The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

FairyPrincessk

Morning all,

Hester--how frustrating. I'm glad it is mostly all sorted though! I'm really sorry to hear about the doggy, planting a tree over him will be a nice memorial, but oh so painful to lose a pet!

Another wet one today. I think it has now rained pretty much non-stop since Monday evening and it isn't predicted to stop until tomorrow. The peaks are covered in mist and clouds again and the house has finally gotten chilly. I was never into the fables and moral tales. I liked a good long story I could sink my teeth into. But then I was also a particularly naughty child and didn't like to own up to it.

More work tasks today, probably not a full day but most of it. I put three meals and a single serving of soup in the freezer last night, so I'll think about more double meals when I make the menus and shopping list today and then we'll do the shop tonight, all going well with the tyre replacement! OH only has three days next week so the lists of summer tasks are starting to build.

Hugs to all who need them.x

mardatha

Awh Hester am sorry, poor wee dog xx

silvasava

Aww Hester - sorry about DD's staffie. Hopefully your tenant is just teething troubles and will settle down soon.
I've always been an avid reader - first proper book was Hans Anderson & then moved on to Grimm's Fairy Tales, Norse and Greek Mythology! Strange child!
DH is going over to DS1 today to chainsaw a rotten tree down and do some trimming for him. I'm happy to be left on my own to finish blitzing the upstairs and tackle a few other jobs that have been lurking.
Rain finally stopped - just dank & misty - glad I did all the washing earlier in the week
Have a good day all x

Knit_Witch

Sorry about the dog Hester

Oh and like silvasava I hope the tenant will settle down soon!

monnagran

Hester, in your case it never rains but it pours, doesnt it?
Your poor DD. We all know what it means to lose part of your family like that. Planting a tree is a wonderful thing to do.
Hopefully your tenant will soon get a reality check and start taking some responsibility for her own housing needs.

It's decidedly chilly here today and more rain forecast. In spite of that I want to do a big wash as when the family move out on Saturday the washing machine will be going with them. They are only moving a mile up the road so if pushed I can take my washing up there and I am quite happy to wash small things out by hand. I really will be camping out here until the house sells. I have bought myself a kettle and a toaster so when I have a saucepan and phone handset for the landline I should be OK for a bit.
I think this move will be going on for some time. It appears that the essential things will be moved on Saturday and everything else will be moved up as and when.

Never mind. The next stage of my life is about to begin. It's quite exciting really.

nursemaggie

Awe Hester sorry about the dog. I hope you can get a couple of weeks respite. Has life always been like this?

I hope the house sells soon monna and you find something for you.

ivyleaf

Floss wrote: »

We had a copy of Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales in our house (both parents were librarians) which is really funny: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27424?msg=welcome_stranger

Oh I love those, though I haven't read all of them


monnagran I came across a picture of Struwwelpeter in a book, but didn't know the story so I didn't know who the picture was of! - I heard the outline of the story much later <shudder>
I had my older brother's Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopaedias and there were all sorts of stories in those. Fairytales, Greek/Roman myths, and lots of poetry too. I loved Wordsworth's (?) "Ring Out, Wild Bells", which was accompanied by a colour plate of lots of little cherubs ringing enormous bells. I vaguely remember they were climbing up long ribbons (the cherubs, not the bells )
There was "How Horatius Kept the Bridge" too, and the Pied Piper.

karcher My mother used to recite that one to me I never knew it was by Longfellow, well I never!

Oh Hester, so sorry about DD's dog

ivyleaf

monnagran Just read your post from earlier today. Won't it feel strange being all on your own in your house after all this time! very exciting though, as you say :j

shanks77

Sorry to hear about your DD's dog Hester she will miss her little fur face but the tree planting sounds like a lovely tribute xx

Hard_Up_Hester

Only one text from the tenant today, to tell me that the scrap man had collected the old machine.

And now I'm going to attempt to make fairy cakes without scales, and with an oven that doesn't heat evenly, wish me luck!