Losing it?

[Eric The Viking]

The Domestic Controller is away with #1 daughter, oldest is in Scotland (trumpet packed in carry-on notwithstanding), leaving me with littlest.

And the house, all on my own. Scary.

Anyway, we both had a great afternoon yesterday down at Yandles, and came away with some oak and purpleheart for fun (too weird to resist - is it really used for jetty pilings, as the book says?!?).

I got littlest to go round smelling the wood. She likes cedar (no surprise), and we agreed purpleheart smells disgusting, despite its appearance. Went back over the levels in the dusk, and spotted a doe and faun fairly close up on the way home (littlest was entranced). Altogether it was a great day (despite the Score, later on).

But this morning I'm (a) trying to hide the wood, and (b) tidy up before the DC gets home. So in a moment of sheer madness, whilst cleaning the bowels of the microwave (debris from that volcano, I think) and then scrubbing the surfaces, I caught myself wondering if I ought go get the polishing bonnet out, to get a better shine on the worktops.

It quite took me aback. Am I losing the plot?

 

[StevieB]

Yes! Don't hide the wood - littlest will only tell anyway and it then makes it twice as bad since you tried to hide it (DAMHIKT) :wink:

Steve

 

[studders]

Am I losing the plot?

Not at all, and remember the rules of survival

1) Anything missing or broken - Blame it on the Kid

2) If the Kid says it wasn't them - tell them 'tis just plain wrong to lie.

 

[frugal]

So in a moment of sheer madness, whilst cleaning the bowels of the microwave (debris from that volcano, I think) and then scrubbing the surfaces, I caught myself wondering if I ought go get the polishing bonnet out, to get a better shine on the worktops.

It quite took me aback. Am I losing the plot?

I have caught myself doing the washing up and wondering if I should get the polishing mops out to polish up the sink; or wondering what secondary bevel to put on the garden shears when I sharpen them.

Last week at work a colleague jokingly asked if I had started self harming when they saw the scratches on my arm where I had been testing the sharpness of a chisel and it had dug in on the corners

 

[Digit]

You lot can't have been married very long if you think you can get away with anything! :lol:
My missus can remember every mistake I ever made, (plus some I didn't I think!)

Roy.

 

[Eric The Viking]

You lot can't have been married very long if you think you can get away with anything! :lol:
My missus can remember every mistake I ever made, (plus some I didn't I think!)

Roy.

You're right.

Only 26 years in two weeks' time. :lol:

But we have our ups and downs too. I think the trick is... heck I don't know.
I do know not to 'push the envelope' though!

 

[wizer]

Am I losing the plot?

Not at all, and remember the rules of survival

1) Anything missing or broken - Blame it on the Kid

2) If the Kid says it wasn't them - tell them 'tis just plain wrong to lie.

and I thought you didn't DO rules?

oh and...

Am I losing the plot?

..yep...

 

[studders]

and I thought you didn't DO rules?

Desperately tries to think up an excuse or get out clause.........


Fails..


OK, it's a fair Cop, ya got me fair n square on that one ......





Damn n blast it.