The revenge of the stripey socks - a DFW adventure

Pippilongstocking

fayjmck wrote: »

Away to the office for a bit - sniff - one of my fields - KW in background Willow to the left - willow to the right

Stripey socks plods out to the field in her wellies with her whizzy new measuring device in hand and tells the willows to stand still whist she measures them.

PS she hopes she doesnt break the very expensive bit of kit

Hope you are all good today

Piquant_2

Morning!!

Waving like mad :hello::hello:

I didn't do a meal plan for this week :o I'm going to use up all the stuff that's in the fridge and larder, should be some interesting meals coming up.....Tonight's is not too weird, avocado and tomato with homemade bread.

Garden still looking tidy, well apart from around the shed and arbour :rolleyes:

Pippilongstocking

Waves back - breathing sounding very much like darth vadar - I am in for cup tea and to try and finish an experimental plan

As both freezers are full and the fridge is groaning and the cupboards are super groaning we have no excuse to go shopping

And then I think - ooh we do need bananas - no fay eat apples and oranges til the weekend - THEN you can have some bananas

I am so demanding!

OOh free henny food - I need more hens - 6 bag local oats from the farm - they are so spoilt!

mollypolly

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And then I think - ooh we do need bananas - no fay eat apples and oranges til the weekend - THEN you can have some bananas

Morning all.
Fay ...I just got back from Mr T's.Guess what I went for:rolleyes: yep...bananas.
Apples and pears going off in fruit bowl but......

Just found sausages in freezer so Bangers & Mash for tea.MMmmmmm.
I start each week meal planning but it never seems to go to plan....Sometimes one days meal ends up lasting two days then veggies go off that were for the next day...etc.etc.
Must stop being so wasteful:o

Hope you soon feel better
(Just been to post office;))
Have a good day everyone
Love Mollypollyxxxx

Pippilongstocking

Hi all

I thought as I am in a reflective mood - but promised myself I wouldnt dwell on things too much - I wanted share the secret of the stripey socks.

Wobbly wibbly lines in the mannner of going back in time. (do do do doooooo)

Siting in my wee house having found myself penniless with two young babes to bring up, I have to admit to feeling a bit sorry for myself in early March 2000 - I was trying to think about what on earth to do next............single mum, needing to get back to work - retraining or return to the scary world of trying to be an accountant.......

I had a lovely chum come to stay on the weekend of Mother's day (as good chums do just after their pals are alone with two kids for the first time). I remember it well as it was also the day I got my letter for an interview to start a proper 'Horticulture course'. It had always been my dream to work with flowers so I had been bullied by her to apply to the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh for a course there. There was no way on the planet they were going to want me!

Anyway we had a lovely weekend and went to the local town on the coast to do a bit of window shopping etc - that's where I spotted the first pair of long stripey rainbow socks I think I had ever seen for grown ups. We all oooohed and awwwwwed at the silly things in the shop and had lots of fun guessing what kind of people wore such ridiculusly silly socks. Of course we didn't buy them - far too outrageous but we did make up some amazing stories. Easy when DD was 2 and DS was 4 and a half

Anyway - chum went home and arranged to see me for my interview in Edinburgh to look after the kiddies when I went in to the big scary Botanic garden. Low and behold a week before my interview we got a lovely 'thank you card' and a thank you package from my chum for staying. With a note looking forward to seeing us the next week when we got down to Edinburgh.

In the parcel was the longest, most outrageous pair of ridiculus stripey socks (complete with individual rainbow toes) and the note just said -

Dear Fay,
'You are the person who wears such silly socks!
These are to give you something to keep smiling about in your interview - completely free to use, apply to each foot for instant confidence, powered by rainbows, roll up the leg or fold down dependant on the level confidence required. Completely re-usable after interview, reapply to legs frequently for maximum benefit'

The interview went well, our lives were transformed in so far as they let me study flowers there and I know that without that step I wouldn't be doing the job I love and actually getting paid for it. Ever tried to stop smiling when you know you are wearing the most ridiculus socks on the planet. So the socks whilst silly were given to us at a time when the universe seemed to be conspiring against us. I love them now (the originals are very very worn and whollly and now reside inside of my DD raggy annie doll as part of the stuffing).
Mainly I love the thoughtfulness behind such a small action from my friend they cost £1.99 (she informed me later on!). I love the invisible confidence they give you for free and how you seem to just radiate from an everyday object as a pair of socks. When the scary monsters come - or I am doing my bills - (and when I did my SOA on here) I was indeed wearing a pair of stripey socks - rolled up as high as possible. Whilst we are far from being sorted - we have a drawers in both DD and my bedroom which looks like a snakes nest full of stripey, spotty and flowery socks which are applied daily for a free secret boost.

Thus ends the story of the secret of the stripey socks.

