Plans for the weekend

[Oola]

SO...the weekend has arrived. What does it have in store for you all?

For me, I will be doing some work today (boooo!), and I have cleaning to do (more boooo!). But on the plus side if the weather holds I may be able to get outside and do a bit of work in the garden - I have a multitude of jobs to be getting on with and I'll probably spend half an hour wandering round trying to decide which job to start with.

Other than that, I really can't think what to do. Sad isn't it!!!!

[eleanor2]

oola you have been so busy setting up this site.i think you deserve a well earned rest.even a treat. you and o.h get off out for a walk or something. hubby out early this morning.so we can go for a country drive out later. then i'v got grandson tonight.he has started sunday school.so he will be staying here most saturday nights.he was a very good boy last week. which shocked me to bits.saying that he has a class full of lovely little girls mothering and looking after him.

[gothfairy]

Hello...

My plans unusually include using the computer this morning, which isn't something I normally do at a weekend. But a good friend told me about this new site, so I had to come and have a nosey didn't I? But the rest of the morning is to be spent doing the 'set dressing' to the bathroom, which dear husband has been decorating and so on this week, stripping pine 'box' that the bath stands in, revarnishing, painting walls a deep colour as I decided to go for a complete change. It was all pale blue and seasidey this past four years, now the walls are in Farrow and Balls' CHINESE BLUE (I love their paints), I have made one long curtain out of old French ticking material... we have one big window which practically fills the end wall, so one curtain held back during the day, and released for privacy or at night... and we have replaced the floor tiles with pale grey and dark grey in a chequerboard pattern. On the wall some black and white prints in matching frames... a couple of luch green plants and a peacock feather .... I know it sounds weird, but I felt it was just the touch of the unusual the room needed. I like to add something like that, nothing jarring, and this certainly matches the wall colour beautifully.
The rest of the day will be relaxing, got a couple of book catalogues and the recent issue of CL to browse through this afternoon, and as it's a bit chilly today, the evening will be spent nice and snug with a good book. Tomorrow a walk in nearby woods while a pork shoulder simmers away in the oven for several hours... thanks Jamie O. and let's hope it looks as good as yours did!
Whatever you're doing, enjoy.

[Oola]

Welcome to the board gothfairy!

[sheddie]

I have been sorting my wardrobe this morning as i keep complaining that I won't be able to fit in any of last years clothes, however to my pleasure and surprise I am in most of them and have a bit of weight to lose to get in others, but had a favourite pair of green cord trousers my daughter bought me last year, thought they wouldn't even go near me and guess what I'm happy - I'm in them. So as oola would say "just a bit of tweeking necessary". I'm off now to a nearby market town and probably the woods if it stays dry. Enjoy whatever you're doing!!!

[Redstart]

This morning the builders turned up to do what they should have done yesterday (the garage still isn't finished even though we have to move out of the rented garage this weekend and they've known that for months) and my lovely husband is spending the day moving boxes, bikes, his collection of old oil cans, etc., etc., and the MG out of the rented garage and in to the new one (the door is being fitted next week). Then the rental garage will be to clean and hand back by tomorrow night.

Plus we did what he calls a Country Living arrangement on the patio table to take a photo for a home-made personal birthday card for my mother (86 next Friday). It's useful being married to a graphic designer!

Unfortunately my lumbago has stopped me helping him move out of the rented garage but I'm making quince jelly today (and just made a chicken and vegetable curry for lunch) so I'm not totally useless. Then tomorrow my son is driving over for Sunday lunch and we might be in Switzerland, but we're going to have a traditional Sunday dinner of roast (organic) beef, yorkshire pudding, broccoli & caulilower, roast potatatoes or potato puffs, and gravy, followed by a quince and apple pudding with cream (and then possibly a post-prandial snooze!). If the weather stays fine we might have a short walk in the wood (I can't do long ones at the moment). Then it will be back to healthy eating on Monday!

Hope the rest of you are going to have a lovely autumnal weekend

[jazzactivist]

I think that your bathroom sounds lovely gothfairy, I could imagine relaxing in the bath in those surroundings. I have just completed painting my sitting room this morning - nothing exciting just one of the F&B off-whites. And now have to sand off any paint splashes in the bare woodwork.Tomorrow the 'other half' and I will be spending nearly all day putting all the bookshelves back up and filling them with books that are currently stacked up in other rooms. Space at last. Then in the evening we have to go to a writers and artists party which is part of his job and on the other side of the region. Poor thing, he is working all weekend, but at least he loves his job, and it keep him out of my hair while I'm decorating.

[eleanor2]

what a lot of workers you all are.i really must start some decorating myself. i went to a place called dagfields.warehouse buildings full of antiques and bric a brac.sheddy you would love it. i bought a solid oak newspaper rack with a little table on top.can't take to modern stuff.

[sheddie]

Eleanor2 you bet I would, but at the moment we have so much stock. I am buying pieces at the bootfairs that need a bit of attention, then OH being a carpenter, when he gets time and gets his workshop set up is going to repair them.But I bet I would still have found something!

[eleanor2]

sheddy it is an aladins cave. thousands of interesting things.not just the best like posh antique shop. everything like a sosial history museum.

[sunflower]

Well, today was our wedding anniversary, 34 years! We had all four sons round then went for a lovely meal together. Later, we all watched a movie. Nice and gentle day.

[Redstart]

Congratulations on your 34 years - glad you enjoyed it.

[dinger]

Well I have spent my Sunday morning going round a car boot fair .I love it but did'nt find anything interesting today. I don't really mind just like having a look around .

[CountryLady]

We had a new carpet fitted on Thursday so had to move all the furniture out of the living room.
This included unplugging the TV from all it's aerials, booster boxes, sky box, DVD, VCR etc.
When we came to put it back together we couldn't get a picture on the telly and the sky box said "no satellite signal is being received".

O/H reckoned that he'd damaged one of the aerial wires and it would need replacing.
I phoned Sky who said the earliest they could come would be this coming Wednesday.

O/H could live more easily without the use of his right hand than he could without telly so the plan for yesterday was for him to replace said aerial wire.

We faffed about with it practically all day. Our walls are nearly three feet thick so trying to get the wire through from outside to inside was a nightmare.:confused:

Eventually the length of wire was replaced and so we switched on eagerly awaiting a picture on the screen. What we got was exactly the same: "no satellite signal is being received".:eek:

You can imagine how we felt!:rolleyes:

I had a look at the mountain of wires and noticed that the booster box looked like it was the wrong way round. Further investigation showed that the input & output aerials were in the opposite sockets that they should have been in. We swapped them over (took about 20 seconds) and hey presto! TV's working again.

Could say a complete waste of a Sunday!:(

[Oola]

LOL! It's ALWAYS the simplest things isn't it!

[CountryLady]

Next time we'll leave it all connected and work around it!