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Post by anacrusis on Feb 19, 2007 21:31:41 GMT
Wahay! I'm not going to work this week (my working week starts on Tuesdays ), and the kids are now back in school after our half-term. Question is - what should I do with my week? Sleep? Go shopping for clothes (this is torture for me, by the way, but everything is threadbare)? Play my recorder til it catches fire or warps? Clean out the loft? (thinking about it, that'd need a couple of months and a skip) Anyone got any other ideas?
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Feb 19, 2007 21:47:43 GMT
Sleep and recorder playing, in that order. The latter will be the better for the former. Buy the clothes over the net and hope they fit. ;D
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Post by Dulciana on Feb 19, 2007 22:52:01 GMT
No don't do that; it's even more of a pain when you have to send them all back. And then, not only do you not have any clothes; you're actually below the zero. What about tidying up the garden? And planting some things? It's very theraputic to get out in the air. Wear a woolly hat!
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Post by anacrusis on Feb 19, 2007 23:29:04 GMT
Had to give up the allotment this year, so the garden mess at the back of the house could well get some attention instead. There is a rose which has not realised (yet) that its supporting arch blew down in the gales earlier in the year...however I don't want to be roped into putting back the fence which fell over too . I know. I can burn things, yippee. Have a bin thing with lid with chimney, and lots of twiggy bits from the shrub which had been assaulting our postie until I gave it a haircut. Burning bin thing is out of sight of neighbours with whom I share flying fence. OK, so that's Tuesday. I'll sleep in, play my recorder, put it down safely rather than walk around with it, so I can then burn things in bin thing without risking burning recorder. Wednesday? Have remembered I need a haircut too, but maybe it'll have been singed off by then. ;D
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Feb 20, 2007 0:11:28 GMT
Thursday you can spend returning the clothes your ordered because you ignored Dulciana's warning, having homed in on the ease of Steve's suggestion to buy them over the net. Much more of this and you will be doing the usual thing come Monday. "Thank God. I can go back to work for a rest." ;D
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Post by petite joueuse on Feb 20, 2007 13:39:42 GMT
Just don't do any decorating! I spent ALL week last week decorating son's bedroom (smallest room in the house). Admittedly I had to spend a whole day just emptying the room before I could get anywhere near the walls to paint them! I have vowed to call in a professional decorator next time!
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Post by jod on Feb 20, 2007 14:43:10 GMT
Make sure if you decide to do a project that you do it for you and nobody else. Otherwise clothes shopping is more painless if you do it over the net. Recorder practice is something you enjoy and if you need to catch up sleep make the most of the opportunity.
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Post by caz on Feb 20, 2007 21:54:57 GMT
Do b*gger all and spend all your time on the forums (a helpful suggestion I know!)
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Post by anacrusis on Feb 20, 2007 22:07:20 GMT
Actually, I rather think I did that today.... ;D - plus a quick trip to Homebase to get new arch to prop up deluded rose, but they've run out . Lots of fence posts available, but I desisted . Oh, and screeched on the descant until it started to drip with the effort .
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Feb 20, 2007 22:11:33 GMT
Is that a weed with pretensions of grandeur?
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Post by anacrusis on Feb 20, 2007 22:37:55 GMT
Everything in my garden's a weed with delusions of grandeur, except the pæony, which has Delusions of Grandeur without being weedy, and the lawn, which is just plain weedy with no delusions. No, the rose thinks it's already being propped up by an arch, and hasn't noticed that the arch fell down in the gales. It's also so rampant that it probably needs two arches to contain it....uh-oh, back to the weed idea again.... ;D.
*pokes at frayed bit on hem of trousers* Maybe I can get some overalls at a garden centre...
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Feb 20, 2007 22:47:58 GMT
No, the rose thinks it's already being propped up by an arch, and hasn't noticed that the arch fell down in the gales. It's also so rampant that it probably needs two arches to contain We have a few of those, courtesy of the previous owner who was a keen gardener and bequeathed us a fabulous garden that we were totally unable to maintain. The secret is not to tell the rose that it no longer has support. It will carry on blooming happily; that is what roses do.
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Post by anacrusis on Feb 27, 2007 23:29:13 GMT
I haven't told the rose, but I did get a couple of arches before reading your last, Steve. They are still sitting at the top of the stairs in their boxes, and the rose is still deluded . What did I manage to do in the week? - veg out. A very lot. - play my recorder, until the downstairs neighbours got restless and started banging doors pointedly. - got my hair cut at last; can see again without the help of a restraining clip, phew. - did find some shoes, but not clothes. Also found a pattern for the ideal jacket for a recorder player to wear in concerts, but didn't buy it....yet ;D. Watch this space, construction may yet proceed. - edged the pathetic excuse for a lawn and reseeded the baldy bits. - bought but didn't plant some summer bulbs. - made lots of bread and washed lots of clothes. And what I didn't do? - see patients or diagnose anyone (just for a change) - sort out the loft - rebuild the garden shed - repaper the stairwells - get the dishwasher man in - tidy the house . On balance, not a bad week .
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Feb 27, 2007 23:44:01 GMT
- get the dishwasher man in On balance, not a bad week . I agree. Definitely less exhausting than most holidays. That reminds me about that dishwasher man that said last November, "Yes. You need * describes an incomprehensible part *. I will give you a call this weekend to arrange fitting it for you." Lucky I am only washing up for me and Chris, and not for a family of 8. ;D Hope you had a good time.
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Post by caz on Feb 28, 2007 11:23:42 GMT
sounds like a very good week! glad to hear you didn't tidy the house! ;D
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