Thought I would find the right thread to have a rant.
Ventured into the loft, where I haven't been for a number of years to find it chockerbkloc with boxes of goodness knows what, none of which are mine. In fact, I could not find my little box of treasures. The main culprit is my daughter whose loft is tiny, having had a loft conversion. So, over the years I have heard 'can I put some things in your loft', but nothing has ever come out! Eldest son not a lot better and youngest son a hoarder anyway.
So, I will be on the warpath. Absolutely ridiculous and, I think, a bit of a cheek. Must be a fire hazard with so much paper, clothes and soft toys, etc.
Have a car boot sale. I warned my family it was all going to the tip but they took no notice so I took a load of stuff to the car boot last year and did really well, made over £100 .
Some of the stuff had been there over 10yrs, how long do they think I'm gonna store it for. Me thinks they won't think about it again until I've gone to garden in the sky I'd like my my basement back before I'm 27, thank you very much.
There's an old bike which I'd like to restore and some sports car wheels which could be made into plant pots, one of the wheels would make a really good bug hotel. I made a frame for the veg bed out of some plumbers plastic tubing. Nothing wrong with re-cycling after all they have been warned and warned again. The TV's are obsolete.
Zoomer, there are children's clothes up there starting from 3 months. Eldest granddaughter now 11, her brother 's 8. Toys galore from baby to early teens, a pram, (DIL can have that) dining chairs, computers, model aircraft, etc, etc. The only thing not there is the kitchen sink. It was all supposed to be sold at car boot sale but I can't remember which year that was! Granddaughter told me they had had a massive clear out at home this weekend and she discovered she had things she never knew she had. How sad is that and how typical of the younger generation. I get very angry with the amount of clothes and toys my grandchildren are bought. Anyway have told daughter it's got to go and not when she feels like doing it, but now. Eldest son will be told the same thing in a while. Get daughter sorted first.
It's actually stressing me as I can see it's going to be a major operation. I just want to find my box of keepsakes. One box, that's all.
Last time I used that Waterbuts I was not happy with the callers. Seemed to have changed from when I first started using it some years back. Very pushy and one caller wanted to come round there and then. It was about 10 at night!
Have been catching up on several threads about compost, and the message coming through is that politicians, and the Suits running the big companies, are still conning the general public with smooth words about recycling your rubbish, and how great it is that most councils are now producing green compost ( takes them about 5 minutes to turn all domestic food and garden waste into great compost! )
Why,oh why, do we let these idiots, who know nothing of what goes on in the real gardening world, tell us what we must, and must not use!
Most commercially produced compost now seems to be rubbish, and despite having a big garden, and an allotment, I still cannot make enough of my own compost to satisfy my needs - I still have to buy in various types of commercial stuff, and over the last 3 or 4 years have found it to be very poor.
So - politicians and Suits - stop treating us all as complete idiots. You have been rumbled,and hopefully your cardboard walls will crumble around around you......soon!
Ps - can I have the cardboard remnants for my compost heap?
When we moved here OH refused to put anything in the loft - if we don't need to use it we don't need it, is his maxim. I'm not going up there - so we have an empty loft (and an over-stuffed garage, but that's another story .... )
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We have an over stuffed garage too and its double length! The loft is pretty full too with books toy cars, lego, boxed games etc, but my boys don't want me to get rid of it. But don't seem to want it in their lofts! !
Mine have been warned lily! I'm an avid 'thrower outer' and I'm doing them a favour though they don't realise it! Keep telling them they'll thank me for it one day when they have to clear out my house ...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Thought I would find the right thread to have a rant.
Ventured into the loft, where I haven't been for a number of years to find it chockerbkloc with boxes of goodness knows what, none of which are mine. In fact, I could not find my little box of treasures. The main culprit is my daughter whose loft is tiny, having had a loft conversion. So, over the years I have heard 'can I put some things in your loft', but nothing has ever come out! Eldest son not a lot better and youngest son a hoarder anyway.
So, I will be on the warpath. Absolutely ridiculous and, I think, a bit of a cheek. Must be a fire hazard with so much paper, clothes and soft toys, etc.
Rant over.
a supersoaker water pistol would do as well. Charlie the wargames forum is somewhere else.
All this testosterone in the air is making me feel ill. Time to go and sit in the garden.
TT... I have the same problem with the basement.
Have a car boot sale. I warned my family it was all going to the tip but they took no notice so I took a load of stuff to the car boot last year and did really well, made over £100
.
Some of the stuff had been there over 10yrs, how long do they think I'm gonna store it for
. Me thinks they won't think about it again until I've gone to garden in the sky
I'd like my my basement back before I'm 27, thank you very much
.
There's an old bike which I'd like to restore and some sports car wheels which could be made into plant pots, one of the wheels would make a really good bug hotel. I made a frame for the veg bed out of some plumbers plastic tubing. Nothing wrong with re-cycling after all they have been warned and warned again
. The TV's are obsolete.
Freegle is a great way to get rid of things
Zoomer, there are children's clothes up there starting from 3 months. Eldest granddaughter now 11, her brother 's 8. Toys galore from baby to early teens, a pram, (DIL can have that) dining chairs, computers, model aircraft, etc, etc. The only thing not there is the kitchen sink. It was all supposed to be sold at car boot sale but I can't remember which year that was! Granddaughter told me they had had a massive clear out at home this weekend and she discovered she had things she never knew she had. How sad is that and how typical of the younger generation. I get very angry with the amount of clothes and toys my grandchildren are bought. Anyway have told daughter it's got to go and not when she feels like doing it, but now. Eldest son will be told the same thing in a while. Get daughter sorted first.
It's actually stressing me as I can see it's going to be a major operation. I just want to find my box of keepsakes. One box, that's all.
Last time I used that Waterbuts I was not happy with the callers. Seemed to have changed from when I first started using it some years back. Very pushy and one caller wanted to come round there and then. It was about 10 at night!
Have been catching up on several threads about compost, and the message coming through is that politicians, and the Suits running the big companies, are still conning the general public with smooth words about recycling your rubbish, and how great it is that most councils are now producing green compost ( takes them about 5 minutes to turn all domestic food and garden waste into great compost!
)
Why,oh why, do we let these idiots, who know nothing of what goes on in the real gardening world, tell us what we must, and must not use!
Most commercially produced compost now seems to be rubbish, and despite having a big garden, and an allotment, I still cannot make enough of my own compost to satisfy my needs - I still have to buy in various types of commercial stuff, and over the last 3 or 4 years have found it to be very poor.
So - politicians and Suits - stop treating us all as complete idiots. You have been rumbled,and hopefully your cardboard walls will crumble around around you......soon!
Ps - can I have the cardboard remnants for my compost heap?
When we moved here OH refused to put anything in the loft - if we don't need to use it we don't need it, is his maxim. I'm not going up there - so we have an empty loft
(and an over-stuffed garage, but that's another story .... 
)
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We have an over stuffed garage too and its double length! The loft is pretty full too with books toy cars, lego, boxed games etc, but my boys don't want me to get rid of it. But don't seem to want it in their lofts! !
Mine have been warned lily! I'm an avid 'thrower outer' and I'm doing them a favour though they don't realise it! Keep telling them they'll thank me for it one day when they have to clear out my house ...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...