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Post by Humph on Mar 25, 2017 12:51:12 GMT
Cutting grass. It's only there because the dog needs somewhere to "go".
Now "she" wants to go and buy plants. Here we go again...
Sheesh.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2017 14:36:19 GMT
Getting older. I've known for a little while after flying a desk for 25 years and using a computer all day, every day at work my eyesight is not what it was.
I should've trained to become an optician, those folks know how to charge. I keep telling myself it'll be worth it for proper eyesight again.
I'm with you on the garden Humph. "She" took a notion to wanting raised beds to experiment and grow our own veg. Problem is our garden is very heavy clay. I've had to put drainage in, and I forget how many tonnes of sand, compost, fertilizer, peat, soil. I got a rotavator out of it as there was no way I was digging that out by hand. Everytime I wander into the back garden now I feel like I've entered a time warp back to The Good Life set. Just waiting for chickens to put in an appearance.
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Post by Humph on Mar 25, 2017 14:43:57 GMT
It is one of those things isn't it, when it is decreed that "we" should do or "get" ( never "buy" always "get" ) something, that actually means that "you" end up doing it, paying for it, and indeed henceforth maintaining it...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2017 15:34:12 GMT
...needless and pointless stress.
Something needs doing or it doesn't. Its easy to do or it isn't. It'll happen or it won't. Worrying about it helps nothing.
I swear that if my wife won the lottery she'd be panicking about how she was going to carry the cheque home.
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Post by Hofmeister on Mar 25, 2017 17:10:29 GMT
Everytime I wander into the back garden now I feel like I've entered a time warp back to The Good Life set. Just waiting for chickens to put in an appearance. Well if a 1970's Felicity Kendal came with it, I for one, wouldn't be moaning. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2017 23:10:48 GMT
I dislike.....
The list is so long.......but even with exercise, my body is telling me it is not as fit as it once was and reading glasses are on the horizon.
But I do like honest people who do what they say they are going to do, for the price they told you, and do it well. Loyalty is also a much missed trait of which I strongly approve.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2017 23:56:39 GMT
>>Well if a 1970's Felicity Kendal came with it, I for one, wouldn't be moaning.
'Spect she would be though.
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Post by WDB on Mar 27, 2017 9:19:41 GMT
...reading glasses are on the horizon. Easier to spot there than on the table in front of you. 🤓 |
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Post by Ted on Mar 28, 2017 13:15:15 GMT
You've got to love 'em. SWM, aka The Blessed Ann, put a red hot pan down on the worktop in panic a year ago. We owned a 9" round table mat and the ring was on the corner of the breakfast bar so no prob......mat on ring...sorted.....no cost.
A couple of weeks ago she did it again...hadn't noticed the veg had burnt dry. This time, in the middle of the main worktop , left a ring which bubbled the laminate. No choice now, New worktops....I didn't shout at her or even make a comment or it would have become my fault ! Worktop non-available now, 8 yrs on. No choice but to replace the opposite side of the room as well...the one with the sink and gas hob. ' Might as well have a new sink ' she says....I still didn't shout...lordy! what self-control I have ! The sink is black composite...I did meekly ask her to stop emptying the bowl into it when she'd been bleaching something.
So there we are....Thick end of £800 with the fitter and the gas man to take the hob out and replace it. Ain't life good ?
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Post by Rob on Mar 28, 2017 15:47:39 GMT
Well done for biting your lip. Maybe she did it on purpose this time to get new worktops.... be careful she doesn't suggest new units too :-)
Now if you'd done this you'd have been in trouble.
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Post by WDB on Mar 28, 2017 18:17:48 GMT
Hate to think what she might do if she ever feels like a new husband.
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Post by Ted on Mar 28, 2017 21:36:06 GMT
Or even NO husband ! I wouldn't mind but she is a former home economics and cookery teacher. Nothing economical there !
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