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Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

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  • Alfie *hugs tight* Mabel will be much missed! I love the idea of her having a bucket list though, with her I think anything was possible!:rotfl:

    The job's a bit better so far this week so that's a step in the right direction. However facilities there are pretty basic e.g. no hot water :eek:

    I made a very simple chevre (goats cheese) last night as my local little t*sco had lots of goats milk at 16p a litre because it was on its date. It's turned out ok but I think needed to drain more. Perhaps the 100% cotton napkins I used were a bit thick...:rotfl:
    "...And if it don't feel good, what are you doing it for?" - Robbie Williams - 'Candy'
  • I have now found out how to put people on an ignore list..

    I have started with I have spoken..

    It was cold last night, looks like there might be some ground frost this morning.. We even bought a sack of coal to keep the house warm all night..

    Just to help me track my spending I now use this site... I can remember a few years back people on the OS board using it.. so here goes... see if I can remember to log things in:rotfl:
    http://www.spendingdiary.com/
    Work to live= not live to work
  • Davesnave
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    I have now found out how to put people on an ignore list..

    I have started with I have spoken..

    It was cold last night, looks like there might be some ground frost this morning.. We even bought a sack of coal to keep the house warm all night..

    People with mild mental conditions on the autistic spectrum can function quite happily on the internet for most of the time. Such people don't always 'get' empathy, and they may see everything in fairly rigid terms. E.g. farm animals are always for eating.

    It's possible.....;)

    Frost here this morning. :eek: Inside the polytunnel it dropped to -0.5c. :(

    Ironically, I'd just cleaned a load of dahlias and laid them out in there to dry off, but I'm sure they'll be fine. We will lift the rest today, ready to be dried and then stored in their dustbin of potting compost.

    No wind, so the end of the bungalow the two of us use is fine with just the wood burner. Every week we delay lighting the Aga is £35-40 saved! :D
  • Thank you Davesnave;)

    I was hoping the frost would stay away a bit longer, so a bit more work could be done to the stonework..but at least it will give me some time to try and save a bit of a lump sum of money, rather than running round trying to get some pennies together to pay for work being one now...

    Right youngest has just informed me he is working today, and slept in and missed the bus, where would the kids be if it wasn't for us running around after them:rotfl:
    Work to live= not live to work
  • rhiwfield
    rhiwfield Posts: 2,482 Forumite
    edited 13 November 2013 at 9:47AM
    Choille, please tell me you made up that street name :eek::rotfl:

    Though when I worked in London I occasionally ate in a restaurant in Bleeding Heart Yard.

    Noticed Martin Lewis was on tv last night. Nothing really new in his tips but two stuck in mind. First was to budget how much to spend at crimbo and then work out how to get the best crimbo out of that spend. Second was that food from the cheaper ranges was rated equally as good as the food in the luxury ranges.

    We joined the local buying collective earlier this year and reckoned it saved about 3p per litre of oil on the first purchase. Next delivery due in a few weeks but the mild autumn (until now) means we'll be taking the minimum quantity.

    Cars frozen but we switched to winter tyres on one on Monday. With the trips to M/C to sort out MIL's house and care we feel a bit happier knowing road grip is improved

    Sold the first Dresden trio last night :j
  • choille
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    rhiwfield wrote: »
    Choille, please tell me you made up that street name :eek::rotfl:

    Though when I worked in London I occasionally ate in a restaurant in Bleeding Heart Yard.

    Noticed Martin Lewis was on tv last night. Nothing really new in his tips but two stuck in mind. First was to budget how much to spend at crimbo and then work out how to get the best crimbo out of that spend. Second was that food from the cheaper ranges was rated equally as good as the food in the luxury ranges.

    We joined the local buying collective earlier this year and reckoned it saved about 3p per litre of oil on the first purchase. Next delivery due in a few weeks but the mild autumn (until now) means we'll be taking the minimum quantity.

