The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

ginnyknit

I dont mind if Elona wants to be my Mum xx

Been jam and marmalade making this week also filling the freezers with cooked veg to make easy meals. I do wish I was one of those tidy people (like Mardatha! mrs minimal) If I could throw things away as soon as they are done with would help. Things really do come in useful though.

Of to VIP day at Hobbycraft tomorrow with demonstrations and stuff - hope there are goody bags :j I also get 20% discount then so have a short list of what I need plus Dgs's playdough and pva glue. I am looking forward to a few hours away.

burtha

Hi all ..Sorry not been around much lately so hopefully everyone is doing ok ..life a bit full on till now, this weekend will be my first day off since the first week of the kids holidays !!! Woop woop ,dancing around like a mad thing ..... grandchilds baptism on Sunday so no time to lie down , food to make ,room to decorate...but at least Its for our party ,for a change ...
club going upwards ,fun, hard work,everything from party organisation to one on one counselling skills , plus accountancy and staff management ...love it ...just need about another 12 hours in the day ....
youngest kids back at school happy ...so that's good
have put back the hospital appointment ,they wanted me in for 2 nights from last Sunday ....asked and got the middle of the kids holidays in October ...can't say I a looking forward to it but hey Ho
fingers crossed I am ok for a kids party on the 31st , I do have it all sorted , including notes on everything ..sure it will be fine ..lol
right better try getting some sleep, hugs to all xx

ivyleaf

Thinking of you burtha! Glad the club's doing so well, all thanks to you and your OH :T

Ginny OK, elona can be your Mum, as long as she agrees to be mine as well

Had an early night last night, after 3 hours looking after the grandchildren - not sure why it was so tiring as they aren't babies any more, but they are lovely anyway

mardatha

Ginny, just gimme yer keys, and take the hubby off for a nice day oot... oh and hire a skip pet. Then I'll fix your house for you... all nice and tidy ;)

ginnyknit

Thats kind of you Mardatha :eek: you mean you would throw things away :eek: I got crumble on my laptop! well Ds's shiny red laptop

Went to the Hobbycraft thing - rubbish! stood waiting for 20 minutes for them to get the stuff together for the demo's and my back was killing me so bought the few bits I needed got my discount and left. Next time I will offer to do the demo myself - on time. It was just 2 staff members, I thought they would bring someone in as I know one of their other stores did.

ivyleaf

Ginny I'm so sorry the demo was such a washout when you'd been looking forward to it!


So.....the first day of charging for plastic bags in England.

I suspect some shoppers will make a terrible fuss about it :eek:

We always have our own bags with us in the car anyway, and only use plastic ones for impulse purchases.

We visited friends in Scotland in June and very quickly got used to making sure we always had a bag with us. Though we did get caught out at the H0tter shop - they were doing "3 for 2", and we didn't have a big enough bag.

mardatha

We keep forgetting the bags and leave them in the car. We could open a poly bag stall now from our car boot!

ivyleaf

Our big Sainsbury's has notices up in the car park reminding people to take their bags into the store. They put the notices up quite a while ago though, rather than just recently. Gets folk into the habit, I guess

last Christmas my DD2 gave me one of those fold-up bags that has its own little pouch and fits into a handbag, or can be clipped onto the handle. i' use it regularly. So far I've remembered to put it back in my bag after using it!

kidcat

It was pandemonium in our stores yesterday especially at self service tills, the poor staff couldnt keep up as no bags at the tills at all, they had to keep going away to get them
I usually forget the bags but take the trolley to the car and load the bags at the car - its just as easy

ivyleaf

Lovely to "see" you kidcat :j