A new 'tougher' thread... and so it continues

Mrs_Chip

Evening everyone

It has been another lovely sunny and WARM day today, that's two running! Making the most of it by getting up to the garden before midday (sun does not get to the garden until about 11 am) and taking lunch up with us, coming down at six-ish - but sun is only just going down behind the other side of the harbour, so would still be lovely up there, but OH grumbles about missing his tea if we stay out longer :rotfl: I must get organised and take the makings of dinner up with me - I have got a play kitchen up there and could rustle up bacon and eggs no problem!

Mr & Mrs G Tit and FAMILY (how did they do that without us noticing?) are doing fine, Ma and Pa on feeding duty all day - she goes and find lots of insects, he just gets suet pellets from the feeder :rotfl: Things in the birdy word much the same as ours .
We have put the cam on them so can watch them coming and going, and hope to catch them fledge.

I can't really add anything to what has been said regarding errant husbands/fathers/sons - just seems that an awful lot of the male of the species who need a kick up the 'arris - so here are my virtual kicks (well the best I can do) :j:j:j , please pass them on, and take a virtual hug too.

Oh - Sofas - we have two that cost quite a few quids new, but are huge and very comfortable. The came from an independent furniture store and are very well made. I can't see us ever changing them, they are in my fave colour, purple and will just have to be recovered until they fall to bits :rotfl:

GreyQueen

Sofa day tomorrow. Folks will come up as soon as rush hour has cleared and we'll troop en masse to the c.s. then carry The Sofa home and stuff it thru the window. It'll be easier than getting it around the 90 degree turn from hall into living room and hall is only 75 cm wide anyway.

We're having some free entertainment at the moment. Had SuperGran on the blower twice in the past 10 minutes. Police are down and were pounding on a door telling the resident that if they didn't open the door, they'd break it in and the Council will be billing them for it. Door wasn't opened so they went in with a ram. We don't know why, but the person is a junkie and a right PITA so it will probably fall loosely into the category "drug-related". Hey, some people watch cop dramas, I just live in one...........:rotfl:

SuperGran is pushing 70 and has lived here for about 30 years. She's seen it all and sometimes has had to give evidence in the court cases. We're interested but not alarmed as this is nothing very much unusual by our lights. All's quiet in my part of the block and I'm just about to go offline and curl up with a book.

Enjoy your bubble bath and I'll relay all the sofa saga tomorrow evening. It'll probably be a little crazy, as my life is apt to descend into a farce at the slightest opportunity. GQ x

ginnyknit

Had a reasonable day once Oh had beaten the bank into submission after they 'forgot ' to pay his PPI in - yes it does work for some people - and then took the payment out anyway :eek::eek: A very nice young man at our nearest branch actually apologised and took the charges off. Amazing arent they bloomin quick when you are 3p overdrawn but damn slow when they owe you :mad::mad:

Still planting seeds anywhere that stands still, pots and beds all sprinkled with lettuce, carrots, beetroot , spring onions, spinach and uncle tom cobbly an all :rotfl: Crossing fingers that the watercress takes as its so expensive now!

mcculloch29

All human life is here...

Nearest I've come recently to something like the above (GQ's) was someone coming to the door at 3 am last week, I was awake and still working (my job's online) as I felt unwell and knew sleep wasn't an option at that point.

He was a really scrawny specimen, hopelessly lost and carrying what looked like a takeaway. He asked for a toilet roll as he needed the toilet, but didn't want to come in (Dead right he didn't).

I spoke to him in a loud voice, but typically, my son slept through it and then chastised me for not calling him to go to the door the following day! I didn't want to go upstairs for a loo roll, so he got a quarter of a kitchen roll, with the instruction to keep it.

Had a nice moment earlier and I think this is the best thread to share it.
I was asked how happy I felt as part of a survey I was doing on my phone.

I thought about it, counted my blessings and ticked 'Very happy'.

I have my income, enough to meet my needs and most of my 'would likes', and my health is back after the most dreadful bout of tummy trouble last week.

Yes,I have other health issues but those are long term. I cannot afford for them to make me permanently miserable, just rejoice if my pain is less at any time and try and be stoic when it isn't.

Sometimes it is a bit much, but at those times, I always seem to feel my late mother near me and comfort never far away. She was a nurse, seems she still is.

So I'm very happy. Official.

I did some shopping earlier and it was wonderful to be out on the trike again in the fresh air and know that I wasn't going to be unwell with catastrophic social results.
I also got some things I've been meaning to buy for a while that will make my life easier... once fitted!

