Yawn ... wakey, wakey ...

Good Morning everyone.:gnthb:

nice and mild to-day and Wazzakins has promised ot give General Custard (my Mazda int he avatar) a wash and a polish. He is a bit mucky after Sunday's outing Lincolnshire.

Even getting diesel for the car thsi morning was a pleasure since the price has gone down to 99.9.

I feel like I might just get the Christmas spirit eventuallyxmastree

Planned a New Year's Eve BBQ yesterday and will get all the invites out to-day. 31st Dec and 1st Jan are the only 2 days that Wazzakins is not actually working so will make the most of it....for his sake as well as mine.

I can't plan waht to cook for dinner though Any ideas?

Thought I'd ask our friends over, it'd be cheaper then eating out. Vege. suggestions only please since I don't eat meat

 

Morning Kandy, Shiney, Marley, Shobnah and all.

Lol Woo and Marley you are not the only ones struggling with the mornings, I think it's a winter thing at least in summer it's nice enough to get up with the birds or just feel at peace with the world sitting outside and having your first cuppa of the day.....now that is indeed lovely.

Shobnah as Kandy says we all are here for you sweetie and you are very much welcome to rant and rave at us....truly you are!

Marley all the work will be worth it in the end on your house and as for all the dust it will be a distance memory....that is until you need any more work done!

Shiney I hope you're ready for your trip all packs packed etc. and don't forgot your camera.

Marley it's your dose of iron tomorrow isn't it? I wish you well with it sweetie.
Bob had his second lot last week and yes you guessed it he has a bit of a cold again although thankfully not as bad as the last time.

Well yesterday I had to phone up college and report our son's absent and of course 'they' wanted to know why so I told them of his bad fall.
I was told I had to report the fall to the health & safety person at the college and after all the details were told and bearing in mind one of Harry's tutors saw him fall I asked if the carparks and walkways were salted as a rule, I was told all the pathways were but not the carparks.
Later on I asked both my sons if this was correct (as they have between them been to the same college over the last five years or so) I was amazed when they both told me no the only place which is salted is the front steps of the building for the life of me I can't understand why the H & S person lied to me!:(

Well I might get Bob to sort out our decorations we tend to put them up a little bit earlier but this year we tend to be a little bit slack.

Anyway folks sorry for the essay I do hope you have a lovely day.Hel.xxx.

 

Morning Shiney and everyone,You still here Shiney I thought you would have been away by now?:hehe: I expect with the time difference it will mess up your body clock good and proper while you are over there:lollol:

I bet this will be your cats when you come backk-lk-l

Helen I do hope your son recovers soon from his fall.When I slipped over in the garden for the second time and banged my head I didn't feel too good for quiet a few days so I hope he soon bounces back again:gnthb:

Shobnha,sorry can't help you with the meals as I am not a veggie.I don't think I could give up eating sausages and bacon completely and would miss my roast beef and lamb:pGood Luck with the festivities,Mr K isn't very festive at the moment but I am being more positive because it is for me and Mr K a nice time and helps lift my winter bluesxmastree plus we spend some quality time together:thumb:

Marley glad to hear that all the work is done on your cottage so that is one worry out of the way in time for xmas.I bet you will have a brilliant time with your family and Grandchildren and I do hope we have some snow so they at least can go and play in it:D

Well I managed to go without the heating on yesterday right up until 4.30pm and turned it on an hour before Mr K got home from work.I never had the pleasure of heating in the winter when I was working and had to sit with Arran jumpers and body warmers on so I will see how long I can last and if the fuel bills don't come down I shall scream My weather station says it is 29.8f outside and 65.7 inside so it must be frosty out there.

Hope you all have a great day in all that you do

 

Good Morining everyone.
Friday to-day. Yipeeeeeeeeeee:gnthb: only so I have two days at home to do other jobs.

Going to a Christmas party tomorrow evening and looking forward to a meeting up with friends and having a nice time.

