The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

MMF007

Have just managed to skim-read back to see what I have missed the last few days.
nargle I hope you won't mind me sending you and DH a gentle virtual hug.
It is good to see new Fencers joining in, Welcome!

I loved that there are dogs trained to wait for their feet to be wiped but can someone teach my DH too, please!

Right, off to round up the Sleeping Beauties in residence. Mum has not stopped talking for 3 days, still at it at 10.30 last night (she usually goes to bed at 9). I told her I was exhausted so could she please go to bed so she told 2 more long anecdotes and finally went up at 11pm.
I think it is largely relief that the main events of the week are over, went fantastically well, and also that she has a captive audience! I have no idea how she had the stamina to cope with this laat week (we had dinner guests 3 nights as well).

It is very foggy here this morning and i think the leccy must have been off last night 'cos all the clocks/timers on gadgets are wrong.

monnagran

MMF what a wonderful way to celebrate your father's life. You showed him all the love and respect that any one person could ask for. You really did do him proud.

Taurus, hope you enjoy your holiday. I'm another one who is learning to be me after a lifetime of living in the middle of crowded chaos. It's scary but enlightening and fun. I know you are only doing it for a week but for a whole week you can be totally selfish and do just what you feel like doing. No one else to consider. No one else to fit round. No one else's ego to massage. Enjoy.

Another warm sunny day. I'm very conscious on days like this, of those who are unable to get out and enjoy it. I will be taking myself on to the beach, which is always pretty quiet, sitting on my old, weatherbeaten beam of wood set into the bank, gazing over the sea and offering prayers for people who are trapped indoors for whatever reason.

Whatever you are doing on this sunny Sunday, please make the most of it.. If you dont have sun today, make youreself comfortable and do something just for you.

THOUGHT FOR SUNDAY

Sometimes you need to thank God for what didn't happen.
Thank him for the things he stopped that you knew nothing about.

mardatha

I wouldn't mind a sunny Sunday. I seem to have been living in a pint of milk for a week. Constant mist, sometimes luminous white and sometimes pewter gloop. Really getting me down. Plus I was ill during the nice sunny weather and never got out.
whinewhinewhine
Nargle pet you and hubby keep on truckin, ok? xx

VJsmum

Floss wrote: »

Islandmaid I did this when the register went online, have carried a donor card since I was 18

VJs Mum are you able to ensure that the trustees won't be jointly held liable for maintenance costs...just a concern that if the house wasn't kept in good order, you might all have to cover repair bills that not everyone could pay?

No - I am about to draft a document that will set out the conditions of the trust. it was also in the will.

Thanks everyone for your thoughts and good wishes.

MMF - that sounds like a wonderful send off for your dad.

I am on the train to London (TBF, I am often on a train to somewhere) - having a day out with schoolfriends who i don't see often enough. I am a bit upset as my eye rash has come back big time this morning. it is one of four things - some shampoo my daughter bought me for mother's day from Lu$h; the small mouthful of bread I ate (couldn't resist ) or cheddar and /or stilton that I ate quite a lot of.. for the first time in 7 weeks. So i need to wait for it to die down and try them again individually..

fuddle

I'm sorry but I come to tell you I have embarrassed myself in my street this morning. I'm still shaking with adrenaline.

You know Mr Pea Seedling was going to look after my greenhouse while I was away last week? We came home on Friday instead of today. When I arrived I saw that my greenhouse door was closed with a gap (6 inches, and it's how I leave it for ventilation at night to stop flying pests accumulating in a stuffy atmosphere) and the window was closed. Friday was 24 degrees and full sun. My plants had all withered and were so dry that they were receding from the pots. Now I said to you that I wouldn't blame him of I lost stuff. Its my fault I wasn't there but when I saw his polytunnels wide open and plants watered I asked if anyone had seen him. He was there that morning.

