The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

Floss

NM said well hun We have a friend who has been alive an extra 10 years and counting thanks to the Christie's skill & expertise.

Monna 13 trainers? Was this on the island, where I guess there are still pirates with peg-legs around?!

silvasava

Nursemaggie - I can fish the hooks out of the bin if you really want them......;) I think they'd be a worse hazard than your clothes horse!

Hard_Up_Hester

Monna, your story about the trainers reminded me.
When my kids were teens and going out clubbing I would sometime wake up in a panic wondering if they were home safe so I made a deal with them, they would line their shoes up outside my bedroom door so I could see at a glance who was home. If someone wasn't home as they were staying with friends one of the sibs would leave a note on the floor with the shoes such as 'Helen is staying with Laura tonight' I could then go back to bed and back to sleep.

nursemaggie

Floss Monna means size 13 trainers. I came home one day to find a row of trainers one pair looked like a giant babies first shoes. They were size 15. When they said whose they were I knew as he was age 15 and 6ft 11in. He eventually got a scholarship to one of the basket playing universities in the US as did his cousin who went first as he was 7ft 2in and a couple of years older. He was a lovely lad.

No silva they would probably cost more than they are worth. If I feel up to it I will go and get some. Probably one of those made for keys.

Then I will have to put them in the queue behind the curtains, towel rails, and other fittings for the bathroom a cupboard for under the washbasin and a bathroom cabinet, a rack for the new pans, and I intend ordering two shelves for the kitchen if Ik*a still have them because they are easy to take down and put up somewhere else. DD and SIL have been taking some around different places for a while.

I think I will have to write him a timetable as he has still not put the Christmas Decorations away. They are in a sealed box just need putting on top of my wardrobe.

nursemaggie

Of course I did not make a fuss. I just said "My bus was 10 minutes late from home so I messed the train. The next train was 10 minutes late buy the time it got to Manchester. By the time I got here I had lost an hour.

He replied "We'll put you back on the afternoon clinic."

See Money you don't have to stamp your feet just make them laugh.

pollyanna_26

Good to see you back safe and sound NM . So pleased about the afternoon appointment . DDs visits to the long journey hospital were crack of dawn initially . It was a nightmare as if she took all her morning meds she was being sick every step of the journey there . We tried deferring them until we were leaving the department but that meant the ones that control her extreme anxiety and other problems weren't topped up so sickness was replaced with panic .
After a few visits the next appointment was pre booked in the department and a quiet chat with the consultant about the length of the journey and the medication dilemma had dd at the end of clinic .
I've done similar things at the surgery and other hospital departments and have found a polite chat can result in a new norm which on the few occasions the hospital clerk or surgery forget a gentle reminder sorts it in seconds .
I hope you manage a nights sleep you've earned it .
Oh make that list but don't hold your breathe , you may have to drip feed and be patient . Ask me how I know .
Will post tomorrow lots here today to comment on from Knickerless neighbours to Peg leg pirates . I've been battling the I am not a robot and am tired .
polly x

monnagran

actually nursemaggie I did mean 13 separate trainers. I wasn't sure whether there were 6 boys up there and one had brought a spare trainer or 7 boys up there and one had absent mindedly put a trainer in his pocket.

Although, come to think of it there may have been a size 13 trainer amongst that lot, some of those boys were giants.

I will write the book one day.

Floss

NM my mum had a rule that when you came home you turned off the hall light, then turned off the landing light when you went to bed... I had the same rule for my kids, and invariably ended up with 0/1/2/3/4/5 teenagers in the house, as I was the only single parent so a bit more relaxed about friends staying when the last bus had gone or mum/dad wouldn't pick them up. We did have an odd number of shoes once when one of DS2's "friends who's a girl" was on crutches

burtha

13 trainers sounds familiar...
Eldest dd as a teenager ,I would often come in to a pile of clothes by the washer waiting to go in , washer going with at least 4 pairs of trainers in , she and her friends would go out with the dogs down the woods, out for hours and always ended up with the dogs in the muddiest pond ....came back looking like drowned rats , smelling wonderful , so all of them would come in , dd would grab some towels for them as clothing was stripped of at the back door and thrown near the washer .... lots of laughter .... but all kids returned home fed, washed and dried .

The 2 youngest although now teenagers are so different from eldest 2 , so much quieter .... don't know how , although all 4 are totally different

For once I am tired ,so plan on bed soon ... Long night

karcher

monnagran wrote: »

nursemaggie. just to say that I think you are wonderful. You tell us what your life is like in such a matter of fact way without any whining or complaining. There can't be many people who could be so pragmatic under those conditions.
Well done on getting your appointments changed to afternoons. I bet you managed to do it without any unpleasantness or self pitying demands.

You have my unconditional admiration.

x

nursemaggie quoting monna as I agree with everything she said. I'd been reading about your long journey and waiting times and doff my hat to you. Pleased to hear things will be slightly better for you now being in the afternoon clinic. All the best with it all.