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foxgloves

@CRANKY40, I can remember back when my younger sister was in her teens & starting to become more independent. I went out for the afternoon with Mum & Dad. My sister decided to stay at home & was reminded about security if she decided to pop out anywhere. When we got home, there was a big notice taped to the front door:
"Dear Mum & Dad, Have gone to Julie's. Key is in the garage hidden in the left hand welly boot".
Thankfully, we arrived home before any burglars!!
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MatyMoo

foxgloves said:

@CRANKY40, I can remember back when my younger sister was in her teens & starting to become more independent. I went out for the afternoon with Mum & Dad. My sister decided to stay at home & was reminded about security if she decided to pop out anywhere. When we got home, there was a big notice taped to the front door:
"Dear Mum & Dad, Have gone to Julie's. Key is in the garage hidden in the left hand welly boot".
Thankfully, we arrived home before any burglars!!
F

My best friend was coming home to her parents for the first time after the loss of the family dog. When we got there we found a sign on the door saying remember Bill & Ben. We walked round the back to find 100 plant pots upside down on the patio……..no keys under any of them so we were left scratching our heads. All of a sudden a lightbulb went off and she shot in to the cattery (a run down shed where the feral cat slept!) where she found one plant pot & the keys 😃

CRANKY40

@foxgloves your younger sister would have made a great friend for the HT. He has now adopted our spare keys as his own. The cat sitter had them last so the first part of our address was on a tag attached to them. The HT was very offended when I insisted that he take the address label off "Just because I've lost one set" accompanied by much dramatic sighing from him 🤣

In moneysaving news, we have a lot of baby plants grown from seed. I've made best friend stick to growing things that either we or his family will eat. We seem to have a lot of spinach 🤣 Best friend is in my good books just now because he bought me a mini greenhouse from Al-di garden online after I reminded him to claim a £200 payment that he would have forgotten about. It's slighly more sturdy than the plastic ones and I'm very pleased with it. It will still have to go in the shed during winter I think.

I spent some time tidying my own garden yesterday. Lots of weeding done down one side but a rain shower meant I didn't get as far as I wanted. I did go back out after I'd made dinner to pot up the baby lettuces though. 

After the grocery delivery this morning I am £25.89 under budget for this point in the month. I cleaned and rearranged all the kitchen cupboards on Thursday. This was because I moved the kettle so I had to move the cups so then I thought I'd move the glasses and so on. The reason that I moved the kettle was because the HT and friends kept switching the kettle on with the spout pointed directly at the electric socket. Once the kettle had boiled the socket then refused to work any more until it dried out. 18 year olds are so much fun 🙄 The new "tins of things" space is smaller than the old one and it's full so nothing else needed there. 

In other news, I have switched our gas and electric supply to the tentacled ones. The thought of only having a bill every 6 months from BG was making me far too nervous. The new BG site has removed the ability to see what your monthly useage costs are which at least gave a rough idea. At least this way I can see the results of trying to cut down (hopefully) month by month. 

It's supposed to rain tomorrow. If it does I'll do some housework. It was supposed to rain today (100% according to the weather guess). That was when we checked it at 3pm while having a rest from hauling more lumps of rock and paving stone from BF's garden in the blazing sun 🌞. It's time to go and have a shower and put my pjs on as for the second time in two days I've knocked my drink all over myself, oops. 

Take care all of you 😊

Sun_Addict

18 year olds are such fun 😞 Having said that I can’t moan I suppose as my 18th birthday party started at 8pm and I was passed out by 8.30 having starved myself for weeks to fit into some skin tight jeans then necked several drinks. My mum was mortified 😬

CRANKY40

Sun_Addict said:

18 year olds are such fun 😞 Having said that I can’t moan I suppose as my 18th birthday party started at 8pm and I was passed out by 8.30 having starved myself for weeks to fit into some skin tight jeans then necked several drinks. My mum was mortified 😬

My sister did similar at a friend's student party in Leicester a very long time ago. She was that worried that somebody would steal her drink that she downed 4 bottles of Pils in less than an hour, tripped over a two inch step and broke her ankle (discovered that when we went to A&E in London after we'd dropped our bags home) and was asleep for the rest of the party. 

Sun_Addict

I haven’t touched Martini since 🤢 I also had a similar ordeal with Pernod when I was 20 🤢 It’s a wonder I’m still alive 🤣

Blackcats

I had a nasty experience with Pernod and black when I was about 18.  It must have been a fashionable drink of the era.  There was an unfashionable and mortifying purple stain on the pavement for a few weeks after.

Baileys_Babe

Pernod and black does take me back to my youth 😄

foxgloves

It was indeed a drink of the early to mid-1980s, when I drank more of it than I care to remember.....& have never touched it since!
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CRANKY40

Quite a few of my friends had run ins with pernod and black. I never wanted to try it but apparently if you want to make your mum really cross then a wicker waste paper bin is not your friend if the drink doesn't agree with you 🤣 My aunty and I always drank diamond white (occasionally with a cherry B added to the bottle once you'd drank down far enough to pour the small bottle into the large one. If you took some ibuprofen with the last bottle you almost never woke up with a hangover. 

My aunty was my mum's youngest sister. I was sent to her house when I was young when my mum had seen enough of me. I used to do my aunty's ironing (paid) and my aunty and her best friend taught me a fair bit about life, alcohol and other things 🤣🤣