Ghostie boys 22nd birthday here
The Grumpy Old Women Thread... (Part 18)
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Originally Posted by snowy ghost:
“Ghostie boys 22nd birthday here”
“Ghostie boys 22nd birthday here”
Happy Birthday Ghostie Boy
Sorry not be around feeling rough
Originally Posted by snowy ghost:
“Ghostie boys 22nd birthday here”
“Ghostie boys 22nd birthday here”
Our boys are certainly getting on a bit! Happy birthday to your one!
Sorry to hear that LL.
Lots of vibes.Here, loads to do, not enough time, as always.
I wish I could type fast.
i ate a curry ready meal dated 29 March on 8th April and survived.
Mrs KJ has a Tefal soup machine which is something y'all might consider.
Palace finally won on Saturday.
i ate a curry ready meal dated 29 March on 8th April and survived.
Mrs KJ has a Tefal soup machine which is something y'all might consider.
Palace finally won on Saturday.
Originally Posted by KJ44:
“I wish I could type fast.
i ate a curry ready meal dated 29 March on 8th April and survived.
Mrs KJ has a Tefal soup machine which is something y'all might consider.
Palace finally won on Saturday.”
“I wish I could type fast.
i ate a curry ready meal dated 29 March on 8th April and survived.
Mrs KJ has a Tefal soup machine which is something y'all might consider.
Palace finally won on Saturday.”
Yes I have a Morphy Richards Soup Maker just throw it all in soup 21 minutes later, be ideal for your concoction KJ.
Should have ad preoperative assessment tomorrow cancelled this afternoon.
Hope grumpiest good if busy.
Originally Posted by snowy ghost:
“Oh is that cos of industrial action ?”
“Oh is that cos of industrial action ?”
No case of no staff off sick that's what happens when it's a bare bones system no folk to cover but we won't go down that road
*slinks into thread with tail between legs*
Soo..... the last time I logged in here was apparently at the end of January. LOADS has happened since then. However I was reminded (as I tried to catch up with the posts since then) why I got fed up with DS - does anyone else find the pages take forever to load these days or is it just me using archaic browsers that's to blame?
Good to hear from the Plumster and wow what a fab holiday Snowy
KJ - not forgotten you, not been down your way - the Bat and I flew from Luton this time. It was ace to get away for a few days. (I will put the photos on FB eventually) Especially as we'd just relocated Little Saddette to a new pad in Watford. Yup, she only went and got the job... totally thrilled for her, whole new life, has literally turned her world around in the space of a couple of months.
Just working on the eldest now - that's a whole other kettle of fish. Don't go there. Really, don't. I could rant for months.
Amica, lovely lady, I hadn't realised things were so sh*te. Too late now but agree with all the comments offered - get out now, you've tried it, you would have regretted it if you hadn't, at least now you know. You've absolutely made the right decision for your sanity. More and more of my former colleagues are dropping out of permanent teaching positions and opting for supply. It really has all gone to pot and I'm highly unlikely to ever go back.
Thankfully I love what I am doing now and enjoy having the flexibility as well, even though we're distinctly impoverished now that we've got an apprentice's salary to subsidise. We toyed with making her commute it but - we wanted her to succeed and she needed to move out. Definitely the right decision, but we'll be broke for ages - at least until she gets a permanent position and / or a salary rise. Fingers crossed.
So sorry to hear you're still poorly LL - had hoped for some better news on that score.
Big congrats to Granny Collette.
Me@ - I keep looking at weekends in Amsterdam and think that as we're on such a tight budget this year it might be a good time to look for cheap flights and whatever the equivalent of a Travelodge is, maybe in early July when the weather's picked up a bit and before the schools finish.
FB is easy as you can skim read but I am conscious that I miss loads as they are very selective about what shows up on my news feed. Loads of stuff from random friends and b*gger all from the people I care about. I don't always think to visit people's 'walls' and check so if I've missed anything or anyone else, huge sorries.
