Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 2

Waves_and_Smiles

I have never tried red tea or Christmas tea! This must be remedied as I really like the different types, I just get stuck in a habit of buying Earl Grey and Lady Grey. I am currently drinking beetroot tea which is so refreshing, I highly recommend it. I shall also add white hot chocolate to my must try list.

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Just to cap the day off, I've dislocated my thumb. It's back in, but sore

*strops back to the fort to sulk*

HBS x

Waves_and_Smiles

Ouchie, HBS! That sounds awful! Be careful with it, you don't need to have it checked, do you? You have full permission to sit in the fort and eat crisps and chocolate for the rest of the day.

codemonkey

Flybaby, the hairband trick is useful if your jeans or trousers are too tight in the waist. So you unbutton the jeans, take a hair bobble and put it through the button hole and loop it around the button as many times as you like. It gives you a tiny extra little bit of space without being too noticeable. Now that my new jeans have relaxed a bit I have taken it away.

Poor hbs. I'm in the fort making cookies.

Birdie85

Flybaby wrote: »

Guys - what is the hairband trick?


Whoever was asking about gifts for crafty person (sorry can't seem to find it now) Strongly recommend going to the range and buying a nice pack/block of the scrapbooking papers with co-ordinating card or accesories. My mum is a mad papercrafter and no matter what cool things I buy her, she loves to have co-ordinating patterned papers and lovely card the best.

The hairband trick is to loop a hairband around the button on your trousers then loop it through the button hole and back around the button, thus giving you a little extra breathing room!

ETA: Cross posted with Code!

My MIL is the crafty one and there's no point buying her any 'make your own' kits as she's already got all the equipment (and better than what comes in the kits) already! I have had a bit of a brainwave though as the only thing she can't do is papercutting (eyes aren't good enough to focus on it) so I've seen a few options of pretty papercuts on Etsy, just need to decide on one and order it!

Hope your thumb is OK HBS, sounds sore! :eek:

Code - go for the test again! My friend passed on her 4th go, she just kept going to pieces as soon as she saw the instructor and did stupid things like going the wrong way around a mini roundabout and driving on the wrong side of the road! By the 4th try I think she was so amused at the idea of it going wrong again and wondering how she'd possibly top the last test that the nerves were gone!

I have very scary work stuff happening on Friday. I have to run a training session. :eek: Just sent out the invites to the people who have to come and there's no going back now! No matter how many times I mentioned to my manager that I was struggling with the idea and I have successfully managed to put it off for about 4 months I just can't put it off any more. This is so *very* scary! :eek:

tea_lover

Ooh Birdie that does sound scary - but in a kind of exciting way hopefully! (if not, just get in the fort and we will stroke you hair and bring you festive tea). At least it's on Friday not Monday - good opportunity to plan a weekend treat to recover

Pyxis

Look! A Code-elf!

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Thank you everyone! WaS, I'm at the docs for a blood panel later on anyway so I'll ask them to have a look

HBS x

codemonkey

Code elf. Might have to be my christmas profile pic.

I have cookie dough im the fridge. Will pop the gingerbread dudes in the oven soon.

Pyxis

codemonkey wrote: »

Code elf. Might have to be my christmas profile pic.

I have cookie dough im the fridge. Will pop the gingerbread dudes in the oven soon.

Yum! Warm gingerbread men!

Do you eat the head or the legs first?

I nibble upwards from the feet.

And I do the same with gingerbread men! :rotfl:




(Naughty Pyxis!)