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

trifles

Have just managed to get my computer repaired,so am catching up after few months offline.:jAm excited as am waiting for a 80 year old hand-cranked sewing machine from ebay which I have been saving for.I can't wait to get started on curtains and cushions-have had the fabric for these for about 5 years! I particularly wanted a solid old machine as they are so dependable,plus any saving on electric helps:D
Thank you,in advance,for all the posts everybody has written while I try to catch up and read.

prepareathome

Went out to potter in garden and got a shock, my plastic walk in green house has collapsed. Yesterdays rain was the last straw so to speak. I put it up 6 years ago on a base of pallets and structure has held up well till now but did have to buy a new cover for it last year as old one had gone into holes but now even structure has given up. Luckily my seedlings are ok as I had bought extra shelving for it ( only comes with some along one side and they were sitting on the extra ones which I had also lashed to the base of pallets and the lashing is holding them upright thankfully and the cover is drapped down in the middle full of rainwater and so not touching the shelving or seedlings. So whole thing will have to come down and next week now have extra expense of buying a new one, and being the time of year it is will have to pay full price. I long for a real glass greenhouse as had in last house ( but we just could not bring it with us as when we moved in the back garden was literally 2ft wide as the privet hedges along the sides had not been cut in about 30 years or so and we were not sure about it staying in side garden, council would no doubt have been on our back, also back garden is on a steep slope and the greenhouse was octagonal and big, the big plastic walk in greenhouse just fits one part of garden where the ground had dipped and levelled near the back. The cost is just to great for a glass one even a small one as I would need to properly level the area and put down a base, it couldn't be lashed to pallets.

So was planning on restocking my tins and dried food out of money next week so that plan has now been rained off:rotfl: I didn't even notice when I went out earlier to hang out throws and open the grow houses - its not as if garden is that big, but was so busy concentrating on not falling down due to vertigo just didn't look. I know no chance of any on freegle as lots have been asking for greenhouses and all sorts of different gardening things. So have to shore it up somehow till I can buy a new one for the seedlings as no room in growhouse for them.

Most of the flowers have died off now, only things in bulb bed now are the irses but there should be more bulbs coming up as I put in a mixture of spring and summer flowering. I took photos before of what flowers are left and will be adding them to gardening album later.

Hubby was saying did we have any biscuits or chocolate in as he really fancied some - I only buy once a month as his cholesterol gord sky high if I have them in more often as he cannot just eat a couple of biscuits or slice of cake he will eat the whole packet in one sitting or the whole cake. He looked so down when I said we had none that I took pity on him and made him some chocolate cornflakes ( well we only had crunchy nut cornflakes in but no doubt will still taste fine) I always keep cooking chocolate in store shelves well hidden as he has been known to eat all he could find of that. So the chocolate was enough to make 26 of them in paper cake holders. So he has happily scraped pan and bowl clean and will have some after his evening meal - will have to hide some away when cool and set if not he will eat all he can find. He really is worse than the children ever were when it comes to goodies to eat.

Just had a word with son about the money he still owes me, he of course cannot afford to pay it back yet but told him if he will cut my grass ( had arranged gardener to do it and it costs me £35 each time) I will count it towards what he owes, so he has to cut grass 4 times and he is clear, so he said ok, now just to make sure he does it and break bad news to gardener that I cannot afford him for next month or so, poor guy he works hard to feed his family by gardening, but I need my greenhouse to help me feed my family so have got to be selfish ( am learning once I would still have paid gardener even if he didn't do the work if son or hubby had helped me do it, as I had asked him to do it instead of just cancelling as I feel so guilty and then I would be left short).

Right food is ready so will go and serve it and eat

Hugs, Love and healing to all

fuddle

Aw that awful timing PAH. I know what you mean about the guilty feelings of not paying people to do the jobs. I fet awful when I cancelled the window cleaner. In truth I do need him for upstairs but those pounds tot up.

The crunchy nut cornflakes will taste wonderful. I know exactly what your OH goes through re: chocolate.. I'm the same. Actually great to read that blokes are blighted with this downfall.

Byatt If you stick with it and can master the first two rows you'll suss it in no time. It took me a week to get to grips with that first then second row and now I couldnt be without my crochet. Well worth sticking at. Have a look at http://attic24.typepad.com/ for inspiration. I've read the whole of Lucy's blog

Byatt

PAH and Fuddle, I was just thinking the other day, why can't I just eat one chocolate or biscuit...I don't know what it is but I can't. Not sure what part of the brain does this, but it's so hard to leave a packet or a cake once opened or started.

Fuddle, thanks for the encouragement. I must try and be patient.

mardatha

Referee needed !! Please settle this before we throttle each other ...
If one party sharpens a really blunt knife to a razor edge, and doesn't tell the second party (still with me?)...then the second party almost cuts her bloody (buckets of it) two middle fingers right off because she wasnt expecting a previously blunt knife to be sharp... (inhale) .. WHO IS AT FAULT HERE? :mad:

Cheapskate

Ouch! :eek: His fault, obviously, as most blokes seem to need thanking profusely when they "man up" and do caveman jobs, why didn't the first party tell the second party, from whom he would have received abject praise? :rotfl:



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mcculloch29

PAH must have been in psychic mode when she was wishing us all healing, Mardatha... ouch, ouch.
My son makes a big thing of sharpening and for a partial deafie, I am highly sensitive to the sound so I know when it has been done. Normally men happily boast about doing such a caveman type activity, don't they?

I've booked a little four day break for myself and a friend in July, just before the Olympics start, get back the day before the opening ceremony. Pleased about that as I love the Olympics and would have hated to have missed it.
The hotel is just outside Wigan, (break marketed as 'Southport and the Lakes') mixed reviews on the net, but what on earth do people expect for three nights BBEM @ £99!!
It does make me laugh when people whinge, if they want four or five star conditions then pay four/five star prices.
We have always been lucky with our rooms, fingers crossed that the luck holds.

bonnie_bumpkins

Another one whose son has sharpened a previously blunt knife, unbeknown to unsuspecting little old me, who knew exactly what pressure to use. When it was blunt. Of all things he could have done, why on earth this :wall: Mardatha I hope you are healing now

mardatha

:T:T:T TYTY ! I knew it was his fault!

prepareathome

He is most definately for not informing you he had sharpened it. Never happen here hubby wouldn't know how to sharpen a knife its always been me that had done it, even sons didn't when they were at home. In fact when bought new knife sharpener a few months ago hubby as why did I waste the money, cue me patiently explaining that yes it cost just over £10 but as all my knives are blunt and need sharpening and this one even sharpens serrated edge knives its cheaper than me going out and buying a whole new set of knives, so for the price was cheap and it does sharpen very well.

Mar sending all the healing I can must for it to stop bleeding and heal asap.......

hugs, love and healing to everyone - just in case:rotfl: