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VJsmum

I'm here :wave:

Having a browse before getting up to put yet another coat of paint on the wardrobe in DD's new old room.

To explain. When DD went to uni three years ago, the children swapped bedrooms. Both were decorated and some rather tatty looking pine furniture was chalk painted. Now DD is back, and DS has gone. She has sooooo much stuff it's untrue and so they need to swap back. Unfortunately she wants the room a rather more exciting colour than cream and he doesn't want scarlet ...

We want her to be comfortable and happy (she is likely to be here some years), so I've bitten the bullet and painted the walls (princess pink). And am painting the pine wardrobe white, but the bu88er is not covering well...

Hopefully she will be in early next week, and we can set to on his. After that we still have the chaos from the flooding drains to finally sort. It's fun here at the minute..:(. The house is in chaos.

Still as Churchill said "this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. Bit it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning"

ivyleaf

I'm here Woke up late as for some reason I had trouble getting to sleep. Had a nice shower and feel ready to get on with things.

I'm singing with some other choir members at a wedding in our church today. I do feel sorry for the bride and groom that it's going to be stormy on their special day! No wedding photos taken on the church steps today!

Jazee

I’m here too. Always reading along and wishing you all well. It was very windy the day I got married. My dress is blowing sideways in the photos.

Hard_Up_Hester

I'm here, it's been a chaotic few days, everyone at work panicking and trying to get all their work done before my last day.
Now I'm on a go slow, pootling through my chores, yesterday I dropped CHS at work, I came home, got the bed out and slept for four hours!
Today I've bottomed out the bedroom and I'm about to clean the cooker.

ivyleaf

Jazee wrote: »

I’m here too. Always reading along and wishing you all well. It was very windy the day I got married. My dress is blowing sideways in the photos.

my best friend's wedding photos all show her veil blowing out sideways.

Hester Just seen your post. They'll soon realise how much they should have appreciated you! Have a good weekend

Floss

:wave:
I'm here, currently away with DH for the weekend but also working full time for the next few weeks so not as much opportunity to get on MSE.

monnagran

Wow, it's wet and windy here. I bravely walked up to the shop to get my paper this morning and came back a lot quicker than I went up, with the wind behind me. It has stepped up a few notches since then and I've just spotted a dog walker rushing back home carrying the dog.

Karcher, we couldn't get the armbands on. We tried tyre inner tubes but the heffalump was unco-operative so we're all still here.

Ivyleaf. Good luck with the wedding. The weather doesn't look too great but I don't suppose that it will spoil their happiness. I got married on the hottest day of the year, but that was so far in the past, when hot summers were REALLY hot.

Hester. Happy pootling. Ooh! they are going to miss you.

We have a weekend of birthday celebrations here. Grandson(16), DIL(mid 40s, dare not be more specific), DIL's father(shrouded in mystery). Diet gone for a Burton.

I have just taken delivery of the proofs of the next book I am editing. It seems quite long so that means a few weeks of intensive work. Posts here may be short and to the point, but I will try to keep up even if its just to post the Thought for the day, of which today's is........

Life was meant to be an adventure to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

camelot1001

I have a photo of me on my wedding day with my veil bolt upright, I look about 15 feet tall! It was May.

I did a load of white washing this morning and hung it out as the weather was quite bright. It's still there on the line getting wetter by the minute, I'm not going out there, it's a monsoon!

MMF007

Windy here first thing. DH was ready to cry off our trip to John Lewis but I put my foot down and we spent [STRIKE]too long[/STRIKE] a while looking for just the right curtain fabric. You'll never guess what. The one I fell in love with cost £74/m. So we're getting the £36/m stuff that was second choice :rotfl: I only need 2.2m.

It's to make a door curtain. The current one is now 24 years old and is falling apart. I did wonder how long it took to pay for itself in energy saving, you know like the calculations for solar panels. Very MSE :money

Hester, it's 18 months since I took redundancy and started my own home help business, working 3 days a week. It already seems like a life time ago that I was chained to a desk, getting more and more frustrated by not being able to get stuff done. I absolutely love my 2 weekdays off. I even love days when I just fettle the house and do some cooking, never mind that i get to lunch out, do art classes, visit friends/galleries/parks etc etc.

My dad gave us a laugh this morning when he told us about the swimming class he goes to He is suffering from mild cognitive impairment and sometimes can't just find the right word so when he told us he had swum 'a breadth' but that he still had to cling onto the spaghetti thing, we knew he meant he had swum a width with a noodle Still who hasn't eaten sweet n sour chicken with spaghetti when the cupboard was bare?!

monnagran

Evening all, - touches helmet, Dixon of Dock Green style

Hope you have all survived the worst that Brian has produced. Grandson hasn't arrived yet as the sea was very choppy and although he can cope with choppy seas when the sun is shining and he can sit on top of the ferry, he gets a bit uptight if he has to sit inside when it is rough.
I splashed my way up to the pub to celebrate with the rest of the family. It was a good evening. The pub was crowded but the villagers congregated in their own corner. Several issues were thrashed out, grievances were aired, there was a soupcon of righteous indignation, jokes were shared and everyone had a thoroughly good time.
There nothing quite like a good village pub.

Now I'm having an early night with a hot water bottle and a good book. The storm is still raging outside but I am snug.

See you tomorrow.