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Remember to either put them on wheels or place them where they´ll never need to be moved! If you can´t lift them when empty, they´ll be absolutely impossible to move when full of wet earth. My dad uses his forklift for spring and autumn transport...
 
LaMaria said:
Remember to either put them on wheels or place them where they´ll never need to be moved! If you can´t lift them when empty, they´ll be absolutely impossible to move when full of wet earth. My dad uses his forklift for spring and autumn transport...
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Where does your dad live? I like the sound of him
 
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You must never leave this neighbourhood Polly. Your neighbours are gold!
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After living on a main road where the traffic, drunks and drug addicts made life miserable and sleep a luxury: we couldn't use our back garden because of antisocial behaviour and most mornings we had to clear up our front garden after the drunks. Living in this quiet cul de sac, with just 6 houses and 3 bungalows is just heaven for us. We still count our blessings after 3 years.
 
If mother nature gave me a brain, she robbed a rabbit. After a major spring clean some years ago, I threw out my 'old, out of fashion' crochet patterns for ladies and gents cardigans and jumpers that I had had since the 1960's. My thinking was, that I could always buy newer and more fashionable. ones. Wrong! All I can find now are patterns for shrugs, Afghans and hats. None of the wool shops stock anything bigger than a scarf. In desperation I tried good old Amazon (I'm a big fan) and instead of searching for patterns I put books in the search engine and what do you know, I found a lovely one dirt cheap full of ladies and gents patterns for £5
While I was at it, I looked on my favourite traders page for ear rings. I am an ear ring nut. These come in from China and look really expensive. I got a lovely pair for £2.00
 
Getting expensive-looking items cheaply is the best! Except when you have allergies, usually. I despaired of crochet magazines a long time ago and now only buy older books (or get them given to me by clients who can't see enough anymore). I guess everything has to be done in an hour tops to be marketable.
 
Getting expensive-looking items cheaply is the best! Except when you have allergies, usually. I despaired of crochet magazines a long time ago and now only buy older books (or get them given to me by clients who can't see enough anymore). I guess everything has to be done in an hour tops to be marketable.
 
What a day I had yesterday. It almost drove me to drink. An old neighbour of mine, we lived close to each other from 1975 up to 3 years ago needed a lift. He is almost 100 and, to put it kindly is quite a character. He had to go to the hearing clinic, he is deaf in one ear, but can still hear with the other, and if he doesn't like the technician he doesn't press the buzzer. The poor woman either thinks there is a marked deterioration in his hearing or that her machine is playing up.
His daughter is on holiday and his son working. His grandson said 'never, will I take him again, get Polly' So off we went. I gave him the gypsy's warning before we went in and he was quite well behaved. Only put his walking aid on my toe once.
When the test was over a very well made up and frightfully posh technician came to see me. 'Your father is very deaf isn't he' she said 'Yes' I replied 'that's why he's here' and he's no relation to me'. I could hardly breath because she was wearing lashings of a very heavy perfume. that made my eyes water. As she turned away, Cyril shouted in my ear. 'That woman smells like a vegetarians fart'
I didn't waste any time, I asked them to send the results to the G.P and I took him to the Copper Kettle for a cup of tea and a cream cake. Then with relief took him home. He was a paratrooper during the war and jumped at Arnhem and was one of the few to make it back alive
 
I see a lot of former gunners who are all deaf in one ear (and often missing bits). And lovely old ladies who pretend people can´t hear them. Like, I´m pretty convinced they know that the people they´re shouting about aren´t deaf, nor are they deaf themselves, and yet they say the most outrageous things. Up to and including the fact they´d like to bed the doctor who just walked past and hasn´t even turned the corner yet.
 
All day yesterday and all this morning we were working in the garden. Generally tidying up, cleaning the bird feeders and bird baths refilling planters and seeing which solar lights still worked after the winter. They say a picture is worth a thousand words so this is how I feel this afternoonView attachment 23660
 
Woke up feeling very stiff and sore, so just pottering around the house today. Not even going on my exercise bike.
 
I've changed how many times I use my exercise bike every day.I use it 3 times now instead of twice a day.It's better for me that adding extra time.
 
Aqua aerobics was cancelled this week and I really miss it. It's an effortless way of exercising and a lot of fun. I still do my step aerobics on our stairs twice a day and also go up and down them as fast as I can whenever I use the stairs. With my knees, I'll never run up them again though! The young nurse who used to run like the wind when the arrest/hemorrhage alarm was raised is just a memory of my young self now:(
I'm not a fan or raw carrots or celery, both give me indigestion,so I've been trying out different things I can keep in the fridge for when I'm at risk of nibbling. I've found that raw cauliflower and broccoli peeled and cut into sticks suits me down to the ground.
 
Same here with the raw veg, but pretty much none of it agrees with me. Tomatoes and lettuce are fine, and cucumber if it´s not allergy season, but otherwise... I´m sticking to cooked stuff. About not being able to run up stairs anymore: do you remember how immobile you were just a year ago? As far as I can tell your knees have done very well so far!
 
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Now, I'm not the most computer savvy on the planet and I don't want to be rude, but she's just joined and I know nothing about her, so am a bit wary of replying. If you read this Melissa, please tell me a bit more aboutyourself
 
She´s not allowed to post links as a new member and it sounds awfully spammy anyway. Just report the message, the administrators will make sense of what it is.
 
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