Yes folks, a hunting she is a'going in search of large dollops of moolah, dosh, loot, folding.. whatever you like to call it, she's after it tomorrow, she got the facts and figures in her brain and has been aided and abetted by Janice, the incoming President, enormously.
They are off on a banner jaunt next Tuesday to finalise the banner artwork and to sign it off, this gives the company the go-ahead to make it ~ as quickly as possible please!
All in all, it was a highly productive day, her Rotary cards arrived, chic and smart they are, clever Cousin Bruce!
She managed to find something for a friend which was supposedly 'not in stock', being nice to her suppliers and always paying their invoices as soon as they arrived has always paid huge dividends. They still say "Hi sweetie, how are you, what do you need / want" and she retired seven years ago!
So it was not a problem finding ten cards of a certain trim, she just rang the manufacturer direct and after a few Italian and English pleasantries were exchanged.. the conversation about the non-stock coloured trim resulted in the lovely words "course we will do that for you, send it to the client direct, no problem, when are you coming to see us again, it's been far too long and you'd be able to go to Madova as well!"
Ahhh.. they knew her well! For they're in Florence and they introduced her to the bestbest place for gloves.. beautiful coloured gloves in lots of different styles. MADOVA.. it's like entering a sweetie shop with little drawers full of heavenly treats!
She had the wrist strap on an old watch shortened, "how much" she asked her jeweller, who looked up and waved her out of the shop saying "bring me one of those delicious chocolate salami the next time you make some!"
Don't you love it when people are funny and nice!
Then she remembered she needed to mend an old necklace, carved ivory beads, goodness knows how old it is as she was given as a child by Flo, aka The Severe Pruning Company. She popped into a couple of the charity shops looking for a cheap necklace with a good clasp that she could use, she was looking for a 'Barrel' clasp.
The second shop she went into was the Heart Foundation, she had to pass the dresses to get to the jewellery and an assistant was hanging clothes onto the rail so she waited until she could pass.. then she saw it.. a cobalt blue and white stripe jersery dress with a white trim along the boat shaped neck.
Nice, she thought and took the dressdown from the rail.. even nicer.. Ralph Lauren still with its' Ralph Lauren shop label on it and in her size.. VERY nice and nicer still when on! And she found a pretty blue and white glass beaded necklace with the type of clasp she wanted for £1.99, the beads will go splendidly on a bracelet that she has to repair.
Back to the Library, after taking the box to be posted to Plymouth, no point in sending it First Class as it would arrive on Saurday, Second Class was just fine at £5.99 for a big box which weighed almost nothing!
There is in old WW, a lubbly-jubbly selection of books for the week end from the Library but we're going to be busy before we get there! I do wish that my tumtum feathers would hurry up and grow back.. they're taking a seriously long time.. and I kinda wish that I hadn't pulled ALL of them out.. sigh..
We had our supper really early, I am dozing whilst she taps this and we'll both be in bed before ten of the evening clock.
Yawn.. oh.. this will make you laugh. She used to be called Blondie by the 'boys' in Deptford at one the restoration studios. And you know that Craig the art teacher, who comes into the charity shop where she works, calls her Blondie.
And as she is the only blonde at Streatham Rotary.. that's now her nickname there as well! She roared with laughter upon receiving a financial file in the form of an email from her out-going President addressed to "Dearest Blonde"..
What a way to start our day.. with a grin and a chuckle!
GeeGee Parrot.
June 25th, 2015.
They are off on a banner jaunt next Tuesday to finalise the banner artwork and to sign it off, this gives the company the go-ahead to make it ~ as quickly as possible please!
All in all, it was a highly productive day, her Rotary cards arrived, chic and smart they are, clever Cousin Bruce!
She managed to find something for a friend which was supposedly 'not in stock', being nice to her suppliers and always paying their invoices as soon as they arrived has always paid huge dividends. They still say "Hi sweetie, how are you, what do you need / want" and she retired seven years ago!
So it was not a problem finding ten cards of a certain trim, she just rang the manufacturer direct and after a few Italian and English pleasantries were exchanged.. the conversation about the non-stock coloured trim resulted in the lovely words "course we will do that for you, send it to the client direct, no problem, when are you coming to see us again, it's been far too long and you'd be able to go to Madova as well!"
Ahhh.. they knew her well! For they're in Florence and they introduced her to the bestbest place for gloves.. beautiful coloured gloves in lots of different styles. MADOVA.. it's like entering a sweetie shop with little drawers full of heavenly treats!
She had the wrist strap on an old watch shortened, "how much" she asked her jeweller, who looked up and waved her out of the shop saying "bring me one of those delicious chocolate salami the next time you make some!"
Don't you love it when people are funny and nice!
Then she remembered she needed to mend an old necklace, carved ivory beads, goodness knows how old it is as she was given as a child by Flo, aka The Severe Pruning Company. She popped into a couple of the charity shops looking for a cheap necklace with a good clasp that she could use, she was looking for a 'Barrel' clasp.
The second shop she went into was the Heart Foundation, she had to pass the dresses to get to the jewellery and an assistant was hanging clothes onto the rail so she waited until she could pass.. then she saw it.. a cobalt blue and white stripe jersery dress with a white trim along the boat shaped neck.
Nice, she thought and took the dressdown from the rail.. even nicer.. Ralph Lauren still with its' Ralph Lauren shop label on it and in her size.. VERY nice and nicer still when on! And she found a pretty blue and white glass beaded necklace with the type of clasp she wanted for £1.99, the beads will go splendidly on a bracelet that she has to repair.
Back to the Library, after taking the box to be posted to Plymouth, no point in sending it First Class as it would arrive on Saurday, Second Class was just fine at £5.99 for a big box which weighed almost nothing!
There is in old WW, a lubbly-jubbly selection of books for the week end from the Library but we're going to be busy before we get there! I do wish that my tumtum feathers would hurry up and grow back.. they're taking a seriously long time.. and I kinda wish that I hadn't pulled ALL of them out.. sigh..
We had our supper really early, I am dozing whilst she taps this and we'll both be in bed before ten of the evening clock.
Yawn.. oh.. this will make you laugh. She used to be called Blondie by the 'boys' in Deptford at one the restoration studios. And you know that Craig the art teacher, who comes into the charity shop where she works, calls her Blondie.
And as she is the only blonde at Streatham Rotary.. that's now her nickname there as well! She roared with laughter upon receiving a financial file in the form of an email from her out-going President addressed to "Dearest Blonde"..
What a way to start our day.. with a grin and a chuckle!
GeeGee Parrot.
June 25th, 2015.
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