Not worthy of a thread of it's own but - does anyone else think that 7.40 am is a bit early for workmen to arrive at your house. I looked out the window and there was John (bless him) one of my old duffers sat in his car drinking from his flask and reading the paper waiting for me to get up.

 

I really am not a morning person.

^^^^ Yes, I do. Workmen should not arrive before 8a.m., to give you time to get dressed and have a least one cup of tea.

Doozy I wouldn't be happy either, but I'm not a morning person either!! We once got a delivery at 6.15 on a Saturday morning. I would insert a smiley but I'm on the phone! Haha I've just noticed my phone changed soozy to doozy!

I love predictor spell errors

I quite like it 

 

Well old John is happily banging, sawing and whistling away out there. Bless  - at least he's getting on with it. I feel awful as I would try and get a bit of a convo going with him but he's as deaf as a post! 

Me too. I often text Mr C with 'reread what you sent me'.  

 

I'll take it you're acquainted with damnyouautocorrect.com?

 

 

Soozy, old John is happily banging away eh? 

Every flippin summer!  

 

I always think it would be a good idea to give my legs a bit of a fake tan for the initial outing of them, and every year I have to spend the next week or so with them covered while the disastrous fake tan job wears off.

Cinds

Even 8am is too early for me!  If workmen call before 9am to my house I tell them to go off and have a cuppa or whatever while I get my kids to school and then they can come back. I hate workmen being in my house at any time but before I've even had a chance to get dressed and have a cuppa is way too early.  AND  I need to use the loo before they can come in  I can't go when strangers are around

i know that feeling - one year we were going on holiday with my daughter and her bf. The night before she lent me some of that Johnsons tinted moisturiser - I was a bit reluctant but she said 'Mum ........you really can't go wrong with this stuff'

 

Believe me - you really can!!

Yep to this - it's four blimmin weeks now - all looking lovely, no longer a bomb site and we are on finishing touches but the plumber told me yesterday that my gas meter is dangerous apparently it wasn't fitted correctly when the house was built. On Monday I am having to have a great big hole in my beautifully re plastered repainted wall knocked through so that he can put it right

 

One step forward - three back - grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Soozy, it was this stuff....

 

 

See the bit where it says 'No-streaks bronzer'?   Well it's a dirty rotten lie 

You know when you mishear song lyrics.  Well there's a song on Radio 2 now, don't know what it's called just yet.  But it sounds like they're singing

 

"we've been travelling on a rack of lamb, a rack of lamb"

 

That can't be right, can it?

Cinds I'm sure there must be an art to it - everyone I know does it so well - mine always ends up a complete mess. Milk bottle legs is not a good look but it's better than streaky brown.

I don't know about that bronzer stuff but when I'm doing fake tan I used to find it really streaky when I did it with my bare hand but now doing it with a mitt leaves it completely streak free.

It was Bruce Springsteen singing Rocky Ground.

 

This is what they were actually singing:

 

"We've been travelling over rocky ground, rocky ground"

 

I wasn't that far off 

 

Not like when I first heard Lady Gaga sing Alejandro, and when she sang

 

"she's got both hands in her pockets"

 

I would swear to god she was actually singing

 

"she's got gold hands and a bucket"

The rimmel stuff that washes right off is no problem to me, it's just the stuff that develops over a number of hours.

I love the rimmel stuff, so easy to get right.

 

The ones that develop are a nightmare if they aren't tinted to begin with.  

 

The things we have to do for a bit of tan

I'm milky white and thats how i stay, when im in the sun i go red then white again and i never bother with fake tan etc.

 

Pasty is in dontcha know....

Jen one of my sisters is like that.  She goes pink then back to white.  For being so blonde I tan quite well, I just don't fake tan well. 

I'm tan at the minute but it's already fading  

 

Once it fades though it's back to fake tan for nights out and being pale the rest of the time.

 I wanted a new avatar pic, so I put 'Cinds' in to google images and found that one

<<<<<

 

But look at some of the other things that popped up too:

 

 

 

 Now I like a bit of role play, but never anything as mediocre as Prince & Princess 

 

What is that first pic, Cinds?

BTW, I'll vote for you.

Ah dinna, but ah reckon it's deeeeed.

 

Thanks for the vote Yogi, I'm going to be Vice President of something or somewhere.  Perhaps Cindsville.

Pasty peeps unite!

(not forgetting her Ali Bongo tribute)

 

Meanwhile if John Lennon were still here I'm sure that he would be repeating his, "Man! You get your tan, from standing in the English rain!" mantra.

Imagine!

 

 

Getting prone to angry rants!

Got elderly neighbours next door- wee woman looks like a wee sweet granny but has a real nasty streak.. anyways, generally I just kind of smile and wave and let her get on with it, but had to go and have a word today. Long story , but they're putting up a humungous shed right up at my fence ( fair dos ) and wanted to cut back some overhanging bits from trees and shrubs in my garden . got that done for them up to the fence on their side, but they wanted a bit more cut back . Specifically told them I didn't want them to cut back into my garden , but anything that might stray over to their side was fair game and could be cut back to the fence,  There's a philadelphus bush  ( my dad planted that for me when I moved here )and I  said to both them and the guy that's doing their shed please be careful with that . Home from a long weekend away and noticed the philadelphus was a bit.. well.. deid! Went out today to have a look and they've butchered the garden ! They've cleared an area about 3-4 ft into  my side of the fence .. when I moved all the dead bits that someone had cut back and left there's just a huge gap through to theirs . Gutted! 

You can make them pay for any replacements.

...with a smack in the kisser hopefully.   Slinks.. what a bitch, i'm so sorry.

There's no reasoning with this woman Joe, went round to try to speak to her and she just yapped right over  me about how great a gardener this guy is and how he would never have cut anything other than overhanging bits etc etc ..

Just incase you didn't know. Jay and Louise from last years big brother are getting married tomorrow Louise posted a lovely pic of thier wedding cake complete with love hearts ...  quite sweet really .

ta Kaffy. She is a right auld git ! Just been out the back , and she's shouting she can't see what I'm talking about .. I'm like, you can see me, standing in a four foot deep gap at the fence, when you couldn't see into my garden before, how can you not?! 

Ouch she sounds fun, i would have got to come and stand next to the damage and tell you that

was that love hearts or love farts ?

both probably

There's the thing Jen, she was standing right next to it just now saying she can't see what I'm talking about ! No reasoning with her at all, she just keeps yapping over what you're saying .

aww that's lovely. Thanks for posting that. 

Watching Alan Carr with my girls and Justin Beiber is on. I said "if I was 15 I'd be screaming right now" and they said "mum if you were screaming for Beiber we'd totally put ourselves up for adoption" 

 you're welcome ... hope this works. It's a pic of thier cake

 

http://pic.twitter.com/zqDtrtwX