Elite Thread XIX

Good morning, what a lovely story. It just goes to show that a few words of encouragement go along way.

Tweets lovely painting you must be delighted, when's your carpet being fitted do you know yet?

Morning all.

Tweets, that looks great! The last time I had a new carpet they wanted to charge me for removing the old one so I did it myself. I was particularly glad I’d done it as I removed all the staples which were keeping it in place and hoovered thoroughly too. I’m sure they would have put the new underlay on top of all the mess!

I also like the green contrast. I’ve painted my hallway a vivid colour and really struggled to get a carpet to match. In the end I went for contrast and it works very well.

Thanks bb!

Stopping scammers must be so rewarding!

Glad. Lil miss is feeling better but she needs to go slow!

Hugs and loves to all needed or not and extra squishes going too xxx

Good morning all, sunny one here

Thank you for the cuppa BB I think we need more people like you in the world, stopping scammers and motivating people like that It is bloody hard work running your own company, but it is worthwhile and you are doing something you WANT to do for yourself. I bet your mate is extremely grateful to you. Blad little miss is feeling better, hopefully it will sort all her symptoms.

Well, think I am making progress on the bathroom front. Previously it was "if you want a bath we might as well keep this one", so I went drastic and told him I wanted to rip out the bath and have just a shower, and yes, it would have been nice, and I would have been delighted if he had gone with that but realistically there's a lot of things we use the bath for. He now thinks he has talked me down from this whereby, in reality, I really want a bath with a squarer end so I can get closer to the shower, and I want one that will go lower than our current one, and shorter. It is a very strange space, so it cannot easily be a normal length bath, so we might as well go short. And he has agreed to that so we might actually make further progress, which involves removing tiles off plasterboard, which also means almost certainly replacing the plasterboard. Last time he did that he replaced half a sheet so the tiling was uneven, this time I shall have to accidentally make a hole high up on the wall, wish me luck

Isn't it awful how we have to be so devious to get our way

Anyway, must go and see if I have any sandals suitable for wearing for going out tomorrow.

mattswife I get so mad when I hear of people getting scammed, that programme in the morning and the romance ones aswell

These poor vulnerable people pulled in and conned.

Not sure i ever said I used to work for a taxi business, got call from "windows" saying computers been infected.. really I says ... do you want a taxi I repeated over and over ? He hung up.

Well we had 4 numbers ... Next phone rings. Mr windows again... me do you want a taxi ?

3rd phone rings ... yeah me again I say. I swear he must have thought I was only person answering our local dialling code. I had visions of him tearing up that sheet of numbers lol

Good morning. Thank you for tea and crumpets, bananababe.

You have so much going on and still have time to make breakfast.

Exciting times with your new job starting shortly and your OH's 50th birthday.

Hoping Little Miss makes a full recovery soon.

You are a diligent and inspiring lady.

Olympic Opening Ceremony on the Seine later, all being well.

Have a fabulous day, everyone.

Love and hugs. xx

Right, must go and see if I can find some new sandals. Such a shame, we girls really have to suffer .............

I did have a scam email about my tv licence some months ago. I had to go online and find my actual one to confirm it was a different account number. That’s been the most convincing attempt at a scam email I’ve seen. They really do come at you from all angles.

I subscribe to Which? scams email, this is a free service.  act.which.co.uk/page/103781/data/1

Guy coming today measuring up with quote i have found doing things back to front suits me better lol

TM thank you

Glad your mate got her money back

Hope all goes well next week BB work , in laws and big birthday

Hope you get your new bath Enterprise and find some sandals

I couldnt live with a walk in shower love my bubble baths too much

Oh got a lie in 6.45am told Rosie she was a very good girl but try harder til gone 8.30am tomorrow lol

We have always taken carpets up. We remove any staples and epically upstairs I disinfect all floorboards. 
Some time back we had a bedroom to carpet we did the usual …remove staples disinfect etc. There was a nail in the middle of the floor to which my OH struggled to get out. Instead of removing he hammered it in. He went straight through a central heating pipe. I had water pouring through downstairs in my toilet. Not end of story here….he removed the nail making it absolutely pour out. He was like the little boy in the dyke putting his finger in the hole shouting instructions to me. 😂 Lesson learned 🤣

I can see that would be very restrictive, however you always manage a sunny disposition for us all each day. Its appreciated.

I'm sorry you've gone through that. I can only imagine as someone who has IBS , a tiny bit of what you've suffered.

I got my haircut too this week and coloured. It's a little dark for my liking. Hoping it fades out a bit.

We are going over to Little miss to hang rest of wardrobes door. She had open wardrobes but says she's older now and wants things out if sight. How they grow.

I think the elite is a good place to distract yourself and share any concerns. Makes you feel like you're at a big coffee morning. ☕

m123 my father would say at things like that ... "you'll no do that twice"