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

kitschy

gardenia101 wrote: »

Was feeling a bit ratty this morning as yesterday I sliced my palm trying to cut bread (stupid, I know), the night before I scalded the same hand filling my hottie bottie. This morning both bits were sore & I consoled myself by reasoning my right hand was OK - only to impale my right thumb on a fork in the dishwasher! It has torn a shallow cut about 2 cm long & jolly well smarts - still not sure exactly how I did it. I could only find my DS Batman plasters, so I look a sight & bizerrely "Accidents Will Happen" by the fabulous Elvis Costello has just come on the radio :rotfl:

Gardenia - thank your lucky stars you're not Softstuff, otherwise you'd have left your hand in the dishwasher! :eek:

Softstuff wrote: »

Frankly the phrase "it just came off in my hand" was invented for me. Fortunately over time I've developed skills to fix most of the things I break, or I'd be an expensive liability.

PixieDust

Thank you all so much for the lovely and funny stories

fuddle

Aw, your stories. I have been a bit down about my decorations and so silly because I actually adore adding the leaves and greenery out of the garden on the mantal and table but all the flash decorations around us, all the window sills full of stuff and lights, I get a bit green eyed monster. Really silly.

Funny that you say you can't remember your childhood memories of christmas. I have come to realise that I can't remember much at all about my Christmasses but I know they were happy. My little one (eldest) said to me the other day 'why is it that I get more excited about Christmas than I do about my very own special day, my birthday?' I said it was because it's a celebration for us all, all of us in our family, all laughing and giggling and sharing. It's a family time that is special for us all not just one person. She got that and to be honest I'm pretty impressed with her thinking because it shows she's not just excited for Christmas about the gifts, it's about the whole time. That's nice.

I haven't read the Radio Times since I lost my Grandma but it holds special memories for me. I would read her copy from page to page each time I visited (pretty often) because the radio times WAS Christmas as we didn't tend to go out much when I was little. The TV was our entertainment. My Mum was paranoid something bad would happen outside the house - I digress. Another annoying thing about holiday advertsis the ones on the TV after 7pm on a Christmas Eve....... we used to shout the TV down!! lol

Speaking of radio times. I have a copy sat as we type in DH's depot. He rang to make sure I wanted the RT 'but fuddle it's the most expensive one there! You can get one for 90p!' Taught him well Still, he got that I wasn't interested in soap gossip and bright bold non christmas text. 'tis Christmas!

lizzyb1812

Just had a bit of excitement - 5 horses that are in the meadow behind our allotments (which are behind our houses/gardens) escaped and came to visit. My allotment and my neighbour's are securely fenced by us as we are using the allotments - others are left wild or laid to grass. The horses were quite spooked and trotted along the backs of the terrace for a while and then settled to eat the grass.

I fed them some apples and some neighbours built a barricade with wheelie bins to stop them using the private road to get to the main road. Eventually the police turned up and using my apples and long line dog training lead managed to get one back into the field and the rest eventually followed. Unfortunately one of the horses banged her leg on the way through so we gave the police as much detail as we could re the land owner - not much - so that they can be looked at.

The irony is that my next door neighbour, who was at work, is a horse owner, trainer and jumper and has a horse box parked at home. Unfortunately I couldn't find her number

Freezing cold now but horses back where they belong - with grateful thanks to the community officer who did a sterling job despite knowing nothing about horses at all :T

paidinchickens

awww how lovely Lizzy not the horse hurting its leg bit though:(

Funny how these things happen when its blinkin awful weather would have been much better in the summer with a few cocktails me finks

mama67

gardenia101 wrote: »

Xmas Radio Times - does anyone else get annoyed with the holiday bit in the middle? The first thing I do is rip this out before I've read anything :rotfl:

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Thats what I do as well Gardenia lol!!

ragz_2

Beccatje - that story was so lovely it made me cry.
GreyQueen - Love flannel sheets, I saw some on ebay but agree you'd probably want to touch them first. Second the dunhelm mill suggestion though. My Mum won't use fitted sheets either. I like them but not folding them, have watched youtube vids and still can't do it neatly. I won't feel like a true domestic goddess until I can fold a fitted sheet into a neat rectangle!

