Moaning thread

Meant to say, "risk tinting them"!!

Have you tried using a mascara with a thin plastic (the swear word of the moment) wand Marydoll ? I have quite fine eyelashes and struggle with those wide bristly things.

Right, I've got to have a moan now. 20 minutes ago I got a phone-call from my power company---" am I going to pay my bill and how am I going to pay it ?" What ? I've only had the bill for a week, I'll be going to the bank next week to pay it so what was/is their problem ?

This really got my back up and I was about to toast my crumpets so I'll hang on until my angst has gone. Cheeky beggars, nobody has ever rang me up reminding me to get my bill paid so the chap on the other end got short shrift.

I would be very wary of those sorts of calls EllanVannin I posted a couple of weeks ago about someone trying to get my dad to pay a bill (he didn’t even know existed) over the phone. They were most insistent and even threatened to send bailiffs if he didn’t pay there and then. Thank goodness he didn’t fall for it.

Gillybob, I've just been pondering that call as all the years I've been with this company, they've never rang as I've always had a letter reminding me.
I didn't give any information---just a few swear words and asked if this was something new. Whoever it was got an ear-bashing anyway.
What I will do is check the phone number to see which area it came from.

It was Scottish Power btw.

I was supposed to be doing something, it is cancelled. I have a hideous family visit on the horizon, Mr. Less is still jolly and somebody is getting their car valeted outside....hideous jarring noise.

I've done a trace on the phone number and apparently it's an unscrupulous debt company involved in fraud in Redditch.
It's a clever scam so beware----01527419014.

Had a flood in loft nine weeks ago , all three bedrooms have bare brick walls after having plaster stripped off, all furniture in storage apart from a bunk bed which is really uncomfortable . Went to bed really tired last week as I closed the curtains the whole lot came away from the wall ,bought an inflatable bed which was fine for four nights then started to deflate at eleven thirty at night so had to make up bed on lounge floor with settee cushions. Let's hope replacement stays up!!

These kind of scams must be doing the rounds EllanVannin . It worries me that someone might be panicked or feel threatened enough to give their card details out to them. I wanted my dad to inform the police but he wouldn’t . There are some evil people around .

When fake tans first came out Marydoll my sister was dying to try them but Mum said they were too expensive and far too frivolous.

So my sister stole a whole box of PG Tips from the pantry, filled the bath with hot water, dumped the tea bags in and sat in it for an hour.

Of course she totally forgot her face.

It took years for the stains on the bath to wear off, despite a furious Mum and a lot of Jif.

This afternoon, my friend took one look at my tanning efforts and tried hard not to laugh.
She has advised me to slap some more on!
Oh dear! I'm going to have to cover myself up with a black bin bag at this wedding tomorrow!

Registering a new credit card this afternoon I somehow manage to mess up the endless codes they kept sending me for online services/app etc., etc.,

Locked myself out for 24 hrs.

Good start eh?

I was like that with online banking.
I think I managed to actually get into my account once, and spent the rest of the time trying to remember my security question, whether my security picture was of monkeys or kittens..

Worry not about the tan marydoll, enjoy the wedding and please tell us all about it.

Sorry if that’s too positive for this thread so back on topic, why oh why do family phone (hands feee) from their cars, break off and say ‘I’ll call you back’. Then don’t. Im trying hard not to picture a fleet of ambulances on the motorway

I'm now worrying about the forecast thunderstorms during the drive down to the weddings, on country roads.

Oh..... and the one eyebrow, tinted darker than the other. ?
Apart from that I'm fine!

Can you not just touch up the lighter eyebrow to match the darker one Marydoll although I appreciate that could go on for ever and ever......a little bit here, then a little bit there....oh no too much, I’ll just darken the other side.......

I hope the biscuit smell of false tan has worn off by now (I’m sure it must have ) but I bet the bed sheets are a bit of a mess

Anyway, I bet you look a million $’s . Have a billliant time !

We're off to visit my sister today. A 3 hour drive on various Mways - and it's bucketing down.

When the electric went off yesterday and thinking I'd had a fuse I started to blame that article who phoned me about my electric bill because I swore at him so much !!

Marydoll, get a mobile beautician round to help out?

The weather....need I say more.

I was going to moan about all my laundry getting wet, yet again but I caught it in time, so I don't suppose I've anything to moan about.

Except it wasn't quite dry, so now the house looks like a Chinese laundry with knickers draped over the backs of chairs and sheets hanging from the tops of doors.

Sounds just like mine BradfordLass . The over the door trick is brilliant. Towels and sheets are dry within hours.

High winds and rain here - and that leylandii in our neighbour's garden is still standing
The dead bits from it have blown into our garden which now looks as if it's covered in brown snow.

Be very careful with Scottish Power, EllenVannin.
I was billed for an account with them by someone using my address, bill addressed to the Occupier, and I was contacted by a debt collection agency, who actually were extremely polite when I phoned them back. But it took a whole day of my life to sort out with Scottish Power what had happened and get an apology.

My big moan: no one will give you their full name on the telephone; they had all my details on the screen in front of them but refused to give me more than their first name, for their protection, so almost impossible to identify. And they all had impenetrable scottish accents.

Ready for today's moan?

I wanted to make a small open spinach and cheese pie. The recipe, the one in my head, said it needed a pastry bottom (not unlike my own I suppose).


So I rolled it out, covered it with baking beans and popped it into the oven to par-bake.

Meanwhile I squeezed the spinach, made the cheese and onion sauce and sliced the (previously baked) potato which would go on the pastry and the top.

Then I made my favourite mixed, crispy salad to go with it.

But when I got the base out of the oven, the pastry had snuggled around and cuddled up to the bottom layer of baking beans, meaning I had to try and pick about 15 hot beans from the now cutely dimpled pastry.
Are they supposed to do this?

I had to unhygienically pat the pastry with my hand to make sure I'd got all the beans out, otherwise I may well have been reporting a broken tooth as well.