The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

Hard_Up_Hester

If someone has seen summer, we could really do with borrowing it here in Berkshire for a couple of days. I can't believe it's June and I still can't hang my washing out. I ended up putting the heating on for an hour on Thursday just to get some stuff dry on the radiators.

Anyway it's wellys and cagoules at the ready today as we are taking the 10 and 11 year old DGC out.

Tomorrow after they have gone home I will get everything ready for work for me & hubby and uniform for DGS as it's back to helping with the school run and changing nappies and serving breakfasts.

Nursemaggie, I'm lifting and shifting at home, hubby is doing it at work, I'm hoping to finish the first sort this week and get the house ready to sell, once it's sold I will be getting rid of furniture etc.

Good luck with sorting out the will SS.

camelot1001

What a nightmare Softstuff, wouldn't know where to start!

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It's going to be Midsummers Day in a couple of weeks.....surely you need Summer for that the happen and so far it still feels like winter down here, not good!!!

moneyistooshorttomention

Sorry Hester - I've got summer corralled here - and I'm not letting it escape :cool::)

I reckon that's fair enough after all the gales and rain and more gales and more rain that I've had in abundance since moving here:).

It's been a huge relief to actually be able to go for walks/see blue skies/have it nice and calm and only wear a teeshirt on my top. You don't realise just how much you miss having decent weather at reasonable intervals - until you don't.

The garden is starting to take shape - though still a long way (and lot of money...:() to go - but starting to be somewhat productive and its way more private than it was when I bought the house. A major privacy problem still to resolve - but googling/thinking madly and trying to stay positive I'll find a way..

So - whew! Getting better...

ivyleaf

The weather's supposed to cheer up tomorrow in the South :j About time! I've felt so sorry for parents trying to amuse the children cheaply (it's been half-term here), and now it's getting better just as they go back to school!

I have managed to dry washing on the line three times, I think, but that was a few weeks ago. But I have high hopes for the coming week, especially as OH managed to cut the grass when it stopped raining for just about long enough, so I won't have to put my wellies on to go into the garden.

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It's a bit like being in an overcast sauna out there at the moment , I've just walked Cookie and thought I might melt at one point. It's sticky and humid and airless, not nice at all!

Softstuff

Thanks for the well wishes with the inheritance stuff. I just need not to get anxious about it really. To start with I thought there was no money involved, so it was easy. As it turns out there might be a bit of something and even something for me. I need to keep my optimism down though, I figure if I can come out of this without it costing me money I'm doing ok!

The weather sure is odd here, in winter and barely cool enough for a jumper. We did haave about 75mm of rain yesterday too. Good for plants, but also good for weeds.

Before you all begin to feel sorry for me with my bkue sky today... We're picking up our garden shed today. And I mean that quite literally, lifting it up and putting it in the neighbours yard! The landscaper is due to start leveling our ski slope out back and the shed is far too big for us. I asked the neighbours and they'd like it, so next door it goes. Can't see how that could possibly go wrong eh peeps?

In other news, Greenbee you'll be familiar with this, we think we've chosen our tiles. I say we think, cos every time we choose something another issue changes our minds. And I bought a bathroom basin on ebay. Half the price of new.

greenbee

Good luck Softstuff!

As for the tiles... Once you stick them to the adhesive you know you've finally decided, whether you like the result or not!

nursemaggie

softstuff You obviously haven't chosen them yet, not really. The last time I lived in a house of my own we kept changing our minds about the tiles in the kitchen. We went for one last look and found some that had been very expensive but they had just enough left to do out kitchen at only 20% of the original price. They went down really easy too. They were not the colour we were originally looking for but when we got them down we agreed they went with the kitchen better.

I hope you are all straight for now greenbeeand getting a good break from the builders.

I got a pile of direct debit mandate forms this morning. Someone must have been listening. I will send it back recorded delivery to be on the safe side. I have to go to the post office anyway as it will be DGS's birthday soon. I have got him some George from pepper pig jimjams, some magnetic letters and numbers and a pile of sticker books from his favourite programs. He loves sticker books and I have managed to get some you can keep moving the stickers about. He asked for them last year. I can't believe he is nearly 3 already.

milasavesmoney

We are going up north tomorrow for our DGD's second birthday party. Two years old has come much too soon. Tonight she finished dinner then ask for her shoes and the broom. She went out to the patio to 'Cleem up' for her party. We like to train 'em young!:rotfl: