bont forget to check the lint trap…. I could fund a nice lunch out (if anything was open) with all the change recuperated… definitely better than the paper hankies!
Apparently the fluff in a tumble dryer's lint trap is excellent for starting fires.  Haven't had one since we gave ours away to a women's refuge so I could have space for a wine rack in the kitchen. Never liked the feel of tumbled clothes and if you have a decent spin cycle and an airer who needs one?
OH used to leave coins in his pockets till they introduced cards for the coffee machines at work. Now it's golf tees and odd screws. Â
Does anyone else get that? My plates, bowls, scissors, buckets, washing up bowls wind up muddy under a bush. If I can't find a thing, I know it will be in the garden somewhere.
More like my garden ends up in the kitchen: gloves, secateurs, something needed in the front but I got side tracked, mud on the floor.
Sort of on the same subject, I hate wearing shoes at any time. When I come out of the garden,I step out of them but sometimes it can take a few seconds before I know I'm wearing them and then I slip them off without being aware. It's really difficult to find them They could be anywhere.
Don’t spend the evening listening contentedly to the long-awaited rain and imagining it filling the water butt in the garden, and then suddenly remember at 11pm that you had cleaned out and dismantled the water butt the day before and it is sitting upside down in the garage.
Don’t run out in your PJs and slippers frantically trying to set up and reconnect the water butt in the rain, dark and howling wind, only to find your OH — unaware you are outside — is about to lock the french doors on you for the night.
Oh Athelas sounds like a good comedy sketch. I can so relate to the garden tools indoors and kitchen out … my terrace opens directly onto my lounge so to try to stop it creeping inside I have placed a side table just outside the patio doors. It does end up being a weird mix of stuff….secateurs, bowls, coffee grounds and gardening gloves so far this morning.
As a side to emptying out pockets..when we first got married I didn't check my husband's trousers.his mobile phone was in them!when I said he shouldve checked them first he said that's what wives do! His sister said did you not read the manual that comes with a husband?!! We all laughed and ever since then I ask where this manual is..never found it and he's never lived that comment down Â
@the tidy gardener in 52 years of marriage I think I could count on 2 hands the number of times my husband has used the washing machine! The only time I remember is when he put his work clothes in and yes, forgot to check the pockets! The mobile phone spent a week in rice hoping to dry it out which didn't work.
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OH used to leave coins in his pockets till they introduced cards for the coffee machines at work. Now it's golf tees and odd screws. Â
Sort of on the same subject, I hate wearing shoes at any time. When I come out of the garden,I step out of them but sometimes it can take a few seconds before I know I'm wearing them and then I slip them off without being aware.
It's really difficult to find them They could be anywhere.
 Garden rooms, outside space , bring the outside into your home.
Perhaps they didn't mean it literally🤔
Don’t run out in your PJs and slippers frantically trying to set up and reconnect the water butt in the rain, dark and howling wind, only to find your OH — unaware you are outside — is about to lock the french doors on you for the night.
The only time I remember is when he put his work clothes in and yes, forgot to check the pockets!
The mobile phone spent a week in rice hoping to dry it out which didn't work.