The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

Toomuchdebt

Welcome Petula-we can be newbies on here together I admit I lurk more than I post as I can never think of anything interesting to say.I'm sure nobody wants to hear about how much stuff I still have to sort out at the old house and how I'm dreading painting the place and how I can't wait till I can hand the keys back and never go there again.
Right now I'm meant to be ironing but am procrastinating with a coffee. I have tidied the kitchen and washed up and put a load of washing on the line and a second load on so haven't been totally lazy.I need to buy a broom today as mine snapped in half and I keep stabbing myself with the jagged metal bits sticking out(aluminium pole).I can't even get another pole to attach to the old brush as someone has stepped on it or something and it's squished.

FairyPrincessk

Toomuchdebt--you aren't procrastinating with a coffee, you are preparing with a coffee. After all of that anyone would need a break! And...I enjoy hearing about people's daily lives. We used to live in a house where we celebrated handing back the keys. Even on our worst days here I think back to the time the bathroom fell through into the dining room below in the middle of the night before OH had a job interview. We painted that house before we moved in only to have it all covered in damp by the time we actually moved in...just think once you've finished painting the old house you can move on and never deal with it again!

GreyQueen

I'm all for hearing the minutiae, myself, so please post what you're up to.

In the hotbed of excitement which is my life it is raining out, leaving me stuck indoors re-loading the airing cupboard. How exciting is my life or wot?:rotfl:Oh, and I'm listening to trippy new age music and eating an apple.

Plus my back hurts from yesterday and I may just have to spend the afternoon lying on the couch (better excavate it first) reading something with werewolves in it. That's on account of being an in-tea-lect-u-all.

Actually, now I mention tea, I could have one of those and [STRIKE]proc[/STRIKE] er prepare for some decluttering.

nursemaggie

well I am having a coffee and preparing to declutter the dust from the kitchen and bathroom floors. Why do bathrooms get so dusty. I was wondering if it was DS's insistence on always being on a bus route. We are half way up the road from the main road this time but it does have traffic 24/7.

I can't remember who needed hugs so hugs for everyone including those missing.

Jazee

Yep, houses on bus routes get dusty. Been there....

I am just having an early lunch before being brave and going to see about joining a village sports club. I'll let you know later how I get on. I think I know one person who goes there.

Have a great afternoon everyone.

Petula

Aww thanks for the kind welcome and the bacon butty and biccies! I can see joining here will do my waistline no good :rotfl: I too like reading the day to day stuff, I think it makes for a much better group IMHO.

I've spent the morning giving the coffee machine a spring clean, don't know that it has looked this good since it arrived! Thought about doing the spring clean on the bedroom but I've had a bit of a week and decided in favour of the Eastenders omnibus instead. I know, I know, but it's one of my weaknesses

candlelight_2013

Welcome Petula and Toomuchdebt, I approve of talking about everyday things . Now that we are both retired we don't lead very exciting lives.

I did a spring clean of our upstairs bathroom on Thursday and I was ashamed. We have a large free standing cupboard which is not often pulled out, and you should have seen the cobwebs:eek:. Anyway it looks lovely now, went to A*da and bought some new towels, soap dispenser and soap dish and a new toilet brush holder. These didn't cost a fortune either and I am really pleased with it.

NOTE to self, pull the cupbard out more frequently:rotfl:

Candlelightx

FairyPrincessk

Nursemaggie I have often wondered why bathrooms get so dusty. While I know bus routes can be pretty bad for dust I've also come to the conclusion that toilet roll (particularly the softer varieties) and terry towels must both produce a lot of fluff that turns into dust. It was noticing the colour that clued me in--we have white dust and dark blackish blue dust in our bathroom whereas the rest of the house seems to be your bog standard 'dust' colour. Or maybe I'm nuts for thinking the colour of the dust means something.:D

nursemaggie

oh not this is black dust. It is definitely traffic dust the road is so busy there is a pelican crossing about every 300 meters or so. There is no way to get across it without them. We have a bus stop at the end of our road coming back from town but we have to get off the bus one stop early to get across the road.

I think it just shows up in the bathroom because everything is white. I don't think I would see white dust.

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It's a strange fact that if you have a white car the dust and dirt you pick up is black BUT if you have a dark coloured car the dust and dirt you pick up is light grey. How does it know the difference? is it intelligent dust? and how do all the little particles sort themselves out to go on the different coloured cars? Sometimes life is a mystery!!!