Chickens all want to stay in the doorway!

[Scramble]

What?

 

open it

[Scramble]

Got to go now guys

 

See you tomorrow

x

[Lewis]

What?

The Dry ice machine

[Lewis]

Lewis is

How is everyone?

 

Haven't tried the dry ice yet.

[Space Chick]

Lewis, that I so

 

I would love to borrow that on Halloween, to scare all the neighbourhood children

[Valkyrie]

I was so looking forward to coming home, putting the shopping away to an empty household except for sleeping son, and then hoovering to wake him up. Pooh, wind taken out of my sails because he was up when I came through the door! Oh well, saves me a job (to wake him up - still got to hoover). It's coming over all muggy and I have a headache - hope no more storms. We have had sunshine too and it's very hot when it is out. Too hot to hoover, nope, I must I must I must . . . I'm having a coffee to wake me up first.

Good luck with the induction - DD is having hers this morning, but I don't know when she has decided what day. She's already been eyeing up a handbag. Oh well, it is a charity.

Brilliant idea Debs. One year our neighbour asked if it would be OK to knock on our door for trick or treat (I'm happier being asked first - otherwise we all hide). So on that day, the doorbell went, I jumped out at them - the little girls were fine - my neighbour screamed, then laughed herself silly! The little kiddies just looked at her and rolled their eyes in her direction ("oh my mum can be soooo embarrassing" ).

[Lewis]

I'll have a play later. Its for Cinderella - I think the bit where the carriage comes on, and because the fog is cooled by the ice it should stay low to the floor

 

My mom + her friend used to swap sweets then we'd go to their house to trick or treat

[Valkyrie]

Oh poor Laura. Us oldun's can give you a bedtime story tonight. Now do you want romantic ones or scary wolf eating granny ones (in my stories they all have happy endings)?

[PurpleTree]

I'm back, it's amazing how scared some people are of teeth and an imitation shark

 

Getting a headache now, couldn't decide if I was hot or cold where I was stood in the museum.

[Space Chick]

Welcome back from the Museum PurpleTree, I think I may visit when you are there, although I'd love to hear about Sharks

 

Well I did get up, had a shower and got dressed and almost wished I hadn't. I have been in bed since Monday night, so under 3 complete days. The mess downstairs, you'd swear it had been 3 weeks

 

There were dishes piled everywhere, empty cartons, plastic bottles, containers all over the place. I can't even see the top of the living room table for newspapers, junk mail, empty sweet wrappers, dirty glasses.

 

I have done the dishes, and thrown out what is rubbish and put in recycling what is recycling, and now I'm shattered, but at least I'm making progress as there is no way I would have been able to have done that yesterday, even having a bath was a struggle then, so I think I am officially on the mend

 

Now, have a rest for half an hour and see if I can tackle the living room.......

 

If we had a load of children I'd understand it (to a degree) but its only the 2 of us How can a grown man make so much mess and be oblivious to it amazes me. It took 5 seconds for it to freak me out

[PurpleTree]

yeah come and see me Debs, I only do one morning a week though and the gallery's closing as the end of August for refurb I've got to learn about something else then, it's been suggested that I can stand near the woolly mammoth and have things to demonstrate how different animals cope with cold. Might involve wrapping children in a sheep skin Sounds interesting.

 

If I was you I would've gone back upstairs and shouted at OH later, refuse to come down until he'd tidied up

[Space Chick]

He's off posting leaflets tonight, as part of the "Save our Woods" campaign. He spent 2 1/2 hrs last night with a neighbour plotting on how we can get as many people to complain to the council as possible, they have decided to leaflet drop the whole local area (about 1000 houses ).

 

He has designed a leaflet, and they are printing and delivering 500 each.

 

In all honesty, its nice to see him with a mission, he's been having a hard time of it recently and has been quite down, so its good to see him feel that he has a purpose.

 

(Sorry, just realised I'm being a bit too serious for this thread )

[Space Chick]

We have realised that (following piecing together snipbits of info) they are looking to rip up a whole woodland, a few farms, and build a housing estate that would join our "respectable" neighbourhood, to a rather less desirable neighbourhood. It would be big enough for about 3000 houses

 

We are planning to fight, fight, fight

[Lewis]

Good for you + OH Debs

 

Driving instructor has a flat tyre so will be here in 40 mins

[Space Chick]

Could be worse, it could have happened in your lesson

 

Have fun, and remember, always look right at roundabouts

[Geoid]

 

We are planning to fight, fight, fight

 

Some developer wanted to build a loads of flats on some green land near me, the residents association fought and fought, now the council is rejecting all plans for that piece of land.

