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Oldwoman70 Thu 23-Aug-18 16:42:58

Following on from the GN who has an invention (love to know how that is going by the way). I have a business idea. I am thinking of setting up a school to teach .......................

how to close a gate! grin

Judging from my experience I am sure it is a lost art. It seems I have to close my gate after people have called several times a day!

I was just cleaning the shower (a job I hate anyway) when I glanced out the window and the gate was wide open - must have been the postman. (There goes his C****** present)

deepgreen Thu 25-Aug-22 18:05:52

Pragmatic again,lawns are a thing of the last century, especially with climate change and need for biodiversity, therefore could you consider doing something to make your open plan front garden look more pleasing, but less inviting to pedestrians?

Maybe make a longtitudinal strip a no-mow wildflower long grass butterfly sanctuary, with poppies and nettles and buttercups and cornflowers and yellow rattle, but the edges neatly mown, to show it is deliberate and for the planet, not for laziness?

Of course, if it is not a rule that grass must be the only plant, you have many options to make a plant-barrier to horizontal crossing.

NotAGran55 Thu 25-Aug-22 18:11:17

How to read perhaps? Especially dates ?

Lexisgranny Thu 25-Aug-22 18:35:13

To not nod and make affirmative noises when told the arrangements for an event and then declare sometime later that you were never told anything about it.

GrandmasueUK Thu 25-Aug-22 18:36:30

I’d like someone to teach how to put a loaf in the breadbin, not in front or next to it. ? Drives me mad.

Greenfinch Thu 25-Aug-22 18:39:21

Not to put away things that are just about to be used.

Elizabeth27 Thu 25-Aug-22 19:05:45

NotAGran55 it really doesn’t matter if it is of interest again.

I would like to teach how to put things in the dishwasher instead of on the worktop above it.

kittylester Thu 25-Aug-22 19:16:43

That's a good one.

Can we also have one that says a dirty piece of clothing will not miraculously become clean by being put on the chair and will still be unwearable in a few days and will also be crumpled.

GrannyGravy13 Thu 25-Aug-22 19:39:00

Washing up and putting utensils away before I have finished using them.

Charleygirl5 Thu 25-Aug-22 19:39:47

To my knowledge, most rooms are not circular so it is really good if corners are cleaned.

Cabbie21 Thu 25-Aug-22 20:17:46

Please may we have a lesson on wiping down a kitchen surface after making a mess, especially the cooker, using the special cream for the ceramic hob?

ixion Thu 25-Aug-22 20:32:39

Let's start with the Orientation to the Working Kitchen, please?

Spice101 Fri 26-Aug-22 02:03:48

Can we add how to push in a chair after using it.

M0nica Fri 26-Aug-22 13:37:11

I have pushed in 4 chairs so far today, one for breakfast, two where he was doing taking his computer apart for some reason and one for lunch.

It would not be so bad but I am an inherently tidy person and cannot function when everywhere is in disorder.

HousePlantQueen Fri 26-Aug-22 14:00:40

DanniRae

How not to glare at your wife in the supermarket when you have had trouble tracking her down because she has had a nice chat to a friend and wasn't where you thought she should be! (It happens every bloomin week - his irritated face coming towards me and I am fed up with it.) angry

with the special advanced lesson; don't take control of the shopping trolley and walk off with it, leaving spouse with armfuls of food (especially frozen), to drift up and down the aisles looking for you, and the trolley.

Don't tell anyone else in your household that they 'allowed you to leave home without your wallet/glasses/phone'.

Kitchen doors are 'soft close', not 'self close'. Same applies to the freezer, although it is smart enough to bleep at you when you do don't close it properly.