The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

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We're going off to the old fashioned hardware shop in a local village this morning to buy a new kettle, yet another electric one has developed a fault, this time boiling water gets inside the hollow lid when you pour from the spout and then pours over my hand when I put the kettle upright again so we're turning the clock back and going to buy a good old fashioned sturdy whistling kettle to go on the hob. It will take a little longer to boil the water but the water will pour into the teapot and not all over the work surface like the electric does at the moment and I will stop having a scalded hand whenever I use it, can only be good? yes!

Softstuff

Greenbee, it's certainly food for thought. Realistically right now though I could do with just a few paid hours somewhere rather than setting up my own business. Even simple self employment here has some costs and I don't have that money right now. Nor do I have the confidence

I seem to be worse with jetlag as I get older. Maybe I'm just less flexible with age. Going to England never bothers me too much, coming back takes a couple of weeks to wear off.

Ivyleaf, not sure where those rowdy late night Aussies came from, we're all in bed by 9.30 in these parts. Drunk, but in bed

silvasava

Morning All

Just caught up with the posts as my friend kindly invited me to accompany her to London yesterday to see Mamma Mia. We had a lovely day and pushed the boat out with lunch in Jamies restaurant in Covent Garden & a couple of cocktails & Italian Ice cream for pudding! Show was brilliant - we had a really lovely day.

Monna - how proud you must be of that girlie who has worked so hard to overcome her demons. Such courage and determination supported by your encouragement :T:T

Camelot - yes,the big tankers give me the willies too! When we go over to the Island I wait until they go past and scuttle across the shipping lane behind them!

Mrs L - my kettle is on its last legs too - but I did buy one in a sale as they always seem to have a habit of dying at the most inconvenient times. I did buy a lovely red whistling kettle to use on the wood burner but its more of an ornament :rotfl:

Softstuff - hope the jetlag wears off soon and you are back to your 'old' self. You did make me laugh with the mental picture of you lying on the floor fast asleep with your weights. Shame about the job you were hoping for but as Mr Micawber says - something will turn up so dont be despondent.

Managed to do quite a bit of kipple clearing on Wednesday - about 7 pots of various part used face creams and sunscreens all mixed together and put in a pump bottle. Will last me about a year I think and has cleared some space! Its very windy here today but dry so washed bedding is on the line having a good blow and I'm tackling my list of jobs.

Have a good day all x

greenbee

Softstuff wrote: »

Greenbee, it's certainly food for thought. Realistically right now though I could do with just a few paid hours somewhere rather than setting up my own business. Even simple self employment here has some costs and I don't have that money right now. Nor do I have the confidence

Maybe start with skills swapping and a blog? Then when you know there is demand you can think about whether you want to set up as self-employed. Or maybe persuade someone to employ you as their organisation expert as part of a larger business.

Softstuff wrote: »

Ivyleaf, not sure where those rowdy late night Aussies came from, we're all in bed by 9.30 in these parts. Drunk, but in bed

I know people who live near you. I think it might have been them...

monnagran

I'm very sorry for your village Lyn. It changes the whole character of a place when a huge new development is dumped in it. Sometimes the infrastructure just wont take it and then both the old timers and the newcomers are unhappy. However the developers and the council are ecstatic.
They have been trying to get a new development in Ryde for years. I don't remember how many houses they wanted to put up, certainly it was well over a thousand. It has become an annual event for the developers to put in for a very slightly reduced number and for the council to say 'no.' However, this year the council must be strapped for cash. Perhaps they were faced with having to give up some of their trips abroad to study traffic systems or the distribution of ice cream or something. Anyway, this year year the man he say, Yes. So a small township is to be built, thereby ruining a very lovely view.

I know where you are coming from Softstuff. Not by nodding off while doing a bit of weight training. Perish the thought. No, when I wake in the middle of the night for the obligatory 'half-time', I dare not start reading because I cannot put a book down. No, I have discovered that by doing a crossword or sudoku my eyes very soon grow heavy and I have often woken up in the morning with the newspaper in one hand and the pen in the other.

Lovely to catch up with my friends yesterday. Actually, I did very little for my lovely girl except try to make her appalling living conditions more comfortable. The big breakthrough came when I gave her a great hug and told her that I thought she was a strong, beautiful and amazing human being and I totally respected and admired her. That was when this tough, hard nut dissolved into tears because no one had ever said anything like that to her before in the whole of her life.
That's what most of the folk who drifted in through our doors lacked - a little bit of love and encouragement. It amazed me when some hefty, pierced, tattooed frightening looking thug turned round at the door and asked very shyly if he could have a hug. He always could of course and always went out smiling , it was me who was left wiping away the tears.

Forgive me. I do get a bit carried away when I'm taking about my homeless friends. I loved them so much.

Well, I've almost finished sorting and ironing my summer clothes. Just in time for the weather to turn colder tomorrow. Sod's law, or what?

Wow! Silvasava, what a taste of the high life! I love Mama Mia. I am hoping that I might catch it at the Mayflower but have a feeling it has already been and gone. The last thing I saw there was Sister Act which was brilliant.

x

nursemaggie

I too have fallen asleep with a crossword in one hand and pen in the other. I have also woken up and carried on reading the book in my hand.

I also have word puzzles and sudoku on the computer, they keep generating new ones and I fallen asleep doing those and woken up, as a Canadian friend says, with little squares all over my cheek.

Oh Monna I thought it was my fault the weather has turned so cold this afternoon. I bought some sunscreen on Monday. I have not even started ironing all my summer clothes yet I still have not found a space big enough where I can stand me and the ironing board and plug the iron in.

Softstuff

I made it a little better last night, awake until 8.30pm, asleep until 4.30am. Progress is being made. With jetlag I've dozed off mid tv show, mid movie (at the cinema), mid dinner and mid conversation. It amuses hubby how he can wake me and less than 10 seconds later I'm gone again. I didn't get the physio done last night, that would have been asking for trouble.

You don't need to be forgiven for talking about your homeless friends Monnagran. It's lovely what you did and makes me cry a little.

Silvasava, what a lovely trip that sounded. Of all the types of food, Jamies is my favorite. He features pretty heavily in recipes and supermarkets here.

monnagran

Well nursemaggie, I have the clothes piled up on my bed, the ironing board alongside my bed, the iron plugged into the extension cable and when the clothes are ironed they are draped over the chest of drawers prior to being hung on the 2 hooks on the bedroom door, which just about closes. I have been offered half of a hanging cupboard in Mia's room but there is so much stuff, including a blow up fairy castle, all piled up against the door that I've given up the unequal struggle to get access to that.

It's fun, isn't it?

monnagran

Softstuff.

8.30pm - 4.30am is wonderful! 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep will do you the world of good. You must be on the way to normality again.
Sleep and normality. I envy you.

x

Softstuff

monnagran wrote: »

Softstuff.

8.30pm - 4.30am is wonderful! 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep will do you the world of good. You must be on the way to normality again.
Sleep and normality. I envy you.

x

I'd send you some if I could Monnagran. I agree, it was a wonderful quantity. I find as I recover bedtimes get later and morning get ups move to daylight... and I don't doze off sat up on the sofa requiring hubby to wake me up much like an infant to put me to bed.