I've been thinking for a while it was time to upgrade the smallest room but it wasn't until I came across this catalogue that I got really fired with enthusiasm. However, now I'm spoiled for choice and I really can't decide. Do I go for style or comfort? Wow factor, or convenience?
Your help in this decision would be very much appreciated. Whether you point Percy at the porcelain or Alice at the chalice, haven't you appreciated the variations on basic white?
And bearing in mind you're unlikely ever to visit me, which would you expect to see in my house, knowing me as you do by now ...
or the utterly practical
If I had a second loo I would of course take both but it is a very small house and the UK, unlike the US or SA, doesn't go for a loo per room.
a friend of mine's husband does a lot of biking, with a club that does a lot in the community, particularly with kids, but that's a whole other blog.
NOT ASKING FOR MONEY JUST FOR IDEAS ABOUT GETTING BIKERS TO INSURE THEMSELVES
ANYWAY. He said they're once again being asked to help fund-raise for a youngster who has had a serious accident and - didn't have insurance. This is in South Africa and the hospital is asking a R90K deposit to do an estimated R300K worth of surgery or he will lose his hand. (Is that about $15K deposit? Close enough)
Hubby wants her to do some blogging about GETTING INSURANCE WHEN YOU GET A BIKE, damnit, but wants to word it so it catches attention, not too preachy.
She asked me but I'm not really clued up on bikes and bikers. Any suggestions?
NOT ASKING FOR MONEY NOT ASKING FOR MONEY SHEEESH!!!!
Asking for ways of making people THINK before they get on a bike and roar off into the uninsured blue! One tag suggested was "Dont ride the hog if you cant pay the doc"
I had a Spanish structural survey (finally!) on the Spanish property I want to buy and loved this wording - reúne las exigencias de carácter relativo, seguridad, psico-fisiológicas, de protección y de durabilidad.
(Bing says that means it meets the requirements of relative character, security, psycho-physiological, protection and durability.)
That sounds good. Imagine if we could order an impartial, accurate survey done of the single of our choice? Those qualities, definitely.
Any others?
I'm at your service, as my job ended recently and I am betwixt and between changing my entire life, not much point in looking for a new one. I would be happy to do human surveys for you, for a small fee plus travelling expenses. Think of it as an investment in peace of mind
I like to have music in the background when I'm working but I get bored with the usuals. Anyone looked at the music offered for studying? Whale song, harp music, sea sounds - nope!
Very familiar music from seventies and eighties is distracting because it keeps jerking my memory back, not good.
Boring music makes me sleepy - not good.
Lively music makes me restless, I want to jump up and dance. Not good.
Any suggestions before I just switch off? It's so QUIET if I do! And I'm studying at the moment, a bit boring but I have to concentrate.
Housework music is so easy - driving anthems, the louder the better
The huge advantage of choosing something I knew in the 70s and 80s is it wakes up my teenage brain (which is still fairly shiny and unused). Now if I can just get my inner teenager to settle down to some work ...
I'm not talking Robert Redford in a tux, offering a million bucks for a night, or Angelina Jolie saying she'd give you the same for a weekend away.
Say someone on CS that you'd chatted to via the blogs or forums but never particularly fancied, offered you 5000 to spend a week with them (dollars, euros, pounds, all much of a muchness at the moment, pick your favourite currency)
The offer is genuine.
Would you?
And no, no-one has offered me that
and right now I am unemployed with my whole life on pause and me, personally? Yes I would. I need the cash. But I'm not a particularly normal person, and I'm just wondering how abnormal I am. Much more to the point, this directly relates to something I'm working on.
Just been away on holiday with my daughter and at the airport she kept us in duty free for AGES finding something nice enough to take to her mother-in-law as part of her birthday present.
I haven’t seen my daughter since September. Since then I have had a birthday (she did send a whatsapp message) and there’s been Christmas too (a phone call). She brought me a gift for both - a purple felt hat she found at a charity shop, because she says I’m now old enough to need one.
