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Locks 'n bolts
Can someone tell me the official name of this type of bolt please, I'm sure it must have one.
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Where have all the old fashioned hardware stores gone?...the nice man in a brown overall & a pencil behind his ear would know what I meant by 'twisty, bolty thingy' (even if it hadn't been invented).
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Where have all the old fashioned hardware stores gone?...the nice man in a brown overall & a pencil behind his ear would know what I meant by 'twisty, bolty thingy' (even if it hadn't been invented).
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Phew so glad i got in today to wish a happy day to my favourite Ibiza dwelling biddy. We downloaded a windows update to vista and it screwed up the computer finally we got it sorted out and it downloaded itself again...this after the macaffee shambles which not only messed up the big desktop jobby but my laptop too.
Anyway dear dear DH got it sorted today and here i am. We have also decided to carpe the diem and go for some major home improvements....new kitchen and wooden floor in hall and lounge. various personal stuff means we have to postpone moving for a year or 4 so we have decided to make ourselves comfortable...so far its meant loads of showrooms and lunches out which and the dogs can certainly live with. Poor pups ears are bad again. Vet thinks its a primary allergy which inflames the ears and allows the yeast to grow so we have to restrict his diet a bit (no pork but duck or venison is allowed :-) seriously!) while we work out how to manage it. Now i've posted, going to go back and read the thread but I wanted to post first incase computer says no again.
Hope you are all well, will post more comments when i know what has been going on. PS for Shaney I got a marvellous nail buffer thing from Boots it was around a quid and is emeryboard shaped but rubbery...has done a lovely job on mine.
Anyway dear dear DH got it sorted today and here i am. We have also decided to carpe the diem and go for some major home improvements....new kitchen and wooden floor in hall and lounge. various personal stuff means we have to postpone moving for a year or 4 so we have decided to make ourselves comfortable...so far its meant loads of showrooms and lunches out which and the dogs can certainly live with. Poor pups ears are bad again. Vet thinks its a primary allergy which inflames the ears and allows the yeast to grow so we have to restrict his diet a bit (no pork but duck or venison is allowed :-) seriously!) while we work out how to manage it. Now i've posted, going to go back and read the thread but I wanted to post first incase computer says no again.
Hope you are all well, will post more comments when i know what has been going on. PS for Shaney I got a marvellous nail buffer thing from Boots it was around a quid and is emeryboard shaped but rubbery...has done a lovely job on mine.
okay i just read the thread and oh dear! I can't leave you lot alone for ten minutes can I . I keep arnica (tablets and ointment) and rescue remedy (drops, pastilles and ointment) on hand at all times at home...maybe we should start keeping a first aid box in the biddy abode too. Cna someone please BLOW UP that firm who do older ladies clothes. They sit around in res care in nylon and polyester with the central heating on on plastic chairs then everyone wonders why they get yeast infections in their skin folds...it makes me so mad.
Everyone who has coughs viruses aches and pains, spoil yourselves and get better, everone who is well STAY WELL and thats an order.
See you tomorrow
Everyone who has coughs viruses aches and pains, spoil yourselves and get better, everone who is well STAY WELL and thats an order.
See you tomorrow
Morning biddies. Oh dear Neti I was sure I'd provided not only the feline guest of honour for your party but also an orchestra, but I see now I forgot. This is the music I had in mind for your party Neti: http://www.nme.com/news/brian-wilson/47736 knowing you love the Beach Boys (and who doesn't love Gerschwin?)
So pleased you were all able to view the talk show :) ...and to learn that Upstairs Downstairs is returning, thanks Shaney! If our television doesn't purchase it I'm emigrating.
I didn't want to tell you yesterday but my Dad died - yesterday. He had had so many heart attacks and operations over so many years, he was tired and it was not unexpected but you know when somebody gets counted out by the doctors over and over again and just keeps on going anyway, even the expected feels unexpected. It all happened very quickly yesterday morning, his wife had left him sitting in the kitchen and gone upstairs to make his bed I believe, and when she returned he was on the floor just outside the kitchen and he was already gone. He hated hospitals and always hoped he would die at home, I'm glad he got that.
As I've told y'all before, we weren't in each other's lives anymore, my Dad and I. I don't feel at liberty to broadcast the reasons for that, biddies, but if you're wondering what my feelings are, I'm sad.
Anyhoo... what a raving beauty Alice is, Lottie, she made me think of Snow White (ebony hair).
So pleased you were all able to view the talk show :) ...and to learn that Upstairs Downstairs is returning, thanks Shaney! If our television doesn't purchase it I'm emigrating.
