Just As I Was Doing So Well

[emmie]

the day of chores, clean tables, bedroom done, now for the washing, sadly that's turned into a fiasco, i put one of the bath mats in with the ordinary wash and its all flaked off the back of the mat, subsequently all the clothes look like a spotted dog, so back in the wash for a rinse, boo sucks..

any disasters you would like to share..

[emmie]

perhaps not, its a sunny day and i'm indoors, that's not a good thing, but i got rather sunburnt the other day, and have decided that perhaps an hour or so passing with my ab friends would cheer me up.

[albaqwerty]

I've washed countless of paper hankies, gawd, that's dreadful!!
I know what you mean about the spotted dog look lol

Also, the number of pencils and screw-driver bits....

Do wish Mr Alba would check his pockets

[emmie]

did the tissue one last week at my brothers house, i was there for my mums funeral and left the darn thing up my sleeve, so all the washing came out with bits of tissue stuck to them, so had to rinse the whole lot, luckily most of it came off.

[albaqwerty]

Depending upon the season, I'll partly dry the clothes via the clothes line and shake vigorously.
Neighbour thinks it's snowing lol

Mum had a cracker many years ago, made a chocolate cake, instead of cocoa powder she used Bisto

(Am so sorry to mention my mum at this time Emmie xx)

[emmie]

alba
no problem, apart from the wretched weather, it rained cats and dogs, the ceremony went well, we all cried and laughed later at some of the mumisms we remembered.

[albaqwerty]

'mumisms' - what a blinking wonderful word!

When I rule the world, first order will be that that is to be in the dictionary

[emmie]

i just thought of it, don't know why, but it seemed appropriate.

[emmie]

she would have liked that word i'm sure.

[albaqwerty]

It's a great word Emmie xx

After we'd scattered my brothers ashes, there were(was) about 14 of us round the table in pub, and we were in gales of laughter. (Absolutely horrified the newly adopted Mr Alba) Waitress asked what we were celebrating, we just told her 'a life that has gone to different pastures'

[emmie]

we were in gales of laughter in the cars behind the hearse going to the funeral, heaven only knows what the driver thought.

[albaqwerty]

cor, just dawned on me you came on to get cheered up!!

Am sure the drivers have seen and heard worse :-)

[Old_Geezer]

Think yourself lucky not to have attempted to wash a feather pillow. I once checked the Net and learnt one can put them in the washing machine. Lying Bs >:-(

[albaqwerty]

duck or goose OG?

Ducks are watertight :-D

[emmie]

OG, that's a classic, lol

[zebo]

When my Aunt died the Vicar called round about the arrangements to find us all with tears streaming. but it was laughter, my mother talking when they were young girls. Some years later, in her final illness my mother had lost an enormous amount of weight, when she died we were sorting out clothes to take to the undertakers for the funeral and I held up a suit and said She liked this, to which my brother replied It's massive, it'll bury her. So I said Well, that'll do then! I'm sure I could hear her chuckle at that. It's often the laughter in the immediate times that gets up through, it's later that the tears come.

[emmie]

zebo we all cried at one point or another, the sadness of a person who still had a lot of life left in her, but the dementia and the lung cancer finally got the better of her in the end.

[Cloverjo]

It's good to be able to laugh at times like this, especially if you feel the departed would have been laughing along with you.

[emmie]

she would have i'm sure of it.

[albaqwerty]

Zebo!! am sorry for your loss, but that is just utterly sublime! xx

Jo, yep, agree with you wholeheartedly

[gingejbee]

That's the main reason for NOT buying bathmats with a rubberised "non-slip" backing....it eventually peels off (in the washer, usually)