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Achievements For The Day 2012
Sun 1-Jan-12
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Michelle from Oregon
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Only just 10pm here, but it's New Year over there so...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!

Here's hoping it is a good, safe, prosperous new year for us all!

big_hug smooch magic rose peace star cheers wine champagne medicine sloe_gin

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Sun 1-Jan-12
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Im up with grandson, ive got a big stew to put on , scones to bake . then im putting my wellies on and pottering in the garden with my small assistant . Having first turned off my phone so i dont have to go and collect my hungover daughter from wherever she ended up last night !!!

Sun 1-Jan-12
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kayerunrig said:

Having first turned off my phone so i dont have to go and collect my hungover daughter from wherever she ended up last night !!!

Grandma duties....ah well, their day will come....big_hugbig_hug  Enjoy your stew and watch the faces as some can't manage it....big_laughbig_laugh

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Sun 1-Jan-12
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I have recieved my first christmas card of the year

it may have taken the pretty route

thanks Michele i will put it up ready for the christmas festivities to come okkiss

sit down with a cupa and the urge will subside

Sun 1-Jan-12
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A Happy New Year to everyone on the Forum.

May it be a healthy, prosperous and happy year for you all.   champagne


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Sun 1-Jan-12
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Oops. I overdid it on the amber nectar sloe_gin last night and fell asleep on the sofa after the fireworks from London (weren't they especially fab!). Woke up at 6 and crawled to bed. didn't attempt to change into nightclothes even. eeek what_the_heck

On my third coffee and life is returning to my brain. Hand-eye coordination is approaching 80% and improving.

First achievement of 2012 is posting this. ok

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Sun 1-Jan-12
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I'm impressed big_laugh

I am up and dressed, isn't that enough for the the first day of 2012?

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Sun 1-Jan-12
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Our joint achievement as a household was to lie-in till 11.  big_laugh That may sound like an odd thing to call an achievement, but in a house full of cats who wake you for breakfast when then get hungry by jumping on you, biting your ear or patting your nose with a paw - claws extended - and a dog who wakes you up by barking when he needs to go to the loo, it's rare we ever sleep beyond 8 a.m., no matter how late we went to bed!

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Sun 1-Jan-12
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I have 2 cockerals and 4 indoor cats, I know the feeling! Did you drug them all ? big_laughbig_laugh

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elrohana said:

 cats who wake you for breakfast when then get hungry by jumping on you, biting your ear or patting your nose with a paw - claws extended

F used to have a cat named Faro before my time who would wake her by putting his paw inside her open mouth when the opportunity arose big_laugh

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Sun 1-Jan-12
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All up for breakfast about 11. Son was the only one who stayed up till midnight. Daughter reported hearing tiny rodent-y feet overhead in the night, so I think that means sending son into to loft to put down poison. cat needed, but I don't know one I could borrow for a few days!

P felt like having some exercise and went out when the rain was at its worst eeek to partially dig out a stump so it can be chainsawed off as low as possible tomorrow.

Sun 1-Jan-12
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I have some very good mousers, I'll ask if any of them feel like a holiday catbig_laugh

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Sun 1-Jan-12
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Happy New Year, everyone.

Over Christmas, I got Skype set up on my Dad's computer so we could do video chats. Shortly after midnight this morning, we got a video call and answered it and waved and shouted Happy New Year to my parent. All we could hear was my mum repeatedly saying 'no sound'. We called them back on a different computer but got the same thing.

I ended up writing 'Turn the speakers on' on a piece of paper and holding it up in front of the webcam. Somehow this managed to sort it out and they managed to hear us properly wink

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Sun 1-Jan-12
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Bless 'em! big_laugh

I'll try that again!

Sun 1-Jan-12
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we use skype lots for keeping in touch with family and friends as it is free. Well done for sorting the problem, at least they had the camera working which our son always has problems with!

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