The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

Softstuff

greenbee wrote: »

I've just finished work for the day - with a client in Australia, who was telling me about the kind of wildlife you have in your forests. I'd have to be VERY desperate to take advantage of your offer...

On the plus side, I have a couple of bottles of prosecco, quite a bit of gin (not much tonic though) and some red wine.

Also some leftover mince pies in the freezer and a few sausage rolls as well as the remains of the ham.

You still have ham? You can use the indoor loo :-D

Reports of wildlife coming out of the forests here are probably exaggerated.... in our first 11 months here we've had 2 kangaroos, 1 koala, a python, 3 green snakes, 2 handsized spiders, many harmless other bugs (some handsized, but pretty coloured). It's not that bad. Or maybe I'm acclimated. I certainly dealt with the snakes better than hubby.

shanks77

Softstuff wrote: »

So, it looks like plans are moving on apace to our New New Year. I bought a bottle of sparkly wine and a bottle of white yesterday (both reduced, 2 quid for a nec bottle of wolf blass sparkly). With that, Iveleafs Prosecco and Shanks77s booze haul, I think drinks are sorted (I have plenty of tea for non boozers). We might be a little short on food yet, curiously enough like Ivyleaf, I also have leftover shortbread. And a packet of mixed nuts.

Space isn't in short supply here, though it's all undecorated, we have spare space and a big covered patio. Only 1 loo though... but a huge forest behind if you get desperate.

Think I'm coming to terms with things now. It just hurts. So I'm working twice as hard on renos just to make it stop.

Lillibet Dripping, well done on the parent wrangling, sometimes just giving them a bit of a shive is in their best interest. My grandad at over 80 was put in a geriatric ward when he was sick once, with people much younger than him. He said "What the hell have they put me in here with all these old !!!!!!s for???".

Oh def not short on food have enough to feed a small army lol

ivyleaf

Handsized spiders and bugs? :eek: :eek: :eek: (Not worried about the snakes.)

mardatha

My thoughts exactly ivy!!

Softstuff

ivyleaf wrote: »

Handsized spiders and bugs? :eek: :eek: :eek: (Not worried about the snakes.)

I... have smallish hands

It's a question of scale really. You do get used to things like that in a way you never thought you would. And for the things you don't, there's wine.

Nargleblast

Stubborn old folk......my OH's stepdad (now dead and gone) once moaned about being bored and lonely. When it was suggested he could join a pensioners' social club, he said "What? With them boring old b*stards? You must be joking!" He was in his 80's at the time.

ivyleaf

Softstuff wrote: »

I... have smallish hands

It's a question of scale really. You do get used to things like that in a way you never thought you would. And for the things you don't, there's wine.

That's brilliant :rotfl:

ETA nargleblast And so is that

Nargleblast

The same old chap swore blind that he got oral cancer by putting an aspirin on an aching tooth.

Nowt to do with the 60 -odd fags he got through every day, of course.

Funny old beggar, but with a heart of gold and umpteen photos of all his grandkids on display. We miss him loads.

monnagran

So, has everyone gone on holiday to somewhere warmer?
Perhaps you have all been struck down by the horrid cough/cold virus thingy and are lurking under the duvet only emerging to rub on another layer of Vick and sip a soothing lemon and honey drink.
Or maybe an enormous UFO has arrived and sucked you all up and removed you to a place above the bright blue sky.

COME BACK. PLEASE.

x

greenbee

too cold to type Monna