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Softstuff

monnagran wrote: »

Softstuff, have you ever experienced Scottish midges? The Spanish Inquisition is child's play compared with the damage those little blighters can inflict.

No, I haven't, but hear they are much feared even by the SAS. Here we live next to a paperbark forest that's got a fair bit of low lying wetland and a creek.... that means little to your average Brit, but it'd make most Queenslanders shudder. As I say though, I seem to have become immune. We discussed the subject last night, hubby and I and have come to the comedic conclusion that all the repellents, bug bite remedies and antihistamine creams I've used over the years soaked in and have made a uniquely repellent cocktail. I'd make dracula cark it. :rotfl:

VJsmum

nursemaggie wrote: »

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VJsmum, words need to be had with the culprit. It does not take a genius to work out who.

Softstuff wrote: »

VJsmum, that laundry should have gone into bags and been returned to the owners room!

A lot of it was DS's bedding and towels from his room in halls. If I left it to him, it would sit and fester all summer - by putting it on myself, I could give it a boil wash and it will go away into some drawers where it can sit, unseen, all summer. Some of it was our bedding and towels. I was just a bit shocked that it mounted up to so much. I did cheat and allow myself to tumble dry it - usually washing is line-dried.

Another one who is being eaten by midges - four on my face, some on my neck, my hands and my legs...

I am on the train going down to Kent. I have tried not to worry about what will be said today as I can't guess how it will go. it really all depends on whether my next youngest brother (who was dad's carer) wants to stay in the house. My view is that it is best sold and the proceeds divided - he will have enough to buy himself a small, modern, more manageable flat rather than stay in the house that needs a lot of work doing to it to make it pleasantly liveable. Work that he cannot afford. But I think that he will say he wants to stay. By staying, the house is in trust for the five of us with me and my older brother as trustees - so we have the power to kick him out if he doesn't maintain it. he can't really afford to maintain it... Selling it ends our involvement and responsibility.... What a mess dad has left us with - albeit with the best of intentions...

ivyleaf

LW Sending you non-tactile cyberhugs. I recently found out that similar had happened to a dear friend. She is almost 70 and has just managed to tell someone for the first time. I'd always wondered why such a lovely person was so self-deprecating, and now I understand why her self-esteem was so low

FPk Glad to hear there is some good news. Take care of yourself xx

VJsmum i hope all goes as well as possible xx

monnagran I hadn't realised you were having to manage without a washing machine! Is your kitchen too small for one?

Tinydancer

Oh I do feel for you Lame Wolf, it must be so difficult. I am afraid I can't offer advice either because no one else can walk in your shoes. What works for one, may not work for you.
I go to meditation classes and absolutely adore it, but many of my friends poo poo it. Each to their own.


Thanks for your advice re dad's phone. Went in to his provider (letter and number less than three) and they were super. Sorted with a classic something or other which lasts indefinitely and is 3p per minute. We are happy with that.


Thinking of you all, am about to embark on a sanding morning as we have purchased an old pine table which I am going to sand the top and paint the legs.
Catch ya later

Islandmaid

Just popping in to see how Lamewolf is doing x

Raining again today. Popped back to Aldi, as they had a lot of plastic fridge storage boxes in sets of 3 shallow, or 2 deep down to 99p per set, they are ideal for putting smaller items away in the cupboards and for taming the bathroom consumables.

Also bout 6 jars of cheap marmalade (27p ea) as I am making Jam and it's cheaper to buy the jars this way - cheap Marmalade will be made into cakes.

Feel sorry for those of you with school age kids - hope the weather isn't costing you a fortune to keep them entertained - when mine were little, in this weather, I used to get Old rolls of wallpaper for pennies from the local DIY store, roll one out along the hallway and add crayons and kids, kept them quiet long enough for me to drink coffee and plan the next adventure;)

Monna I wondered who that was bashing her smalls with a rock at high tide :rotfl:

Softstuff

Islandmaid wrote: »

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Monna I wondered who that was bashing her smalls with a rock at high tide :rotfl:

That made me :rotfl: and then I thought, I wonder if Hester bashes her tiny lacy whatnots against a small pebble instead :rotfl:

ArthriticOldThing

LameWolf I send virtual hugs as well. Nothing I can add to what others have but am also sending healing thoughts.

Islandmaid

Softstuff wrote: »

That made me :rotfl: and then I thought, I wonder if Hester bashes her tiny lacy whatnots against a small pebble instead :rotfl:

At least our Hester could hoist her unmentionables up a nearby mast of a sailing barge to dry them

Softstuff

Islandmaid wrote: »

At least our Hester could hoist her unmentionables up a nearby mast of a sailing barge to dry them

If she thought that a kettle on the deck gave unwanted signals I dread to think what that flag wafting in the breeze would do :rotfl:

Islandmaid

Softstuff wrote: »

If she thought that a kettle on the deck gave unwanted signals I dread to think what that flag wafting in the breeze would do :rotfl:

:eek::rotfl::rotfl: at least it would be some help with those locks