[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Jesus.

I'm sure a cat with 3 degress will understand not to destry the tree. It's Annie's Mancunian drug dealing cats that you need to watch out for.

They'll be trying to snort snow off the doorstep.

......

Originally Posted by Glenn

I have to decorate before I put any decs up.

Just a freshen up. I had my entire house rewired last year and in had horrible white trunking where they put new wires because they didn't want to bury them

I dug the walls out and buried them so I've got to paint now. But I decided to give the entire house a lick of paint. And the skirting boards.

I've gotta order a new sofa too because the ones I have I sink into.

Plus I've got to have my carpets cleaned too. It's neverending

..crikey a busy time then Glenn and fitting it all around your job as well, you'll be too exhausted to put your Christmas Tree up lol...

If you don't have kids, you shouldn't have decorations. Simple rules.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..ahh, yeah it doesn't sound good, your body objecting to something then Glenn but the honey/lemon worked do you can take it if it happens again...

..hah, you sound as though your tree drives you crazy and you like it just right...I take ages putting baubles etc on because I have hundreds that I collect from everywhere I go but it still looks thrown together in about 5 minutes..you would hate it lol...



.....it'll be like having a 'playful' tiger cub in the house lol...at least Christmas won't be boring..and remember cats are not for Christmas anyway, they're for life..of something like that...the thing is that if it was a dog/puppy, you could try to put the tree somewhere up high where they couldn't reach it but cats can get everywhere, can't they...do the children think he's funny when he's playful..?..oh, do the dogs get on with him ok...?...

The kids give out to me when I laugh at him breaking stuff Luke is funny, he's very protective of the dogs and he's not impressed by my apparent favouritism towards Sebastian lol

The dogs are fine with him, Curly the older, bigger dog I was a bit worried about cos he's very much a hunting kind of a dog, as in he likes to chase rabbits and rats and whatever else he comes across in the fields but he just ignores the cat and has done since he got here. The night before last he was lying down on the floor asleep and the cat went over to him and started to clean his tail He just carried on ignoring him though. The little dog Pips wants to play with him all the time and sometimes Sebastian plays back but pips gets a whack on the noes if she gets too close

[Glenn.]

Luckily I have a brother who can do most of it . He put up so e new coving last week where they had to rip it down. My other brother will be cleaning the carpet. We're going halves on the vax and he's doing his with it too. He likes cleaning carpets so he offered. I wasn't going to turn him down

The only thing I'll be doing is skirting boards m. My brothers painting for me I'm just paying him instead of a stranger.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Jesus.

If you don't have kids, you shouldn't have decorations. Simple rules.

Bang On Right

[Glenn.]

Originally Posted by Jesus.

If you don't have kids, you shouldn't have decorations. Simple rules.

Bar humbug

Originally Posted by arista

Bang On Right

Someone mark this post down in history. Arista agrees with me.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Glenn

Bar humbug

No in these Hard Times

XMAS is just for kids now

Originally Posted by Glenn

Bar humbug

There's a time and place for fun, and it's not around me thank you very much!

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Jesus.

If you don't have kids, you shouldn't have decorations. Simple rules.

...when the boys were small I always had two trees and one was an edible one..not the tree but the decorations...we'd make biscuits etc to go on it and I also bought the chocolate decorations...but they were only allowed to have them a few a day when we gave them to them so they didn't make themselves sick...one day I went to get one of the chocolates and it was just an empty wrapper but had been carefully made to look as though it still had chocolate in..then I picked another..and another..and they were mostly the same ..we also had small boxes of smarties hanging from it and most of those were empty as well..and we haven't even got a cat so I think it was the children lol.....little monkeys....

Originally Posted by Niamh.

The kids give out to me when I laugh at him breaking stuff Luke is funny, he's very protective of the dogs and he's not impressed by my apparent favouritism towards Sebastian lol

The dogs are fine with him, Curly the older, bigger dog I was a bit worried about cos he's very much a hunting kind of a dog, as in he likes to chase rabbits and rats and whatever else he comes across in the fields but he just ignores the cat and has done since he got here. The night before last he was lying down on the floor asleep and the cat went over to him and started to clean his tail He just carried on ignoring him though. The little dog Pips wants to play with him all the time and sometimes Sebastian plays back but pips gets a whack on the noes if she gets too close

..aww, it's sweet that Luke is protective but he's probably thinking, mum never fusses over me like that......LOL...

Originally Posted by Glenn

Luckily I have a brother who can do most of it . He put up so e new coving last week where they had to rip it down. My other brother will be cleaning the carpet. We're going halves on the vax and he's doing his with it too. He likes cleaning carpets so he offered. I wasn't going to turn him down

The only thing I'll be doing is skirting boards m. My brothers painting for me I'm just paying him instead of a stranger.

..oh, quite a team/production line you have there Glenn...it's lovely that you all get together and do that sort of thing...

