The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

MrsCD

https://crochetncreate.com/newborn-crochet-baby-cardigan-pattern/
Florenceem, I found this easy pattern if it's any help to you.
There's also a pattern from The Make and do crew which is made from 2 hexagons sewn together.

EmiliEmili

mothernerd said:

Love today's thought monna. A neighbour who lived on one side of me had an affair with the man who lived on the other side of me. She left her husband, was moved into Council housing and within a few weeks, moved in with the man on the other side (lots of divorce confrontations happened shouting across my yard and on the pavement outside my bedroom late one evening).

Hello to all - hope you don't mind me joining in.

mothernerd, this brought back a memory for me. Years ago when buying our first home, we were sat in our solicitor's office chatting about matters, when in walked a lady with two black bulging dustbin liners. Glaring at the solicitor she shouted '' here, these are yours and I don't want to see you again''!. She left promptly and the poor man was looking 'extremely' embarrassed - particularly as some clothing items lay strewn across the floor. A couple of weeks later we discovered that the law firm had dismissed him.

monnagran

Good morning,

Polly, when you were preparing to go to the Grammar School I was already teaching.  Just think.  I could have been your teacher!

I can remember my grandmother heating the old flat irons on the range for her ironing and lighting the gas mantle on the ceiling light because she had no electricity.  This was not in a remote country village, this was in a Southampton suburb.  Her remaining 5 sons clubbed together and had electricity brought to the house for her birthday in the early fifties.

when I was married I had no vacuum and no fridge.  It took a bit of hard saving to get those and the fridge was second hand even then.
I heard recently of a couple who said that they couldn't get married until they could afford a dishwasher.  Hmmmm.

Today my old friend is getting to see his Darling wife for the first time in two weeks as her isolation period is up.  We are taking him to the Nursing Home this afternoon.  He is beyond excited.


THOUGHT FOR TODAY 

Society grows great when old men plant trees under whose shade they know they will never sit.  (Greek proverb)

MrsCD

Monna, I hope your friend has a lovely time today. It has been so hard for then and  they must be grateful that you are available to help them.
I do wonder at people's priorities these days. We lived in with my parents when we got married because we couldn't get a council house for a year. If we had been prepared to live together before we got married we could have had a house straight away! That was in the 70's.

VJsmum

Monna - hope Mr Darling has a lovely day.  How amazing to have such a relationship. 

Polly - asbestos is fine, unless it is disturbed (bit like myself 🤣)

Morning all -  had a stressful and emotional couple of days at Sister in laws, helping declutter.  Was emotional due to the necessity to read and advise on much of deceased BiL's stuff - particularly some diaries and medical notes.  Am having a gentle day today.

Am very much enjoying reading the discussions. thank you. 

Florenceem

Mrs CD - thanks for the crochet patterns info.
pollyanna_26 - my mum was horrified when I decided to take on a mortgage - millstone around your neck - were her words.
I was at the SA hall today when someone came to ask for a food parcel. A lot of folk have come to rely on food banks now as the norm. Some folk are still requesting delivery which only happens now in exceptional cases. The SA has to pay someone to deliver the food parcel. Schools need to teach - how to budget and cook economically. I have lived on benefits. There is an organisation in my town that sells very cheap food and offers help to learn how to cook from scratch.
monnagran - I had no fridge or vacuum for quite a while after marrying - all cleaning was done with a broom and dustpan & brush. Like you we eventually got a second hand fridge. I had 2 children before I got a twin tub washing machine.
Chap came today to take a sample of the fascia - I now have blue tape cross over the slit he made! I have visions of sick animals being brought here!
The goth shawl has left the building - I am working on a scarf now.

newroadahead

Hello all
Your comments about what we started off with has hit a chord with me
Back in the 1980's (which according to a young 25 year old I work with may have been last century)I was expecting my daughter and was given a vacumn for my 21st my friends were horrified but didn't realise that up to  then like Florence I used a dustpan and brush
Its strange what people younger than me consider essential to what I did/do

Now they must have dishwasher/washing machine top of the range crockery cutlery etc
I'm glad my DD Always gratefully accepts when we buy her gifts for the home as things she really needs especially to help with DGC

monnagran

Very quick call this morning.  My dear old friend's wife died last night and I've been on the phone on and off all night.  He saw her yesterday for the first time in 2 weeks so it came as a huge shock.
So hard.  They'd been together for 77 years.
I may not be around for a few days.  I'm sure you will understand.

PaulieHerts

Just popping in with my reminiscences about what I had when I married in 1978:
we had a new bed, wedding present from my mum and dad, and a new fridge/freezer from his.
Everything else was second hand, bought very cheaply or given to us.  I remember the filthy small electric oven, which we cleaned with caustic soda in my mum’s back garden. The 2 up 2 down cottage we bought (saved for 2 years to get a deposit to get a mortgage then) left us with no money.  The house had no heating and the kitchen was built from the old scullery with the shower room built on from the old outhouse behind.  It was single brick and the water in the shower tray would freeze in the winter and I would run into the front room where my electrician brother had installed an electric wall heater.  Those were the days!  Were we happy? Well let’s just say that marriage lasted 6 months 🤣🤣

boultdj

Sorry to hear about your friends wife Monnagran.