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LavenderBees

Morning All,

Hoping you are all doing ok.

It's been a busy week in the LB household, some good, some a bit hair raising...

The fostering agency are happy to take my application forward for all types of care, so I can start on the respite as soon as I am accepted. It means that I won't have to be re-assessed should my circumstances change and I can look at longer term fostering. :T

It seems though that if I hadn't been offered my new role last week, I would be expecting to be made at official risk of redundancy NEXT week (and we all know that generally results in your job loss), so my new job offer has been made in the nick of time. I think in reality, because I am already doing work for my new role and have been for the last 6 months, that I would have been offered at least a temporary secondment to the new role, so maybe would still have survived, at least for a few more months, but even so, the bullet has only just been dodged this time. :eek:

I don't honestly feel much more secure in the new role as there are cuts right across the whole company in all parts of the business regardless of country, so...watch this space, I guess. It's a horrible way to live though and I'm not the only one now conscious of not knowing from month to month if you have a job. Some still seem oblivious though...:(

For me, it is even more reason to keep going with my fostering application.

But GOOD NEWS! My lovely new cooker will arrive later today, and the electrician is coming tomorrow to "plumb" it in, and the joiner is coming on Monday afternoon to trim my worktops to fit the new cooker (which is slightly larger than my old one). Very excited! To have a grill after 7 years without one will be fabulous! :rotfl:

So, needing to stay close to home this weekend, which is good as anxiety is not allowing me much quality sleep. I'm off to the garden centre in a few minutes, and will weed my front garden, then chill as much as I can around delivery men, electricians and joiners

I luvs weekends

Have a good 'un all.

LB xx

3forholidays

LB Great to read that the fostering agency is happy to progress with your application.

I'm another one that likes weekends

LavenderBees

Thanks, 3forholidays, fingers crossed it progresses well..

Well, I've got the kitchen ready for the old cooker to be taken away and the new one delivered. My little living room is now full of kitchen "stuff" and the pusses are loving being able to leap on and off the furniture, and finally get into the area behind the cooker...it's a pusscat adventure playground .

The muck was horrible but not as bad as I expected it to be (a tad cleaner than the rest of the house :rotfl:).

However, it seems it was only the old cooker that was holding the tiles on the wall behind it, and every few minutes, another one lands on the floor. Gotta laugh really :rotfl: . Luckily, the new cooker will hide the carnage behind it .

Right...off to the garden centre for a browse...

LB xx

Mr_Singleton

As a number of others are redecorating at the moment thought I'd throw in a question/dilemma.

Repainting the bedroom and can't quite decide if to go for a cool blue or something warmer or leave it as a neutral.

Edging toward a cool blue.

ellie99

Mr_Singleton wrote: »

As a number of others are redecorating at the moment thought I'd throw in a question/dilemma.

Repainting the bedroom and can't quite decide if to go for a cool blue or something warmer or leave it as a neutral.

Edging toward a cool blue.

Obviously we can't tell you what colour to choose, but if you're favouring one choice maybe that's telling you something?

Maybe you want to go with blue? or are you wanting to decide by considering the direction the room faces, size of window and amount of light?

My whole decorating life I've been Mrs Colour, no magnolia in my house! But my latest decorating phase I've changed to Mrs Cream/Whites (still no magnolia though!)

Sometimes you just fancy a change.

LB, did you buy anything nice at the garden centre?

(please don't say "no, I only bought horrible stuff" :rotfl:)

LavenderBees

Mr_Singleton wrote: »

As a number of others are redecorating at the moment thought I'd throw in a question/dilemma.

Repainting the bedroom and can't quite decide if to go for a cool blue or something warmer or leave it as a neutral.

Edging toward a cool blue.

I agree with Ellie - it all depends on personal taste, but also the light in your bedroom will make or break the colour you choose. I also prefer blue with another colour rather than on its own. Some nice (and not so nice) ideas here.

http://bedroom.about.com/od/ColorIdeas/ss/Blue-Bedroom-Color-Schemes_2.htm#step-heading

I'm a green girl myself, but I'm unlikely to be sleeping in your bedroom so feel free to go blue if you prefer :rotfl:

LB xx

LavenderBees

ellie99 wrote: »

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LB, did you buy anything nice at the garden centre?

(please don't say "no, I only bought horrible stuff" :rotfl:)

:rotfl:

I think so...my front garden needs a little height and I stumbled across some half price ceonothus (sp?) bushes which have been trained as standard trees. Lovely, and they have the bonus of being attractive to bees as well as a gorgeous scent. Very happy with that! :T

My cooker also arrived early this afternoon so I have no excuse for not getting my bushy tree planted but, in my defence, it rained for 5 minutes and put me off for the whole afternoon :rotfl:

I did visit my chooks though for a bit of fresh air, and thank goodness I did as my Mabel, who rarely lays, was egg bound :eek:. Life threatening for a chicken to be unable to pass an egg (not to mention being painful, bless her), so I'm so glad I stopped by when I did. A warm bath and gentle massage of her rear end later (the things I do for my pets ), and she relaxed enough to pass the egg. 5 minutes later, she indignantly shook me off, and ate her tea :rotfl:

Is it just me, or is the TV appallingly boring these Saturday evenings?

LB xx

JustKeepSwimming_2

LavenderBees wrote: »

Thanks, 3forholidays, fingers crossed it progresses well..

Well, I've got the kitchen ready for the old cooker to be taken away and the new one delivered. My little living room is now full of kitchen "stuff" and the pusses are loving being able to leap on and off the furniture, and finally get into the area behind the cooker...it's a pusscat adventure playground .

