Preparedness for when

Ellidee

maryb wrote: »

:rotfl:LOL GQ I originally read that as you only having a bath every three months:rotfl:

Whether she needs one or not !
:rotfl:

GreyQueen

Ellidee wrote: »

Whether she needs one or not !
:rotfl:

Ssssshhhhh, ladies! Letting my secrets out.

I bath on Sundays. The rest of the time I [STRIKE]scrape the dirt off with the potato peeler[/STRIKE] err, meant to say shower.

Darned good job I'd put my tea mug down at that point or there could have been a beverage-related accident.

Y'know, I kid people that this is a custom PC casing in a light beige, rather than boring old fashioned putty colour.

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GreyQueen wrote: »

:eek: Arghhhh!!!!!!!!!

Pass the Acme Mind Bleach immediately, I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

You're not fooling anyone, with your faux outrage.

You love the attention really.

In the words of William Shakespeare, The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

GreyQueen

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

You're not fooling anyone, with your faux outrage.

You love the attention really.

Well, I'm laughing aloud. The neighbours will probably be calling the little men in white coats any minute now. I'm unlikely to be anyone's fantasy woman IRL so it's amusing, if nothing else.............:rotfl:

siegemode

GQ, OH is chuckling again and says next you'll be sitting on a purple sofa at lords watching cricket"
When I gave him a strange look he said you'd understand.

Have been prepping for tonights cold temps by making sausage rolls and cheese pinwheels. Also made a large cauldron of chicke veggie soup and I'm feeling rather satisfied having used up all the odd bits of veg and homemade stock. The house is now feeling cosy too. I fear if the boiler doesn't get fixed soon we will need a new kettle before long, strange but we're missing running hot water more than the heating. We are managing though and at least it's not as cold as last year. (or could that be famous last words, there's time yet)

GreyQueen

seigemode, I have absolutely no idea what your OH is on about - pls get him to supply the explanation or I shall be dreaming about purple sofas.

That may end badly. My last sofa-related dream (think I was a bit feverish with a cold tbh) involved me being chased across open country by a pack of gigantic sofa-sized French Fancies which had gaping mouthfuls of sharp teeth and were really terrifying. But pastel-coloured. Which is a disturbing combination.

Woke myself up by sitting up in bed with a shriek.

I'm cursed with a vivid imagination. Which is why I'm careful about watching scary movies because a woman who can have nightmares about small iced cakes can't be left alone with horror movies as a source material.

siegemode

GQ, My OH thought that you may have got the quote "legend in your own lunchtime" from the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy from whence the sofa and Lords cricket ground came. However, after 15 minutes of intensive searching on the interweb he could find no direct quote from the book and he says he's gone from feeling well read to being well red !:o

Mind you it's got me thinking purple sofas,:D I love purple.
Goodness what an imagination you have and I thought mine was crazy. :rotfl: Are you a Scorpio by chance ?

GreyQueen

Nah, Libran. I always joke it's actually a typo for librarian. Or that I'm a well-balanced individual because I have chips on both shoulders, lol.

My dreams are getting wackier lately, and I've had a few episodes of waking up from near-sleep, as in just nodding off, with a yell because I'm convinced there's a giant spider in the bed. So convinced I have to put the light on and search for it.

I'm telling myself it's the menopause as I think I'm a bit too long in the tooth to start having night terrors...........:rotfl:

Righty, must go offline and read me book, or I'll be too hyper to sleep and my employer requires my presence in the h'office termorrer. We don't call it Manic Monday for nothing.

I will leave you with an experpt from my working life. For this to make sense, you need to know that I have a beautifully-modulated 'BBC English' type of accent. The sort which sometimes appears on automated messages on phone systems.

GQ (answering phone) Good morning, you're through to Blankety Council, my name is GQ, how may I help?

Caller (after a brief silence) Are you real?

GQ (quizzical expression) Yes.

Caller You're not a computer?

GQ No. I'm real. I'm using a computer but I'm definately real.

Caller. Oh (sounded disappointed tho!)

This happens, with variations, at least once a week. I tell suspicious callers they can ask me anything but I don't know the winning lottery numbers, and that breaks the ice.:p

Morganarla

Evening all

Just posted on another thread - it reminded me to post here which I have been meaning to do for ages.

I'm really rubbish with posting on MSE at, but as I am subscribed to the thread, I get all the updates just after midnight through to my phone, and I lie in bed reading. Cheers me up no end.

I'm still prepping away, while trying to deal with SHTF in various ways in my personal life. Struggling somewhat, With both.

Will keep plodding on though!

Keep prepping! Love to all xx

ALIBOBSY

Interesting reading about how many of us on here are of the make do and mend mentality, that will probably apply to many on old style, but not too many IRL unfortunately.


Looking around our room the fire surround was £15 in the auction-fixed, rubbed down, stained and put up by OH. Secondhand for free sofa and standard lamp, cheap nest of tables from netto a few years back, table and small lamp from ikea and the only newish stuff is a glass TV stand thing which we did buy new about 6 years back, but it was bought alongside a tv with some cash I won from an ITV online competition (one of my other hobbies).


More and more we are trying to fix stuff when it breaks and over the last few years OH has become pretty good at tinkering with the car, but e certainly were in that bracket of one big repair bill meaning a car had to go. In fact the second car we had, oh had managed to keep chugging on for a few years (it was only £500 when we got it and 10 years old) finally had something too difficult to tackle without bigger equipment so off it went. But we found a local company who buy up cars and try to fix to sell on or strip for parts. Our car he thought might be worth doing as the body work was in good nick. He gave us £300 to take it away and OH saw it about a year later in a nearby town back on the road lol.


TBH we didn't really need two cars anymore anyway, but nice to see the car still going lol.


Ali x