Xmas Baked Bean Jigsaw

This year we got off to a slow start. Beginning. With the edges proved impossible. So our eldest son began with cutlery whilst I tackled the edge of the plate. All done in about 30 mins.

B t w, still not found that well hidden present.

Should Mrs Tara Plumbing ask Santa for Bigger Breasts?

Today Mr TP sent me a txt to make sure I had heard the news about the cancer health scare related to some silicon implants.
To add that he is perfectly happy with my little ones!
Reminds me of Jim Royale saying he’d love to get Barbara an enhancement for Christmas!
I often wonder if those who have sculpted the shape of the artificial implants were inspired by Henry Matisse. When I first became familiar with his 1910 painting Dance ( see it here: http://www.henri-matisse.net/paintingssectiontwo.html) I was struck by the fact that the boobs were the wrong shape and in the wrong place.
Younger people who have grown up with the very modern image of women’s figures might not even know what I’m talking about!
Discuss.

Where Did I Hide Mr Tara Plumbing’s Xmas Pressy?

I got him a great gift – one of those things that he would never think about buying but will give him many hours of enjoyment.
It was also great cos it cost about £2!
But it is really tiny and I hid it somewhere and I can’t remember where?
I’ve been searching for a couple of weeks now…
And I think I just may never see it again.
I can get another – from ebay- but, of course, not in time for xmas.

Any one else have the same problem?
I’ll tell you what it is after I have managed to give him one….!

New Boiler Needed Urgently just Before Christmas when old one completely dies…

How can Tara plumbing & heating fit a new boiler at a days notice in the week before Xmas? Well, I don’t want to be sexist BUT it’s because the boiler installers are MEN!

As everyone knows, men leave all their Christmas preparations until just days before the 25th. They plan to have a day or two off this week and wander aimlessly around the shops (for 45 minutes or so). They then seek specialist advice on how to get through the festive holiday from their trusted mentors, also known as the guys in the pub.

This means if some last minute emergencies crop up the heating engineers will be available to install new boilers right up to and including Christmas eve. So long as they can get into Tesco and or Argos about 30 minutes before it is due to close, where they can buy up flowers, chocolates and other luxuries which are marked up by 100% especially because the store manager knew those men were coming.

On the other hand. If you asked a woman, especially a mother, if she is suddenly available for a days work this week….? I wouldn’t dare ask!

If you need one Mr TP & fellow MEN can fit a new boiler (emergency only) this week in Thanet, Ramsgate, Margate, Broadstairs, Whitstable, Sittingbourne, Faversham, Sandwich and surrounding area.

We’re Selling a Pile of Old Junk on Ebay if You want Some!

Dress it up in fancy terms if you like. Antique, salvaged, preloved, retro, vintage…
Do you know there is a reason they don’t still make those old 1970s-80s toys & games: because modern stuff is better.

If that old vintage/retro/ modern-antique game or toy of nostalia was all that good some company would still be making it and selling it new on Amazon & in Smyths for a nice profit.

Fortunately for me, sitting in my home surrounded by a pile of old junk, there are people out there with more money than sense! And with fond memories of childhood xmases. They are monitoring their WATCH LISTS and calculating their max bids. Fine for the over 40s but I hope they don’t expect to impress any young people with this stuff. Because it really is unimpressive by modern standards.
(I am guilty though – Later I will tell you what old games I remember)

Who wants a 1990s Nintendo Game Boy when you can have a 2011 Nintendo 3DS, infact even an old obsolite DS of 5 years ago is better than the Game Boy.
I loved tetris too but you can get it in modern formats…

My own childhood & teenage years memories are filled with the extended family sitting and playing the card game cheat. All you need are lots of people and two packs of cards (no good with a small number). Also Great Game Of Britain. A brilliant fun board game – which I believe is still in production – therefore – proves my point.

Are there Complaints in Ramsgate’s Waitrose?

O confusion. Thank goodness the shop is small and staff are plenty and exceptionally helpful.
They have rearranged the store!
O horror.
i used to know where I could find everything I wanted with my eyes shut. Now the soya milk is on the wrong side of the wrong isle.
It was bad enough a couple of years ago when they rearranged fruit and veg.

The thing is the sort of people who shop in Waitrose either like tradition, find change difficult to cope with, or are in such a hurry that they want everything easy to find in a small shop. If we wanted shopping to be hard work we’d go to Tesco Extra at westwood cross! – Or perhaps that is just Me.

Complaints aside….Exceptional quality, value for money, stuff I can’t find anywhere else and unbelievably good customer service – all mean I will carry on going there. Plus it is by far the nearest most convenient supermarket to my home.

Coffee & sex anyone? Condiments & Costa for me!

I’ll go to Costa, not Starbucks, and only with men who use condiments.  Most striking news of the day is that some coffee shops deliver far more caffeine in their beverages.  Perhaps that might also correspond with why some taste so much nicer and Starbucks is just undrinkable, in my opinion!

More news this week about HIV. When I was a youngster in the 1980s and 1990s there was lots of information about HIV and I think most adults has some idea of the risks. Nowadays it is rarely in the news so you might think there is some cure or vaccine but there is not.

You might be surprised to know

• the number of people in the UK with HIV is around 90,000 and that is about 20,000 more than just 5 years ago.
• In 2010 there were 5,627 new HIV diagnoses in England alone (not the whole UK) of which almost half was passed via heterosexual sex.
• Finally about a quarter of people who are HIV positive do not even know that they are.

A few days ago there was news that it is better to find out sooner rather than later that you are HIV + because there is medicine which may help you live a longer and healthier life.
Today the new is about healthcare workers with HIV.