Cauliflower Steaming On Such A Winter's Day - 10 / 10 thread

[FrannyandZooey]

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she has my sympathy it is crap having to close your shop

and to know that all the effort you put in was wasted

Yes, the effort and the time and the money and the CARING.

how long did she have it for? i had mine foir 3 years...a very expensive mistake..i was stubborn

Sorry, not having a go at people who do shop in supermarkets. I'm sure you wouldn't if you were near this beautiful shop.
It's made me really miserable.

Nearly 2 years.

Avi yes yes yes he will use it, ds did the same with the cabin sleeper with the star canopy after seeing it at Ikea. you may have to be slightly firm "ahahaha darling, but now you have your OWN bed remember!" Or perhaps you won't be as desperate as me to stop having pointy small elbows in your ribs all night.

TooT that is miserable.

JohnnyJ sounds like he is doing fabulously. Hoorah for him.

I am eating profiteroles something full of energy

Zippi, how recently didf it happen to you?

Oh, does anybody want an Ikea star canopy? Ds1 doesn't use his any more and it's just sitting around.

i closed it two and a half years ago or thereabouts

the website will be next to go

i lost a lot of money doing the shop

well lost a lot of money full stop one way and another

it sounds like a thing to go over the bed

star canopy

TooT according to this it only fits on the Ikea bed - I think that is why we bought the ruddy bed as I recall!

Zippi you are thinking over a lot of stuff today aren't you? Are you doing ok?

May the goddess of vegetables protect me from cc threads.

am i sounding miserable? possibly i am thinking too much is that what you mean...

all apologies

i think i am all right tho i have just vput on the manics live at the millennium

i have a rising sense of panic over life in general but in tiny little bites it is ok

no, no need to apologise

you just seem to be mulling a lot of things over and obviously some of them are a little fraught to say the least! You don't sound miserable or anything but I wondered if there was something causing the memories to come up

I am trying to find a cabin bed for DS on e-bay. I am hoping this will also add to the attraction of staying in his bed longer. DH agreed about not getting cross with him at 6am and going in the spare room - in return I will get to have an afternoon rest

You know, Franny, babies can be so astoundingly different in their rythmns, that I don;t think I wold worry too much at this stage.

DS was a zonk out at 7pm'er, never did feeding frenzies in the evening. At about 11pm he would start the hourly waking business, and from 6am - 9am would be very lively, feeding voraciously (having been fed about 5 times in the night ) and then quite content to be kicking on a mat while I pottered about getting up.

OTOH, one of my friends had a baby who would never sleep before midnight, and would then crash until 9am, so she had wonderful lie ins (albeit following nightmare evenings).

Anyway, what I'm saying is, you and DS have this nice moment and probably somehwere nearby there will be a tiny baby doing its stuff (sleeping / kicking / feeding / chewing a banana skin) and probably it will all be absolutely fine.

Avi, did you ask about sofas, or did I dream it? I don;t think you would get a non-fire retardent one in this country because 'tis the law, isn;t it?

Even if you have an old one reupholstered it has to have a fire retardent interliner.

My thought is if I were buying a new sofa I would buy an old chesterfield and have it reupholstered in linen or something (with the obligatory interliner I suppose), at least it wouldn;t be all full of foam and stuff. The only thing that stops me doing this is the fact that each week I wipe all manner of horrors off our ancient leather sofa (which looks horrid but is tough) and a linen sofa wouldn;t wipe down quite so well

Zippi I really do think you ought to write a book

sorry FK my wittering took over from your morning problem didn't it

sorry

i've probably spent too much time thinking about babies the last six months

and this year is a big turning point for me as i have to sell the house and move

and i am thinking of moving to cornwall and dont know if i should

and i find ti hard making momentous decisions on my own

and i am seeing this guy too

and i am worried about my alcoholic brother as he did wrtite last year on feb 4 which is rhee days before the anniversary of my fsthers death and no word again since

i am also worried about ds who is just doing nothing and of course i said he couldnt live here so he is at his sisters dpoing nothing

and her dp is not working either so he and ds are just a burden feeding off each other

I would write a book but im not disciplined enough

i do think about it quite often i have written stuff before

i tried to get a place at sheffield to do an ma in creative writing about 15 years ago but they didnt accept me... tho that was for poetry

i did a residential course is it the arvon foundation with debbie isset [sp] on improvised dramatic writing and she wanted me to write but i er left my exh the following week instead...the other writer on the course offered me to write a piece for the thetre in coventry but i was rather confused at the time and didn't do it..i had only been out of hospital a few months then

i start things but when they look promising i always retreat

Zippi when it is all listed like that it must feel overwhelming

which bits can you do anything about? why are you thinking about moving to cornwall?

Bee I am so sorry in all the excitement of zippi's house falling down and puppies chewing things I forgot to say YES PLEASE to the top, if you are sure you can not use it. Thanks so much

not sure I can do anything about anything as i have two unsaleable houses costing an arm and a borrowed leg and i have a business that is going down the pan and is only there to make sure i can claim tax crdits and i am doing this full time course in that very well paid occupation horticulture

the idea /fantasy/ is that i go to college in cornwall and do landscape design paying for it from the sale of the house that i wont be able to sell fpor a decent price cos it needs loads of work doing

the fact that the course in cornwall actually starts in september and i havent applied yet (route b clsoing date march) is rather passing me buy as im not sure how i am expecting to have work done paid for by my long exh and sell it in that time scale

tbh i don't know what the heck i am doing except that the weeks are whizzing past

so i am going for a pub lunch in hertfordshire tomorrow

rome burns

my exh doesn't actually own and never has either of these houses just me, but he is lending me money..

I have uploaded the picture of the top but it looks all smocky - it is not like a smock in real life - is much nicer and very sheer - see you can kind of see my kitchen floor through the back bit.

(I cleaned the floor just before hand)

crikey what a sparkly floor

nice top

(to clarify I didn;t clean th floor with the top)

100 puppy sounds fine but all this scrtambled egg and caranation milk FFS - can;t he eat dog food? was the kissing lady ever so slightly nuts?

boco - are you going to see the cohen brothers film 'no good men in a country' or summit?

if so I am going to see that next week at toot's artsy cinema and we can discuss.

(am not stalker yet)