DH took the p*ss out of my paper chains today. I used to love making paper chains with my Mum, way back when we were really poor when I was a kid, those and paper snowflakes were all the decorations we had. I am pushing the boat out and using really nice wrapping paper (10p a sheet, bargain!) though we always used to cut up magazines. They look a bit rubbish now but when I have the tree up hopefully it will look a bit brighter. I refuse to spend a fortune on shiny tat that will probably get chucked out/ripped after one use... also I am not really keen on tinsel...

Snowflakes do look nice on the window though... picked up some tiny pinecones that I will spray with my poundland gold spray later and give some to MIL for the wreath she's making, maybe make something for my mantelpiece or table with them...

kidcat

We have our living room tree up finally and reading about other peoples decorations is making me smile, our tree is not colour co-ordinated and has no new decorations at all this year. In fact I cant remember the last time we bought tree decorations - its full of decorations we have had for years, mostly either hand made or handed down. Each decoration comes with a memory and it was especially hilarious to find DD17 (who is refusing to attend Santas grotto and magical forest trip tomorrow) arguing with DS7 because he hung her special decorations on the tree!!:rotfl::rotfl:

Found buried in the box amongst the decorations cat advent calendars bought in January last year for pennies and completely forgotten, cats smelt the cat nip and went nutso. One went wild and was attacking everything insight, whilst another was so spaced out and floppy it was hilarious. :rotfl::rotfl:

VJsmum

kidcat wrote: »

We have our living room tree up finally and reading about other peoples decorations is making me smile, our tree is not colour co-ordinated and has no new decorations at all this year. In fact I cant remember the last time we bought tree decorations - its full of decorations we have had for years, mostly either hand made or handed down. Each decoration comes with a memory and it was especially hilarious to find DD17 (who is refusing to attend Santas grotto and magical forest trip tomorrow) arguing with DS7 because he hung her special decorations on the tree!!:rotfl::rotfl:

Found buried in the box amongst the decorations cat advent calendars bought in January last year for pennies and completely forgotten, cats smelt the cat nip and went nutso. One went wild and was attacking everything insight, whilst another was so spaced out and floppy it was hilarious. :rotfl::rotfl:

OUrs is going up on Sunday and is the same - not at all colour coordinated. THe original colour scheme of red, gold, green went out the window years ago - although we do still have the original decorations. When we go on holiday I like to buy a decoration or two - this year I have one from Denmark. I have various from the USA, some from Germany, Holland, South Africa and even Dubai (a much coveted camel!). I also sort of collect them so when i find a one i like I will get it - a visit to the German market usually brings forth a decoration. Our tree is our tree and couldn't possibly be anyone elses - amongst all these are decorations the kids made when small and added to that on SUnday will be a couple I have knitted.

We love it, and i wouldn't swap it for all the designer trees in the world.

Softstuff

I keep making decorations, receiving them in swaps, buying a few in charity shops. Our tree has been a four year work in progress. That and every decoration in the unit cost less than 30 pounds over the four years, and each piece gets reused each year, I just build on a bit. I'll repair the tree fully when I take it down, it'll be fine again for next year then, just a little shorter.

The tree is mostly colour coordinated.... but that's only because it's short on "decorations" and filled up with big bows made out of some ribbon leftover from my business 6 years ago. So they're all the same colour, since that's the colour I had. The decorations around the rest of the place are hand sewn (a christmas tree wall hanging, various cute felt buntings with stockings, stars or holly) are also colour coordinated. The wall hanging was a kit I bought cheap off ebay, and there was a lot of leftover felt and sequins, so I made bunting with the offcuts and a few extra bits of felt.

Over the next year I'd love to sew another of those kits, so I'll see if one comes up cheap.