The muck was horrible but not as bad as I expected it to be (a tad cleaner than the rest of the house :rotfl:).

However, it seems it was only the old cooker that was holding the tiles on the wall behind it, and every few minutes, another one lands on the floor. Gotta laugh really :rotfl: . Luckily, the new cooker will hide the carnage behind it .

Right...off to the garden centre for a browse...

LB xx

:rotfl: at the tiles story - obviously I wouldn't be laughing if it meant you had to re-tile the wall, I'm not that thoughtless, but as you know you don't have to do anything about it (apart from sweep them up maybe?) then it is quite funny.

Glad to hear you're still on track for some kind of fostering, & so pleased you dodged that unemployment bullet. That was a really close shave....

Did you spend a fortune at the garden centre :rotfl:. I did some gardening today :eek:. One of the many awkward things about not having a car is how difficult it is to but plants of a decent size, which may be able to tolerate my black fingers better than their smaller, more fragile & demanding relations. So I got some decent ones delivered, as ready made hanging baskets *hangs head in shame*. Also got some ready to go into the garden now size plants, which are now happily (?) planted in pots. I'll keep moving them inside each night for a week or two, assuming they live that long of course :rotfl:

Last year the snails/slugs planned an assault on my window boxes & ate all my marigolds overnight :mad:. Little s o d s crawled over gravel, up a pebble dashed wall & along the window sill for their midnight snack, leaving annoying Mr Perfect Garden's marigolds quite happily sitting in his low level, easy to get to flower beds.

So I've got lots of geraniums this year

Pulled up loads of weeds (DD was complaining that she'd only done the same thing last month :rotfl:) & my seemingly indestructible rose tree (too large to be a bush now I feel) is flowering well so it looks lovely. For a few days....

Mr_Singleton wrote: »

As a number of others are redecorating at the moment thought I'd throw in a question/dilemma.

Repainting the bedroom and can't quite decide if to go for a cool blue or something warmer or leave it as a neutral.

Edging toward a cool blue.

I think it depends on the light & orientation of the room, so I can't help you out as I don't know where you live (that sounds weirder than I mean it to so IHYSWIM :rotfl:)

ellie99 wrote: »

Obviously we can't tell you what colour to choose, but if you're favouring one choice maybe that's telling you something?

Maybe you want to go with blue? or are you wanting to decide by considering the direction the room faces, size of window and amount of light?

My whole decorating life I've been Mrs Colour, no magnolia in my house! But my latest decorating phase I've changed to Mrs Cream/Whites (still no magnolia though!)

Sometimes you just fancy a change.

LB, did you buy anything nice at the garden centre?

(please don't say "no, I only bought horrible stuff" :rotfl:)

I've always been rather bold in my decorating choices too Ellie; some may say bold, or brave, or "Oh, I'd never thought of using that colour". There are a few raised eyebrows at my racing green kitchen walls (lots of white tiles too, looks grand when they're clean ) but I love colour. Why be dull?

Thinking of painting my tiny bedroom a deep red, but then I'd need a new carpet & then I'd need someone to help me move all the stuff, yada yada, so it hasn't been done in the 9 years I've lived here. One day :rotfl:

So glad its the weekend - 4 more work days till half term. I love working part time in a school (until pay-day, then its really rubbish :rotfl:) but I have far too many other things to do than waste my life going to work!

Hope all are having a great w/e.

ellie99

LavenderBees wrote: »

I'm a green girl myself, but I'm unlikely to be sleeping in your bedroom so feel free to go blue if you prefer :rotfl:

LB xx

:rotfl: that made me laugh.

LavenderBees wrote: »

:rotfl:

I think so...my front garden needs a little height and I stumbled across some half price ceonothus (sp?) bushes which have been trained as standard trees. Lovely, and they have the bonus of being attractive to bees as well as a gorgeous scent. Very happy with that! :T


Is it just me, or is the TV appallingly boring these Saturday evenings?

LB xx

Ceanothus are lovely, I used to have one but the frost killed it, so I haven't tried again.
I was pleased to see last month that my large fuchsia bush was showing lots of new growth, but now it's all gone, must have been a late frost.

You're right, the TV is terrible on Saturdays, you'd think there would be *something* worth watching. I considered a dvd, but have finished my painting instead, and am obsessively having to look through each old magazine before I can throw it out No, I don't know why, maybe scared I'll miss the article which will change my life :rotfl:

Next plan is my book. I like murder/detective books, and have no problem reading them in bed at night...but the current one gave me bad dreams last night. Instead of just finding the dead bodies, this book has whole chapters describing the murderer torturing the victims. Quite disturbing to read what the women suffer.

ellie99

JustKeepSwimming wrote: »

Last year the snails/slugs planned an assault on my window boxes & ate all my marigolds overnight :mad:. Little s o d s crawled over gravel, up a pebble dashed wall & along the window sill for their midnight snack, leaving annoying Mr Perfect Garden's marigolds quite happily sitting in his low level, easy to get to flower beds.

So I've got lots of geraniums this year



I've always been rather bold in my decorating choices too Ellie; some may say bold, or brave, or "Oh, I'd never thought of using that colour". There are a few raised eyebrows at my racing green kitchen walls (lots of white tiles too, looks grand when they're clean ) but I love colour. Why be dull?

Good move with the geraniums, they don't like geraniums, they'll starve

I've had a bright green kitchen too

I also had the phase of painting the ceilings different colours...was cursing that one when I decided to paint them out last year, takes much more effort to get rid of colour!
The kitchen ceiling is still pale yellow, and it's all flaking off, that will be a messy job to sort.