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

Byatt

Penny-Pincher!! wrote: »

We got a car!!!!!! Its 10 years old but what we wanted and it cost £1250 including tax, MOT, FSH and only 54000 miles.

Thanks again for all the support.

PP
xx

:T Yayyyyy. Such good news.

Catbells

Hello Byatt. Thanks for the warm welcome. Its nice coming back to the thread.
Korea was fascinating especially the Seoraksan National Park. I spent most time in Japan - the southern prefecture where I climbed volcanoes! I then travelled to Hiroshima which was a very sad but interesting place. Then to Kyoto and Nara - great history and finally upto to Mount Fuji and Tokyo. Japan is a very safe place in spite of the odd headline grabbing murder. I felt safe there. Anyway I'm broke now and this month am on a serious thrift mission. But am doing some part time work which should help.

GreyQueen

VJsmum wrote: »

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And it's raining :mad:

I am going to do 20 minutes exercise - cos I feel like a bloater and then a soak in the bath with my trashy novel (or my building magazine, but that's work so probably not)
Then I am going to dust and tidy - cos it's been a fortnight and I'll have to adopt GQ's signature
I might cut out my skirt pattern
I might watch Britain's Got Talent - as I have no taste
I am going to sew some peas and some runner beans - I know it's late but it was about this time last year i did them and they were ok
I am going to watch DD give the performance of her life in her GCSE drama exam
I might do some cooking

Hmm - I don't think my day off has enough hours, especially if I sit here any longer.:rotfl:

He he, who hasn't been keeping up with my sig? I have replaced "Please don't autograph the dust" with "When the going gets tough, the tough eat cake!" which I stole off Mardatha early last week. Seemed to me to be an appropriate exortation for these troubled times. And on the subject of cake, £land has those McVities sticky cakes 2 for £1. They were out of Jamaican Ginger but I stocked up on Golden Syrup.

Penny-Pincher!! wrote: »

We got a car!!!!!! Its 10 years old but what we wanted and it cost £1250 including tax, MOT, FSH and only 54000 miles.

Thanks again for all the support.

PP
xx

:j Well-chuffed for you, PP, you deserve a break after all the distress that !!!!!! subjected you to. I hope HMRC apply the thumbscrews and extrato mucho back taxes from him.

Catbells, lovely to see you back again. Told you it'd be great, didn't we? Strange to think that travelling alone is a fear with no substance, when you actually confront it. In New Zealand, I kept bumping into a lady who'd turned 80 on the 26 hour flight from UK to NZ and was pottering around all over with her little trolley suitcase with plenty of companions young enough to be her great-grandkids. She was great fun and inspired me.

Well, the weather gods have a sense of humour and the heavens opened just as I left the salt mine today. Being as I'm [STRIKE]paranoid[/STRIKE] prepared, I was carrying a brolly despite the sunny start I'd had to the day as merely laughed it off. Bah!

I have just had an email from a Freecycler asking for something I haven't actually offered; I can see who has offered it so gave him a little email back saying I think you need to message so-and-so............:rotfl:

Been feeling a bit odd today (and you can stop sniggering at the back!) sort of shaky and spacey. Think I overloaded my muscles wrangling the outgoing mattress into a Freecycler's car last night. I wish I could draw cartoons as I'm sure that one would have been a doozy............Bit like watching a snake eating an egg.

Righty, time for a wee excursion around the rest of the OS board and to update my dejunking efforts with the Declutter thread.

Have a lovely evening, all.

PS; I'm listening to Bulgarian folk music. And a lot of it sounds like the Northumbrian pipes..........most peculiar. They do play bag-pipes made from the inner tubes of sheep up there, I've seen it with my very own eyes, so I suppose it's more or less the same thing. Kind people have described my music taste as eclectic. Unkind ones call it plain weird. But that's OK by me.:p:D

Byatt

Catbells wrote: »

Hello Byatt. Thanks for the warm welcome. Its nice coming back to the thread.
Korea was fascinating especially the Seoraksan National Park. I spent most time in Japan - the southern prefecture where I climbed volcanoes! I then travelled to Hiroshima which was a very sad but interesting place. Then to Kyoto and Nara - great history and finally upto to Mount Fuji and Tokyo. Japan is a very safe place in spite of the odd headline grabbing murder. I felt safe there. Anyway I'm broke now and this month am on a serious thrift mission. But am doing some part time work which should help.

I am truly inspired Catbells, also I'd never considered Japan, but I think I'll put it on my to do list. Really hopeful that one day I will be able to travel. Do you have a blog?

GQ, excellent sig. I got 4 blueberry muffins from Coop for a £1.

