Forgot about my tea and took a big gulp. It was cold?. X

MerylStreep you're not supposed to light a fire in the grate first.

I thought everyone knew that.

X

Keeping watching it V3ra!

I'm waiting for the floor screed in my new downstairs cloakroom to dry out so the laminate flooring can be laid.
It's been six days and the weather's been so humid this is as far as it's got ☹️

Meryl ?

MawBe Of course you’re are right. I confess to exaggerating but, those two were far more than I would have expected on what, on the surface, seemed a completely harmless post.

Oosadaisy
Thank you, I've had lots of practice: but I enjoy it.
How long did it take to dry I see what you did there. Very good ????

On a serious note, I do have something exciting ( well not exactly exciting but different. Builders are taking down our chimney. How they are doing it in this heat I do not know. ???

Lucca

Oopsadaisy3

Far easier to think about getting someone in to do it for you.

Sorry to divert attention from all this breaking news but genuine question, would you think it safe to get some decorating done ? Covid wise I mean
I’m keen to do so (weirdly I shall be using an unexpected tax rebate to fund it !)
.

I think it would be ok. They could self distance in the room they're painting, if you make drinks for them leave them at the door, put cups in dishwasher, wash hands. Pay by BACS.

We've had to have a couple of essential jobs done and it worked out fine. I cleaned what they'd had to touch with Dettol afterwards.

Meryl an excellent paint job, how long did the paint take to dry?

Should every garden have a lifebouy?

I don’t have one at the moment but I feel it would enhance my patio no end.
And at Christmas I could thread holly and Ivy round it.

Back from the hairdressers , all fine, thanks for asking ........

Annsixty
It's taken me a while to figure out what you meant about a pond I kept looking at the pic and thought: I can't see anything that alludes to a pond.
Now I get it ?It's the lifebelt. I have 3 in the garden.
Anything that involves water and boats has always figured very large in my life.
A friend gets them for me. When they are a certain age they are replaced.

Oh, FlyingHandbag, your escapades, honestly . Life at yours is just one catastrophe after another! You need to tone down the excitement a bit. You can probably deal with it at your age (how old did you say you were again?), but we ageing grannies.......
X

Tweedle24

Good gracious! All these posts being taken off in a thread about the temperature of a cup of tea.

How on earth can that attract such strong words?

One post deleted plus one which quoted it as far as I can see Tweedle
But
all these posts being taken off ???
Where?

How deep is your pond Meryl?

Lovely job Meryl!

Where's my photo gone?

Oosadaisy
I was gardening for a friend a few days ago and she said: I'm slinging this thing out. I grabbed it. Just finished painting it.

Good gracious! All these posts being taken off in a thread about the temperature of a cup of tea.

How on earth can that attract such strong words?

When she left university my daughter got a job with HMRC.

She quit after four weeks?

annsixty my sister and I had the same scenario with our Mums tax / pensions we had multiple rebates and demands over an eighteen month period.

All very stressful for recently bereaved family members ?

Feelingmyage55

*FlyingHandbag*. Keep them coming. I like your quirky posts. I forgot to put the teabag in the pot today so I don’t know what to call the insipid liquid I took a mouthful of. Better pay more attention.
Do you have an extensive handbag collection? I don’t use a handbag because I would lose it. I only buy jackets with big pockets.

Thanks. My mother did something similar this morning. She was making coffee and asked if I wanted a latte, which she then made and put a teabag in as well as the sachet of latte powder!! I do have quite a lot of handbags but I've never lost them. X

Husband painting garden fence just spent lovely 15mins watching it dry very relaxing
Might make him a cuppa now for him to let it go cold.

Lucca I actually had a tax refund for my late H in the same postal delivery as the demand.
The refund was for the tax year 2017/2018.
It was for £18:49.
The demand was for the tax year 2016/2017.
As I said you couldn’t make it up.

The trouble is that when you paint in this heat it dries too quickly, so it means looking for something else to do . . .?

I know! - watching the leaves on the garden plants turn brown. We could start a discussion on the various shades of brown each plant is displaying? ?

Oopsadaisy3

Far easier to think about getting someone in to do it for you.

Sorry to divert attention from all this breaking news but genuine question, would you think it safe to get some decorating done ? Covid wise I mean
I’m keen to do so (weirdly I shall be using an unexpected tax rebate to fund it !)
.

Far easier to think about getting someone in to do it for you.

The paint in this house is probably so old it's dried up by now.

We have been thinking about painting a couple of rooms but it takes a lot of thinking about.