The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

Floss

I've had mine au naturel & short for a few months now and am quite ok with it...saves having my roots done every 4 weeks anyway! It lightens in the sun, but will probably have highlights in later in the year.

maryb

I think the trend for grey hair on girls with beautiful rosy complexions is lovely. You can see why it was fashionable in the 18th century.

On the other hand, scaffold pole grey atop a decidedly faded complexion - not so great. But one of the joys of getting older is realising it's ok to not care whereas if I were a bit younger I would probably feel guilty about Letting Myself Go. Lord knows, I felt guilty enough about all sorts of things

Now I just reflect philosophically that a mother's place is in the wrong

Hard_Up_Hester

I blame the ducks!
I stopped dying my hair when we moved aboard the boat permanently as I used to do it myself but now our waste water goes directly into the canal and I don't want to poison the ducks and other wildlife.

We had a lot of heavy rain early this morning but it's bright and sunny here now. we are waiting for the marina to open so we can fill up with water and diesel.

I hope Nargle and Csarina oth had a good night, hugs to anyone else in need.

mardatha

I am naturally black haired and very pale skinned. I let my grey roots grow to 2" and then had all the black cut off, and it looked and felt fantastic. Now it's very light platinum and I can put violet through it or pink through it, or beige blond. I'm enjoying being grey

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I can't be doing with hair dyes, never have been bothered, so I'm and always have been just as nature intended and gradually greying but only at the front, the back is still brown! Do I care? not a jot! As long as the old corpus Christie is clean, not smelly and vaguely tidy to hell with fashion, make up and pleasing other people with my appearance as I've said before I'm just me, take me or leave me as you will, I have a comfy and satisfying life!

monnagran

maryb, I let myself go years since. It must be about 20 years since I shrugged my shoulders and went. If grey hair is fashionable then I'm right up there. The less said about the face the better.

Hoping that Nargle and Csarina managed some sleep knowing that their dear ones were safe and being well looked after.

We have strong winds here, it blew a lot during the night and it must have rained a bit at one point, there are some dampish patches on the patio. I think I'm actually going to have to wear something with sleeves when I go out. The drop in temperature is a welcome relief.

Nothing much planned for today, a bit more clearing and sorting if I can be bothered. Otherwise I feel its my duty to read the paper from front to back, including all the supplements and doing all the puzzles. It is so important to be au fait with what is going on in the world, even the sporting world, and to keep one's mind oiled.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

A rose can say I love you
Orchids can enthrall
But a weed bouquet in a chubby fist
Oh my, that says it all.

Cocketts

Mrs LW's post - or was it Monna's : WE HAVE RAIN! Only about 4 or 5 rumbles of thunder and about a dozen spit spots of rain, but it's a start.
It is quite dark and that's a novelty. It's even darker indoors due to the blackout material I have pegged to the curtains but even that's a welcome change.
The temperature hasn't dropped yet, but all in good time.[/QUOTE]

My DD is currently in South Africa on two-week vet nurse jolly learning how to use dart guns and do post-mortems on impalas (I won't bore you with the grizzly pics she has sent home:eek:)

Last night, I messaged her on FB to say WE HAVE RAIN! The reply came back WE HAVE A LUNAR ECLIPSE! :rotfl:

Floss

Cocketts wrote: »

...My DD is currently in South Africa on two-week vet nurse jolly learning how to use dart guns and do post-mortems on impalas (I won't bore you with the grizzly pics she has sent home:eek:)

Last night, I messaged her on FB to say WE HAVE RAIN! The reply came back WE HAVE A LUNAR ECLIPSE! :rotfl:

Those pesky kids always want to get one up on us adults! :rotfl:

silver-oldie

nargle and csarina hope you managed some sleep, you are in my thoughts

We had thunder, lightning and RAIN

We have three water butts connected to each other so as one is full the water feeds the next. Just before the rain last night the wind got up and must have blown the three empty butts off their stands. I didn't notice until after the rain had started.
It was like one of those tv game shows, run grab a water butt, put it on the stand,then the second and third. Connect the butts together and then to the water down pipe. Doing this standing in 3 inches of water, water pouring out of the pipe still attached to the down pipe and in the torrential rain.

I'm getting too old for this, maybe need a flat and a window box

maryb

Our water butts are all full again