Another mad week

[jacey]

Best Beloved's 60th Birthday party on Saturday - catering by me involving cake baking (tick), cupcake making (tick), trifle making (half-tick), shopping for buffet ingredients, meats, cheeses, quiches etc. (tomorrow morning)

Trip to Wakefield on Wednesday to buy fabric for wedding outfits for Number One Daughter's wedding (for me and mum). (tick). Actual sewing - timescale 2 weeks. Sewing by me.

Hair permed (not a DIY job) (tick).

Wedding cakes (3) made and sent to be iced. One job done.(tick).

House tidying. (Err... sometime.)

Oh and - yes - the day job.

Comments

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Did you get your daughter's dress sorted out in the end?

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

The second one she bought - a floaty Jenny Packham dress, second-hand but in mint condition - is perfect, but we haven't really got satisfaction from the first one. The dress shop - Eva Lazio Bridal Couture - insisted on being allowed to alter the dress to 'fit' (which is what they'd contracted to do) and indeed they did manage to make is wide enough on the waist - though you can see 'tramlines' - albeit faint and the seam allowance holding the dress together must now be microscopic. However they added 2 inches all the way up the bodice - and the bust/cups were already a bit too big. The woman stuffed the cups with quilting wadding and told G it gave her a nice 'shape'. G said she felt like a bad Dolly Parton impersonator. She has a frontage that's little bigger than two fried eggs, but she's a tiny doll-like size and she's not looking to get married in a pair of falsies. She'd like to walk down the aisle looking like herself, please.

Anyhow, last we heard the woman at the shop thought she might have another customer for the dress - which would solve the problem, but G is currently £1,000 down on the deal.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Wow! You are being so productive! I am impressed. All I've been doing is marking assignments and a bit of light tidying.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

It's ne of those times when I've no choice about being productive! Too much to do and not enough pairs of hands to do it.
:-)

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, you can do a lot when you have too much to do and an immovable deadline!

The most organised I've ever been for Christmas was the year I was expecting my son and my due date was 25th December. :)

Take care of yourself and don't overdo things.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

When we used to be on the road with the Christmas show each year we used to be gigging from the last weekend in November through to (often) the 23rd December, so we'd arrive home in the early hours of 24th and then have to make a start on Christmas. We always managerd - and sometimes we had large numbers of people arriving for Christmas Dinner (14 one year).

I used to do my Christmas shopping all over the country. Between setting up the stage in the early afternoon and doing soundchecks around 6.00 I'd nip out to the shops - especially good when we played places like Worcester (which is brilliant for Christmas Shopping and the theatre backs right on to the shopping precinct).

On the day of the last gig I'd try and make sure we stopped off at a supermarket for some last minute essentials so I arrived home ready to rock and toll in the kitchen.

When the kids were the right age they'd have been organised by Grandma to put up some decorations.

And then on Christmas Eve morning BB would dash out to find a tree and I'd start on the cooking. Many years the stairs didn't get hoovered but - what the hell - we still had a good Christmas.

Hello

[whittering.livejournal.com]

It feels very strange in here. Tiny boxes and then I discover I wasn't 'verifried'
Great to see you today, although not for the reason but all the same. I am falling asleep here but don't want to go to bed. Daft b****r really.
Tomorrow is my day off and I am going to buy roofing felt for the shed, such excitement is hard to contain you know. I am looking forward to when I can call it a log cabin. Thinking of putting a porch on it and a rocking chair.
Five minutes later and the head hit's the deck so I am saying goodnight.

Re: Hello

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Goodnight!
Yes it was lovely to see you yesterday - even though the circumstances were sad. Shame it takes a funeral to get so many of us together.