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🍋 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER XII 🍋

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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Not just curmudgeonly but absolutely ****ing fuming!  I've mentioned before about a constant stream of visitors to our newish neighbours.  Now they have surpassed that.  Both daughters arrived yesterday and are still there today.  I would dearly love to report them but it would be pretty obvious who was responsible and we have to live with them long term!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Our neighbours are the same. This area has a vanishingly low rate. I hope the daughters are coming from somewhere similarly fortunate😒
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    B3 said:
    I was reading about the exceptionally low tides in Venice. Imagine what they could find if they grubbed about in the mud!   
    I've been reading up about the stuff they regularly find along the Thames in London. It's amazing the history that is just lying on the beaches waiting to be picked up. Even Roman and Iron age stuff are fairly common finds. I imagine Venice's canals are full of stinking mud though without the river to wash things clean.
    I found this lot in a local river after the recent heavy rains. Mostly Victorian but the clay pipe and the stripy pottery on the right are early-mid 1700s.


    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    I bought some jeggins from M& S, an amazing fit, so I bought 3 more pairs in different colours, AND they were only £15, they are very well made.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Our border collie, dug up a honeysuckle, that's been planted several years, not newly planted, re-planted it, guess what, oh, and as Hubby spent the day on the sofa feeling rotten after his jab, he had a brand new duvet with brand new cover from the spare room, (I bought for the grandkids) and the dog got on it, when he went off to the loo!!!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I live in my jeggings but the tops are soooo boring😴
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited February 2021
    Time to sew then @B3?   Better fit and you choose the style and fabric to suit your shape and activities.   Or maybe try things like Wallis now the nasty Mr Green no longer owns them.

    I don't do jeggings or leggings.   Bought jeans - which always need elastic added in the back waist - or home-made trousers for me.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I can alter things but no good at doing from scratch. All that measuring and accuracy😳
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    A good pattern does that for you and these days they give you more than one size in a pattern pack and show the finished widths at bust, waist hips etc so you can see what you're doing.

    Much easier for me than altering stuff.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    If  you saw my garden, you'd understand😊 . I'm more comfortable with adapting what I've got than a scary blank canvas.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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