Edit - Hmmm weird. Posted an entry from my phone and it's blank. So trying again on the laptop. Beth and I stopped for a well earned mocha frappachino in Starbucks this morning after a very successful shop for school shoes for her. We also shared a fruit salad. At another table was a member of staff on a break. They were eating a sandwich and a packet of crisps and drinking a bottle of juice. All of which came from Boots. I'm getting the message that Starbucks food isn't nice to eat or too expensive, or both...

doing laundry. Five loads in all.

15 x waterproof suits, 2 x waterproof trousers, 2 x waterproof jackets, 4 x fleece lined waterproof jackets and 4 x fleece lined waterproof salopettes washed and hanging up, dripping in the utility room.

I was going to borrow qidane's rotary washing line but it looked like it was going to rain all day, so I just put towels down to absorb the drips indoors.

As it didn't rain, this afternoon I watered the vegetable garden and front grass with Beth's help. Now (twenty past eight in the evening) it is pouring down!

After lunch I mused out loud that I wished the optician would ring to say my new glasses were ready. "Ah" says tobyaw, "Erm... While you were fetching Beth from school..." I rang back and they could see me immediately so I jumped in the car and zoomed into town.

On the way back I filled up with fuel. So that was £260 spent in a very short space of time. Gulp. At least I can drive to Aberdeen tomorrow without grinding to a halt before Dundee now :)

I have a mild headache from the new lenses but they stopped feeling weird pretty quickly.

Edited to add. I also sorted out my tool box in between laundry loads. All the random screws etc which were in an old ice cream tub and toffee tin are now sorted into a compartmented box so I can see what I've got.

The usual suspects are lunching at the Dundee Rep cafe on Thursday (tomorrow). If you would like to join us please comment here and tobyaw can book a large enough table.

http://www.espc.com/Buying/264562.html

Any takers?

Had a hectic but somehow boring day today.

It started off with us oversleeping and staggering out of bed at 8:15! However thanks to qidane also oversleeping, tobyaw was able to drive B and I to school so she wasn't late (just).

My MIL phoned with some very sad news while B was at school and I was on the phone to her for ages.

I picked B up at 11.30 and we headed off to Kirkcaldy to get the car re MOT tested. It needed a couple of things done to it in order to pass. I'd already sourced new rear tyres and saved a massive £10 by getting them from a local garage.

After a rather indifferent lunch we dropped the car at the garage for 1:30 and went for a walk. The estimated timing was an hour and a half but ended up being three hours. Apparently, in order to replace the washer bottle, the front bumper has to be removed!!

B was so good and patient while hanging around the garage/showroom. One of the staff came over and commented on it :) So on the way home we stopped at the park in Cupar and played for about 20 minutes. We got home at 6:00 and I got on with making supper. tobyaw and qidane got home at about 6:40 just as the food was ready.

tobyaw bathed B and read her a story while I rang my father back. He'd called me to say his birthday present had arrived, which is great as the actual day isn't for another fortnight. I then caught up with some computer admin stuff before going up to tuck B into bed. She was hiding under the covers in our bed with tobyaw. She declared she wasn't tired but I haven't heard a sound from her since I came downstairs.

Come to think of it I haven't heard a peep from tobyaw either. Has he fallen asleep in the bed fully clothed? I think so.

Off to bed myself soon and we'll try not to oversleep tomorrow.

Aculeate

[uh-kyoo-lee-eyt]

–adjective

1. Biology. having or being any sharp-pointed structure.
2. having a slender ovipositor or sting, as the hymenopterous insects.
3. pointed; stinging.

[Origin: 1595–1605]

Absquatulate

[ab-skwoch-uh-leyt]

–verb (used without object), -lat·ed, -lat·ing. Slang.

to flee; abscond: The old prospector absquatulated with our picks and shovel.
To depart in a hurry; abscond: "Your horse has absquatulated!" (Robert M. Bird).
To die.
To argue.

run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; "The thief made off with our silver"; "the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe" [syn: abscond]

Origin: 1820–30; pseudo-Latinism, from ab-, squat, and -ulate

I'm going to Discworld - wheeeeeeeeeeee :)

I will be going alone and haven't yet got a hotel room. Is there anybody (female) out there who has a twin room booked and no one to share with who would be willing to put up with me? I don't smoke (although that's academic these days), am tidy and bathe daily :)

Last night I had a dream involving STS Lord Nelson, my father and Ronnie Wood.

How random!

from sisterblonde

Meme from clothsprogs (  I feel old  )

Pinched from djelibeybi_meg

What Is Your Battle Cry?

Hark! Who is that, skulking across the mini-mall parking lot! It is Kateaw, hands clutching a studded crowbar! And with a booming grunt, her voice cometh: "I'm going to smack you faster than the speed of sound, and trade you for a candy bar!"

Find out! Enter username: Are you a girl, or a guy ?

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Argy-Bargy

Noun
A dispute, wrangle, fight or argument (1888 Scottish origin). The term perhaps comes from the late nineteenth-century argle-bargle (or argol-bargol), which may be a portmanteau word: argue + haggle = argle, and (in order to rhyme) argle + bandy (as in the expression "to bandy words") = bargle.

ab-dabs

Noun

Nervousness, frustration, the shakes; echoic of the spluttering speech of someone thus affected (1946, origin unknown). The ab-dabs are bad, but the screaming ab-dabs are worse; in this condition, one quivers with rage. The variant habdabs sometimes denotes the delirium tremens.

U.S. translation

He's got the heebie-jeebies (or the willies).

To celebrate the fact that tomorrow, Wednesday 30 August, tobyaw and I will have been married for four years we would like to invite all those that can manage it to join us for cake, ice cream and a cup of tea (or beverage of your choice) from 7.30pm.

RSVP

Would anyone like about 25 half poundish jam jars (with lids)?

I will happily deliver anywhere within Fife.

If not they are going into the recycling bin at the weekend.

I've just heard that gythanorth went back into hospital in the middle of the night :( I don't have much info and none of it is suitable for a public post but if any one wants to ring me feel free.

R is going to phone me when he has visited her again later on.