I'm ignoring them @Uff ... it turns out that folk are quite scared of stroppy cantankerous eccentric white-haired women ... 🤸♀️ 👵
Yes and in my case that's true too. And that special look Dove, does wonders too.
I just have to mention my last job working for a Children's Social Work team ... parents clasp their children to them and walk away very quickly doing their best Mary Poppins impression. 🤣
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I probably am too @JennyJ. Mine were allowed to go out in a garden - with a pond. That's a hanging offence I used to let them walk home from school by themselves too. What was I thinking...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I would have been classed as a terrible mother, none of this pleading to their better nature, they did what they were told. I said what I meant, and meant what I said or else they would get ‘The Look’. Then they knew they were in trouble. Still didn’t get rid of them until they were both 28 and they’ve never moved far away from me. Both well balance people with families of their own.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I've got a bad feeling that my youngest boy will be one of those kids constantly getting his fingers trapped in deckchairs and being cut out of things by the fire brigade. My wife doesn't like it when I compare the kids to dogs, but if you get a feral puppy from a rescue shelter, and the puppy had feral parents, you can still train the puppy like a normal dog because of thousands of years of domestication even though it's a few generations away from being a pet. Normal kids are like puppies in this respect because most of them are at least vaguely human and only part goblin. My youngest boy is like if you brought home a fox cub and tried to raise it like a dog. It looks like a dog, it's likely to be very sweet and entertaining, but it's not a domestic breed and will keep gnawing on the furniture and widdling on the floor. To be fair we have managed to train him not to gnaw on the furniture now though. Well mostly...
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I agree with kids getting their fingers trapped in those deck chairs, didn’t think you could even buy them these days, I’ve had a few accidents with those. Maybe now they have a safety clip on them.
Kids are like puppies, I had a puppy when my daughter was two, so just the right age to train them both , a simple no, does for both. As for widdling on the floor, that’s another story. Difficult to tell a puppy off for that. 😉
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That's a hanging offence
I used to let them walk home from school by themselves too. What was I thinking...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Still didn’t get rid of them until they were both 28 and they’ve never moved far away from me.
Both well balance people with families of their own.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Kids are like puppies, I had a puppy when my daughter was two, so just the right age to train them both , a simple no, does for both.
As for widdling on the floor, that’s another story. Difficult to tell a puppy off for that. 😉