The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

monnagran

Mothernerd, I love your story about your cats.  Where cats are concerned nothing would surprise me.  Absolutely nothing.  I adore them.  I adored my dogs as well, but they are more understandable.  A cat is unfathomable.  Our English mistress used them to explain the difference between egoism and egotism.
A cat is an egoist - "I am here."
 A dog is an egotist - bouncing around shrieking, "Look at me.  Look at me."

Polly, adoption is much more open these days, and a good thing too.......in most cases.  When mine were old enough I gave them their files with every bit of information that was given to me, so at least they knew as much as I did.  DS1 actually wanted to trace his birth mother when he was in his 20s.  We did manage to find her, but it was not very successful.  He only met her twice and that was enough.
DS2 never wanted to trace his birth family.  In fact, when I gave him his file, he threw it away.  His brother rescued it and I kept it until he was older.  Only now, and he will be 50 next year, is he thinking that perhaps he should have made some effort to find out more about his origins.  I think he is thinking more about his children and what they will want to know.

I'm off to my dear old man soon.  My friend and I are being treated to lunch today.  He wanted to do something to thank us for what we are doing for him.  I am his emotional and physical support and my friend deals with the filling in of forms, dealing with officials and the writing of letters.  We have been given the privilege of choosing from Wiltshire Farms best.  Can't wait.

nursemaggie

Monna if your friend does not like Wiltshire foods there are other companies that do the same. What ever you do don't put him onto Parsley Box the they over charge for half the size. There's more food value in a slice of cake. 

Floss

Polly, no I've never worked at the Royal. 

Hard_Up_Hester

Afternoon fencers.

I love hearing everyone's stories.

I cleared my wardrobe out yesterday, I now have a huge pile of cleaning cloths and very few clothes.

We've moved again, 12 locks, I just need to find the energy to feel clean the kitchen before we move on again.

Florenceem

We had a fish and chip dinner from the chippy last night. They give such large portions - we have a medium cod and chips which does us for 2 days - we pad it out with mushy peas or bread and butter.
Booked a hair appointment as I have started to feel untidy.
Mr F is looking shaggy - I must trim his hair and beard plus bushy eyebrows and of course - the ear hairs.
Finished all the jellyfish that I plan to make.
I made 20 worms yesterday.

mothernerd

I don't have ducks or a row. I have squirrels and they're everywhere (we promised monna we'd keep the fence going, so as I've finished a month long stint running a thread and providing quotes most days, I'm leaving the spare one here). Sent a message to DS3 to ask if he's awake - no reply yet, so possibly not. He has a habit of leaving his key in the door, so mine won't unlock (DS2 used to throw the keys into the deepest darkest corner of the room when he had fought his way in). 

Will go later in the week - found out the library is open between 10 am and 2 pm on weekdays (the staff are helping out at the vaccination centres). Need to sort the bins as best I can and see if there is any prospect of me squeezing myself back in htere at some point (atm I'd have to build a shelter in the back yard from cardboard boxes). Actually, that was true a month ago because I've not actually made it home during July (and only went to town twice).  Partly due to ankle/ foot problems (old injury, too much heavy work and the heatwave) and partly because although mum has said she wants me to go home (no rush but she wants 'her little house' back - aka using this whole room to dump stuff that 'must be kept') she panics if I go out for more than an hour. Honestly yesterday I binned an appointment letter for her partner, dated 2016 - he's been dead for over 2 years and in a home for 18 months before that.

Must go to town as no drinks for me came in the last order (some water but 1 l bottles replacing 1.5 l bottles - not made up to the same amount). I'm cutting down on carbonated drinks but there is a limit to how much filtered tap water I can drink (about a litre per hour when I've been working outside). The tap water at home is lovely but in summer I need to keep refilling bottles and putting them to freeze and have very dilute vimto occasionally. 

Need to go to Wilco (bit busier than it has been but still very safe, although I avoided the medicines aisle) mum wants sealant and the metal (coal) shovel is broken. I went for sealant on Thursday (she wants the type that goes in a gun and does everything - it was 11 pounds on line but they were out of stock). I haven't been able to use a sealant gun for years and I prefer the ones that come in a large toothpaste/ kids paint tube that you can just smooth on with a wet finger. I'm making an executive decision to get several 2 -3 pound ones as the things she's planning to do (I will do) are so disparate. Then I'll cross over to tessimo, via the car park (avoiding the bit where there might be more people) to get drinks from whatever they have in stock. Might be able to do without a delivery till the end of the week. My ankle (arch supports and strapped up with a crepe bandage) might manage that. Will try to go when it's nearly closing, I might get some bargains. 

Have a good day fencers.

MingVase

I'm very quiet and busy. And good, I'm being good. I've started knitting for the C word that cannot be mentioned in here or else people will scream and foam at the mouth.

VJsmum

art'noon all

i'm still here, arm in plaster, trying to balance not doing too much with not going off my head.  The olympics is helping

i've an appointment with the fracture clinic tomorrow where i will get some idea of what to expect in terms of progress and a full cast (still only have a backslab atm). hoping the full cast will improve things

Hard_Up_Hester

Take care VJ I hope the appointment goes well.

Florenceem

Dry day here but not very warm - definitely cardigan weather when I walked down to the hairdresser.
Moved from making worms to caterpillars here.