Yes that is the one. Thank you Perdita x
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Yes that is the one. Thank you Perdita x
Fun Fun.. went to Santander Bank Branch to update my mobile number with them, lady asked me once to check the details on their tiny screen my side of the security plastic thingy, I said "sorry Im severely partially sighted and I cant read that" she caried on some while then latter she said "ok, please check the details on the screen are correct" I just said, "Im sorry lady my eyes haven't magically been cured since the last time I told you I was sight impaired" I got a boot in the leg from land lady and a perplexed look from bank lady ... had she never come across registered blind people before ? She just got my goat.
Added to that in an ironic twist an obviously fully bind person with a fully sighted person who could see, whacked me on the ankle with his stick. his seeing helper said "didnt you see him coming, why didnt you get out of the way and walked on" Well because I didnt see him coming should of been the answer but by then there was no point. Note to self get that white stick.
The world is weird, I think I preferred it when I never ventured out into it.
The world is amazing but unfortunately it's choc full of weird people. Luckily there's the odd wonderful person here and there too. http://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/angel/pray.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Splashy
:wall:Sky gave me a voucher for just being a great guy, so I bought the new Star trek movie, it was ok but it could of done with some kind of plot and less visual effects that gave me motion sikness...this site needs that vomiting smilie .
Come back JJ Abrahams stop messing about doing Westworld and do another good Star Trek chap.
I love land lady, but I had a bad anxiety day and she and I quote said "Oh its just all in your head" yes sister dear that is what mental health is about... it aint in my leg now is it :ninja: That comment is up there with "oh pull yourself together" and "dont be so weak and pathetic"
I said nowt, shes done too much for me.
Sorry to hear you've had a bad day - that insensitive comment definitely wouldn't have helped. You've got far more restraint than I have!
I hope tomorrow's a better day. http://www.picgifs.com/smileys/smile...hug-774146.gif
Thank you Dazzle .Quote:
Originally Posted by Dazzle
Sis has worse OCD than me but just wont accept it, I got her a sky box with a massive one terabyte memory but she cant stand to keep any programs on it, she has to delete them all even if she hasnt watched them. She runs at most at 1% of memory in use every day then moans she has nothing to watch as the ones she wanted to watch aint on catch up or on at this second :wall: :rotfl: The other day the internet went down and the trees were swaying outside blocking the sat stream so she had nothing to watch but an old Harry Potter CD :cartman: I give up. :moonie:
Sorry in moanie mood again today,nothing knew there :cartman:
My brother came from France with family on wednesday 21st and we were supposed to go to the theatre yesterday. My sister booked something called Duckie for 12 of us. She even went on Tuesday to collect the tickets. Anyway when she was handing me tickets on wednesday 21st at my mothers the tickets had 20th Dec on them!
She had not realised when she picked them up.
My sisters a bit scatty that is all i can say.
Anyway she got it changed to today at 11am. So no money lost. We just have to get up very early. With is difficult as the youngsters do not like mornings especially on holidays.
Splashy i have OCD about lots of things. Mainly things being in their place and things being clean. I drive my family up the wall.
I try not be the last one out the house as i double and triple check everything so another family member does it. Otherwise we would never get anywhere! I also make plans of plans and organise things to a level many would not. My husband never plans anything so he laughs when my plans fall apart. It makes me laugh too. As i get older i am less bothered
My brother came from France with family on wednesday 21st and we were supposed to go to the theatre yesterday. My sister booked something called Duckie for 12 of us. She even went on Tuesday to collect the tickets. Anyway when she was handing me tickets on wednesday 21st at my mothers the tickets had 20th Dec on them!
She had not realised when she picked them up.
My sisters a bit scatty that is all i can say.
Anyway she got it changed to today at 11am. So no money lost. We just have to get up very early. With is difficult as the youngsters do not like mornings especially on holidays.
Splashy i have OCD about lots of things. Mainly things being in their place and things being clean. I drive my family up the wall.
I try not be the last one out the house as i double and triple check everything so another family member does it. Otherwise we would never get anywhere! I also make plans of plans and organise things to a level many would not. My husband never plans anything so he laughs when my plans fall apart. It makes me laugh too. As i get older i am less bothered
Swm66, does your brother speak fluent french? I live on the south coast and have spent a lot of time in France, well to the point I could get by, I always wanted to be more fluent.
