'supporting each other through really tough times'

CRANKY40

Thank you for your kind comments. I have to sell this place before moving which could be a job and a half. I can but hope.

Pooky your table is lovely.

Stiltwalker that's good news indeed.

Jem she might have eaten something while you were out. I know I don't have to tell you to keep a very close eye on her....

I will be spending the next few weeks/months decluttering this house. All the stuff that should have gone months ago, but I haven't really had a good reason to get on with it will have to go. We made a good start yesterday. a bag of dinosaurs went to a small boy and a bag of teddies went to a lady who does charity work for the local lost/rehoming dog kennels. I was pleased when she said ours were the first teddies this week that she hadn't had to wash - they were all spotless. What an odd thing to be proud about. Since I've stopped work (career break) my world seems to have spun into ever smaller circles though....something that I need to take in hand and do something about.

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STILTWALKER Hi Helen, that is heart warming news, what lovely people, prepared to help other lovely people because they care about you all, how brilliant is that, you can all have virtual Hugs - not in consolation for a change but because I'm sooooo happy for you and because those donating deseve one for being kind!!!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

sevenup01

Stiltwalker that is wonderful news.

Nargleblast

Greyqueen - and there was me thinking computers worked by having a little man in the cellar shoving a bucket of coal on the fire......

missrlr

What a lovely post to read first thing this grey and cold morning stiltwalker as you say there is hope for humanity yet.

DH has overtime this week so he is currently banking some hours shut eye. We have totally rewritten his CV and are planning to review it today and get it out into the market place with this spectra of redundancy looming we have to be proactive as possible

Going to brave the supermercardo today, we managed without a shop last week as I was away and just used frozen veg. So stocking up that freezer time too!

Looks like (more) snow here ..... Ad that wind it bitter

ginnyknit

Stiltwalker thats great news about your fundraising going so well. I love these little farms, we have one down the road and take DGS as often as we can. Sounds like a lovely peaceful evening too.

Cranky, I think you have done the best thing - you have taken your time and considered your options and are moving on now that you are ready. I wish you all the luck in the world for you and the house elf.

Woke up feeling rough with a sniffly nose and heavy head so light duties today. Dd is off to my Mums today to re-cycle a table she has and Im having DGS for a couple of hours so the hardest decision today will be to watch Pingu or Timmy time :rotfl:

short_bird

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VJsMum, it went like this:

GQ ushers the Wiz into her parlour, gets the kettle on, catches up on his news.

We move on to the pooter and I say that it's making a funny noise when it starts up, I think it's the fan.

Wiz; Which fan?

GQ; (blank look) You mean there's more than one?!

Aparently so. This is the little 6 cm square fan which is attached to the heat sink (not to be confused with the kitchen sink lol) which cools the Central Processing Unit which cools the motherboard, and which if doesn't work causes your chips to fry.

Prolly in sunflower oil.

Honestly, life was more straightforward when I believed there were harnessed hamsters running on wheels inside there. I now know what a capacitor on it's way out looks like (the Wiz is presuming I will recognise a capacitor although he did point them out once before on a previous visit).

Your capacitors should have flat tops, darlings. If they have tops going domed, you are in an unhappy place. If they are domed and oozing a bit of brown stuff where the marks on the top make a cross, it's about to be bang-bang time (and stop sniggering in the back, you grubby-minded crew).

My motherboard is apparently in lovely nick. And it's Correct Form to turn off the PC should you smell burning or see yer actual smoke coming out the back. Going into a flat spin at that point is purely optional.:rotfl:

I've had one way conversations like that.:rotfl:

Jazee

Stiltwalker - great news
Cranky - I'm quite pleased that my life moves in ever decreasing circles now, it's much less stressful.

Having quite a lazy Sunday here but about to walk two of the dogs. SickDog has taken one step forward, two steps back but we'll get there in the end.

Its also dog bath day, so I'll also be getting my second shower of the day when I do that!

Nargleblast

Snow starting to thaw a bit, but still cold. Desperate for Spring to arrive (I was a Spring baby, so always feel up tempo at that time). Have been very industrious, washing cats' bedding, cleaning out fridge and freezer ready for stocking up on payday. Next Sunday I will be going away to take care of my father who is having a major operation this week, so have got to leave things in order for OH and DS. Won't bother to meal plan for them, though, OH is quite capable of catering- as long as the food is there, they'll eat it.

mcculloch29

Lovely news from Stiltwalker, and here's hoping for a sell, for you, Cranky.
Nargleblast, we missed out a month of autumn and got an extra one of winter up here; we had snow Oct 26th, and I know exactly how you feel.
My daffs are all in bud and narcissi are poking through, the tiny clump of snowdrops - it never seems to get bigger year on year - is still in flower.
I hope I can get the Lily of the Valley I bought the other day planted sometime. My sis has given me some good advice on planting spots. Next May it should hopefully flower for me.

Pops, you will probably have known the lady whose funeral DS went to by sight, as she lived on the town.

Her (second) husband, the father of DS's friends, is Chilean, she herself was tall and had a glorious mop of curly, flame-red hair. They were often seen together. You couldn't mistake her for anyone else. She was in her late 60s - much older than I thought.
The funeral went really well, she had a family with each marriage and the crem was packed.

Looking forward to a very late lunch (tea, really by the time we are ready to eat it ) of free-range chicken, an Aldi Red Spot (30% off). Butternut squash, carrots, parsnips, perhaps some broccoli... yum yum yum.