It's always pleasing, even when it's only on a small scale, to hear someone in the public arena agree with you. Good on the warden for the Marine Conservation Society. I don't think it's a particularly complex or deep point about rights and responsibilities, so why is it so hard for most people to grasp?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6579363.stm
I've managed to tweak a muscle in my leg again while training last night. I don't think it's too badly torn, but it's annoying all the same. I managed a few lengths in the swimming pool this morning but I'm hoping it recovers soon. Can't do any training tonight anyway as it's my writer's group meeting.
The eating is going OK. I had a bit of a bad weekend. Nothing specific, I just ate slightly too much of slightly the wrong things. Especially Friday night but that was just comfort eating. I won't be at home tonight to do my weigh-in so I will have to do it on Wednesday this week. I'm not holding out any hope for any loss at all, rather I'm steeling myself for another small gain.
The end of my time here at work is approaching with a whimper rather than a bang. I've started telling a few people that I'm leaving on Friday but I don't feel like organising any drinks or any type of leaving do. Under the circumstances, not surprising. Friday will feel strange when I leave here for the last time. It always does when you leave a job, no matter what the circumstances or how much you loved or hated the job.
I collect the new car tomorrow. I like tangible signs of new beginnings...
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Some roughty toughty bloke called out to some studenty bird in the pub last night...to pick up her rubbish and not leave it to someone else...he actually got a ripple of applause, and I don't think she'll be back soon...I just hope it was a lesson learnt!
I tell people off if I see them leave their stuff on the beach too. Not being a (not a xeno- but I can't think of the right ....) phobe, it always seems to be foreign students with no respect for someone elses country...Makes me SEETHE!
Anyhoo, a tweaked and whimpering Moose...all quite sad really, even though it was gonna happen...but now you can concentrate on The Book...but having said that, I doubt if you can! My friend left his job last Friday...boy was on nights, and said friend turned up at 2330 very very drunk indeed to let me/us know that he wouldn't have got through the last few weeks without me/us...and he really really loves me/us etc etc...so I phoned the boy, and he spoke to him, and sent him home...later on Saturday I got a very sheepish and apologetic telephone call, but I think his hangover was reward enough...
So, Moose, I don't want any unexpected late night visitors on Friday please...and at least you've got the new Forced Off Road Diagonally to look forward to...
blazers
love
hazel
x
Have a meeting this afternoon to discuss a new 'workplace' for me to have somewhere to go next week. Working on a mutual back-scratching kind of deal where I don't pay anything for the privelege of a desk and an internet connection and give a little of my 'expertise' in return. Mrs Moose is desperate for me not to spend too long 'hanging around' the house, disrupting her routines and getting under her feet.
Barter deals are the new black...
We'll have to work out some kind of barter for you to do with Mrs Moose then won't we...but then I'm quite surprised she hasn't lined up some suitably Moosey home related tasks for you to undertake...mainly involving a Moose-operable tool kit and a tape measure...and you get to eat?
On a side note, please ensure that you get a spell checker, or at least some tippex, at your new desk.
Many thanks
Yrs.
H. Love
Ms.
P.S. What time is your leaving do, and whereabouts are you having it? We haven't had a party for a while...the world is your lobster...
OOOH! Perhaps lyndyloo can lend you her Bahamian Beach Front Condominium and Barbecue Deck?
Morning Moose and Hazey, I hate litter droppers too, I have been known to get out of my car at traffic lights, pick up the empty fag packet that's been thrown out of another car window and throw it back through!
Moose- pastures new, it may be the most exciting thing that's happened to you in years, it's certainly got to be a bit more strenuous than buying a new car (one of my most favourite things to do).
I have an admin catch up day today as well as completions to sort and Ruthy has just brought me a cup of tea... anyone care to join me?
Luv
Lyndyloo
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Bahamian deck coming up at your service m'aam!
oooh Foreign studaent - tell me about it Ms Love!
I once spent a very long and dull summer cleaning university halls for a bit of booze money.. I think it was 1998, Michale Owen had just scored a wonder goal and Beckham hadn't yet become a national enemy.
Anyway - the things I have seen, I won't be repeating them here but suffice to say I had to translate 'sanitary towel bin' into Italian and leave little stickers arounds in the bathrooms (all en suite - rich stoodents).
I liek to tell people off - not for anything in particular, just because I can, spitting is one thing that I CANNOT STAND, have people lost the ability to swallow? As for rubbish, it's a simple responsibility to clean up after yourself - like it is for recycling and not drinking and driving - why ruin someone else's day with your own actions.
