🦞🦂 *What are we up to?*🦂🦞

You do make me laugh Doodle. 😂
The inappropriately named TalkTalk

I discovered years ago when trying to speak to a human about my telephone that BT left no phone number...

I hope your weekends are not too wet.
I'm looking out at a very wet landscape.

My 2 friends came for supper last night and we had a very cosy evening round the fire.
I'd made leek and tattie soup for starters so the lemon sole, peas, more tatties and salad went further.
I'm a canny Scot these days 🤣😅

Thanks for all your suggestions Kaimoana
I am grateful really. I would just much rather do displacement activity.

Evening all. Been for a walk with the group this morning and a nice chat after.
Spent a useless hour on the phone with the inappropriately named Talk Talk who only communicate in text messages. 😡
Grmmaretto pleased you liked the dancing though the bobbin one sounded a bit of twister. Hope you had a nice tea with your friend.
Kaimoana I’m sure anyone would be grateful to have one of your lovely scarves with Pom Poms. Do you make the Pom Poms yourself?
I’m still knitting for church. We sat yesterday in our little group inside the church. Not much in the way of lighting but we had a lot of lovely chat.

www.bhf.org.uk/shop/donating-goods/donate-to-charity-shops

www.toys4life.co.uk/

And try the CAB (Citizens Advice Bureau) for local places.

Easy peasy, even from New Zealand

Uncle Googles said:

"In the UK, several organizations and retailers accept used toys to reduce landfill waste and support children, including Oxfam, The Entertainer (via The Salvation Army), and Toys 4 Life. Options range from high-street shop drop-offs to dedicated toy recycling banks, with many charities, such as Barnardo’s, also accepting good-quality donations. "

I have found people taking old things (including toys) through Freecycle.org but I think you had someone not turn up once...

There is womens aid but they don't want old toys.
I wish there were jumble sales like the old days.
Now even charity shops turn up their noses at anything old or used yet I used to love finding bargains at them. We I still have the sit in toy car which my DC and their DC loved. I know it will end up in a skip 😒

How are you all?

I'm just back from the shops. I've invited another friend to tea so am wondering if my food will stretch. It will have to.
I shall attempt to light the fire. The wood has been rained on so may be stubborn to light.

I hope all your loved ones are safe and mine too. Such a dreadful landslide in NZ.

I would suggest you Google 'Womens Refuge' and see what comes up, after all, dessperate women MUST havea number to call eh?

How do you donate to women's refuges Kaimoana?
They are not advertised for obvious reasons. I can ask around.

My knitting is almost finished but I still have to pick up the stitches around the neck and make a collar. I can't do tricky things in the class. I stick to easy things.

Ceilidh dancing tonight was fun and very hot. One dance called "shifting bobbins" we got into such knots it was decided to try it again at the beginning of the evening when our brains wouldn't be so tired.

I think the skull came from a joke shop. My boys loved joke shops!

I'm in bed already.
It's been a long day.

Being unable to correct my mistakes, I just knit on regardless !
I reason that whoever gets these colourful scarves with pom-pom ends, is unlikely to spend time examinig them for faults.

When you are decluttering or sorting things to give away, please don't forget Womens Refuge.
Thos women and children have often left abusive homes with just what they were wearing.

Good toys are particularly welcome.

Ixion it’s not so much a ratio of talk to knit as talk to unpick. I can knit away quite happily for ages chatting to everyone then spend ages unpicking as I’ve gone wrong.🤣. Very basic pattern k3P3K3 to end. You’d be amazed how many times I’ve gone wrong………or maybe you won’t 🤣
Kaimoana yes that’s true. So many things these days little ones wouldn’t understand.
Notspaghetti i feel as though I’ve gone into “power save mode” working at low capacity.
Bit like me and my propelling pencil only to be told it was called a mechanical pencil .
A clockwork skull Grammaretto good gracious, what sort of toy was that? Oh are you having haggis. DH and I were in a cruise once on Burns night and we had a piper aboard to pipe the haggis in. I had my photo taken with him. He was twice the size of me I looked like a child.

