Old Style Monday 5 May

pandora205

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"Pandora205, here's how to do a tru. It's very easy - throw a strop and then go on strike Tell them (very loudly) that you're fed up running around after them, doing (insert the things that drive you mad) for them and you might be their wife/mother, but that DOES NOT make you their servant. They live here too and the grass/dust/washing etc is just as much theirs as it is yours. It's best to do this when they're all there, saying it to one person at a time doen't have the same effect lol. I usually end it with 'from now on, you can sort yourselves out'. Then I only clear up after myself, leaving everything else to them. If they leave a mess, the mess gets thrown into their bedrooms. If they can't manage to put their clothes INTO the washing basket, or if they're inside out, they don't get washed - and they're thrown into their bedrooms. After a while, you'll notice that the amount of time between your rants will get longer as the message s l o w l y begins to sink in "


Thanks tru - brilliantly simple! I'll have a go, though getting them all together is like hurding cats. I'll try to time a meal so they're all around then have a strop out of the blue. This'll shock them as I don't usually shout/rant and DDs boyfriend has never seen me like this, so it should have the desired effect. My striking will include not giving lifts as well as the washing and tidying. I'm feeling more positive already!


I'm going to get myself more organised today and catch up with stuff other than cooking (which seems to expand to fill the day if I'm not careful, maybe cos I quite like it).

This is my list:

Get washing finished (tumbled and ironed). It's all building up in my utility room again!
Cut grass and tidy garden including doing some of the nice bits, such as taking geranium cuttings.
Some work for my course - I keep putting this off but I'm fine when I get going.
Polish - or at least dust. I'd be ashamed if anyone visited - you can write your name on my shelves!
(Mustn't do too much otherwise there's nothing for anyone else to do.)
Do something for me that's not shopping, internet or reading, maybe paint my toenails or go for a walk.

purpleivy

Morning peeps! Welll I'm another that had an interrupted night. DD was going to sleep over at a party, texted at 10.28 to say she was coming home as she had got a lift and was tired, I'd switched my phone off and gone to bed just before half ten. When she arrived home at 1.30 she had to ring up, although she had a key with her, the door had been secured from inside.

Waking up suddenly.... grrrrr dh settled after awhile, but I was still wide away, so I went downstairs and did some boring jobs for a bit. Was up for about 2 hours in the end I think. DH got up fairly early as he has gone walking today.

I'm planning a day pottering in the house and garden, sewing, cooking, and might plant some seeds for my herb garden... sounds a bit elaborate! THey'll go in pots like they always do!

hilstep2000

Morning All!
First of all :bdaycake: to Buffy Vampire and Mme Clochard

Mrs Mix -Sorry to hear about your Dad (((HUGS)))

Well it's "Jack-in-the-green" day here in Hastings. We have a fantastic parade all through the Old Town with a dancing Jack (Tree) and hundreds of Morris Dancers!
Then this afternoon, the Jack is taken to Hastings Castle and Slain, if you get a leaf you will have good luck all year! It's to do with the start of Summer.

W will also have about 30,000 bikers descending on the town for their annual rally!
A great day, no trouble, and loads of revenue for the town.:T

The sun is blazing, we are expecting 22 degrees today, YEAH!
So hope everyone has a good one:T

isthatreduced

anniebooklover wrote: »

Good morning all,


isthatreduced are the girls silly enough to call from an identifiable number? If so, I would be contacting the school and/or parents to get it sorted. It's quite a sinister form of bullying imho.


No they have called withholding their number,I have informed the school ,but as we can't identify / prove who is doing it there is nothing we can do.

I think it happens when there is a sleep over at the callers house as they call in the early hours of the morning.

The thing is my daughter has never answered the phone to them and I just bar the number so they don't get any reaction to it,you would think this would make them give up.

On one occasion they did call from a mobile number but unless the calls are constant and abusive as opposed to random no action is taken(I previously contacted the police)

They put on funny voices and pretend to be someone else at 13 you would think they would be brighter but not so.

My DD get a lot of grief for children at her School,(I could go on but there is so many incidents) unfortunately not everybody brings up their children to respect and treat others well.


