The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

westcoastscot

Hi Fuddle, no it isn't racist - it's as you said, the origins being "stating the obvious" - pots were always black due to cooking methods.
Hope you get on better with your quilting this time!

Kind wishes to new and exisiting posters, and hugs to all the poorlies - i'm back to work tomorrow so slowly getting the house back to normal. Our tree doesn't come down until twelfth night, but other decorations are slowly moving.

Trying to start the year with positive thinking, and hoping for the best whilst prepping for the worst.

Happy new year, WCS

camelot1001

Hope you're having a great day holliesnan.

Take your time fuddle, your house will be a home as soon as you move in, good luck with your mum's house and take it easy at the shop!

Little Dora will be much better with a routine that involves quiet times monna, I believe Dalmations can be very headstrong - I think it may have met its match!

I went for some thread to Dunelm and ended up buying some fabric - I have made some hot water bottle covers and the fabric I used was reduced to £1 per metre, would have been rude not to buy some! I also bought 3 curtains that were in their bargain bin, £2.99 each which will be enough material to make 2 bags from each one if I'm careful cutting. They have a lining too which will do the linings for the bags.

Hope you manage to shift your cold soon nursemaggie, sounds like a lingerer.

Hard_Up_Hester

Happy birthday Hollysnan.
Welcome Torties.
Monna Iv see you are casting aspidistras in my direction again, everyone will get completely the wrong idea about sweet, naïve, innocent little moi!
Good luck Fuddle buying/selling and moving can be a complete nightmare I know.

moneyistooshorttomention

Floss wrote: »

MITSTM Mila lives in the US...

Yep...that elderly farmer that got conned by those firms lives there too - ie in the USA..

The (unspecified bad) effects of fracking happen - whatever the country concerned is called.

In that country - they've suffered the effects. We are in a different country - that can learn from their experience and try and prevent this happening to us too.

Floss

We will have fracking under our home, with no opportunity to object because the rigs are in the next county, approx. 5 miles away. The county rejected the planning application only for the government to allow it on appeal by the drilling company, so objecting does not always work. We've already had several earth tremors from test drilling a few years ago.

Hard_Up_Hester

I was once called a fat ugly b1t£h by a student at work, I replied with the comment 'Pot, kettle?'
I reported her to her tutor who then rang her mother to tell her said child would be kept in detention.
After consultation between mother and daughter, mother complained that the staff member who had been insulted had sworn back at said child.
The tutor then asked exactly what swear words had been used.
The mother replied 'The fat b1t£h called my daughter a pokettle'.
I despair sometimes, lol.

Knit_Witch

Hard_Up_Hester wrote: »

I was once called a fat ugly b1t£h by a student at work, I replied with the comment 'Pot, kettle?'
I reported her to her tutor who then rang her mother to tell her said child would be kept in detention.
After consultation between mother and daughter, mother complained that the staff member who had been insulted had sworn back at said child.
The tutor then asked exactly what swear words had been used.
The mother replied 'The fat b1t£h called my daughter a pokettle'.
I despair sometimes, lol.

Face Palm (the world is going to Hades in a Handbasket!)

monnagran

Hester, nobody on this forum has the wrong idea about sweet, naive innocent little vous.
Everyone has the unfortunate RIGHT idea.
Had to laugh about the pokettle. When DS1 was little he thought that 'nincompoop' was swearing and was furious when he got older and we finally told him the truth.

x

ginnyknit

Hollysnan sorry I missed your birthday but hope it was a lovely day. I agree when you have been so ill its amazing when you recover and the world looks very different.

Busy day with the littlies but last one for a while as the childminder is back on duty for Thursday and Friday. Dgs is missing his special school and is very fed up but the dolls house I was given to do up went down well. It will need a good bit of TLC but was plenty of fun today.

I am officially exhausted and my flipping arm is driving me mad so going to relax tomorrow.

ivyleaf

Hope you manage to rest a bit today ginnyknit
Is there any treatment available for your poor arm or have you been told you'll just have to put up with it? i know it's very painful but seem to have missed what was wrong with it, iYSWIM.