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Softstuff

monnagran wrote: »

I don't envy you Softstuff. I love the idea of upcycling but every time I do it I remember that the last time I had vowed "never again." Still, as the poet said, 'hope springs eternal in the human breast,' and I caught myself, only the other day, eye-ing a battered chest of drawers speculatively.

Every bit of DIY I do I tend to think "never again", but frankly I have champagne tastes and a beer budget, so usually end up pulling my finger out and getting on with it :rotfl:

monnagran

I totally get that Softstuff. I look at the prices of the sort of furniture that I like and hastily turn my attention to freegle or second hand places, all called 'vintage' these days, and see things that only need a coat of paint, re-covering, new handles, a bit of filling in...............and I'm off again.

Hard_Up_Hester

I did a coach trip to Paris with a friend, she was supposed to go with her husband but a work crisis meant he had to drop out, the biggest problem was the hotel staff who thought we were a couple and were determined to be broadminded about it, they kept pushing the beds back together even when we pushed them apart. This was done with much Gallic shrugging and face pulling.

Hard_Up_Hester

Monna, do you think those surveys are worded so we will all start thinking ' Oh I must start recommending things to my friends, it's obviously what I'm meant to do '

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MONNA I love your thought for today, it's a truth!

ivyleaf

Emptynester i've seen those machines and they would probably be just right for me, so I have been tempted by them except that sometimes DS needs to mend some jeans, so I hang on to my hefty one that will sew through anything

My coach trip story - in 2004 we went on a trip to the Tyrol. on the way there we had an overnight stop in Brussels. When we got to the hotel, the road had been closed off because there was going to be a parade, because this was the day several new nations were joining the EU so there were celebrations all over the city.
The drivers had to move barriers out of the way so they could get the coach to the hotel. Then we were told there was no food available because lots of local people had decided to have dinner at the hotel restaurant as it was a special day.
So everyone had to wander off to look for some dinner somewhere else! OH and I both have mobility problems, but there was nothing else to be done. Eventually we came to a little square with a funfair in it, and thankfully a restaurant in the square had a table which came vacant just as we arrived.... Omelette, chips and salad has never been so welcome before or since!
Thankfully the hotel restaurant did manage to provide breakfast the next morning.

On the way back from another trip a few years later we were taken (as usual) to the wretched booze supermarket mentioned by Lyn. It was evening, so the little stalls that sold food just outside had closed for the day and we were very hungry indeed.
Then when we got on the coach it refused to start, and in the end the driver had to arrange with another coach that they would get their passengers through passport control and come back for us.
Dinner was a packet of crisps from a vending machine. By the time we got onto the ferry we were too exhausted to queue up for proper food. We haven't been on a coach tour since. The holiday itself was lovely though.

ETA nursemaggie i saw on the news this morning that the RMT have announced some more strike days. I couldn't help wondering if anyone would notice the difference.....

System

Monna Not a regular to the thread but i love your thought of the day.

If you feel hurt by people, recognise that you are not hurt because you are you, but because they are them.

I had a similar thought a few minutes ago.

"Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness".

I'll think about that one whilst cleaning the windows this morning.

fuddle

Hello Judi I liked it too.

Nargle bless the fencer who gave us all hope. A true, a true place of rawness met with kindness eh?

I post today about befriending cats. Now, I I hold my paw up and say that cars scare me. I don't understand them and not at all on their level but on the plots we have a couple of cats. I am keen on encouraging nature to do its thing on my small bit of land (except slugs and snails - shoot me but if I had my way nature would include chickens and hedgehogs ) I know there are mice on the plots because I can't direct sow any pea or bean.

Anyway last night little fuddle was playing with T cat on the plot and my first thought was 'arrrgh don't encourage her she'll pooh on my beds' and then I got thinking that if I befriended her maybe she wouldn't pooh on the beds at all and would keep the mice down.

Should I encourage or discourage in terms of what is best for the plot?

Of course I am completely deluded in thinking I have any control in this as while the human is away the cats will play anyway... but maybe non poop?

At least I'm not whinging today

Softstuff

Fuddle, despite my posts relating to cats and gardens, I am very much a cat person, love them to pieces. But the issues I had with next doors cat pooping in my herb and veggie garden still make me shudder. Cat poop is foul smelling, can carry various diseases and is not something I want near my edibles. I'd be discouraging the cats presence myself, mice or no mice.

LameWolf

Nargleblast wrote: »

Today a Community Macmillan nurse came round - she is sorting out a prescription for Zomorph capsules (slow release morphine), seeing as he is finding the liquid version the only thing for the pain.

Take it from me, this will be really good for him; I have Morphgesic tablets, which is exactly the same stuff as Zomorph but in tablet form as I cannot take capsules; and I have Oramorph for "breakthrough pain" as the Pain Doc put it. It's best if he can take his Zomorph when he gets it at the same time each day; I have an alarm on my phone at 07:30 and 19:30 for this purpose.

monnagran wrote: »

nm I do those surveys about comparing brands too. It makes me laugh when they give you about 3 dozen brands and ask which ones you have discussed with your friends in the past month and which companies you would advise your friends to work for. I have this image of all my friends sitting round earnestly comparing brands of detergents or TVs while a queue forms outside the door of people wanting my advice on which company they should work for.

I do those, too. I do have to laugh - sometimes I will go a couple of weeks at a time when the ONLY person I speak to is Mr LW; so I'm hardly going to have the sort of conversations they are on about.

Hard_Up_Hester wrote: »

I did a coach trip to Paris with a friend, she was supposed to go with her husband but a work crisis meant he had to drop out, the biggest problem was the hotel staff who thought we were a couple and were determined to be broadminded about it, they kept pushing the beds back together even when we pushed them apart. This was done with much Gallic shrugging and face pulling.

Oh, bless! We had the opposite thing - the first holiday we took together (well, it was a long weekend away) we'd booked a double room, but got given a twin; so we pushed the beds together, and every flippin' day, the hotel staff pushed them apart again! It was also supposed to be disabled friendly, but there were two flights of stairs to negotiate to get from the bedroom to the dining room - one up and one down. They could have opened up some additional doors so that I could have gone around the outside all on one level, but they refused to do so. :mad: Oh, and the shower in the room leaked; to this day Mr LW and I refer to that place as Fawlty Towers. :rotfl:

As for coach trips - I've never done one and never would; the idea of being cooped up on a vehicle with 50-odd strangers and no autonomy regarding stops, comfort breaks or anything else, fills me with horror.