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Isn't it funny how you just begin to relax slightly about your kids and then the parents start playing up instead?
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...Finishing off the ancient Greek outfit for my daughter - even though I say so myself, it did look really good. I made a chiton out of a cream sheet, and edged it with a patterned border, it had wooden buttons fastening it around the shoulders and a gold braid for a belt. Today I completed it with a red himaton, which I decorated all along the edge with a Greek key design. And now I've been gardening so I am now shredded!!
Edit - this thread seems to be consisting of me talking to myself about what I am doing. Should I shut up and go and get a life??
Edit - this thread seems to be consisting of me talking to myself about what I am doing. Should I shut up and go and get a life??
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but you must have a life or you won't have anything to post on here....
....enjoying the sun. Spent this morning at the park. I was in t-shirt, Thomas refused to take his coat off - he must have been roasting, but he does love that coat. No idea what's going to happen when it's really too small (as opposed to just too short like it is now).
....enjoying the sun. Spent this morning at the park. I was in t-shirt, Thomas refused to take his coat off - he must have been roasting, but he does love that coat. No idea what's going to happen when it's really too small (as opposed to just too short like it is now).
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NOOOOO!! Love hearing about what you and your family are getting up to - you do have a life!!Bunnylump wrote: Should I shut up and go and get a life??
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If you did shut up, then what would those of us who have no life do for interest/entertainment?Bunnylump wrote:Should I shut up and go and get a life??
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I agree with all the above. Do keep posting bunny!
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We've been out in the garden, too - and feeling "shredded" afterwards is a good description .
Having prepared the ground and planted out the plants we bought last Saturday for my birthday, we then decided to dig a trench ready for runner beans later in the year and to fill it with good garden compost out of our nice compost bin. It's a nicely designed large square plastic bin, with spaces at the bottom of each side to excavate the compost out of. This is always quite a work of art (and a strenuous effort) ....... However, this time we were so energetic that one of the sides suddenly fell out and deposited half of the compost with it . So instead of a few shovel loads of well-rotted compost from the bottom, we were faced with having to sort through the whole lot, extract the usable compost for the trench and then reconstruct the bin and put the half-composted stuff back into it to carry on decomposing for the rest of the year.
Not quite the way we had planned to spend the afternoon! But at least the compost has been well turned over and will be much improved by the time we want to dig it in next winter
Having prepared the ground and planted out the plants we bought last Saturday for my birthday, we then decided to dig a trench ready for runner beans later in the year and to fill it with good garden compost out of our nice compost bin. It's a nicely designed large square plastic bin, with spaces at the bottom of each side to excavate the compost out of. This is always quite a work of art (and a strenuous effort) ....... However, this time we were so energetic that one of the sides suddenly fell out and deposited half of the compost with it . So instead of a few shovel loads of well-rotted compost from the bottom, we were faced with having to sort through the whole lot, extract the usable compost for the trench and then reconstruct the bin and put the half-composted stuff back into it to carry on decomposing for the rest of the year.
Not quite the way we had planned to spend the afternoon! But at least the compost has been well turned over and will be much improved by the time we want to dig it in next winter
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I must admit that composting is a bit of a problem for me - D built two massive stone compost bins at the end of the garden, which have three sides - so the front is open. the trouble is that, of course, some of the compost spills out of the front, and also because the bins are behind the "hill"*, he ends up running the grass clippings up the hill and straight into the bins with the wheelbarrow. And because we have a big garden there are lots of them. The problem is that this meant that the compost bins fill really fast, and then get too heavy / big for me to be able to dig out with my bad back. So I have foiled his compost bin filling exploits by building up a massive barrier of things i cut down (trees etc.) this allegedly to be for another massive bonfire. Trouble is that there are now all kinds of creatures living in the wood, and we don't like to set light to it. So now the end of the garden is like an inpenetrable jungle.
