The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

TiredTrophy

Our Christmas just got more difficult....we're flying back to the UK but the baggage handlers will be on strike.....so 20 days in the UK with just hand baggage which must include my instrument.....which luckily is small.
So I will have to shop on arrival....so not MSE and cannot bring the presents. They are too expensive in postage...Really lack sympathy for the guys right now but that's probably unfair of me.....
Present ideas for 3 daughters in law anyone.( I will have to go to a big supermarket on route to the rented place).....? The ones i got will have to stay here for now.

Everything was homemade.....I am feeling even less Christmassy than before!

ivyleaf

Oh no Tired Trophy That's rotten. I'm sure you'll find something suitable for your daughters-in-law, but I'm useless at thinking of present ideas - I'm sure someone more helpful will be along shortly
One time when we got back from a holiday the baggage handlers and mobility buggy drivers had gone an strike a minute before we landed, and we didn't know. The cabin crew must have been aware, but didn't tell the passengers! We got to the top of the ramp and there was the buggy but no driver! We managed to use the travelator but one old man who was there with his granddaughter was really struggling. she was literally holding him up!
The baggage did arrive on the carousel; I suppose the managers must have unloaded it.

Mar I hope a restful day will help you. So glad your purse was safe and sound, even though it means doing M & S again, or will you not bother?

mardatha

No way Ivy, that was Wed the purse thing, and yesterday I had a really odd turn in the car and felt quite ill - left me shaken and scared. I not moving off the couch today lol

TiredTrophy

Mar...dehydration very common reason for funny turn.....have a few extra cups of tea / water.....

westcoastscot

Mar sorry to hear you aren't feeling up to much again - been a bit like that myself of late. I usually love the run up to Christmas but this year it just isn't happening - too much bad news - it's been a tough year personally and societally and 2017 looks to be much the same. Trying hard to be positive but think this may be as good as it gets this year!!!
Crocheting a last minute chrimbo pressie - a tea cosy - then going to get out a jigsaw and turn my back on the world :-)

greenbee

We're not going to be doing much for Christmas. It's pretty much all organised now. I'm just trying to put up the tree, but have discovered that the tree stand is too narrow for the tree... so I guess I need to go out and try to track down a new one!

shanks77

mardatha wrote: »

Ivy, I still say that - go for the messages. My kids think it's seriously old fashioned and uncool, they all "go shopping" lol

Well Mar I am old fashioned and uncool as well as I say messages as well. I am the only one left in the family to use it even my mum in her seventies says shopping

mardatha

The other one shanks is I'm the only one who doesnt says "lunch". I say dinner. Breakfast, dinner tea & supper. I refuse to be a yuppy who lunches lol

ivyleaf

mardatha wrote: »

The other one shanks is I'm the only one who doesn't says "lunch". I say dinner. Breakfast, dinner tea & supper. I refuse to be a yuppy who lunches lol

It's strange, when I was growing up I'm sure we used to have breakfast, dinner and tea, but now I say breakfast, lunch and dinner. Sister-in-law says breakfast, lunch and tea. One of my friends has breakfast, lunch and supper. I'd never heard the early evening meal called supper before and was confused the first time - to me, supper was a sort of extra meal slotted in between tea/dinner and bedtime!

I went to get my hair cut, and came home to find OH busy wrapping presents. We don't actually have any labels yet - forgot to buy them this morning - but he insists he'll know whose is whose because he's putting them in separate piles.....

greenbee

We've always had breakfast, lunch and supper. And elevenses and tea... Dinner is generally used for 'smart' evening meals (which usually involve guests and more food that supper would involve). Tea is at 5ish, just a cup of tea and toast/a biscuit - and generally just when there are visitors or at weekends, although when I was a school it was the post-school snack to keep us going until supper, which was around 7.30/8ish when my dad got home.

I have a feeling that originally 'dinner' was used to refer to the main meal of the day. In the old days, the upper classes would have this in the evenings, except on Sundays when the servants had the afternoon off, so 'dinner' would be in the middle of the day. Normal people would have 'dinner' at lunchtime, although this changed as fewer people went home in the middle of the day and the main meal moved to after work.

Supper was originally a light late-evening meal. I guess some people say 'supper' now because due to longer working hours and/or commuting times the evening meal moved from 'dinner' time to 'supper' time.

I'm sure someone has researched this properly though