Feel better about pooch, vet was very reassuring. And people are always so friendly in reception. Met a boxer with a tail. Whippy little things! :rotfl:

ginnyknit

Catbells, I am so impressed with you ! Glad your adventure was so good. Inspiring to say the least. :beer:

meme30

Catbells:-Welcome back! It sounds as though you have had a wonderful time.:)

Pennypincher:- Lovely to hear you are back on the road!:j

Austinallegro:- Congratulations on your wedding! Bl00dy awful about your wife's job. Hope she gets another one soon.:)


Off on our jollies on Saturday. A week on the south coast, then a week in our caravan. It's a much needed rest for both of us. There is a lot of serious family illness around us at the moment, and we need to get away before events get too over whelming. We are going via The National Memorial Arboretum (A favourite place of ours. We are placing a paviour stone for DH's wonderful Mam and Dad so they will be there forever.) and Bletchley Park, which we both have wanted to visit for a long time. Then it's off to Hayling Island and a visit to the Historic Navel Dockyard in Portsmouth. A busy week but no washing/ironing, in fact no housework at all!:j

VJsmum

GreyQueen wrote: »

He he, who hasn't been keeping up with my sig? I have replaced "Please don't autograph the dust" with "When the going gets tough, the tough eat cake!"

Didn't say which signature - only joking, I did half wonder if it had been changed.

So pleased for you PP.

Byatt, don't be upset about DD - kids are so unthinking at times. Probably doesn't think she needs to win you over!

Catbells - you're back!! :j Am so interested in your tales. You are an inspiration! Yes you are.

Didn't achieve much of my list - dusted one room, listening to Harry Potter. Had my bath, did my exercise and watched DD's fantastic play (fingers crossed for an A or even A*). So i did all the nice things and few of the chores. Ah well, In the words of Scarlett O'Hara "tomorrow is another day" or should I use Rhett Butler's :cool:

Hobsons_Choice

Catbells: Thanks for the update. Sounds like you had a trip of a lifetime and I'm very much in awe of you.

PP: Well done on getting your 'new' car. Hope the barcode that did the dirty gets his comeupance!

Went to the nearest big city today with OH, he bought me a lovely lunch and even stayed outside the chazzers while I had a good (but not productive) mooch around. Posh city = not-so-good clothes = high prices!
Still, he had some good bargains from Primarni: a polo shirt £1 and a Tshirt £3.
Me? Three flannels.....:o

katieowl_2

Evening Gang...been AWOL today. Went hunter-gathering in Carmarthen Got up at 6.30 to wake the Mancub for college, and the little darling told me at 7.10 he felt to poorly to go in...grrr....so thought I'd seize my day off!

Not squillions of bargains, but I did manage to tick off some of the list. I needed a couple more square tins for baking, these weren't cheap but have a 25 year guarantee...if I'm still baking cake in 25 years = result! Also got a dozen individual tart/quiche tins. I picked up a few bits of vintage china, which I hope to use on the stall, either will sell on, or make up into gifts with something homebaked in/on.

Bought a pair of Merrell shoes half price, also result because full price they are eye-wateringly expensive. I aim never to have to buy them full price, and they are seriously the only shoes that agree with my heel and back problems...so now I check Millets every time I pass until I get a reduced pair and I keep them 'in stock' at home to replace them as they wear out.
Picked up a brand new Dorothy P. jumper in 'my shade' of coral for £3 and a half price Mrs T top...and a dress in Teacake Maximus (loved that name I've stolen it) which is meant for someone forty feet tall, and is a 'small' but has acres of fabric being tiered, and is silk, and was reduced to £9 'cos an unimportant bit of stitching had come undone. Add to Basket
will make an awesome summer skirt for me - being a stumpy dwarf - there will even be enough left over to do something with...either a top for one of the DD's (it's got one of those banded ruched tops already) or a vaguely hippyish headband :rotfl:

It had even stopped raining by the time I got home and I was able to take the goggies out :T

Mancub thinned down last nights curry to make curried noodle soup...Old master is having a jacket spud with the rest of it when he stops playing in his workshop for the day...so I haven't even cooked!

Kate

Gintotmelinda

Evening all

Just delurked to say Catbells welcome back. Sounds a great trip. My DD lives outside Tokyo and I have been to a lot of the places you mention. I couldn't do it on my own though. I love Japan now and feel safe there. It always seems a very orderly society.

PP congrats on getting new to you car after all the kerfuffle. So glad it ended well.

OH has just made a batch of Welsh cakes on the batstone (griddle) so pull up a chair and I'll pour out the tea. How many sugars GQ?

Anyway have a lovely evening all.

Gintot