Wazzakins is workingt omorrow so it will a bit of a logistics exercise to get him to work, sort things out, pack car, and then go pick him up from work and then go on to the Xmas do. Staying the night there so that should be good and have plans to do lucnh with friends on Sunday before coming back home.

I promise I'm getting there with the xmastree Christmas spirit.

Kandyfloss.....I try to have the heating on a low setting but on all the time. It seems to keep the temperatur more even and I think it does not add tot he cost too much. saying that, I've plans to shop for cheaper suppliers in the next few days. Trying to sort out the mortgage and the also the house insurance. got a good deal on it last year but it has not shot up by £20 per month and that is just too much.
I find [email protected] very handy.


I did not have to chip the ice off the windscreen to-day, Wazzakins did it for me.:luv: Give that man a star !!!

Now, I wonder if I can get into the work spirit...and see if I can finish of some of the pending jobs.:ywn:

BTW...cooked pasta yesterday with home made sauce with loads of crusty bread and home-made garlic butter. all got eaten, only crumbs left !!

 

Good Morning Shobhna,hope everything goes off ok with the Christmas party tomorrow night.I see that Himself has had a name change to Wazzakins:thumb:

We are already doing on line meter readings with our fuel supplier but they still keep estimating our bills.:( I sometimes wish now we had stayed in the two bedroom bungalow where we used to live,at least it was warmer with the decent double glazing not the wooden rubbish that they are putting into the new houses these days.Still once we get nearer to retirement and the house prices have gone back up we shall probably sell up and downsize but will have to see.Paying off this mortgage is our first priority and yes Martin Lewis is brilliant.He seems to be the ony person around who is trying to help the ordinary folk which can't be said for a lot of them out there and he has helped Millions of people so good on him:yho:

I have been out this morning and have taken some cracking photos of the sun rise before the clouds covered it up plus have taken some of my frosted Doublin Bay rose though the frost isn't as good as the one I got the pictues of around this time last year.I shall check the exact date I took them plus when Mr K sorts out the disc space I might put them up on here if they are any good.:p

Enjoy your day and glad that the pasta went down well

 

Morning Shiney and everyone we have torrential rain and very strong winds here but at least the temperature outside is up to 43f so it will be mild.

I havn't started my packing yet and neither has Mr K so Mrs Shiney is well in front of us.See you later and Mr K is still :snz:

Glad to see you have got Tosh's owner trained.We still have the blue cat thta comes visiting us every day and it seems to spend more time in our house than it's own

Hope everyone has a good day and manages to survive this weather

 

Morning Shiney,sorry to hear that you have problems with tomorrows flight.I do hope that you get away safely as you have been looking forward to the trip.Fingers crossed that you make it in the end,though if you are on here on Monday morning we will know you never made it:flag:

Hope you have a stress free day:thmb:

 

Good Morning everyone.
Hope the airport / flight issue gets sorted out for Shiney.

Yes, Kandyfloss, Himself is known as Wazza to his friends and much I always call him by his full name, I refer to him as Wazza or Wazzakins on the forums.

I had to get up 5 am to take Wazzakins to work, since we will have a logistics problmes if we end up with two cars at the Christmas Party.
Not a nice drive at all this morning, could not see a thing and there were branches and trees down all the way to Amersham, although I must say, I came back to MK on the Motorway, much quicker and at least I could see where I was going. The water is right across the road on some of the A and B roads from MK thru to Aylesbury and on to Amersham.

just cooked me some breakfast and having a quick look on here.

Wazzakins is what one would call a Public Servant :thmb::thmb::thmb: so spends more time then he is meant to at work. If, however, he is late finishing today, and I don't care what has crashed into who or what or whatever his "clients" have been up to....late finish means a walk home. :skp: He has been warned.

The BBQ we are planning for New Year's Eve will be a mixture of vege and non-vege. and thank you Marley Farley for the links. We haved two seperate BBQs so I get no cross-contamination.

take care if you are on the roads to-day. not nice out there.

hope airport and flights all get sorted out. I know how fustrating that is.

Have a good weekend.

will be back on line on Monday morning