Santa's Challenge 2015 - Xmas, Birthdays, a chat, a bit of everything

mum2one

had to share this, DD was shattered, so went upstairs about 7pm, on her phone as well, popped head in 8.30pm, she was out for the count, - then 10pm, she comes downstairs fully dressed in her school clothes and asked whats for breakfast I'm starving......

xx

susan42

Hi everyone popping in for my weekly fix. Hope everyone ok.

Angela - the houses I collect are lemax . The ship and lighthouse / harbour are dept 56, I imported them. When I went to America last Xmas was disappointed in New York. Went to Macy's and Bloomingdales and there Xmas displays were rubbish. Couldn't even see the model houses asked assistants, they got the managers said they only sold them on line!!!
I paid for an extra suitcase as well to bring loads back, had been saving all year :-(
I did find some in michaels in Orlando but display was poor. Very disappointing.
I have bought the ones I got on eBay and dawsons garden centre online

This year Im going to have a bigger display and better organised. Was rushed last year. Anyway won't bore you with the details

Mum2one - lol at miss hoodie , I remember doing something similar in France / Paris. I was 17, got dressed up for night club , looked abit tarty. Went out at 9 to be told it opened at 10 , went back to hotel and my mate fell asleep told me to wake her. My mother knocked the door next morning at 8 to day we were leaving :-(
So been to Paris and never seen anything

Well house coming along, kitchen and dining room finished . Lounge by next week. Craft Room finished . Very ice too . Which leaves 3 bedrooms and a 2nd lounge and conservatory . O and the garden for the dog lol

mum2one

Hope everyone ok, the week has just flown by...

Good news - my consultants app now fortnightly and can lose one of my dressing changes at gp, so all in the right direction....

Granddad Hoodie finishes his chemo on Monday, its been a long old trek, hopefully next scan should be May, it be remission offically then.

Miss Hoodie - shes got her merecat experience tomorrow she is so exicted, taking grandad hoodie with her....

xx

mum2one

Santas Challenge March _ sorry about delay)


Apologies for the delay, the time just flying at the mo..


Birthday Cards
Were approaching April, and entering the 2nd quarter of the year, so have a review of cards and presents needed for April, May, June...

Presents
Working on the same basis as cards - review the next 3 months, also check on the wrapping paper, so any needed can be brought ready rather than the emergency dash...

Clocks forward
By now the automatic changes have come into force, but check watches alarm clocks etc, heres to lighter nights

[COLOR="rgb(255, 0, 255)"]Easter Weekend[/COLOR]
Dont forget the banks will be closed Friday and Monday, also Supermarkets are closed on the Sunday, although the smaller stores will be open.

Miss Hoodies corner
Miss Hoodie is quite nice this time, no freezers.... the challenge is books, dvds, - how many are you keeping for the just incase, I might watch it again.... will you?.... may be worth an up for carboots, or dvds via music magpie etc...

£2 - me treat
What can you get for £2.... an interesting thought, - but following on from a luck purchase (discounted sale), I picked up a really nice watch for £2, so what can you get for yourself for £2.

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A little Santas challenge, but as always have fun and take care xxx

Anglea

Hello my lovely ladies,

Susan thank you for telling me about your village houses - it's all so interesting - I never imagined you would have bought them so far away in America.

You'll have a lovely home when all the work is done - and a bigger village this year? I am looking forwards to the photos.

Mum2one, glad that your feeling better and that sounds like a fab day out for Miss H and Grandad. Thanks for the new challenge - I hadn't really made progress on the last one sorry to say.

Guess where I went last week? I may have mentioned I have a severe travel phobia but late last Sunday suddenly decided I had to go to Leicester Cathederal to see the Ricard 111 coffin.

It was a bit of an adventure to say the least especially as I left the house about 8.20 am and finally arrived about 6pm only to discover all hotels were full.

Cut a long story short with strange coincidences ended up away from the centre in a taxi paid by another hotel - and the place we stayed was a really unusual hotel - to say the least!!

I had been telling the story to the friend that came with me that the last time I did anything like this was when I was about 9 and my parents allowed me to travel to London with a friend my age to see Tutunkhamun by coach - on our own. Which was remarkable when I look back on it - anyhow I couldn't believe it when I went through the door of the hotel and there was Tutunkhamun in the foyer !!!

