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... sat crying with laughter here now!!! ... ;o>
Just how much alcohol was in that trifle? ? ?
suzysunshine7 wrote: "An Email just received from 'Pet Drugs Online' entitled ...
"When was the last time you wormed your friend, Miss S?"
...ERRR? - I dunno? ... Grizzlygrump, when was the last time I wormed you?!!
..."
Please tell me that was a tube of garlic puree I've just put on the mushrooms and not ....no... it couldn't be ....
"When was the last time you wormed your friend, Miss S?"
...ERRR? - I dunno? ... Grizzlygrump, when was the last time I wormed you?!!
..."
Please tell me that was a tube of garlic puree I've just put on the mushrooms and not ....no... it couldn't be ....
Sera69 wrote: "Just how much alcohol was in that trifle? ? ?"Only around half a Bottle of Harveys Bristol Cream? ;o>
Grizzlygrump wrote: "Please tell me that was a tube of garlic puree I've just put on the mushrooms and not ....no... it couldn't be ...."Well, it's that or apparently I have to hold 'my friend' down and try my best to shove a Tablet past his clenched Teeth! - LOL!!! ;o>
Or would you like me to buy something to squirt down the back of your Neck?!! - that should solve any problems you might be having with Fleas as well?
An absolutely fantastic start to the New Year after our belated Twelfth Night. I ordered some Flowers for M&D based purely on just how beautiful they looked in the Photo online and then I crossed my Fingers on them hopefully arriving looking at least half as good in real life. However, they arrived yesterday, and they actually look as fresh, as colourful AND as wonderful if not even better than the fabulous Bouquet shown in the Photo! ... and I can't stop myself from keeping on going back into the Dining Room just to admire them! They really are worth every last Penny spent on them ;o> ...
Ohhh, and my Telescopic Pickle Fork arrived a few days ago and my Ice Cream Scoop came today ... so I'm currently all maxed out on happiness and contentment - LOL!!! ;o>
I hope you’ve remembered to get some telescopic pickles......
ARRRGGGHHH!!! - NOOOOOOO?!! ;oOIt's a bit of a daft name for a Pickle Fork, isn't it? - but I couldn't find what I wanted until I went on Google Images, found a picture of one, and then discovered that that was what they were called ;o>
Been to my favourite delivery this morning - slap bang in the middle of Norwich, accessed by a narrow, one-way cobbled street lined with bollards, then a tight reverse onto a sloped loading bay.
Getting in is easy compared to getting out - a 90 degree right followed by a 90 degree left while avoiding a tree, not scraping the trailer down the side of a church or hitting any road signs, pedestrians or cyclists.
Just another day at the office :)
Getting in is easy compared to getting out - a 90 degree right followed by a 90 degree left while avoiding a tree, not scraping the trailer down the side of a church or hitting any road signs, pedestrians or cyclists.
Just another day at the office :)
! ! ! ;oO... I remember going on a Guided Tour around Norwich about a decade ago - no-one else just M&D & me with a very eccentric elderly gentleman Guide who was such an absolute joy to be with ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "ARRRGGGHHH!!! - NOOOOOOO?!! ;oOIt's a bit of a daft name for a Pickle Fork, isn't it? - but I couldn't find what I wanted until I went on Google Images, found a picture of one, and then discovere..."
Actually I do know about telescopic pickle forks as my sister’s got our mum’s. I’ve got her fish server(?). I don’t remember how we used it. Maybe for tinned sardines?
Have put photo on my profile. The handle bit has a slit at the top so it can be made shorter.
We had one for years and years until it broke about 3 years ago and I've been resorting to chasing Pickled Beetroots and Onions around Jars with blunt-ended forks ever since then. Dad got Beetroot Vinegar all over the Tablecloth again on Boxing Day just like he did last year - and so I decided enough was enough and bought us a Kitchen Craft one from off eBay for £3.50 inc. p&p.It isn't as nicely finished as I'd like and had a few little rough edges that I've chosen to very carefully smooth off with a small Metal File - and some poor Reviews suggest that they can rust quite quickly and easily come apart - but ours looks to be okay and feels more than sturdy enough in itself for now.
Interesting, Lez Lee ... the Fish 'Server' looks quite small and so could well be for Sardines or maybe Anchovies? We have one just like this one that we never use and my Nan said that it was an Anchovy Server that an old Lady gave to her ;o> ...
