The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

mardatha

Monna I found out about the getting up thing, quite horribly once when I needed something from the bottom shelf in Sainsbugs..
Polly the Railway Children is my fav film of all time

silvasava

My lovely elegant rescue puss with a pedigree as long as your arm is a total Diva. No garden toilet for her - only a litter tray in the warm and she nags DH to clean it as soon as its been used!! she's got him wound round her paw.
Cranky - my Gran was a diminutive Glaswegian - all my photos of her seem to have her with a glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other!
Thriftwizard - and breathe - only 2 more days. Such a shame that lad has soured the trip. Hope the lad who's interested in cooking has enjoyed himself though.
HH - I have a horror of any sort of religion 'pedalled' either on the doorstep or in the high street. Some can be so insidious and divisive. I'll stick with the Dali Lama.
Still raining here and I have to go out for a Committee meeting - hope it eases off by then. DH got some replacement speakers for his HiFi at the weekend, so as its raining I have been treated to - Katharine Jenkins, Santana,Il Divo, Chris Rea and Black Africa Mambazo (sp?) in no particular order - hmm might be glad to get out this evening after all.

CRANKY40

silvasava wrote: »

Cranky - my Gran was a diminutive Glaswegian - all my photos of her seem to have her with a glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other!

We're probably related :rotfl: Gran ran out of sherry one night while we were having a games night so we gave her a few Black Russians. She won the game of Trivial Pursuit.

She was born in the era of the Glasgow slum clearances. My great grandma was a young widow (just like me - history repeating itself) and was allowed to keep one of her 8 children so she chose the one who had special needs. Gran and her siblings were fostered out. Gran went to the Isle of Skye but when the foster payments stopped she was turfed out and returned to Glasgow where she discovered that her mother was remarried with another daughter but had never sent for her. Somewhere there is a lady who has no idea about her half sister and her family.....

MMF007

Pollyanna, you are right, my days are rarely boring! A couple of years ago I was visiting client who I usually took shopping and helped with chores. She said she felt unwell and did not want the lunch I had prepared. I offered her some toast, or water to settle her tummy but she said she would just go to bed and rest.
I decided to stay with her for a while and rang my next client to say i'd be late.I offered to ring the doc but she said no need. I pottered about for a good 20 mins when she suddenly announced that her chest was hurting! I rang for an ambulance, they diagnosed a heart attack in progress.
I packed her a bag (while told me off for packing the wrong dressing gown!), and luckily she recovered thanks to 3 stents.
The very next day I visited a different client who told me she thought she was suffering from low blood sugar (she is insulin dependant). I gave her something to eat and checked her blood levels and she was fine but all I could imagine was the potential newspaper headline about a killer carer on the loose in our village!
This morning's palaver was minor but it made me smile - my neighbour rang in a panic to ask me, wait for it, if i knew where her husband's pajamas were :rotfl: I was, apparently, the last person to see them (yes, really!) when I hung her washing out yester!! I am, of course, entirely innocent.

Never a dull moment round here!

My favourite client did say one day, 'What would it be like if I didn't have you visiting?'. I replied with one word, 'Quieter!'

Oh, in the interests of fairness i should say that my errant DH bought me a bunch of flowers by way of apology. All is forgiven

FairyPrincessk

oof some of you have had interesting days!

I now can't remember whose cat likes to have her tray cleaned straight away, Maggie does as well. She also comes back to check to see if we've done it properly. FIL was even tricked into giving her an extra litter change three days in and he is used to posh cats!

A pleasant afternoon. Some disappointing but not devastating work news, a project hasn't gotten a response I'd hoped for, but it still might go forward. Still, now I have a permanent post and living somewhere we like etc. it does feel like 'just work.' Much easier to take these things when it doesn't feel like everything (future job, ability to buy house etc) is riding on them. Off to pilates shortly. OH is at the dentist tomorrow so I have some more intense work tasks planned for while the house is quiet.

Local friends have given us a few more tips about the area and we had a nice afternoon. They have a lovely child and were nice to chat to.

Hugs to Ivy, Cranky, Burtha and anyone else who feels they might need one. I've got plenty to go around.x

silvasava

OOh Cranky - my Great Grandfather was a champion sculler and he and his wife were wined, dined & feted so much they became alcoholics. Apparently their children were removed from them as they were so badly treated (one wonders what constituted bad treatment in Glasgow at the turn of the centuary!!) My Gran was the youngest so escaped the treatment. She was brought up in a convent I believe - moved south when she met my Grandad (Royal Navy) and only kept in touch with an older sister. Her eldest brother went to the US so I have distant family there. Certainly different times!

pollyanna_26

Who mentioned a couple of days ago " vaccinated with a gramophone needle ? I think we may all have been .
My little green light has been on since mid morning but didn't mean I've spent all day on mse .
Am experimenting with logging in once and staying on all day . I'm fed up with problems logging in so this seems to be working so far .
Meanwhile a lot of long posts since I last posted so will be back in a while to reply
Just noticed we've managed over 300 posts since the new thread began . Poor Lyn when she gets back and catches up has my sympathy .
polly

pollyanna_26

Correction over 6oo :eek: Told you I was tired .
polly

Floss

FPK Have to admit that I am really intrigued as to where you & your OH are living - Bolton-ish, Ashton-ish, Stockport-ish, Saddleworth-ish? I am quite envious as I was brought up in Saddleworth and have friends there, and on the Bolton moors, and even though we live on the lovely Lancashire coast, I would love to live back in the Pennines

nursemaggie

Floss I think we have put FPK on the wrong side of Manchester, I think they are west.