I didn't want to tell you yesterday but my Dad died - yesterday. He had had so many heart attacks and operations over so many years, he was tired and it was not unexpected but you know when somebody gets counted out by the doctors over and over again and just keeps on going anyway, even the expected feels unexpected. It all happened very quickly yesterday morning, his wife had left him sitting in the kitchen and gone upstairs to make his bed I believe, and when she returned he was on the floor just outside the kitchen and he was already gone. He hated hospitals and always hoped he would die at home, I'm glad he got that.
As I've told y'all before, we weren't in each other's lives anymore, my Dad and I. I don't feel at liberty to broadcast the reasons for that, biddies, but if you're wondering what my feelings are, I'm sad.
Anyhoo... what a raving beauty Alice is, Lottie, she made me think of Snow White (ebony hair).
jno I am approaching this whole house makeover thing with mixed feelings. A few years ago we had all the windows in the house replaced and the garden remodelled at the same time. Three days before the window men were due. I got a phonecall. "I am sorry to tell you we haven't managed to make all of your windows yet" (10 windows, 3 lots of french doors) me: "how many have you made, how many will be ready for monday?" them: "well actually....none"
I have a mantra for these things which I recite through gritted teeth"It'll be lovely when its finished"
I have a mantra for these things which I recite through gritted teeth"It'll be lovely when its finished"
morning all...
Oh Kit, I'm so very sorry to read that, whatever your differences I hope that there are some good memories, he was your dad & I'm sad for you and your family too. It's a beautiful morning here & at the bottom of the garden is a perfect rose covered in dew...it's for you, your dad.... and all dads...
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My puta threw a minor wobbly when Tarquin had downloaded IE8 for me woofy but it soon recovered when I whispered laptop in it's ear & it's so much better than whatever I had before. Funny you should mention nylon clothes & infections...can you come & convince my disabled neighbour about that please because we can't? We just get to hear all about it :o(
I'm curious about the pork for dogs...do they tolerate it 'cos most dogs I've known didn't? If you have IBS you shouldn't touch pork products you know (because of the genetic closeness). Maybe it's a load of hogwash....sorry if I've put you off your bacon butty.
It was good to have a 'full house' yesterday...I wish for good health for us all too and for jno's diy flashbacks to diminish :o)
Oh Kit, I'm so very sorry to read that, whatever your differences I hope that there are some good memories, he was your dad & I'm sad for you and your family too. It's a beautiful morning here & at the bottom of the garden is a perfect rose covered in dew...it's for you, your dad.... and all dads...
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My puta threw a minor wobbly when Tarquin had downloaded IE8 for me woofy but it soon recovered when I whispered laptop in it's ear & it's so much better than whatever I had before. Funny you should mention nylon clothes & infections...can you come & convince my disabled neighbour about that please because we can't? We just get to hear all about it :o(
I'm curious about the pork for dogs...do they tolerate it 'cos most dogs I've known didn't? If you have IBS you shouldn't touch pork products you know (because of the genetic closeness). Maybe it's a load of hogwash....sorry if I've put you off your bacon butty.
It was good to have a 'full house' yesterday...I wish for good health for us all too and for jno's diy flashbacks to diminish :o)
Hiya Kip.
Really sorry that your dad passed away,I know familys go through some strange things.I ve not spoken to my mother for years but If everybody knew the reasons which go back a long time they may understand(even though we did communicate for a while but was bu66ered up by another ex-member of my ex-family)..but im going to feel very sad when she passes on just thinking what might have been.You take care kip and feeling sad is just natural,it doesent matter what happened in the pass.I know I m lousey at doing this type of thing but I do feel for you.vin xx
Really sorry that your dad passed away,I know familys go through some strange things.I ve not spoken to my mother for years but If everybody knew the reasons which go back a long time they may understand(even though we did communicate for a while but was bu66ered up by another ex-member of my ex-family)..but im going to feel very sad when she passes on just thinking what might have been.You take care kip and feeling sad is just natural,it doesent matter what happened in the pass.I know I m lousey at doing this type of thing but I do feel for you.vin xx
So true Vinny, about families going through strange things...Kit's post set me off thinking, I could write a book about mine. And as for ex family buggering things up, mmmm. The more you get to know people the more you find out how odd 'family' can really be. Very few people I know have actually had the straightforward mum + dad (who love each other), brothers/sisters who actually were brothers & sisters, no divorces, skeletons etc. I was only saying to my sister the other day (who'd come to a standstill with family history) how the war had meant that so many records had 'conveniently' disappeared. Maybe some of us in here are related?
[runs screaming] :o)
[runs screaming] :o)
I'm very sorry to hear that, Kit, you may not have been in each other's lives but you were in each other's genes.