We've had a very heavy and thick white Mist hanging over us today and I've not been able to see anything at all but a white nothingness beyond the Hedge at the end of our Back Garden - which has felt rather eerie and at times like the rest of the World all around our House had just disappeared! ;o>
WoW?!! - who's been nibbling at the Sun?!! ;o>
I love it - let's put it up as a Picture on here as well ;o> ...
Is that the house of the rising sun? :)
suzysunshine7 wrote: "We've had a very heavy and thick white Mist hanging over us today and I've not been able to see anything at all but a white nothingness beyond the Hedge at the end of our Back Garden - which has fe..."We've just had the entire roadside hedging removed, along the lenght of our property today, which is a fair bit of hedging, given our property sits parallel the road.
This is been something mum and i had to sort out, ever since we received a letter early last year from the council, asking us to cut it back, because the vegetation was encroaching onto the road itself. This was still an issue even after the council does it annual roadside hedge trim. The trees & shrubs had grown so thick and woody, it was no longer possible to just 'trim' it back.
The problem lies with the road being a fairly fast stretch of main road, but it's very narrow, with no footpaths and hardly any grass verging left, just tall thick shrubs & trees. There have been incidences in the past, of trucks and coaches having difficulty squeezing past one another, sometimes resulting in those huge side mirrors getting broken off outside our house.
What we were surprised to learn however, when enquiring as to who's responsibility was it to maintain the hedging along our property...apparently it is ours! The council stated, that on rural roads, the highway boundary ends at the white road markings painted on the tarmac! Presumably then, we own a smidging slither of the remaining tarmac on the our side of the line! lol! Anyway, we were told we could do whatever we like with it, so to save having to do again 10 years later, we've had it all taken out, just stumps & straggly bits of ivy & brambles remaining. There are one or two willow tree stumps, that i suspect will shoot up again, as they do, come spring time, but, we'll deal with those another day.
So, last year, we had a tree surgeon lop the top offs of everything down to fence height, and finally after waiting months for the council to install the temporary traffic control measures, effectively closing half the main road out side our house, we got specialists to come in and clear the rest of the vegetation away.
And gee, it looks fecking awful now! It's so bare and just looks weird after 15 years of seeing 'greenery' there, now just a aging timber fence left, covered with bits of ivy clinging to it..and hundreds of those thrice damned brambles stalks everywhere (i hate brambles more than i dislike ivy!) Quite a bit of tidying up still needs doing, but we've managed to clear up 20 years worth of fly tipped rubbish we found along our boundary....including a still readable newspaper dating from June 2002! So much for biodegradablility there! Front page story, was about the developing war against the Taliban in Afganistan..crikey, i'd almost forgotten about those guys!
Bad news though, the all timber fence we had installed in 2004 is in need of replacing too, mainly the footing posts, half of them are shot at the bottom (3 of them are now just 'floating'), but we wouldn't have been able to know this, due to all the vegetation grown all over it.
And as we've forked out a hefty sum for today's work, including the rent of the lights & cones at a cost of £200 a day (!), we're spent out for a while. My concern now is, the bashwash of large commercial vehicles zooming past by, could cause the fence to flap about too much, weakening the structure further. Hopefully it'll hold up for while longer till we can work how best to replace it...as i recall, it cost us a hefty amount when we had this fence put in, some 3 grand i think...we certainly don't have that amount of money to spend this time, alas.
I guess it's true what people say, there always hidden surprises when one starts doing work to one's property, eh? And not always nice ones, it seems. Just as well i didn't bother repairing the section of fencing that was damaged by an idiot lorry driver, a couple of years ago; who thought he could turn his truck around in our driveway, after realisng he couldn't get under the railway bridge 150 metres down the road from us. This happens several times a year, because we have deceptively large driveway entrance, and we're the closest property to the bridge. So truckies think they can turn thier 18 wheeled artics around, but time and time again, they realise they can't, the road is far too narrow. It annoys me, that truck drivers find themselves in this situation in the first place, as there is a perfectly readable large roadsign about a mile back up the road, warning drivers of high sided vehicles of this very low bridge..and yet, they don't seem to 'see' this? Pain in the backside! I suspect it's cos too many drivers rely on their incomplete crap navs, and not enough attention spent on reading the bleedin' roadsigns! They should be fined for undue care and attention, the buggers!
Oh...& I don't mean you Grizzly, i know you aren't like that! :)
I wonder how much a 120 foot of block built walling would cost to build? Much more than a post and frame fence, i suspect?
