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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    That's like comparing oranges and apples.   

    Try Very Easy Vogue to get you going - pattern pieces ready drawn, seam allowances included, measurements and altering instructions included plus how to sew and in which order.

    Much less boggling and baffling than gardening and just as enjoyable but in a different way.
    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
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    M&S  are one of the few shops to do trousers in short leg sizes - though even they seem to be  longer than they used to be, either that or I'm shrinking rapidly!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Hermes have got pick of the crop of delivery drivers around here again. Now we've got some women covering the area who can't seem to grasp the concept of masks and distancing. She delivered here yesterday and leant right into the house to hand a parcel to me because I had to stand so far back from the door. Everyone else manages to leave it on the step and move back out of range even if they have a mask on. It's almost the anniversary of the first lockdown and people are still struggling with how to behave?
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    pansyface said:
    I can tell that I’m shrinking because when my OH uses the ironing board to do his shirts and leaves it for me to do my things, it is now level with my armpits when it once reached my waist. 😊

    If you did the shirts, as you should, you wouldn't have a problem with the ironing board.  "Sounds of poster running off and hiding" :D
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    T'other half says I have small feet so that I can stand closer to the sink.(only when he is out of thumping distance) If he wants his shirts ironing, he can do them himself.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    .I stopped ironing for anyone else many years ago when I found their neatly ironed and folded clothes chucked in the laundry basket because they couldn't be arsed to put them in their drawers. Best thing that ever happened to me😃. 
    Lockdown has taught me that if something hangs in the wardrobe long enough, the creases fall out anyway. Also, nothing below the shoulders shows in zoom. Not in this house anyway.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited March 2021
    OH does all our ironing.  It's a rule established early on because he already ironed his own shirts for work before we got together so I knew he could.  I just taught him to do it better and also how to do my blouses etc for work.  He can spend hours watching sport on TV whilst I'm cooking or sewing or mending or DIYing so the deal was he had to iron at the same time.   Now he's retired he even irons sheets and duvet covers.

    I have the ironing table a bit lower when I'm ironing during a sewing or patchwork project.  He's also in charge of the dishwasher.  I do the shopping and cooking.  We share housework but he's the only one who drives the bloody Dyson cos I hate it and I'm the only one that drives the steam cleaner.   Fair dos.
    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
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Same here Obe,  I can’t handle the ‘bloody Dyson’ either,  gives me a back ache. 
    No ironing done here by anyone. 
    We don’t have a dishwasher but my daughter does,  it’s her sons job to see to it,  now the older one is away at school the job falls to the younger one. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Our house gets vacuumed an awful lot more since we ditched the Dyson. 
    I don't care if the new ones are light enough to float, I would never buy anything from him.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Bleedin' builders. They're building a house next door and the scaffolders are setting up today. Flying poles out over my fence, sitting on my front wall and squashing the plants, gobbing all over the place. I would complain but I'm pretty sure they work for one of the cover companies for the local drug gang :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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