Kent.

Did a towel wash overnight to be able to dry them on the line today as we have heavy showers forecast for tomorrow. Pity we didn't manage to get the water butts set up this weekend

Sometimes I get confused as to whether I'm supposed to be saving water or petrol and just get a vaguely guilty feeling when I use anything!! I see the Daily Rant and Rail is trying to raise the temperature again by suggesting the truck drivers and farmers are going to act in sympathy with the tanker drivers by blockading refineries and blocking motorways like they did in 2000. The chap who was involved in leading the 2000 protest claims they will try to stop the army delivering fuel - yeah, right. It hasn't been in any of the other papers and I think it would have been if it was serious. The Daily Mail just likes to stir things up so it can be self righteous about it.All the same, it's quite possible things could get nasty.

We could actually survive without the car living where we do despite my husband's look of utter horror at the thought, but I do like to keep topped up enough for any emergency. Last time I wouldn't let him use the car when it got low but hadn't run out in case one of the girls was ill and we had to get her to hospital in a hurry. (I'm a bit like their old school nurse who said that if they came in with a sprained ankle she checked them for meningitis:rotfl::rotfl:)

meme30

Well it's absolutely miserable here today. It's drizzling! That wet stuff! It's not even proper daylight!

I'm so pleased I didn't get excited and rush out and buy pots and plants last week. Quite a few of my perennial plants are further on than usual but I think they will be hardy enough to survive the SNOW :eek: we have forecast for tomorrow. All those of you who have put the snow shovels and wellies away better get them out again.

It's going to be a long day, I took my Mam in to hospital this morning for her day case surgery. Waiting for news days just drag. I will immerse myself in cooking and ironing. Come to think of it I have all three Grandchildren tomorrow so I had better do the shopping today...just to preserve my sanity!

katieowl_2

prepareathome wrote: »

On things that go bump in the night I have a rather strange tale - we had just moved into this house so 20 years ago and all the children were young. Hubby was down south at some bowls comp. We were all in bed and around midnight woken by banging and crashing coming from downstairs. I was petrified, kids of course woke up and ran into my room. Luckily we had a phone extension in our room so I got kids into my bed and phoned the police. Operator could hardly hear me as I was whispering and the noise from downstairs was awful, as if rogue elephants were crashing about. Dishes were being smashed, windows also, units being torn apart. Police were at ours within minutes and they told me stay up stairs and stay on phone, operator told me they would surround house by climbing over wall into back garden. They could hear the noise but the minute they banged on both front and back door and said police, come out all went silent. They broke down the back door into vestibule there and went into kitchen and found nothing, everything was tidy and not a thing out of place. They let the others in via front door and searched the house including the loft and nothing and not a thing where it shouldn't be or broken.

If the police and the operator had not also heard the noise I would have thought I was going mad, funnily enough our neighbour ( house semi detached) didn't hear anything at all. Children once they realised no-one had broken in and nothing was smashed thought it was a great adventure.

Sending love and hugs to all who need them, I hope the meet-up was enjoyed by all, looking forward to hearing about it

xxxx

:eek::eek::eek: Good Grief...I'd have moved immediately!

Kate

mardatha

Nooo Owl, it was probly just a previous tenant in a snit!