The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

NM I hope that this is your property ! I have everything crossed for you.
Haven't been posting as I have been struck down with the dreaded lurgy. My cough has broken this morning, so I hope I am on the mend, just a chesty cough and very little voice, to contend with now.
I have tried to keep up with the thread but can't remember much, other than LilySue joining :hello:. I blame an overdose of cough medicine !
Hester I'm wishing you good luck with the DGC for next week.
Polly Can't give you a drum roll but will a clatter of spoons be ok ?
Karcher have you managed to open the hwb yet ? I use the nutcrackers on a lot of small things that refuse to budge.
Sending healing vibes to all the poorly people and hugs to anyone in need.
nan

Polly, it is so beautiful to hear you so excited and positive. You must be walking on air. Not before time, you and your DD have been suffering and fighting for so long that you are well overdue some good news.

As are you nursemaggie. The bungalow sounds just perfect for you. The garden might be small but I bet it's big enough for a clothes line - just think of the joy of hanging out your washing when you want to! You've no. idea how hard I am praying that it will be yours.

I do hope that Mrs LW has some success in her search. She wants to live nearer her DDs and her adored grandsons so much. It's difficult looking in an area that is new to you and a distance away.

Ivyleaf. I hope the blood test results are what you want to hear.

HH. It never stops does it. I bet that by the time the last grandchild doesn't need your babysitting services, you will be in line to take on your greatgrandchildren.

Well I've made bread, biscuits and cheese scones but chickened out on the tangerine marmalade, just didn't feel like it, and discovered that I didn't have any unsalted butter for the lemon curd . Those will have to wait till the mood strikes again.

It's cold here today. Millie and I are holed up in my room with the oil filled radiator on and its still only 15°. I put an old duvet on my bed for Millie but she has climbed underneath it and is sleeping peacefully. I'm wrapped up in a blanket in my chair but my fingers are still cold, so I've given up the idea of knitting.
The heating has just kicked in so things should start warming up soon.

Oh Yes monna there is a washing line but even better 3 recycle bins and my own bin no one else will use. Recycle bins are all full here and will not be emptied until a week next Tuesday. Someone with 5 kits can't put all their rubbish in a pencil case.

I'll have to move if I don't want to be sitting in a puddle. :rotfl::rotfl:

monnagran wrote: »

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a long time making it.

Thank you for this, Monna. It is very timely. I have lived here for over fifteen years and tried so hard to like it. Lovely home, but I have known for almost all that time that I am in the wrong town. I am definitely clinging to a mistake I have spent a long time making. I'd already rung the estate agent today to do a valuation on the property, so your Thought for the Day felt like confirmation it is the time to go.

I also liked your earlier Robert Frost comment 'Life goes on'. Frost lived near here for a short time but left and returned to the US to live out the rest of his life. He must also have felt that he was in the wrong town .

Well done Polly. Sounds like the massive breakthrough you both needed x
Welcome LiliySue.
NM, I sooooo hope you get that house x
Hester - wow, you have my total admiration. 4 grandkids at once, for 5 days. Phew!

Well I am almost falling asleep in the chair. I did 3.5 hrs non-stop cleaning and tidying this morning, checked on an empty house and collected the post, shopped for elderly neighbour, then spent 2 hrs helping a client sort out a very full wardrobe and a large suitcase.

Got home to find 2 lovely emails. One inviting us to dinner with friends who are visiting our area next weekend, the other was friends from Canada asking when we are next visiting the Caribbean* so they can meet us there!
I feel all warm inside
Funny that both these couples are people we met on holiday abroad but we really hit it off and have kept in touch and visited with over the last few years.
DH has few real friends and I only have 6 or 7 (plenty of acquaintances who I am happy to chat to, but not who I feel would be considered real friends, iykwim).
* a year from now, if we are very lucky and depending on our friends over there invite us to stay again!! I think we were well behaved enough to get an invite back :rotfl: I am saving for the airfare already :rotfl: