Today I've mostly bin...

[clvrlad]

looks like you've another career available if you want it :-p

[Bunnylump]

I actually love making dressing up outfits. I'm rubbish at real sewing, but like things which don't have to last for ages. One of the favourite ones I made was a jester outfit... (really).

[giraffe]

K is the first to admit that she needs lots more experience, so will only be going solo on routes she knows really well at first. I'm going to sign her up on one of the pass plus courses, but there is a two hour workshop that the council run and if you do that they pay half of the pass plus course. The next one is in June, so it will have to wait a while, but with everything going on at the moment she probably doesn't have time for it anyway.

[Bunnylump]

Good news is you now have your own built in taxi service for when you want to go out...

[giraffe]

That's the benefit of not drinking, I don't need a taxi service.

[Scurra]

I sometimes note that although I don't drink, I also don't drive - which makes me a complete waste of space at parties. (Not that I choose to go to parties as a rule.)

[Bunnylump]

I sometimes note that although I don't drink, I also don't drive - which makes me a complete waste of space at parties.

I don't know, couldn't you be the life and soul of the party with your amazing dancing skills instead??

[MBH]

I see Maisie's well and truly settled in (and has decided it's her sofa AS WELL...

Actually she's being very well behaved. The one item she's not allowed onto is the sofa and she has learned that already (Note that it's just her chin that is on). After saying that, she HAS settled in extremely well. She likes her toys, and as well as the purple turtle which she sleeps with we now have the squeaking phesant you can see tucked in beside her here Her mad half-hours only last 5 mintues, but she is fun.

{re: intro between Maisie & Olly} certainly would be interesting Be grateful that Maisie is a fast runner. Olly is a bit of a bruiser

All racing hounds are different regarding agression to small animals and we've discovered she is great with little dogs (which can be a problem) and has a keen interest in cats but hasn't been close enough to investigate them. She's a lovely girl and totally placid as far as we've seen. Her main form of 'attack' would seem to be the "corkscrew walk and belly-flop" which works very effectively on her soft toys

That's the benefit of not drinking, I don't need a taxi service.

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OK - A couple of 'todays' I missed.

Saturday: had a very odd and interesting experience / experiment. Having a load of things to do and no time to do them, I tried combining two in the same timeframe.

The frames on my glasses were bent [disturbing side note - I have no idea how], and I needed the opticians to gently bend them back into place. Also, there were specific things I needed to pick up that could only be bought from a shop in town.

So I raced into the opticians and explained what I needed done - but I needed them to do it without me there. Then I walked to the shop and went through the mechanics of getting the stuff, paying for it, and getting back to the opticians.

WEIRD..... a world where you can see body-shapes but nobody has ANY features. Hair colour and general hair shape being the only identifiable items along with rough body size. A couple stopped to ask me a question which I could answer, but even then the features were blurred - anyone I would be able to see clearly I would be FAR too close to for politeness :O

Add to that the fact that no shop signs or directions (or any other written word) is readable, and you end up with an interesting journey. Obviously not a patch on being blind (which I've also considered the implications for myself), but it's a good reminder of how bad my eyes are.



Monday (at work): Last session for a keen group of 70+year-olds in a sheltered home, so after their word processing and excel experiments I offered something different. I spent the visit teaching them 'Paint', just to see what caught their eye and what they would ask.

By the end of the session I had 5 totally individual representations of a snowman and they said they enjoyed it very much.

I've got no idea why I'm sharing that with you lot

[clvrlad]

it's a good reminder of how bad my eyes are.

i can sympathise...
since im a newly bespectacled individual
until my eye test i didn't realise just how bad they'd got

By the end of the session I had 5 totally individual representations of a snowman and they said they enjoyed it very much.

I've got no idea why I'm sharing that with you lot

really? not planning the same thing in hull then?

[Bunnylump]

Oh my goodness. Left work, all happy because I'd finished for Easter, drove home and saw my local shops (few hundred yards away) surrounded by four police cars, cordoned off, and forensic men wandering around. I am "reliably" informed by the medium of facebook that someone has been murdered in the chip shop. What is the world coming to??

[LAT]

Oh dear! That's awful.

Thought you didn't use facebook though?

[tricia]

I do hope its not someone you know

Tricia

[Bunnylump]

No, Janet went onto her facebook account and found it. Apparently someone was punched, fell to the floor and hit their head and died. Why on Earth would someone want to start a fight in a fish and chip shop?? It never ceases to amaze me how ANGRY people are about the most ridiculous things these days.

I don't know who it was, but I don't seem to have heard anything which would indicate I know them. Honestly, you'd think we live in some inner city, deprived area, wouldn't you? No, we live in a fairly respectable area in Hertfordshire.

[Laura]

Crikey, that sounds horrible!

Sorry I've not been around for a while folks. It's been mad busy with exams, concerts (2 last night, 70 miles apart, and overlapping by 45 minutes. Bit tricky!) and now Brownie Pack Holiday. Setting off in 10 mins for the joys of supermarket shopping to feed the 5000 (actually 15, but you wouldn't think it to see the amount of stuff we need) then setting up for the rest of today, then little ones arriving 6.30 tonight and going home 2.30 Sunday. Sleep depriviation, here I come!!!

[LAT]

Hope it goes well! My daughter had three wonderful pack holidays when she was a Brownie.

[MBH]

concerts (2 last night, 70 miles apart, and overlapping by 45 minutes. Bit tricky!)

Laura - I've got a note here from the Department of Mysteries.... They're asking about a missing time-turner - do you know anything?

Good luck with your weekend

[giraffe]

Laura that sounds exactly the sort of situation I had last weekend. Three children all with concerts in different towns, all at the same time, and only two parents to get them there!

[Bunnylump]

Crikey, good luck with all of that, Laura!

[Laura]

And home. Off to sleep. See you in a week! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Bunnylump]

Today's amazing garage find: a carburettor for a Morris 8. Anyone know anyone who wants one of those?? Now have a complete car full of tools to take to Essex tomorrow. Most of which we don't even know what they are...

Did go for a nice walk afterwards though, to compensate for the garage hell.