Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[Martin Baxendale]

Sorry.

[Maggi Young]

Sorry.

No need to apologise, Martin, or anyone else... just keeping the forum on an even keel!

[angie]

Today I was carrying soil to the car and the heavens opened...the car park was flooded in minutes and by the time I got my bags into the back of my motor I looked like a drowned rat... I thought this gentleman was going to ask if I wanted a hand to put the bags into the car but no he was in to much of a hurry to get into his car I suppose he was maybe worried that all that gel in his hair might be washed out.
Never mind maybe another ten years down the road they might help when they see I am starting to fail

Angie

[Lesley Cox]

He was no gentleman Angie.

[Anthony Darby]

A neighbour of ours, with her arm in a sling, was trying to take her wheely bin into her drive when the lad next door came past on his way from school. She naturally asked if he would help. His reply was "how much is it worth?" Needless to say, she struggled on unaided!

[Maggi Young]

A neighbour of ours, with her arm in a sling, was trying to take her wheely bin into her drive when the lad next door came past on his way from school. She naturally asked if he would help. His reply was "how much is it worth?" Needless to say, she struggled on unaided!

Arm in a sling or not, I'd have found the strength to swing the bin in the air and clock the little  twerp with it! 

[Tony Willis]

Today I was carrying soil to the car and the heavens opened...the car park was flooded in minutes and by the time I got my bags into the back of my motor I looked like a drowned rat... I thought this gentleman was going to ask if I wanted a hand to put the bags into the car but no he was in to much of a hurry to get into his car I suppose he was maybe worried that all that gel in his hair might be washed out.
Never mind maybe another ten years down the road they might help when they see I am starting to fail

Angie

Perhaps he was one of the growing numbers who receive abuse from women when they try to act like a gentleman!

[mark smyth]

he was maybe worried that all that gel in his hair might be washed out.

He's not the only one

I do help people.

[Anthony Darby]

Perhaps he was one of the growing numbers who receive abuse from women when they try to act like a gentleman!

These women tend to have moustaches and a complexion to match!

[angie]

Perhaps he was one of the growing numbers who receive abuse from women when they try to act like a gentleman!
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Never its always nice to have a nice man help or at least offer I have never heard of any woman being abusive to a gentleman, sorry to the gentleman that have been... that's sad 

Angie

[Lesley Cox]

Perhaps he was one of the growing numbers who receive abuse from women when they try to act like a gentleman!

Silly women. I'll accept any help I can get.

[annew]

Unexpectedly got today free to get on with my bulbs, but there's a huge fire on the business park behind us where a hazardous waste transfer station has been exploding since four o'clock this morning and we are all being told to stay indoors with our doors and windows shut. The enormous pall of smoke containing goodness knows what is drifting across the village and even as far as York.

[arillady]

I do wonder about the noxious smoke that fires can produce nowadays with the synthetic world that we live in.

[Lesley Cox]

Unexpectedly got today free to get on with my bulbs, but there's a huge fire on the business park behind us where a hazardous waste transfer station has been exploding since four o'clock this morning and we are all being told to stay indoors with our doors and windows shut. The enormous pall of smoke containing goodness knows what is drifting across the village and even as far as York.

More time for the Forum perhaps then Anne?

I have been wondering a lot about how Olga is getting on in Moscow, and our other Russian Forumists. Their situation at present seems quite dire with so many people dying of smoke related problems. And now the nuclear facilities are at risk as well. I hope we can hear soon that our friends at least, are safe.

[Lesley Cox]

As noted in the Miniature Hosta thread, several Forumists are experiencing difficuly times for one reason or another. Always having had to be careful with money, I've usually been able to wangle a bottle of wine or a concert ticket with a little juggling. Now, I'm actually having to make a list of "luxuries" that I can do without. The bottle of wine is the first to go. I wonder what other Forumists would consider to be dispensable, given the appropriate circumstances? The bad thing about NOT smoking and gamblind is that I can't give them up!