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...when the boys were small I always had two trees and one was an edible one..not the tree but the decorations...we'd make biscuits etc to go on it and I also bought the chocolate decorations...but they were only allowed to have them a few a day when we gave them to them so they didn't make themselves sick...one day I went to get one of the chocolates and it was just an empty wrapper but had been carefully made to look as though it still had chocolate in..then I picked another..and another..and they were mostly the same ..we also had small boxes of smarties hanging from it and most of those were empty as well..and we haven't even got a cat so I think it was the children lol.....little monkeys....




..aww, it's sweet that Luke is protective but he's probably thinking, mum never fusses over me like that......LOL...





..oh, quite a team/production line you have there Glenn...it's lovely that you all get together and do that sort of thing...

haha, oh I do believe me, he's spoiled because he's the baby, maybe he doesn't like sharing with Sebastian

[Jake.]

Originally Posted by Jesus.

Very well, thanks Jake. How was your weekend?

Was good thanks, got drunk (the usual), what about your weekend

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

haha, oh I do believe me, he's spoiled because he's the baby, maybe he doesn't like sharing with Sebastian

..yeah there probably is a bit of that in it as well ..he's your baby and the dogs are his babies..you're all Gav's babies....so he's wondering why the heck you needed Sebastian and what he's doing there.....

[Ammi]

..Jake....did you have a good day at college..?...

[Jake.]

Hey Ammi, I've been at work lol, and it was okay, hiw was your day?

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..yeah there probably is a bit of that in it as well ..he's your baby and the dogs are his babies..you're all Gav's babies....so he's wondering why the heck you needed Sebastian and what he's doing there.....

I used to tease him and say will we have another baby? And he always says no I'm the baby

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Jake.

Hey Ammi, I've been at work lol, and it was okay, hiw was your day?

..ahh, I thought it was a college day...it's good to have an early finish though...?..my day was good but I'm back to work tomorrow though......

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I used to tease him and say will we have another baby? And he always says no I'm the baby

..that's it then, sibling rivalry..there've been horror movies about that lol..wasn't it the Orphan or something..?...I would keep an eye on that situation ......

..oh Niamh, how did your daughter get on when she went to her grandma's funeral...how was she..?...

Originally Posted by Jake.

Was good thanks, got drunk (the usual), what about your weekend

Hey gringo - not too bad. Fairly quiet, but I had roast lamb yesterday, so I'm making a home made doner kebab tonight for dinner with the meat.

Life in the slow lane

Overtaking occasionally


then back in the slow lane.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..ahh, I thought it was a college day...it's good to have an early finish though...?..my day was good but I'm back to work tomorrow though......



..that's it then, sibling rivalry..they're been horror movies about that lol..wasn't it the Orphan or something..?...I would keep an eye on that situation ......

..oh Niamh, how did your daughter get on when she went to her grandma's funeral...how was she..?...

She was fine, I think it helped her to spend some time with her grand dad too, she spent alot of time on her own with him over there going on walks and going shopping with him etc. Also, he gave her a few things belonging to her grand mother so that's nice for her

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

She was fine, I think it helped her to spend some time with her grand dad too, she spent alot of time on her own with him over there going on walks and going shopping with him etc. Also, he gave her a few things belonging to her grand mother so that's nice for her

..aww it was nice having the things belonging to her gran, that would have really helped and spending time with him, not only helping her but feeling as though she wasn't 'helpless' by being there for him to talk to as well..I often think in that situation that grandchildren can be more what's needed emotionally while children help with practical things and arranging what needs to be done...

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..aww it was nice having the things belonging to her gran, that would have really helped and spending time with him, not only helping her but feeling as though she wasn't 'helpless' by being there for him to talk to as well..I often think in that situation that grandchildren can be more what's needed emotionally while children help with practical things and arranging what needs to be done...

Yeah, definitely, kids are so innocently honest aren't they? That can be refreshing in s**ty times

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Yeah, definitely, kids are so innocently honest aren't they? That can be refreshing in s**ty times

..yeah because they just ask things and are quite open about it whereas we sometimes wait for the bereaved person to talk, which isn't often the right thing..when my dad died I remember people avoiding talking about him, I guess because they didn't want to upset me and that was thoughtful but it felt like talking about him was the only way I could hold on to him and if I didn't then it was like he never existed, if that makes sense....

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..yeah because they just ask things and are quite open about it whereas we sometimes wait for the bereaved person to talk, which isn't often the right thing..when my dad died I remember people avoiding talking about him, I guess because they didn't want to upset me and that was thoughtful but it felt like talking about him was the only way I could hold on to him and if I didn't then it was like he never existed, if that makes sense....

Yes, it absolutely does, it's the thing that keeps atleast their memory alive

[Black Dagger]

I got soaked by the rain s0b.

[Marc]

same had to hold up this extending metre stick thing as well to help indicate how tall this proposed house is going to be