Are We Board Yet?

 

From Facebook archives

2 January 2016

This morning Ferretfingers and I:

removed all his TV-game-show-board-games from the top to the G-plan;

unplugged and removed the mini-music-centre and speakers they had overwhelmed;

dragged the extension lead to a place where (when the dvds etc get shifted) it can be unplugged and put to better use elsewhere;

dusted the top of the Gplan (yes Mrs Leftfoot it is still Xmas);

put them all back tidy.

I told him that he has enough board-games now.

Then his father came in and said "Yes, you should start collecting something smaller."

AAARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!

😖😖😖

Unfortunately for my sanity Ferretfingers took his father’s comment to heart and has gone on to fill all my bookshelves with dictionaries, maps and road atlases and has DVDs stacked to the ceiling and ‘tidied’ into large carrier bags which are colonising the back of the living room floor.

Omen?

Last night I saw the New Year in with Thunderthighs.

Wished Ferretfingers and Fester a Happy New Year on my way up to the loft to watch the fireworks out of the velux windows and went to bed.

Sometime around three Fester woke me with “There’s been a power cut.”

Not something I really needed to know, or could do anything about.

At 04:35 the mobile went off.

A text from Powergrid to tell me the electricity was off and they’d endeavour to get it back by 06:00.

Again not something I needed to know, nor to be woken up for.

Then at 05:05 Powergrid texted again: thanking us for our patience “whilst we fixed the problem that caused your power cut” and suggesting we try a light switch to check that our power is back.

Nothing about trying my patience by waking me up, twice, in the early hours.

I appreciate that Northern Powergrid feel the need to communicate problems with their customers, and that it was probably done by an automated system that doesn’t understand the need for undisturbed sleep – but for goodness sake!

I now have to go and put the radio alarm and boiler clocks to the correct times.

If this is an omen of the year ahead – Gawdelpus.

This is what I put on Facebook last year and it still applies

1 January 2022 at 09:52

Well here we are peeping around the door of another year and wondering whether to stride out, or slam it shut and go back to bed.

Thank you for all your kind words, and deeds, over the past year.

Let's gird our loins, tighten our belts, grab a big stick, screw our courage to the sticking place and stride, chins up and shoulders back, into whatever's waiting for us.

Good luck

Drummerman  To infinity and beyond, he said, literally decimating the English language.

Miss Doozer  Thank you for the good wishes; a healthy dose of luck never goes amiss...

 

Solo Shopping

From Facebook Archives

30 December 2016 at 22:22 ·

The iron seems to have died.

Stop laughing Mrs Leftfoot.

Mrs Leftfoot  How did you know?  I read your first post and burst out laughing!

Ms Marx  I have 2 irons if you'd like one?  The older one works but not as well as the newer one.

Bentonbag Thanks, but I'll take a trip down to Sainsbury's and use up some Nectar points xxx

31 December 2016 at 13:04 

So off to Sainsbury's for a new iron (car park was heaving) and the sale is on. 

Came home with:- 

a steam iron 

a jar of Dove moisturising creme 

a box of Tenalightliners 

a packet of plastic pegs 

a box of White Fig & Patchouli scented tealights 

and a washing line (just in case). 

Who says your shopping basket tells you all about a person? 

Oh the joy of wandering around a shop alone; 

neither wondering what/where Ferretfingers is up to, 

nor having Thunderthighs looming, sighing heavily, as I examine something, 

nor Fester staring bovinely at bits of meat.

Woolerwoman  Bliss! (What do white figs smell like?)

Bentonbag  I'll let you know when I light one - very hippy-shoppy I should imagine - 

I'm trying to relive the misspent youth I didn't have.

 

Post-Christmas Shopping

I'm not sure when it started but 'doing Shields Road charity shops' has become something Thunderthighs and I do together in the betwixt time between Christmas and New Year. Yesterday, after using up the Sainsbury's extra Nectar points vouchers before they ran out, we took ourselves down to Byker and bought next years Christmas cards in Marie Curie and Barnardo's, as well as quite a few birthday cards and two facemasks.

From Facebook Archives

30 December 2010 at 13:26  

I've bought all next year's Christmas cards half price or less in Shields Rd Barnardo's, Scope and PDSA. All variations on the Nativity too which have been getting increasingly rare in the past few years. 

Mrs Jeremy  I never manage to get bargains like that, perhaps the fact that I stay away from the sales has something to do with it....

30 December 2010 at 14:54  

Busy day - just taken Ferretfingers to the barbers; he was looking even more Thelwell pony than usual this morning.  

Hendersons greengrocers had parsnip, mushroom, clementines and limes at 50p a bag.  Fester's thinking of making clementine and lime marmalade.  I'm thinking of g'n'ts. 

Mrs Jeremy I'm with you there Ben, but maybe something else instead of the g and t. 

Bentonbag vodka? 

Mrs Jeremy Yes, or even Bacardi! 

Bentonbag  In the 1950s my mother used to drink dry sherry and lime; I've never tried it.  Once in the RAF Sergeants Mess in Germany she ordered one and the barman gave her three glasses of sherry and a lime cordial. 

Mrs Jeremy Not liking the sound of sherry and lime...