I heard about people making a fuss about having their bins collected every other week - so what, if you recycle as you're supposed to (and it's not hard, most councils come round and ppick it up for you!) your bin shouldn't get full and overflow. It's not unheigenic and doesn't smell as surely most of what you've put in the normal bin is tied up in rubbish bags??
As for me - I can't wait to get my baby into cotton nappies and for my better half to be on washing duty every night.
Ooooh - get me on my own little soapbox.... are pregnant people allowed to stand this high?
:o) Jo
PS have grown to 9 shhets of loo paper.
PPS It's very odd when you ake up one morning and are suddenly 'definitely' pregnant.
Excellent...Bahamian BBQ on the deck, Friday lunchtime. Let's start at 12 and go on drinking virtual Red Stripe well into the afternoon! I'm so looking forward to it already. Thanks for hosting Lyndyloo. Everyone is only allowed to come if they clear up their own litter and not leave it to the hostess!
In fact, is it too early to start now?
Count me in with a bottle of virtual Thunderbird
:o) Jo
Darwin Award nomination?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6586879.stm
Moose, I am also expecting a gain today at WW. Had a really bad weekend food and drink wise and I knew I would hate myself for it, but couldn't seem to help myself!
Cannot bear to watch people throw litter. Last summer I made two yobs pick up the paper from their Strawberry Tarts (.... no funnies, please Hazel!) outside Greggs. They were absolutely fuming and refused at first but I honestly was shouting at the top of my voice, so they did it to shut me up! I got back to the office and I thought - you know, I'm lucky I escaped with my life!
Hope your meeting this afternoon goes well and you get a suitable workplace to use in the future. It probably would drive you crazy being home all the time and as Hazel says, you would get all sorts of jobs to do!
Are you sure you want to leave on Friday and not even go for a quick drink with anyone? Your choice, of course, I suppose I don't know all the details!
Lyndyloo, have you decided on a date for your date?
Jo - re: discovering you are definitely pregnant - isn't it incredible?! I remember how that felt. You have known for ages that you are pregnant. You change your lifestyle, you know you feel tired/hungry/emotional a lot. But all of a sudden, just one day, you wake up and you know for sure it's true! I defintely admire your plan for using cotton nappies. As I have said here before, I am ashamed to say I used Pampers (other brands available) and I know they are in a rubbish tip, probably still intact 16 years on!
C xx
Hi lyndyloo! Have just been brought tea by shaven-headed colleague. This is not significant except it does add to his alarming outstanding natural beauty...and distinguishes him from most of the others...all of whom have excellent qualities, including tea making. Now it has probably gorn cold...
So, Moose, how exciting! I bet you are the first Moose to leave that firm with a Do in the Bahamas...Banananananana daiquiri over here please barman, and a nice Rum Punch for the Moose...
Can anyone bring anything please? Mrs Shoshyne (HR) will be making the list.
oooh something lovely to do on Friday...fab...
love
hazel
x
ps lyndyloo - 'My Bahamian Blog?' Woss goin on there then?
Golly, took me so long to get to the post with the last one, I'm all behind. (This statement would normally place me to be the butt (and another one!) of all the bottom jokes that my family can muster...so lets take that as read shall we?)
Jo, I sort of envy you. In a really odd sort of way...and would like to offer a small slice of advice...I work with some people that haven't seen their feet (euphemism if you like Gaby!) (except in a mirror) for some years, so take a picture of yours now, in your favouritest pink shoes, and keep the picture by you to look at in times of need!
...and Thunderbird? Can you get that in the Bahamas?
I shall be bringing the Laced Rum Strawberry Tarts...and, ChrissieS, how odd...the second hand shop, right next door to Greggs, is where I shouted at the bloke to put the clothes back in the donation bag, instead of dropping them on the floor...
We are all quite a ferocious lot on here aren't we!
In the words of the Spencer Davis Group...Keep on Running...
love
hazel
x
PS Jo, you will need more pegs.
...and re the Darwin Award...I'm ashamed to say, Moose, that I actually looked at this before I read the other one...well, it was on the same page...
Waiter, please can I have another knife...this one's got something stuck on it...