Most of my (non-working) days are taken up with supporting one mate at the moment who's having a particularly tough time winding up a business and trying to evict two tenants for non payment of rent simultaneously, and another who's in dire financial straits and thinks she might be autistic... not to mention my eldest with clinic appointments, blood tests and the like.
And I'm not sleeping much. Nothing new there.
Sending all grumpers in need of good vibes all the good vibes I can muster at stupid o'clock... big hugs, you lovely lot. I'll try not to leave it so long next time. Mwah xxx
Soo..... the last time I logged in here was apparently at the end of January. LOADS has happened since then. However I was reminded (as I tried to catch up with the posts since then) why I got fed up with DS - does anyone else find the pages take forever to load these days or is it just me using archaic browsers that's to blame?
Good to hear from the Plumster and wow what a fab holiday Snowy
KJ - not forgotten you, not been down your way - the Bat and I flew from Luton this time. It was ace to get away for a few days. (I will put the photos on FB eventually) Especially as we'd just relocated Little Saddette to a new pad in Watford. Yup, she only went and got the job... totally thrilled for her, whole new life, has literally turned her world around in the space of a couple of months.
Just working on the eldest now - that's a whole other kettle of fish. Don't go there. Really, don't. I could rant for months.
Amica, lovely lady, I hadn't realised things were so sh*te. Too late now but agree with all the comments offered - get out now, you've tried it, you would have regretted it if you hadn't, at least now you know. You've absolutely made the right decision for your sanity. More and more of my former colleagues are dropping out of permanent teaching positions and opting for supply. It really has all gone to pot and I'm highly unlikely to ever go back.
Thankfully I love what I am doing now and enjoy having the flexibility as well, even though we're distinctly impoverished now that we've got an apprentice's salary to subsidise. We toyed with making her commute it but - we wanted her to succeed and she needed to move out. Definitely the right decision, but we'll be broke for ages - at least until she gets a permanent position and / or a salary rise. Fingers crossed.
So sorry to hear you're still poorly LL - had hoped for some better news on that score.
Big congrats to Granny Collette.
Me@ - I keep looking at weekends in Amsterdam and think that as we're on such a tight budget this year it might be a good time to look for cheap flights and whatever the equivalent of a Travelodge is, maybe in early July when the weather's picked up a bit and before the schools finish.
FB is easy as you can skim read but I am conscious that I miss loads as they are very selective about what shows up on my news feed. Loads of stuff from random friends and b*gger all from the people I care about. I don't always think to visit people's 'walls' and check so if I've missed anything or anyone else, huge sorries.
Most of my (non-working) days are taken up with supporting one mate at the moment who's having a particularly tough time winding up a business and trying to evict two tenants for non payment of rent simultaneously, and another who's in dire financial straits and thinks she might be autistic... not to mention my eldest with clinic appointments, blood tests and the like.
And I'm not sleeping much. Nothing new there.
Sending all grumpers in need of good vibes all the good vibes I can muster at stupid o'clock... big hugs, you lovely lot. I'll try not to leave it so long next time. Mwah xxx
This has just appeared on TV. Emma Peel? I would.
Yayy SadP !! Your post was epic but not as epic as mine - well when I say "epic" I do of course mean long-winded in my case ... not yours, I hasten to add. Oh dear, foot in mouth disease!
Guess what?
Have you guessed?
