New Year's Resolutions?

[Nigel Watts]

My provisional long list:

- Finish my wife's bathroom (or at least start it)
- Fix the subsidence problem and get my wife's study back into action
- Mend the old (7 years) bathroom
- Redecorate the hall
- Get the outside painted
- Fit solar panels
- Finish my curtains
- Make a dress for my wife
- Start making clothes for myself
- Reassemble my sister's clock mechanism which I took apart for mending some months ago, and get it working again
- Find a new job
- Be more sociable, especially with like minded people such as those who post here
- Lose at least a stone and stay at the lower weight

I am starting to feel tired

 

[Lime]

Do more.

 

[JoceAndChris]

1) Start, finish hall.
2) Remove all concrete and cement.
3) Learn lime pointing and plastering, do kitchen.
4) Make curtains for porch, hall, top bedroom, kitchen.
5) Repair all windows.
6) Sell husband's superflous vehicles, spend money on shoes, diamonds.
7) Expand livestock.
8) Hatch, rear, sell chicks.
9) Continue campaign of aggressive social climbing and go to hunt balls, shooting parties etc.
10) Have big PPUK party.
11) Understand architecture and be able to spout knowledgeably.
12) Go to Belton House.
13) Charity shop everything that hasn't been used in the last year.
14) Train to be a solicitor.

 

[Inspector John]

Smile and acknowledge other road users.

 

[skier-hughes]

Finish the kitchen
Finish the bedroom
Get central heating installed
Start and finish bathroom
Start Jo's office
Get planning permission for wood store, balcony and garage/office complex
Maybe start on above

Graham

 

[Penners]

Smile and acknowledge other road users.

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Well, there's one New Year Resolution doomed to immediate failure.

Mine is simple:

Find time to stand and stare.

 

[Flyfisher]

Keep calm and carry on.

 

[Nigel Watts]

6) Sell husband's superflous vehicles, spend money on shoes, diamonds.

How many has he got?

Saw this in Bentley & Skinner's window just before Xmas (the emeralds are a better colour in real life):

 

[Nigel Watts]

Oh I forgot to mention the price: £97,500.

 

[Feltwell]

6) Sell husband's superflous vehicles, spend money on shoes

There's no such thing as superflous vehicles. Merely ones not currently in operation.

More than 3 pairs of shoes (and I count my work boots in those) is excessive though. :wink:

 

[Feltwell]

Back to resolutions:-

- Finish garage

- Sort out attic room bedroom for my daughter

- Support Mrs F more with the kids

- Make garden at least passably respectable

- Don't buy any more bits for new projects when existing projects have not been completed

Keeping it short this year, more chance of achieving them! (except the last one, always my downfall...)

I'm impressed with Nigel's sewing ambitions. I'll quite happily have a go at pretty much anything to do with building or mechanics, but just the thought of a needle and thread terrifies me. All that room decoration and finishing touches stuff - just not me at all (unless it's for the kids, when strangely it's fun. Who says men are big kids at heart?)

I dread to think what my house would look like if I was a bachelor.

 

[Feltwell]

Oh I forgot to mention the price: £97,500.

I presume it's not also available at Elizabeth Duke at Argos then?

 

[JoceAndChris]

:lol:

Feltwell, you are sooo wrong about cars/shoes, but never mind.

Oh, oh, oh- that necklace - I know I haven't been invited to the hunt ball yet but it's just perfect! (though would be even better if the green emeralds were changed to brown diamonds)

Very impressed with everyone's resolutions - good luck! I think we're going to need it!

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Finish the steps between lounge and utility room;

Caulk around all the wood that has shrunk this year;

Make register plate for chimbly;

Do porch and office above - including lime plastering porch;

Make door for lounge that Biff or Andrew wouldn't laugh at;

Finish floor in dining room;

Appreciate decent wine and coffee more;

Make NT membership worthwhile by visiting more than the usual 3 local properties;

Accompany Joce to Hunt Ball (if Chris is busy!);

Get Stag going properly and MOT it;

Grow next year's Christmas lunch - veg, pigs and geese;

Saviour the moment of voting in the General Election and the small part played in seeing the back of our Dear Leader.

 

[robgil]

i am going to try and do less to gain more.
if that doesn't work then i shall do more to try not to gain less.
and if that doesn't work i shall do less trying to do more to gain less and hopefully as a result gain more.
and if that doesn't work i shall stop trying less to do more to gain less and do less to try to gain more by way of doing less to gain more by doing less.
and if that doesn't work i shall do nothing at all.

 

[JoceAndChris]

robgil- that sounds very complicated! I just think you should give that cat more prawns.

Accompany Joce to Hunt Ball (if Chris is busy!);

Ooh yes please. You must bring me violets for my furs, however, and be very expert at the waltz and the cha cha cha.

 

[MdB]

:lol:

Feltwell, you are sooo wrong about cars/shoes, but never mind.

Feltwell, you are sooo right about cars/shoes, but never mind.

(I'm off shopping tomorrow and no I'm not about to buy another set of shoes / boots. Three is enough.)

 

[FamilyWiggs]

(I'm off shopping tomorrow and no I'm not about to buy another set of shoes / boots. Three is enough.)

I'm intrigued by the suggestion that 3 shoes is enough; left, right and what is the third? :?:

3 socks I can understand (2 on and one in the wash) - but 3 shoes???

 

[LadyArowana]

Smile and acknowledge other road users.

Are you missing the phrase "by using more than one or two fingers" from your resolution for a reason ?

I'm intrigued by the suggestion that 3 shoes is enough; left, right and what is the third? :?:

3 socks I can understand (2 on and one in the wash) - but 3 shoes???

Left, right, and one for the chimney of your period property according to http://www.apotropaios.co.uk/concealed_shoes.htm

 

[Feltwell]

:lol:

Feltwell, you are sooo wrong about cars/shoes, but never mind.

Feltwell, you are sooo right about cars/shoes, but never mind.

I'm lucky, Mrs F doesn't get the whole "must have wardrobe full of shoes" thing either.