* It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year * - It's the 2016 Christmas Chatter Thread

System

I think im wired up wrong ! Christmas is sorted early so i'm doing gardening now in the cold !
Getting a man in to sort the rough bits and remove rubble etc on Tuesday, hubbys had long enough to sort it now all he has to do is pay and we have had wood delivered today that i will [weather permitting] treat tomorrow so its all ready to sort the fence out next week .
This has all started because my incompetant neighbour said he is replacing my wire fence with one made out of pallets !! over my dead body he will , ive seen his handy work.Think Steptoe and you will get the idea of his gardening style .lol

missmoose

Left the OH to chat to my brother and figure out something to get him, they have similar interests so it's not weird if he starts asking about his games and things, if I started asking he would know something's a miss.
When to the sainsbos toy sale today for my niece, not all of it is half price, some toys are cheaper and a certain toy super store acording to other shoppers. But I picked up two disney themed thing for her even if they were a little cheaper else where I don't live near a toy shop or the disney store so I've saved on petrol and could collect points so I like to see that as free money to make me feel better. Buying for her gets me over excited for the big day kids have the best reactions to gifts. just have to resist giving them to her early.

04624181

Hi everyone,

Welcome to newbies, get well soon wishes to people who are poorly.

Wow you lot can chat, im struggling to get on here and keep up. Kids finish tomorrow so the day will be spent shopping and cleaning. Have managed to get a couple of christmassy bits. Was my DS 14th birthday on monday, he had a fab day/ weekend. I need to reorder some jeans I forgot to pick up from M&S, I forgot to pick them up so they recredited me. Hoping to get on top of my minging house over the school holidays, it needs decluttering badly!! hoping to do some painting too. Job is still good, a couple of hiccups but all in all im still loving it. Managed to order my craft bits for my stocking craft, just waiting for it to be delivered. Cannot believe how fast the weeks are passing by

mandco

aarrgggh spent ages writing out a post and lost it :mad:

so a quick get well soon wishes to everyone who needs them and I'll try and pop back later and redo

tc all

freespirit66

Evening everyone, well the washing machine is not worth fixing so i have to have a new one grrrr! 2017 better be a good year because i am so over this one

GETTINGTHEREQUICKLY & MISSMONEYPENNY loving both the Haynes manuals they sound great DD1 would love the zombie one i might look for it for her

GETTINGTHEREQUICKLY i just cant think of anything atm sorry, will keep it in mind though

NEWTHRIFT i hope you feel better tonight and get a good nights sleep

CHRISSY oh gawd i had a neighbour like that years ago

MISSMOOSE i do that factor in the petrol money and loyalty points as well it all helps

MANDCO oh honey that is so frustrating losing a post!

Flowfy

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

Just ordered ds1 a Haynes manual guide to surviving the zombie apocalypse off Amazon hadn't seen them before he's a fan of things like that so will be a nice surprise gift.
Added some daisy perfume for ds2s gf to my list.

Thank you so much for posting this as now I have bought one too, and a 'Walking Dead' Monopoly. My husband will be proper chuffed. He is sure there is going to be one any day.

xx

mrs-moneypenny

Morning all
Hope everyone is well
Thought I'd mention that I sa they are doing a ladybird book on the zombie apocalypse soon-it's on preorder the the mo but is in the stocking filler price range of £3.75 ish like the other adult ladybird books that came out. I got Dh the one on midlife crises last year he loves it lol.

Peppapig

Thanks for those MRSM.

GTQ I did mugs with three sachets of different hot chocs in and a mini bag of cookies (from a multipack) and put them in cellophane Santa bags. Think they cost me about £2.20 each except the o es where I already had the mugs Hope you can sort your bookmarks out, unfortunately I haven't got anything much to contribute in the way if ideas.

CHRISSEY I think the mild weather is the cause of your gardening activity, I keep looking out and thinking the grass needs another cut if for no other reason than to pick up the millions of leaves that are falling in our garden from the hideously overgrown garden that sides onto ours! They've got the ugliest beech tree you can imagine and just jet it self seed so there are now lots of mini beech trees too. We had the big one lopped a couple of years ago but it's still huge. We're in a conservation area so gave to get permission to do anything to them.:(

0462 glad things have turned around with the job, it's so much nicer when you enjoy your work.

MANDCO I know that feeling, happened to me the other day and it was so difficult to remember all I'd written.

FREE I can def recommend AO for electrical equipment, they deliver within days and their customer service is good too. We've bought all our big electrical stuff from them plus some for the children. I'm with you on getting rid of 2016, it seems to have been a difficult year for everyone. Fingers crossed for 2017 being an improvement!

Well DH isn't well again today, going to ring the docs in the morning and insist on an emergency appointment (our GP doesn't work on Thursdays). I think they need to stop !!!!!footing around with his pills and get some investigations goin. I'm going to ask for him to be referred for a colonoscopy and also back to the heart clinic for investigations for his dizziness, constant tiredness and being cold all the time. He does have heart failure but that's shouldn't mean they don't look at him when he's poorly. Rant over lol. Off to the hospital for line care shortly then I'll be spending the afternoon in the land of miniatures getting DGD's Shopkins Shop finished before she comes up next week.

Gettingtherequickly

Sorted the book marks! Have ordered little bright silver bells so the jingles are sorted and white wooden buttons in the shape of a star, so got the Star of Bethlehem sorted. Put them all together and bung in a bag with a label saying My Christmas Bookmark. Hopefully kids will want to get them for a parent or grandparent, if they are marked at £1.25 each & we get a £1, it will be value for money.

System

Just had an email from The works they are doing 10 kids books for £10 online only.They also have some pretty fairy doors for about £2.

I have started painting the wood for the fence its quite theraputic but its gonna take a while .