You might be surprised. If that mossy bank is thrumming… it may not be a good idea to picnic there.
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Not ones that live in woods, ones as are made of wood. I dunno, some Birds…
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How do you all find out about your alter ego animals?
I have my new craft idea that arrived today - blank hair clasps and a few top notch silk flower sprays to cut up and attach to the clasps
A darned sight cheaper than buying fancy clasps that never work properly
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It’s according to your Chinese Horoscope, Twellsy.
The hairclips sound great.
Carinthia. xx
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I go by Celtic spirit animals
I am a sea horse and even have a hand made bronze pendant sea horse as a necklace
I am thinking that the clasps will be the sort of thing our crafty group can make and sell at the village festival to raise funds to pay for our next year’s craft supplies
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Does everyone have one? And how can you identify yours? A quick search hasn’t helped other than to fill me in on what a few of them represent…
I do like that cats are considered ‘powerful protectors and guardians of the Otherworld.’
Hmm, ‘Salmon: Symbolizes ancient wisdom, knowledge, and prophecy (e.g., The Salmon of Knowledge).’
Well yeah. I mean we’ve all heard of the salmon of knowledge.
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Speakin’ as a swan, I am a little disappointed that I missed being a fish by thirteen days…
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Absolutely, TFM xx.
Twellsy, I’m feeling more than usually conflicted. Being a bee is all well and good, but then in less than a day to also become both a goat and a seahorse, well - one might be totally discombobulated.
Today has been spent accommodating our (wonderful) joiner as he is working his way around the hive replacing narsty interior doors. Still a few to go but, as my Stepdad was a cabinet maker and my Dad a joiner, I can really appreciate his skill. The grotty conservatory roof should be replaced at the end of March and then it’ll be whole-hive painting and decorating.
Soo xx
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You can break a man’s arm. Yes dear, we know. But restrain yerself, there’s a good Fish-swan.
Gxx
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And I’m a cow, ditto.
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And I’m a b…..
Morning.
Soo xx
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But a swan wouldn’t do that unless you owed them money. [shifty look] You don’t, right?
I am surrounded by fog and the other side of the valley has gorn away.
yardarm
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Braced today to be told that the washeen, which had been becoming progressively louder and louder when it span things dry, was Dead (though I was sure what ailed it was not the bearings) and that we’d have to get a replacement, possibly costing four figures, I was pleasantly surprised by the one-man-shop local chap turning up and investigating, then locating a leak which was causing all sorts of unhappiness within the machine. He has applied sealant, instructed us not to do a wash until tomorrow in order to give it a chance to have dried properly, and charged me £65 for about an hour of his time.
Why are there not more people like him doing the simpler repairs to domestic appliances and water-systems? Waaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh…
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I take your point, Fishers, but I am in awe, generally, of people with specific skills who make one’s life easier. The Joiner who is sorting out our doors etc. is bluddy marvellous and he is just one of many gifted-by-training tradespeople who have done work for us over recent months.
As I prepared this evening’s dinner yesterday, I shall luxuriate in a long shower now. The Joiner pitches up at 08.00 and we have little time to ready ourselves.
Soo xx
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Gawds, Fishy. I remember that the previous one died just before the Fishly-Dunnock Nuptials & that there was an great deal of going to the Laundrette…
Carinthia. xx
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Last but one! The replacement eventually provided by Bosch died a bit over a year later. I was so unimpressed that we upgraded to a Meile, which we’ve had ever since.
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We bought both our washing machine and our tumble drier in January 2007, both Meile. Both are still going strong, having been through two house moves (one on a ferry), and have never required a single engineer visit. They seemed at the time to cost a fortune but I reckon they’ve more than paid for themselves by now.
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I don’t think this splendid bloke I found by purest chance actually calls himself an engineer: his advertisement is as a washing machine repair man.
This afternoon felt like a trip back in time. Only he didn’t suck his teeth even once…
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All the old skills are being lost…
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