I could rebuild it myself, but i'm not as fit as i used to be, last year of not doing a lot whilst undergoing the cataract ops, hasn't helped, and just spending an hour of clearing debris today, has shown me just how unfit i am currently. Quite a surprise, given that i once used to be able to hoick heavy items about in the store i once worked in...amazing how quickly the body 'wastes' away if one doesn't use it....something else i gotta focus on....and I hate gyms!
Lots of things to think about.
suzysunshine7 wrote: "I love it - let's put it up as a Picture on here as well ;o> ..."
Looks like a Death Star disguised as the sun! :)
Would it be far easier and much cheaper to move House instead, Duke?!! ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Would it be far easier and much cheaper to move House instead, Duke?!! ;o>"Probably, except mum doesn't want to move just yet.
But that would just leave the problem to someone else, possibly devalue the property a wee bit. It's not just the fence, anything made of timber, that we had erected when we moved in 15 years ago, is now tired & decaying. Some of it doesn't matter, like the garden shed and some decking..but the fence is now priority.
I suspect, in couple of weeks time, mum and i will be moaning about why the bladdy hell did we have this done? We could've just left it at fence height for bit longer, but then of course, we wouldn't come to know how poor the fence posts are!
But i have got a couple of ideas; we could get somebody in to install new reinforced concrete posts intween the existing ones, to save my back from breaking out the old concrete footing. I'll be able to replace and rotten wood and attach tthe existing fence onto the new posts, leaving the old timber ones in situe. Then batten and panel the road side of the fence, to cover up the unsightly concrete posts. Hardly enviromentally friendly using concrete posts, but what other material is able to withstand the damp nature of Wales?!
By jove..i think i have a plan!
Another day, another poorly little hairy woofer, another Vet Bill! ;oOMitz has managed to hurt her Back Leg again and although the Limp can rather amusingly come and go and even change sides from time to time, still, something just isn't right somewhere?
Then yesterday, she raced in from the Garden to be the first to get to her Chewie and suddenly rather dramatically fell over and stood up holding her Back Leg high against her Hip and looking utterly bewildered and scared. She seemed to have no pain anywhere on gently manipulating and massaging it but still the Limp came and went all day long and so I gave her a small dose of Tia's Loxicom at Teatime and we booked her in at the Vets for this Afternoon.
It was her favourite Vet, Gabe, and so she raced in to see him squealing with delight and leapt into his (thankfully anticipatory) Arms! She only ever does this with us and so he really is very honoured indeed - LOL!!! She apparently bears no grudges at all against him removing her loose Front Teeth under Anaesthetic before Christmas ;o>
He got her to excitedly chase after tasty Treats thrown across the Floor and there was only a slight occasional Limp to be seen - so it has been put down to Arthritis and she has now been given her very own Bottle of Loxicom to take over the next week or so.
The Bill was £225! ... Pet Insurance - I love ya!!! ;o>
theDuke wrote: "I'll be able to replace and rotten wood and attach tthe existing fence onto the new posts, leaving the old timber ones in situe. Then batten and panel the road side of the fence, to cover up the unsightly concrete posts. Hardly enviromentally friendly, using concrete posts, butwhat other material is there that can withstand the damp nature of Wales!By jove..i think i have a plan!"
Don't forget that you also have a Brother and Sister? ... it might be time to give them a Call to give them enough time to work out when they will be able to come and give you a Hand? ;o>
Jeez! £225 for a quick inspection and a bottle of jollop?! I don't feel so done over paying for those two traffic lights and a few cones, now!
Thank goodness i don't have any pets..i'd be bankrupt by now!
theDuke wrote: "Jeez! £225 for a quick inspection and a bottle of jollop?! I don't feel so done now paying for a couple of traffic lights and a few cones!"She has had an X-ray and an Injection as well. He was actually Off-duty at the time after a busy day in Surgery but when he heard that it was our Mitz coming in he kindly stayed on just so that he could fit in seeing her himself ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "theDuke wrote: "I'll be able to replace and rotten wood and attach tthe existing fence onto the new posts, leaving the old timber ones in situe. Then batten and panel the road side of the fence, to..."Well, there is my brother, he's built like the proverbal brick outhouse, but he's a workaholic..i rarely ever see the man. But yeah, maybe something could be done there. Sister lives too far away, and is about a practical as a chocolate teapot, bless her! She's not capable of building anything, always leaves that stuff to her ex boyfriend, who is still fixing her aging car even today. Funny how relationships continue after a break up...there was a time when those two were at each other throats! I'll never understand love..it's too weird!
suzysunshine7 wrote: "theDuke wrote: "Jeez! £225 for a quick inspection and a bottle of jollop?! I don't feel so done now paying for a couple of traffic lights and a few cones!"She has had an X-ray and an Injection as..."
