Another moan about husbands - sorry!

I saw that about the plant nurseries and garden centres earlier - such a shame. I wondered that too Callistemon - surely there’s a huge market for plants via delivery services with everyone stuck at home and looking for things to do in their various gardens?

You suspect correctly Papy

It is sad that so many plants are going to be ditched, especially now when people have more time for their gardens. I suppose the rationale behind the garden centre closures is that they are often used for a nice sociable trip out rather than just somewhere to dash into to buy plants. But what a waste.

Apparently garden centres and plant nurseries are asking for a bailout from the Government because no-one is allowed to go and buy all the plants.

Now, if they are set up online and everyone wants vegetable plants can they up their deliveries or start a delivery service?

X post Grandad
but a very funny coincidence

Just received this:

Him indoors did laugh but not as much as at the Jolene one!

Oh, Maggiemaybe and Callistemon many thanks for your advice on ordering plants by post above. I will come back to you when I have finished work for the day.

Again many thanks.

sorry, pedant alert!!

Grandmum1943

So which one is Grandmum43?

Now coffee break over, head down andback to work. ?

SirChenjin, in regard to your post @11:50 today, you really do demonstrate that you have no respect for the key workers that in this unprecedented crisis are working incredibly long hours in conditions that place their health at great risk so as to supply all you require while you sit on your backside placing unintelligible rants on this forum.

Is support of the above I will place once again on this thread the post in which you called those key workers BUMs @21:51 - on the 30/03/20.

SirChenjin repost begins here:-
There definitely seems to be a couple of people behind Papy’s posts - the long winded one, pompous one who provides fascinating glimpses into the glamorous world of the haulage trade and H&S legislation (I think you’ll find it’s page 389, subclause 2, paragraph 54 SirChenjin, and not paragraph 53 as you claimed in your post of 21:34 Quo Unquote - and I will leave it to other posters to judge you for your transportation error) and the one who can barely string a coherent sentence together. Are they part of the same WhatsApp BigUpMen (BUM for short) group, each getting a shot of the keyboard, I wonder?
Repost ends.

SirChenjin as someone who states they dislike intensely myself and my posts on this forum, you continually demonstrate that you avidly read each of those posts and remember well their content. In that, you illustrate above that you remember my reference to a WhatsApp group I am a member of in which I have stated that it entirely comprises of what are at present key workers and drivers in the Road Haulage and Distribution industry.

Therefore it is obvious that you knew well who you were referring too when you described those key workers as BUMs in your above referred to post.

Therefore I feel an open apology to those workers would be in order and perhaps a word of appreciation for their efforts in this crisis would not be amiss. However, I suspect that will not be forthcoming and we will be once again presented with yet another unintelligible rant such as reposted above.

Thank you for clarification SirChenjin
I think that clears up that little misunderstanding.

I’m sorry but I can’t find the place that you say he’s referencing his own joint WhatsApp group, SirChengin. I think I may need chapter and verse explaining to me in quotes/unquotes the exact time and date perhaps. I know I’m being pedantic but somehow I’ve taken on another person’s idiosyncrasies!

Sorry gmarie but your post made me chuckle, hope you are settled now.

The Papys really are grappling in the dark for spurious examples of how they’ve been insulted, demeaned, outraged by my posts - such faux righteous indignation

Granny you’re absolutely right, it was an observation of the multiple posting styles referencing his own joint WhatsApp group that he mentioned in a previous post. I’m sure it’s not really called BUM.

Wow! I was ‘chilling’ last night and didn’t want to get my blood pressure up again so kept off GN. I return to find THREE men all wanting to get their two penn’orth in and what’s more, the dreaded H and S expert giving us his valuable advice! Best of all, you lovely ladies have cheered me up immensely with your kind and understanding responses, women (mostly) seem to know how to talk to each other.

Terribull you have given me the best laugh I’ve had for weeks! You are so good at summing things up in a humorous and very witty way! I wish I’d read it last night as I desperately needed it after finding all the weird and wonderful items purchased which were definitely not on my list. Two grapefruit, how lovely, I love grapefruit but cannot have it due to my medications. We use loads of tinned tomatoes but he’s got the best organic ones available, must have cost a fortune but of course, I’m not allowed to see the receipt.

Oh well, the dreaded shopping trip is over for another week. I’m very interested in hearing other people’s tales about anything but not especially interested in the health and safety aspects of the trucking industry (written very carefully there!).

I've ordered cucumber seeds although DH thought we shouldn't because he thought we may have a glut of them.
His face dropped when I said brightly that I could make chilled cucumber soup if we have a glut (I've made it before!).

Of course, the seeds may never arrive
But ?

I see Grandad, thank you for clarifying.
Its interesting isn't it when people read exactly the same post and extrapolate different meanings? I would read the post in question and see it as an observation, giving examples of inconsistent posting style and offering possible explanations. Others including myself have noticed the same inconsistencies. We all have to be wary on such a forum that people may not be what they seem - its part of Internet safety. Frankly I have no knowledge of the WhatsApp group referred to but I'm sure SirChenjin can detail that.

Grandad, going back to your earlier question, we’ve put in an order with Van Meuwen online for some tomato and brassica plants. We’ve used them before, in more normal times. The order’s been confirmed, but whether it ever actually turns up, well, who knows?

Your story of the cooked lettuce reminds me of when we had our first dinner party and I carefully followed a recipe for delicious watercress soup. Which probably would have been if I hadn’t used mustard and cress (I didn’t know there was any other sort). We all sat in polite silence ploughing our way through what might as well have been big bowls of hot water.

There was the time I pickled raw beetroot as well, but we won’t go there....

GrannyLaine in regard to your post @08:36 today you request me to point out where mocking key workers has taken place in this thread. In that, I will point you towards the post made by SirChenjin @21:51 on the 30/03/20.

In that post, which is little short of a rant against me, she associates workers in the Road Haulage Industry as contributing towards my posts on this forum. She then later in her rant refers to those key workers as, and I Quote, [WhatsApp BigUpMen (BUM for short) group, each getting a shot of the keyboard.]

Road haulage is an absolutely essential industry in this unprecedented crisis and all working within it, as the BBC Panorama program so well demonstrated last night, are working up to sixteen hours per shift under the crisis emergency regulations. They are also working in conditions where social distancing is often impossible, and as with the case of truck drivers, they are finding the service areas where they take their rest do not even have facilities for them to wash their hands at this time.

Therefore to witness those key workers referred to as BUMs, any self respecting person would I feel condemn outright as totally unacceptable, for that is without doubt what it is.

I would hope that the forum member who made the above post would make an open apology on this thread, but I am not knowing her charter on this forum holding my breath.

Now as a person working from home I had better get on with that work.

If DH mentions running out of milk once more he will be crying over it spilt all over his head!

I am on the verge of phoning Jolene.

Luckylegs, it sounds like he is just worried about you but I feel the same way when someone is doing something I'm accustomed to doing, especially if it involves messing up my biscuits! On the other hand, I'm replying to this because I had a good laugh at myself today as I tried to get groceries put away. I live alone and am self-isolating as I have lung issues so I ordered some groceries to be delivered. When they arrived, I TRIED to follow the health guidelines.

I'd just showered so my long hair was hanging down, drying. I put on my mask as I have allergies, pushed my glasses up to hold my hair back, donned gloves and readied myself to handle all the bags and supplies. I'd decided to take the boxed goods up to my spare room to sit for a few days. The refrigerated stuff I would bring to the kitchen and process.

What actually happened, however, was that I got quite sweaty, winded and wheezy lugging heavy bags and litter boxes up the stairs. My glasses kept falling down onto my face, trapping my hair in the perspiration so I couldn't see. I would then try to push both the glasses and hair off my face with the gloves rendering them useless.

In the kitchen, I yanked off the gloves in frustration and accidentally knocked a huge stack of frozen Amy's dinners on the floor. I was touching the plastic with bare hands, then grabbing the frig handles and bowls to load produce in. It was a mess of an attempt. If there WERE any virus particles on the packages or bags, they were all over the place by the time I got done! AND my hands are like sandpaper from all of the washing!!

The thing is, common sense is often deemed to be in short supply when shopping lists are not adhered to/misinterpreted and so on. If we take the definition of common sense to be sound judgement in practical matters, then this appears to be the crux of the matter. You could say this is a skill like any other and has to be learned.

If individuals are not taught from an early age to housekeep, shop and generally contribute then how are they in fact able to learn this skill? What I am trying to say in my alzheimered fuddled way, is that a lifetime of demarkation of roles is probably the problem here. Instead of the grumbles, embrace the diversity of the shopping bag, adopt innovative menus, and be thankful there is someone to do the shopping. Embrace the life you have. We never know what is around the corner.

Visions of Donald Trump are coming to mind......... he can dish it out but not take it, and also is full of self praise.........hmmm

Grandad I think you are going to have to help us understand your perception of 'mocking' key workers as I can't find any such reference.