Woofgang, as I recall the timetable with the wooden flooring was:
January: see something we like in Allied Carpets and order it.
Feb: day before it's to be installed they phone up and say they can't do it as it turns out the supplier hasn't got the wood. We get our money back until they get it.
March: they send some nice Latvians around to layl it.
April: we identify some bits that are squeaking a lot (because the old floor under them wasn't flat) and decide to get them back to fix it.
April, next day: Allied Carpets go bust.
Today: still squeaking.
Woofgang, as I recall the timetable with the wooden flooring was:
January: see something we like in Allied Carpets and order it.
Feb: day before it's to be installed they phone up and say they can't do it as it turns out the supplier hasn't got the wood. We get our money back until they get it.
March: they send some nice Latvians around to layl it.
April: we identify some bits that are squeaking a lot (because the old floor under them wasn't flat) and decide to get them back to fix it.
April, next day: Allied Carpets go bust.
Today: still squeaking.
dear Swedie, thinking of you and your sadness x
Yep, I have an older brother who hasn\'t really spoken to me since 1978 simply cos of something my mother said, which wasn\'t true. My mother, much as I loved her, was a snob and as my bro is rich, he could do no wrong, whereas I was child of the earth and to mind a much nicer and better person, but hey ho, these things happen in the best of families.
Still quite warm here with a slight breeze thank heavens.
Yep, I have an older brother who hasn\'t really spoken to me since 1978 simply cos of something my mother said, which wasn\'t true. My mother, much as I loved her, was a snob and as my bro is rich, he could do no wrong, whereas I was child of the earth and to mind a much nicer and better person, but hey ho, these things happen in the best of families.
Still quite warm here with a slight breeze thank heavens.
I did some net research last night. apparently pork is a thing that a lot of dogs are sensitive to and as with people they can tolerate it for years then one day no more. Maybe that is why there is no pork flavoured dog food, I know the q comes up quite often in the pet section.
jno we have (or will) gone for a local firm with a local installer so we can send the heavies round if there are probs lol. Amazingly solid plank is only about the same price as the engineeered boards (veneer over softwood or chipboard) so we have gone for the real thing. its called rustic ie a bit distressed so puppy claws won'r be a problem, also a matte slightly textured finish so hopefully they won't do the bambi act either. We rented a house in the US with a real wood floor years ago...it was the only thing I really liked about the house or our stay there
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jno we have (or will) gone for a local firm with a local installer so we can send the heavies round if there are probs lol. Amazingly solid plank is only about the same price as the engineeered boards (veneer over softwood or chipboard) so we have gone for the real thing. its called rustic ie a bit distressed so puppy claws won'r be a problem, also a matte slightly textured finish so hopefully they won't do the bambi act either. We rented a house in the US with a real wood floor years ago...it was the only thing I really liked about the house or our stay there
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Thanks you guys. I know they say there's no such thing as "the right thing to say" but somehow I feel you're all doing it - and Vinny you nailed it exactly with the sadness of what might have been. I feel I will be able to honour the-might-have-been, and in that respect there's great healing in the sadness.
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That song ^^ playing on the radio one day in the beginning of the nineties was the catalyst for my looking my Dad up again after twenty years of silence. I felt I would now be able to claim (towards him and towards Mum both) the right to have two parents in my life and not have to choose one. We had contact for quite a few years but a couple of years ago the situation had turned so destructive I had to save my soul by saying goodbye again. This time however with two beloved half-sisters in my life that weren't there before; they are now and they will always be. Dad's wife is an utter saint too btw.
That's the loveliest rose I've ever seen Robinia. It reminded me of my bestest fairytale Beauty And The Beast and also of what happened yesterday I've been told when Dad's body was collected by the funeral arrangers: They left a rose where the body had been (on the couch). I'm a great believer in ceremonies, rituals and symbology, and I thought that was just beautiful. I've never heard that they do that. Have any of you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k
That song ^^ playing on the radio one day in the beginning of the nineties was the catalyst for my looking my Dad up again after twenty years of silence. I felt I would now be able to claim (towards him and towards Mum both) the right to have two parents in my life and not have to choose one. We had contact for quite a few years but a couple of years ago the situation had turned so destructive I had to save my soul by saying goodbye again. This time however with two beloved half-sisters in my life that weren't there before; they are now and they will always be. Dad's wife is an utter saint too btw.
That's the loveliest rose I've ever seen Robinia. It reminded me of my bestest fairytale Beauty And The Beast and also of what happened yesterday I've been told when Dad's body was collected by the funeral arrangers: They left a rose where the body had been (on the couch). I'm a great believer in ceremonies, rituals and symbology, and I thought that was just beautiful. I've never heard that they do that. Have any of you?
