Decided to trim my fringe this morning, so the family won’t think I look like a sheep when they see me at the weekend. Easy to do, I shut one eye while snipping the half of the fringe above it. So this morning, I closed the wrong eye. Nearly ten minutes with an eye bath washing the bits out, although I do look a bit tidier now.
The Xmas tree lights are mains powered. I taken another string down from the side window and just draped them around the tree. That will do for this year.
Another curmudgeon, I got everything ready to make the mincepies before lunch and discovered at the last minute that I don't have enough flour left to make any. Pastry making has been postponed until tomorrow.
One Christmas my mother and brother were over, and I'd put mince pies in the microwave to warm up. He wandered in from the kitchen and said "Should there be smoke coming from the microwave?". Pillock hadn't even switched it off.
OH has moved the paint tins and associated stuff out of the guest bathroom, - has put them in my ‘work room’. He has also moved the table he was using in there as well. Fair enough, we’ll have to get that out for extra diners on Boxing Day. However, I can barely get through the door now, and I need wrapping paper from the cupboard. Sigh.....
@Ergates - to cut your fringe safely, comb it all straight then gather it up over the bridge of your nose and twist it tightly. You can then, in a lightly cross-eyed manner, see to cut as much of the ends as you wish without getting any in your eye and you also get a slight curve which is softer than cutting it dead straight across and with no risk of poking yourself in the eye.
I get my hair cut about once every two years and have found this is the easiest method of fringe management.
As for my sewing room, woe betide OH dumping stuff in there without checking first! All the wrapping paper lives in a box under the worktop in our "office" so is accessible to all at all times. We inherited the office complete with long kitchen top type worktop and a wall of shelves behind - very handy for storing all the Xmas decs, filing, old photos and albums and even a couple of suitcases.
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I received 3 identical letters today from Which magazine, telling me, that the gift subscription to garden Which that my sister gave me is expiring . What a waste .
Another hiccup. Sainsbury's order was delivered complete with security cap on the bottle of brandy I was going to give OH as a little extra pressie. Drivers can't or not allowed to take it off so he's had to refund me and I'll have to buy another tomorrow - sigh.
I’ll give that a go next time, @Obelixx. I don’t usually have a problem, my hair grows like weeds and my hairdresser showed me how to trim my fringe between visits. I haven’t seen a hairdresser now since before lockdown. I have trained OH how to cut the back and sides for me, but I look after the front sides and the fringe myself. I’ve cut his hair for the past 40 years, too much nagging involved in getting him to the barber, so I resorted to the scissors instead. Between us, we must have saved a fortune over the years!
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Are the lights mains or battery powered? We thought ours had packed in but just needed to be reset. They are battery powered.
The Xmas tree lights are mains powered. I taken another string down from the side window and just draped them around the tree. That will do for this year.
Another curmudgeon, I got everything ready to make the mincepies before lunch and discovered at the last minute that I don't have enough flour left to make any. Pastry making has been postponed until tomorrow.
I get my hair cut about once every two years and have found this is the easiest method of fringe management.
As for my sewing room, woe betide OH dumping stuff in there without checking first! All the wrapping paper lives in a box under the worktop in our "office" so is accessible to all at all times. We inherited the office complete with long kitchen top type worktop and a wall of shelves behind - very handy for storing all the Xmas decs, filing, old photos and albums and even a couple of suitcases.