make do and mend for tougher times

kidcat

Softstuff - ((hugs)) am so cross on your behalf, I second the jumping on boxes if you can manage it, it really does work.

Lyn - am so pleased your family and friends are safe, DD18 was texting me today to say how bad things looked on the news.

Ginny - all I can say is that when its done it does feel as though you have achieved something big

pooky - glad you are feeling a little better, hope you continue to improve.

possession- its such a lovely position for your OH to be in, let him enjoy the feeling a little longer

Hugs all around today.

Am frozen to the bone, have been on a training course today that was in a dark damp freezing cold venue. Am still shivery even though I have been in with the heating on for two hours.

The usual rush to get everyone where they needed to be and achieve anything. Am really quite excited as tomorrow I collect the keys for our new groups venue (I know its ridiculous to be so excited) and I have been rushing to make sure all the paperwork is in order and posters etc are all done.
I just need to have the posters and handouts printed and we can start putting them in prominent places. Am planning on blitzing schools as well to see if we can encourage people to join.

Made a big purchase on Mr T earlier (3 for 2 on toys and a £10 evoucher) means that I need to buy a couple of DVDs etc and then DS8 is done for Christmas. Next week I plan on buying the other three main presents and then trying to arrange the last few other gifts for people like my parents. That way I am hoping to be done by mid November hopefully freeing me up to do the nice stuff like forest visits etc in December.

More importantly the car will be fixed tomorrow:j:j:j:j:j the ice cream/electrician lunar eclipse happened today so the car will be mended tomorrow - thank goodness.

7_week_wonder

kidcat wrote: »

the ice cream/electrician lunar eclipse happened today so the car will be mended tomorrow - thank goodness.

Reading that after a couple of nice relaxing glasses of wine has resulted in the last mouthful of wine reappearing up my nose!!

OH, bless him, is currently hoovering bathroom so I can have a nice relaxing bath now that the plumber has fixed our cistern. It was such a small thing, a wee leak, and yet I am delighted it is fixed. I can't begin to imagine how the poor folk in the states must feel with the complete devistation (spelling?) that has been wrought there.

I love my local co-op/Scotmid - they have a policy of huge discounts on stuff that is dated today. So tonight I came home with chicken breasts reduced from £3 to 62p and grapes reduced from £2.25 to 45p. Happy days:T

Have a good evening everyone.

Popperwell

PoshPaws wrote: »

I wondered how folks from my old stamping ground were turning up on my blog - and now I know! Thank you so much for the shout out, Popperwell!

You are welcome...Many Many years ago my family hoped to be where you are;)and I spent around 4-6 weeks every year in the Bournemouth, Poole, Sandbanks area for around 40+ years but have not been back for approx 12 years. Not through choice but circumstances

One day I may get the chance to visit and relive many happy memories and see how some things have changed.

If I win the lottery perhaps I will still get the chance to make that move for my twilight years:)

ginnyknit

Softstuff, thats a bit unfair getting shingles on top of everything else of late. Hope you feel better soon.

Mrs LW I am so glad to hear everything is ok and they may be home soon. Such a relief for you, I have been thinking of you and hoping you werent looking at any of the online stuff about the USA cos it was really scary.
Hugs ginny

Softstuff

Thanks all for the well wishes, I haven't jumped on boxes, I just went to bed! I'm sitting here late morning in PJs with no plans to get out of them.

I haven't got the antivirals yet, since I haven't got a rash yet (docs here aren't allowed to prescribe until then). What I do have a pain in my side that gives me a new sense of how a voodoo doll feels. It's as though I'm being stabbed in my underarm and breast. Also my glands are swollen, I'm running a bit of a temperature and I'm knackered. The doc though, who I trust immensely, didn't say "it might be shingles", he said "it is shingles". From what he said it can be anything from a few days to a few weeks from the onset of pain to the rash. And if I was really lucky, the rash might not come at all because my immune system would be holding it off (something to do with me being pretty young to get shingles at all). In any case, ouch. The doc says if I see any sign of any spots to call him immediately and he'll fax the prescription to my nearest pharmacy even if I'm away.

Poor hubby meanwhile took me to the docs and when the doc found out he'd never had even chickenpox (since shingles can give those who haven't had it chickenpox, but it can't give shingles to those who've had chickenpox), he vaccinated him. Not quite what he saw coming at all!

Kittie, I can certainly see what you mean about stress related illness causing a life reassessment, unfortunately in my life the stress was unavoidable and there's nothing in my life left that I can ditch that is stressful (I quit my job 2 years ago for that very reason and usually I have a very settled homelife).

Forgive the extent of selfish wittering. I'm just still a bit annoyed. I feel a bit like Marvin the robot and I'm really not like that normally.

savingqueen

Was trying to avoid buying Halloween outfits for my boys today. Found last year's dracula outfit for DS2 (passed on from a friend), he just about squeezes into it but it will do and he looks so cute in it.

