What misconceptions do you harbour..........

I thought that I would wash an Indian cotton rug in the bath and put it out in the sunshine to dry to perfection. I could envisage it, sparkling clean on the sitting room floor, complementing the decor. The dog waited till I had laid it carefully then promptly threw up on it. It's soaking in the bath again. I don't know if I've got the energy to do all that again today. It's really heavy soaking wet.

inthefields I know what you mean! We once had a puppy when left alone for the first time opened the kitchen cupboards and shredded 9 toilet rolls and scattered a large packet of cornflakes all over the floor

lol Aka

And on the subject of domestic misconceptions, I fondly imagined that hoovering before going out meant returning to a tidy house.

Apparently I should have mentioned this to the dogs (or possibly the cats ....but the spaniels look distinctly pleased with themselves)

Aka!

I harboured the misconception that having spent all morning cleaning the inside and outside of my windows that they were sparkling and not a smear in sight. Then out came the

@inthefields - Thanks for the laugh! In a similar vein years ago I was visited by friends, who jad a positively cherubic little boy of five, rosy cheeks, blonde curls - straight out of a Pears soap poster... He went in to my next-door neighbour's house to watch TV with my neighbour and her little girl.

Apparently impressed, he pointed at the screen and said 'F---ing hell!' - then turned with great composure and said 'Oh... sorry', and carried on watching.

My neighbour nearly wet herself telling me about it... ah me, her little girl is now a mother of eight, and Vasco (that was his name) is a businessman in Las Vegas...

As a child and living on the east coast of Scotland, I remember each summer as being sunny but cold. It probably rained half of the time! Winters were very cold with many feet of snow!

I thought "couldn't give a toss" was a perfectly OK expression (if not for use in social situations).

Not something I used often .... as demonstrated by my SIL of 7 years acquaintance, being stunned when he heard me use it for the first time, last Christmas.
Nowhere near as stunned as I was when he enlightened me as to the meaning.

OMG !!!!

kittylester I'm still having similar problems with my 22yr old! Asked him to put out white shirt for wash. "I haven't got a white shirt" (I knew he had) It made it to the laundry basket 2 days later looking like it had been stuffed into the smallest space ever.

I have the misconception that SIL will ever talk about anything but cars bless him

Galen , me too. I once realised that I had not seen 8 year old DD2's 'best' black dress for a while and she needed to wear it. Eventually tracked it down to behind the wardrobe

Moved, now, that really is a huge misconception!

That men and women are the same species.

Been there, got the T shirt!

That it's reasonable to expect a twelve year old to hang up a good jacket rather than store it in a crumpled heap on the floor along with ... you really don't want to know.

I think the whole English season thing has become a misconception Kittylester. I vaguely remember long, hot summers, crisp autumns, cold winters and delightful springs. Or is that my imagination? I actually turned the heating on for a while yesterday - it was so chilly here that poor OH (who works from home) had frozen extremites and looked very miserable when I took his afternoon tea in...

We also have the misconception that you catch a cold from being cold...

Yesterday . I had got burnt by the sun on Monday and Tuesday whilst gardening and was worried about sitting in the sun for a whole day and becoming more beetroot like - silly me!!

Oops the 'y' dropped off, sorry

Oh poor ou, hope you didn't catch a cold. I think in England we all have the misconception that our summer means warmth and just at the moment we could be right. When was the match?