The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

ivyleaf

mar - I think MrsL has gone to Sweden for a week or so She was planning to investigate the Swedish side of her family tree while she's there.

nursemaggie So pleased for your son :j

Lovely day here (atm) so I may do some weeding later.

monnagran

Islandmaid: we get DFLs too. We also get our fair share of TandTs (Tinsel and Turkey's, Mar) and SBs, (Short Breakers). I met two of them just last week, wandering around looking confused. They couldn't find the way back to their hotel and complained about misleading signs. I had to explain that we islanders were so deprived of mainland civilisation that we had to make our own entertainment, which in the main consisted of annoying visitors. The signs were arranged that way for our amusement. If the children were bored we sent them into our front gardens to watch the visitors roaming the lanes trying to get home. Hours of fun could be had that way.

Fortunately they laughed.

Softstuff: I am so pleased that your c5-7 has been released. I haven't a clue what it is but I'm very glad that it is now relaxed and free. Please don't explain, children and the innocent may be reading this and it could give Hester ideas.
I still think you are jealous but if you are very nice to islandmaid she might well send you some DFLs.

Me? I am going to rejoin real life and do something useful. A boat is waiting to be painted an eye-watering scarlet.

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greenbee

Softstuff wrote: »

Greenbee, might I suggest purchasing a dust mask before you get home... or just staying away. I'm finding the dust more stressful than many of the other jobs.

I'm with you on the dust being stressful. Staying away until it is all done is tempting but unfortunately they need me to make decisions so I can't stay away much longer. I'm working from my parents' house today which will be interesting...

Softstuff

Minneapolis we get rather a lot of FFM, folk from Melbourne (replace folk sometimes with another word). They can't read signs at all and don't understand roundabouts, of which we have many. I thought it an odd occurance the first time I saw one attack a roundabout in the wrong direction, but since then I've seen that a couple more times, seen someone reverse back to an exit they fancied and had numerous people stop mid circuit trying to figure out which way to go.

C5-7 refer to vertebrae in the neck, not pages in the kama sutra.

Greenbee, I've given up trying to clean up until the job is done, so am only cooking basic food and not minding dusty clothes. One day more should see this portion of the job done, but I am eyeing up another wall with murderous intent. Having watched it being done, think I can do the next one

mardatha

I once sat on a bus in Ireland that reversed round a roundabout - the noise of car horns was deafening lol

monnagran

I did once go round a roundabout the wrong way, but that was in Greece so doesn't count.
Also I know that it is an urban myth but back in the fifties I really did have friends who pitched their tent in the dead of night and woke up in the morning to find themselves in the middle of a roundabout. I believe that a certain amount of alcohol was involved.

Here there is a good deal of confusion about roundabouts, as indeed there is about many other issues. It's not unusual to come across a mini-roundabout with 4 cars drawn up to it, the drivers glaring at each other daring someone to blink first.

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Kittikins

Sorry to butt, in but that's where not being a Londoner, but having lived there for years helps - I take no prisoners on roundabouts!


When I the mini roundabout near the Lamborghini / Bentley/other fancy car garage on my daily commute, and the other 2 sides are giving each other doe eyes, I take inspiration from the bull emblem and just go for it! I take control (ooer missus) and usually make my manoeuvre whilst the others are still wondering how much more 'English' they can be!


Back to lurking x

monnagran

Nice to hear from you Kittikins, lurk Dr (????) or not we need someone to raise the tone here from time to time.

It was such a lovely day yesterday that we took the children on to the beach. Sunshine, sand, rock pools, buckets, spades, a ball, 2 children, a dog and a beach all to ourselves.
A recipe for happiness.

Thanks for the info about c5-7, Softstuff. How boring. I was expecting something far more tittilating.

It's about time Lyn got back. I miss her.

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moneyistooshorttomention

Quick query for peeps here - as I can see that plenty of other people are living rather "remotely"...

Am I missing a trick here somehow as to how to get cheques credited into my bank account? Since moving - I don't have a branch of my bank nearby and the nearest one is over an hour bus ride away and I can only get to it when I'm there in that bigger town anyway (ie only a couple of times a year then....).

I know there is always the possibility of sending it by post back to my own branch of my bank (ie back in my old home city) - but stamps now cost a noticeable amount and I am the one that has to pay for them (rather than the bank doing so).

What do other people do about putting cheques into their bank account if their nearest branch is some distance away? I would have thought that there ought to be some sort of arrangement whereby local Post Office had to accept them and get them sent on through the system - but I've asked at the counter there before and told they don't do that.

Thoughts?

NB; I'm not proposing to change bank - as I'm perfectly happy with mine.

nursemaggie

Well you can pay checks into the post office for some banks Money but I don't know about yours. I don't think I would want a bank I had to travel a distance to put in checks.