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So poor I can't even pay attention

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  • piq I am ashamed to list the prezzies Her Majesty is receiving...

    Play tunnel
    Balls with bells in
    Rolling jute tube with jingles inside and feathers in the ends
    A jiggly mousey with a red nose
    Santa stuffed with catnip
    Catnip pillow
    Sweeties

    She's my baby....

    All bought and put away during the year but still spent a fortune on her, then while i was doing my filling today the little tinker decides it's much more fun to lay on mummys bed playing with a pen....hubby just looks at us, closes his eye, shakes his head, sighs and walks away!!

    Glad Colin is cuddling :)
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  • NewLeaf_2
    NewLeaf_2 Posts: 2,116 Forumite
    ha ha ha yes tidy's of great joy.

    So smokey was laying in bed with me last night when the proceeded to throw up all over my pillows. a good night was not had by all let me tell you.

    So it's after 10 and I am still in my dressing gown. What a lay about I am x
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  • Piquant_2
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    Caroline_a wrote: »
    Is that Tidys of Great Joy?

    :rotfl::rotfl:I'm not sure about this housework malarky, really I'm not....

    I've cleaned the kitchen windows, thought I'd better, heart of the home and all that....plus everyone gathers there to drink Bucks Fizz and watch me cook [who needs television....] But what they don't know is I have several tall boy jobs lined up. I thought a six foot sixer might like to clean the kitchen spotlights and another the glass hob ceiling thingy. Saves me balancing precariously on a chair!
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  • Piquant_2
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    NewLeaf wrote: »
    ha ha ha yes tidy's of great joy.

    So smokey was laying in bed with me last night when the proceeded to throw up all over my pillows. a good night was not had by all let me tell you.

    So it's after 10 and I am still in my dressing gown. What a lay about I am x

    There you go, you said doing the housework brings good luck. Smokey has just ensured you get extra luck next year :rotfl:

    I'm out my dressing gown and in the most horrible of tracksuit bottoms and t-shirt for housework duties. Not a good look at all.

    You carry on taking it easy, you need the rest.
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  • Piquant_2
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    Our mog is in the bad books. Bad bad kitty has been doing his doo's in the lounge. We've turfed him out after reading him the riot act. He didn't seem at all remorseful. Little toe rag.

    Oops, not nice at all. Is he put out because of the gosling arrival? Maybe a Feliway plugin would help?
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  • Piquant_2
    Piquant_2 Posts: 5,769 Forumite
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    edited 24 December 2012 at 11:59PM
    piq I am ashamed to list the prezzies Her Majesty is receiving...

    Play tunnel
    Balls with bells in
    Rolling jute tube with jingles inside and feathers in the ends
    A jiggly mousey with a red nose
    Santa stuffed with catnip
    Catnip pillow
    Sweeties

    She's my baby....

    All bought and put away during the year but still spent a fortune on her, then while i was doing my filling today the little tinker decides it's much more fun to lay on mummys bed playing with a pen....hubby just looks at us, closes his eye, shakes his head, sighs and walks away!!

    Glad Colin is cuddling :)
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    That's lovely, no issues with that!

    Colin has a walnut and he loves it! It is a walnut in a shell and if he loses it, there's at least another 50 in the bowl. DS3 saw them in the market and bought them. However, I don't have any nutcrackers....
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  • G'day Piq

    I just want to wish you and everyone else a safe and merry christmas.

    Muffins will be baked again tonight for tomorrow. Again thank you so much for going to the trouble that you did.

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  • Piquant_2
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    Housework done. Candle stash raided and have a lovely display of candles on the mantlepiece ready to light tomorrow [I didn't realise just how many I had squirreled away :o]

    I've just finished making Tiramisu. I'd bought home plenty of double expresso from work and I added Baileys to the coffee mixture for the biscuits and mousse. OMG it's to die for.....certainly won't help the waistline...never has a bowl been so licked out. Very tempted not to serve it tomorrow and keep it all for me :o

    In the spirit of mse I am going to declutter the Baileys tonight whilst watching television. It's untidy to put it back in the fridge, don't you think?

    Also made some cranberry, almond and orange biscuits as I thought they would be nice and Christmassy to welcome folk with. I rolled them in orange sugar which has made them sparkle. [orange sugar is only caster sugar and grated orange rind, not something lurid and very orange...]

    Yet to do the table. I have some shiny red apples to insert tealights into [guess who gets the apples later?] mixed with gold baubles and cinnamon sticks, it should look very nice. Hopefully, DS1 will remember the crackers, he was told to get red and gold ones. However, thinking about it and knowing him, we'll be lucky to get any sort of crackers!

    Thank you all for your help, advice and laughter this year. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a healthy and wealthy New Year.


    Piq x
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  • taxi73
    taxi73 Posts: 20,815 Forumite
    you've been busy

    have a great christmas
  • Februarycat
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    Sounds lovely Piq, have a lovely christmas :)
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