The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

Tipsntreats

Silly me I posted this pic in the wrong thread just now.
Hello everyone, I hope you like the pic. Life is sunny and so is the weather. Air show starting soon, so enjoying the peace. Hugs and kisses to you all!!!!

Tips x:A

ivyleaf

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I'll raise you 5 trays of long cut courgettes and 3 trays of apple slices drying in the dehydrator.......then he came back from the allotment with yet another bag of courgettes and another bag of apples.....5 minutes of not having things to process in my day them!!!

Didn't something similar happen last year Lyn? Great to have such a good crop though!

ginnyknit Nice to "see" you

Tips That looks really good! You are clever. :T

Had a lovely time today, I met up with Churchmouse whom some of you will remember. She's become a good friend IRL and is a sweetie. We always used to go to the cafe in BHS but of course it's closed now, so decided to try JL. We had soup and a big hunk of bread. I asked for Pea and Ham soup but the lady got distracted and gave me Broccoli and Stilton - it was nice enough though, so I didn't bother asking for a replacement. Afterwards I had banoffee cheesecake, which I probably shouldn't have, but it was extremely nice

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It sounds very ungrateful for natures bounty to complain like I do doesn't it? It happens EVERY year, courgettes are very enthusiastic and there are some days when I wish we grew less of them. The dried ones are now out of the dehydrator and the dried apple too so the kitchen is much cooler, hoorah!!! I'll appreciate having all this produce in the autumn and winter but just as I get clear and think Oh good, no more courgettes.......along he comes with another carrier bag full.....courgettes anyone?

maryb

I've been speed reading because we've been on holiday and I've been catching up on all the threads I read along with. I can't now find the post I'm thinking of, but someone said to Hester that having someone resident in the house when you are trying to sell it can cause problems.

I had a slightly different scenario but I can confirm that this might be a problem. We were remortgaging and although we were staying with Natwest we had to go through the whole rigmarole as if we were applying from scratch. One of the things they asked was who was living in the house for more than three months. Well at the time our DDs were small so I had an au pair to pick them up from school and look after them until I got home.

The bank said that she would have to sign to consent to our taking out a mortgage on our own home!!! and that she would have to take separate legal advice (which we would have to pay for) and her solicitor would have to confirm she had been advised and understood her 'rights'. I couldn't believe it. So I said to them, OK I'll sack her, she's only on a week's notice and I'll get my sister to look after the girls. NOT that I would actually have done so, I hasten to add, but really, they were being absurd. They did back down on that one but it does go to show that having someone stay with you with no definite end date can cause problems

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After what has been officially the longest evening of my life when I hadn't heard from DD2 and couldn't contact her by phone, she wasn't picking up and imagining all sorts of things I'd much rather not have been imagining I finally find that my dear little numpty got the date for the scan wrong and it's not until Thursday.......aaaaggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! Thank any deity you care to thank that it's not anything else!!! xxx.

maryb

Pregnancy hormones have a lot to answer for! I never believed it until I was pregnant and became uncharacteristically forgetful. Hope all goes well for Thursday. In this digital age, will she get an image of the scan she can forward to you? I still have a very faded polaroid type image of DD's scans

nursemaggie

I'm knackered! Started with terrible hay fever around 10.30 am this morning (they were cutting the grass). Never had it so late usually over long before August as I am allergic to Alder, so get it over in the early spring. No Alder round here. First time I have had it since we moved here.

Maybe it is because it was warm today. It's been quite cold lower 50s last week. It seemed quite Autumnal and then I go get hay fever.

Wish I lived near you Lyn to relieve you of any surpluses. I could knit something for you new grandchild to be as well.

Hard_Up_Hester

Nurse Maggie, hope the hay fever abates soon.

MaryB and other who have warned about hubby's friend's visit causing problems when we want to sell, thank you for the advice.

Hubby has put the work on the house hold for a few days, his friend is beyond devastated, he and his 'wife' were never actually married, there is no will and there now problems kicking off with the family.

We will go to the funeral which I'm already dreading, my hubby's sister-in-law, the one that spat in my face at my MIL's funeral, will be there as she worked with the deceased, I really hope she behaves herself this time.

We can manage financially until Christmas if push comes to shove, but I think hubby's friend will be able to move on after the funeral.

moneyistooshorttomention

Hester,

Just safer not to mention the temporary "lodger" when you come to sell your house. Still hoping something will turn up so that you dont have to sell the house after all - fingers crossed.

Maryb's comment re even her au pair being deemed to be "involved" in her re-mortgaging got me thinking. It's astonishing that building societies take that attitude - I guess it's in case the "other (nowt to do with it) person in the household" started insisting on continuing to live in the house against the wishes of the householder and creating problems?

Thinking back - and I certainly changed my mortgage provider back along and think I must still have had lodgers in at that point? It didnt occur to me to inform the building society - but I wouldnt have done so if I'd known about this. Having said that - it would have come as a shock to both my building society and my insurer if I had mentioned having lodgers - as I hadnt told either of them in the first place. I just took the view "That's my business - and, if the lodgers create any problems, they'll be out pdq anyway" (which two of them were....).

I did tell HMRC - I wasn't going to risk any problems with them...:rotfl:- but the RentARoom scheme came in and soon covered me for not being due to pay any tax anyway.

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I'd so love to be able to give away the surpluses MAGGIE at the beginning of the growing season that's easily done but now, when everyone has surpluses we can't even leave them outside the drive saying please take FREE! no one wants them and the children take things like cucumbers and courgettes and I find them smashed and stamped on in the road and on the pavements down the road, little rats!

I've come down from the very bleak place I found last night, Oh my word that was worrysome in the extreme and I'm really glad to know that 'tomorrow is another day', it's another blue sky and sunshine day here, warm and still, we are waiting for the builder to come and replace double glazing units that have 'blown' and the flashing on the roof of the extension where it attaches to the house. After that we have our lives back in our own hands and don't have everything on hold in case the builder decided to come that day. I'm off to the city to Ikea today Nell wants a few bits and I want to get to John Lewis for a case for my new Kindle, I want a real leather one and online all I seem able to find are faux leather. A nice Cookie walk this afternoon and then an easy evening I think followed by an early night, sleep was evasive last night!!! Have yourselves a nice day, Lyn xxx.