Today has been a day for doing all those round to it jobs that we have been putting off.
Hubby got round to putting up a new desk for the computer, which didn't take that long really, it just took ages to clear out were the desk was going to go. It looks nice though now it is finished it looks very posh.
I got round to making an apple and mango crumble that I have been meaning to make for a few days and kept forgetting about. It was really nice I used three apples and half a mango, could have done with a little bit more sugar but it was ok. So thanks teej for mentioning crumble lol
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Monday, May 29, 2006
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Finally got the grass cut hurray
Today was the first time in about three weeks its not rained up here, so I decided I would cut the grass (so far so good)
I got all the equipment out of the hut and proceeded to try and cut the grass, Firstly the mower kept overheating and I kept having to stop every two minutes and replug in the plug and try it again. Anyway I managed to get the front cut and half of the back and then disaster, it threw the belt and started making a noise like a wounded animal.
So I went to see if hubby would fix it only to find he was asleep so ok I thought I will fix it myself, it can't be that hard) Unfortunately I hadn't counted on the fact that my dad fixed it last time and when he tightens things up they are really tight lol. It took me half an hour just to undo the nut at the bottom to take the blade off, after that I managed to fix it quite quickly. So feeling quite pleased with myself I started to cut the rest of the garden, all was well for about fifteen minutes and then it overheated again and refused to work.
As you can imagine by this point I was getting fairly brassed off to say the least. On top of all this my strimmer has broke in half, so I had to borrow one of a neighbour and it wasn't half as good as mine, it took five times longer to strim the edges. Anyway I went back to the mower because my back was killing with the strimming and managed to get it to work for another five minutes, back to the strimming again, then the strimmer decided to misbehave itself as well, the spool kept falling off every two minutes.
by this time I am starting to lose my temper big time, and I threaten them both with the bin if they don't work. The strimmer took notice, but it was wasted on the lawn mower who flatley refused to work at all.
Anyway I had more or less finished by this time and so I just strimmed the rest, So finally all the grass is cut, it took me five hours and it normally only takes two. Me thinks me is going to replace the garden equipment lol.
Anyway by for now
Love pads
I got all the equipment out of the hut and proceeded to try and cut the grass, Firstly the mower kept overheating and I kept having to stop every two minutes and replug in the plug and try it again. Anyway I managed to get the front cut and half of the back and then disaster, it threw the belt and started making a noise like a wounded animal.
So I went to see if hubby would fix it only to find he was asleep so ok I thought I will fix it myself, it can't be that hard) Unfortunately I hadn't counted on the fact that my dad fixed it last time and when he tightens things up they are really tight lol. It took me half an hour just to undo the nut at the bottom to take the blade off, after that I managed to fix it quite quickly. So feeling quite pleased with myself I started to cut the rest of the garden, all was well for about fifteen minutes and then it overheated again and refused to work.
As you can imagine by this point I was getting fairly brassed off to say the least. On top of all this my strimmer has broke in half, so I had to borrow one of a neighbour and it wasn't half as good as mine, it took five times longer to strim the edges. Anyway I went back to the mower because my back was killing with the strimming and managed to get it to work for another five minutes, back to the strimming again, then the strimmer decided to misbehave itself as well, the spool kept falling off every two minutes.
by this time I am starting to lose my temper big time, and I threaten them both with the bin if they don't work. The strimmer took notice, but it was wasted on the lawn mower who flatley refused to work at all.
Anyway I had more or less finished by this time and so I just strimmed the rest, So finally all the grass is cut, it took me five hours and it normally only takes two. Me thinks me is going to replace the garden equipment lol.
Anyway by for now
Love pads
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
MSM messenger
Well Ive finally given in and decided to try msm messenger to talk to people. You see I thought it was just a teen thing. But then a friend of mine visited and asked me if I would talk to her in the evenings on it because she was lonely in the evenings while her hubby was away at university. So I said I would and it has started from there, I discovered other people where on it I knew, and I have ended up having some good conversations with people, after all it beats watching the telly, and if I want I can still watch the telly at the same time. Also I can bug bear one when he is supossed to be getting his college work done and he is really on messenger instead lol. I keep bugging him with lots of winks saying WORK.
Its been a lovely day up here and I have been out in the garden, but me being me I have got sunburnt again, I do this every year I think, I won't get sunburnt its only may, and I get sunburnt lol.
Anyway thanks to those people I have had good conversations with (teej and cloudy) and will see you all soon, off to bed now has it has been a very long day.
Love pads
Its been a lovely day up here and I have been out in the garden, but me being me I have got sunburnt again, I do this every year I think, I won't get sunburnt its only may, and I get sunburnt lol.
Anyway thanks to those people I have had good conversations with (teej and cloudy) and will see you all soon, off to bed now has it has been a very long day.
Love pads