Polly

Now a mum with a washing line of my own, 36 Terry nappies and a nosy friend across the fence, I pegged out almost all of the 36 early one morning. Horrors! They were a nasty tinge of green. Hastily removed, boiled again, pegged out again, green! Argh back in boiled again, as I was pegging out, by now mid-afternoon, my friend came to the fence. 'What are you doing? I've been watching you pegging those nappies out all day.' 'Green! They're green!' 'Er, which glasses are you wearing today?' she enquired. I got the point! I wear glasses all the time, and had some tinted as sunglasses; and so I removed my green tinted specs to reveal a shining array of white Terry. idiot!

Our milkman asked a neighbour what she used for her washing, 'I use Tide' she replied a little haughtily, 'Oh I thought it was bloody Bisto,' he remarked, 'if my missis put up a line of washing like that, I'd cut the bugger down!'

My grandma made new curtains, in those days linings were not used in our street. They were lovely, but she hung them so that the 'right' side faced the street, and she had the wrong side to her room. ' What the neighbours think' was a mantra often recited.

Ironing ? Nooooo! Wedding shopping? Lovely! We had daughter & small grandson for this glorious weekend. Both days were out in the perfect weather, they included picnics, merecats, balance bike riding, duck feeding, tadpole scrutiny, a cat coming for a walk with us and much swing and sandpit action. Lovely!

Ok, mypennyworth. Cators have a good name in my book, a landowning family who take a long view.

There would be an historic right of way there to the ferry?

Noooo confession is good for the soul....ask Griff

Actually if you are letting Griff loose with this masterpiece, it's going to need to be swan proof. Just ask him what he did to my birthday present speed boat on Sutton Staithe!

Nothing wrong with chains, they give a lot of scope!

Shocking indeed.

I could crochet you some fairly fine chain in whipping thread?

And allow energy/time to pack tools/materials away to the point where they are secure/comfortable to live with until the next session.

But always be polite when doing so.

Welcome Meg, good to have you here.

Totally agree, Watchdog BBC or a good route surprisingly might be her local MP

Salt! Brilliant! Poor Brilliant has had a torrid lay up and fungus has appeared. I shall be there with the salt.

And I thought Mike Jaguar had emigrated!

I am not sure, I have been using acrylic impregnated canvas for years, 10 on Rondonay and now on Brilliant and it hasn't leaked.... You might contact my favourite suppliers, Hawke House Marine, Fareham for a definitive answer.

Sounds lazy to me!

He likes to be sure we have heard them.....

Keith, I am betting you have all the right insurances, just not giving BA the satisfaction... I'd say you picked a battle that has no winners here. I am however, really, really pleased you are staying.

Hooray for 'fake news'

Yes I sent him an abusive pm at 5.30 cos he fooled me too. Lol

Good humour, Gracie, not commonsense, that is what we needed on this particular contribution, and it was signally out of keeping with the style of this forum. A pair of black wellies in a row of party shoes and comfortable trainers!

Goodbye, beware the legacy urge!