Nice man! Been many year since we had a pet, our last dog Oscar, a Labrador and German Shepherd cross breed (a Labraherd? Shepador?!), used to hate going to the vets. As soon as we arrive, he realise what was about to happen, and used to kick up a right old fuss! He was a lovely dog though, very soft & fluffy! That was 12 years ago now, since he died from liver failure.
Now, there really is no excuse whatsoever for Girls unless of course, they suffer from some severe and debilitating condition, not to help out and get their Hands dirty. They may possibly not have a clue and perhaps need to be shown the correct way to do things that Men are often much more experienced and far more familiar with - but she can still carry reasonably heavy stuff just as easily as most Men can, or hand you things and brew up, or lend her weight to lean against Posts to keep them upright while you fix them in place.If I was there I'd be helping out? - there is always something that can be done that can help to save a considerable amount of time and effort for others who are busy with doing all the rest of the work.
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Now, there really is no excuse whatsoever for Girls unless of course, they suffer from some severe and debilitating condition, not to help out and get their Hands dirty. They may possibly not have ..."She be too worried about breaking her perfect finger nails! Odd really, cos she's not what i call a girly girl, but still does like her girly things. She is actually fairly strong, as she works in mental care, assisting people with mental health issues and addictions. So she is often on call on to help lug stuff about for clients.
But that said...getting down and dirty with it...in the garden? Nah...not her style! lol! Even with flowers, she gets them from a florists! :)
Her current boyfriend would serve a far more useful assistant though, as he's into gardening and whatnot, but alas he suffers from the severest form of epilepsy, i'd be too afraid to for ask his help!
I'll figure something out, when the longer days returns in the spring time. I need to get fitter again anyway!
Gabe does seem to be genuinely fond of both Mitzi and Tia - even though Tia unfortunately always freaks out and gives him such a shockingly hard time. He completely understands that Tia going absolutely berserk all stems from sheer terror rather than from an aggressive nature and is always so very gentle and very calm with her. One of the female Vets has come across as being rather snappy and is clearly un-nerved by Tia's hysterical behaviour and so we are very grateful to Gabe for getting to know and to like Tia. And Mitz, who also only really likes us, clearly adores him because she makes such a huge fuss of him every time that she sees him ;o>
Quite right, Suzy! Our Sheffield house was quite ‘Homes under the Hammer’ and we shared all the work apart from electrics. Luckily J. had worked with an electrician in his school hols and put it to good use.Same with my sister and her husband who rewired, installed central heating, and converted a large bathroom and separate toilet into a bedroom and smaller bathroom.
I’ve always enjoyed DIY and miss it now I’m physically challenged!
Oooh? - I know that I really shouldn't be so judgemental but I do deeply dislike Girls who suddenly come over all weak and fragile and play the sexist cute little Girly Card whenever it comes to jobs needing to be done ;o<Then again, I unfortunately had a male friend like that as well, who pretty much slept all the time or sat around on his Btm on the Sofa playing around on his Laptop - which left everything that ever needed to be done all entirely on me! And, to add insult to injury, he deliberately wouldn't even brew up or make any effort to prepare Food properly - and so, when I was finally done, there would then be Meals to prepare or I'd have to rely on Takeaway or just give up and go hungry instead! ... GRRR!!! ;o<
I look back with such pride in myself now - I self-taught and I learnt a lot, and I broke all of my Nails repeatedly as well(!) - but it often hurt like absolute Hell during doing DIY and for days afterwards too and it was SO incredibly hard to keep on with holding how I was left feeling about it all down and not to give in to losing my patience and my temper over such extreme apathy and simply shocking laziness.
I am someone who believes in equality and fairness in everything.
Lez wrote: "Quite right, Suzy! Our Sheffield house was quite ‘Homes under the Hammer’ and we shared all the work apart from electrics. Luckily J. had worked with an electrician in his school hols and put it to..."Exactly, Lez Lee. We all of us have our strengths and our weaknesses - and then there are some folk (including me) that actually don't mind or who even prefer to work alone as well.
However, there are always other things that can be made easier with a helping Hand and Gender really shouldn't come into it. I'd have appreciated help lifting heavy things, someone holding the Ladder for me as I'm often unsteady and scared of even just the slightest of heights these days, and it would have been absolutely wonderful to have had the odd Brew or a Snack made for me - or to get to sit down and relax with a simple enough Meal afterwards.
