Ruby, I've just filled another bag of stuff for the Hospice shop. There is something very cathartic about decluttering. I get the bug quite often these days and if some one else can pick up a bargain in a Charity Shop it is all for a good cause. You found some very interesting things Ruby. Jigsaws, wooden puzzles, unneeded casserole dishes, mugs surplus to requirements etc. etc. are my latest along with old jumpers. I do have to remember a card I once saw in that famous card shop I don't go into anymore because they stash all the American candles near the till:
I do not want ever to have an immaculate home.
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Joyce that is an idea worth looking into. I am completely fascinated by the mushroom. I've just had a look on Mr Google but unfortunately there is a mushroom call the Varnish Mushroom so I cannot get any further than that with my research.
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I also have a multitude of scarves of various weights, sizes and colours. Can't resist them. The one item of clothing that always fits without trying it on and never 'shrinks in the wash' - no matter how many chocolate bars I eat....
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Runners in your alter ego. I remember the oldest of my 3 brothers thinking he was Zorro when he was younger and he used to practice the swipe move Zorro did with his sword to carve a 'Z' on the foreheads of the baddies. He got into trouble at school for drawing loads of zeds all over his exercise books and he had to have them backed with hideous wallpaper to cover up his graffitti. Anyone else remember backing exercise books?
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Some of my exercise books were backed with a horrid garish wallpaper . The pattern was big cabbage roses in red with orange leafed plants in the back ground . Wallpaper left over from my grandparents sitting room .
Ruby, I seem to remember that some of mine were floral and some were insipid pink lined wallpaper. Where it came from I have no idea as it didn't match anything on the walls. I think you could buy roll ends in those days for pennies and that is probably what Mum got for us.
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Oh , and I once had to cover one of my exercise books in blue sugar paper . I was given one hundred lines for talking in class .This time it wasn’t me that was talking it was the girl at the back of me . I wrote on my book in one sentence .( I must not talk in class , one hundred times .) I Then got the slipper for my cheek . The girl at the back of me sniggered and got away with her crime .I did speak to her later .
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LB, could you apply varnish to the mushroom to preserve it? Probably a stupid question.
Ruby, a few years ago I gave forty scarves to a charity shop. I prefer to wear a polo neck when it's cold.
So many posts to read since morning. But it must wait till tomorrow. Now is Liverpool-Chelsea time.⚽