Tegarding clockwork toys , yes I remember a skull too. And the ubiquitous chattering false teeth!

Sorry to say they are expecting more rain today as well it seems
What a disaster it has been. Pleased your family is safe. You are no doubt watching the weather there Grammaretto as I was recently in the Philippines.

I did feel rather selfish when I was relieved that my own family was safe. Obviously it is terrible for those less fortunate

Ours had a clockwork skull!
It reminds me that I have hardly made any inroads with the toy and games clearance.
Deep sigh!

There's a Burns lunch today so I should fish out something tartan to wear.

I was very relieved that my NZ DS and family weren't caught up in the Manganui campsite disaster. It sounds absolutely horrific.

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On reflection, she may know clockwork toys - but my grandchildren tend to call them "wind-up". I'm not sure if there is a difference mechanism-wise

The older ones definitely had wind-up spinning tops that you set off with a sort of pumping action and even the youngest have had very small wind-up plastic chicks or fish robots/dinosaurs/cows etc

Sometimes I definitely feel that my battery is running out Kaimoana

...sometimes it's a slow trickle-down and sometimes I just suddenly feel "enough" - so I suppose that's like the two main sorts of batteries!

How much language and understanding changes with each generation.

I was explaining to my grand daughter (who'd asked) how slowly I must walk now, having only a scintilla of sight left and would have used the expression 'slowing down like a clockwork toy' when I realised she wouldn't know what I meant.

'Slowing down like a toy with its battery running out....?

What is your ratio of talk to knit, Doodle?
Do you bring your own or follow a predetermined theme?

🤣🤣 So true Kaimoana never did happen did it.
Nice time at church this morning but very wet day outside. Art tomorrow then church knitting in the afternoon.

I remember when computers were really coming into their own, decades ago and the general comment was:
'We'll be able to do away with all that paperwork".

Hmmmmm

KImoana i knew you would come up with an ingenious way of doing things. Hope Doc on Thursday get some action for you,
Ixion 🤣
Been helping a friend sort out some paperwork today. Why do band and building societies send out so much junk. Hy not just a on sheet statement,

Just back from an inaugural Community Knitting group, where we all but took over the capacity of a local independent café.

All around my age, early 30s, ladies of a certain age busy clicking away.

The waitress bringing my coffee asked, when I requested to pay,

Are you alright with a card reader? 😡

Would/will they provide aids or just good ideas?

Good luck for Thursday!

Thanks for your caring thoughts.
I can assure you I am not in any actual danger as I have altered a great deal of my life to fit in with my disabilities.

I do very little cooking now, having burned myself on oven shelves and cut myself with prep knives more times than I prefer.

Like many old people I live on simply stuff and have perfected getting a poached egg out of a pan safely. I pour boiling water egg and all into a seive over the sink.

When the toast is ready, I turn the toaster upside down and the bread falls oit

Yes, I too wish you could visit. Wouldn't it be lovely?

Having received no reply to my 2 request to the national agency who assess the elderly for safety in the home, I am seeing my doctor on Thursday, she'll get them moving.

Kaimoana i am such a wimp compared with you. When I think of he difficulties you encounter. Your courage and fortitude amaze me. Sending your much love and hugs. 💕

Grammaretto you’re amazing. Please keep it up. I seriously struggle with two miles and need to rest a lot. My hip, knee leg and ankle are a problem the hip and knee make me want to get off my right leg as quickly as possible and my LFT ankle makes me want to get off my left leg so I do a sort of limo on both sides, 🤣
Ixion my day brought me close to tears. Had a difficult morning with broadband installation which took 4 hours and questions I couldn’t answer. DH would have sorted it in seconds as would our son who is in Miami at the moment. I wasn’t upset so much about the broadband so much as missing DH and his input. All,sorted now and I hope it works.
Molehills become mountains when you’re on your own.