22 Foxhole East

f0xh0les · 1 May 2021 at 2:04PM

I bought his wedding ring from 0rtak, and I was thinking of getting him another ring for his 25th, they have some nice ones for mens. But how on earth am I going to measure his finger? He rarely takes his wedding ring off, and he wears no other rings, so it might involve a piece of string and a sleeping man!...Or chloroform... either or, not fussy.

He has a friend who has just started up a part time business doing smelly candles, so he bought me two! Even though I have been making my own for the last 6 months or so

It is the thought that counts.

DS3 and 4 went off to the park for an hour this morning on their bikes, and they have just left again to go and play football for a while before it chucks it down. DS1 and 2 have no desire to leave the house ever again - they have sore hands from all that writing they have to do in class for the class based assessments. DS2 said he wrote 11 pages in his English exam - I can't even read his writing, so no idea how the poor teacher is going to manage.

mark55man · 1 May 2021 at 4:05PM

So I bought my OH a modern design eternity ring for our silver anniversary. I got my DD to raise ring sizes with her, and ask what size she was.

Mission accomplished I ordered and on presentation discovered that my OH had misspoken or DD had misheard and I had no clue when ordering and the ring was literally half the size it needed to be

The jeweller is no longer trading so that went well. I will try to get it stretched as we have a local jeweller/specialist but waiting list at the moment is 5 months for some reason.

I think what I am saying is be very careful, and maybe don't make the fact its a ring a surprise !! I have a signet ring on my little finger that I inherited from my mum, that could be nice

kerri_gt · 1 May 2021 at 7:42PM

How funny, DH engagement ring was from Ortak too. He no longer wears it (actually I have no idea where it is) since he's now got his wedding ring. We had that custom made based on the wedding ring I picked out, he had the same design but no stones as at the time he worked with food. Sorry, rambling....

apple_muncher · 1 May 2021 at 8:08PM

Hmmm. 2 days before our wedding, we realised we hadn't got around to getting any rings, so I went to Arg0s with a rough idea of sizings, and managed to get us each one for the actual day! Mine was loose and dh's was a bit tight. We neither of us wear them now, and every so often have a chat about getting ourselves some nice rings. Then we forget about it for another year or so...

f0xh0les · 1 May 2021 at 9:26PM

Chloroform it is then !

Eta - chloroform takes at least 5 minutes to make you unconscious, and the internet recommends GHB instead! I am not giving him a date r+pe drug!! Try explaining that surprise to him!

kerri_gt · 1 May 2021 at 10:58PM

f0xh0les said:

Chloroform it is then !
Eta - chloroform takes at least 5 minutes to make you unconscious, and the internet recommends GHB instead! I am not giving him a date r+pe drug!! Try explaining that surprise to him!

Whereas the rationale behind using chloroform is likely to sound better? 🤔😂 you could go a little Miss Marple and crush sleeping powder into his nightly coco? Or if you cut his finger so it needs a plaster you could work out the size that way?....I'm sensing none of these are exactly ways to make it to the following anniversary 🙈

f0xh0les · 3 May 2021 at 7:03PM

1 out of 1 husband who expressed a preference said he would prefer ghb (no details, just hypothetically).

In other news, he was sent a paper to review this morning, by a journal to see if he would recommend it for publication, and it seemed very familiar, because it was an old paper he wrote, a bit paraphrased, but 100% stolen. Some cheeky swine is trying to pass off DH's work as his own....In another country... So he is absolutely livid. Huge professional academic No - No. He was not even cited as a source!

That kind of set the tone for the day, before 10.30 he is a stressed out lunatic feeling violated.

Nothing has been achieved today. Not a sausage. House hoovered, made a shepherds pie. That is about it.

I am sooooooooo aware of being in banking limbo until tomorrow, and that dh will not be up before I leave on the school run to find out the mortgage balance, or how much I can overpay. Going to do everything I can to get as close to £84,999.99 as I can.

It is chucking it down, the heating is on +1 and 3 kids will be in the bath tub this evening.

jennystarpepper · 3 May 2021 at 7:13PM

f0xh0les said:

1 out of 1 husband who expressed a preference said he would prefer ghb (no details, just hypothetically).
In other news, he was sent a paper to review this morning, by a journal to see if he would recommend it for publication, and it seemed very familiar, because it was an old paper he wrote, a bit paraphrased, but 100% stolen. Some cheeky swine is trying to pass off DH's work as his own....In another country... So he is absolutely livid. Huge professional academic No - No. He was not even cited as a source!
That kind of set the tone for the day, before 10.30 he is a stressed out lunatic feeling violated.
Nothing has been achieved today. Not a sausage. House hoovered, made a shepherds pie. That is about it.
I am sooooooooo aware of being in banking limbo until tomorrow, and that dh will not be up before I leave on the school run to find out the mortgage balance, or how much I can overpay. Going to do everything I can to get as close to £84,999.99 as I can.
It is chucking it down, the heating is on +1 and 3 kids will be in the bath tub this evening.

I feel your bank holiday limbo pain!

The scores on the doors will see us down another 1k tomorrow. Chanel 5 has been putting on 80's music / hits / vids, I will put it on later and have a little shimmy about in pre-celebration for your under 85k

VintageHistorian · 3 May 2021 at 7:36PM

Sorry to hear about DH's plagiarism problem. Did you see the Essex academic who had his entire life cloned? The guy even tried to copy his hand tattoos (presumably with permanent marker rather than actual tattoos) and pretended to be him at conferences etc, very bizarre! It was in the Guardian a few months ago.