The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

burtha

Trying to decide on my choice of weapon before a get on the battle bus ... :undecided ...... my contribution could be .... I could paint her as ??? Clown ? Fairy ? Rainbow ? Your choice mar.
Either that or I would be very busy on the bus in transit lol

Busy day yesterday, need to get my butt sorted now as facepaint job at local nt place in a bit , then pop in to see friend who birthday it is ,then bar ....
Day off to tomorrow and dh is off so he can do football stuff :j

enjoy your weekend all ,
x

mardatha

I have to admit that I'm like monna. I hate hate hate feeling and being upset or not coping. But this has really got to me- so after this is over I can go back to being the cool calm utterly sane person that you lot are used to. Of course you are! Of course I am!

westcoastscot

:rotfl:course you can Mar - sitting here with bated breath (and a pot of tea and a biscuit)

camelot1001

Looking forward to it mar!

Floss

FPK have you seen anything about the current exhibition at the Imperial War Museum North, "Fashion on the Ration"? Not sure of the dates but I saw the ad in my newspaper today.

FairyPrincessk

Hi Floss,

Yes-I have. OH did a school trip there last week and did the research for it earlier in the summer. My inlaws went to the exhibition at IWN and complained that the signs were very difficult to read. I saw it in London ages ago, not realizing it was going to come up North. It was good, although a bit expensive for the number of items on display in my opinion. Thanks for the heads up, it is definitely the sort of thing I'd rush out to see if I hadn't already

monnagran

Good Lord, Mar. If you're going to try being cool, calm and sane, I'm going back to bed.
There's only so much a body can stand.

Floss and FairyP: Dear me. I remember very well Fashion on the Ration for real. Clothes then were a bit like our thrifty meals now, - everything was made out of bits of something else.
I think I have said somewhere before how my grandmother made me a coat and skirt out of my father's cricket flannels.
He didn't find out until he was demobbed. His reaction was not recorded.
We were fortunate in that my grandmother was a tailoress, (heaven forbid anyone should refer to her as a dressmaker.) Her sister, my great aunt was a milliner, (my greatgrandfather was quite enlightened,) so the family as a whole was well turned out. Not that my mother would ever wear any of Auntie Ethel's hats, or any hats at all. Not even to church, which was one of the deadly sins. In fact one old lady used to refer to her as "that giggling heathen."
How did I get on to this.

Throw the cover over my cage someone.

x

fuddle

monnagran wrote: »

Throw the cover over my cage someone.

Off to bed grinning :rotfl: g'night

westcoastscot

Monna my mum was a dressmaker, but could tailor too, and she used to make hats from those petersham bases - I recall at aged 8 making bridesmaids hats by sewing rows and rows of lace to the bases, which were kept in place with decorated kirby grips. I used to make all our clothes, but have gotten out of the habit. I've given my old treadle sewing machine a good going over, and am going to try my hand again as I really struggle to find clothes that I like, are comfy, well made and affordable!

Hard_Up_Hester

My L&M was pipped at the post yesterday but if it is meant to be then it will happen.

DD and I had a great day, the workshop was run by someone she used to work for as a nanny and the breakfast was being set up by a friend of hers. As I'd booked in my name they weren't expecting to see her. So lots of catching up was done, DD keeps in contact with all her charges on fb but not with the parents.

The workshop was about promoting spiritual growth, and was very interesting, I sometimes feel that there is so much going on outside that the inner me is just a hollow.

The hardest part for me was the meditating, I kept falling asleep! At least I slept well last night, I got home at 6, cooked a meal, sat on the sofa slept from 7 until 9 when my L&M woke me up. I went to bed and slept through until 6:30 this morning!