Travelling On

Suffolk_lass

Yes indeed cbc. I am not sleeping very well due to work pressure and it doesn't help. Roll-on Christmas - I have a good long break from Friday until second week of January!

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Suffolk_lass wrote: »

Yes indeed cbc. I am not sleeping very well due to work pressure and it doesn't help. Roll-on Christmas - I have a good long break from Friday until second week of January!

That lovely long break sounds just what you need:j. I hope you can find lots of 'you' time to really recharge your batteries to full capacity:beer:

Karmacat

Oof, sorry for contributing to earworms! Life must be very pressured for you right now, SL, its a huge turning point in your life in particular. I'm not sleeping too well either right now - the soft drone of my neighbour's tv at 1am and through a lot of the night is very discouraging. I'd decided not to move - you can't legislate for overnight noise when you move - but it is horrible. Plus the movement of painting walls is much more painful for me than the movement of digging and pruning in the garden. Ow. Ow ow ow ow.

Anyway, this morning is a whistlestop, popping up to London for a couple of hours, using a "super off peak day return", and living as close to London as I do, it costs £10.35 plus a present for the baby, £6 each from my sister and I, bargain. I cooked extra portions of dinner yesterday, so thats all ready to stick in the microwave when I get back. No idea what this visit will be like. My nephew and his wife are very, very well off, and I'm expecting to admire lots of expensive things. Including a Tesla. Really.

Wish me luck.

Downshifterella

Good luck KC!
Enjoy the baby cuddles ...which is probably most enjoyable!

PS have read through half the last few posts and throroghly confused by the image of Helen miren in a lumberjack outfit singing! ( May have skim read so not fully understanding! :rotfl:

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Karmacat wrote: »

Oof, sorry for contributing to earworms! Life must be very pressured for you right now, SL, its a huge turning point in your life in particular. I'm not sleeping too well either right now - the soft drone of my neighbour's tv at 1am and through a lot of the night is very discouraging. I'd decided not to move - you can't legislate for overnight noise when you move - but it is horrible. Plus the movement of painting walls is much more painful for me than the movement of digging and pruning in the garden. Ow. Ow ow ow ow.

Anyway, this morning is a whistlestop, popping up to London for a couple of hours, using a "super off peak day return", and living as close to London as I do, it costs £10.35 plus a present for the baby, £6 each from my sister and I, bargain. I cooked extra portions of dinner yesterday, so thats all ready to stick in the microwave when I get back. No idea what this visit will be like. My nephew and his wife are very, very well off, and I'm expecting to admire lots of expensive things. Including a Tesla. Really.

Wish me luck.

Sorry about the poor sleep especially when you need all you can get. I suppose that's one of the few joys for us of living in a fairly isolated location. No neighbours or barking dogs in gardens or loud music playing for hours when thoughtless people work on their cars in their driveways. My Mum suffered all of those even though her house was detached. I can sleep through anything:j but the slightest noise keeps OH awake or wakes him up. You wouldn't believe the time and effort it took him to find a new clock with no tick when the one in the bedroom finally died:eek:.


The baby gift sounds a bargain and I hope you have a happy and cuddleful time.. Have a lovely day:beer:


I hate it when well off people want to show me all their latest acquisitions:(. I don't want to sound too OTT and envious (although they know we don't own such things) nor do I want to appear disinterested. To be honest, we've never been interested in owning the latest this or that and we find other people's conspicuous consumption rather amusing. We don't want to offend them by seeming disinterested though if it's obviously something they get a kick out of. Striking a happy balance is a bit of an art;)

Karmacat

Downshifterella wrote: »

Good luck KC!
Enjoy the baby cuddles ...which is probably most enjoyable!

PS have read through half the last few posts and throroghly confused by the image of Helen miren in a lumberjack outfit singing! ( May have skim read so not fully understanding! :rotfl:

Thanks Ella - yeah, skim reading would produce some very odd images, don't worry about it :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

carbootcrazy wrote: »

Sorry about the poor sleep especially when you need all you can get. I suppose that's one of the few joys for us of living in a fairly isolated location. No neighbours or barking dogs in gardens or loud music playing for hours when thoughtless people work on their cars in their driveways. My Mum suffered all of those even though her house was detached.

Oh no! I dream of a detached house, precisely because of my neighbours

The baby gift sounds a bargain and I hope you have a happy and cuddleful time.. Have a lovely day:beer:

The baby was a dream he's a chunky little thing, very happy, very content, let me hold him for ages which I don't even try to do, usually, I don't like putting babies through their paces like that, but he was plonked on me, and he didn't object, so he stayed :smileyhea

I hate it when well off people want to show me all their latest acquisitions:(. I don't want to sound too OTT and envious (although they know we don't own such things) nor do I want to appear disinterested. To be honest, we've never been interested in owning the latest this or that and we find other people's conspicuous consumption rather amusing. We don't want to offend them by seeming disinterested though if it's obviously something they get a kick out of. Striking a happy balance is a bit of an art;)

You know what, I maligned my nephew! He was amazing, he's obviously grown up a huge amount since finding his wife. He showed me round the new house, yes, but was more interested in the knotweed survey they were forced to have than any "object". And what he wanted to talk about was happiness, and ethics, especially in business (self employed, you see). It was a wonderful surprise. I couldn't be happier with his approach, I'm so chuffed.

beanielou

Great approach by your nephew

apple_muncher

Karmacat wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I use a bog standard wood saw, with an orange plastic handle, from B & Q. I wear a shirt with a small check pattern, with shoulder decorations of plastic diamante, that I bought from a charity shop :rotfl:


I *do* sing the lumberjack song - or I will now, anyway

Oh,the image in my mind. A lumberjack with shoulder pads...

rtandon27

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beanielou

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