You'll never guess actually - I have something proper to write about today - something actually happened that was out of the ordinary. Oh happy day! Except it wasn't - a happy day, that is. It was fair to middling tiresome but unusual. I might even write about it Should I write about it? If I do, it will take an age of course.... I don't do short stories, as you know
Right then ... well it all happened on Monday night - I should have been working the late shift but they brought my shift forward which turned out to be very fortunate as we had DRAMA at home - oh yes ... capital DRAMA ... possibly even bold capital DRAMA! ... and yes with exclamation marks too !!!!! <----- see there they are
YoungPlum and I were doing a late night tidying session as we had a house inspection on Tuesday morning (my day off) . Clean-up has to be well orchestrated as we are still keeping Destructo and the Demento twins apart. Anyway, we had shut Destructo away and the kittens were out and about while we swept - as they like the broom .... suddenly the power went out *sinister music plays* - I looked out in the street and all the other houses were in darkness so I thought it was a power cut again. So we tried to round up the kittens by torchlight and decided to go to bed as we couldn't do any more without light..... when suddenly.... (yes, this is a 2 "suddenly" story....) there was a HUGE banging on our back door. I mean huge and frantic.... and this small child bellowing! So foolishly ( in hindsight) I opened the back door .... and there was a 5 yr old girl standing there in her PJs ... zebra ones dontcha know! Naturally I enquired why she was there and what was wrong .... and how she came to be in our garden as no-one had opened the gate as it creaks so we would have known. Turns out, she'd climbed over our fence, having been left by her dad in next doors garden - she didn't know where she lived or anything. I found out her favourite colour and food though ... and what school she went to and how to draw a butterfly in the air - I know how to interrogate!
She couldn't show us where she had come from and there was no sign of anyone, she just insisted her dad had left her by the gate to next doors house and told her to wait and do her homework while she waited - see he was a good dad really with his 5 year old out at 11pm on her own in a strangers garden in her pj's. So I called the police told them what I knew (didn't mention the butterflies as that was a need to know basis and highly confidential), and they said to keep her with me and someone would be round shortly. "Shortly" it seems means in about an hour and a half - I hadn't realised that was how it translates in Aussie.
So we were sat outside chatting in the dark just in case the police turned up ... and/or a parent looking for their missing child. It turns out that her dad had been off burgling and causing devastation in a garden at the end of the road. It also turns out that we didn't have a power cut but he had crossed through our backgarden and to avoid detection had flicked our power off! Luckily for him and his daughter Destructo wasn't out in the garden!
Anyway, upshot was that YoungPlum and I didn't pass on our young intruder til nearly 1am and we were up half the night chatting and then I had to still get up at 6.30 to finish the cleaning/tidying....
Ta Da!! The End.
Except that it isn't the end..... house inspection went ok and we have had our lease renewed for another year - woop woop!
I feel really badly for that little girl though... she was a really nice bright friendly little soul ... what a way to treat your child. Poor YoungPlum is a bit nervy now at night when she hears noises and I'm not keen to do any more late shifts for a while - just as well my shift was changed that day or she would have been on her own.
Anyway, I'm dog tired after a hell of a week which involved very little sleep due to (a) Monday's incident and (b) starting work at 4am the last couple of days. Hope you grumpies are all keeping happy .... I might investigate soup machines - I'm on a healthy eating thing at the moment and have lost 6kg since the beginning of March.
Young Plum did cross country today - she survived! That's all I ask from her when it comes to cross country .... best bit was apparently the sausage sizzle afterwards - that's my girl !
Ooooh just realised I'm saying NO to LARD again happy days!
Guess what?
Have you guessed?
You'll never guess actually - I have something proper to write about today - something actually happened that was out of the ordinary. Oh happy day! Except it wasn't - a happy day, that is. It was fair to middling tiresome but unusual. I might even write about it
Should I write about it? If I do, it will take an age of course.... I don't do short stories, as you know Right then ... well it all happened on Monday night - I should have been working the late shift but they brought my shift forward which turned out to be very fortunate as we had DRAMA at home - oh yes ... capital DRAMA ... possibly even bold capital DRAMA! ... and yes with exclamation marks too !!!!! <----- see there they are
YoungPlum and I were doing a late night tidying session as we had a house inspection on Tuesday morning (my day off) . Clean-up has to be well orchestrated as we are still keeping Destructo and the Demento twins apart. Anyway, we had shut Destructo away and the kittens were out and about while we swept - as they like the broom .... suddenly the power went out *sinister music plays* - I looked out in the street and all the other houses were in darkness so I thought it was a power cut again. So we tried to round up the kittens by torchlight and decided to go to bed as we couldn't do any more without light..... when suddenly.... (yes, this is a 2 "suddenly" story....) there was a HUGE banging on our back door. I mean huge and frantic.... and this small child bellowing! So foolishly ( in hindsight) I opened the back door .... and there was a 5 yr old girl standing there in her PJs ... zebra ones dontcha know! Naturally I enquired why she was there and what was wrong .... and how she came to be in our garden as no-one had opened the gate as it creaks so we would have known. Turns out, she'd climbed over our fence, having been left by her dad in next doors garden - she didn't know where she lived or anything. I found out her favourite colour and food though ... and what school she went to and how to draw a butterfly in the air - I know how to interrogate!