I can't ever thank my chum enough.
*sorry if this is a bit too much - she's not with us anymore and its her birthday today*

hampsterpoo

fayjmck wrote: »

Hi all

I thought as I am in a reflective mood - but promised myself I wouldnt dwell on things too much - I wanted share the secret of the stripey socks.

Wobbly wibbly lines in the mannner of going back in time. (do do do doooooo)

Siting in my wee house having found myself penniless with two young babes to bring up, I have to admit to feeling a bit sorry for myself in early March 2000 - I was trying to think about what on earth to do next............single mum, needing to get back to work - retraining or return to the scary world of trying to be an accountant.......

I had a lovely chum come to stay on the weekend of Mother's day (as good chums do just after their pals are alone with two kids for the first time). I remember it well as it was also the day I got my letter for an interview to start a proper 'Horticulture course'. It had always been my dream to work with flowers so I had been bullied by her to apply to the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh for a course there. There was no way on the planet they were going to want me!

Anyway we had a lovely weekend and went to the local town on the coast to do a bit of window shopping etc - that's where I spotted the first pair of long stripey rainbow socks I think I had ever seen for grown ups. We all oooohed and awwwwwed at the silly things in the shop and had lots of fun guessing what kind of people wore such ridiculusly silly socks. Of course we didn't buy them - far too outrageous but we did make up some amazing stories. Easy when DD was 2 and DS was 4 and a half

Anyway - chum went home and arranged to see me for my interview in Edinburgh to look after the kiddies when I went in to the big scary Botanic garden. Low and behold a week before my interview we got a lovely 'thank you card' and a thank you package from my chum for staying. With a note looking forward to seeing us the next week when we got down to Edinburgh.

In the parcel was the longest, most outrageous pair of ridiculus stripey socks (complete with individual rainbow toes) and the note just said -

Dear Fay,
'You are the person who wears such silly socks!
These are to give you something to keep smiling about in your interview - completely free to use, apply to each foot for instant confidence, powered by rainbows, roll up the leg or fold down dependant on the level confidence required. Completely re-usable after interview, reapply to legs frequently for maximum benefit'

The interview went well, our lives were transformed in so far as they let me study flowers there and I know that without that step I wouldn't be doing the job I love and actually getting paid for it. Ever tried to stop smiling when you know you are wearing the most ridiculus socks on the planet. So the socks whilst silly were given to us at a time when the universe seemed to be conspiring against us. I love them now (the originals are very very worn and whollly and now reside inside of my DD raggy annie doll as part of the stuffing).
Mainly I love the thoughtfulness behind such a small action from my friend they cost £1.99 (she informed me later on!). I love the invisible confidence they give you for free and how you seem to just radiate from an everyday object as a pair of socks. When the scary monsters come - or I am doing my bills - (and when I did my SOA on here) I was indeed wearing a pair of stripey socks - rolled up as high as possible. Whilst we are far from being sorted - we have a drawers in both DD and my bedroom which looks like a snakes nest full of stripey, spotty and flowery socks which are applied daily for a free secret boost.

Thus ends the story of the secret of the stripey socks.

I can't ever thank my chum enough.
*sorry if this is a bit too much - she's not with us anymore and its her birthday today*

Lovely story Fay I even sat and did a wibbly wobbley when I read it :rotfl:
Heres a toast to your friend :beer:
to you and your family
and a big hug :grouphug: from me.

Piquant_2

Your chum was lovely, how clever of her to know just what you needed! I'm guessing she wouldn't want you too reflective either.....Celebrate her!

Pippilongstocking

Piquant wrote: »

Your chum was lovely, how clever of her to know just what you needed! I'm guessing she wouldn't want you too reflective either.....Celebrate her!

Yeah - we are feasting tonight as a wee treat to remember her then walking on the beach - she gave me my first job when I was still married.

Picture the scene - farmhouse on a remote island in Scotland - rayburn, scones, sheep bleating in the background.........

Beautiful lady from south of england now living on remote island who I had met at a walled garden the weekend before pops in with a bunch of sweet peas - boy child - age <2 wandering about half dressed.

Lady gets cup of tea and sits down at large farmhouse table to offer slightly eccentric plant daft girl a job on a saturday.

Half naked boy child climbs on table and starts to put sweetpeas in the vase on the table to help mummy.

One hand on the sweetpeas - one hand on his winkle:rotfl::rotfl:I do like a ferral household

New boss lady guffaws with laughter saying she'd never seen sweetpeas arranged with so much concentration and finesse.

Started job the next day

Thats definately how I remember her - so full of laugher and life - and if someone told her she couldn't do something - game on sleeves up she proved them wrong.

Pippilongstocking

HP I did the wibbly wobbbbly bit too
Hurrah on the purchases!

taka

What a lovely friend... I'm sorry she is no longer with you. Its little things like that that can make no end of difference to someone when they need a boost.

I hope your remembrance feast goes well tonight. I hope you have some suitably stripey socks to wear