Had nowt for DS1 then remembered an outfit I bought last year for a couple of pounds in a sale. Thought it was a batman one but was a blooming "batdress" with a swirly uneven skirt in slipperly, stretchy black material that my poor tired eyes struggled with. It is now converted into a batman outfit... a very rustic one at that but it won't show in the dark trick and treating and I am sort of proud of it...well proud I had a go and saved money... the actual sewing :rotfl:

Also have the most enormous pumpkin in the hall waiting for my unsuspecting and very practical friend tomorrow to help us make a scary face. Usually I do all this stuff with my mum in half term and she also used to do all my sewing as a seamstress by trade so I'm feeling a little sad today that I won't be spending this holiday with her (family fall-out). Maybe that's why I'm determined to do some fun things with the kids to make up for not going to their nan and grandads - funny they haven't mentioned us not going.

I've had one of those really productive days, wish I had more then could get the house looking better. I can really identify with all those posts about making a house a home. We only intended to be in our house for 5 years and its 10 years next month (can't afford to move) and still lots we intended to do and haven't. I feel quite embarrased at the state of our house sometimes but I know there is a lot I can do to improve things - no point waiting for DH to do stuff, he is terrible so I am feeling quietly determined to make an action plan for the coming year.

I have been squirreling money away all year in a repairs/rennovations fund for the big jobs that we can't do- that will take a long time to build up but maybe if/when I get a part-time job, we can save more. DH doesn't even know how much I have, he will be suprised but I am not telling him unless he asks as he will think of 101 non-essential things we don't need to spend it on and it won't really go very far compared to how much we need in the overall pot. Also the repairs pot is the only savings fund we have so anything else that needs replacing/repairing like appliances, car etc will all have to come out of there. We also want to have a family holiday next year (never had a proper one just the four of us, only with extended family where they have paid accomodation.) Goodness knows how we are going to save for that as well. I will try very hard to find a way if there is a way to be found.

I am going to finish making my list of all the bits I can do eg. declutter, deep clean, decorate, revamp furniture, make over garden etc - there is an awful lot to do and start ticking things off. I made a start on sorting the spare " doom" room today - we have no loft space so the spare room is a dumping ground and store cupboard in one. I feel better for making a start. First job I've had on the list for months is paint the bathroom ceiling and skylight - will try and do at the weekend. Need to treat mouldy bits first and think may buy the expensive paint for damp rooms that's been mentioned. Will only need one small pot as bathroom is small.

ok enough rambling, off to bed, yawning as I type. Tomorrow is another day and hope it is a good one for all of us toughies

sq:)

savingqueen

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lisakay_2

feeling very frustrated with that programme that was mentioned earlier (hidden hungry). I got myself all upset, especially over the man who couldn't afford to give his son a birthday present. I found myself wondering how I would cope if I couldn't afford even a small present for either of my girls. (spoiler don't read on if your going to catch the progamme later)
when it turned out he was a conman I was furious!! why do some people think it's ok to do stuff like that??

SQ, if anyone can find a way to get away with the family, i reckon you can.

We are hoping to get away to see DH's family in spain again next year, but the flights are expensive for 4 of us and with the threat of redundancy hanging over DH we really don't know what will happen.
I have a suitcase in the garage with pasta, rice and dried pulses stashed away and a cupboard full of passata and tinned toms so if all else fails, at least we will be fed for a while :cool:.

That reminds me actually, i must take the bell off the cats collar. He's an excellent mouser and we've had no problems with little furries since we got him (we used to get mice every winter when they came in from the park looking for somewhere warm) although that will mean all manner of other creatures being brought home for inspection.
Earlier this year he brought two beautiful little moles back to me on two different nights, not a mark on them, but very dead.
I'd never seen one IRL before.

ETA:can you eat mole?? I wonder how the family would feel about mole casserole lol

edited again, hidden hungry was talked about on the shtf thread not this one x

stiltwalker

Yay - finally finished DD's dress for the wedding on Friday. Was a nightmare trying to fit it as she's desperate to save everything for 'best' - when we picked her shoes up from Clarks this lunchtime she had to take them off as soon as the assistant had fitted them as they were 'a best' - don't quite know where she's got this idea of best from as we are hardly precious about things, she must just have picked up on how special Friday is. It's quite sweet really. Just have my dress to hem, a net petticoat to make and DS's tie to do and we're all ready - can someone please invent a 36 hour day for tomorrow!!!!!

Softstuff - hope you are feeling better soon, what a rotten thing to happen on top of everything else.

the_cake

Stiltwalker, sending you the warmest of thoughts and big hugs for a hugely happy day on Friday, and a blissful life together. xxxx
PS If you stumble across a 36 hour day, could you send one to me, please? I could really use one!