What are you doing today??

The Lone Ranger wrote:Mermaid is wrapping Christmas presents and I'm doing the more impotant job of taking all the car CDs out of their jewel cases and putting them in a wee zipper case thingy. I had no room in my side door pockets for anything else!

Did the same thing ages ago,now the C.D.s are lost in the glove box and Piano Man is on permanent duty in the machine

Ac/dc stuck in mine for weeks. Cd's have fallen down between the seats

watching the footie. missed most of the first half cos I am still hanging feckin' xmas lights.

searcher wrote:

The Lone Ranger wrote:Mermaid is wrapping Christmas presents and I'm doing the more impotant job of taking all the car CDs out of their jewel cases and putting them in a wee zipper case thingy. I had no room in my side door pockets for anything else!

Did the same thing ages ago,now the C.D.s are lost in the glove box and Piano Man is on permanent duty in the         

Piano Man, drank in a bar cald Fingers on Fredric Street when I lived Edinburgh, knew the girl that owned it, late night piano bar it was, when pianist played it place just burst in to song...

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I've been watching Planet Earth II. Good!

Well had a lovely week with my daughter in Lymington ,now we are back in London with Ben & Zara-Dee will visit her friends that she has missed this year . 
Got a cheeky Christmas suprise for her tonight we are all going to see Willy Wonka & the chocolate factory at the Appolo theatre she thinks she's going to a Christmas fair   Oh I do love her x

I have the joys of supermarket shopping as having been away for over 3 weeks my cupboards look like Old Mother Hubbards.   I hate shopping.

The Lone Ranger wrote:

Visited gaelic corner one night and asked the young singer if he would sing it for me "aye right " he said "piano man on the guitar" but he did it later and it is the best version L have ever heard

I've just given Halifax the boot concerning my buildings insurance, they upped it by £30+ this year to £257. Wasn't having it, so visited one of those compare sites and got both Building and Contents for £170 from Churchill Plus. I could have went with the basic Churchill at £114 but it wouldn't have covered accidental damage or garden and shed etc. This is a first for me, I'm 61 and never had contents insurance in my life! Saved £87 and gained Contents. Halifax, greedy bassas!

I was with AA for house insurance for years, when I first looked for it they were the best price, every year when the renewal notice came in there was on increase in price, if increase was in line with inflation  I accepted it, if I felt it was a bit over the top I would phone them and they normally came up with what I thought was a more realistic price, this went on for many years then Annie bought her house so had to fix out building insurance as well as contents insurance, she went on one of them comparison sites got insurance for a fraction of what I was paying, so next time mine was due I done the same, got better cover for 75% less than the AA were quoting, I now search out best deal each year, stuff loyalty the robbing bas#ards...

More than at home, my broker couldn't touch it, insured an apartment at the bank this morning, but I said I want to transfer some euros home at no cost, which she did, today has been busy day,but for once everything completed, be a bassa Tomoro
 you watch 

Have you bought any Christmas gifts of the Chinese yet?

This year we haven't paid any one the asking price for anything house/contents insurance, telephone/internet,boiler maintenance, car insurance and mobile phone contract we just told them we could get it cheaper elsewhwere and they all cut the price to what we said we could get it for, it's dog eat dog out there.

Going out for lunch with janets work mate, I have to behave and keep my mouth shut    I can't believe after all these years she needs to tell me 

i cant believe it myself. the cheek of her !

Freds car broke down last night. Havent rescued it yet. He has taken my newly mended Panda today. He better not break that again.

Just home from nativity play. you would have liked it Vince, it was all about multiculturalism and how they celebrate xmas in australia, poland, malawi and ireland

Sitting in traffic tonight ,looked at the back end of the wee car in front of me "Vauxhall Viva" had to look twice but it really was a Viva, must have re-launched the name

I had a viva estate in the late 70s! Maroon or plum or summat...

Down in Aldershot in the 60s 90% of mini cabs were Vivas

My folks got a new case worker from the HSE ( Health Service Executive) last week. I was talking to her on Tuesday. I was talking to the psychiatric nurse for the elderly from their team on Wed. The two ladies were visiting my folks yesterday. Then, yesterday evening, I got a call from their community nurse as well. All of them asked me What I thought of the situation. I unloaded ( not angry) on them all and told them myself and 2 brothers were at the end of our tethers and all 3 of us are now on antidepressants. Got a phone call today that after reviewing their case and metting my folks, they all agreed more care was needed so, in the new year, my folks are getting 2 hours every morning, 1 in the afternoon and 2 every evening, 7 days a week! They also said that my parents need 24 hour care which I said, tell me something I don't know, but this will take a lot of the pressure off us in the short term. . On the other hand, my mum didn't know my brothers wife last week even though she sees her at least twice a month. I told Jim, my brother, that its not a bad thing if she is deteriorating that fast. I could add more "clapping smileys" here but that wouldn't be  ah feck it, 

Good news Dermo!