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  • Lyn said:
    @rowlandscastle444.  Can’t you buy her a little step stool? 🙃🙂😉
    We have one, but I'd have to carry it out, so it's easier for me just to muck in and help - for the higher parts, and the hubcaps at least @Lyn .
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I never do the wheels. Bone idle, that's me.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    I wash my car about 3 times a year, lol, part laziness and part 'what's the point?' The drive is at the side of the garden, I feed all the birds, I don't think I need to say much more. 😄

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Same here with car but my fingers were sticking to the boot door so it became necessary.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Slow-worm said:
    I wash my car about 3 times a year, lol, part laziness and part 'what's the point?' The drive is at the side of the garden, I feed all the birds, I don't think I need to say much more. 😄

    My wife likes to have her car looking at least the colour it ought to be. It gets cleaned every month or so. She doesn't get it too grubby, but parking under certain trees gets it messy. 

    When she takes other people, she wants it looking smart.  
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    My OH cleans his car once a week, it looks good all the time. Mine has microcosms growing in the window seals. If I wash it more, I risk destroying some potentially rare lichens.. 🤣
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I had what I assume was bracken growing through the window seal in my old car - and a pet spider that lived in the wing mirror 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I just bought a long sleeved rash vest ready for going swimming with the kids on the beach this summer. They have a bit of a tight fit though and seem to be designed for young fit people. If you've been lifting more beers than weights it makes you look like a poorly stuffed sausage :|  Still last time I went to the beach it was less Baywatch and more weightwatchers so I'm not too worried.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Possum parked our Harry car under a sticky tree all day Tuesday.  Even the door handles were horrid.   OH took him to the carwash yesterday and now he's lovely.   The only problem was the vaccuum machine which ate his coins but didn't suck up!

    Good luck with that vest @wild edges.   We just used to cream up when Possum was young enough to enjoy beach hols in Tuscany.   These days she only goes if she's learning to surf and is mostly covered up, Atlantic water being a lot colder than the Med.
    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
    BEWARE EXPLODING CUCUMBERS!
    yesterday, I discovered a forgotten cucumber in the back of the salad drawer. I gingerly removed it and fumbled. It slithered to the floor and exploded on impact. I picked it up and dropped it again and then I did it again. Cucumber up the walls , on the kitchen units and appliances. I spent ages cleaning it. Today I spotted some on the wall in the hallway!
    I wouldn't mind if I deserved it, but I'm usually really pernickerty about keeping the fridge clean.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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