She’s busy, she lives 400 miles away, I’m not a very good mother, what more could I expect?
The irony is that I am
fantastically needy. I’m so high-maintenance my mother ordered me from earliest childhood to stop expecting the whole world to revolve around me.
I wish it did.
Instead I have become the cat that walks alone.
I’m now the sort of person who, if you lived next door to me and didn’t like chocolate cake, and someone gave you one, you’d still throw it away rather than give it to me. You’d tell me about it, too. Oh, you’d say, I so nearly popped over the other day with a cake for you, because I know you love chocolate cake.
What
should I have said? That’s what this blog is for. How should I react to people basically telling me I don’t need anything from them when I really, really do?
I
need your comments
and would you let me watch you making it?
My office closed the other day and amongst the 'goodies' we shared out I got a large supply of office-type teabags. I decided to try making a cup of tea this morning.
It tasted fairly horrible. Is there a knack to making tea? Can anyone talk me through it? Yes yes add boiling water but - for how long? When does that soggy sad little lump get removed? Is a teapot better?
I wish I loved the Human Race;
I wish I loved its silly face;
I wish I liked the way it walks;
I wish I liked the way it talks;
And when I'm introduced to one,
I wish I thought "What Jolly Fun!"
No, not my own, I can't write poetry. Funny thing, when I tripped over that quote (part of research for the TEFL course I'm doing) I assumed it was written by Ogden Nash or similar. No - Sir Walter Raleigh. Him what brought potatoes and tobacco to the emerging first world, if I remember rightly.
Probably wrote it after he put his cloak in the mud for Queen Elizabeth (first one) to walk on, and she didn't thank him, or something.
So people have been getting pissed off with the human race for at least 500 years, since he died in 1618. For some reason that makes me feel better about being snippy at times. I'm in good company
there's a letter that an 87-year-old widow wrote in to a magazine saying that while her husband was dying, at 90, he told her he didn't love her and he never had.
I want to cry - or shake her (gently - she is 87, after all) and say NO, damnit, remember the good times and forget that thing he said, he was old, he was senile, he didn't mean it, he can't have meant it.
Right?
(Adding this comment - what gets me is not that he said it, whether he meant it or not he's dead now. What gets me is that she believes it, and is hurting.)
Now, is that true? I think I must have been laying them wrong. Or perhaps I didn’t get the best quality in the first place. I do find after a few years they look a bit worn.
But is 30 years the aim, anyway? What if you want a change after, say, 10 years? Then half that hard work initially was for nothing.
I need more advice, I think. Anyone?
Picture it - I'm renting out my spare room because I need the extra cash right now, okay?
Tenant scored a hat-trick this morning. Went out leaving the electric shower switched on, skid-marks in the loo, and the hair-trap in the shower clogged with hair, so the water couldn't drain away.
a) increase his rent to include a cleaning fee?
b) scream like a fishwife?
c) ???
I'm not used to living with someone. Is this standard guy stuff?
Sure as hell not with the men I know.
The latest conspiracy theory - the Russians, masters of disinformation, are feeding contradictory links into social media, sitting back and laughing themselves sick as we fight each other, lose confidence in our leaders, and generally fall apart.
As IF.
We are way too bright for that, right? Everyone I know agrees exactly with me.
If they don't I simply unfollow them, sorted.
I've never felt more confident about the future of western civilization, things are going exactly right, every leader in place has my utmost confidence and is wise, intelligent, taking good advice and acting on it. We are all at peace with ALL our neighbours, absorbing their differences into our culture and getting stronger as a result.
Everything is going brilliantly, so those pesky Ruskies can take all their attempts to stir trouble and stick them where they will never see the sun. Whoops, that could be Scotland. Change it to where they will never see the light of day again.
Nobody here quarrelling or falling out with anyone else, we are United and Stronger Than Ever in all our history. Take THAT.
Don't even bother to disagree. I have my fingers in my ears LA LA LA LA LA I'm not listening
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