The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

pollyanna_26

Welcome to the Fence Kim. I hope you don't mind me shortening your user name - it's pacing when you have arthritic fingers .
Don't forget Twinks hobnobs recipe . Famous across the threads .
I trust the babies are of different ages no wonder you fall asleep early !
Feel free to ask questions and we'll see if we can help you feel less overwhelmed.
We have been bimbling along in the last few weeks and we so need to do what the threads do best which is to listen , support and suggest various solutions to rhose struggling . There is always some chat and laughs along the way too.
So it's an update on the old garden fences where neighbours shared the good and bad times and set things to rights .
Sleep well
polly

nursemaggie

Welcome kim. I expect you are asleep now.

Well Polly looks like we will have a nice day tomorrow here in Lancashire we have a lovely rd sky. I have not seen many of those since I moved here.

Not done much but knit today as I am still exhausted from the last two days.

mardatha

I've had 2 good days gardening, really pleased at catching up for lost time. I don't do visualisations as such but I do send positive vibes and healing.

mcculloch29

Positive vibes would be welcome here. I have a new job opportunity emerging that is most needed. I am a freelance tutor and training consultant and the major job that I have done for the last seven years looks like petering out.

Mar, another heads up for the healing powers of Manuka honey from here.
Hester, how frustrating for you, spending precious time arranging for things to go, only to be let down. What is it with people?

Nursemaggie, we had a glorious red sunset here in County Durham too. Wonderful.
I was a fan of When The Boat Comes In as a teenager long before it even crossed my mind that I would live in the NE one day. The town I live in has a road called Sid Chaplin Drive, after the local writer who wrote so many of the episodes of that great programme.

I have had some wonderful things this week to ease a few worries. Birthday Amazon vouchers will buy me shoes for the summer, an unexpected payment landed in my account, and I have £25 of grocery vouchers, so free shopping on a couple of trips coming up.

Hard_Up_Hester

Welcome Kim

monnagran

Welcome Kim. Holey slippers are just the best, well loved, well worn and well comfy. Mine are well chewed. We have a Dalmation puppy, who didn't stop at slippers, she also had a go at one winter boot, one new shoe bought for walking and for pudding ate one of my favourite turquoise ballerinas. Come back Cruella, all is forgiven.

All this talk of old dramas has me drooling. I was 21 before I had access to a TV and enjoyed Dixon of Dock Green.
I really love old dramas, old comedy programmes and old black and white films. I tell you, when I think I must be going deaf because I have to turn the sound up and still can't catch what people are saying, I only have to turn on one of these vintage programmes and I can turn the sound back down and hear every word.
As for Geordies.............Robson Green........sigh.

Pollyanna, no luck yet on the house front,but I wonder afresh at estate agents camera angles. How on earth they make a cupboard sized kitchen look like a ballroom beats me. I can visualise myself in my bungalow but nothing has materialised yet. Any way, we have had very little interest in my house. I feel I should copy the couple who bought a large advertising space in their local paper and wrote their own advertisement, beginning with large black words saying, "DO NOT BUY THIS AWFUL HOUSE."
They sold within a week.

nursemaggie, are you all packed and ready. I hope you have a really lovely holiday and the journey goes smoothly. If anyone deserves a break it's you.

Hester, you will have muscles like Popeye by the time you have finished heaving boxes and furniture about. Not to mention tons of paper. Hoping all goes well with getting rid of the last of your stuff. I wish I lived closer.

mcculloch, good luck on the work front. I do hope something turns up soon.

Mar. Pace yourself girl. It's lovely to hear you sounding so positive but don't overdo it. Lots of healing vibes for the RV.

I have nothing much on today apart from a visit to the cash and carry. A chance to replenish our stock of toilet rolls. I don't know what this family does with them. They disappear like snow in summer.
Perhaps Dora is eating them.

x

silvasava

Welcome to the thread Kim. I'm echoing positive vibes all round at the moment as so many seem to be in need.
Monna I sat and watched Passport to Pimlico last week - took me right back to my childhood with the bomb sites and the fashions and the clear diction!
I've a penchant for craggy men too - liked the guy in a series called Longmire (American) Jack Reacher in my imagination was perfect but sorry Tom Cruise you didn't cut the mustard!
Just a bimble day today so hope everyone gets some sunshine and has a positive day xx

[Deleted User]

We're contemplating a house move to be closer to the girls and I'm looking round the house and just beginning to realise just how much I've accumulated over the past 23 years since we moved here. I'm going to have to do a MEGA sort out and re home an awful lot of things. Part of today will be sorting things we've sat on for years and not used but kept because they might be useful 'one day' with a view to going to sell at a boot fair and taking a big black sack up to the store room with a view to sending the many jam jars and storage containers (mostly from 5 litre packs of vinegar etc.) to the recycling depot and another one for complete discards to go to the tip. I may be a while....... quite a while.......

Floss

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

We're contemplating a house move to be closer to the girls and I'm looking round the house and just beginning to realise just how much I've accumulated over the past 23 years since we moved here. I'm going to have to do a MEGA sort out and re home an awful lot of things. Part of today will be sorting things we've sat on for years and not used but kept because they might be useful 'one day' with a view to going to sell at a boot fair and taking a big black sack up to the store room with a view to sending the many jam jars and storage containers (mostly from 5 litre packs of vinegar etc.) to the recycling depot and another one for complete discards to go to the tip. I may be a while....... quite a while.......

Why not pop onto the KonMari thread? The first few posts may help your task...

mardatha

I don't hang onto stuff at all but the loft is doing my head in..the RV has for 30 years heaved everything up there that doesn't get used. I keep saying that when we die, the family is going to have to heave the bloody stuff back down again! it's so annoying.