The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

Hard_Up_Hester

Great to see Monna I was getting worried.
Just to lower the tone of the thread, there has been a lot in the papers lately about people doing the school run in their jimjams. I never did that, probably cos I always have and still do sleep nekkid!
TMI, I know but I just thought I'd share that with you all.

nursemaggie

I used to Hester but not any more its freezing cold at bed time in this flat but I have to take the jimjams off about 3am because its roasting.

Who ever thought of these storage radiators wants shooting but expect he is dead by now they've been around a long time.

Been for a scan this morning. Ambulance coming back turned into the next street and his sat nav said take the fourth turning right so he took the third one and got stuck.

DS and I went out when I got back, still no shoes. Then went to Aldi so taxi back and I am telling him about the ambulance and he takes the third turning instead of the fourth.

I said oh well at least you wont get stuck or have to park on the pavement.

camelot1001

Thanks for the tip re the potato wedges Mrs LW, I've always put salt on before cooking, will try them without to see if they go crispy.

Sounds like the company did you good monna, hope you enjoy going to stay.

Floss

Re new kitchens - we talked about putting some extra cupboards in DHs kitchen just before I moved in. The next weekend I arrived with a car full of "stuff" and the kitchen was in the back yard! He had decided we needed to do the whole thing, and when I moved in a week later, he proposed and promptly went off to Glasgow 200 miles away for a week with no kitchen, no cooker, fridge in the hall & washing up in the bathroom sink. And I still married him 4 years later!

I would just say - don't construct Ikea kitchen cabinets on a blanket laid on pine floorboards unless you want nasty triangular dints in it from dropped panels... We have 3

ivyleaf

So glad you're okay, "monogram" It sounds as if you've had a lovely time

fuddle

now eh? monna. I know Burtha and I are most probably cut from the same Durham cloth but that's taking it a bit far. You do make me laugh!

Softstuff

camelot1001 wrote: »

Thanks for the tip re the potato wedges Mrs LW, I've always put salt on before cooking, will try them without to see if they go crispy.

Ditto, thanks Mrs LW

MTSTM, I see your Wels enquiry was answered. Funny thing about Australia, very laid back country, but so many darned laws about what you can and can't do in your own darned home. For an avid DIYer it's bloody infuriating.

Floss, if marrying him after that isn't love I don't know what is!

Monagram, I hope you never get the hang of the tablet, it's far too entertaining as is.

nursemaggie

ditto Monna.

Nargleblast

I still believe in the little pixies that live inside tablet devices.

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I've just had a count up of the number of 'charity bags' which come through the letter box with alarming regularity. Some of the charities I've never heard of and some just keep on dishing out bags. I've been using them as bin bags (not exclusively but regularly) right through the year and as of yesterdays new one I still have 24 in the drawer!!! We choose to give any surpluses to our local Sea Scouts Jumble Sale which happens here about 6 times a year and I've stopped bothering to put the empty bags out as they are NEVER collected. Is this just too many begging bags? if only for the cost of having them made, delivered and mostly to the depletion of oil reserves for such a wasted effort. I find it rather off putting that charities waste so much money which was presumably donated in the first place for such a small return as I rarely see people putting full bags our for collection these days.