Round up your broom stick, black cat and cauldron and get ready for Halloween, it's the Countdown to Christmas, thread 7!

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Here we go again. I think the last thread was the quickest ever, so this one probably won't even get to Halloween, but we shall see!

There's a lot of swimming going on! My DC went this morning.

Mine aren't swimming this week as the teacher is away. Back to it next week though!

Fluffy your allotment looks great! not much to go now for it to be done for winter by the looks of it :)

Mrs I hope the road works are finished asap, I'd be glaring through the windows! I love ikea, I need to do a trip soon as we need a few things but DH is already doing the 'only buying what we need speech'. .

wreck those are very cute :)

heavy Their lunch sounds lovely, I hope swimming goes well :)

My hands are in agony today, I got burns on my hands from the detergent as I couldn't find any gloves for the first half of washing, should have predicted since I get a rash really easily! some snuck under my gloves for the second load and I have a giant patch on my arm too, really stings if I touch anything warm.

Ooh, Seafood. Have you got any Piriton? I'd take some to try to alleviate the allergic reaction. You can take it while pregnant as I was prescribed it for being arrrrggggh-itchy (and it wasn't OC) at about 36 weeks with DD. A chemist won't sell it to you, however, so send someone else or say it's for someone else!

I'm rather pleased with the allotment, it has to be said. I'm just about to start planning next year to see what goes where.

I've just completed 2 hours of housework. It wouldn't normally take that long, but DH doesn't do it as thoroughly as me, and he does it most weeks, so I have to do all the bits he misses. Plus I cleaned all the downstairs doors and most of the woodwork, including at the side of the stairs.

I need to dust now really. Boo!

Had a pulled pork burrito for supper. 😋

Evening all
Went to the parents then to Bryn bach Park , fed the birds had a walk then off to Cyfarthfa shopping centre. Popped into Matalan and bought a lovely unicorn throw for £4.20 they had 30% off the Unicorn range there and the Spaceship range for the boys.
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I also bought these for the great nephew and niece for Halloween , they are coming to stay with my Dsis next week
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£3 FOR THE Peppa pig one and £2.50 for the Pikachu one
Popped into the parents on the way home , had to sort out their Gas , British Gas have been taking too much from them , had to wait ages for them to reply , in the end got it sorted
We are having easy peasy, sweet chilli chicken pizza for tea courtesy of Asda, cannot be bothered to do anything else , we are really tired tonight
Ahhh Seafood that looks so painful my dear
PSB well done to Mum and great timing for the DDS SATS!
Love the Jellycats Wreck, think my fave is the donkey , have you seen the Halloween range ahhh they are just gorgeous too.
www.jellycat.com/halloween/
Right better shift and eat this pizza it does look naice tbf
Have good evening all

I forgot to say to Heavy l hope you all had a lovely time swimming and eating your Maccy D's , take it easy when you can m'dear
Fluffy your allotment is just brilliant the way you have turned it around so quickly is nothing short of a miracle you are a
BTW l have been meaning to ask you how your shoulder is m'dear.
DH is nearly fully recovered but he is extremely careful and l nag him lol
Seafood l think some Hydrocortisone 1% cream would work wonders on those burns but you would need to ask the Pharmacist my dear just in case
Digging still in process outside, will be off out early again tomorrow
Never mind they will be finished soon

PS l never eat pizza but it was lovely !

Ah, Mrs, I have good and bad days. There's no pattern to it though! It feels like it's probably 40% bad and 60% good, so an improvement.

The other allotment owners have talked about how quickly we turned it around. They've been very impressed! I'm just bloody-minded, as well as needing to see results to keep motivated. 😂

I've had that pizza from Asda before. It's lovely!

We are still working on operation eat through the freezer, so had sweet chilli beef koftas with homegrown potato wedges and veg. We've just had apple, sultana and cinnamon crumble with custard. It was awesome!

Yes Mrs, she's already given Rudolph a wash. She'll use him all year round. It is great timing for DD's SATs, then the rest of the week will feel like a lie-in! She has 2 boosters a week after school too, one clashes with brass club, I don't know if she can alternate?

Mrs - but what a lovely view of the mountains!

The IKEA pics look lovely- I will have to try to fit in a visit over half term. I have bought some mugs and plates from Matalan for the Christmas Eve box. I am now looking for nice Pjs/onesies for the Christmas Eve Box. DS's girl friend will be with us so I want to get matching sets for the two of them plusDD

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Morning again! 😴😴😴😴😴

Morning all
Am up early , we have a rare day off from the Darling parents so going to Tenby Yay! One of my very fave places .
Wreck..... we love the views m'dear we watch the Blorenge Mountain from our sofa and we love it ! nosyparkers lol
Fluffy am pleased your shoulder is getting better albeit slowly
PSB l must try to get that plate it is so sweet , thank you for the heads up m'dear.
Constant , they had matching PJ'S for the whole family in Matalan
in aid of Alder Hey
www.prima.co.uk/family/a23315955/matalan-superstar-pyjamas-alder-hey-childrens-charity/
Have a great day everyone

Morning! Decorating is the plan here today! The DC are off to DH's parents while we do the hall, stairs and landing. Exciting times. Not!

Work is mad, as usual. But I managed to cast off another scarf last night, and another only needs about 3 more train journeys that I can knit (trains busier this time of year - but there is still the odd one). I should have time over the weekend sitting in a sailing club for a few hours to work on the one that needs daylight and quiet (numbers of plain/purl change every row - it was such a sensible pattern to choose - not!). And I will get to a shop somewhere to buy some chunky wool for the last one I need to start.

and as I needed fresh air after a hellish morning (and missing the cancellation of a lunchtime lecture that I was stressing about getting to), I went to the shopping street and bought 2 presents while waiting for DD scripts to be filled. 🤶 And I decided a present for someone else using something I already had. So progress!

Today, a difficult meeting has been postponed, and while it’s busy, it’s doable. I need to make a few calls to book things and order jeans. But I have a fun outing tonight as DD is in a show at school - voluntarily!!! I’m so proud no matter how good/bad they are, as SHE wanted to do it and she normally wouldn’t put herself forward for these kinds of things.

Mrs my mum says she'll get too famous for her boots! Good luck getting the plate!

I'm loving all the digging and decorating that is going on. And that Rudolph plate is really cool - where is that? I'm definitely adding a trip to Ikea to my "must do soon" list....

2 months to go.

I've been dreaming in my head about our decorations - Dunnes Stores have a set of plastic baubles in kitsch colours (pinks, purples, turquoise) that would go well with a few robots we already have, and I can do the old tree in the playroom as a more "fun" tree and the sitting room one a more grown up/understated tree with a red and gold theme to it, and I may even get a garland for the stairs this year - I saw a nice one for €40 and I have lots of bits I can add to it to make it nice.

Then again, DH may not agree to 2 trees or a garland.

Oh well, I can keep working up ways to convince him. Meanwhile, back to my actual work stuff after a few minutes sneaking about in here....

We've had a power cut here, so that means no lunch or cups of tea for me today. It's really bad weather so I don't want to take Dd out as he's still a bit sick. Looks like it'll be a day of reading for us all.

MrsMad I love Tenby, I hope you have a lovely day there.

Biddy can you tell DH you want 3 trees so when he says one you can negotiate and settle on 2? I've done that this year - although one is a white wire prelit twiggy tree and one is a proper artificial one.
Ideally I'd also like a small real one to put on a box in the kitchen but I knew he'd hate that idea. Next year maybe!

Neros that's rubbish - any idea when the power will be coming back on? Do you have a gas hob (or a gas camping burner)? Could at least boil water for tea that way?

I'm having a bit of a rubbish day. There have been some promotions above me which means my line manager is likely to change to someone I don't particularly enjoy working with.
Can't wait to get home however, I am using my lunch hour to crochet some Christmas extras to sew on to the festive scarf I'm making for dm 

I've had a busy day. Went to Sainsbury's early to get some uniform bits only to find they didn't have any. A meeting with my manager for two hours (on my week off 😡) then off to some local gardens for a Halloween trail which cost £19 and we only stayed an hour because ds said he had a headache and wasn't himself. Got home and his temperature is almost 40 so now we are chilling on the sofa. He also keeps saying his hip hurts but was fine walking about.

I hope your DS is better soon, Wreck. We packed DS off with a hacking cough and a 38+ (red on the thermometer) temp this morning. He's only with grandparents, so he will be spoilt and looked after!

We've just finished the hall, stairs and landing and I painted our bedroom radiator with the same paint (it was paint for wood, metal and plastic). The whole house now needs the woodwork glossing, but that's for another time. I'm tired now. And in the bath!

Thank you everyone :) I'll give the piriton a go as my arm still hurts, my hands have scabbed over at least (yuck!).

Fluffy I enjoy dusting, if you come and declutter for me I'll do all your dusting . That crumble sounds delicious, very very jealous here! Way to go on the painting, it sounds exhausting! what colour/s did you go for? I hope your ds is doing better this evening it's just that pants time of the year for colds, everyone here is snotty/coughing too.

Biddy How do you do it? you're always so busy! enjoy your evening, I'm sure your daughter will be fantastic in the show.

wreck I hope his temperature has gone down now and he's feeling better.

neros I hope your power is back on now!

We stuck with white, Seafood, as there's very little natural light, so bright is key! It's blinding now as it was grubby when we moved in 4 years' ago, so was very dingy, hence doing it (it's the kind of job you put off really!). 😂😂

We had crumble again just now to get it finished. It's better on night 2!

DS is coughing a fair amount. He had Calpol before bed, so hopefully it'll keep his temp down tonight. DD is also snotty, but not as bad. She has a tendency to get croup, so I'm hoping the cough stays away.

Your hands do sound painful, Seafood. I hope the piriton helps.