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We are basically all the same the world over aren't we girls? BBQ's are no different where ever you hold them. All the men gather around the grill, all the women around the drinks table:smilielol5:

We have been in this house a few years now. The lady we bought it from had lived here for nearly 40 years before us. She has had 5 husbands and a few live in boyfriends. This morning a shifty looking character turned up on the doorstep looking for her. As far as we could make out, he was one of the 'live ins' between husbands 3 &4. The first we knew he was on the doorstep was when he couldn't get his key in the front door, and was rattling it. Thank goodness we not only changed the locks but also the doors when we moved in. It shook me a bit, because we live in a little cul de sac in an out of the way area. If we hear a car, everyone stops what they are doing to see where it is going. What if he had turned up in the middle of the night? Obviously we would only have spoken to him from an upstairs window, but if he turned nasty it would take a while for the police to get here. One of our neighbours is special forces so if he is here, we can call him, but as so often happens, he could be overseas. No use worrying though is there until it actually happens again. We are quite safe in our house. Even the garden has thick holly bushes and shrubs at the bottom where someone could possibly try to climb over. But they wouldn't get far. Also we have security lights back and front. I have whinged about them in the past, because a cat, never mind a fox, passing through turns everything on so that we look like a maximum security prison for a few minutes.
PS I love playing with those little smiley thingies. We don't have them on the crafting forum
 
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I got "mistakes" like that every time I changed my phone number (going abroad, changing companies): weird guys who wouldn´t believe I didn´t know the guy who owed them money or women who went ballistic because another woman answered their boyfriend´s phone... I know they don´t know where I am so I needn´t worry but it made me nervous anyway! I´m pretty sure you have nothing to fear from a weirdo who´s looking for his ex either, but I can imagine it´s creepy!

PS: I like the smilies too, cheers! :beerchug:
 
I'm sure that would have shaken you up a bit Polly, but you're probably safer where you are than in the middle of a city. Place a "bommy knocker" :smash: ( a small baseball bat, long torch or similar) near your front door, that you could use if necessary & you will feel much safer.
I love smilies too :svengo: is one of my favourites! :D Cate
 
We moved here from the outskirts of the city. There was the usual drug problem there and we kept a baseball bat by the front and back doors. The family next door, kept a carving knife by them, which I thought was going a bit too far.
 
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I'm American, I just keep a loaded .380 special with home defense rounds in the bedroom. I'm also a single female. Lol! When I first bought my house I had "visitors" all the time for the lady who lived there prior to me. She was a very "friendly" lady. Hahaha.
 
I don't know if this is a psychological thing but both of us have started decluttering the house. We have started at the top and working down, a room at a time. Yesterday we took: a bookcase and 2 shelving units to a charity (thrift) warehouse and a large bag of books to a charity shop.
There is only the 2 of us now, without wishing to put a pall over everything, I should explain we are not being selfish and giving away things we could have handed over to our children and grandchildren. Both our children have passed away. One from a medical condition and one from an accident. So, its a case of 'Do we want all this stuff now we are cracking along through our 60's?' If we cannot think of any reason for keeping, for example, a very large slow cooking, it goes.
 
I´m so sorry to hear you guys lost both your children :grouphug:

I think decluttering is a great thing, it always makes me feel lighter and free-er, which in turn makes me want my body to be free of clutter as well!
 
Hi Polly...I am also sorry to read that both of your children have passed away. View attachment 23021


I have also been spending quite a bit of time decluttering, I don't find it very fun, but afterwards I do feel a good sense of accomplishment! I am more focused about other things when there is not clutter around me!
 
Sorry for your loss also.

I really need to catch this de-cluttering bug. I had it this summer a bit before I started working again and purged a whole spare room of stuff but alas, I didn't make it to the rest of the house.
 
Last evening, we went for a walk along the river. It was a soft, balmy evening and after the rain, everything looked green and fresh. We went up one side, crossed over an old stone bridge built in Victorian times and came back on the other side. crossing back, over a dreadful concrete monstrosity of a bridge, built in the 60's and showing signs of distress.
I'm eating far more fruit than I used to. Not gorging it, but choosing it where before I would have picked a biscuit (cookie) and because of this I am showing a healthy interest in our neighbours fruit trees. The plums look promising, but the cherries and grapes haven't made their minds up yet what to do.
 
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This is the valley where we live. The city is a small one, situated just behind that hill. The river is one of the best salmon rivers in England ( in my humble opinion, Scottish salmon tastes better though) It cost a bucket load of money to fish it, but the poacher
seem to get the best ones apparently
 
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Polly, as a mother of 2, & a grandmother of 3 my heart goes out to you! To have your life together as well as you do is so admirable.
That is such a beautiful photo! I think I really must travel to the UK one day. It looks stunning.
Good on you de-cluttering. It's very good for us xo Cate


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I have moved my exercise bike from the spare bedroom into our bedroom because there is a TV there. I got so engrossed in Star trek last evening, that I cycled for far too long and this morning I can hardly move:ack2: Typical rookie mistake isn't it?
 
What a day. I went with my friend to look for some shoes to match an outfit she is wearing to a wedding next month. We went to every shoe shop in the city, and some twice and what do you know, she went back to the first shop and got a pair she had tried on there. By this time my size 5 foot felt as if it was crammed into a size 2 shoe. We did stop for lunch, which was a bit of a mine field for me, because I hadn't put lunch into the loop. I didn't think we would have been out that long. The bad angel on my shoulder was saying 'have fish and chips' but the good angel won and I picked steamed fish and a side salad, with a fruit basket for afters. I learned a valuable lesson... be prepared!
 
Well! I certainly got a bit of extra exercise this morning, but not exactly as planned. Back in May, we bought some raffle tickets in aid of the British Heart Foundation and, as most people do, promptly forgot all about them. We got a phone call on Monday to say that we had won a patio table chairs and umbrella set in charcoal grey and it was delivered yesterday. We had to put it together ourselves,apart from the chairs, so left it until this morning, which dawned bright and sunny.
We had just finished laying out all the plans and screws etc onto a ground sheet on the patio and the heavens opened, not just that, the wind came up out of nowhere and developed into a gale. The rain was hitting the ground, bouncing up and hitting it again. I grabbed at the instructions but I was too late, they took off across the lawn and landed on the bird table. Meanwhile my husband had dragged as much as he could under the covered in drying area behind the garage and was picking up and accounting for any stray screws which might have rolled off. I managed to get the instructions, which were covered in fat, mealworms (dead) and sunflower seeds. I caught sight of myself in the kitchen french windows, and my hair looked like a Mauri's hut. I dried the instructions as best I could with a hair dryer after changing my clothes and the rest of the morning was spent crouching down, then getting up, then crouching again handing the bits to my husband as we put it together. More by luck I should say, because the instructions were more or less faded out.
 
Oh man, that was a funny read. Sorry but it was probably not too funny to you at the time. Hopefully the patio set stands up good, no missing screws? Your shoe shopping sounds a lot like me when I'm shopping. I do the same thing. 5 shops later and I go back to the first and buy the first shoe I tried. Or dresses for that matter, even worse if I have to shop for a dress.
 
Oh Polly. I agree- thanks for the laugh! What a day!!![emoji15][emoji23][emoji3]


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