Glad you sorted out the ticket issue
Yeah OCD is a female dog. I once had an important meeting in London so ironed my shirt, but then couldnt convince myself I had turned off the iron. Even thou by the time I was on the train I had placed the darn thing on the balcony out side the flat I was still unconvinced. Fun days... but like you I make land lady check everything last.
New cooker here is doing my head in, the dials on the oven are too small for me to read even using my magnifier, it made my pizza like a frizzbie last night.
I sympathise with you peeps who suffer from OCD.
Yes he can speak fluent french. I think i need to learn as my neice and nephew are watching french tv and laughing and i don't get the joke
I never enjoyed French at school, I really wanted to do Spanish. Had a quiet Christmas with family, am now on a dettox day to rid myself if over eating.
Neices boy friend has annoyed land lady, hes enjoyed free food and drink for a few days without offering even as much to pass a plate to us collecting them for washing up,(nor did my neice TBF) then today when at a pub he didnt offer to pay for even one glass of coke for her just bought one for himself and my neice, he then ordered food for themselves in a pub that the others didnt like the menu of but he didnt ask land lady who drove them all there before he just did it ... in the terms of this house that was suicidal. :rotfl:
He didnt annoy me but more frustrated me, every time he was in the lounge he was laid back with his legs across neice, in that kinda arrogant *I own her* body manor, so I couldnt get close enough to speak to her.(Ive only met her once since she was only knee high and now shes 26) Then he would get on his phone and be a non entity in the room, even when all the family were round. Plus he then eat all my special cheeses crimbo night when I was out leaving me just crumbs when I got to the fridge :nono: |no crackers were left either. Add to that he left the normal cheese out of the fridge to go solid unwrapped.
Mind you the gezzer is classic for a bod you bring home to wind up your mum and dad, tattoe sleeves and on knuckles. a weird moustache and for a proclaimed personal trainer he was rather round plus much much much older. The often use of the f word went down like a bag of sick. Yo would of thought the awkward silences when he spke like that might have alerted him or at least my neice should of told him... surprised land lady didnt TBH
Luckily most times I went to the lounge there was no room for me to sit as the big guy was sprawled over the settee that can seat at least three and didnt offer to move, I didnt mind that I just retreated to my room and didnt have to suffer the terrible t v choices of sis or her fast forwarding through bits she declares are boring leaving you with no clue as to whats going on in the movie. :rotfl:
Shame my nephews lady couldnt come, would of stopped him ignoring everyone and having a one handed love affair with his phone, with an app that obviously makes all other humans invisible and inaudible. :rotfl:
It was all very amusing to me and made for me a classic xmas memory as I was the usual quippy me but managed to leave them wanting more rather than less when I did show up. :hmm: well I hope :rotfl:
I dont know how you managed that!
I would have lost my patience
So would I,lazy so and so,if he was any nephew of mine I would make him work until his feet hurt!!! and I would make him go to the nearest food shop and buy the goods he's consumed and pay for them with his own money, ( and my shopping list would resemble that of Magna Carta ( a long list).
I am off to the west end to see the Gruffalo. My 17 year old is moaning its not in his age band. But it is really for the benefit of his younger cousins from France who have never been to the west end theatre. He would rather spend time with his mates i think. The reviews say adults like it too.
I'm sure he'll enjoy it once he's there. Hope you have a lovely time! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by swmc66
Enjoy the show.... Im sure he will too in the end.
Guests are gone :ninja: Land lady had a brilliant time with her kids so thats all that mattered to me, they work in London, well neice is a Hulla Hoop and archery performer and travels with a burlesque group and magicians etc round the world. Shes booked to be a mermaid in the Shards infinity pool new years eve then has an after party to do at 7am with her hoops.
When I was his age I was dragged along to watch 2 or hours of Gone With the Wind with my parents, the best bit of the film was the ending when Scarlett said 'Tomorrow is another day' ( at least I think that is what she said)
I think the show was aimed at 3 year olds but he did not complain! That was a short version of gone with the wind. I remember being taken to see Joan of Arc when i was very young. I totally did not get it.
A night of board games and cards at my sister mates house was my brilliant new years eve, plied with cider and chips .
One game was all about telly and films, was a Emerdale question card I got all but the last one right.
So here it is
"What on Emerdale do they get through 50 (fifty) of every year?"