I did manage to see the coffin after a very long wait and I had a bad panic attack too, not sure why but I felt really dizzy and was scared I wouldn't get to go in.

We eventually got home about 10.30pm that day after more eventful journeys.

I haven't done a thing since then (we returned Tuesday) as I wasn't feeling too good.

As usual I've overlooked Easter and not sent a card overseas as well as some letters I planned to write after receiving updates in Christmas cards.

I think I'm going to have to put calendar pages on the kitchen cupboards so I can see them daily - I found since the children left school I never know what event is coming up as I don't look at my dairies that often.

mrs-moneypenny

Oh Angela, I wish I'd known you were coming to Leicester, we could have met up for a coffee if you'd wanted. I didn't go to see the coffin but was in town that Sunday morning to see the water diviner with Russell Crowe (brilliant but very sad film) they were just setting up and had loads of film crews and barriers all over the place.
Thank you for the lists mum2one, I'm trying to be more organised with birthdays etc I start the year with good intentions but end up posting cards later after a few months so this is an excellent time to remind me to get back on track.
Stash cupboard needs a rummage through as well.
Re the £2 challenge, I think I got mine this Sunday at the carboot a guy was selling everything for 50p. So for £2 I got a carrier bag full of new design scalextric, track triggers, motor and two cars for DD1, a hobby horse for the school playground it just needed a new battery in its ear so now plays the Lone Ranger theme and neighs for about a minute which is great as I can tell the kids they need to swap over when the music stops, a scategories board game for DS1 and his drinking buddies to play when they have a sleep over/gaming session and an early learning crazy golf game for when DD2s fella kiddies come round. Lots of happy people for my two quid so money very well spent.

mum2one

Mrs m - those are some brilliant bargains love the sound of the horse xx

Anglea

Hi all

Mrs M, I didn't know that I was going until the eleventh hour and even then I wondered if I'd get there because of the palaver with coaches being booked and having to wait for over 3.5 hours to begin once we got to Bristol and discovered the next two were full. Then there was a hold up at Birmingham because of an bad accident and the driver announced we could be stuck for hours.

I do want to return to have a proper look round Leicester because all we saw was the coach station and outside the Cathederal as we were only inside it for a few moments.

I was a bit confused reading your post because mistakenly I thought it was written by mum2one so when you wrote 'water diviner' I thought that was literally a dowser because I know mum2one has mentioned paranormal and psychic things in her posts lol

I think it's because when I went onto my subs page it had mum2one's name as the last post for our thread and I got mixed up.

So you did get a lot of £2 bargains - but were any for you to use yourself?

mrs-moneypenny

Sounds like you had a bit of a rush job to see whT you did, we'll do on coping with all of that.
No none were direct bargains for me but in the playground if the kids are happy and entertained it makes my job easier so indirectly I get a bonus for the toys for there. And all the other stuff, we just like going round for a mooch so I don't really mind who I'm shopping for, my latest search is an old book called 'jock of the bushveld' for DD1 it's aparently a story about a staffie dog in South africa, I did nip in a little old bookshop in the city and she said looking on the puter it might be coming out again as a cartoon possibly Disney so it might be reprinted but she took my number and offered to keep her eye out for it as well.
Most things turn up if you search long enough.

The water diviner is a film about an Australian who looses his three son all on the same day in the war, his wife can't take the sadness and commits suicide leaving him with nothing left but to search for his boys in his vow to bring them home, at times it really was heartbreaking. I won't say any more but it's worth a watch and does have an uplifting ending.

Re the challenges this month DS2 actually taught me how to put all my birthdays onto my iPad calendar, hopefully that will help keep me on track.

Anyway hope all are well

mum2one

Hope everyone has a good Easter.

Touch wood all pretty good here, been up in Blackpool with Miss Hoodie, Easter break and my bday, so had a treat and went to the theatre, - the play was ok, (The Woman In black), but i wouldn't be 1st in the q if they were giving free tickets....

We had brought a coupon for the b+b, it was lovely about 5 mins from the front, from our room we had a view of the tower.

The plan is to go back for the illuminations, - last time I saw them was over 20yrs ago..... and the B+B have said there us a voucher price rather than the proper price - were going to snap there hands off.

Typical british weather.... it rained and rained and rained - that was inbetween the gusts of wind.... then as we were leaving beautiful weather. So we popped via Fleetwood,

xx