The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

Cocketts

Hester - do I remember correctly that some time ago you teased us with some news of something that you wanted but didn't think existed but had heard whispers that it might, after all, exist?
Did I miss the news?
Lilli

Jazee

Fuddle, your post made me laugh too. DH sometimes calls me a fish wife.


I so wish I could get some of my excess plants to you.

LameWolf

Monna I'm totally with you re show dogs - but it did mean that the breeder was happy to offload the puppy onto the chap who became his "Dad" for next to nothing. I also knew a Dora - she was a black Labrador, and known to the pub-goers as Dora The Explorer.

MMF if ever I find a way to train a DH to wipe his feet, I'll let you know. The best I have thus far managed is making him clear up the tracked-in mud himself.

Fuddle I too would have gone ape-shpoop. If there is one thing I cannot abide, it is liars. Doing it wrong, or forgetting to do it at all, I will be a mite annoyed, but will forgive. Out and out lying about it - no. Not in a million years.

Re organ donation - I'm afraid it's something I just cannot get my head around, no matter how I try to think logically about it; the thought just makes me go cold. By the same dint, I could not accept someone else's organs either; the idea horrifies me. But I'm betting my lupus-damaged bits wouldn't be a lot of use in any case.

Mr LW has been told I want my ashes scattered on the Isle of Skye. No hole in the ground for me (anyone puts me in one, I'll come back and haunt them!) I won't have some future version of Tony Robinson digging me up and dissecting my life!!

fuddle

Well at least I show my flaws too. I just can't tolerate being lied to really. We were just getting on track, why couldn't he have just cared for the greenhouse. It's two paces from his own and we could have got along. My guess is he wanted to stress out my plants so they wouldn't be as healthy, as they fail to thrive/become slug damaged and not grow too well proving himself right that I can't garden without a polytunnel. Of course, I I may be paranoid.

Don't worry about my plants. The squash, the pumpkins, peas, sugar snaps, courgettes, patty pans, borlotti, carrots parsnips and potatoes are all in. Most of my brassicas and leeks were outside hardening off and fine. I'm concerned about my French beans, sweetcorn, Tom's (or what was left of them) cucumbers, and possibly my short season purple sprouting broccoli. My rocket and lettuce seedlings have gone but I can do those again and all my flower seedlings are just no more but that doesn't matter really I just won't have sacrificial crops and my flower patch will just be bare this year

So don't be stressing that I have nothing honestly, all is well I'm just gutted that I trusted and let my guard down.

I suppose I would howl at me too. To look at me butter wouldn't melt, my general demeanor is quiet, smiley and polite but I can turn so quickly if someone treats me for a fool. My dad was the same they tell me. Very nice chap but wouldn't stay quiet if someone took the pee.

Thank you for calming me down.It helps to visualise you all rolling around over my antics.

Hard_Up_Hester

Oh Fuddle, well done.
Crocketts, we may know more next week.
We'll be eating omelettes mainly next week, my beloved got bladder, insisted on carrying the shopping and fell over when trying to negotiate the gangplank, the shopping included a dozen eggs!

Emptynester

Thank you all for cheering me up. Some of you have huge troubles and others have those of differing sizes but you all seem to pull together and keep on going.
I was ashamed of myself this morning because I bawled like a baby because I was fed up with my back problem. Ashamed because others are in a much worse situation and I have LOADS to be grateful for but for a while I was sick of pretending I was ok and I howled. After a lie down and a brief chat with OH who already does everything he can to help, I took myself off for a 30 min walk and enjoyed it. I know those tears will no doubt come back but I have once more found the strength to fight.


Can I please send virtual love and support to those in need.

Taurus good luck with your holiday. I will be interested to hear how it goes and any tips, ideas for future hols. I can't keep up with my lovely active OH and I don't want him to miss the holidays he enjoys. We would both feel happier about him going by himself or with friends if I also found something I could go off and do.
Now for some lunch before another lie down. Maybe I could be a bed tester lol.

LameWolf

Emptynester sometimes tears can be cathartic; please don't be ashamed. We all of us with long-term health issues get totally and utterly hacked off with it at times, - believe me, I certainly do - and it's ok to have a cry about it. x

Like you, I don't like to think of Mr LW missing out on holiday activities because of me; so if there's something I can't access, I hand my camera to him and tell him to go and do/see it and take pictures for me.

Mr LW has returned from the farmers market with cheese, eggs and cream, as requested, so I will crack on and make a quiche in a few minutes. He also bought an Eccles cake from the lady who sells the cream for us to share. I'm not quite sure which bit of "I need to lose 2 stone" he's having trouble understanding..... :rotfl: Bless him, he means well - I'll just have to do a few minutes extra on the WiiFit.

ivyleaf

fuddle Sorry, i missed your post earlier as i finished typing mine and then went out. I'm so glad you didn't lose all your plants x

Tinydancer

Ok......put the kettle on or pop open the bubbly.
I have just had a private message or email to be precise to offer CONGRATULATIONS!!!!


I have been awarded a badge because I have posted 10 posts......Yipeeeee!!!


Not many more to post to catch up with you lot.


Had to tell you as I am here on my lonesome with no one to share the joy!

pollyanna_26

Congrats and welcome Tinydancer . You'll catch up with me soon as my visits are less than many here .


Welcome Taurus GB . This fence will be as long as the Great wall of China the way it's growing .


Thinking as always of Nargle and her husband , MaryB and her dh - I hope he's recovering well . Also Karcher , burtha and all those struggling or worrying .


MMF You all did such wonderful and loving things for your father from the onset of his illness to that final farewell . Try to get some time with your husband just to smell the roses , good wishes to your mum and the family .


Good for you Fuds . I'm thinking of the Fool me once quote , you wont get fooled again . I don't think your husband would ever have chosen someone who could be cowed down . No one will ever hurt you and yours again .
Have you heard of the Gammon thing ? I'm not talking meat but certain people usually men . Red faced , opinionated know alls .


We have a taxi driver who sometimes picks us up who is 100% gammon , opposed to everything we believe in . He's racist , judgemental and horrible . On Friday he picked us up and we amused ourselves by seeing how many times we could bring the word Gammon into the chat . He was quite bewildered and turned his radio on to listen to some boring tirade while we giggled in the back seats . Added humour is dd is a vegetarian .


Emptynester don't worry about feeling low and posting . There isn't a scale here of what's more valid when it comes to worries , niggles and just feeling low . Each person has their own things going on and each matter .


Sorry I haven't posted things got very overwhelming . Lots of positive stuff happening but exhausting and difficult to keep track at times .



Hopefully things will settle soon . Everything has been full on since spring 2016 and dds letter to move from DLA to PIP but following that we can see the light at the end of the tunnel and it aint a train !


Take care all

polly x