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  • bubbs
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    Absolutely vile

    (but good diet aid!)

    How do you know if not eaten it?:p
    Sealed pot challenge number 003 £350 for 2015, 2016 £400 Actual£345, £400 for 2017 Actual £500:T:T £770 for 2018 £1295 for 2019:j:j spc number 22 £1,457Stopped Smoking 22/01/15:D:D::dance::dance:- 5 st 1 1/2lb :dance::dance:
  • mhoc
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    one odd thing today, or at least I didn't realise until this morning as I didn't go up to the bedroom until very late last night -

    firstly I noticed in the shower this morning 3 dead flies :eek:no idea why they all decided to go to the shower to die - we were only away 3 days and no flies in the house when we left or anything else flying for that matter. The bedroom windows were open but just a crack for ventilation

    OH removed the dead bodies - there was also one in the loo.

    Then we noticed the bedroom floor was littered with dead wasps :eek: in all OH found about 15 of them - not on the window ledge but scattered about on the floor as if they had just flown in and then dropped out of the air. We have wasps in the garden but low level, rarely come in via the windows and nearly always work their way out, never find any in the bedroom.
    odd dead ones later found on the living room and kitchen floor, as you might expect but the bedroom carnage is a mystery :rotfl:
    “Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.”
  • bubbs wrote: »
    How do you know if not eaten it?:p

    I have never ate many things, but I know........ it is similar to poo (in my head)
    mhoc wrote: »
    one odd thing today, or at least I didn't realise until this morning as I didn't go up to the bedroom until very late last night -

    firstly I noticed in the shower this morning 3 dead flies :eek:no idea why they all decided to go to the shower to die - we were only away 3 days and no flies in the house when we left or anything else flying for that matter. The bedroom windows were open but just a crack for ventilation

    OH removed the dead bodies - there was also one in the loo.

    Then we noticed the bedroom floor was littered with dead wasps :eek: in all OH found about 15 of them - not on the window ledge but scattered about on the floor as if they had just flown in and then dropped out of the air. We have wasps in the garden but low level, rarely come in via the windows and nearly always work their way out, never find any in the bedroom.
    odd dead ones later found on the living room and kitchen floor, as you might expect but the bedroom carnage is a mystery :rotfl:

    Poor little mites.

    We once lived in a spooky house (but warmly spooky) one day I arrived home to find that in three rooms there was a bird. With the exception of one fireplace in one room, all the rooms were sealed (including internal doors)....:eek::eek::eek:
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  • tweets
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    Snap-ant wrote: »
    :A Thank you - unfortunately there are 8 of us :o
    Next time when only Fourp & I - we're be cwtching Pops ♥

    :eek: Would need a couple tents on back lawn , don't think 8 would fit in living room :D
  • tweets
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    hornetgirl wrote: »
    A bit far away tweets but I promise it is him :smileyhea

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    Thank you :j I can tell its Jose ;)
  • LEJC
    LEJC Posts: 9,618 Forumite
    Good evening all...

    Just reporting in after the weekend event...

    DS safely dispatched south to uni....

    A few tears....and a phone call asking this morning if he could go and buy a bath mat on the family credit card....apparently he survived last night with toasted cheese sandwiches but we dont want to know what he got up to!!!! (so we didnt ask)

    a freshers fair this afternoon and fingers crossed he gets up for the chemistry induction tomorrow morning....in a building he has no idea where it is.
    frugal October...£41.82 of £40 food shopping spend for the 2 of us!

    2017 toiletries challenge 179 out 145 in ...£18.64 spend
  • TrulyMadly
    TrulyMadly Posts: 39,754 Forumite
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    Can I ask the Elite what the current protocol is when your children marry......who pays for what these days?

    I promise this is not for me....I think my two are years away from that but a friend has asked me and I haven't got a clue.

    If you have a son, should you offer to contribute to the wedding?

    Any advice will be passed on:)

    Off for a catch up



    Hey....it's been red hot today:T:T
    To do is to be. Rousseau
    To be is to do. Sartre
    Do be do be do. Sinatra
  • TrulyMadly
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    mhoc wrote: »
    one odd thing today, or at least I didn't realise until this morning as I didn't go up to the bedroom until very late last night -

    firstly I noticed in the shower this morning 3 dead flies :eek:no idea why they all decided to go to the shower to die - we were only away 3 days and no flies in the house when we left or anything else flying for that matter. The bedroom windows were open but just a crack for ventilation

    OH removed the dead bodies - there was also one in the loo.

    Then we noticed the bedroom floor was littered with dead wasps :eek: in all OH found about 15 of them - not on the window ledge but scattered about on the floor as if they had just flown in and then dropped out of the air. We have wasps in the garden but low level, rarely come in via the windows and nearly always work their way out, never find any in the bedroom.
    odd dead ones later found on the living room and kitchen floor, as you might expect but the bedroom carnage is a mystery :rotfl:

    Mhoc.....lovely to hear that you've been having lots of family time together:A

    I don't know if you can remember me mentioning last year that we had flies in our shower. It was CoT who mentioned Drain Flies and sure enough it was.......we had lots though so yours might be something else....easily got rid of with boiling water and sink cleaner:)
    To do is to be. Rousseau
    To be is to do. Sartre
    Do be do be do. Sinatra
  • TrulyMadly
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    We once lived in a spooky house (but warmly spooky) one day I arrived home to find that in three rooms there was a bird. With the exception of one fireplace in one room, all the rooms were sealed (including internal doors)....:eek::eek::eek:

    We once came back from a fortnights holiday to find a little puddle of water on the kitchen floor. There were no water pipes above or below. We never ever got to the bottom of it but talked about it for ages afterwards trying to figure it out.:rotfl:
    To do is to be. Rousseau
    To be is to do. Sartre
    Do be do be do. Sinatra
  • TrulyMadly
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    LEJC wrote: »
    Good evening all...

    Just reporting in after the weekend event...

    DS safely dispatched south to uni....

    A few tears....and a phone call asking this morning if he could go and buy a bath mat on the family credit card....apparently he survived last night with toasted cheese sandwiches but we dont want to know what he got up to!!!! (so we didnt ask)

    a freshers fair this afternoon and fingers crossed he gets up for the chemistry induction tomorrow morning....in a building he has no idea where it is.

    and breathe........:)

    Pleased it went well LEJC.......you've survived day one:)
    To do is to be. Rousseau
    To be is to do. Sartre
    Do be do be do. Sinatra
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