I think i've just found the solution to my fencing woes! A company in Swindow does a 'kit', with exactly the look and posts i'm looking for, for an all in price. Includes concrete predrilled posts (to afix the timber supports to), concrete base boards, timber railings, featherboards, top rails, plus all the fixings needed, all pre-measured and cut to size...ready to install. For 120 feet of fencing would cost £600 plus delivery..not a bad start. Works out around £48 for 10 feet of fencing or so. The posts cost £30 each, so the timber isn't that much more on top...i think it'll be better to replace the whole darn thing now.I haven't yet factored in how much it'll cost to seat the posts in yet, but it's start.
We need a pair of new driveway gates too..but my eyes nearly fell out my head when i saw how much they are..cripes!
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Lez wrote: "Quite right, Suzy! Our Sheffield house was quite ‘Homes under the Hammer’ and we shared all the work apart from electrics. Luckily J. had worked with an electrician in his school hols a..."I've met many woman in the past, that would knock the spots off most blokes for their practical skills and strenght,that weren't afraid to get stuck in with hard labour. Just a pity my sister ain't one of them!
In our house, I do the diy and gardening unless daughter and son in law are here, when we work together. I've spent today painting the little room I'm converting to a sewing/painting room, while the prof has been working on his next book... My DH is an intellectual who willingly pays for someone to do whatever we can't. He's capable of most things but, cooking excepted, gets no thrill of achievement from practical stuff, though he'll always lend a hand with the heavy lifting etc. It works for us :o)
When it works it really is a partnership to be proud of ;o>You are both very blessed to have found each other ... x
This has given me quite a thrill today ... and yes, I know? - I know that I'm weird because anything to do with clever and neat hidden Storage really excites me! - LOL!!! ;o> ...https://www.facebook.com/EWVideos247/...
suzysunshine7 wrote: "This has given me quite a thrill today ... and yes, I know? - I know that I'm weird because anything to do with clever and neat hidden Storage really excites me! - LOL!!! ;o> ...https://www.faceb..."
That's pretty neat way of storing large space consuming furniture. Now then, if only they could find a way to make the inside of a cupboard larger than the outside, al la Tardis stylee! I could do with a couple of those! :)
Told ya! - I absolutely LURRRRRRRRRRRRRRVE Storage!!! ;o>
There simply aren't words for just how much I want this in our House ...
Okay, show off! ;-PPantries, blimey...there's something one doesn't see many of these days...i'd love a pantry, makes far more sense to be able to walk into a small cool room, and see everything ya got in one glance (okay a few in my case!)..not stash 'em anyway in lots cupboards in a typical kitchen. Architects ought to bring them back in modern houses, me thinks. Be less of a need to fill the kitchen with all those flat packed chipboard units, which always need replacing every 10 years or so. A pantry wouldn't.
Someone I worked with had the stair drawers. Fantastic!
I don't collect 'clutter' but, for the prized possessions that I do want to keep plus all of the essentials that are necessary, I would love to have such clever and beautiful hidden Storage spaces - and it would make the daily Housework to be so much quicker and easier ;o>
Yeah love those stair drawers, somewher to finally store the plethora of shoes! The stair case is one part of the house, that does waste space...but i've seen the typical under stairs bogs, shelving installed on those that are open...but not those before. Mind you...that said i live in bungalow currently, so i ain't got any stairs! Got a under ulitised utility room though..that defo needs re modelling some other day, if ever comes a day, when other stuff doesn't need doing first!
Popped into Sainsburys on my way home from work to get some essentials, and they already have Easter eggs on the shelves!
I got some good news when I got back to the depot this morning. My holidays have been confirmed meaning I'll only be working six days in February - one day at the start of the month, two in the middle and three at the end of the month. I had to do it this way as we aren't allowed more than two consecutive weeks off in one go.
Now I've just got to make sure I get my last seven days holiday booked in March or I'll lose them :)
I got some good news when I got back to the depot this morning. My holidays have been confirmed meaning I'll only be working six days in February - one day at the start of the month, two in the middle and three at the end of the month. I had to do it this way as we aren't allowed more than two consecutive weeks off in one go.
Now I've just got to make sure I get my last seven days holiday booked in March or I'll lose them :)
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"When was the last time you wormed your friend, Miss S?"
...ERRR? - I dunno? ... Grizzlygrump, when was the last time I wormed you?!!
HA HA HA HA HA!!! ;o>