So poor I can't even pay attention

Piquant_2

Hope your cold is a little better today bast. At least you're getting catty cuddles, always nice! And the risotto is oven baked, 190 degrees/ gas 5

Hello Mary, I haven't seen you around for a while, hope you are okay.

Thaks for the link caz It looks very interesting. I don't think I will change the Captain's diet, I don't think he will put on weight. I don't want to change his feed as he has been far more supple since being on it.

Signing the garden, what an interesting idea missrir. I like it! I am thinking of a stenciled dragonfly, what do you think?

Those links are useful ani, thank you. I think my boiler has to die first though. If the world is kind the boiler will keep going.... I'm not sure what all the abbreviations mean. I get my NI stamp paid, but I earn my money. I can only work 15.5 hours a week to qualify.

Dot darling, there will be photos!

Wotcha BB! I'm sure the Captain's feet will be fine. I just worry that I might cause him unnecessary discomfort if I take them off.

Piquant_2

Snagggles wrote: »

How horrible to get texts like that!

I'd reply with "Who is this? I don't have your number in my phone".

Just rise above it. Some people judge everyone by their own standards. Just because they imply it, it doesn't make it true. You have done NOTHING AT ALL WRONG, and don't have to explain yourself, or justify it.

I know, it's just the way of things sometimes. However, I will get my own back. The yard owner is going to get the garden of dreams. It will be filled with ink blue spires of delphiniums, scented pale pink roses, tumbling thymes tubs of smiling pansies and masses of lavender and sweetpeas....

mcculloch29

Piquant wrote: »

Work was dead today so I was allowed to leave early, but I'll have to make up the hours later in the week as I need the money. They have too many staff on at the start of the week and not enough at the end, the busiest time of the week! Apparently it's always been done that way!

:mad: Re the nosey, jealous expletives at the yard... you have a clear conscience and they have nasty, closed minds. Gits.
I know there's some businesswoman on Beeb 2 transforming inefficient small businesses at the moment, but oh for another Sir John Harvey - Jones to do it for BIG businesses!

Fortune_Smiles

Piquant wrote: »

It is viewed by certain people at the yard that I'm getting an unfair freebie, I've had a couple of faintly unpleasant texts implying what I must be doing to get free livery. I thought these people were my friends, seems not. Thing is, I was offered the livery, as you know, with no strings attached. It was me that offered to do his garden.

How horrid. http://www.voicesnet.org/displayonepoem.aspx?poemid=128621

Fortune x

cazmanian_minx

Piquant wrote: »

Thaks for the link caz It looks very interesting. I don't think I will change the Captain's diet, I don't think he will put on weight. I don't want to change his feed as he has been far more supple since being on it.

It was for hoof reasons rather than weight reasons Have a read anyway, and if you find he's still overly sensitive a few weeks a couple of months after having his shoes off, it might be worth investigating. Merlin went a bit footy on the hardcore around the shelters before Christmas and I couldn't figure out why for ages - turned out to be the treats I'd bought to convince Finn picking his feet up was a good thing. M was getting one a day as well, I didn't realise they had molasses in and he's so sugar sensitive that it was enough to make him sore. I swapped them for dried rosehips and he charged over it yesterday at a spanking medium trot, no problem at all. A good 80% of successful barefoot is about the diet.

NewLeaf_2

as we say in the NYC "Don't mind the haters"


I can almost imagine how lovely that garden is going to smell.I like that you are thinking of plants of differing heights x

Skint_but_Optimistic

A real feast for the senses.

Some people are downright nasty. I am sure their thoughts are what they would do themselves given half a chance, if anyone would take them up on it, that is....

now you know who isnt your friend, knowledge is power.

Something good comes out of everything.

Just_me_him_and_the_pooch

Hi Piq, wish you lived ooop north I would employ you to give our garden a makeover. Great thing you are doing for the yard owner, lucky man. Ignore the nasty comments, sticks and stones and all that. As the saying goes "What goes around comes around"
Best wishes.

missrlr

Hi Piq
Yes stenciled dragonfly is a good idea, I just thought that a signature something would fit in with making your marque. Hope it goes well, sounds fantastic
Regarding the nasty messages, block the number(s) (most phones you can do this with) and if you can't then phone your provider and get them to do it. Simple and effective as you can't be even unconsciously affected by it then.
SMILE - make's 'em all wonder a bit more.
Hope today goes well.

beanielou

Blimey what thouroughly unpleasant people that also use yard.