Hobsons_Choice

Good luck with the sofa tomorrow GQ...hope it's a case of sofa(r) so good :rotfl:
Discomknackerated from gardening today (lovely spring weather for once) so slumped in front of the TV for an hour.
Have you noticed that, according to TV advertisements, only ladies get constipation or diarrhea? Strange that....maybe stress?

mcculloch29

If I was feeling bitter, I would say that men are definitely constipated; they are often full of ...

Luckily, for the tone of this thread, I am not a bitter person

BitterAndTwisted

Back to the things which were considered common: before she married my German granny was a housekeeper to a wealthy Berlin family and learned a thing or two from them but she actually came from a rather poor farming family and went into service at the age of 14. She had inflexible and strict ideas about what was and what was not considered "proper". My mother inherited all of them: piercing ears was only done by "catholics and gypsies" apparently, being seen combing your hair in public, eating, drinking or smoking in the street, going out of the house without your corset or stockings on, bleached or coloured hair, shoes lighter than your hose, black bras under light-coloured clothing. All of these thing and more marked a woman out as "common" and had to be avoided at all costs. Poor and working-class was not something to be ashamed of but being considered common and not knowing how to behave properly certainly was. As for being seen drunk out of the house, that would have been beyond The Pale! They would both have coronaries if they were still alive today.

As to the sofas: I am the proud owner of a second-hand three-seater from Sofa Workshop. They cost over a thousand pounds new but I bid for and won it on ebay for fifty quid. It's the best-quality and most beautiful piece of furniture I own and it's very deep. Probably deeper than a single bed. Extremely comfortable for someone with long legs and long enough to lie out fully-stretched, which I do from time to time. Luxury! The best money I ever spent in my life. I've had it for at least five years and it still looks pristine and new. When the time comes I will have it recovered or re-upholstered because I shall never give it up. Never, ever, ever.

As to irresponsible and stubborn children: I wouldn't willingly give him a room after he's been so demanding and rude. A grown man needs to stand on his own two feet. If he was mine it would be "tough love" time that's for sure. I think that I'm a pretty soft touch when it comes to family or friends in a crisis but not ones who take me for granted or treat what they want me to do for them as an absolute right. They can naff right off and take care themselves! People like that can do with the practice.

mardatha

Mcculloch I love hearing of peoples mums being with them, that's lovely.
B&T I think our grannies were sisters only mine was Irish

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

Mcculloch I love hearing of peoples mums being with them, that's lovely.
B&T I think our grannies were sisters only mine was Irish

Must be a generational thing, Mar. My (English) Nan was sent to Lunnon Town to be in service as a 14 year old. She was there for 2 years and hated every minute of it. It wasn't an upstairs-downstairs big aristocratic household, just an upper-middle class home. The Mr was a businessman who travelled widely on the Continent and the Mrs was out most of the day with friends. Nan was the only servant. 5.5 days working a week and most of her money had to be sent back to her Mum to help raise her 5 younger sibs. The family was known to our family so she wasn't sent among complete strangers. Then WW2 was brewing up and Great-Gran found the one person in the village who had a telephone and summoned her home.

Nan recalls how she was changing buses for the final time on thne journey home when the news came thru that war was declared. We don't blinking well know we're born, do we? The branch of my family which live in London are East Enders and went thru the Blitz and all the hardships which followed. Provincial City got badly bombed, too, and they still occasionally find bombs and other munitions here. My lottie site is liberally salted with Anderson Shelters being re-purposed as sheds and also as compost corrals. That was excellent quality corrugated iron, btw, still going strong.

VJsmum

Mornin all

I have a "working at home day" today. Tho I really do have to work - got a pile of marking and a deadline to meet.

Also having a chap come round to quote us for a replacement conservatory roof. It is going to take rather a lot of our hard earned but what can you do? It is leaking and at the end of its natural life. Replacing it with glass means that we get a more usable room and I think we'd have to replace it before we sold the house. We aren't planning to move anyway, so we might as well get the benefit. The bill will still be rather :eek: tho.

Am also trying to keep the house clean and tidy - this once a week clean is tedious isn't it?

But the sun is shining and my runner beans need planting so I am going to factor that in to my working day - even if I have to do a load of marking this evening. I always said one of the things I like about the job is the flexibility - unfortunately that does mean one has to do work at odd times. It's a hard life :cool:;)