'supporting each other through really tough times'

Popperwell

Think I've changed plans and am going to Durham which is nearer and takes only 40 mins to get to tomorrow...found there is a mini market, an open air cafe and performers singing music of the 40's and people in US uniforms and jeeps...

I'd take photo's but have misplaced my photo card for the digital camera but am in the process of getting a new one, mine is out of date in so many ways...may get a card as I travel to Durham and pass Tesco's/Argos on the town...

A newer camera would have sound on the video clips these days, mine has no sound...

ETA Looks like my cards for my camera are no longer popular so that's out.

kidcat

Pooky - he loves the frame and hangs upside down from it, the den was the new addition and I am hoping it will prevent the hanging business:)

Lisa - you are much braver than I, if I stood outside planting in the rain I would be full of flu by the end of the day and the pneumonia would be back by weeks end

Fuddle - I agree with GQ, each time you visit take away a few bottles. I dealt with my grandads house after he died and it was strewn with bottles, the hardest part was my mum ignored it all as did her brother and it was very much left to me to clear. I was lucky that I was there alot in the couple of months before he died and used to take away one bin bag each visit. Then when he went into hospital my friend and I spent the day loading her car with bottles that she took to the bottle bank. It took many trips but was done in a day.
Alternatively you have the option of hiring a skip, load everything into bin bags, arrange skip delivery, have a mad dash at throwing everything into the skip then have the skip removed same day. That way you are saved any issues with neighbours.

lisakay_2

there's only one thing that has me running for the shed, if the lightning is directly overhead lol. I have wellies and a raincoat x

fuddle

Pops in case you didn't know the Argos in Durham city has closed so you will have to go to the one in the retail park in dragonvile, near sherburn/gilesgate (near big tescos)

I text mam before to tell her me and my sister were going up to help clear her bedroom 8th june so she can sleep upstairs again. No reply (head in sand, won't happen if not acknowledged) and now my sister has said she's checked her calendar and she can only do the AM. What can be more important than getting this sorted!? You know what, I shouldn't even bother. It will be a black sack over, put it in the shed and over a couple of months put in my recycle box and head to tesco recycling.

What her she just fills the house up again, I still have to help clear it. My conscience (dad and grandma looking down and being disappointed with me) won't let me just ignore it.

Girls fine at MILs had had a great day. Worried that eldest felt ill and wanted to go home in the crowds - mother's daughter there I feel.

Alfie has been so funny. Mention the girls' names he runs up to their bedrooms and whines to go look in the garden where they play. He misses them I think. Going up onthe morning and spending the day at MILs while DH fishes then Tuesday its holiday!

Popperwell

The camera I wanted at Tesco's here on my town was out of stock...may try Bishop on Tuesday...

Thanks for the suggestion Fuddle...:)

And they say animals don't have emotions...think Alfie proves otherwise...;)

This year I'll just have to look at the event and perhaps take photo's next year if its on again and I am able to attend...

wondercollie

grandma247 wrote: »

With four years to go I have started a retirement bottom drawer. I have sheets and duvet covers and will add towels, tea towels and other things as I think of them.

My husband retires in March. I've been doing this as well. Just bits and pieces that I know will need replacing.

Now, if you could just tell me how to get my kids out of the house...:D

Hardup_Hester

I cleared out my grandfathers flat & my mothers bungalow, minimal alcohol involved in either clearout, but mum's bungalow was a mammoth task, there were boxes in her garage that had moved with her numerous times & never been unpacked. I had her very unpleasant LL breathing down my neck, the place had to be emptied in 2 days or I'd have needed to find another month's rent.

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Morning Toughies, have just walked the lanes with the lurcher and so happy as the very first of the elderflowers is just starting to bloom, it's only 5 or so of the individual flowers on the cluster at the moment, but oh so good to see. We walked through confetti showers of apple blossom petals all round today, they are just coming to the end and the breeze is blowing them off the trees, very pretty it is too!!!

ALFSMUM glad you are going to try the carrot roll, I've made it for us for years I can't remember where the recipe came from but it's something my Mum used to make when we were little so I've always assumed it's a wartime one, it's a good thing to do when the pennies are tight, and they were when we were growing up, I still like it though, hope it's to your taste in 2013!!!

FUDDLE glad you're having a nice weekend and planning happy futures, it's lovely to have something to aim for, it gives you a purpose in life doesn't it? If you are going to plant up a pot for the patio how about finding an evergreen tree that you like, perhaps a bay, then you can use the leaves in cooking too. Maybe plant up 2 or 3 trailing Ivys round the edge and put in some spring bulbs. Then you could buy in a few summer bedding plants and have some colour then and if you got a few autumn flowering cyclamen you'd cover the whole year and it wouldn't cost the earth either. The Bay Tree would cost a little to buy first, but once you've got it it should last for years. Hope that helps, Cheers Lyn xxx.

mardatha

Weather gone back to normal here after 2 lovely days. Grey windy cool and spitting rain. Pits. I honestly don't know how Norwegians manage to stay sane!

kidcat

Oh Mar thats not good, we were promised rain today so I planned a big roast dinner, and we have sun again here today, its not as warm as yesterday but its warm enough I have chased OH out to paint the fence.

Have woken very fuzzy after a horrid migraine again yesterday so am gonna have a quick nap now and see if I can sleep it off.