The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

ivyleaf

monnagran wrote: »

I've been knitting a tea cosy for a friend of DIL's, one of the old fashioned sort. The one with vertical pleats of alternating colours and a pom pom on the top. It looks a bit small to me so either she buys a smaller teapot or I knit another, bigger, cosy.

ETA: the tea cosy is old fashioned, not the friend.

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:rotfl: Actually I saw tea cosies like that at a craft show we visit twice a year. I was looking for a new cosy last September, but wanted a fabric one, similar to one I'd bought there some years ago but had only recently started using again; it has a solid base, a quilted "nest" the teapot fits into, then a piece of fabric-covered elastic to close the top and keep the tea really hot. The elastic had "died in storage" so I was managing without closing the top. Either the stall wasn't there, or they'd stopped making those tea cosies.
It only occurred to me last week that I could simply tie a knot in the strip of fabric covering the no-longer-stretchy elastic, and it fits again now :j

mardatha

I was learning how to give it Monna, not get it... but I'll take the jellybabies anyway

monnagran

Oops! The jellybabies are yours. Offer them to all in need of your spiritual healing.

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Softstuff

Hester, it's a bit late for us and the erotic bondage book I think. It's all well and good suggesting scissors for when a knot sticks, but sometimes the knots could be in places you wouldn't want scissors near.

Mardatha, watch the light fittings don't catch on your new halo

My fingers are crossed there's not that development too close Mrs LW. Have you checked with the local planning office? Might be worth a preemptive objection.

Nursemaggie, I get what you mean with the fridge. If any other ideas pop up I'll let you know.

mardatha

It's ok softstuff - normal evil Mard lives on. I found it very boring and won't be taking it further. much more fun sitting here eating jellybabies sniggering with you mad lot!

elona

mardatha

The thought of you being all prunes and primmed mouth was not a happy one. A bit "Holy Wullies Prayer!"

Enjoy your jelly babies pet.

Hester

You could make any subject entertaining so go for it. Do you remember the joke about the man who gave a talk to a local group about sex and told his wife it was about sailing? One of the audience saw the wife and said he had enjoyed the talk and her reply was "I don't know why he chose that subject as he only did it twice - the first time he was sick and the second time his hat blew off!"

Lyn

Maybe it won't be a development as such - fingers crossed. Could you get the MP involved?

Softstuff

mardatha wrote: »

It's ok softstuff - normal evil Mard lives on. I found it very boring and won't be taking it further. much more fun sitting here eating jellybabies sniggering with you mad lot!

As long as you bite the legs off first giggling evilly.

I saw something in poundland whilst I was over there that made me chuckle, Jellyatrics, jelly babies shaped like old people, complete with Zimmer frames! Guess eating them is like sweetie euthanasia.

moneyistooshorttomention

I admit that one of the "positive" reasons why I moved from Southern England was that it was simply not going to be possible to "do a King Canute" and put that particular genie back in the bottle of over-development in my area - even if I could afford a "this stage of life" house there.

I spent the last few years watching all the development going on - our green fields being lost, gardens being "grabbed", etc in horror. To live in my own area now I felt like I would need a time machine to "put the clock back" 10 years at any rate (possibly, preferably, 20 years). But, quite definitely, at least 10 years - for it to be "my" area again.

Every single "opportunity" in a developers eyes (and a lot that were simply impractical - like flood plains and already weeny little gardens) was being grabbed and developed and I hated that (particularly with being a "local" there - rather than an incomer).

There are new houses being built here - but not very many of them - as this isnt a very big place. It's that small and the "locals" will raise eyebrows at a dozen or so places being built and, in my eyes, it wouldnt be harmed by doubling in size, as we would then get more facilities (but I dont see that happening in my lifetime).

It's "swings or roundabouts" imo - either not enough facilities...but a lot less chance of over-development. Or enough facilities - but every other person in Britain wants to move to your area and there is over-development to fit them in.

Basically turn of last century onwards and we are in rather a "you pays your money and takes your choice" situation. But, if anyone has a time machine and a spare £200,000 or so to donate to a good cause:);):) - then maybe...

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The local council is under the same three line whip to build more houses as the rest of the country. I think objections will go in but possibly all we'll achieve is 'what' is built but not how many! I wouldn't want to halt progress in any way but it's looking like ALL the green spaces will be acquired by builders and filled in with new estates. There will in the not too distant future be one huge expanse of housing stretching from the east side of Portsmouth and as far as the west side of Southampton like Wordsworths daffodil, stretching in everlasting line along the margin of the bay!!! The biggest concern is that the infrastructure isn't being expanded to take account of the extra head of population which will occur. There are no new schools, doctors surgeries, dentists, car parks, shops even being put in, mostly because there is very little available space in the villages TO actually expand existing facilities. It's a problem waiting to happen and I really, really don't want to be here when it does!!!

Islandmaid

We're suffering from massive building issues here too - one development of 90 houses being built at the bottom of our road fills in the green space between 2 villages and a town, so will make a generic sprawl, the house prices are so high that it prices out locals and we'll have yet another dormitory estate. It appears that due to the Governments diktat of build build build, normal common sense over planning has been lost - very sad...

Hester - get them bondage books on Amazon - mention 50's shades and they'll sell like hotcakes talking of which, watched the film at the weekend, more like 50 shades of beige if you ask me, if your gonna do spicy, make it extra hot.......