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Post by brightspark on Aug 31, 2018 12:16:59 GMT
Thanks Tina. When I visited the supermarket two weeks ago to buy some bracelet-making stuff for granddaughter, I came across a box of 6 cotton threads suitable for quilting @ €3.00 - a bargain, I thought. Then I wondered if they had more colours. Went back today and yes they do! So, for a fraction of the cost of these threads in the UK, I have a dozen different quilting threads. Also some wonderful buttons, some have pretty flowers, and others are wooden ones with animal shapes. Another find was a pack of a dozen regular threads (ideal for machining) all different colours. So I'm now stocked-up.
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Post by irist on Aug 31, 2018 17:20:31 GMT
The road steward from our County Council visited today. I explained the problems we are having with the neighbours, showed him our boundaries, the offending drain and the detritus in the ditch. He took photos and will report back to his boss. He's going to arrange for the road to be swept more often. He's going to send out a team to clean all the drains along the road and jet the drain nearest our house which will prove that water from the road drains is ending up in the ditch. He can't take our word for it! However, after all that the ditch will be plotted on the Council's system and in future will be cleaned regularly. Result! Also, the contractor must be intending to come back soon to get on with the drive. He dropped off his small digger last night. Fingers crossed he'll be back to use it very soon
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Post by Aly on Sept 1, 2018 5:23:33 GMT
That is good news Iris. Hopefully common sense will rule! Good to have the work on your drive completed too.
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Post by brightspark on Sept 1, 2018 7:19:14 GMT
Echo that from Aly!
Iris, I'm sure you'll be glad when it's all sorted.
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Post by sooliz on Sept 1, 2018 8:25:46 GMT
Very good news Iris, a weight off your mind.
What's made me happy is to do with my laptop...if you remember, since husband arranged for a neighbour's techie son to come and fit a new router box and several booster plugs to our system, my laptop was far worse, the signal kept dropping out every few minutes (as opposed to every few hours like it was prior to that). It was driving me to distraction and meant my laptop was virtually useless. Well, a friend suggested I plug my laptop in directly to the router with an ethernet cable. Husband did that for me and since then (a week ago), the signal hasn't dropped out at all - not once! My friend had told me to do this before, but I was reluctant because a) I didn't really believe it would make a difference, and b) the whole point of a laptop is, well, for it to be wireless! And portable, and able to be used anywhere. Well, I'm now happy that it does indeed work so well, even though I'm now restricted to using the laptop just in the lounge. No hardship really though, and worth it for the satisfaction of having a laptop that actually works!
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Post by ambersparkle on May 26, 2020 12:15:43 GMT
Long time since anyone wrote here, we must do it more often. The reason I am happy, might seem simple, but it gives me so much Pleasure, to have my beautiful new Tree/Bush, 'AUREUM' it is just the right height, and it changes Colour with the Seasons. Love it, love it love it!
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Post by irist on May 26, 2020 12:44:36 GMT
You're right, Tina. We should find something each day that has made us happy. Today it's looking out at all the colour in my borders in the garden. Also I've put the carpet cleaner machine over our lounge carpet and it's looking really good. Simple things but they do raise the spirits.
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Post by brightspark on May 26, 2020 15:05:07 GMT
The sunshine days, the act of giving - I split our ginger cake and took it to my friend/neighbour, and in a bag, hung it on her front door, then rang the bell and walked away - social distancing, of course! Watching the birds while I am typing! Seeing the end in sight for my quilt, and looking forward to giving it to my niece.
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Post by brightspark on May 28, 2020 14:25:02 GMT
Our beautiful roses. The Shropshire lad has some exquisite blooms, and Rambling Rector is beginning to put on its show. We have another 'unnamed' rose, bought as an almost giveaway, and it has done so well over the years, and this year just the same. Our peony roses are so tall - at waist height now - and if the rain and wind stay away from them, it will be quite a sight.
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Post by ambersparkle on Jun 13, 2020 9:01:06 GMT
Just reading these things make us Happy, as is obvious, am a mad keen Gardener, having my Garden to go out to saves my Sanity. A GARDEN, IS A LOVESOME PLOT FRINGED POOL, FERNED GROT, AND YET, THE FOOL CONTENDS, THAT GOD IS NOT, NOT GOD, IN GARDENS, WHEN THE AIR IS FINE, TIS VERY SURE, HE WALKS IN MINE ! That may not be the whole Poem, nor do I know who wrote it, but the Words are beautiful.
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Post by irist on Jun 13, 2020 13:28:15 GMT
Lovely words, Tina. The garden is our salvation too. Even though ours is rain washed and wind beaten it's lovely to look at through the conservatory or lounge window.
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Post by irist on Jun 13, 2020 13:34:15 GMT
Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. 149. My Garden By Thomas Edward Brown (1830–1897) A GARDEN is a lovesome thing, God wot! Rose plot, Fringed pool, Ferned grot— The veriest school Of peace; and yet the fool Contends that God is not— Not God! in gardens! when the eve is cool? Nay, but I have a sign; ’Tis very sure God walks in mine.
Think this is what you are remembering, Tina.
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Post by ambersparkle on Jun 14, 2020 13:40:03 GMT
Yes, indeed, Iris, thank you. Love my Poetry, nearly all Members of my Family are Poetic, and have written some good Verse.
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Post by ambersparkle on Jun 15, 2020 10:34:12 GMT
My Freezer is sorted for the forseeable Future, nice to know what I have to work with, can't squeeze another Choc Ice in anywhere, lol!
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Post by brightspark on Jun 19, 2020 13:23:55 GMT
Tina, I'd love to be able to say the same, but we're working on it - there's only so much we can eat at one time.
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