What a palaver trying to get hubby to go to the accyweb monthly meeting. Let me explain why I want him to go, at the last meet in October he happened to mention he will be 65 early in December. So of course the organiser decided to combine tonights meet with a bit of an early birthday bash.
When I was shopping yesterday he e-mailed this lady and asked her if she would take me over in the taxi as he wasn't really up to going. As you can imagine it was panic stations, how to get him there??...

I think Christmas started in July when we were children....well, not Christmas exactly, but the preparations.
Pa would disappear up into the attic with bits of wood...tins of glue and paint.....there would be the sounds of hammering and banging....and then when he came down he would not say what he had been up to.......and the attic door was always locked. We were told that the door had to be locked because the bannister rail wasn't safe....and that that was what Pa was doing.....making it...

No....I'm not giving...and I haven't got any stuff going cheap.
Charity and cheap stuff was how ma kept the family fed and clothed.

Mrs Almond had a pie and bread shop at the end of Marsden St.
Ma used to buy her bread there......Mrs Almond knew it was a real job to keep us all fueled and would ask us to call back at closing time......whatever was left over she would almost give away.
She used to do dinners for the workers during the week and if I was passing the...

Started my christmas shopping at last, went to Burnley with my daughter. We went last week and spent nearly all the time looking for some Timberland boots that my grandaughter had asked for, so my shopping went by the board. Anyway off we went this afternoon and I got quite a lot of stuff. I am now trying to motivate myself to start wrapping them up.
The stuff I got today I paid for with my high street vouchers. I know a lot of people think you are better off saving in your bank account but...

Earlier this year we had rellies over from Oz.
This meant a major re-organisation of our living space.
My back bedroom is where I have my computer.....it does have a sofa bed in there too.....but it is a relatively small room.
I had all kinds of junk in there......well hubby calls it junk, but to me it isn't.......anyway I threw out some stuff (painful for me.....I am a hoarder not a whizzer)...but I have to say that it was stuff that was not important......the other junk had to...