Mrs_Mix I am sorry about your Dad,hope you and your family are coping well.

benjacksmum

Not posted on this thread for a year or more but we have now sold our business (last week) that we had with a friend, mainly due to her being about to have a baby and not wanting to come back and we didn't want to carry on without her. So we are moving onto something new meaning less hours but the potential for more money. Less working hours means more MSE hours - yippee! :j :T

Today however is a day off with the boys. I have just come back from a car boot with a Spiderman duvet cover for £2 and a few bits and bobs of clothes so pleased with that.
Just about to start tidying now that the rest of the house is getting up and then we'll have bacon/spam butties for a late breakfast/early lunch then we will probably all go to the park with the dog. They have just about finished revamping the playground area and boating lake so we'll spend a couple of hours there before coming home to do some baking and set sandwiches up for tomorrow's school dinners. This will be the first week the boys haven't been on school dinners for about eighteen months but now the business has gone we can't afford £20 a week every week anymore (extortionate school dinner prices at our school) - well not yet anyway.

Will be looking at the shopping challenges and storecupboard challenges (note to self - need to do a freezer inventory today and meal plan at least for this week from it) as we lost touch with those when we had the business. I found that just lately my shopping bill is regularly into triple figures every week and to think I used to have it down to £50/week a couple of years ago. Aiming to get back there again.

Hope everybody else has a good Bank Holiday Monday. Our weather here looks 'threatening' but I'm hoping that Mr. Sun is up there trying to burn some of this cloud cover away.:rolleyes:

betheebee

Mrs Mix, please don't feel that you'r putting a downer on here, there are lots of us here for you, it does help to share when feeling down, worried or unwell. I posted when I was very upset about something and the response made me feel that people on here DO care. I'm so sorry to hear about your Dad, try and stay possitive, my post yesterday was about my dear friend who has throat cancer, diagnosed Nov 2006 and after loads of Radiotherapy and chemo she now has the all clear, so never give up hope.
(((((((((((((((( Pam))))))))))))))))))))

HariboJunkie

Sorry to hear your news about your Dad Pam. I've been thinking of you both and hoping for the best. Take care of yourselves. xxxx

Bismarck

Morning everyone,

Mrs Bismarck did a mung bean and veg curry last night which was 80% successful in that DD1 was the only objector and there was no leftovers....it was very good and we'll be having it again.

Had teenage strop yesterday as he wanted Mrs B to learn how to do a software application so that she could show him...when asked why she should have to read it and work out what to do, the answer was "because you're better at this kind of thing than me"

No lie-in for us as teenager gets up, eats breakfast and I go into kitchen to prepare coffee and notice that he's in school uniform.....hmmm...tempting to let him learn from his mistakes...especially as we grown ups know nothing.......

When the time comes for him to leave I suggest he does a past GCSE paper as he's up...

"ugghhhh...eh?...."

"there's no school today...it's a Bank Holiday"

"ugggh...ehh....ugghhh...bit tired...mumble mumble bed....."

An optimist would transIate that as

"Oh thanks for letting me know. I'll get cracking on the past paper and help with some jobs around the house straight afterwards, do you want me to change the sheets on my bed first?"

Or I could have misunderstood and the grim reality is a retreat to pit and eventual resurface for next meal.

hope everyone has a good bank holiday and hugs to those in need.

Rowan9

Having checked back on here, I see that I missed your post, Pam, when I was taking ages to write mine.
I am thinking of you and your family. Take care of yourself - eat as well as you can and get lots of sleep. I know how exhausting it is to put on a cheery face for hospital visits and sometimes we neglect ourselves.
((((hugs))))
w

celyn90

Hi all :wave:

mrs_mix - really sorry to here about your dad ((hugs)) for you

Well, we're all at work now - as according to my boss (who is as usual AWOL) we don't work in a bank. That's true as if I worked in a bank I'd get paid Writing is going well; am 350 pages in with two chapters left to write and an introduction. My examiners are going to hate me. Still a bit of lab work to do though and mycollaborators are being slow with the data points.

Had a phone call from the police - they want me to come up and do the identity parade to see if I can spot the guy that jumped out on me back in januaury. Not sure it will be much use now, but I'll go anyway.

Realised this morning that the whole house is surrounded by these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arum_maculatum . I don't have many irrational fears but I *really* hate these for some reason. OH has been teasing me
There are hundreds of them *shudders*

Going to college for lunch and rubber chicken soup for tea tonight. Made weetaabix brownies last night and OH still hasn't clicked they are full of breakfast cereal cel x