Coilspring Cheques

As I said yesterday …

Facebook posts are thin on the ground during school holidays due to us going away and me not wanting to be bothered with laptops and wifi codes.  So the next couple of posts may not be on their appropriate date.

Also we’re away for a very long weekend so there’s little chance of a blog next week.

11 April 2011

The f***ing car is f***ing broken yet af***inggain.

Coilspring driver’s front side.  

In Richard Hardy.  

Fortunately AA membership includes courtesy car for breakdowns.   

But if it's not fixed by Friday night we will have to hire car until after Easter to get down to Wales for Dad’s funeral and long planned holiday.  

Bugger.

11 April 2011 at13.41

And the good news is, having paid all the people who wanted their money back for the cancelled Woodlawn Xmas Pudding Fun Run, we have not made a loss!   

There were loads of people who emailed saying “it's only six quid (or whatever) it's not worth the hassle of writing out a cheque, take it as a donation.”

There was snow and ice on the day, and then we couldn't get an alternative date sorted out with the Poly Runners (and we really did try)

As is typical the one person, out of hundreds of runners, who didn’t give us sufficient contact information complained that we hadn’t contacted him to offer a refund.

 

Digital Detox

Facebook posts are thin on the ground during school holidays due to us going away and me not wanting to be bothered with laptops and wifi codes.  Without realising it I’ve been having a ‘digital detox’ for years; in fact before such a thing was invented.

So the next couple of posts may not be on their appropriate date, just an approximation.

Also we’re away for a very long weekend so there’s little chance of a blog next week.

8 April 2016

Doing final broom checks before heading off to the Coven.

Float  Have you not upgraded to a flying vacuum cleaner yet?

Bess Cavalier  I'm not even packed yet!  Very disorganised at the moment.

Mrs Jeremy  Where is the coven convening this time?

Bess Cavalier  With Paula in Richmond, Surrey

Mr E Twin  "Where the place...?" Is there a Richmond Heath in Surrey?

Bentonbag  Next time it's Dudley!

Erica  Enjoy your weekend.

9 April 2018 at 10:36

Feeling confused. 

I'm sat here. 

All the boys are out. 

I hear the front door open then, a few seconds later, slam shut. 

Shout 'hello' - no reply.   

Can't hear anybody moving about downstairs.  

Go downstairs to investigate and there's Felix, just come in.   

I'm sure the bloody cat hasn't got his own key.   

But there's no-one there or in the garden.

Easter Busy

From Facebook Archives

6 April 2023 at 08.55

I shall be up and out early tomorrow to see the Northern Cross pilgrims crossing the sands to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne.

I shall also be up and out early on Saturday to help at a Breakfast With The Easter Bunny event at LD:North East.

And I shall be helping at a Hippitty Hoppitty event at Springfield Community Centre on Easter Sunday afternoon.

So there may be no more Tales of Chateau Midden until Monday at the earliest.

10 April 2023 at 10.56

It's been a busy weekend with some lovely moments.

I think the highlight was yesterday afternoon's Springfield Community Centre's Hippitty Hoppitty where I'd volunteered to help on the children's craft stall.

"We've got an Easter Bunny outfit but nobody wants to do it."

"I have experience of this sort of thing ... I used to be TyneBridge's dragon ... if the suit fits..."

 

Dashy-about Day

From Facebook Archives

5 April 2023 at 08.59

Bit of a dashy about day yesterday. 

To Whitley Bay to collect pots etc from Mrs Quilt's clear out, then to Wallsend to drop them off at LDNE's office for the Gentlemen's Gardening Group. 

Home for lunch then down to Sainsbury's for Ferretfingers' tv magazines, a new pair of trainers for Thunderthighs (spend £10 in Tu and get 5p a litre off petrol) and bits and bobs. 

Got tired and sticky and my hair desperately needed washing so I decided to have an early evening bath. 

"Aventgarde" says himself. 

I was just relaxing when in he comes with my mobile phone. 

The person calling instructed him to take it out again as I could call back later. 

With which I agreed, you have no way to jot down information in the bath and I once had to put a handset in the airing cupboard (in the days of a hot tank) after using it with freshly washed hair. 

PJ* I remember had a nack of phoning me when I was taking a morning bath. 

One reason, best beloveds, I shall never have a video-calling smartphone.

Thunderthighs is off to Hextol, Fester to the Mining Institute/town and once I dropped Ferretfingers off at the day-centre I shall have the house and the mountain of dishes all to myself.

Oh happy day!

Kentishlady  This reminds me that I need to post a request for fruit bushes/trees!

Bentonbag  Do you need blackcurrents?  I have a couple I can easily dig up.

Kentishlady  Yes please! It's for the very overgrown bank at the community plot so no rush.  We have to clear it still.

🐣🐣🐣

*The manager of Monument Mall when I was their freelance PR consultant.