Sunday
No overtime this week so the usual walk with the dog after work. It is quite nice to get out normally. But we set foot out the door with a blue sky and within less than two minutes we had a total white out with snow. Twenty minutes of a walk and nearly two inches of snow had fallen.
winter is still here |
Monday
Had won a prize back in November from musclefood it turned up today but had cost me £1.50 in excess postage as they underpaid on it, prize itself was worth less than £2 so I was not at all amused. Have pm'd them on Facebook and they offered me £10 off of an order, but need to spend more than £10 before I can claim the discount and also need to pay postage. Apparently they did this to quite a few others as well. Others got offered higher amounts but regardless it is not acceptable policy and I feel well conned.
excess postage to pay |
Tuesday
DD1's birthday. We have a firm believe in our family that a birthday is not a birthday without a cake. So Fifi had said she was going to make her mum a Harry Potter cake, but she went away for a long weekend and then went to her friends overnight on Monday. So DD3 messaged me to ask me to pick one up for her, so we got another picture cake from Intercake, their cakes taste great, are good value for money and you can personalise it with a picture of your choice and then add borders, writing etc.
I feel cake decoration manufacturers should make + and - signs so she could have had 40-1, just cos I am rotten like that....lol
Happy birthday DD1 |
Wednesday
Blew a gale and snowed on and off most of the day. So got in plenty of cross stitching and competition entering done. Dixie loves to spend time sitting in the sun (when it comes out) on the back of the couch. Does tend to woof a bit at some of the people passing but not at them all.
Watching out the window |
Thursday
This little madam likes to chew anything she can pick up, and likes to pick up lots of things. Today she decided she would start on this mornings post.
Little Madam!!! |
Friday
Have had a few nasty patches of eczema on the palms of my hands for about three months now. Nearly gone, an awful lot better than they have been. Been using steroids twice a day and a good quality moisturiser about thirty times a day. No wonder parents cannot get children cleared up as I never thought to moisturise my kids every half hour when they had flare ups. Being on my hands does not help right enough as getting wet regularly.
I like this cream |
Saturday
DD2, SIL2, Ziggy and the dog down for a few hours today, going out tonight and then back here to sleep. We went for a walk down the park to exercise the dogs and get Ziggy some fresh air and exercise
Was a good test for Dixie having more than one person and another dog here at the same time. She was popped into her cage with the door left open for her a few times for getting herself distressed but calmed down quickly enough and came back out when she wanted too.
Ziggy on the slide with Dixie and Granddad |
I have eczema on my hands too, so literally feel your pain! On bad days they end up so swollen I can barely bend my fingers and I have about 30 cuts on them. I'm constantly moisturising too!
ReplyDeleteI can't believe how quickly that snow fell! I would have been very annoyed about the prize and the postage.
your hands sound really sore, ;luckily for me it is just the palms.
DeleteI've seen that quite a few have been caught out by Musclefood. Very naughty of them. Hope you get something out of them.
ReplyDeleteYes there was a fair few of us caught out, sadly it gives them a bad reputation, but if they do reimburse me I will blog that as well.
DeleteYou had snow! Lucky you! We haven't had any at all here. Lol @ Little Madam and the morning post for breakfast. I know what you mean by kids and eczema, it is very tricky. My younger one has it on his legs and arms, I tend to emolliate his skin twice a day, and we keep it under some control, but it's a problem. And what a shame about the underpaid postage.
ReplyDeletethink every body but us has had lots of snow this week.
DeleteOh wow! That is a lot of snow...
ReplyDeleteEek! I would be annoyed too about that competition win. It really wasn't much of a win and seems more like a con.
Happy birthday to your daughter. hehehe The cake sounds fab.
I hope it wasn't anything important in the letter that Dixie was ripping open x
thank fully the letter was still readable
DeleteHope your eczema is better soon. My OH gets it badly in the winter and it always looks so painful. We've had lots of snow this week. I reeeeallt want spring to be on its way!
ReplyDeletethink a lot of us are awaiting Spring
DeleteOh my goodness that is sho king about the bar you eon and having to pay for postage! I would have just left it. I was once picking up a blog post review of illustrations but from America so they stick on £14 worth of fees. I left them at the post office for about a month before I sorted it all out o was so angry. I 100% agree on the birthday cake theory! #365
ReplyDeletesadly did not know who it was from until after I had got it, thought it might have been from DS1 as he has a habit of that
DeleteSuch a shame about Muscle food - hope you get it sorted. Naught Dixie with the post! #365
ReplyDeletewell they tell me they will, we will wait and see
DeleteThat is disgusting of Musclefood to do that. I wouldn't have been happy either!! You seem to be getting lots of snow!
ReplyDeleteNo they had a lot of complaints, and rightly so.
DeleteI'm glad Dixie is settling down nicely with other people, oops though to the chewing of the post. My hands have had a couple of flareups from the cold since I've been back in the UK and I keep forgetting to moisturise #365
ReplyDeleteI am bad for not moisturising most of the time but really have no choice but to do it
DeleteShame on Musclefood :( My eczema is terrible this winter so I hope yours gets better soon #project365
ReplyDeleteyes this cold weather is not helping with the eczema
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