Frank, I must have the same phone as you. Can't remember how many years I've had it. You have to press buttons to send a message and all the letters/numbers have long disappeared. Like you I top up £10, get so many messages free, probably lasts me a couple of months, then I use the £10 I put on. I take it out with me when I go to Morrisons, but purely to let my daughter know when I'm ready to be picked up because I don't like carrying anything. Half the time, I don't know where it is. I don't understand all these modern things, like tablets (thought that's what you took for a headache) and the various other modern inventions.
Fairygirl, I think I said the other day that my daughter definitely suffers from OCD as she is ultra tidy. Always has been. Drives everyone round the bend. Wish she could reach a happy medium. Both sons are hoarders. One I don't care about anymore as he has his own home, but the other is like a bag man.
Oops, tribes just arrived, so best be polite. I wonder how long it will be before the dreaded mobile rings or emerges.
Tina it's strange how they can be so different isn't it? My Dad was a real hoarder and clearing the house when he died was very difficult, for obvious emotional reasons, but mainly because my sister and her husband are even worse . For each item she put in a bag to take home I was putting 20 in another one to throw out. If it had been down to her to take charge her we'd still be emptying it now.. I couldn't stand living in her house it would drive me nuts! I hate clutter and I don't acquire 'stuff' the way lots of people do. I keep telling the kids they'll thank me for it when they have to clear the house once I pop me clogs!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
i like my mobile phone! It s touch screen and I have learnt how to touch the tiny letters with my blunt fingertip and actually find the right spot. I'm very proud of myself! What I like best, apart from being able to get satnav directions if I lose my way in the car, is being able to text people and not have to waste time ringing them. See, I'm a true MOB!
My Dad hoarded too. He would collect 'good' wood from people's skips and when he died, we had 9 bonefires and 3 skips. Fortunately, my Mum had been totally different and wouldn't allow him to hoard indoors so that wasn't a problem. I'm not keen on visiting my son as there's stuff everywhere. It's not dirty, just so cluttered and I want to get my hands on it!
I'm very minimalistic. Basic furniture, not into ornaments, etc. but that's the way I like it.
I do like the convenience of a mobile phone GG for when I go shopping but it takes over some folk's lives, my lot included
Tina, would you please come and sort out my house? I love the look of minimalist houses but can't help hoarding. I don't keep rubbish (much) but cram too much into a smallish space because I can't beat to part with good stuff. Or even moderately good. Or even not absolutely awful...
Fairy Girl, my recipe for Carrot cake is bin the ingredients and do not bother, had this rant before see no need to add carrots or what difference it makes. I can make light or heavy ginger cakes and enjoy them without the use of a carrot, if I could find who invented it I know what I would do with the carrot. G/G, with my fingers I could play you a Nocturne a Concerto or I Do it my way without any problem. Give me a touch phone or one of those I-paddy thingees and I could make the phone disappear never mind what is on the screen. Daughter will say look at this Dad hand it over and bang it is gone, I will stick to my steam powered laptop thank-you. Untidiness, my answer was get them in the forces and now you should see their places, spotless everything in place, the problem being when the grandchildren come here I have to tell them it is OK to have their toys on the floor, no rules here and they love it, and guess what they clean up before leaving but had fun in-between.
GG I am ruthless. Not always that clever though as, at the end of last winter, I threw all my clothes out. Came unstuck when the cold weather came back. Regularly go round the house turfing things out I no longer want/need. I used to hoard but I think after having to clear all the hoarded stuff at my Dad's it made me think about getting my own house in order. Only cluttered space is the loft, which isn't mine rubbish, but that of my kids. Fully intend that to be a job for this summer, should it ever arrive. Like Fairygirl, my kids will be so thankful one day.
I do have a few bits and bobs but my family know I am not a ornament person. Neither was my Mum, so I never inherited anything from her. Makes it sound like my home is devoid of any warmth, but it's just not cluttered.
I have a mountain of china I inherited from my mother and had to buy a cabinet for it! Lovely china but I don't really have room for the cabinet since we downsized into a bungalow suitable for the ageing. Have regretted it ever since - I'm much too young to need it!! It is very appropriate for the elderly. It has a post box and bus stop outside, a small and convenient garden, downstairs bathroom and nice conservatory for pleasant sitting. (The conservatory, not the bathroom!) I loathe it! Not true - it is OK but I'm only 27.
Dear Gardening Grandma just think you will never have to move again, i swore after the last move im never moving.
I have 2 rants whatb the hell is going on with the font size? and my husband has done my head in today will someone please take him away until he calms down.
Dear Maud, the fundtion of husbands is to refine the character of their wives. Mine has made me almost perfectly patient!
Font size OK for me, now, but I did press control and plus/equals some time ago. Anybody else's cursor bouncing about like a demented flea? Or is it that coffee I spilt over my laptop last week?