She couldn't show us where she had come from and there was no sign of anyone, she just insisted her dad had left her by the gate to next doors house and told her to wait and do her homework while she waited - see he was a good dad really with his 5 year old out at 11pm on her own in a strangers garden in her pj's. So I called the police told them what I knew (didn't mention the butterflies as that was a need to know basis and highly confidential), and they said to keep her with me and someone would be round shortly. "Shortly" it seems means in about an hour and a half - I hadn't realised that was how it translates in Aussie.
So we were sat outside chatting in the dark just in case the police turned up ... and/or a parent looking for their missing child. It turns out that her dad had been off burgling and causing devastation in a garden at the end of the road. It also turns out that we didn't have a power cut but he had crossed through our backgarden and to avoid detection had flicked our power off! Luckily for him and his daughter Destructo wasn't out in the garden!
Anyway, upshot was that YoungPlum and I didn't pass on our young intruder til nearly 1am and we were up half the night chatting and then I had to still get up at 6.30 to finish the cleaning/tidying....
Ta Da!! The End.
Except that it isn't the end..... house inspection went ok and we have had our lease renewed for another year - woop woop!
I feel really badly for that little girl though... she was a really nice bright friendly little soul ... what a way to treat your child. Poor YoungPlum is a bit nervy now at night when she hears noises and I'm not keen to do any more late shifts for a while - just as well my shift was changed that day or she would have been on her own.
Anyway, I'm dog tired after a hell of a week which involved very little sleep due to (a) Monday's incident and (b) starting work at 4am the last couple of days. Hope you grumpies are all keeping happy .... I might investigate soup machines - I'm on a healthy eating thing at the moment and have lost 6kg since the beginning of March.
Young Plum did cross country today - she survived! That's all I ask from her when it comes to cross country .... best bit was apparently the sausage sizzle afterwards - that's my girl !
Ooooh just realised I'm saying NO to LARD again
happy days!
Plummie, that poor little kid I hope she's going to be looked after while her errant father is dealt with. (on a side note, popping back seems to have woken up my thread notification again, yay!)
Originally Posted by looney laura:
“Sad and Plum hugs nice to see you both
Is it PG Oclock yet, yet more sport😠😭”
“Sad and Plum hugs nice to see you both
Is it PG Oclock yet, yet more sport😠😭”
Yes!
I'm back home, just, and glass in hand. Traffic was 'orrible, weather was crap, but we made it back in relatively decent time, so I'm not too grumpy.
Plum - wow, what a carry on! And yes, poor little girl, she was very lucky to have knocked on your door. Not everyone would've been as kind.
KJ - what a fab picture. I think I would too!
Sad - yay to thread notifications!
So, the weekend is upon us...
Originally Posted by KJ44:
“Grump
People who think they're superior or you're inferior. Can just go do one.”
“Grump
People who think they're superior or you're inferior. Can just go do one.
”
Amen.
(Where's KJeeves these days???
)On another note..... am fed up with the hypocrisy of certain individuals in my local community who bleat on about democratic debate until the *insert favoured expletive here ... * debate is about something they don't want to discuss. THEN, I'm attacking them .... who's hidden that roll eyes smilie????
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