The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

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Cor MAR you ARE getting brave!!!

ivyleaf

Welcome home Lyn! Glad you had a lovely time

Welcome LilySue! I hope your DH managed the walk all right. My DD is recovering from peritonitis and texted me very excitedly to say she had managed to walk to the local Tesc0 and back I hope her DH made her a cup of tea when they got home!

nursemaggie Glad to hear your son has plenty of hours this week :T

elona I hope your DD got on okay at the interview x

shanks77

burtha sorry to hear of your loss and the miseries of family that go with it. I can sympathise as we had a similar problem with dads side of the family. As you say go to the funeral keep your dignity and think that when it's over you never have to have contact with them again xx.
Lilysue welcome to the thread we are a friendly bunch, though slightly eccentric (some more than others :rotfl:). Look forward to chatting with you.
Mrs LW (Lynn) nice to see you back and how lovely to hear of you tracing your ancestry and finding someone who can help.
Nursemaggie good luck with the dentist hope all goes well.
Miserable day here again so just pottering around. Hope everyone is well xx

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Hi LILYSUE welcome aboard this friendliest of threads, Shanks is being polite when she says 'slightly eccentric', some of us are downright whacky and definitely alternative but it's loads of fun and very special to find a whole bunch of friends who you don't have to explain the humour to, they're the sunshine on any rainy day and life would be much less fun without them, join us petal and laugh along we'd love to have you, Lyn xxx.

monnagran

Welcome Lilysue, are you sure you want join this bunch of off-the-wall characters? Some of us older, wiser, more responsible, upright, respectable posters do try to maintain a modicum of boring decency but it's an up hill struggle.

I don't think we can allow too many of these holidays Lyn. The moral tone of this thread takes a decided turn for the worse when you are not here and I can't keep everyone under control on my own.
Glad you had a good break though and how wonderful to meet someone who could help you with your family history. You are right. That is beyond coincidence.

Shanks: who are these eccentrics you refer to? I think Mar and Hester might take exception to be described thus.

Nursemaggie: it seems that your DS is enjoying his job. Not so good if he is bulking up out of his clothes. Does he have objections to you letting them out with lace inserts?

I have just come back from my sewing group. The project this week is a bag made from hexagon. It took me 2 hours to cut out 24 h exagons and when I said triumphantly that I had finished, was told that I only needed 18. Rats! Now everyone will go back next week carrying the bag that they will have finished and I will be in the corner wearing my dunces cap and still battling with hexagons.
Still, it's good clean fun.

x

shanks77

Monna if the cap fits..... Lol I would never cast aspersions

LilySue

Thank you all so much for the warm welcome, l shall endeavour not to lower the tone of the place, and will always type with the wonderfully posh 1950s accent that a year of elocution lessons failed to give me ( my mother panicked about my Norfolk accent when I was seven years old and wasted a lot of money attempting to eliminate it!)

Mardatha that's so encouraging to hear about your husband, you're right it is a new start and one l'm very grateful for.

Ivyleaf glad that your daughter made it to Tescos, and l think she definitely deserved a nice cup of tea! We made it into town and back and dh was back to striding ahead of me carrying the shopping, think he is coming along nicely:D

camelot1001

Thank goodness you're back Lynn, this lot have been proper rowdy!
Glad you had a good time and found someone to help, what a stroke of luck.
Good luck to your DS nursemaggie in his new job, sounds like it's doing him good.

Welcome Lilysue, your name sounds like you should be in the Dukes of Hazzard!

Well done monna, I couldn't help laughing at your mistake, it's the sort of thing I would do.

Well it's rained a lot today and I'm fed up. I'm sure there is loads I can do but doesn't seem to be worth starting it as I'm away tomorrow. I will make a list of what is to be done when I get back, like paint a bedside cabinet for DD and strip the kitchen of all its disgusting wallpaper. Maybe the weather will be better when I get home and I've got my mojo back - anyone seen it?

burtha

Hi lilysue,:wave:
Welcome back Mrs lw, sound like you have had a good time

seeking a quick coffee break in before I to to the bar, then a meeting about the village fun day , see if we can give it a much needed revamp ....

Well today contact from the " adams family" ( very polite name for bunch of .......) ,just to inform us they expect our share of money for funeral .....
You would think that at some point one of them would ask how dh is , obviously missed out that bit at charm school ......
Rant over
Now ideas for fun day .......

nursemaggie

monna. I did mean stick arms and legs he is just beginning to fill out his skinny jeans. Doctors have been telling him he was 2 1/2 stone underweight since he was 15 so he can probably stand another stone. He picked up a box of books for me this afternoon as if it was empty.

Actually he needs lots of new clothes anyway they would not stand letting out. He went to the job centre this afternoon and they gave him a free bus pass for his first four months. He said we could go to the Trafford Centre. Let's hope the prices don't frighten him skinny again.

Why don't you make your DGD a bag with the spare hexagons. I am sure she would love it. See your not a dunce after all.