Building The Burrow!

Habibiboo

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Hi P*M hope you've had a good day ~ sorry work was pants this week, ending the week on a grot note isn't good either. Hopefully your colleagues will realise they've been less than helpful to you.

Thanks for your stationery alert: good to know those stationery bargains are out there! :T

Fingers crossed for Mr. M for the next couple of weeks and that you get some of the good luck you deserve!

BTW: I caught up with my youngest HbbbBobbin yesterday and he said he wants to save up to buy a big country house. I've told him I know just the thing and have borrowed your fabby house link to send it to him. Don't worry, I don't think he'll start a bidding war with you on it ~ he'll probably let you buy it and then ask to be the space cadet lodger in the attic!

janineh1982

Habibiboo wrote: »

BTW: I caught up with my youngest HbbbBobbin yesterday and he said he wants to save up to buy a big country house. I've told him I know just the thing and have borrowed your fabby house link to send it to him. Don't worry, I don't think he'll start a bidding war with you on it ~ he'll probably let you buy it and then ask to be the space cadet lodger in the attic!

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He may have comp from my DH :rotfl:

in_need_of_direction

Timeshare? I'll take 4 weeks a year

Pearla*Merle

Ah ha! I can rent it out as a boutique b&b room! I'll have the mortgage paid paid off in no time! :rotfl:

Tilly, that is one intrepid cat! Obviously the next course of action here is to put her to work in the circus & get her paying rent

Janineh, milkshake cake was a basic Victoria sponge but I replaced the caster sugar with half white chocolate flavour (it's basically sugar) & half light brown sugar. It worked out surprisingly tasty, am so glad I have several slices tucked up in the freezer

Pearla*Merle

Having a busy time away, so thought I'd note down some of the lovely things that've happened then try & update as and when I can until things return to normal next week. (& shall catch up with everyone majorly then!)

Reasons To Be Cheerful: deer in the woods, oystercatchers, the beach, great big fluffy clouds, mulled wine, fizzy wine, more wine in the fridge, all afternoon reading by a roaring fire, big pots of tea, date & walnut bread with lashings of butter, quaint villages & Victorian cottages hidden down twisting lanes, garden birds and cosy socks!

MFW news: card shop undercharged me by £2.40, no idea how but hurrah!

Oops, tea's ready, got to run!

in_need_of_direction

I'm so jealous!

Pearla*Merle

I thought I'd turned into Mr M for a minute, INOD, it's usually him these things happen to & he was nowhere in the vicinity. Let's hope his powers have transferred to me! :rotfl:

£6 into the kittybank :j

Sorted through some boxes in my parent's attic, one is now designated for charity shop and one is full of bits I'll try & eBay (nice vintage things, so here's hoping I'll make a fair few pennies!).

I'm seriously thinking that I could do with doing a car boot sale. I've got so many random things that I'd like to at least get a little something for ~ if you put them all together it would potentially add up to a lot. However, there's a flaw in my plan, I have no car and no boot. Might see if i can convince someone (avec automobile) to come along either me. Oh, picked up a good tip in the Our Life in the Country blog: price everything up before you go (and as you add them to your pile). This is where I went wrong last time (people crowd you like vultures! So unnerving). I'd use something like masking or washi tape that's easily removable so absolutely everything can be priced.

Crumpets

Pearla*Merle wrote: »

Having a busy time away, so thought I'd note down some of the lovely things that've happened then try & update as and when I can until things return to normal next week. (& shall catch up with everyone majorly then!)

Reasons To Be Cheerful: deer in the woods, oystercatchers, the beach, great big fluffy clouds, mulled wine, fizzy wine, more wine in the fridge, all afternoon reading by a roaring fire, big pots of tea, date & walnut bread with lashings of butter, quaint villages & Victorian cottages hidden down twisting lanes, garden birds and cosy socks!

MFW news: card shop undercharged me by £2.40, no idea how but hurrah!

Oops, tea's ready, got to run!

What a lovely list of things to be cheerful about, my particular favourites are, the mulled wine, fizzy wine and more wine:rotfl: I think I may have to pinch your idea of listing things that make you happy as it's so easy to forget about the simple pleasures.:)

I really need to do a car boot this year too, I still have stuff in boxes from when we moved 3 years ago that need to go from my garage! I do find them quite scary places though so will have to take dh with me for mural support:cool:

mouche

Car boot sounds like a fab idea Pearla - hope you can sort out the car and the boot. Hope you're having a lovely week this week.

Pearla*Merle

Crumpets - go for it, acknowledging the little things makes such a difference to my state of mind, I love it.

Thanks mouche Had a lovely time away, it's very strange to be back; it's amazing how quickly 'Oh, my life is wandering around the countryside and films & wine in the evenings' becomes normal. :rotfl: