Renovations and Repayments.

gallygirl

All sounding great Alex and to belatedly answer your question, yes I gave been keeping abreast of the Ospreys and glad to see the injured one has recovered :T

AlexLK

A_Frayed_Knot wrote: »

Wow - ££££'s :j :beer: :T :A


work/maths can be fun !!!


Enjoy your two nights and OP target for August ?? :T

Rather pleased and made a few extra £££s over the weekend I've been away. Yet to fully count up / work out totals though.

Had a great time away and watched some good racing. Always a pity to come home from good times away.

OP for August yet to be decided but should be £300 - £400.

gallygirl wrote: »

All sounding great Alex and to belatedly answer your question, yes I gave been keeping abreast of the Ospreys and glad to see the injured one has recovered :T

Thanks.

Have to say I was rather worried about the injured one. Son and I are going to have an Osprey catch up this evening and may be going over for a walk around there towards the end of this week.

AlexLK

August OP target - £350.

Yesterday my son and I went with my cousin and her family to the equestrian show which was thoroughly enjoyable. Today, son has gone to the show with my cousin and their children because I need to deal with some work. Should join them later if everything gets wrapped up here quickly. They're meant to be meeting up with one of my son's school friends and parents which my son is ridiculously excited about and seems to think is the height of being 'grown up': school friend, riding teacher (my cousin), no Dad. :rotfl:

AlexLK

Nothing to report moneywise. Have to admit the decluttering has come to a bit of a halt with the show and other summer activities.

Saw my parents today. Father was acting very strange, as if nothing has happened for the first 10 minutes or so, then rather nasty about the whole thing and my apparent 'need' to be 'looked after' (financially). Everything always comes back to my apparent irresponsibility with money and the fact he thinks I have a child I can ill-afford. :mad:

In more positive news, I'm about to go to bed and have been going to bed at around this time for a few days now. Sleeping better and not feeling so ill from lack of sleep.

A_Frayed_Knot

Declutter as and when you feel the time is right. It doesn't have to be 24/7, and nice to see you making a realistic target for August :cool:

As for seeing your parents - sorry but I have a mean streak in me if your father keeps harping on, give him something to talk about, drop the hint that your both thinking of having another child (mind and tell your wife what your doing though :eek:)

Great your going to bed early:T and sleeping/feeling the benefit from that. No need for Lavender then :rotfl:

smallholdingsister

There is a thing about hours before midnight being twice as useful sleep as hours after. Probably nonsense!

Alex if your boy is 5 at least (pretty sure he is 5 or 6) he is old enough to join the pony club.


http://www.pcuk.org/index.php/branches

maman

Delighted that you're having a good summer Alex, hope you've got some family things arranged for this weekend.


I hope you don't 'bite' when your father starts harping on about needing to help you out financially. Of course you can afford LittleK, he's having a wonderful childhood. It seems nothing would give your father greater pleasure, in his current state of mind, than to pay for him to go to an independent school and then use it as a stick to beat you with. Anyway that's not a problem you need to face yet.


Meanwhile I do worry that LittleK is hearing his granddad berating you. It goes without saying that you're not rude back but if he's hearing all this nonsense it's not good for him. Maybe best to leave immediately he starts ranting or just visit with MrsK so one of you can usher LittleK away or visit alone and explain why if he asks.


Have a good weekend:).

AlexLK

A_Frayed_Knot wrote: »

Declutter as and when you feel the time is right. It doesn't have to be 24/7, and nice to see you making a realistic target for August :cool:

As for seeing your parents - sorry but I have a mean streak in me if your father keeps harping on, give him something to talk about, drop the hint that your both thinking of having another child (mind and tell your wife what your doing though :eek:)

Great your going to bed early:T and sleeping/feeling the benefit from that. No need for Lavender then :rotfl:

Thanks, AFK.

I'm not particularly stressed about the declutter, any improvement is an improvement at least!

:rotfl: I won't be saying that to my father!

Bed after replying to this for me, sticking with it. As for lavender, well it may be helping. Lavender and Bach ...

smallholdingsister wrote: »

There is a thing about hours before midnight being twice as useful sleep as hours after. Probably nonsense!

Alex if your boy is 5 at least (pretty sure he is 5 or 6) he is old enough to join the pony club.


http://www.pcuk.org/index.php/branches

I've heard that before. Agree it's likely nonsense but a little sleep before midnight is useful when getting up at a sensible time.

Thank you, re. pony club. My son is 5 (6 in November) would love it, so will have a look tomorrow and have a word with my cousin.

maman wrote: »

Delighted that you're having a good summer Alex, hope you've got some family things arranged for this weekend.

I hope you don't 'bite' when your father starts harping on about needing to help you out financially. Of course you can afford LittleK, he's having a wonderful childhood. It seems nothing would give your father greater pleasure, in his current state of mind, than to pay for him to go to an independent school and then use it as a stick to beat you with. Anyway that's not a problem you need to face yet.

Meanwhile I do worry that LittleK is hearing his granddad berating you. It goes without saying that you're not rude back but if he's hearing all this nonsense it's not good for him. Maybe best to leave immediately he starts ranting or just visit with MrsK so one of you can usher LittleK away or visit alone and explain why if he asks.

Have a good weekend:).

Had a great weekend with my wife and son. Not really done much apart from go to the steam show and lots of walks, suppose these type of things counts as 'family things', though?

No, I don't 'bite', heard it all far too many times, maman. I don't know what to do about my son's schooling for the long term. A few things have made me wonder if an independent education can be damaging (already thought a state one could be). Seems no real solutions and everything has compounded after seeing some excellent state schools with good policies and some not so great prep schools.

Recently my mother has been really good with my son. Whenever I take him there she usually takes him for a walk on their grounds. I know they both miss seeing him, I do feel quite guilty for that. Not sure what's going on with father at the moment, he's acting rather strange.

smallholdingsister

Has your father been checked out for dementia type issues?
I suspect from how you describe him he would never agree to that.

AlexLK

smallholdingsister wrote: »

Has your father been checked out for dementia type issues?
I suspect from how you describe him he would never agree to that.

Someone mentioned this on here once after I mentioned something about him but I very much doubt he would be willing to undergo an assessment.

I don't know what's the matter with him at the moment; today he called me upset about the fact I haven't invited them to go on our summer day trips and that I'm being selfish (their only grandchild etc. etc.). Had to tell me they would pay, can "afford better" and would review my remuneration for looking after the properties. :mad: After explaining I think it is better for my family that we visit a little less often and I don't care about the money, he came to the conclusion that I "need to stop being silly and come home". As far as my mother is concerned, father's behaviour is my fault as I'm making him "depressed". My response stating that perhaps he ought to visit the doctor's surgery didn't go down very well ... .