The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

Floss

NM if you put round bays on the front up & down, it's just like our house in Blackpool

ivyleaf

That looks really nice nm, good luck

pollyanna I do hope you feel better quickly!

fuddle So glad you've learned to potter

monnagran I hope Pickle is enjoying school.

Sending ((HUGS)) to burtha, karcher, pollyanna and everyone else who needs some.

monnagran

nursemaggie, that's not just a house, it's a home, and it has your name all over it. I pray that it will be yours soon. Be assured that if that were up for rent around here it would be costing over £1,000 a month.

Burtha, The pup is no longer my responsibility, thank heavens. She is still as wild and exuberant as ever. I think quite a lot can be put down to DIL as when her father came down to visit them, he manhandled the spotty one round to see me. As he watched her leap over sofas, fight with Millie and set about eating the garden furniture, he sighed and said, "You know, all my daughters dogs have been like this."

Pollyanna. you take care now. You are sounding a bit fragile lately.

Today I am having my hair cut and am hoping that it doesn't rain. I have a couple of miles walking to do and I like to do it along the coastal path up to the village. If it rains it is more than a bit muddy and I am forced on to the pavement route.
Then I have some baking to do for a friend's coffee morning on Saturday.

Enjoy today as much as possible everyone. You'll never get it again.

mardatha

monna that's like my daughters pets. All totally mad lol and she wonders why...

Floss

monna & NM there is a 3-bed over the road here that is up for £470/m...

nursemaggie

Well the house of the same period we used to own would be worth over a million now. It did not have it's original fittings like this. I can imagine it having a rental value of around £1500 as it is in York. Definitely this house would be around £1500 in West Sussex, split between two it's not so bad but £700 is a lot of money for Bolton.

Polly sounds like you may need a doctor or are you like me, gets lots of symptoms they can do nothing about? Take care of yourself.

Monna if like me you dread hairdressers good luck. I have been told by one hairdresser (we did become real friends) that she hated my hair as it is so unmanageable it's the worse she has ever done. It is finer than most babies. If it is not flying all over, it is greasy. If I am lucky I get about an hour when I can comb it tidy and then it needs washing again.

It is on a hill, mar everything is here, The last one we looked at wasn't so much on a hill as between to cliffs. There is no way I could push my empty trolley up either never mind come back with it full. It's just one of those that goes slowly up hill for several miles.

Hugs to everyone. Hope you are enjoying your holiday Silva.

nursemaggie

Blimey Floss, the only houses that price here are ex council houses in bad condition or 2 up 2 down. It's a bit far for DS to cycle to work, have a look on Google maps where Logistics north is.

I found out yesterday that the bit about not being able to have a bike he hates is walking through the center of town at 3 am on Sunday morning just as the clubs kick out. He gets a lot of abuse because he does not smoke and can't give them a light.

VJsmum

nursemaggie wrote: »

Monna if like me you dread hairdressers good luck. I have been told by one hairdresser (we did become real friends) that she hated my hair as it is so unmanageable it's the worse she has ever done. It is finer than most babies. If it is not flying all over, it is greasy. If I am lucky I get about an hour when I can comb it tidy and then it needs washing again.

That's the complete opposite of mine. hairdressers tell me it's the thickest hair they've ever seen. ALL my hairdressers have told me that - in Kent, Chester, Birmingham and here. I think I must have the thickest hair in England :rotfl: I wash it as rarely as I can. today it is on day 5 of not being washed . if i wash and leave it, it takes all day to dry - if i tie it back, it would go mouldy before it dried, I am sure.

Fingers crossed, our drainage problem is going to be sorted today. it has been usable, kind of, for the past week or so, but fully sorted today, i hope

monnagran

VJsmum, perhaps you and I and nursemaggie can get together and share our hair out. Mine is like nm's, thin and fine. I remember my poor mum trying to tie a ribbon in it when I was small. As soon as she let go the ribbon slid off. Eventually she gave up the unequal struggle and I had plaits till I was 11. Rubber bands adorned the ends of those.
I would give anything for a bit more and a bit thicker hair. It has always been the bane of my life.

VJsmum

You can have it, and gladly. I can't even have it thinned out, as it is so thick when it grows back that it makes it all stick out...

so i wear it fairly long and straight (it's naturally curly, but straightening it takes some of the volume out) and tied back, usually.

Hoorah, the drains are clear. It's cost us a fortune, but we will have to see if the insurance will cough up something towards it.

we are going to have a new soil stack installed (ours in inside the house, as we had the house extended). the plumber will put in one with an inspection hole and we've been told to have a camera down it every 2 - 3 years to ensure the roots aren't growing back. we then need to get the boxing round it reinstalled, also with inspection access, and get the office and lounge that have been affected redecorated and recarpetted. Luckily we have the funds, goodness knows what folks who don't would do about it, it has taken some mega cutting equipment to sort.

I think it will be christmas before it's sorted properly. In the meantime, we are going to swap the children's bedrooms back. Now that DS is at Uni and DD is back, it makes sense for her to have the larger of the two bedrooms again. It also moves her further away from us to give us some <<ahem>> privacy at bedtime :cool: