Good morning everyone, filthy weather here blowing a gale and heavy showers too.

 

I hope good progress is made with the floor today Summer and the smell fades quickly.

 

Have a good day everyone

Yogi, at the Summers Place Auctions there's a coelacanth with an estimate of £1,500-£2,500

By the way, I'm not seriously suggesting that any of you would go to the auction. I would advise against it and also don't be tempted to look at the auction catalogue on their site as most of the items being sold at the auction would upset you.

 

Good morning everyone

The weather is atrocious here. As dark as night and a gale blowing. Its looking like snow at the moment. Probably wont venture out today

Sweet, I hope your floor gets started today and finished very soon

 

I hope you have better weather than we are having right now. Tis ebil out there Laters

 

Morning 

Weather not so good here either. Not much wind though, so thats good. 
Hope the work gets done quickly for you Summer.
Have a nice time with the family Yogi. 
Just off shopping. See you all later x

Got a list of shopping if you are passing my way Skylark

On the way to see a client this morning I saw the car in front of me veering from side to side and much of the time was moving over the centre lines so that it was partially on the other side of the road.

Either the driver was drunk or something so I made a note of the registration number. When I got to the client I rang 101 and reported this to the local police.

 

Was it slippery on the road El?

Well done on reporting it to the police anyway

Aww too late, i am back! Having some of this, you can share. its luvverly..

    

You did the right thing El. maybe someone ill and needing help. If they were under the influence, hopefully they will feel the full force of the law. One thing i cannot abide is drunk drivers 

Moonie, it's not as cold in my area as yours and there was no ice whatsoever. It wasn't raining and it wasn't at all foggy. Either the driver was unfit to drive or there was a mechanical fault with the car. Which ever it was that driver or car should not be on the road, Luckily no vehicles were coming the other direction.

 

*dunks piece of bread in soup* Fankoo

that does sound like dangerous driving then El

Good job you did report it

Forgotten i had left my mobile in my coat pocket, so just checked it. I had a missed call from 000. I thought eh??? Googled it, apart from its the emergency number in Australia, found out nothing. I have phoned it from the landline, and its not a number 


Edit...On further looking around, seems like some marketing ploy....havent had that number before and hasnt came up on my landline

Skylark, quite often the marketing people and also scammers use devices which make the phone number which appears on your phone appear anything they want to.

Guardian article from 2008 was about this:

http://www.theguardian.com/tec...ller-id-faking-fraud

 

Thanks for that El, very interesting read. If i get more i shall just hang up. x 

BBC article on the experiences of people's broadband from around the world.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24985265

It starts off with the experiences of 10 people who are unhappy. Only one of them comes from this country and he lives less than 20 miles away from me.

Oh dear 0.07  The family must be tearing their hair out

Just having received a marketing phone call I checked the number. Besides the usual sites where you can read other people's posts or make your own I noticed that there was a similar site called nuisancecalls.org.uk. However my a/v s/w shows a red warning against that site saying there was a very high risk of getting malware put on your computer if you visit that site.

Extremely dark cloud heading my way, looks as if it could be very heavy rain any moment. Glad I don't have to go out in it.

 

Good afternoon all is well here and the main part of the floor is down, they'll be back tomorrow to do the border and edges and then mr summer will have to arrange new skirting boards. It's looking superb already though the smell is fading too so I'm extra happy.

Bramble has taken up residence on my bed and even gave me a "get out of MY room" look earlier how cheeky.

El, I hope that car reached it's destination alright and that the driver is safe. It often makes me shiver to think that my dad was driving just an hour before he died of a sudden heart attack, I'm grateful that he at least made the journey home first.

Skylark, soup sounds very good!

Hi Summer, glad its all working out. 
Bramble 
Didnt know that about your dad 



Just getting ready for Rainbows (junior Brownies), not me, the Gd  

El, yes , i am careful on sites too,  and have good security

Bye for now x

Summer I am the glad the floor is proceeding so well, soon be finished.  Very poignant about your dad

 

Still awful weather down here, in fact it's been terrible, my poor grandson has just set off for work on his split shift, hope he's going to be OK.

 

Hope g/d enjoys Rainbows Skylark.

Hope she has a great time skylark

It's raining heavily here now, I'm glad I did our walk earlier. I can't wait for mr summer to get home and see the floor, but I've booked him in to try acupuncture for his migraines. I hope he finds it useful.

Going to have my bath early, then Skype my mum. Back in bit

Hiya Sweet

Awww really pleased the floor is going well Sweet and also glad that nasty smell is going too

@ Bramble

Hoping Mr Summer feels better after his acupuncture session

Enjoy you bath and chatting to your mum. See you later

Wont be around for a few days got family stuff to attend to.
Oh i hope Mr Summer can find some relief through acupuncture, Summer. Migraines are just awful x

Sweet dreams all, and will see you all soon. Take care 

Skylark, see you soon

 

Summer, I hope Mr Summer's migraines can be eased with the acupuncture. I'm glad that your flooring is underway and that you are pleased with the progress.

Evening aw ok skylark, hope you're soon back with us

Mr summer enjoyed acupuncture and is going back again, he's got some inflamed muscles in his shoulder blade & neck that certainly won't be helping with the migraines.
He LOVES the floor! I'll get you a pic tomorrow when the edges are done

Hope you're having a nice evening each

Hello Sweet

Pleased Mr Summer and the acupuncture got on together I hope it works for him

I'm also very pleased he likes the floor too

 

I hope you sort your family problems out Skylark and you are able to come back soon

Skylark, you will be missed. Come back whenever you can.

Summer, I'm glad Mr Summer found the acupuncture a positive experience and is going back. Hopefully, it will reduced the number and intensity of his migraines.

I look forward to the pics of the flooring and I'm so pleased you are happy with it.

Thank you and fankoo
Have you both had a good day?
I've wrapped 5 Xmas gifts, it's a good start!

Apart from PBs gifts, I haven't even bought five Christmas presents!

Well done, Summer.

Had middle son and Dil to dinner tonight, and a nice natter.

If I suddenly disappear, it's because the slow-loading pages and cogs have driven me nuts.

My day has been good fankoo Sweet

And well done on your start to the pressie wrapping season   Has Bramble let you back into the bedroom yet?

She has moonie, but she's certainly trying to take up as much of the bed as possible
I think she misses being downstairs, she likes to look out the windows

Yogi, I hope the cogs stop it! Was dinner nice? How are the newlyweds?

Hopefully it will soon be done and you can get back to some sort of normality Sweet

Yes, dinner was nice and the newly weds are very happy.

 

When we had the livingroom walls re plastered, Keira had to go upstairs for a few days - normally she isn't allowed upstairs. To start with, we had to coax her to go up but towards the end she loved it upstairs, and then we had a job to stop her toddling off upstairs every time she felt like it.

That's the challenge isn't it yogi, how long before she stopped trying?

Shouldn't be long now moonie *crosses fingers* I wonder if I could get away with throwing out lots of junk we never use, on the sneak

That's good

You could give it a try Sweet

It took a couple of weeks before she stop sneaking off upstairs. One day, we came home and there was no sign of her. Hubby hadn't shut the livingroom door properly and she'd taken herself off to middle son's room. Only problem was the door had bounced back when she head-butted it open, and closed behind her and she shut herself in. We were calling her name and could hear this quiet whine from upstairs, so we rescued her.

Awwww poor thing