Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

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Today they promise to take pictures of beautiful wives for nice chums .

Younger builders steal the boss's hidden chocolate bar and munch it.

My utility room looks vast without the boiler. If it rains this weekend I'll get black board paint for the back wall in there I think. I've wanted that for ages. .

We have stuff going on here this weekend so I need to keep busy and out of the yard and kitchen a lot of the time.

We have a blackboard wall. On it is a list I wrote ages ago, the ingredients for my favourite Margharita blend, a picture of a pile of poo and "It 's all .......... Fault", the name ever changing. Not entirely what I had in mind but it does get used.

GDB2222

Sadly, MIL passed away on Wednesday evening, and we buried her yesterday. It was sad that none of her generation were able to attend. Mostly, she'd out-lived them, and the one or two remaining were too frail to attend.

lostinrates

GDb, I'm sorry. However hard and long a decline, the loss cannot be easy. I hope your family are coping ok.

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

We have a blackboard wall. On it is a list I wrote ages ago, the ingredients for my favourite Margharita blend, a picture of a pile of poo and "It 's all .......... Fault", the name ever changing. Not entirely what I had in mind but it does get used.

I am mainly planning on using mine as a freezer inventory. I might do a smaller, separate shopping list one.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

GDb, I'm sorry. However hard and long a decline, the loss cannot be easy. I hope your family are coping ok.

We are all sort of okay. DW had a bit of a cry this morning, but mostly she's been bottling it up. It's been very hard for her.

bugslet

GDB2222 wrote: »

Sadly, MIL passed away on Wednesday evening, and we buried her yesterday. It was sad that none of her generation were able to attend. Mostly, she'd out-lived them, and the one or two remaining were too frail to attend.

Sorry to hear that GDB, it's still difficult even when it's expected and a relief that she is past suffering. You and Lady GDB take care of yourselves, you must both be exhausted by the past few months.

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Spirit, that is FAB!

We are looking for furniture for the herb garden and just cannot decide.

Conversation has ranged from building a chamomile top table and buying chairs, through sets we've seen at garden centres. That is actually a lovely set, and while not my normal taste I actually feel quite envious of it. It would also solve another problem, in providing heat........I want one!

The chairs are seriously comfortable and as the table is low it is great for lolling around and chatting. It comes with four chairs but we bought an extra two, and six fit round just fine.

I have a lovely steamer chair which OH bought for my birthday about 11 years ago - it was made by Westminster and is a teak frame with rattan and a blue cushion. Very much influenced by the design for Liners in the 20's. The current model is this http://www.westminsterteak.com/PID16411/Classic-Teak-Steamer/pla=GP16411

As they do not seem to make the one like mine any more (and I wanted to buy OH one last year ) he may be getting a Jamie Oliver one as they are comfy too and I do not want to introduce yet another type of garden furniture - we already have a bit of a teak garden furniture scrap yard effect going on.

There is a very heavy table top propped up against the fence for the last two years, with its legs leaning up against it too. A heap of the chairs that belong with said table stacked up under the shelter of a tree, liberally coated in chicken poo as they go and sit on them, a couple of hexagonal cheap B&Q tables bought for a party years ago, coated in linseed oil once and terrifically resilient despite all neglect.

Grief... it sounds such a dump. Sort of channelling steptoes yard.


There is also another odd chair, an outdoor small table and a bench. There are cushions for everything wrapped up in a stable - unless the mice have eaten them.

When the weather cheers up I might have a good look at it all and make some decisions.

Spirit_2

GDB2222 wrote: »

Sadly, MIL passed away on Wednesday evening, and we buried her yesterday. It was sad that none of her generation were able to attend. Mostly, she'd out-lived them, and the one or two remaining were too frail to attend.

Dear GDB,

May she rest in peace, and I hope your family can begin to remember her when there were happier times than recent sickness.

Spirit x

Spirit_2

bugslet wrote: »

Been working down South this week. Managed to bu88er up my ankle as well tripping over a duvet in my haste to get out when the hotel fire alarm went off. Had a meeting with an immaculately clad, suave Italian gentleman, with one foot shod in a black patent court shoe and the other in a grey slipper with pink sparkly bits, that had had to be cut wider to get on my foot.



It's probably nothing GDB.....but you will worry anyway. I'm not a fan of this growing older business.

You will be memorable.

How South?

Growing older is better than the alternative for most of us.

bugslet

A hop skip and a jump from michaelstown! I have an office in Stevenage, so that's my usual foray area, though I do get around a bit.....;)