* Rocking around the Christmas Tree * - It's the 2018 Christmas Chatter Thread

Hi all, i've been super busy again here lately so haven't been able to get on, but I hope to catch up in the next few days. Squeak is having a nap and i'm having one of those moments where I have loads that needs doing but I really just want to sit down and be still for a little while! I have also just put The Polar Express on, i'm not usually one for watching Christmas films in the middle of the year and this one is saved for Christmas Eve but I just needed something Christmassy, it's my go to thing when I need a bit of cheering up. I don't know why but i'm super emotional today, Squeak turned one and Wiggle is turning four next month and starting school in September - it just feels like it's all going too fast! Anyway, i'm going to have a cup of tea and a little catch up now. Hope you're all well xx

I seem to forever apologising for going awol. Update here after the nightmare of original builders, the place is back on track and new builders have started the kitchen, so hopefully finished by the end of next week. Then it is seeing if there is enough in the pot for a new bathroom. Would be brilliant if there was but I am not getting my hopes up.
Starting to think of Christmas more now, it will again be a small affair but with a much better environment. DS2 has moved to London and also in a far better frame of mind than a couple of years ago.
So in all things are looking up. Oh and since December I have lost two and a half stone without really trying, just cutting back on sugar and taking the hound on much longer walks, something that was physically impossible and while back

Gettingtherequickly wrote: »

I work for a construction company and unless the client stipulates what sanitaryware they want, we generally buy off the internet, can generally save a lot of money as these suppliers generally don't have a storage cost to factor in. Some times there may be a longer lead time than within days, but if the work schedule is planned accordingly, it is not an issue. Worth considering if not already considered.

I may pick your brain when it comes to the bathroom. Not going over the top with everything, we were waiting on a disability grant but it was getting me down with their stipulations so I just decided to go for what I could afford. The rest of the place I plan to do myself as it is just general decoration and sprucing up. Well that is the plan

girlinayellowdress wrote: »

I seem to forever apologising for going awol. Update here after the nightmare of original builders, the place is back on track and new builders have started the kitchen, so hopefully finished by the end of next week. Then it is seeing if there is enough in the pot for a new bathroom. Would be brilliant if there was but I am not getting my hopes up.

You have my sympathies, our garden is still mid-landscape after the less than successful builder last year too. Have had a bit of a delay this week due to a sub contractor letting folk down - just hoping it's done before the end of the good weather.

Managed to fix a dripping tap in the bathroom today...turned the water off, couldn't get the screw I needed to undone even with lashings of WD40...gave up, turned water back on and voila...drip as stopped :rotfl: we do actually need to put on some tap refreshers (which the lovely people we bought the house from left when they moved out) as the ones on currently have seen better days but at least the tap isn't dripping (incidentally OH couldn't get the screw to budge either so I wasn't being weak)

No xmassy stuff going on here atm although I do need to get a move on with my niece's santa sack - delayed from last year.

GYD do you remember how much the baby boa wrench cost? It’s a great idea and I’ve just had a look on Amazon but they vary in price from £1.89 to £9+ and I have no idea what the difference is.

KERRI I think breaking the trip up might be the way to go but at the moment it’s so hit and miss with DH being ok that we can’t book anything. I’m hoping we can do it next Spring.

FREE well done on your hospital visit, there’s no stopping you. We’re lucky in that we like the sun but we’ve got one room that stays much cooler so when I get too hot I can sit in there. I’m afraid I’m def with your DD on feeling so much better when it’s hot. I haven’t heard them mention Christmas in July on QVC but they’d better blooming do it! Rubbish or not it’s the official start of my Christmas prep.

PRINCESSKITTY I know how you feel about time passing, the little ones become big ones almost before you know it. You’re doing the best thing though, cherish the days while they’re here and you’ll have all the lovely memories when they’re gone. I still miss my DDs being small, when I could just pick them up and cuddle them, and they’re both in their thirties now! Scares me to think they’re now older than I was at the times I’m reminiscing about :eek: It seems so recent. When I hear people talking about being born in the nineties I think ‘why aren’t you in school?’ - to me the nineties seem like yesterday. Wow I sound really old