I think we should have a forum entitled...

Granny23 damn commas. Or maybe crap-cutting?

Sel I hope you are not saying that J's comments were crap or was it only the cutting ones

Icyalittle go on then, I feel sorry for your bleeding finger - concerned though that dripping blood onto a keyboard wouldn't be wise

The thread I presume is tongue in cheek started by a returned poster who once called herself jingl and now is jinglebellrocks I think. She was sorely missed by many, myself being one, for her incisive wit and crap cutting comments.

Hope your finger isn't too sore tomorrow.

Help! I am feeling confused, what with soaking handkerchiefs, watering men's knickers pants, ironing poinsettias, feeling left out because everyone knows jingl except me . And I sliced my finger mandolining cabbage for coleslaw and dripped blood everywhere (not that it is relevant, but I want someone to feel sorry for me).

bags I used to use that on my own children, and only now realise what a barbed comment it is. Was only saying what I feel.

Thank heaven for small mercies.

Well they haven't exactly rushed to take me up on it.

absent As ever, you are probably right!

My father always said "Nothing is boring; people are bored."

If the OP were a genuine rather than jocular request and such a thread instated, I think it would trigger a mass resignation from Gransnet, including mine.

sunseeker a woman after my own heart. Ironing is boring, boring, boring..

What about if they've got sat on and are creased? On a cool iron of course?

Don't on any account iron the house plants! - I think the posts are getting confused.

Well that right ANA , that what friends are for .
Laugh !

Thank you dustyangel.

I'll send you mine, Nonu! Anything to help out a friend...

I lurve ironing , find it very theuraputic . Wish I could do more !

sunseeker I thought Galen was talking about hankies as well.

jinglbell it's nice to see you posting again.

Can't stand ironing but my poinsettia is soaking in a bowl of water as I type.

I put his hankies in the wash with his drawers pants, well away from other laundry. When dry I fold each one twice, make into a pile, and iron the top of pile well. It does.

He is tissue phobic.

Galen I thought you were talking about hankies at first! Ironing is the work of the devil designed to keep women down and I will have no truck with it.

Eglantine I soak them in a bowl of water when they're dry for a few hours( why I never need soaking). Never water from above and keep them in the coolest part of the lounge , ie in front of the fireplace. I move it if I have a fire though!
See picture thread

As I usually have bits of tissue in every pocket [coats, cardigans, jeans etc] I keep meaning to just use hankies. In fact, along with thinking that everyone should have one biro and then replace that one biro with another [or with a refill, like wot we used to do; I mean, hands up who owns tens, possibly hundreds of biros or varying ages] I want to start a campaign to get everyone used hankies again. Men do; I reckon it's just women that don't. Although this is just for use on sniffy noses; tissues should be used for heavy duty stuff. And then thrown away. Before they make their way into the washing machine, and cause a disaster.

I use man sized hankies as well. Yes they must be ironed!

I use so-called men's hankies, which are softer on the nose than tissues, and I iron them. Usually. I also iron teatowels, napkins and pillowcases, but not much else.

No wonder I failed as a housewife .... I have never in my life laundered a man's hankie, would rather have sold my children.

Thankfully my ex was a tissue man - Roses I see that you also soften his pants and socks!