Buyers are camped in our garden over Christmas

elfen

Ohj please stay, I love this thread as much as the dead dog one.

thejonesfamily

well, if you insist on more updates then, I will carry this on.

Downstairs is Mr and Mrs C lounging on my DFS sofa. They have bought us a bottle of Lambrini to celebrate. Now, usually when buying your home, your buyer may come armed with some paint colour brochures and wallpaper samples, no, our buyers have brought along a selection of funeral director brochures and are currently having a debate on which coffin handles "she never liked fuss" Mrs C says.

They were a bit worried burying their mum in a strange place, but they wuldnt be able to get to Devon to visit her grave, so I asked "what about cremation"

Oh no Mr C says, they cant cremate her with her metal hip.

Lol

Lula-Hula

Thank you

Cant wait to hear about the move ... only 3 doors up, so will you be using wheelbarrows or maybe old mother clampetts checked shopping trolley to shift your goods ?

thejonesfamily

don't get me started on the "day of the move". They asked earlier if we were planning on taking our Laura Ashley coffee table as they were on the eye out for one.

Now, I am not sure whether to kill two birds with one stone but... at least it solves the handle debate

joolsybools

Ha ha ha, so obviously a wind up Mr J. When are you going to reveal your true identity? :-D

olibrofiz

been reading from the start....

:D keep going Mr Jones - if it's real I hope you don't regret living next but one down.....

If it's not, would love to see this on TV :D:D Absolutely brilliant

greenface

loveabargin wrote: »

Very pleased for you!!!... what a saga and I loved every minute of it, I shall miss your posts. Good luck in your new home!

Great post I sucked air with this ready for the replys. Some great light posts and answers here . I am hooked Rob Brydon and Sue Pollard as the Jones's with Jim Royal & Victoria Wood as the Clampetts with Dot Cotton pushing up the daisys.

mclaren32

Such a fantastic thread, I would be disappointed if its not true but that couldn't take the laughter away from the last few days.

Mr Jones, I salute you. :beer:

cosyc

thejonesfamily wrote: »

They were a bit worried burying their mum in a strange place, but they wouldnt be able to get to Devon to visit her grave, so I asked "what about cremation"

Oh no Mr C says, they can't cremate her with her metal hip.

Lol

Oh yes they can, we have a friend who works at the crem they just bury that bit in concecrated ground. Weird ah.

And well done for keeping us all entertained.

thejonesfamily

Well dinner was lovely, compliments to Mrs J on cooking a fabulous toad in the hole. We used veggie sausages which went down not so well with Mr C as he left one, but Mrs C, as she was chomping on Mr C's sausage remarked how meaty they were. I wonder if their village is missing two idiots or whether ours has gained two.

We raised a glass of their Lambrini to Edna (Mrs Mother C) and they talked about her life. Apparantly she spent her days volunteering at the charity shop Scope, as well local hospice doing peoples cleaning and ironing which I assume accounted for her posture, but amazingly she was a member of the blind scrabble society. I asked how that worked and she said it was something set up in the community to occupy the blind people and help them socialise (i take it blind darts had no volunteers)

Apparantly Edna used to hold the dictionary and would check whether the words were valid. I didnt even know that scrabble tiles came in braille. So next time someone says "I can feel a triple word score coming on" think of Edna and her dictionary.

Anyway, tomorrow they hope to start making funeral plans. They have wandered back to their caravan and I am about to walk the dog, so good night all.