*I had this great idea for the hill (which is actually the mud we dug out from making the patio and the front garden). I said we should make a big pit in it, so we could have bonfires in the pit. Then it would look like a volcano.
Anyway, off to the garage from hell to find some more bomb making equipment and poisons, no doubt. Wish me luck.
*I had this great idea for the hill (which is actually the mud we dug out from making the patio and the front garden). I said we should make a big pit in it, so we could have bonfires in the pit. Then it would look like a volcano.
Anyway, off to the garage from hell to find some more bomb making equipment and poisons, no doubt. Wish me luck.
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Anyway, off to the garage from hell to find some more bomb making equipment and poisons, no doubt. Wish me luck. [/quote]
Is our Bunny a secret terrorist
Tricia
Anyway, off to the garage from hell to find some more bomb making equipment and poisons, no doubt. Wish me luck. [/quote]
Is our Bunny a secret terrorist
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I think you must have guessed her guilty secret.tricia wrote: Is our Bunny a secret terrorist Tricia
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Well, it's quite useful for answering questions on University Challenge. I'd never heard of kieselguhr before we found it in the garage. It's a stabilising component for dynamite. Quite why my Dad had it in his garage is anyone's guess. We found another lathe today and yet more mercury.
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he didn't make wine/beer?
it can be used as a filter
it can be used as a filter
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Today I have been in the garden tidying up. The weather has been glorious. Yesterday we wsentout with friends who have a 3 year old son called Ewan. He put me to shame because he could work my Android phone much better than I can. We bought him some colouring books so he did not get bored during lunch. As he picked up his pencil - his mother who is a teacher asked him to write his name! I was astounded when he wrote in capitals the name EWAN! I know you who have had children will think this commonplace ....but I don't have kids so I was amazed.
He also replied to the question "What would you like for pudding" he replied "Ice Cream Please
My godson NEVER says this and he is 22
Tricia
He also replied to the question "What would you like for pudding" he replied "Ice Cream Please
My godson NEVER says this and he is 22
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Sounds like that young man has a fan!
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I simply don't respond to kids unless they say "please". Although one particular kid made me laugh - he asked for something and didn't say please. So I asked "what's the magic word?"
He looked a bit perplexed before answering "Er...abracadabra??"
He looked a bit perplexed before answering "Er...abracadabra??"
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My daughter works in the bar at her old college one evening a week. I asked her a few months ago, shortly after the start of the new academic year, what the latest intake were like. She said that she wasn't impressed as they weren't very good at saying please, so she was refusing to serve them until they mended their manners.
Then she also had a go at two small boys who threw some blackberries at the car she was in- they pulled up and daughter got out and confronted them and made them go and apologise to her friend who was driving at the time. She worries that she is turning into a grumpy old woman at the ripe old age of 24!
But the students are better now I gather!
Then she also had a go at two small boys who threw some blackberries at the car she was in- they pulled up and daughter got out and confronted them and made them go and apologise to her friend who was driving at the time. She worries that she is turning into a grumpy old woman at the ripe old age of 24!
But the students are better now I gather!
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Maybe your godson doesn't like ice cream..... so I can have histricia wrote: My godson NEVER says this and he is 22
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...Don't you mean ..."so can I have his, PLEASE?"
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Today I have saved Maisie ladybird from being devoured by Olly
sorry Maisie we had a ladybird fly into the room and Olly tried to eat it . I rescued it and put it outside
......sorry Bunny I did not have time to identify it- I was dealing with a frustrated ginger tom
Tricia
sorry Maisie we had a ladybird fly into the room and Olly tried to eat it . I rescued it and put it outside
......sorry Bunny I did not have time to identify it- I was dealing with a frustrated ginger tom
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Phew! That was a close call!
We've load of ladybirds in our garden over the past few days, they're all clustered together in a couple of box bushes we have.
We've load of ladybirds in our garden over the past few days, they're all clustered together in a couple of box bushes we have.
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