    Cars frozen but we switched to winter tyres on one on Monday. With the trips to M/C to sort out MIL's house and care we feel a bit happier knowing road grip is improved

    Sold the first Dresden trio last night :j


    No, tis true. I did some social anthropology & it was amazing how descriptive names were - you still get in the Highlands, but not as sweary as down South.

    People would do wees in poes in the dining room in Georgian times - break wind after a meal etc - bit like CTC!

    Congrats on your sale. I'm having a nightmare with non payers at the mo - one who is now saying that something they bought over a month ago didn't arrive - only came out with that when I've asked them when they are going to pay for something they bought at the w/e.

    Someone else keeps saying they can't pay as they have a problem with their email account.

    OH has a massive prob with the guy who does our SAPs - a bank is going to foreclose on someone because of it - so it's a horrendous time at the mo...oh, & I've just been fined for filling in my LFA support form wrong - got the penalty notification - £1400:eek: Jesus talk about getting kicked when we're down.
  • jenie_2
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    Alfie, so sorry about Mabel, I don't know you but I know from your posts on here that you loved her. Some of her antics that you have wrote about made me laugh out loud, she surely was a character.

    Talking of street names, in Kingston upon Hull, our nearest big city, there is a street called Land of Green Ginger, which to me sounds like it belongs in a fairy tale.
  • rhiwfield
    rhiwfield Posts: 2,482 Forumite
    choille wrote: »
    No, tis true. I did some social anthropology & it was amazing how descriptive names were - you still get in the Highlands, but not as sweary as down South.

    People would do wees in poes in the dining room in Georgian times - break wind after a meal etc - bit like CTC!

    Congrats on your sale. I'm having a nightmare with non payers at the mo - one who is now saying that something they bought over a month ago didn't arrive - only came out with that when I've asked them when they are going to pay for something they bought at the w/e.

    Someone else keeps saying they can't pay as they have a problem with their email account.

    OH has a massive prob with the guy who does our SAPs - a bank is going to foreclose on someone because of it - so it's a horrendous time at the mo...oh, & I've just been fined for filling in my LFA support form wrong - got the penalty notification - £1400:eek: Jesus talk about getting kicked when we're down.

    Oh Choille, what rotten luck! You dont need all this hassle, and that fine must be a real kick in the teeth :(

    Wishing you some good fortune to even out the bad.

    There are some real rogue Bay buyers around and anecdotally they are getting more frequent, no doubt encouraged by smiling Tony. Yet this morning I got a phone call from a guy I'd just sent a Beswick piece to thank us for DW's excellent packaging. Lovely call, and a welcome reminder that the vast majority of buyers are decent and honest
  • Davesnave
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    jenie wrote: »
    Talking of street names, in Kingston upon Hull, our nearest big city, there is a street called Land of Green Ginger, which to me sounds like it belongs in a fairy tale.
    Well, you'd be right there:
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Land-Green-Ginger-Noel-Langley/dp/0571226183


    Choille, I hope they will let you pay the fine in instalments - very small ones! ;)

    My news is that the County Council men are here again and they have located a pipe that should be carrying all the water away. We may have a solution at hand! :j:j

    Of course this does raise the question why a vital drainage pipe was buried and tarmacked-over, but..... like the BT pole, it was so long ago no one will know who did it, or indeed, who didn't notice it had been done! :rotfl:
  • Bureaucracy is a ruddy nightmare when you have any land or business now, choille :( I hope things get sorted out & life improves for you soon.

    Went over to L & L this morning. It was 2 degrees there. By the time we got back around 10am it was a balmy 4 degrees here brrr.
    Have since swept down the lane (the rain had washed a load of leaves & mud down which blocks the waterways if left) & then collected 4 barrow loads of leaves & twigs from the lower end of the front drive.

    I'm now walking around like an old crone having spent too long bent over :rotfl:

    For those interested the best part of Woolfardisworthy is the pronunciation - Woolsery :D
    We can't claim any really naughty road names around here but we have fields called Backside, Great Balls, Little Balls & Bottom Balls. :naughty:
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