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PasturesNew

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

.... OH has a tendency to put random things from the kitchen cupboards into the loft.

I've always had a house rule: NOTHING, EVER, goes in the loft.

I don't like it; I don't like that it's up there; I don't like lofts; lofts are scarey; I am not going to stick my head into a loft. It ain't gonna happen. So nothing ever, ever, goes in the loft.

PasturesNew

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Wartime story... Bomb dropped on my Dad's Grandparents' home in London. Covered cellar where there was a hundredweight of coal stored. But the bit I love is when they went into kitchen they found that though otherwise untouched all the cups which had been on cup hooks had fallen off their handles. So there was just a row of cup handles hanging off the hooks. :rotfl: (Just one cup survived intact, which is one of the things I still need to pack up from Old Home.)

That's a fab story. I do hope you write it down and leave it with the cup .... so the story lives on and the cup isn't just discarded at some future point as "a random old cup, lob it"

Yorkie1

PasturesNew wrote: »

Jason Donovan just got caught out on Sunday Brunch. He opened with "I've got an allotment (cue: photo of his produce)" and they said "You grow your own ingredients?" "Yeah" he said .... then the presenter asked him a question about carrots and he said "I'll be honest, I've got somebody that does it all for me - I just turn up and pull things out of the ground"

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:That's priceless

PasturesNew wrote: »

Cheesy Spud Soup, Shredded Beef, Donner Kebabs.

Mmm, sounds fab. Shredded beef particularly but also the soup.

Doozergirl

Joanthebone wrote: »

I've got a really nice pork and lentil casserole recipe you can have !!
:rotfl:


Just don't leave it in for 14 hours.

Is that experience talking?

I love lentils. I would relieve you of the recipe

ivyleaf

Me too please

LydiaJ

Catching up with some old posts here...

vivatifosi wrote: »

Another vote for Galaxy Quest here. Very funny film.

+1

Nikkster wrote: »

Whether or not it holds up to scrutiny, it still doesn't excuse the breach of privacy.

Though I'm pretty sure I count as even less nice than usual here - I've gone through someone's phone before. And their phone bills (it was my ex- and I still feel it was justified).

I'd never go through a friend's phone. I don't even like holding them to take photos.

Going through the phone (or anything else) of a partner whom you have reason to suspect of cheating (or other objectionable behaviour) is necessary sometimes. I've done it too. You shouldn't feel guilty for that.

Going through a friend's phone isn't on. I agree with lir that of course our friends discuss us. I do try, however, to follow my dad's advice never to put anything in a text or email if it would be disastrous if the wrong person read it.

Doozergirl wrote: »

I always set myself a larger goal than I can achieve.

My plan for today was to clear my office and finally beautify it. Ask the boy to remove this big chest of many drawers and possibly fetch chair from
SIL.
Purchase a mirror for the spare room.
Take down the current family photo frames in the hall and replace with new frames and work out what size photos I need to show my children are actually older than 4 and 9.
Choose new photos to be printed and maybe go to shop to get them printed.

This morning I thought it was acheivable.

I have managed hours of filing. The room looks barely better.
And made spag bol for a house full of teenage boys.

I'm sure I used to get more done when I was younger. I have memories of being satisfied after a days work. That never happens now.

I had a plan for yesterday that involved catching up with a mountain of laundry and various other domestic things. I achieved nothing whatsoever.

I do feel slightly more rested today as a consequence, though.

LydiaJ

Doozergirl wrote: »

Poured very cold wine and filled out the form to renew my driving license photo 18 months after it expired, and to change it to my married name, nearly 11 years after marrying. That piece of paper has been in my in-tray for a very long time!

I always seem to get to a point with this bl00dy room where I can see the light, but never quite make it. I really want to do it today.

Thanks for the support

Sending hugs.

You are doing better than I am. At least you have got as far as wanting to do it today. I only ever get as far as wanting to do it "soon" or possibly "tomorrow", or at a pinch, "later today" but never "now".

SingleSue wrote: »

My ex husband was silly enough to pass his phone onto one of the boys...complete with photos and text messages taking up all the storage from when he was having his affair!

Ok, we had been split for a little while by then but still, it was a shock to see it in black and white (and horrible, horrible colour for the pictures, those things I really didn't need to see :eek:)

I found, er, "interesting" photos on a second hand phone that I bought from a friend. They were of his wife, though, so nothing wrong about them being there.

zagubov wrote: »

it must have been an oppressive horrible time; we were practically a police state with ID cards and armed police. Loads of people were relocated, bringing TB from the cities to the countryside.

The only thing we should have kept is the Ministry of Food

The family members I know/knew who remembered it don't seem to have found the ID cards etc oppressive. They just accepted all the "police state" stuff as necessary under the circumstances. Horrible in terms of the danger and uncertain future, of course.

ukmaggie45

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's a fab story. I do hope you write it down and leave it with the cup .... so the story lives on and the cup isn't just discarded at some future point as "a random old cup, lob it"

I'd have loved to have known if anything in the parents' house had memories, or family history.... but mum forgot where she got most things from decades ago. Also, after their last move, a lot of stuff we remembered from our childhoods had just disappeared, taken to the charity shop when they'd de-cluttered in the first 2 years of their having moved.

I will do. Should write down some of the other stuff too about my Grandmother's stuff. She made a cassette tape of some of her memories about her things, I only ever heard it once. Thought might find it when clearing parental stuff, but didn't. Suspect Mum chucked it as she never liked my Grandmother (her MiL) much. She did nurse her at her life end though. On her deathbed she said to Mum "It wasn't true what Maud said". Maud was her step daughter, who was older than she was. (I'm guessing that what Maud might have said was something about being a gold digger who married someone old enough to be her father) But then just before she died she was very restless and scared, but then suddenly said "It's God and all His angels!" and became calm.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Don't quote, will delete.

So dangerous to be one of your relatives.

PasturesNew

A little while ago viva posted a link to a TV ... just looking at it and I don't even understand what it means. But, it says "FULL HD screen, Freeview HD tuner"

I thought HD was useless unless you were in an HD area. How do you know?