Preparedness for when

D&DD

lol Butterfly what a brilliant link I do however wish to know what on earth you were googling to find that!! :rotfl:

Another beautiful day here sun is shining and the cold wind is going more everyday..bliss!
Outside to pot on toms and peppers for me then..love the island idea count me in

I've never been to Jersey but visited Guernsey with the school many moons ago,fascinating place loved the underground hospital,went to Herm and Sark too while we were there, beautiful..

Glad your shopping expedition wasn't too scary MrsL and pleased to see you got sorted.

Nuatha :eek: 50 days! Get baking!!

BigM my advice is don't get your fabric here,import from the U.S more bang for your buck that way.You can get 10 yards fo what you pay here for one sometimes thats how I used to make money on Ebay My fabric stash is an indecent size because of it..

pineapple

Things I miss from my last job (Alzheimers Society) - the cameraderie, being able to make a difference in peoples lives - and a salary! :j
Another good job was covering the North of England advising special needs horticultural projects. But it was totally spoilt by a very driven line manager. A typical example being when I was down in Reading for a team meeting, back at 11pm with a boot load of resources to unload, up at 6am for a meeting in Hull - and on coming out of the meeting a call from her asking if I had done x, y or and z yet. :huh:. She totally knew my schedule. She would even send emails during my leave (knowing I couldn't resist taking a peep) saying 'when you are back we need to.....'. In the end I left.

VJsmum

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VJsMum, I like your attitude. It's funny how when you stop taking so stuff seriously, you can often progress. It amuses me to collect the latest fashion in office-speak and to be sure to deploy it in the rare meetings I get to attend, to make it seem that I'm earnest and playing attention. I award myself points for how many times I either hear or can deploy the latest jargon.

I call that Bull$h!t bingo :rotfl:

Write a list of words and tick off every time you hear them (you know "outside the box", "holistic", "green", "sustainable", and my personal pet hate "synergies" ) - when you get them all yell "bingo" - if you dare. I did dare once - and the boss had the grace to laugh. I did convince him that I must have been listening though.

ANother one is song titles, see how many you can get in "millennium" has probably had its day now, but was good value for a while, "don't look back in anger", "sound and vision" "knock on wood",

I told you it's best I don't go to meetings anymore!

I'll come to the island. i am in the building trade so can teach you how to build and tell you how to cost it (I am a Quantity Surveyor) - can't actually build it though. Never could get the mortar on the trowel. I am quite bossy so could get you organised. I'm a fair to middling cook and a will get on with whatever I'm given.

It'll have to be a warm one though - none of your cold dark scottish ones I'm afraid. I am liking the sound of Bermuda with a sweet shop. And I'll have to take some make up.....

boultdj

Can I come to the island? Pretty good at wireing plug's, plastering hole's, fruit growing,painting and I can do flat pack furniture.

BigMummaF

If we're bringing assorted pooches et al, perhaps the I$le of Canines might be a better proposition :whistle:

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H7N9 latest figures, 127 confirmed cases, 27 deaths and more alarmingly only 26 recovered completely!!!!! also on the news this morning it was said that people returning from china were being screened at airports and anyone developing flu like symptoms after being in china should consult thier GP.

Butterfly_Brain

D&DD wrote: »

lol Butterfly what a brilliant link I do however wish to know what on earth you were googling to find that!! :rotfl:

Another beautiful day here sun is shining and the cold wind is going more everyday..bliss!
Outside to pot on toms and peppers for me then..love the island idea count me in

I've never been to Jersey but visited Guernsey with the school many moons ago,fascinating place loved the underground hospital,went to Herm and Sark too while we were there, beautiful..

Glad your shopping expedition wasn't too scary MrsL and pleased to see you got sorted.

Nuatha :eek: 50 days! Get baking!!

BigM my advice is don't get your fabric here,import from the U.S more bang for your buck that way.You can get 10 yards fo what you pay here for one sometimes thats how I used to make money on Ebay My fabric stash is an indecent size because of it..

Believe it or not it was posted on a board on the Guardian web site, My poor ribs hurt so much after just getting to page 2 :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

pineapple

VJsmum wrote: »

I told you it's best I don't go to meetings anymore!

I was at an Alzheimer's Society training session and the earnest but boring trainer was asking how we would feel if we woke up to find a stranger undressing us. I knew what she was getting at but norty pineapple couldn't resist. 'Grateful!' I shouted (tongue in cheek nat). You could have heard a pin drop, then the room erupted and she never did get back on track..... :rotfl:.

ClootiesMum

I want to come to the island too - ver practical, GSOH and good work ethic but.... Technically I'm a banker - would this exclude me

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No of course not, you're one of us so of course you can come, we can be tomboys together and learn now to harvest coconuts from palm trees, gotta make a living somehow. If we could just come up with a way of keeping the chocolate from melting we'd be very popular though, I seem to remember reading that the early american pioneers had coolers that were tightly fitting lidded boxes that were tethered and left in running streams which kept the contents cool, could we modify that idea do you think? Lyn xxx.