Muddle; he's not one for gifts (hates them truth be told) but in the staff room I'm always hearing him chuntering about only wanting half a mug of tea which people seem incapable of making. So he's a mug with a very careful (and almost straight) line painted on by myself to help indicate to people where to aim for. The mug I found was reduced to £1.50 (was £5.... for a mug!!) but when you add the card £2.00, paper £1.50, ribbon £2.99, bag £1.00 .... my silly personalised gift is suddenly quite cheap looking!
Over the years I've found 'gift bags' an absolute godsend - as my Aged Ps became more and more frail they found it difficult, if not impossible, to open wrapped presents themselves without having to have help, which they found humiliating.
We found that pretty gift bags were the ideal solution - they could take their present out of the bag without help and have a good look at it. Then they could put it back in the bag and if they'd forgotten who gave it to them, there it was, on the label 'Love from Dove x' .
Also, if they were opening presents with other people in the residents' lounge at Christmas, carers could put the presents back in the bags and that way ensure that one resident's presents didn't get muddled up with another's. One cardigan or jar of hand cream can look much like another. It made the jobs of the staff at The Lovely Home much easier.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My Mum always very carefully kept wrapping paper to reuse, ( assume a war time habit) so I started using the shiny bags and sparkly boxes for her presents because the wrapping actually became part of the present that way. She always either used them for someone else's present or kept stuff in them (she previously always used raggedy old jiffy bags and brown envelopes).
Of course I could never write on the labels.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
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Clari, you'd not have to near the grass to move " The Rock", I reckon it could be done using a winch whilst the vehicle is parked on the drive.
I'll supply, ( well, I'll ask OH to supply ) bacon butties and endless tea.
Hosta - when is the aesthetically- pleasing rock going to be moved?
I'm getting on in years you know. . . . .
Joyce, it's going to move over this winter if it kills me. ( No holding your breath guys )
I find the rock with the stripes more aesthetically pleasing than the pink stuff.
Muddle; he's not one for gifts (hates them truth be told) but in the staff room I'm always hearing him chuntering about only wanting half a mug of tea which people seem incapable of making. So he's a mug with a very careful (and almost straight) line painted on by myself to help indicate to people where to aim for. The mug I found was reduced to £1.50 (was £5.... for a mug!!) but when you add the card £2.00, paper £1.50, ribbon £2.99, bag £1.00 .... my silly personalised gift is suddenly quite cheap looking!
Endless tea. I like your other half already!!
Over the years I've found 'gift bags' an absolute godsend - as my Aged Ps became more and more frail they found it difficult, if not impossible, to open wrapped presents themselves without having to have help, which they found humiliating.
We found that pretty gift bags were the ideal solution - they could take their present out of the bag without help and have a good look at it. Then they could put it back in the bag and if they'd forgotten who gave it to them, there it was, on the label 'Love from Dove x' .
Also, if they were opening presents with other people in the residents' lounge at Christmas, carers could put the presents back in the bags and that way ensure that one resident's presents didn't get muddled up with another's. One cardigan or jar of hand cream can look much like another. It made the jobs of the staff at The Lovely Home much easier.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My Mum always very carefully kept wrapping paper to reuse, ( assume a war time habit) so I started using the shiny bags and sparkly boxes for her presents because the wrapping actually became part of the present that way. She always either used them for someone else's present or kept stuff in them (she previously always used raggedy old jiffy bags and brown envelopes).
Of course I could never write on the labels.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I'm 5 foot 4 in on a good day, hardly tiny, once concidered average height.
So how come all my jeans are too long, some that are supposidly short are two inches too long!
And why can you only buy mens shirts in plain, striped or check?
Because I'm 5ft 9 in and considered average height too?