One deworming tablet inside the cat and no drama getting it there.

A phone call from my Dad to say that my Mum may well be discharged on Monday

Hope that comes to pass!

There is only 1 appropriate response:

It's been a happy reed day.

Congratulations. The last time I had to do that I had to resort to the towel mummy technique. That was with a different cat than now though..

Oh, missed that earlier!

the snow is going

and a Christmas concert this afternoon

It's going here too. Dare I say, normal service may be resumed tomorrow (except school is shut for a planned day off!!!)...



Enjoy, Louise

The prospect of bacon sandwiches

a short phone call from my piano teacher

Bev

Thanks Bev, let me play you a tune while we enjoy the cyber-champers.

Finding an old friend on Facebook. We lost contact 13 years ago when I emigrated and we haven't met or spoken since then.

Today we spoke for the first time since 1997 and it was like no time had passed. It's put me in a good mood for the day:)

home made apple crumble.

Knowing that in one hour, I will be at the accommodation office booking a viewing for another room I got an e-mail on Friday saying that my flat transfer application had been processed and that I was to come and book a viewing today. Yay!

Today at work we had one of those meetings, but it seems from the high-level overview that we got that my group will not be affected by the latest reorganisation

My car started after being hidden under snow for a week!

Excellent news, Stephie!

Mock exam results - including A* in English Language

Well done, madbassoonist!



MIne too! It took me about 3 hours this afternoon. The first hour was spent shovelling and scraping the snow off my car, which was blanketed with about a foot of snow. The second hour was spent in and out of the car with the engine running, trying to get rid of the ice and snow that were welded on to every part of the car. The third hour was spent clearing the drive.

It was great to be out in my car again!

Update on this: my viewing is on Wednesday at 13:30. Excited!

Hurrah! The remainder of my alcohol order has been delivered for my festivities!

I was naughty and tested out some of the "Chase" potato vodka on Sat night - it was so nice, we were drinking it neat..

Oooh missed this - congrats!

Well done!

I've just found out that BBC Four are repeating old episodes of 'Top of the Pops'

How old is old? If it's pre 80s I might just take a look. Now where did I leave my walking stick young man?

70s and 80s apparently, pushpull. Earliest TOTP I can remember would be about 1980 ( I just about remember the CCS theme tune).

Ooh well, 70s might be worth a look. <Goes off to search for thick glasses and hearing aid>

Many of the early (1970-75) episodes were junked by the BBC, but there's a good crop of 1976-79 programmes that can be shown in their entirety. I think I've got a videotape somewhere with the 1973 Christmas Special on it, when BBC2 repeated it some years ago...

Congratulations!!

For me - 2 things. I found my first piano teacher on Facebook yesterday totally by random. i didn't know if it was her, so I sent her a message - and it is her and she does remember me. She was the one who started me on this journey, so it means a lot to me to be able to say thank you to her.

The other is so silly it's almost inconsequential, but what the hey.. I bought a croissant and 2 cups of coffee this morning, but they gave me 2 croissants and 2 cups of coffee. I only realised when I'd got to the office, then got busy, so at lunchtime I went to pay them for the extra croissant, and they said they'd give it to me for free as it was their mistake.

Mum being discharged

My 7-year-old nephew is recovering well after surgery for a skull fracture ( a snow-filled gutter fell on his head).

Oh gosh, poor nephew Glad to hear he's recovering well though.

Was hoping to read a post like the above from you today, katyjay!

muffinmonster : hope the recovery is swift.

Good news!



Hope he's soon well again.

I bought a bag of crisps today and put my purse in a plastic bag instead of my backpack. I then left that plastic bag at a friend's house and got a taxi home.

What's made me happy today, is that for probably the first time ever, I'd coincidentally taken some money out and shoved it in my jeans pocket instead of my purse. As such, I didn't need to make the taxi turn around to go and collect my purse and then eventually, pay triple the original cost of the taxi.

Hope he recovers quickly muffinmonster

Central heating.

Gosh, what a wonderful invention!

And, because more bits had to be replaced than initially thought, I have a snazzy new timer clock as well - meaning the hot water and the heating can be timered separately instead of both having to run at the same time. AND you can program all seven days individually. This makes me very happy

I'm teaching today. At last!

I only had one pupil not come due to bad weather! The south west rocks!

Last time I taught anyone was last Monday (29th November)

What great news - how is she feeling?



Poor little kid. I hope he'll be OK.

I rarely cook but today I made butternut and carrot soup, banana and apricot loaf to serve with drizzled honey and a little extra-thick double cream, and I also made my Christmas Cake

The house smells AMAZING!!!!



... and all of this while singing along to Handel's Messiah

Sounds wonderful!!!

For me today, I passed my G6 Theory with merit, my Gr8 singing exam went well (apart from the aural ) and I didn't let the nerves get me - apart from in the aural!!

Never thought I'd say this, but the sound of my boys arguing with each other has made me happy today

They've had flu since last Wednesday and the house has been so quiet without their squabbling.

Give me a few days and I'll posting on the scream thread though, I think

I had the day off today.

About 10.15am, John Lewis came and delivered me a dining table (it folds up, and it has matching fold up chairs that live inslide the folded up table - brilliant!)

After that I could go out, so I went out and bought a lot of pet food, stopped in Hobbycraft and bought some magnets, then went to Halfords for AutoGlym window cleaning stuff.

I then toured B&Q, Wickes and Homebase. Firstly looking for a cheap, plain finial as one has fallen off of our curtain pole and we think got cleared up in the plumbers rubbish, oops! But you can't buy finials alone in Wickes or Homebase, and in B&Q you could only buy really fancy ones. I'm going to see if I can improvise something with a drawer knob

While our plumber was here last night fixing our central heating we asked him about an air vent in our kitchen, which lets in LOTS of cold air. He looked at how our boiler vents, and said that vent was extra/unecessary. So I was also on the look out for a large 'blanking plate' to cover up this vent on the inside. Unable to find anything quite what I wanted, I got an adjustable vent, which I can just leave closed (it's behind a cupboard anyway, but give an awful draft).

Got home and it was slightly too small.

Waited a few mins and some nice men turned up to fix our kitchen window, which had a yawning gap between frame and opening part of window. They took it out, de-glazed it, reshaped it, re-glazed it and put it back. No more yawning gap.

While I was waiting for them, I used the magnets to turn some nice beer bottle tops (from the Isle of Skye brewery) in to fridge magnets

After they'd left, I went up to Homebase, swapped the adjustable vent for a bigger one, then came home. Husband arrived home to find me in kitchen armed with masonary drill, etc. And I fitted it without supervision and put the kitchen back together!

So now we have working central heating, a window that has no massive gap, and a closed vent. With any luck, our kitchen should be much less drafty now!

Thank you!

Today's enjoyable experience was listening to King's College Carol Service for Schools, in the Chapel. Cold, but brilliant

Just found out I have a lovely Christmas Bonus winging it's way to me from work

Now the big question - I wonder if I can persuade hubby that I REALLY need to spend it on a digital piano???