Machel!! Love it

The Apprentice is on tonight!!

I love a good haggle I do!   If I'm buying a new car I get them to agree to the price and when they go to shake on it I ask for mats and a tank of petrol too. That's when you get 'Oh no.. I'm not making anything on it anyway now' and you say 'so you'll lose a sale for the sake of a set  of mats and some fuel?'        

Most satisfying though was when I was working away from home and needed a cheap second hand run about.   Guy wouldn't budge and I actually did give him my price and walked away.  He phoned me the next night and gave in 

oh  well remembered, Erin! 

Just to bore you all a little more - the plumber came today to fit everything up (I knew the shower couldn't be quite completed as the 'knobs' didn't arrive today) but ........I was looking forward to a lovely bath! He unwrapped the bath .......................they've sent one with pre drilled holes for taps!!!!!! I have wall taps fitted and ordered the bath without ............I could screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeem!!!!

I do have a sink and toilet now though. Thinking it would be more or less finished I organised a day out at Flamingoland tomorrow with the boys. Gonna be difficult to sort on the phone - couldn't speak tonight as they close at 5 - they got the stinkiest e mail ever.

I started it 'Are you called First Bathrooms or Worst Bathrooms?'

Oh Soozy, I feel for you. They have been blooming useless from start to finish!

I think you should send them a detailed list of all the mistakes they've made and the numerous occasions they failed to deliver on time, and ask them for compensation.

OM Flippin G! 

You are my husband!!!

You mean that having the title sitting there for a week saying that the next episode was tonight, was a waste of time?

Yes!

Can you have my tea on the table for 7.30 tomorrow?

   I just look up there when I'm going to post..

oh no Soozy

 Nae bother! What would you like?

The earth moved apparently in Brum during the very early hours of the morning  There was a 3.8 magnitude tremor off the coast of Bangor, North Wales. Which was supposed to have been felt as far apart as Dublin, Liverpool and Brum. I didn't feel a thing 

I amuse myself so much sometimes.  I've just caught a rather large spider in a glass that was in the boys room. I took it away, took a couple of pictures then put it outside.  The boy did not know I had got rid of it.  So I went back in his room holding the glass and pulled the old trip and throw the contents of the empty glass gag on him. I laughed so much I could hardly breathe

#motheroftheyear

Norty 

Lol Cinds I must remember that one

I should write a book called '101 ways to wind up your teenager'.

 Poor Master Cinds, you do like to wind him up.

that gag is a hanging offence in the Ditty household..  

nothing funny about a mahoosive spider      NOTHING!!

naughty step Cinds  

OMG - that reminds me that there is a massive spider up in the babygirl's bedroom and we were waiting for hubby to get home to deal with it.

He's been home for an hour and a half ... I hope the damned thing is still there

S'ok moonman ... it was sitting there patiently ... it's just gone wheeeee out of the bedroom window

 a flying spider 

Can I redeem myself with an odd tale?

So Mr Cinds & I have been to see Cats AGAIN this afternoon.  We have seen Cats 10 times now on the stage, and when Mr Cinds mother was still alive we always took her.  

So this afternoon, we were sat in the front row right at the end, brilliant seats.  I left just before the interval to return a work call I had ignored as the show started.  

After the call I went and waited near the auditorium doors for Mr C to come out. When he did his face was telling me something was wrong/odd?

I asked his 'what's the matter'

he said....as soon as they had started singing 'Memory' before the break he had felt me squeeze his shoulder in a 'are you ok' kind of way, and when he had looked, I wasn't there.  I was still outside.

What you need to know is Memory, was his Mothers favourite song from Cats. 

Ohhh, that made me go all goosepimply Cinds - in a nice way

(But, as an aside, I could NEVER, ever go and see Cats. I mean, it's about cats innit, and I don't like cats )

Oh my god thank you for admitting that Rexi!!  I feel like I am the only person who really doesn't like cats sometimes.  Everyone else seems to loooove the things and they post about them on facebook, share pics etc and I bloody well hate the things!!  Well, maybe not 'hate' but bloody close enough to it!

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Cinds, that gave me goosebumps. I hope Mr Cinds found it comforting and not weird.

oh

awwww..   and oh

Soozy, did you get the bathroom sorted finally?

I don't like cats in a keep one as a pet kind of way, but I love that show so much.  We're going again on Saturday, and the again on Tuesday

For me what Mr. Cinds experienced is his Mum trying to let him know she still survives beyond this plane and in this case the connection was made because you all enjoyed Cats. But that's my belief, not asking anyone to have the same belief.

Can't say I've come across any Forum I've ever been on before when I've seen so many say they don't like cats in whatever thread and some views are beyond just dislike I've noticed over time. My Avi won't go down well then lol. Someone said to me once they'd noticed so many times that those who said they love dogs don't like cats but those who like cats also like dogs, ever since then I've also noticed personally how true that is for many people I've come across, not to say it's an absolute. Personally I don't have a dislike for any animal including dogs -  I buy dog treats for my neighbours dogs, pet them and talk to them even though I have cats. For me they all need the same from humans, kindness, understanding, affection, a loving home environment and a place to feel safe, humans need that, why not animals that include cats.

Aww YR, I love your avi

Cats are just sort of ... broken. You go to pick one up and it bends in your hands like a beanie toy that has lost its stuffing. Not that I've picked a cat up for about 40 years, but that's what I remember!

I would always categorise myself as a dog person...    although I love all animals.. 

In the past, whilst I didn't hate cats, they didn't, in my experience, have the same bond with us as dogs did..   in fact it didn't come close.    

Then last year we got Faythe (well Ickle got her)..     was funny at first..    she didn't really like me..   and I just didn't know how to communicate with her..  I didn't "speak cat".   Dogs..   I can read em easier than I can read people..    cats - who knew what was going on in their heads... 

but over the past year we've bonded..    and I love her sooo much!   and our bond is every bit as strong as one with a dog.

I miss her like mad at the moment..   cos since we brought Loki home she is refusing to come out of either ours or Ickles bedroom (I do go visit her when I can)..     

Ducks tells me her sisters cat took 3 days to come out the bedroom when they got their puppy..     Faythe is currently on Day 5 of the bedroom protest...  

Bedroom protest 

Sounds like something completely different out of context

YR don't get me wrong, I don't dislike cats, I just don't like them enough to have one as a pet.  I think it's more they have access to everywhere, and I've been in too many cat lovers homes where the cats are walking across the kitchen surfaces, and that is what I just couldn't cope with.