OS Daily Easter Monday - 13th April 2009

wannabe_sybil

In haste

skimmed the threads, just to say I have not posted as little bear has been a bit of a handful. When he is tired he ricochets like a pinball from one bit of mischief to the next, and he has been shamelessly indulged by visitors.

No other reason for not posting.

Hugs to all.

Reverbe, sorry to hear of your loss.

thriftlady_2

Reverbe wrote: »

no had no idea. There has never been any mention in my time here of any family relationship between any posters.

Maybe you should reread this thread -post 25 specifically;)

Penelope_Penguin

Reverbe wrote: »

no had no idea. There has never been any mention in my time here of any family relationship between any posters.

Really

From today:

Haribo_Junkie wrote:

Still having a great time here. Spent a lovely time at the beach yesterday with Pink and family and had a fabulous Easter meal with my Dad and SMum last night.

From yesterday:

Pink-winged wrote:

We had a lovely time at the beach...ds2 and the Haribo twins had a paddle in the sea and had great fun with the kite although Mr Pink nearly managed to decapitate a few people in his efforts to get the stunt kite into the air before I persuaded him to give it up as a bad job and just use the ordinary kite. It was great to see so many people out enjoying the sunshine. I love Spring, it's my favourite season.

From Saturday:

Pink-winged wrote:

I haven't been posting much this week because Haribo is over. :j It's great to see her and her family. The girls have grown so much since I last saw them in October.

From Thursday:

Haribo_Junkie wrote:

I can't claim much old style for myself today as I am on holiday but my step mum is making a lovely OS meal as we speak and I spent a great day with Pink today who produced a delicious OS lunch for us all. My girls were particularly impressed with her soup.

OK, these posts might not state explicitly that Pink-winged and Haribo Junkie are sisters, but for 2 people to spend Easter weekend together with both sets of family, they must be pretty close, mustn't they?

CRANKY40

Pink, I have a cherry tree that didn't flower last year, just like your plum. This year it has pushed the boat out and managed to produce 2 flowers. I feel like it's wrong to be excited, but I am :rotfl:

On the subject of gardens, does anyone else have a clematis? Ours has been here about 40 years by the look of it, and when it flowers it is fabulous for 2 weeks. For the other 50 weeks it just sits there plotting something......

I planted raspberries in our flower beds last year, and there are shoots popping up along the rest of the beds now. I got fed up of slugs and snails eating my flowers and cats pooping in the soil, so decided to plant something a bit less friendly. I now have roses and raspberries only. I like both a lot :T

My rhubarb in a pot disappeared over the winter but has appeared tenfold and quite happy, so fingers crossed I have managed to keep the marauders away from that too. DH laughed when I wrapped the copper wire round the pot, but it seems very effective.

Going to stop rambling now as there is a walking programme on that dh says will be good.

Night all.

thriftlady_2

CRANKY40 wrote: »

For the other 50 weeks it just sits there plotting something......

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:rotfl:I like your turn of phrase. My clematis is about to burst into flower. My espaliered apple tree is full of buds too. Unfortunately they are both growing against a fence which is about to be replaced. Hope they survive it.

csarina

betheebee wrote: »

Hiya all,


CSARINA, Good grief, how come you have 48hrs in a day? no wonder DH had a dizzy, I had one just reading what you have achieved today. Well done. It seems like you are going to have a wonderfull home.

I should explain that I trained at 46 for the hotel trade, I had a catering business and in order to keep some cash coming in whilst the business was building up I started cleaning agency. The demand for the cleaning almost outstripped the catering side, people I cleaned for used the catering service as well........when we moved to Scotland I moved into a different field.

In 1998 I became a Kym of Kym and Aggie.....looking after 2 houses one in London and one in Hampshire for the same family.......so my standards are maybe higher than most........I cannot stand what I call muck, of any description. Untidyness is a different thing.......it does get to me after a bit, but I can put up with it.

Once the house is up to 'my standard' things will calm down a bit. I am trying to not do too much, but I know it needs doing...................

Mondays and Fridays are cleaning days, which ncludes washing and ironing. We have an allotment as well so in the season at least two mornings a week are spent there..........

taplady

Pink-winged wrote: »

Sorry taplady. I did think when I was typing that you probably have to cope with it too but quickly dismissed the idea because I'm not a morning person and if it was me I wouldn't be good enough to get up with him...in fact, with the hours I keep I'd probably pass him on my way to bed.

Pink

no need at all to say sorry! I get up, put the kettle on, throw some toast in the toaster and then dive back into bed and enjoy having all the bed to myself:D
Our eldest is a bit like you and usually isn't in when DH gets up to work, he's a bit like a vampire - up all night and asleep all day:D

Reverbe - sorry to hear about your friend (((hugs)))

Pink.

CRANKY40 wrote: »

Pink, I have a cherry tree that didn't flower last year, just like your plum. This year it has pushed the boat out and managed to produce 2 flowers. I feel like it's wrong to be excited, but I am :rotfl:

Cranky, Congratulations on your two cherry flowers! :j Hopefully you'll get some more soon. I've only had the plum tree for two years.....it flowered the first year but not last year. I was looking out the kitchen window at it a couple of months ago and it was looking all bare and forlorn, and I wondered if it would flower this year so I looked online and read that tea leaves help. Since then I've been pouring the teapot remnants into it's roots. No idea if it helped or not but I think I'll do the same again next year.

thriftlady, I have found clematis to be very hardy. Mine was planted in a wooden barrel about 20 years ago, which has long since rotted away. The clever plant actually rooted itself through the tarmac on the driveway and found some soil and is still thriving, so hopefully it and the apple tree will survive the fence being replaced.

taplady, You are a lovely lady....Poor Mr Pink wouldn't have a chance in hell of me making him toast, let alone a cuppa at that time of the morning.

Reverbe, I'm sorry to read about your friend.

Pink

HariboJunkie

Reverbe wrote: »

no had no idea. There has never been any mention in my time here of any family relationship between any posters.

Regardless of whether you knew we are sisters or not, I would appreciate it if you did not pm other users about me. I have said it until I am blue in the face but you seem to be ignoring me on this point yet feel free to bring the subject up on a daily basis on this thread instead. It is not what this thread is all about. Please, please pm me if you still have an issue with me politely disagreeing with the fact that you told a stranger on another thread that they had serious mental health problems. And for the record.... that is what it was... a polite disagreement. I have never been unkind to you so please treat me with the same respect. Thanks awfully. And I am genuinely sorry to hear that your friend has died. Perhaps I should not have posted this tonight but i wiill always try to defend myself against things which I conisider to be unfair and I would like to be able to log in without all this hassle. I realise this must now be a bad day for you but if the dragging up of disagreements can stop then the thread can be maintained as a friendly supportive place.

To everyone else on here, I am so sorry that the Daily is being disrupted by this. I am still trying to enjoy my holiday and hope to be back posting more OS stuff soon when I have actually done some.

CRANKY40

Thanks, I will try the tea leaves. I thought it just had hurt feelings from me laughing at it. I should have known it needs tea. Every member of dh's family runs on tea, the tree will be the same.

Now you think I'm barmy - well....the tree arrived bought with B&Q vouchers found in FIL's wallet after he died. The reason that it was funny is that MIL bought the vouchers for Dh's birthday but thought she'd lost them. She hunted high and low but they never appeared and she had to buy more.

When FIL (tighter than a ducks bum) eventually died some 10 months later, of course the vouchers came to light and we were given them. I thought it would be nice to buy a tree to remember FIL by, but every time I look at the tree I laugh at the thought of him nicking the vouchers in the first place. It's certainly kept FIL's memory alive in this house!