KonMari 2017 - The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Karmacat

carrielovesfanta wrote: »

No such thing as an ex-scouser - just a lapsed one

To be fair, I have become a token wool now by moving from the city centre to "over the water"

Thanks!

It gets worse, though ... I was born just outside the Liverpool city boundary, *then* lived in Liverpool proper, but moved over the water during Infants School

Have annotated my passport to describe myself as a lapsed Scouser :j

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MMF007

Ha,ha,ha. I am a woollyback (someone who lives in the countryside, outside Liverpool. Although there other definitions) who married a scouser. Not only that, he's Catholic and I'm not. My dad says it's really a mixed marriage! Lucky we both support the same footie team :rotfl:

Fen1

Karmacat: remember to take a Stanley knife to the base of your old sofa. I found £10 in loose change when I cut up my old sofa and matching chair. Well worth the effort!

GreyQueen

OK, if there's a prize for weirdest thing to be kondo'd today, I think I can claim it, even if it's not yet midday; a dead cricket. Or possibly a dead grasshopper (it was bright green). And very brittle and dead and in the wee basket where I have a few of Kid Bruv's DVDs on the wall unit.

Was temporarily evicting them to store something else in that basket for a couple of weeks and found it in there. And I live in the centre of a city, not in a hay meadow, fer cryin' out loud........ poor wee thing. I did find a live version of this critter in the hall a few weeks back and carefully captured it and put it safely outside some distance away but I didn't notice this one.

I'm pottering around the homestead this morning, going to the lottie after lunch and will prolly be up there til sundown. I've gone thru the unmentionables and none of them have taken religious orders. I've also gone thru the socks and some of them are bordering on pious.;)

I ended up with a glut of socks due to Mum decluttering any which had cuffs which were pinching her calves/ ankles. Now a sock in the drawer isn't quite as good as money in the bank but it's not to be discarded lightly. I can still recall the Great Sock Famine of the 1980s, which coincided with me being extremely skint. I presently have north of 40 pairs of socks, and that doesn't include the fancy-smanchy hiking socks of the kind you have to take out a mortgage to buy.

I've long since been focussing the wear & tear on just a few pairs of socks, in order to wear them out for ragging. Even on such heavy rotation, it takes a lot of time to wear out socks, would you believe?

I also had a bundle of half-a-dozen stray socks done up with an elastic band but closer inspection has revealed that some of the strays can be used to make up pairs with odd socks whose mates have been eaten by the Sock Monster or which have succumbed to religion. The advantage (or possible disadvantage, depending on your POV) of buying identical socks in multi-packs, is that you have the ability to do this.

Of course, since many of these socks are black and have had varied amounts of use, they are now black, nearly black, dark grey, mid grey, light grey and omg-would-you-adam-and-eve-it grey-ish. But paired.

Howsomever, they will do very nicely for allotmenteering as the weeds don't care about the hue of the sockery under the boots and the frogs are fashion snobs but nobody of any significance consults them anyway.....

Fen1

I have cut sunflowers drying on my patio table. Where's the best place for me to leave them so that the birds can get the seeds? Should I leave them on the table, or stick them into the bushes? I don't have a bird table.

GreyQueen

Could you poke a string thru the heads and hang them in a tree? Birds are pretty adaptable but it would be better to have them somewhere they can get at them without possibly falling prey to passing moggies, who are ambush hunters, after all.

I have some sunflowers propped up on a wigwam of beancanes, and a toppled enormous multi-headed sunflower leaning at a rakish angle on my cold-frame and the birdies seem to be managing to find the seeds. HTH.

Fen1

I have an overactive imagination. I am now seeing Wizard of Oz crossed with Stephen King sunflower monsters.
Sunflower heads dangling from the trees is far too much voodoo shrunken heads.

I have a dark and troubled mind.

GreyQueen

Fen1 wrote: »

I have an overactive imagination. I am now seeing Wizard of Oz crossed with Stephen King sunflower monsters.
Sunflower heads dangling from the trees is far too much voodoo shrunken heads.

I have a dark and troubled mind.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: And people think I'm weird?!

I tend to build my bonfires vertically of structures made of aged bamboo bean canes. Jokes pertaining to The Wicker Man have been known to be made by people who know me, mwah ha ha!

Fen1

Have you ever visited the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, GQ? I think you'd like it 😉

GreyQueen

Fen1 wrote: »

Have you ever visited the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, GQ? I think you'd like it 😉

I suspect I would love it. I've never actually been into Oxford, I've sort of driven around the edge of it on my way to somewhere else (Glastonbury, but not at festival time, if memory serves).