The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

shanks77

Hi popping in on to say hi to the newbies welcome to the madhouse lol
Island aid another follower of your blog here
Hugs to all who need/want one xx

nursemaggie

T&T You will also get a switch back to a subject from days ago. That happens when someone comes online who has not read the thread for a few days. They come across something they want to comment on and comment. Then they find they were not at the end there was another page so they post again on the subject that's up to date. The dramatic switch is a cross post.

Love the "ISIS" panic. They always turn out hilarious. This thread has an awful lot of lurkers (people who mainly just read) so sometimes we just double overnight.

Islandmaid I found the worse thing about the empty nest was I kept on shopping for them. Yes I have had an empty nest my older two left home a couple of years before DS was born. I still went on buying their favourite biscuits and other odd treats. The problem was they were things I did not like. One thing DD would get a big box of them along with the box of basics we took her every time we visited her at Uni.

Oh ivyleaf how horrid. Mine was a leaking bin bag I put by the back door for DS to put in the bin, a few days ago. I saw the puddle and smelled it when I wiped it up. For two days I could not work out where the horrible smell was coming from. I picked up the door mat to wash the floor and it was soaking wet. It took two washes in the washing machine to get rid of the smell.

milasavesmoney

We had a dead mouse in the ceiling heating vent once and that was not a cheerful smell for a long time!

My GGF, George Smith, was born in Ireland in the 1845 and left home at age eleven because of abuse by his stepfather. He never went back. He eventually settled in Texas after years of working for years on ships. He refused to talk about his life there but he named his children after his brothers and sisters. My GM's name was Mary Dee Smith. I have no way of tracing him.
Smith does not seem Irish to me. Thoughts on that?

Hard_Up_Hester

Nursemaggie, I still cook for mine though I am getting better. Hubby frequently sits down to a meal and says 'When are the others arriving?'
Mar, how awful for them.

ivyleaf

Oh mila, how awful to have the smell coming from the heating vent!_pale_

And nursemaggie My sympathy for the leaky bin bag! Horrid.
I've had to pour some disinfectant in the garden waste wheelie bin too. Never had a problem with that before, it's just because it's been so hot recently (and it's not often we can say that! )

milasavesmoney

Islandmaid, I really missed mine but was also happy they were at this point in their lives. Bittersweet. It was a bit of a void at first but not too hard until the last one left, as I was still busy with the others.
Then I began to realize I had time for me. It took me time to discover how I was going to proceed but I have really come to enjoy being able to do things I love, discovering new things because now I had the time and the freedom to make plans for just DH and me. We have become reacquainted and are loving it! It's actually a very sweet full time in our lives.

boultdj

milasavesmoney wrote: »

My GGF, George Smith, was born in Ireland in the 1845 and left home at age eleven because of abuse by his stepfather. He never went back. He eventually settled in Texas after years of working for years on ships. He refused to talk about his life there but he named his children after his brothers and sisters. My GM's name was Mary Dee Smith. I have no way of tracing him.
Smith does not seem Irish to me. Thoughts on that?

Well the name Smith tends to pop up all over the english speaking world. As a granddaughter of a Smith, I just say 'we don't need to keep up with the Jones, we out number 'em already' or as my Gran said 'I'm glad we got a telly when we did,it gave your Granddad something else to do':eek:
still they did have 10 children that lived to grow up and have families of their own.

burtha

Hi
My horrid smell , that has never happened before is my dishwasher .... filter clear , ??? May just bung it on a very hot wash and see what happens....

It is amazing having the kids off school ....I can get ready for work in the morning with out having to fight for the bathroom , convince them to eat some breakfast,the extra hour at school closing time , makes such a difference, my teenage kids are home alone for 5 hours a day , but they sensable kids , all they have to do is make a sandwich when they get up at midmorning , and raid the fridge , junk / biscuit tins ....They can contact me at all time ( work 10 mins away) and grown up kids ( ds still at home plus fianc!) gf seams to work odd hours so is often here , and dd plus dgc only lives 2 mins away ....
Youngest kids have loved the responsibility , I know they are safe or within easy reach of help ....and I seam to have move ump... so do they actually...
Tonight cleared the garden rubbish, something I haven't had the energy for for a couple of years , is was neat and tidy apart for 1 corner , almost sorted now.

Tomorrows plans , dh and I are both of together :T
Youngest dd is having her ears pierced at lunch time , then collection of kids friends ,to chill ,laugh,take to somewhere we can hopefully sit and they can wonder around and keep checking back to , Bring them home , throw sleeping stuff on floor or if fine give them tents ,feed them with food that the unspecting ones don't know that the will be making themselves lol ... pizza most likely ....
but we will make the hot chocolate ....of course .....
love kids holidays .....
I have another 2 weeks to go until I am off ..... dh is nights next week so at least will be around ,if asleep then has 3 weeks off .....

gosh I ramble on .....

Family trees .... I have a strange name ....makes things a bit odd to look up , carnt ask any related person to help , my mum carnt remember much on my dad's side ,dad died almost 20 years ago( very early 50 ) so not much luck , and don't / carnt even find out my ggp names never mind anything else ....hey ho

right will stop now lol
x

Softstuff

Hard_Up_Hester wrote: »

Lol, Softstuff, doesn't worry me, I can be the skeleton in your cupboard!

Hester, that particular cupboard is already chock full of skeletons. We look tame and normal by comparison.

Camelot, I don't understand why they'd be so rude. Common courtesy costs nothing, but when they should be kissing your feet for your kindness in volunteering not even offering common courtesy really takes the biscuit. I'd be rethinking my donations of time too.

Ivyleaf, sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I'd move the stuff. Dead mouse can linger horribly. We had one under a fixed kitchen kickboard. We had to partly dismantle the kitchen in the end. Yeuch.

Burtha, even the smell of a clean dishwasher makes me gag, so can't have one in the house. You can buy a dishwasher cleaner pack to put in every now and again, not very OS, but my friend swears by one every few months.

Sorting out my bio-fathers inheritance, my documents are currently lost in Bulgaria. Apparently in a warehouse somewhere, I have no idea how. Trying to trace them obviously, since they cost me more than 500 quid to sort out.Hoping my contact in Bulgaria can go and find them. Not coping well with the stress of this at all and feel like vomiting.

camelot1001

Mmm, dead mouse. The smell still haunts me, not in this house but the previous one. When we first moved in it had been empty for some time and in the middle of nowhere so the mice were the only residents. They took the poison then died all over the place!

Thanks for your thoughts on my volunteering, I'll take time to think about it and speak to the lovely lady who deals with the volunteers and see what she says. She's not there much at the moment as it is school holidays and takes time off to be with her children.