The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

Floss

Polly, when I worked at Blackpool council quite a few guys were in the Lifeboat crew - one day we were in a staff meeting and about 5 or 6 of the staff got up & walked out as their pagers had gone off for a call out.

monnagran

Polly, when I had my school I had a little boy with Muscular Dystrophy.  He was a fantastic boy who never complained and always had a go at everything.  He went from us to a special school and his burning ambition was to be a sports commentator.  He was obsessed with Liverpool, everything he had was red!
He died just 2 weeks short of his 21st birthday.  At his funeral, one of his friends spoke about him and said that Liverpool was Richard's life, his heart and his bedroom .  They played Liverpool Cathedral Choir singing You'll Never Walk Alone as we left.  The church was packed,  there was standing room only and there wasn't a dry eye to seen.
I always think of that when I hear that song.

MingVase

Woke up in a terrible state this morning after a nightmare. I was panicking like hell about getting to work. I worked in a hairdressers  and one of the other girls had the key. I couldn't figure out how to get to her house to collect the key.

And I needed the key to get in first before the others, as I had inadvertently left a dead body in the cupboard.

I blame that Parrot for traumatising me

mothernerd

MingVase said:

Woke up in a terrible state this morning after a nightmare. I was panicking like hell about getting to work. I worked in a hairdressers  and one of the other girls had the key. I couldn't figure out how to get to her house to collect the key.

And I needed the key to get in first before the others, as I had inadvertently left a dead body in the cupboard.

I blame that Parrot for traumatising me

We moved house when I was 10 yo (never move house on December 22nd). The previous owners had taken all the light bulbs but left two carpets (weird) and the man who disconnected our cooker couldn't guarantee he could install it at the new house before the festive day (all the gas board in those days - he did give mum his home phone number and told her to call if nothing was sorted). Within a month we started to go through the floor - hall and middle room floors were rotten and mum and dad had scrimped and scraped to put down the deposit. 

Filling in the 3' floor space took several years. I remember opening the front door and having to balance across planks to navigate the floor when I got in from school. Every time dad saw a pile of old bricks (fallen down walls on empty sights) we would be dispatched to collect them - paid the princely sum of one old penny for every 4 bricks brought home. I would use the backs as much as possible, mortified at thought of being seen by someone we knew.

Apart from a couple of boosts - the dregs from a cement lorry filled most of the hall and dad 'purchased' (made a donation) a wall from the Salvation Army (it had fallen down twice previously and they were replacing it with new) which only had to transported a couple of streets (in a borrowed wheelbarrow) which made partly filled the space in the middle room - the whole process took years. Even when the gap was filled we could only afford one bag of cement at a time so the skim layer took months. 

In the middle of this mum had a nightmare. The house fell down around her ears. Then people came from here, there and everywhere and took the bricks until she was left in the middle of an empty square holding a parrot in a cage (we never had any pet birds)  

burtha

How's everyone this snowy Sunday morning , it's cold so I'm back in bed with a coffee , but so chuffed as I've managed to get my old tablet to work and connect on the forum . Bonas   

MingVase

mothernerd said:

In the middle of this mum had a nightmare. The house fell down around her ears. Then people came from here, there and everywhere and took the bricks until she was left in the middle of an empty square holding a parrot in a cage (we never had any pet birds)  

  The dream might have been that yr poor mum feared everything she'd worked so hard for was going to be taken from her and she's be left with something totally useless to her. I bet she had some stories to tell though MN!

ivyleaf

In bed with coffee sounds a very good idea burtha!  You're probably up and about  by now. 

The cat is very unimpressed with today's weather. It's not nearly as much fun as the last snow we had recently where there were nice big flakes he enjoyed trying to catch!

MrsCD

Not a lot of snow here in County Durham, just a dusting, but it's very icy to walk on. Temperature was 0c at lunchtime, and we've had snow flurries all day. Our DDs get worried when 'friendly' flakes turn up! The ones that group together and come thick and fast. Nice to look at but not if you have to drive in it. There's a cold weather alert for the next few days, so please stay safe and check on older folks living alone, if you can.

pollyanna_26

pollyanna_26 said:

MingVase said:

Parrots Amicis Ecossais - Lend Me Your Sweeties    ..... Veni ~Vidi~ et Comedit

OOO I quite like being a Roman vase..

I think you've finally lost the plot- if you ever had it in the first place. Of all the people in all the world  why did I have to bump into you.

polly is leaving the building x

Well I must have been away with the fairies during this pain flare and sleepless nights. I've just worked out why you were calling me a parrot! I thought you were comparing me to a noisy parrot but realise you were quoting Friends, Romans, Countrymen.

I am not responsable for "An inadvertant body in a cupboard " in any way.

pollyx

MingVase

QUOTE: I am not responsable for "An inadvertant body in a cupboard " in any way.  pollyx

HAH, Tell that to my lawyer.