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rtandon27 wrote: »

The mist has lifted here - but it's dreich & may have to turn the lights on!

We've just had a power-cut for a couple of hours:(. I'm amazed how dark and dismal it can be in late morning in what's supposed to be the summer. With so little natural light it was impossible to get on with the urgent paperwork/reading that I'd earmarked today for:mad:. I've been putting it off for so long:o and when I actually bit the bullet and got started I was scuppered by things beyond my control.

Power keeps flickering on and off so am not holding my breath that the problem is fixed. We had torrential rain and thunderstorms in the night so maybe that's what caused it.

I hope everyone else is having a better day:beer:

gallygirl

Hope the weather has been kinder today KC and others - saw it on the BBC website - horrendous :eek::eek::eek:. Though changing underwear twice a day here is common, not today as weather had changed - a bit cooler, not as humid and beautiful blue skies - couldn't remember the last time I saw a vapor trail when I saw one earlier .

smallholdingsister

Cor its busy in 'ere today.

Karmacat

rtandon27 wrote: »

*giggles*

surely that's an oxymoron?!?:D

MSE sucess moment = :money:

:D:D

hope you are still dry!

The mist has lifted here - but it's dreich & may have to turn the lights on!

I misread that while typing :rotfl:

I was deffo dry - no more monsoon since that one on Thursday

carbootcrazy wrote: »

We've just had a power-cut for a couple of hours:(. I'm amazed how dark and dismal it can be in late morning in what's supposed to be the summer. With so little natural light it was impossible to get on with the urgent paperwork/reading that I'd earmarked today for:mad:. I've been putting it off for so long:o and when I actually bit the bullet and got started I was scuppered by things beyond my control.

Power keeps flickering on and off so am not holding my breath that the problem is fixed. We had torrential rain and thunderstorms in the night so maybe that's what caused it.

I hope everyone else is having a better day:beer:

Hope it got fixed properly, CBC. And you're right, if there's rainclouds like this week, there's very bad natural light. I disapprove, in general terms

smallholdingsister wrote: »

Cor its busy in 'ere today.

It was, wasn't it! I didn't come back on, the evening of the 14th is a family anniversary, and it turned out the 15th was too - but I zoomed off to my shopping town on the south coast and wore myself out I meant to go to Primark and come back, but they had *nothing* that I wanted, except sunglasses for £1 :rotfl: so I had to go to a few other places. And I went to bed in the afternoon

Am currently awake, so off to get some fresh air Hope everyone's having a nice Sunday

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I don't blame you for having a good rest after a frustrating and tiring shopping trip, KC. I hate shopping at the best of times though in my case it's because of lack of funds so it always entails a lot of trailing about to find the cheapest available:(

I hope you are feeling perkier now and enjoy being out in the fresh air:beer:

I've just got home from doing a car boot sale. Blimey, it was cold setting up stall this morning at 5.30 with the mist still on the surrounding fields:eek:. Didn't really become as warm as the forecasters promised, even as I was driving home. Made £71.20 profit so I'm pleased with that, especially as I managed to clear a huge pile of jigsaws which took up so much space in our spare bedroom. Although they've only been done once and the contents are pristine it's easy to dent and scuff the boxes when there are so many of them to store so I'm so glad I didn't have to bring them home again:j.. I'm not the jigsaw fan by the way, they were mostly my Dad's but OH does them occasionally as he says they relieve stress. Can't understand that myself, I get stressed out looking for pieces to fit:rotfl:

smallholdingsister

Hope you are having a good Sunday. X

Karmacat

Hi CBC, thanks for that. I haven't got out yet, except to put the washing on the line nearly ready now

I do admire you doing car boot sales; even if I *had* a car, I wouldn't do them. I sold a book on Amazon yesterday, mind you - profit after postage was all of £1!!! So £71 is brilliant, good for you :j

Jigsaws! Goldie likes them too I'm sure I did some when my sister's kids were little, though I remember board games more. And then computers came along, and they were into that game called Civilisation (and then Grand Theft Auto, tho thats another story :eek:)

I've been decluttering this morning - one of the things I bought in a poundshop, was paper CD envelopes - which take up much less space than even jewel cases, so a stack of dvds is now safely in boxes that don't collect dust.

Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

Jigsaws! Goldie likes them too I'm sure I did some when my sister's kids were little, though I remember board games more. And then computers came along, and they were into that game called Civilisation (and then Grand Theft Auto, tho thats another story :eek:)

Jigsaws? I love 'em!


We've always got a jigsaw on the go here. We prefer the 1000 piece ones, as we do the 500 piece ones far too quickly. Even so, we average two 1000 piece jigsaws a week.


The jigsaw thing has only started in the last few years. In the 80's we played quite a few board games when friends came over, particularly Trivial Pursuit.


I was big on computer games in the 90's before we got the internet. My favourites were things like Sim City, The Sims, Rollercoaster Tycoon and Theme Park.


But nowadays, a combination of Kindle, jigsaws and internet keeps us amused!

Cheery_Daff

Evening :hello:

I was never much of a jigsaw fan - too traumatised by my mum and her friend doing them sat either side of the dining table, in front of the living room window onto the street - in their BRAS :eek: :eek: :rotfl: Really, it must have been a one off, because the summer was so hot and they'd put their t shirts in the freezer to cool down. I never understood why they couldn't just have put a different t shirt on in the meantime! :rotfl:

Got over my trauma lately when someone left a jigsaw in work - it was 1000 pieces and SO difficult it took us weeks and weeks, just doing a piece here and there at lunchtime :rotfl: Quite enjoying having a jigsaw on the go in the work kitchen now!

Karmacat

How interesting about jigsaws! There's obviously a whole sub-culture I've been missing out on ... but Cheery, I'm not surprised you were traumatised by seeing your mum and her friend in their bras :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: a child is bound to go Ewwwwww! at that :rotfl:

The only detail thing I remember really enjoying like that was a spirograph, I was probably a bit older, but I really loved it. I've been googling spirograph images recently, actually

I carried on decluttering over the weekend, so that if I'm in the house, at least I'm doing different things over the weekend - did a lot with DVDs and paper cases, and I've now got this bee in my bonnet about the old client files, organising and storing so that they take less space and I can get rid of the document case the current ones are in, and clear a huge chunk of bookshelf :j and I'm almost there! It will be sorted this weekend.

Today is some paid work and a meeting with my business partner, I think I need to start drafting my "I'm retiring" letter with him :eek: He'll object but that's tough

Right, cuppa tea, a waltz round the boards, and a quick readying of the counselling room ....