Panders
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My council switched to garden waste collection every 2 weeks and charging extra for it. I am not sure how they know who has paid and who hasn't - can't really see the bin men having the time to check that! They are efficient though. It's £50 per year and currently because of Covid when they didn't collect, they are extending the collection time by a couple of months when we will not have to pay. They collect all year. We have a fairly large garden and so any "extra" garden waste which we cannot fit in during the summer months my husband keeps stored in a large canvas bag (like sand gets delivered in) and feeds it into the bin during the winter months if he needs to. He is not a compost maker😀
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Panders replied to zigzag's topic in All Early Years settings & Childminders: General Issues
isn't that where they got the idea for Velcro from, those sticky balls, not balaclavas😁 Burrs?? -
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Panders replied to zigzag's topic in All Early Years settings & Childminders: General Issues
An aunty-inlaw of mine had a King Charles spaniel I think it was - very long floppy ears, she used to tie them back with one of those large hair curlers with a ball on elastic which fitted into the end of the curler - this was so that his poor little ears didn't get in his food 🤪 -
excellent news Cait. I too have been making masks today! My eldest granddaughter now 9 had a sewing machine for her birthday a few weeks ago. I've been expecting 2 things a) My machine isn't working what can I do and will you fix it? and b) What shall we make together. Both coincided today. Her mum and dad have no idea about the sewing machine and if I'm being sexist I would say my DIL has no interest in sewing or indeed the machine. I did manage to sort out the machine - it's a cute little thing I must say, but not particularly robust. It was just the tension really causing all the problems and while GD said she had not touched any dials the younger GD said she hadn't - but we aren't quite sure about that🤩 (she's obviously been told to keep her mitts off of it in no uncertain terms)😨 We got half way through a mask but ran out of cotton - my spools would not fit her tiny machine. They are both back for a sleepover later in the week - we'll sort it then.
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Wow, I popped in briefly Friday and all seemed relatively quiet - was surprised to see so many posts on here. Cait, a very worrying time for you, given that you have also had the virus in close family to deal with. I'm thinking of you, and know your mum will receive the best of care, just difficult when you are unable to visit and even when you can, it's not an easy thing to do. Zigzag, I think it's amazing how many times the older members of our families can pull through really difficult times. Glad your dad is on the road to making a recovery.
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Friendship type of bracelet - you could make one for them and give them enough resources to make one for you in return - or to post on to another friend
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I needed to pop to ASDA tonight, to customer services - I hadn't been over that side of our town in nearly 3 months! I certainly wasn't sure about going in there as I have only been going to our local Tesco once a week all that time - ASDA customers were going in and out of one door - at Tesco we go in and out of different doors - I'm sure ASDA could do it that way - so that was odd and then what I thought was going to be an easy drop off a parcel to customer services for them to scan turned into a technical nightmare of having to use a machine and type in details on the screen etc., not a happy bunny. I have been out quite a bit in the locality though over the last few months and so I don't have much anxiety on the driving front or going to places that I know the set up. We were on the M25 yesterday and as it had been shut for a few hours the traffic build up was really heavy, was glad it wasn't me doing the driving for once.
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It does though, sound like the traditional Indian story - The Parable of the 2 Villages - maybe it was a re-interpretation
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Try not to think about it too much now Sunnyday - the decision you made a few weeks ago - those issues haven't really changed. It's easy to think they have, but they haven't - when we see some return its hard not to want to - you miss it so much, but your reasons haven't changed, you know your own circumstances so well, I am sure you have taken the correct course of action for your group, for all the right reasons.
