The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

mardatha

I used to buy heart for my owls, because it's tough it gives them good exercise ripping it up lol

Islandmaid

Monna - If you need a hand house hunting :D:D

Softstuff - my mother used to make stuffed heart, not something I enjoyed and have never had it since leaving home many years ago, they way you cook it sound much more appealing

Jazee

Hello all. When my DD was waiting to go down to the operating theatre, the music played to relax the patients was "if tomorrow never comes" by one of the boy bands who's name I can't think of right now.

lillibet_dripping

Hard_Up_Hester wrote: »

Lillibet, it stands for my Lord & Master and is meant tongue in cheek!
Oh Mar I hope you feel better soon.

Doh! Ta muchly:D

monnagran

Islandmaid wrote: »

Monna - If you need a hand house hunting :D:D

Softstuff - my mother used to make stuffed heart, not something I enjoyed and have never had it since leaving home many years ago, they way you cook it sound much more appealing

Thanks Islandmaid, all help gratefully received. Perhaps you could begin by picking out the right lottery numbers. (It's OK nursemaggie, I'm joking, though sorely tempted.)
When I originally bought this house I deliberately chose one in in an expensive area because I hoped it would maintain its value, and because I knew that eventually it would have to provide me with the wherewithal to buy a bungalow for my retirement plus something extra to augment my pitiful pension.
However, by letting my family live in the house they have settled in and don't want to move far from friends, school and the little business DS has set up. Hence, as I want to be close by them, I have to buy a bungalow in the same expensive area.
Ah well, the best laid plans of mice and men, and all that.

Having said that, my friend and I went along to the Roman Villa today, on our way to the cash and carry, and had our lunch sitting out in the sunshine overlooking the sea and various large ships anchored thereon and wondering why anyone would ever contemplate living anywhere else.

Then we remembered the cost of the ferries!

x

Islandmaid

Monna - friends of ours have just built an annexe, it is lovely - would that be an option? Be a lot cheaper than selling up and buying 2 properties x

milasavesmoney

Islandmaid wrote: »

Monna - friends of ours have just built an annexe, it is lovely - would that be an option? Be a lot cheaper than selling up and buying 2 properties x

I was wondering the same thing. They are called MIL quarters here and have a small kitchen/living area, bedroom and bath. You can get as elaborate (or not) as you want.

ivyleaf

mila We call them granny annexes

Actually I was wondering about that too, or whether there might be a house with such an annexe on the market.

Softstuff What a manic day! You must be knackered!

Softstuff

mardatha wrote: »

I used to buy heart for my owls, because it's tough it gives them good exercise ripping it up lol

It wasn't tough cooked like this Mardatha, I'm guessing the tough bits are the bits that get removed when you chop it.

Ivyleaf, today is beginning to go the same way. It's 7.30am here and I've already had a chap come round for garden furniture, had a skip delivered, given naming advice on a piece of software, washed up from last night (I fell asleep last night and didn't ), made brekkie for hubby and washed up. I wish I could say I was sleeping well but I spent half of last night stewing over the telephone interview :rotfl:

Today we shift the rest of our belongings and start taping up rooms.

moneyistooshorttomention

Softstuff - fingers crossed re that telephone interview.

Sounds like you are well into "It never rains but it pours" mode in your life right now - all that work on the house and that telephone thing bang in the middle of it.

Have you actually had that phone interview yet? - or it's just been put in your diary as arranged and you're still waiting to actually have it?