Have your feet got worse as you have got older.

Witzend
I too have a microplane...for grating Parmesan cheese.
Let's hope that you don't have spaghetti too soon after your pedicure.

Ginny42
He arrived one day when I was doing my feet which were ready to paint.
He had parcels which he put on the table as I had the nail lacquer/varnish in my hand.
As it was the last call I asked if he wanted a cuppa (I know his wife) which he accepted and watched while I finished doing my feet.
I actually did wash my already clean hands before serving his drink)
The next time he called was on his way home a couple or three of weeks later and I happened to be doing my nails again ( but not on the same day of the week)
It was then he asked to 'have a go at painting them'.
He's a likeable lad from Co. Cork, (I think it sounds like Glengareef) and has many tales to tell, probably half of them exaggerated but his accent makes it funnier.

My DH asked me your postie works for 'Royal Nail'

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BTW, isn't plantar fasciitis what used to be called fallen arches? Or have I got that wrong?
No, it's something different - I think plantar fasciitis causes heel pain, it is when the ligament is inflamed I think.

Fallen arches are something that can occur if your ligaments are too long or from a trauma to a tendon etc.

My postie is a really nice guy, but I honestly cannot imagine allowing him in to do my pedicure.

I think my postie has been reading this thread - I opened the door to say 'hello' and he legged it down the road in haste!

Vent all the disapproval of me you like but I would have said it extremely ill mannered to paint one’s toe nails in the kitchen when someone else was present, with the possible exception of my daughters.
Some things are best kept for the bedroom or bathroom , and that includes cutting or painting finger-or toenails, removal of earwax, drying or brushing hair etc.
Is this a question of upbringing?
Oh and I grate my Parmesan with a cheese grater. What weird things you seem to think of GG
Yuck and thrice yuck.

Perhaps not every poster is lucky enough to have a bathroom or indoor toilet, MawBroon

breeze
Very droll. I'll pass it on. ??

Blimey I wouldn't trust my postie cutting my toenails, lovely as he is, he has to squint hard at some mail to make sure it's mine. I'd bleed to death !

It's a microplane from Lakeland particularly for grating Parmesan or lemon/orange rind.
I used a battery operated thingy from Superdrug for my feet.
The postie visit happened when I was about to paint my nails. As I walk around barefoot at home there was nothing weird about putting varnish on my toe nails any more than it would have been odd to paint my fingernails.
Of course, inecwoukdn't do that in someone else's home...ever, but it's my home.
He doesn't do anything other than than put varnish on my nails if I have none already on and he's not here when I do a pedicure which is done in my bathroom, as is brushing my hair and other solutions.
Good grief. GNers have disclosed that their dogs have pooped in their kitchen overnight.
What is more horrible than that?

EllanVannin
For the avoidance of doubt
He does not*cut my nails or do *anything other than paint them on the odd occasion. Maybe 5/6 times in 5 years.
That's what happens when you don't read what had been written, instead, making it up to suit yourself.
Don't make it up.

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What is more horrible than that?

I think the general consensus is - this is.

And as for 5 /6 times in 5 years or whatever, you told us two of those were within 3 weeks of each other.
How many mornings did you have to loll languidly bottle of nail polish in hand before you “caught” him I wonder.

Ach...you're just a misery guts MawBroon
Get a life rather than pulling other people to pieces.
Your particular brand of censure doesn't wash with me. Try it on someone else. You might get lucky.

I have a life thank you (I always feel that “Get a life” jibe is the last resort of those who have little imagination.
I am not a miseryguts either, and in what respect might I “get lucky”?
Pull a postie?

This brings to mind those old tales of the milkman and his 'little extras'.

Gabriella I was " just sayin' ".
I was aware what you'd said about him painting your nails and don't need that" I don't read things properly ". Believe me, I'm the last person to " make things up to suit myself ! Try looking in the mirror at the one who does !!

EllanVannin
Meaning what? Eh? Do you know me?
Lol... think of something original to write.
That old 'look in the mirror' line is threadbare.

GabriellaG54 I don't think I have ever said anything negative about anyone since I joined GN. Everyone is entitled to their views and most are interesting even if I don't agree.

But honestly, I feel that you post and respond with the intention of cultivating a 'slanging match'.

When I read where you have told another poster to 'get a life' it smacks of school playground behaviour and says more about yourself.

I'm actually feeling very sorry to have to write this post and wonder if you GabriellaG54 have something missing from your life that you need to behave as you do.

I have a sign in my kitchen which says
"Putting out someone elses candle does not make yours glow any brighter".

I apologise if I have offended any other posters.

No, there is nothing missing from my life, nothing at all.
I started with a comment and then got some iffy replies including ones which were designed to elicit a response, which they got.
Why are you getting involved?

My postie expressed surprise recently that he’d caught me with my clothes on at last. I usually answer the door to him wrapped in my dressing gown as I’ve been doing my yogalates (or have just rolled out of bed).

GabriellaG54
Now, that is just what I mean.... Coming back to me with "Why are you getting involved".
Challenging attitude ...

No-one else could have taken offence at your post Coolgran65

Maggiemaybe my postie didn't come until about 2pm today. Luckily I was dressed but, as I said earlier on the thread, he legged it pdq.