The Thing of Nightmares

or another title should be - Do not order Singapore Fried Rice!

I did. I ordered it . Had it before but last time they must have forgotten to put the chillies in. RAW LUMPS of chilli. Big enough to cause discomfort.....
but small enough to hide amongst all the rice.

I ate it ..... nearly died of chilli burn
What i had not bargined on though was the nightmare at night.
Wild
Wierd
Violent

The end result was that ....
well here is the point.
I was face to face with this person holding a gun.
Everytime I dodged the gun it found me
Eventually I dodged and double dodged and with a right hook punched the assassin.
OR
in my case my Hubby who screamed
Swore loudly
and I woke up.
His poor jaw!!!!!
there is not a mark
However he did move to the settee for his saftey.

Bargains

well the final stage of the plan is complete, the bathroom has been choosen ordered and the final bits are being delivered tomorrow. Hubby has just started working out the electrics before putting up a false ceiling into which he will recess two spot lights.

The floor was a bargin. The floor is small but even so all the big tile places (we want ceramic tiles) were quoting £100-£150 for it. Ridiculous. In one tile place we found a bargin corner in a dark store room and there were the tiles. Just enough mind you no room for mistakes. They were slightly lighter than we wanted and had a blue taint to them but with white walls and suite we could make that alteration. The cost £20 for the WHOLE floor!!!!!

Then we looked for the bathroom suite and after a tremendous amount of shopping about which we would never have been able to do before with out the car we found out that B&Q had the best offer -40% off. We saved shed loads.
So we are doing quite well.
The hot damp humid weather is not helping the work though poor Hubby.

2/3 complete

Well I still love my car but am finding city driving really hard. I am not sure you know but last year we went on holiday to Scotland and a friend lent us a car and I drove it there, the first time I had driven in 15 years. Then we drove around the lake district two weeks later.
This year I hired a car and drove back to Scotland. That was the first time I had driven since last year. I have come to the conclussion that holiday driving on motorways and around pretty lochs and scenery is VERY different to Leeds on a wet humid day at rush hour.

We have been driving around showrooms looking for ideas for a new bathroom. We have a very small bathroom that is a perculiar shape. SO Iwant white . White suite, white tiles silver fittings and a dark grey to light black floor tiles and work surface. We drove miles to a warehouse that was crap and found all that we needed at the DIY store at the end of the road!!! Typical.

I bought a yellow duck watering can!

Yesterday we had all the guttering renewed on the house. We also had a new flat roof put on the small baywindow in the lounge. We also got all the guttering linked to the correct downfall pipes (including paying for our neighbour's fall pipe to be renewed!!!!). Today we have had LOADS and LOADS of rain, thunder, heavey downpours. horrendous. And do you know what? I did not need to put the bucket under the baywindow at all! NO LEAKS!!!!!
I am so happy.

A couple of weeks ago we took a loan out to pay for three things - a car , the guttering and roof repairs and a bathroom 2/3 completed and the bathroom project is now in the planning stage.

WE have NEVER been so organized.

OK OK >>>>>

I am getting grief... OH I have so missed getting grief from the other side of the world!

The reason that I have not updated you is that I have been out on picnics.

On the First night we went to a park that we both like but find really hard to get to on public transport.... noted and famous for its ducks hehehehe

It was only the three of us as my daughter was going to a party. Anyway we walked and talked and then went to look for a picnic place we decided to drive a bit further before we ate, only we got a bit lost and ended up on the road going to home and so went home, where my daughter was because the party had been cancelled, so we all ate the picnic in our front room!

Yesterday I did shopping without a taxi, and visited my parents -without a taxi. My Dad walked around the car, sat in the front seat, and I took him "for a spin". He directed and I drove, surprisingly we arrived at my Uncle's house (my dad's best friend). Dad wanted to brag about MY car to HIS friend!!!

THEN last night we went ...to a reservoir up in the Yorkshire Dales, the city had been really muggy all day and so being up high was lovely

This time we ate our picnic outside and it was lovely and cool and FANTASTIC

Now the down side is that not driving that often has lead me to discover muscles in my thighs ans shins that I have not used for a while so by the time we got there I had jelly legs!

TEE HEE HEE HEE

ooooooooo in less than an hour my FIL is picking me up to get the new car.............









I was so excited this morning that I threw up!!!

It is worse that waiting for Santa in Christmas Eve!

We got a car!!!

I got seriously told off by Hubby and his friend for insisting that it were green..... so it is BLUE

Blue is good.

It is a funny shape but we are looking at touring Scotland next year and even going camping (if the tent we have been given is fit for use) so we wanted something biggish.

As I am rather large ins shape and the kids are tall and getting taller we wanted a lot of leg room.

SO what we looked for was soemthing that has lots of leg room, head room , storage. A bonus was that it has really really low mileage (19000) and is only four years old.....

OK want to have a look at the kind we have got?

I looks very French to me. I should be driving home grown produce around continental country roads in it .

I am trying to write a post every day

Really writing a post first thing in the morning is not a good idea, you would think that I did not have anything to write about.

HAHA wrong, I can witter for Britain.

Exciting things are afoot.
Years and years ago we got into debt. Unfortunately we have not been able to get any kind of credit for years -now we are in a mcuh better position and the bank said yes!!!!

We have got a three point plan.

1. A Car!!! (cos we do not have one)
2. Guttering and work on the outside of the house (yeah the pan can go from under the window)
3. a new bathroom suite (we will look in the bank holiday sales and buy everything but Hubby is not fitting it until October holidays)

The car is the MOST exciting thing as I am the only one that can drive. We do not know an aweful lot about cars. A friend was going to help us look for one, but he is going on holiday this weekend and he will not cancel it - I did ask him! So my FIL is taking us to look around at the weekend..... hehehehehehe

We sat in the garden last night and picked cars we wanted. A friend came past and laughed at us.