Jo - I might have to put you in touch with Mrs Moose. We used cloth for both mooselets and there are a few tips for getting through it, the main ones being flushable liners and the sun is great for 'bleaching' them if you can hang them outside to dry. There are so many advantages - they tend to be in nappies significantly shorter time (both of ours were dry - day and night - within a week of potty training and around 2nd birthday), no chemicals etc. Allegedly nappy rash can be worse but we never had problems and there are some great organic balms you can get from the websites that sell the cloth nappies. Cost - we bought a load second hand and sold a load on once the mooselets were dry. Used a lot of the same nappies for both - they are pretty durable. You don't need all the liquids and bleaches and stuff they say you do. Just experiment with storage, soaking and how regularly you wash.
I sound a bit preachy don't I? Good job you don't get Mrs M on the subject...she's much more extreme than me!
You can also manage very nicely with fortnightly rubbish collections! The reason most families with young kids can't is because of the used nappies.
And even if the sh1t ends up on Scottish beaches, it's got to be better going into the sewage system than onto the landfill, hasn't it?
OK I'll stop now...
HL- The Bahamian blog is something I did when I was bored, I may add to it from time to time, it's a virtual way of walking the beaches when I need to escape. Talking of which Friday leaving party will be at Cape Santa Maria beach and I'll bring the conch fritters and rum punch!
Chrissie- I'm taking the plunge and opting for this evening... eek!
Luv
Lyndyloo
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Moose - never too early
Joining the fortnightly vs weekly debate! Our council put us on to fortnightly collections, supplied us with an open top crate for bottles, tins, plastics etc, a green bin for all organic material, a bag for newspapers and a black bin for the rest. Nothing for cardboard, envelopes or magazines and the nearest recycling bins to take ourselves is a good mile and a half away. When you have 2 parents out at full time employment and 2 small children (not in nappies, just the occasional mattress protector) a) there is not enough time or room in the house to save your cardboard/magazine rubbish to take for recycling and b) you struggle to keep to one bin load for a two weekly collection. The council has changed leadsership and returned to a weekly collection for which our bin is three quarters full, maximum. Our council would do better if they provided a collection for cardboard, then I would agree to a fortnightly service.
Off soap box now!
Jo - in our area there are grants made for new parents wishing to use cloth nappies, it may be worth investigating in your area as well. At one time they offered a free laundry service as well but I am unsure whether that is still the case.
Moose - I changed complete direction prior to my 40th last year - best thing I did. It was a bit scary at the time but worked out well in the end. Good luck to you for the remainder of the week and hope the bartering goes well!
Not heard from Susan for a while but hope she is OK {{Huggles to Susan}}
Chrissie - Thinking of you {hug}
Still full of cold and feeling miserable.
A x
Hazel did I ever tell you I used to sing with that Spencer Davis bloke and his band? They used to play in a pub where I worked and would often invite me up to do a number oooeeer missus!
amanda...I have this picture in my head of you skidding to a halt, and doing an about-turn, like a Camberwick Green soldier from Pippin Fort...
...and lyndyloo, thank you SO much for the use of your spare room, and a good choice on the day for the date. Thoroughly agree with making dates while the sun tan still shines! I wish I could've come...if only for the piste bits...
By the way, there is a new series starting on the BBC, Pie in the Sky channel soon - The Domestic Habits of the Moose. One question Moosester T - do you have to have pegs which are adapted for ease of washing line use? Or are those Dolly ones ok?
So, we are supplied with the worlds smallest recycling boxes (handy, stackable and nickable for all your house-moving needs) and they only come once a fortnight. There are about eleventy ninety people living in the house next door, so the boy and I can't move in our ginnel for rubbish and overflowing bins. There isn't anything we can do apart from try to keep it tidy, and we end up binning rather than recycling, because at least we have a big enough bin to put our rubbish in...
Does anyone else think it feels like a Friday?
Pugh, Pugh, Barney, McGrew
love
hazel
x
...and no you didn't. I have to say that I am quite impressed...
I hate litter, and don't get Mr L started on it ... We live within a few minutes walk of a large supermarket (beginning with S) and a Golden Arches fast food outlet. Our street is constantly full of burger and chip boxes, crisp packets, cans, bottles and other unidentifable trash that people throw away. And as for the b*st*rds that decide our hedge makes a handy storage area and tuck their rubbish neatly in amongst the branches ...
Good luck for Friday Moose - I'm game for a departing party but will be otherwise occupied for some of the afternoon.
Jo - My mum was still using old terry nappies as floor cloths long after my sister and I had left home. They last a long time!
And a handy tip for getting your whites white again (that doesn't involve Right Said Fred) - putting them out on the line on a frosty day so they get frozen works wonders. Of course, because of global warming etc this is technically only possible about once a decade now.