[Space Chick]

Thanks Fred, its good to hear when people have fought and won.

[Valkyrie]

It will probably go to appeal, then eventually the Government steps in. We saved some farmland and pre medieval woods because Mr Gummer decided that it was a nice walk to the next village - never mind the wildlife, bluebells etc. All that because someone in the council forgot to renew the paperwork for the green gap between villages. Now the builders are sneaky. They will request a stupidly OTT number of homes. It gets rejected, then they lower the number and people think, oh, that's better - especially as it also costs money to fight these people. It's probably the amount that they originally wanted to build. Go for it Debs and hubbsie. Our woods and farmland, well, Messrs Charles Church then sold it to another well known developer (can't remember but it was one of the B ones and probably Bovis, but I'm not sure. As Wimpey has it's head office here, it wouldn't surprise me that they now own it). It's just a waiting game now - they are biding their time and they will have another go.

 

And sometimes Lewis, check the roundabouts on your left - that's where people have crashed into me - TWICE!

 

Anyhow, glad you are up and about again Debs - don't overdo it because that's when post viral syndrome sets in and ME. Actually I too thought you had come to my house. It's always a tip. Leaves you feeling "what's the point?"

[Space Chick]

I'm not overdoing it. I am dressed but I decided to forget sorting the living room, so instead I have been sat in the garden with my girls. Ended up locking the older thugs in the run after a while though as the newbies were not getting a look in with me, and I wanted to hand feed them some corn, build their trust more. They will all take grapes, peas, broad beans etc from my hand, but you can snatch and run with those, however corn you have to stay and snack. All of them bar Grace were prepared to do that

 

I am finding that I feel OK until about half and hour before my next tablets are due and then I feel completely rotten for an hour (until they have had chance to start working). My logic is though 3 out of 4 hours of feeling almost human is a massive improvement on Monday night to this morning.

 

Fingers crossed I'll be back in work on Monday (and then I'll be back on evening forum time only )

[Valkyrie]

Jolly good then.

Laura there is one with a goose that lays the golden eggs - and a giant and lots of fun. There is one with a rooster, but I can't remember how that one goes - a Grimm's one and grim it certainly is! Or the three bears, Oodie, Nudie and Rudie - you can have the clean version or the naughty one that my dad told my brother and made him laugh so much that mum had to tell him off.

[Lewis]

We did right at traffic lights instead of roundabouts

It was alright, but I forgot the brake/clutch + stalled Then further down the road 4 cars + a van over took me in a row (and I was just over the speed limit) - eejits

 

Next lesson is on the 23rd because he's on holiday.

[Space Chick]

Thats a long time to wait until your next lesson Lewis

 

Are you going to be able to practice with a generous brave and possibly suicidal family member before then?

[emily95]

Evening all!

 

Em

xxx

[Valkyrie]

Howdie Em.

 

That's how OH and I got together - he needed driving practice and his parents wouldn't go with him at all (he was a mere slip of a lad at 17 too) and I was 23, cough splutter. I made him go down all these narrow single track roads with grass growing up the middle. Heheheheh Still he got to know the width of his car. Then we went and had a picnic to St Albans and his mum made the sandwiches - prawn coctail they were, and mine had a huge dead fly in it. With wings and legs and she swears that it was a bit of the prawn's head - it's eye. I told her I had never seen a prawn eye with wings and legs or even eyelashes or a head, thorax and an abdomen before.

He did pass his test first time though.

[Space Chick]

Thats a fab story Koojie

 

Well OH has been doing his caped crusader routine. He has delivered over 600 leaflets tonight There have been a few houses which want to be more "active" in the campaign, so we are going to widen the delivery circuit. Anyhow, OH was delivering a few hundred leaflets to one couple who had offered to helkp with delivery when a leaflet was posted through the door, it was OH's leaflet!!!! He spoke to the person who delivered it, and they had had a few hundred photocopies and had decided to deliver it to a wider area

 

We have approached our MP about a meeting, and have got in contact with some environmental groups. Its great to see the community working together

 

The "Save our Woodland" campaign whilst only on Day 3 is going rather well