To me the greenhouse hadn't been entered, and nothing my watering can was in the same place and I just had a feeling that he hadn't been in. DH saw him Fri night and yesterday morning and he was sheepish. Thinking that he had maybe been caught out and felt a bit embarrassed. Two days he's had to think. This morning I saw him and asked him if he had a problem caring for the greenhouse? I was nice and calm incase he had been ill or something. Anything could have happened. He said he did care for it. I said why was the door closed, not mentioning the 6 inch gap. 'I tell you why I shut it. It was because a cat !!!! in it. OK, so why didn't you open the window? I didn't think he said. You' re an experienced Gardener and chose to close a green house up in 24degrees and full sun so a cat wouldn't get in? 'i' m not listening to this and walked off'. That's when I lost it and shouted 'you' re an experienced Gardener and telling me you never thought to ventilate my greenhouse in 24 degree heat and full sun while is was under your care. You're a sly man, and you been found out and you're not no friend of mine'

You know why I hit the roof? Because he lied. He didn't shut the door. It was still at 6 inches how I left it. A cat could still have got in. There was some ventilation although it needed more. He had no real idea about whether the door was open closed or ajar. I lost my own seedlings, and I wasn't there but I felt like I caught him with his pants down a bit and I don't like bullpoop.

As per usual I'm highly embarrassed, not with him I'm a hermit and can garden peacefully ignoring him completely, but that my neighbours heard me shouting most likely.

I called DH (fishing) to apologise that he didn't have a wife who could just smile sweetly and be pleasant amongst bullpoop. He laughed.

I wish I could use my intelligence in these types of situations because I can outsmart ignorance and bullpoop but adrenaline always tips me into acting like a woman from the stage of Jeremy Kyle!

ivyleaf

MMF That sounds a really lovely memorial event. i expect your mum will be tired today!

taurusgb it's a bit scary travelling alone for the first fime in years, isn't it? I'm quite nervous about my trip, I'm only 64 but not in particularly good health, and haven't flown alone since 1973, not made a long journey by train alone since 1975. But you know what? I bet we'll both really enjoy ourselves and come home knowing that we could do it again :j

Must go now as it's time for church. Back later xx

P.S. That reminds me monnagran, did your service go all right? (The one you were taking, I think it was last week?)

Floss

Fuddle if he hasn't got the grace to apologise and say he forgot but had to lie then you did the right thing in shouting at him. Plesse don't feel that you have to apologise to anyone for venting your frustration with a selfish person of dubious character.
Hugs from a greenhouse-not-yet-planted fellow allotmenteer xx

Islandmaid

Fuddle I think you were very dignified, under the circumstances - I would have turned the air blue.....

Nursing a bit of a sore head today, gin and Rose wine don't mix

Wild garlic butter roasted chicken with salad for dinner.

The pickled veg were really lovely, so have done more for today, dead easy and delicious - my new favourite thing

Off to hang out the washing, bottom out the EnSuite before sitting in the garden with a book and maybe a hair of the dog

Back to work tomorrow after 12 days off :eek: making the most of the last day of my staycation :T

Tinydancer

Fuddle, don't you dare apologise for what you said or how you said it. He sounds a horrible, selfish man and has had it coming.
I wish I could do it. I would have said nothing and then got home and ranted. That's far worse.
MMf, what a lovely way to remember your dad......perfect.


Yesterday I painted the legs of my table and put it back in situ. Very pleased.
While I was at it, I painted an MDF shelf the DH bought months ago and we didn't know where to put it. He thought it would do as a mantle but it didn't look right. I had the bright idea that it would look better over the sofa with some pictures and bits and bobs on. Painted it successfully, put it on the wall with some Velcro type hangy thingies that we have put pictures up with. Apparently, they withstand heavy weights.
WRONG!! It all looked lovely until half an hour later there was an almighty crash and the lot was on the floor!!
After hoovering up tiny shards of glass from a candle and repainting part of the wall that got scratched it has been cast aside until he can put it up properly by screwing it into the wall.
Lesson learned.


This morning I have stripped the bed, hung out other washing, dropped DH off at station as he is away for a couple of days and about to enjoy a coffee in the sunshine before tackling the ironing. (but I might leave that until later)
Love to all.

monnagran

Fuddle, confession time. When I read your post I roared with laughter. If anyone had been walking past they would have wondered what the loonie inside found so funny.
I am sorry for your poor plants, honestly I am, but the thought of you acting so cool, calm and collected and then turning round and screeching like a banshee had me doubled up. I am still giggling. Then the thought of you apologising to your DH for not being the right sort of wife set me off again. I bet he is still giggling as well.
Oh my darling, you are priceless. I am so glad I know you. If this thread exists simply to give us all a window into your world, it is enough. Bless you.