Hazel - doesn't feel like a Friday here, but I wish it was.
Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub
Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb .........
(Ooh errr how did you know I collect Camberwick Green memorobilia - freaky!!!)
Hazel, it was a bit like that really 'cos I just quit my job without anything lined up and went temping while I waited to see what might come along. Then something took my fancy (and vice versa) and here I am 9 months later doing a job I really enjoy with colleagues I really like! Plus there is time to blog which I have never had in the past!
A x
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Hey Moose
You're not as bad as all that..hope you get the desk and internet connection, then go hacking!
I bet you'll have lost more than you think, it's all to do with water you know.
Hazey ( do you like that?)
I, as usual can bring smoked salmon on Friday BUT also can provide newly launched roasted salmon via Tesco - check it out!
Pints of baileys have become a favourite..(after all inclusive holiday)
Jo/Analog - only last week did my mum use a 41 year old nappy to wipe the floor!
Sunshine is also brilliant for "bleaching" out turmeric stains.
we recycle paper/card, metal cans/pet bottles and our rubbish pick up is once a week, but it could be twice a month. Our community recycling site takes all other stuff including oil, fridges, garden waste...spot on.
Love
Caroline X
Ok have made the arrangement and it's going to be tomorrow night is date night (other fruits are available). Tonight is going to be fish and veggies at small persons house!
Wow.
Not only a desk but a whole office. Phones, Internet, printers all no problem.
AND some work for me to freelance at as well...with the distinct possibility of a full time job if I want it.
I love meetings like that!
I feel completely satisfied with my day's work (and yes, as usual, I use the term loosely) and want to go home now. I have read all 5 chapters of the second draft to get me back into the swing of things, and sorted out my future for the next month or two. Time to stop before anything goes wrong.
I should really write chapter 6 now...
Moose - brilliant result! You must be very well thought of - not that I doubted that for a moment! I think you should take the rest of the day off and head home with a bottle of something fizzy and celebrate!
Lyndyloo - oooh tomorrow night!! Who is the small person you are visiting tonight?!
C xx
Moose - what a fab result! I'd go quietly on Friday, if I were you - leave them all wondering...
What a completely crap day. Drove to Basildon this morning - only 2.5 hours, as soon as I arrived at the destination, my phone rang and it was my sons school to say he was ill and could I go and pick him up?
3.5 hours back....
Very tired and still have work to do - I can feel another 9pm bedtime coming on...
I'll come to the party too, if that's OK. I'll bring homemade dips and crudites... (HL and Jo aren't crude enough...)
WW tonight for me to Chrissie - have missed the last 2 meetings so not expecting a great deal!
Hey ho - some you win...
Byyyyyeeeeeeeeeee
S xx.
Lindyloo - I think you leave close to me...
Where you off wo with t'internet man then?
Shall I come along and chaperone???
xx.
L - sorry - type - LIVE....
xx.
The small person in question is my little friend Martine who has decided to join me on the detox for this week. She's a diamond!
And Sammie, yes we're quite close. I was thinking I might meet him at either the Snowdome at Tamworth (we both have an interest in skiing) or at the Griffin pub at Shustoke... about half way between the both of us... any suggestions?
Oooh - I went to Tamworth on Monday (is that only yesterday) to babysaurus to look at Pram / buggy / pushchairs.....What's the deal with all that stuff anyway?
We were so crap about 15 people asked if we wanted help - we took all thehelp going!
:o) Jo
PS have retired tohome as had midwifeat 1:20 - out by 1:40 but it wasn't worth goingbackinto work!
PPS - space bar intermittentlybroke on home PC. Can't be arsed to go through and changeit all!
Well isn't that good news! Fab meeting dahling! A great result for Mrs Moose too, under feetwise, and a happier Moose to boot (to hoof?)...oh it's all shoes! Now I'm happy too!
lyndyloo, and the seven dwarfs? Please remember to duck under low beams. There isn't any suntan in the world (apart from possibly Dale Winton and David Dickenson's product) that can camouflage a bruise...and date-man (is that the same as Banana Man?) may look askance if you have to keep looking askance under a strangely swept fringe...
Chapter 6 - New Beginnings
Once upon a time, in a city not too far from here, sat a Moose, and this Moose was contemplating not only his navel, but his future too...
...and they all lived happily ever after...
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
love
hazey
x
ps fantazey
Lindyloo - Snowdome would be great for a date - make sure you book first though!!!
