I did find some bottles of crab apple wine in the back of the garage though. I can't remember making it but it's crystal clear and very drinkable. I'll have to dig out my old notebooks and see what vintage this is. I only made wine for a couple of years because it usually ended up being various shades of paint-stripper but this is very refined.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I did find some bottles of crab apple wine in the back of the garage though. I can't remember making it but it's crystal clear and very drinkable. I'll have to dig out my old notebooks and see what vintage this is. I only made wine for a couple of years because it usually ended up being various shades of paint-stripper but this is very refined.
I cleared out numerous boxes of papers today, and felt very virtuous. But all the papers had a reason for being kept - programmes of theatre productions we’d seen, a Dutch national newspaper with a photo of us on the front page, zillions of Christmas and birthday cards, memorial service sheets for deceased friends and relatives, school reports … on and on the list went. What to keep and what to jettison was such a hard decision though it is possibly made easier in a very perverse way because my wife’s failing health means bilateral decisions might soon be unilateral ones. Easier, but heartbreaking at the same time.
OH is always accusing me of hoarding, but he is five times worse than me. His speciality is buying a new electric tool, ( gets tempted in Lidl) and then finding he already has one. Even worse, the original was bought on impulse in case he needed one, and its still in its box, unused. The garage and utility room are dominated by cupboards containing stuff only he uses, he has commandeered one spare bedroom as a work room, and yet the spare room I had hoped to use as my own workroom is so cluttered with overflow from his room that I have to take my sewing machine to the dining table to use. Very tiresome. My curmudgeon today has been taking a load of red items out of the washing machine, and finding one of my new white socks in there. Wouldn’t be so bad if it had been a pair, at least they’d match. Only a faint tinge of pink, but enough to be obvious. I’ll have to put the other one in with the next red wash.
My filing cabinet is wooden with a leather inlaid top. The woodwork around the base has been "personalised" thanks to my parrot. An original "work of art" ? Beats T Emin's bed any day
The problem might be is that the filing cabinets are in a room upstairs.......and they are heavy metal ones.
My curmudgeon today is the appalling driving we saw on the long journey home today, including the young learner driver, in the pouring rain, in the middle of the road on the diagonal white hatching bit who kept indicating we should undertake him on the left! Think he had a death wish! Then there was a white hire van desperately overtaking everything in front of him, on blind bends, on double white lines, on the brow of hills! Madness.
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My OH is a hoarder and we have filing cabinets full of his stuff. Goodness knows what I'll do with them when the time comes.
My curmudgeon today has been taking a load of red items out of the washing machine, and finding one of my new white socks in there. Wouldn’t be so bad if it had been a pair, at least they’d match. Only a faint tinge of pink, but enough to be obvious. I’ll have to put the other one in with the next red wash.
If they are wooden ones, you might be able to burn them 😁.
My curmudgeon today is the appalling driving we saw on the long journey home today, including the young learner driver, in the pouring rain, in the middle of the road on the diagonal white hatching bit who kept indicating we should undertake him on the left!
Think he had a death wish! Then there was a white hire van desperately overtaking everything in front of him, on blind bends, on double white lines, on the brow of hills!
Madness.