'supporting each other through really tough times'

kidcat

MRSLW - thats beautiful, I am excited that we have planned to start our garden makeover and our friends have offered their assistance with the heavy work. It wont be to professional standards but it will be a permanent reminder of friendship, support and love which will mean so much more.

Peanut2013

I'm also looking forward to starting our garden work this summer we didn't have a garden before, so we're very excited!

Nothing major but will pressure wash the patio, put a cheap fence up on one side and put down some grass seed to thicken our lawn up

Simple things but will love having a little family garden

nuttyp

Morning everyone, dull and grey here and slightly cold too. I had finally switched off the central heating but im beginning to wonder if I should put it back on again....

Had a really busy day at work yesterday and today im meeting eldest DD for a coffee before lunch. Then its work again until late.

Just checked my bank account and talktalk have taken a DD for this month even tho I am £75 in credit. They are so incompetent, but im stuck in a stupid contract for another 14 months. So I have very little left until payaday on the 25th. So glad we have some bits in the freezer, should only need milk bread etc. Will need to put petrol in OH car so he can get to work. Will need to top up the gas and electric meters too. Where did all the money go to this month??

well off to get ready, work beccons.

kidcat

nutty - if the DD has only just left you can ask your bank to recall it say that talk talk has taken it in error.

mardatha

Horrible weather here last couple days and torrential rain forecast all day and night. I just about had it with our weather, it really gets you down. Am struggling a bit with the ME and other health issues, thank god for this forum

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Morning MAR when the inevitable happens with all the rain and wet and you do actually grow a little yellow beak and webbed feet, paddle on down to us to dry out and have a holiday in the dry. I've even got a nice little pond in the back garden for you to dabble in if you feel like it!!! Feel better chick, Cheers Lyn xxx.

mardatha

Will you chuck bits of cake into my pond Mrs L ??

ginnyknit

:rotfl: Mrs LW I now have a picture in my head of Mar dressed in a duck costume waddling down your garden - thank you for the giggle x

Its grey here but still have the warm wind. I suggested to DD it was a sirrocco blown in from Africa and she said she thought a sirrocco was a drink

Peanut, enjoy a lush lawn while you can because as soon as your LO is walking he and Daddy will run the grass bare with a football -but the laughter you will hear will mean more than a lawn. Dgs has just discovered footie but Grandad isnt really upto it so he has to play with me - Im not to bad at it but we play on our little driveway so no mud yet.

monnagran

Mrs LW, thank you for the news of the primroses, they are one of my favourite flowers. When I lived in my cottage they grew like weeds in the garden, fields and woods and I had a special little 'primrose vase' that was constantly on my kitchen windowsill in the spring. You made me feel very nostalgic.
Is it just me or are babies being introduced to solids much earlier these days. I was amazed at DGD being given a bread crust to suck on at 5 months. At nearly 7 months she is tucking into cereal, toast, and melon or banana for breakfast, chicken casserole or something similar for lunch and whatever my DIL has cooked her for tea. She is so determined and independent that she wants to feed herself and gets very annoyed when she is given the spoon, turns it upside down and finds there is nothing on it when it gets to her mouth. The dog has taken up permanent residence under the high chair.

Ironing, sorting papers and a lightning dash to the shops planned for today.

Mar: hope things ease up for you soon. Some sun might be the cheering thing you need. What all of us need come to that.

x

PS I'm giving a talk on our time in India today at the Wives and Friends group. Perhaps I'd better think of what I am going to say!

Margaret54

Ah Mrs LW memories...... When I went to primary school many many years ago, ours was in a former hotel. It had huge grounds and woodland with lots of hedgerows and I loved to play there and pretend house with my school friends, at break time and lunch time. My fond memory is of the little crocuses and snowdrops growing in clumps and I always remembered that time. I bought lots of crocus and snowdrop bulbs last year and planted them all over the edges of the borders and under trees here and was so excited when they started to peep out:) Took me back to the school days. Pure nostalgia, and it did not cost much either.