Mooloo's little tapestry of life, 2016

Savvy_sewing

I had a Vauxhall Corsa that was semi Automatic. It could be driven as an automatic but had heard I could change if I needed too.
Especially when my left arm wasn't working properly 6/7 years ago. I only changed it 3 years ago.

Savvy_sewing

Well we are all packed up and ready to go.
With three hours to spare, so Mum and I have been talking to my brother on Skype about our dehydrater, and pickling veg etc.
I really should be doing more with my gadgets.
It is strange not being at work today though.
I had most of the jobs up to date, and only a few things waiting for zips.
So unless we get a lot of jobs in over the next two days I will have a nice steady day on Monday.
Mum just told me about a garden centre biggest of Mooloos took her to the other day so we are going to go off and have a wander around there now.
I have to drive back home, well to the school to hand in a form for DGDs trip next month, and we will get petrol at Tesco because it is 5p a litre cheaper.
So I am off now, here is hoping that nothing goes untoward while we are away.

Savvy_sewing

The hotel is very grand as Mum says. Modern rooms, with huge big beds, and all the modcons that you would expect of such a place. The journey went well, although I probably would have managed without the hire car. We took a little longer to get to the hotel then planned and my Uncle was waiting in the lounge for us, so we did not even get to see our room until about 10.30 last night.
We have been invited to their house for a meal with the whole family coming by the sound of it. My Uncle doesn't look very well and Mum was rather shocked to see him as he is. But that was the whole reason why I said to come, as he is not in his prime anymore.
We have decided to book a taxi as they plan to have a few drinks etc before dinner. We are to go at 1pm for drinks and nibble and the meal is planned for 4pm so I obviously don't intend to drive.

dktreesea

duchy wrote: »

Ah if only the challenges of autistic adult kids were only telling them to get the bus instead of being able to chauffeur them !!

Surely it would be a no brainer if you actually can't drive a stick shift and your husband only prefers it rather than can't drive an automatic - to get a car you both can drive ?

A lovely idea. I wish! I've got heaps of "no brainer" solutions, including buying a house in a cheaper area of Scotland rather than renting here, but they require more money than we have.


We simply can't afford to change our car. It's the reality of having a business. We need the money we make over Christmas to carry us through the lean times during the rest of the year. Plus I am conscious of the running costs of an automatic compared to the car we have. The business is improving over time though still not back to the pre recession volumes, so I am hopeful that at some point we will be able to get one. But right now it's in the category of pipe dream.

Savvy_sewing

We had a very interesting day with the Irish side of the family yesterday. I met cousins I hadn't seen since my wedding in 1981.,and some of their children, who are about 11. The older ones didn't come and who would blame them for not wanting to meet two old ladies.
The stories that were told, information exchanged etc was fascinating. My uncle had my grandparents merchant seaman logs. The ships they were on, etc.
My granny's antics as a woman at sea, visiting China and being a tall white lady with big feet in the time when Chinese women had their feet bound.
Stories of my uncle when he was an advisor in Africa, and staying in mud and grass huts, with oil lamps, and falling in to a ditch to grab at the bank and end up with a snake in his hands which he threw away fast and it hit his colleague in the chest, who was walking in the dark to his own mud hut!!
Memories of my early life when we all lived fairly close to each other and before we went off to Africa to live.
Memories of my grandparents, childhood for my Mum during the war, and just after it.
The similarities of my cousin and my careers, with sewing and running charity shops. Her telling me I am living her dream. To rent a shop in Dublin would be around €22,000 plus other bills etc meaning she would need to turn over €30,000 a year just to cover those. I can relate to that as I turned over £27,000 something last year and only broke even.
Anyway it was a success and today we are going back home.
So it's time to pack our bags, have breakfast and then get the hire car back to the airport.
Back to work tomorrow.

dktreesea

Goodness, you're zany. You do get around. I know you had planned this for a while, but you make it sound effortless.

Savvy_sewing

It's not difficult if you plan it and give yourself plenty of time. We did have a problem today as the sat nav stuck and it meant that I had to find my way to the airport with good old road signs. That was rather stressful but we made it and then airport assistant took over, and we are now in Departures awaiting our departure. We have had a snack and a cuppa.
Nothing left to do now until they call us.

Savvy_sewing

I am home at last.
What a long day it has been. DGD was happy to see me.
I had a brief cuddle with dgs5 before they had to go back to Kent.
I am watching call the midwife then bed I think.

Savvy_sewing

I should have checked the school uniforms etc last night. Nothing has been washed. I had put my bedding in the washing machine on Thursday, and asked twin1 to take it out and hang it up to dry. Erm no it is still wet in the machine. So nothing else was washed. Scrabbling around trying to find any uniform that might still fit DGD and is clean! No luck with jumpers as she rarely brings them home as it is. The one I found is filthy so no chance of getting that clean and dry in time. DGD has swimming this morning and I cannot find her swimming bag, actually I can't find any school stuff. That's why I should stop procrastinating and get more organised as now I'm stressed before breakfast.

Savvy_sewing

Well I did find enough stuff to get DGD ready for school and she came back home with two lunchboxes. No wonder I couldn't find her new one.
Some bright spark blocked my car on the front, so we had to walk to school, and yet another one was in its place when I got back, so I had to walk to work too! I put Thankyou on the windscreen, and when I got home the note was in my front door saying, sorry, they were so busy getting to their doctors appointment they didn't think!
I should have written on it they had made me walk. Luckily I can just about manage it down to the school and town these days. But my hip is twinging so I will have to drive today. I left the car parked on the road.
It spurred me on to chase the construction people and as I didn't get an answer I called another company who will send someone to look today as they are working round the corner on another job.
Let's hope that they do.
I better get my act together this morning and make a move out of this lovely warm bed, get the heating up and wake my little monkey.
Here is hoping today will be a better day. There is quite a bit of work to do for today and tomorrow which is good.
The problem I have today is the afternoon is broken up with a sewing lesson, and reception staff has the day off, so I am up and down the stairs like a yoyo. So can't work on anything large or complicated.