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Frank, I must have the same phone as you. Can't remember how many years I've had it. You have to press buttons to send a message and all the letters/numbers have long disappeared. Like you I top up £10, get so many messages free, probably lasts me a couple of months, then I use the £10 I put on. I take it out with me when I go to Morrisons, but purely to let my daughter know when I'm ready to be picked up because I don't like carrying anything. Half the time, I don't know where it is. I don't understand all these modern things, like tablets (thought that's what you took for a headache) and the various other modern inventions.
Fairygirl, I think I said the other day that my daughter definitely suffers from OCD as she is ultra tidy. Always has been. Drives everyone round the bend. Wish she could reach a happy medium. Both sons are hoarders. One I don't care about anymore as he has his own home, but the other is like a bag man.
Oops, tribes just arrived, so best be polite. I wonder how long it will be before the dreaded mobile rings or emerges.
Tina it's strange how they can be so different isn't it? My Dad was a real hoarder and clearing the house when he died was very difficult, for obvious emotional reasons, but mainly because my sister and her husband are even worse . For each item she put in a bag to take home I was putting 20 in another one to throw out. If it had been down to her to take charge her we'd still be emptying it now..
I couldn't stand living in her house it would drive me nuts! I hate clutter and I don't acquire 'stuff' the way lots of people do. I keep telling the kids they'll thank me for it when they have to clear the house once I pop me clogs! 
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
i like my mobile phone! It s touch screen and I have learnt how to touch the tiny letters with my blunt fingertip and actually find the right spot. I'm very proud of myself!
What I like best, apart from being able to get satnav directions if I lose my way in the car, is being able to text people and not have to waste time ringing them. See, I'm a true MOB! 
My Dad hoarded too. He would collect 'good' wood from people's skips and when he died, we had 9 bonefires and 3 skips. Fortunately, my Mum had been totally different and wouldn't allow him to hoard indoors so that wasn't a problem. I'm not keen on visiting my son as there's stuff everywhere. It's not dirty, just so cluttered and I want to get my hands on it!
I'm very minimalistic. Basic furniture, not into ornaments, etc. but that's the way I like it.
I do like the convenience of a mobile phone GG for when I go shopping but it takes over some folk's lives, my lot included
Tina, would you please come and sort out my house? I love the look of minimalist houses but can't help hoarding. I don't keep rubbish (much) but cram too much into a smallish space because I can't beat to part with good stuff. Or even moderately good. Or even not absolutely awful...
Fairy Girl, my recipe for Carrot cake is bin the ingredients and do not bother, had this rant before see no need to add carrots or what difference it makes. I can make light or heavy ginger cakes and enjoy them without the use of a carrot, if I could find who invented it I know what I would do with the carrot.
G/G, with my fingers I could play you a Nocturne a Concerto or I Do it my way without any problem. Give me a touch phone or one of those I-paddy thingees and I could make the phone disappear never mind what is on the screen. Daughter will say look at this Dad hand it over and bang it is gone, I will stick to my steam powered laptop thank-you.
Untidiness, my answer was get them in the forces and now you should see their places, spotless everything in place, the problem being when the grandchildren come here I have to tell them it is OK to have their toys on the floor, no rules here and they love it, and guess what they clean up before leaving but had fun in-between.
Frank.
GG I am ruthless. Not always that clever though as, at the end of last winter, I threw all my clothes out. Came unstuck when the cold weather came back. Regularly go round the house turfing things out I no longer want/need. I used to hoard but I think after having to clear all the hoarded stuff at my Dad's it made me think about getting my own house in order. Only cluttered space is the loft, which isn't mine rubbish, but that of my kids. Fully intend that to be a job for this summer, should it ever arrive. Like Fairygirl, my kids will be so thankful one day.
I do have a few bits and bobs but my family know I am not a ornament person. Neither was my Mum, so I never inherited anything from her. Makes it sound like my home is devoid of any warmth, but it's just not cluttered.
I have a mountain of china I inherited from my mother and had to buy a cabinet for it! Lovely china but I don't really have room for the cabinet since we downsized into a bungalow suitable for the ageing.
Have regretted it ever since - I'm much too young to need it!! It is very appropriate for the elderly. It has a post box and bus stop outside, a small and convenient garden, downstairs bathroom and nice conservatory for pleasant sitting. (The conservatory, not the bathroom!) I loathe it! Not true - it is OK but I'm only 27. 
Dear Gardening Grandma just think you will never have to move again, i swore after the last move im never moving.
I have 2 rants whatb the hell is going on with the font size? and my husband has done my head in today will someone please take him away until he calms down.
Dear Maud, the fundtion of husbands is to refine the character of their wives.
Mine has made me almost perfectly patient! 
Font size OK for me, now, but I did press control and plus/equals some time ago. Anybody else's cursor bouncing about like a demented flea? Or is it that coffee I spilt over my laptop last week?