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Rotten luck POPS all these things are sent to try us, it's just that some try harder than others!!! Don't wear yourself out with all the hard work, remember to take a break and have a cuppa every now and then, Cheers Lyn x.

mcculloch29

Hope we see you later Pops, all work and no play etc. What a nuisance with the cracked box. I've got loads of the things around the house and probably some spare somewhere, wish I'd known!

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Does anyone else find that Charity Shops are not what they used to be? I was looking for a long strapped handbag to go over my shoulder and leave my hands free for everything else, just a plain and simple black one. I went into 8 different CSs when I was in town this morning, and nothing, kiddies bags, fashion handbags that were short handled, kids satchels, but all very expensive a fiver or more and nothing right for me. I find the same at boot fairs, I wonder if it's just the area I live in or whether we are reaching a point in the recession where most of what folks decide to shed and donate has already been passed on and the CSs are struggling to justify thier existence and hoiking prices sky high, it's getting to be expensive supporting a charity these days isn't it ? Lyn x.

Popperwell

Thanks to them my food store is now upstairs but in a wardrobe and its not on show so surely they can't criticise that now(or can they?)It means I have to carry bits and bobs downstairs to the kitchen if I need something for a meal whereas before it was in the dining room next to the kitchen.

Good job it would only be something like a can of baked beans/corned beef/soup etc...

Mrs_Chip

Pops - unless they mentioned it specifically, do you know that your food store was a problem for them? You may have been able to save yourself that work and expense if you had checked with them exactly what they wanted you to do. I would not think a food store in the wrong place is any of their business, unless it had the potential to attract vermin.

You still have plenty of time before they come again, so try to leave it for now and have a good night out, no need to miss a good time, the chores will wait another day.

Popperwell

Thanks Mrs Chip,
I think they were not too happy, there's absolutely no chance of vermin but that was added in their list of conditions in the letter so...they talked differently on the day to how they come across in the letter and well, its done now...I would have rearranged things anyhow and was but at a more relaxed pace.

They don't understand the mentality of us on MSE but many of those I talk to do. We have to behave to a certain criterias when dealing with authority figures, they have template to follow.

I mean there were some dishes in the kitchen sink they were there because I was steeping them to get some food off that had baked hard and needed freeing. That probably did not please them either I've no doubt. Well, actually I had been having a go at baking some bread.

Also a problem when renting your rights, well with this HA it is...lots of anecdotal stories of people being unhappy, the council was better.

There is a house ok...its private but is attached to a rented HA property, it needs repairing and the garden really is a mess and its been this way for years(over the road from me)and nothing ever gets done been that way for years...

Hey anyone seen this video? It was actually done on the International Space Station by an astronaut who came home safely in the early hours of this morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb20ozOlKMk

RAS

Popperwell wrote: »

Thanks to them my food store is now upstairs but in a wardrobe and its not on show so surely they can't criticise that now(or can they?)It means I have to carry bits and bobs downstairs to the kitchen if I need something for a meal whereas before it was in the dining room next to the kitchen.

Good job it would only be something like a can of baked beans/corned beef/soup etc...

Pops


Take a break, please. Go to the club.

if anyone mentions your stores

"well I have heard so many people who have had major problems when their benefits are re-assesed - no money coming in for two or three months and having to go to food banks - that I decided to put aside enough to see me through in case.

And when it snowed it meant I did not have to go out and risk breaking a leg or ankle.

I just rotate the extra stores so that I have enough downstairs for day to day and keep the rest tucked away"

savingqueen

Pops take it easy with the tidying and go out tonight and enjoy yourself. That's an order!

Back from swimming, DS6 was absolutely brilliant. Despite having no lessons for a whole year, he swam like a little fish without armbands. The teacher was amazed and DS8 and I were beaming with pride. I am so relieved for him, just hope he can cope with group lessons, he is so happy and very confident in the water. I can't afford more than a few private lessons and then its back to the chaos of group ones.

Only thing I had to deal with was a group of rude, unruly pupils (secondary school pool) who kept trying to burst into the viewing area. I was firm with them, nothing more and they were really rude and swore at me. Second time it happened the swimming teacher (and their PE teacher at the school) heard them and chased after them in his trunks - they have been reported to the Dept Head who will take appropriate action. Shame DS8 had to witness it all. I was purple with annoyance and embarrassment that I couldn't deal with them effectively myself. Honestly there is always something going on with swimming lessons, could write a whole soap opera on our experiences!

cats and kids pestering for their tea so better get cracking
sq:)

lisakay_2

MrsLW, I can't go out to CS specifically for something because I'll never find what I want, although if I go just to browse there's normally something I want
My friend got married last month with a 1940's wartime theme, and I managed to get some clothes to go as a landgirl (she saw how appropriate it was for me)

Pops, have a great night out tonight, you are going x

SQ, pleased he settled straight back into swimming, such a shame you had to deal with the little scroats trying to spoil things.

I was going to sleep today away, to make sure my headache was properly gone, but decided fresh air would be a better cure. Have earthed up the spuds, weeded several beds, planted out swede and kohl rabi, put cucs and squashes out under pop bottle cloches and repotted all the tommies.
four hours on the lotty and I feel like a different person

and even better, eldest DD (7) is washing up and youngest (5) is running the hoover over for me, then it's school reading, bath and bed

fuddle

You've done loads of sorting and tidying and still a while to go until they visit. Pops if you fancy it you should go. We all deserve a break.

I've trying to find out about vertical gardening and growing in pots. I have a really long drive at the side of the house which is in full sun a lot of the day. Growing there would be fantastic but it isn't fenced off. Worth a punt though because no-one takes the walk to annoy us and I doubt the neighbours would risk being found down me drive nicking the produce!

I've been in wilko's today (A4 envelopes x10 -50p!) but didn't dare look at the pots until more money in. I have to get DD's peas in first and foremost.

Oh and charity shops. I'm late to them, get excited when I go in one but hardly buy anything as the words 'I can get it cheaper in Primarkkk' normally enters my head. Wrong on so many levels but...

Enjoying watching girls do handstands and cartwheels in the garden. Nice evening sun but it is chilly.