Don't know Shustoke so can't help I'm afraid...
I'm having lunch with someone on Thursday....
xx.
i have to go...i have a date with the boy, and am also meeting a friend later...oh the lives of the rich and famous...or not...
chow babies
it's been lovelier today than yesterday, but not as lovely as tomorrow is gonna be...shift key has joined jos space key revolt
bugger
love
hazel
x
Troops.
Rumours of my demise have been very much exaggerated.
I've been to Reading and Cambridge.
Yum.
I've checked in, seen your posts and been particularly impressed with the Scottish OAMC pics.
Well done Susan and crew.
The back is now sorted and the tat is doing well. We are really now on countdown to June and the road trip. There is loads of planning to do, so this weekend will see a flurry of hotel and 'event' booking.
Blimey. I can't wait.
Any road. Take care all.
Much love
MfR
Ooooh, oooooh, ooooh - a party on Friday - yipeee! But I'm working and IT police won't let me come. B*GGER Can you make sure the party lasts well into the evening please. Pleeeeeze. Pleeeeeeeeeeeze. PLEEEEEEZE!!!!!!
EG
MfR - glad you're OK!
Jo - baby stuff is HUGE expense!! I sympathise honey. BUT - how exciting! I have, for the first time in 9 years been broody recently. I have to confess that if things were different, I'd have liked to have 6 kiddies!!! I loved being pregnant - enjoy it.
EG - I'm sure it can be arranged...
AND - yippee - weigh in was better than expected - 3.5lbs off - only 1.5 to goal!!!
S xx.
Sammie well done!!! That's fab news
Moose - have you got it yet, have ya, have ya???
S xx.
So. MfR, does this road trip include Brighton? Or is this the Canada/USA one? Reading and Cambridge eh? But have you ever been to 'me'?
...and it looks as though lyndyloo may be having a lie-in today...
Anyway, the leaving do...EG! Why do you think it may finish without you having been?! I think it will run as long as people keep dropping in and out, although I won't be having a particularly late one because I have Virgin coming by on Saturday afternoon to switch me over...ahem...
Bring something to eat and drink, something to sit or lie on, some dancing shoes and your favourite karaoke track...oh yes!
Mooseaoke. A True Celebration of His Time at This Job in Song.
My own personal choice will be Abba - Money, Money, Money (It's a rich Mooses world)
Ms Shoshyne (HR) has said that HR will be supplying all the bunting, flags, party poppers, favors, french chalk, trestle tables, glass and flatware, the karaoke machine and microphones, cutlery and orange squash, so no one needs to struggle with any of those. Poor ChrissieS had a terrible time before if you remember...
Anyway, that's me for now, and it's not even 9 o'clock yet...
Oh, and while I think about it (SIX children? My oh my, Sammmie...think of the Nolans!) I think we should be planning some sort of baby-do for Jo? Any
thoughts?
...and Moose, don't you collect your car today? Does it have a bumper sticker? 'I brake for Muffin!'
Checking in early (for me) this morning.
Sammie - well done at WW! You are so close to your goal weight - just fab. What an achievement by you! My struggle continues - same weight this week - but at least it's not a gain. At this rate, I'll be about 65 when I reach goal! Incidentally, who are you having lunch with on Thursday? Very cryptic!
I forgot to say yesterday, Amanda and EG - thank you for your wee messages to me. Amanda - hope you are feeling better.
MfR - good to hear from you. Your road trip will be just wonderful - you must be getting really excited about it!
Lyndyloo, hope you fish & veggies were good last night. Will you continue your detox during your date tonight?! I know I would need a wee glass of something soothing to calm the nerves!
Well everyone, have a great Wednesday (can't believe it's Wed already) and I'll be back later!
C xx
HR - 6, yes I know - I blame my parents for making me watch The Waltons....
I think a baby shower for Jo sounds good, but I'm not sure if she'd be able to catch them all (Boom, boom!!).
Chrissie - keep going, persistance pays off. I started WW back in Nov 2005. Slowly and surely...
And cryptically, yes lunch tomorrow... with the possibility of a trip to Alton Towers on Saturday. Now here's the dilemma, I get motion sickness! Do I take travel sick pills and go on the rides, or do I just 'fess up????
So, yes, I am having a life, while a certain (lovely) someone is away...
MfR - roadtrip sounds fab - will you be Thelma or Louise? (Without the horrid ending, of course!)
S xx.
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