I'm glad you enjoyed yourself. :)
(I can't answer your Emmerdale question though I'm sure other clever forum members will be able to do so.)
The Emerdale question was 50 pairs of wellington boots, I said umbrellas.
Had a pedicure, really like the pink and glitter, now just need to make myself bikini safe for the summer.
I'm liking your style Splashy - pink and sparkly is hard to beat. :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Splashy
Sounds painful. :eek: :ninja:Quote:
Originally Posted by Splashy
I used to love wearing bikinis as a teenager, wouldn't dream of being in one now,I prefer shorts instead. Have endured a terrible cold over the New Year, used x2 boxes of tissues after suffering sneezing fits and endless bouts of coughing. Thankfully a cure did come to my rescue ( Sudafed decongestant) and now the cold has almost gone. Day after day I sucked cough pastilles, drank mugs of hot lemon and honey and wrapping myself up in a warm blanket whilst watching tv much to the amusement of my family!!!I am much better now, just taken down the Christmas decorations, spent half an hour dismantling the Christmas wreath, most of which is now residing in the garden waste bin, as for the frame it is in the landfill one. Hoping that 2017 will be more positive too ( jobsearchwise).
I'm glad your cold is so much better. :)
It sounds like the nasty virus going around that a few people I know have suffered badly with. I've escaped it so far...
You are lucky Dazzle, its a nasty virus, just when you think it has cleared up, the nasty thing comes back !!!
Have to go and get my last christmas present. I hate going to westfield in stratford so been putting it off for weeks. Hate the crowds and rip off parking! But its the only place that has a john lewis. Next year i will plan it all better. Normally my daughter sorts it out for me so i can avoid that place. I have tried to get john lewiss gift cards from stores but i cannot find them anywhere unless i go john lewis or waitross. . Too late to get ine of internet as it will take a few days. I need them today.
I had the same problem with my nephews, in the end they got a postal order so their mother could choose what to buy them.
Glad your feeling better. Just got back from shopping and actually enjoyed myself for once. I spent way more than i should but felt like spoiling my son (and myself). It is nice when you find exactly what you want.
oh no not snow. I had a terrible journey driving at what feels like a snow storm.
I fear the forecast is for fairly widespread snow or at least sleet .. and freezing temperatures at night so be careful of black ice. Unlikely to get snow where I live but nights are cold, down to around 4C and higher ground in my area will probably have to scrape car windscreens before going to work in the mornings. Hope all will be safe during this cold and snowy spellQuote:
Originally Posted by swmc66
As long as its ok for my trip to Oxford on Sunday i will be happy
it snowed where i live, however the prospect of building a snowman was not to be, by the time dawn broke the snow had melted. My sister had her hopes dashed this morning. She had originally applied for a job as a kitchen assistant but her previous employer didn't bother to give her a reference ( we had contacted them several times but to no avail). As a result her job was offered to someone else. However, an other job for a housekeeper had arisen, so she enquired, the current employee wanted to either reduce her hours or leave, the decision? she decided not to leave or reduce her hours. ( how wonderful is that??) So it was back to square one, she has now applied for another job elsewhere, let's hope this one proves to be more successful than the last. One thing she won't be doing is using her previous employer as a reference. She will use her last one instead. Meanwhile I wait and wait for an interview for the jobs I have applied for this month, I expect thinsg to be a bit slow as it is only January. Going to start a book about my Mother growing up in the war years and up to the present day. Finding out information has been a bit hard but I am managing ok.
Time I made lunch as my stomach is starting to rumble.
only one copy needed not two
We had up to 20 cm of snow yesterday and it is starting up again. My son built a 2 meter snow thing (can't say man as it is a bit scary) and it was a nightmare getting to work yesterday. We had only 12cm on Tuesday but didn't make it up the hill near my home. Got stuck in snow along with a truck and 2 other cars. Had a bit of a panic situation so cried, rang my other half and asked him to bring his mother to me to drive me home.. She is a pro!! Not a bother to her.
The man who clears our street dumped all the snow at the end of our road so had to dig it out before I could park yesterday. On Tuesday he put it beside my car and I couldn't open the door. He is a s**t
If it snows i do not drive. Had an accident years ago in the snow , enough to put anyone off for life.
I really do not miss those days, it is cold here too, un-seasonally so but no snow. Hope I never ever have to shovel snow again!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Siobhan
Can you report the guy clearing the snow and blocking you in? :angry: