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Countdown to Christmas 2020 (thread 7): To buy or not to buy a Balsam Hill Christmas tree (AKA: Christmas in July)?!

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NoWordForFluffy · 11/07/2020 09:53

I just noticed we only have 20 posts left and I'm off to the allotment! So here is thread 7!

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Mrsmadevans · 15/07/2020 07:43

Course l don't know how we are going to make it up 😂

NoWordForFluffy · 15/07/2020 07:46

It'll be fine, Mrs.

What's your vent?!

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Mrsmadevans · 15/07/2020 07:46

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Have you seen these new finds of mine in Asda ? There are more will find them now 😊

Mrsmadevans · 15/07/2020 07:48

Mum has driven me nuts this morning, absolutely bleddy nuts. First she phoned me , while l was in the bath , l had to get out to answer and get back in again and l hate doing that so it wasn't a good start hmm . She said ' How is Dd2 getting on in work ? . I said 'Aw love her she's missing work terribly , she misses her workmates and the craic' . Mum said 'she must be missing getting up and down in work , being mobile' as if she was a lazy fat pig because she is working from home. She then in the same breath said 'Poor Harvey, fancy he's 27 stone'. I was fuming. Harvey has Prader Willi syndrome, the poor boy always feels starving hungry, it's a terrible syndrome. Honestly she is so bleddy ignorant and unkind. I despair l really do. So then we had to do shopping for them. Not a problem with that but we get up there and the fridge is full of stuff that isn't wrapped properly , ham gone dry, sausages left open for 2 days, l had to throw the lot out . The bins were overflowing , she had fallen in the bathroom again, thankfully she was ok , couldn't find her phone, her hearing aids, her purse, the paper, God knows where her teeth were , her meds had been mixed up, same old, same old hmm . Her mobile when we found it, was wiped of most of the numbers again , l don't know wth she is doing to it . Had to check her phone to see who had left messages, 12 in total and who had tried to phone her, 28 phone numbers and all because it is my SIL birthday and l sent her flowers off Mum and she hasn't spoken to Mum since she went there 16 weeks ago because she didn't agree with her going and it was all my fault according to my SIL apparently. l should have told her and stopped her, so Mum is looking all the time to see if sil has rung her, Mum has rung the SIL/Brothers house 6 times this morning hmm hmm. I feel sad for her because she worships them and they don't GAF about her. Had to phone Bob's Dd then, I am totally deaf my left side and l was leaving a message saying l was at his address and it is a Welsh Name, Mum interrupted my message to tell me l was saying the address wrong and was mispronouncing it, when l ended the call immediately because l couldn't hear what she was saying , l said 'Mum don't interupt me while l am leaving a message', she put her head down as if l had hit her and damaged her is some way. Totally overreacting when she should have said 'oh darling l am sorry you can't hear me speaking and use the phone'. Mum asked me to see if Bob could have his eyes tested when Specsavers came to do Mum . So when l rung Bob's daughter she said yes that's fine & confided in me that Bob had broken the power washer the week before, had it repaired only last week , then he has broken it yet again this week , she wasn't very happy with him lol. She said she is going to buy him an electric Karcher one she is fed up of repairing it hmm. She is so lucky that she ONLY has to do that for him because we do everything else ! Then l put the phone down and Mum pipes up with' l am so glad you are friends with Bob's daughter now' as if l hadn't been friends with her and it was my fault. Bob's daughter was very rude to me when Mum first went to stay and we spoke via text but l didn't reply to her last very abrupt rude text.
I took several nice cards up for the next few birthdays etc for Mum to give to ppl. Mum only filled in my Dd2 card which isn't until 4 weeks away and she wrote it to my other Dd1 ! She just doesn't listen!
However I promise l am not the pooh troll smile the worst thing was, Mum had managed somehow to give herself a glycerine suppository, how the hell she did that l really don't know because her hands are riddled with arthritis & she was sat with the mess under her, on Bob's sofa for the whole time l was there and just as we were going she decides to tell me, 2 hours later ! So l had to clean her up & change her clothes without Bob finding out. l mean how am l supposed to do that when he is sat by the side of her, the poor bgr! Then she says, 'leave the clothes there l will see to them later' .Fully knowing that she won't do them, she is unable to do them physically, that either l do them now, or they will be left there for me to do tomorrow! She is not constipated at all, TRUST ME l WON'T GO INTO IT BUT I KNOW hmm .l told her 'you are getting like an old person who is obsessed with their bowels Mum' I mean FFS! I was really irritated today and she makes me feel like a nasty person & l really don't like it sad.

Mrsmadevans · 15/07/2020 07:48

Rant over 😁

Mrsmadevans · 15/07/2020 07:49

Must find more to be as if my life depended

Mrsmadevans · 15/07/2020 07:49

To be =gins 😋

Mrsmadevans · 15/07/2020 07:55

I went to marks & bought loads of reduced chocolate and tins of biscuits from there for Mum and Bob 😁

Mrsmadevans · 15/07/2020 07:56

Death by chocolate. I couldn't think of a better way 😋

Mrsmadevans · 15/07/2020 07:58

Better leave someone else get a word in edgeways 😂

Mrsmadevans · 15/07/2020 08:00

Have got verbal diarrhoea this morning, well at least it's not a glycerine suppository induced type of diarrhoea 😁😬

whydoesitalwayshappentome · 15/07/2020 08:06

Mrs I am pretty sure you win the award for most unlikely sentence to be seen first thing in the morning!!! Glycerine suppository causing diarrhoea wins the interwebz, probably not in a good way.

whydoesitalwayshappentome · 15/07/2020 08:06

Enjoy your last day in the office Most.

CrazyBaubles · 15/07/2020 08:21

Love the cross stitch Fluffy
Mine doesn't look any different although I have been working on it 🙄
I'll post a pic later

NoWordForFluffy · 15/07/2020 08:23

It's all the brown on yours, Crazy...it does suddenly come together though!

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CrazyBaubles · 15/07/2020 08:27

why I am also a master biscuit taster choc chip Cookie Monster more like 😂

I love most biscuits to be honest - custard creams / bourbons / malted milk / rich tea / hobnobs / cookies. It's why I have to diet!

CrazyBaubles · 15/07/2020 08:27

It is slowly coming on, it's just slow going anyway, and I'm not exactly a speedy cross stitcher

CrazyBaubles · 15/07/2020 08:28

I can see the pic coming on now most

Have a lovely last day in the office!

CrazyBaubles · 15/07/2020 08:28

Oh dear MrsMad, you have too much patience!

CrazyBaubles · 15/07/2020 08:28

It's a grey and miserable looking day here and I'm cold already.

I have loads to do but all I can think about it a cuppa and wrapping myself up in a blanket....

NerosFiddle · 15/07/2020 08:37

Morning.

I don't even know where to start responding Grin

CrazyBaubles · 15/07/2020 08:44

Enjoy Neros

I forgot to say yesterday, I think we have a resident squirrel!
At the very end of the back garden we have a shed and a few huge trees just outside of our boundary. I've noticed over the last few days a squirrel has been coming from the trees on to shed roof / the bushes around the side of the shed and just nosying around a bit.

Between this, the blackbirds, robins and some tiny brown / grey birds I don't recognise, I'm getting quite a show each day from my 'office.'

I told DH but he couldn't have been less interested 🙄

WreckTangled · 15/07/2020 08:46

My weather apps say cloudy today but it's sunny. And warm.

whydoesitalwayshappentome · 15/07/2020 08:57

Crazy I think the only biscuit I don't enjoy is a bourbon. That does not mean I would not eat them mind.

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