Peggy's Mundane Thread

Ps congrats Peggy.

Groan.

Greenjock wrote:

Washing machines are a paranormal phenomenom.

Clothes that were definitely put in them never come out, and clothing you have never seen before often emerges without explanation.

I now undertake the majority of my household's laundry and I am frequently gobsmacked by what goes on inside these things.

My little lad is currently obsessed with stones and every other load rattles with at least one little pebble and more often than not a handful of them. This is spooky because his brother, who isn't my son, used to do the exact same thing at our old place. This proves to me that it is their mother's fault and she also leaves tissues in her pockets regularly!

I'm turning into my mum.

My boy still does it Jock!

Stones, sticks, cans, jars, lolly sticks and bits of paper just to name a few of the things he has picked up. He even walked in to the house with a newspaper one day which he nicked out of the letterbox from next door without me seeing him!

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With my daughter it used to be keys. We had a man come to read the gas meter and he put his keys on the floor while he did it. Said child 'helped' him do his job and then walked off. Man left to go to the next house. About 20 minutes later he knocked on the door asking if we had seen his keys! It took another 15 mins to find them because a 2 year old is not very helpful sometimes at the best of times! He has been back a few times but he has never put his keys down!

With my lad, it's mobile phones.

I had a company phone with my last job. At the start of a week's leave I put it on a worktop in the kitchen, connected to a charger, and left it. when I went to get it on the following Sunday to check for amy important messages, it was gone. I tried phoning it, in order to locate its whereabouts. No luck, the battery had obviously drained.

A full-scale search was launched. Two days later, the phone was found when I read George his favourite bed-time story, and from within the pages of The Gruffalo fell my work mobile.

Not that this was the only occasion this had happened. My Blackberry had to be replaced a couple of months ago when the aforementioned Demonic Youth (I blame the parents) deposited said phone in the toilet. Thankfully, that was all that was in the toilet at the time, but the phone was, unsurprisingly, ruined.

Not very Mundane, I know, but I thought a 'Things Children Flush Down The Khazhi' thread was a bit too much.

I'm hungry.

Thanks Jon!

Took the small people to school this morning. Got soaked on the way home. Less than five minutes after I got in, the sun came out.

Need to go to the post office later.

I've got to post a letter too!

Off to Dartmouth soon, I hope the road between Dartmouth and Totnes is free of tractors and old turds who drive at 20mph!

Did my leg in getting out of a taxi last Friday, been unable to walk properly or go out since. Now running out of supplies.

I had to go to the BIG Post Office yesterday! The one with the slippery pavement outside and the "queuing system".

I only wanted to know where I could post a letter to Ruta. The woman who served me had no idea what I was on about so I told her she was a 15 year old girl I had been watching swimming.

There really wasn't any need to call the Police because I didn't know the feckin postcode!

Greenjock wrote:

I had to go to the BIG Post Office yesterday! The one with the slippery pavement outside and the "queuing system".

I only wanted to know where I could post a letter to Ruta. The woman who served me had no idea what I was on about so I told her she was a 15 year old girl I had been watching swimming.

There really wasn't any need to call the Police because I didn't know the feckin postcode!

I can help you there - Home Park is at PL2 3DQ. No, really, it is

pepsipete wrote:

Did my leg in getting out of a taxi last Friday, been unable to walk properly or go out since. Now running out of supplies.

I'm sure one of us could pick up some milk and bananas for you, Pete.

Andy_Symons wrote:

Greenjock wrote:

I had to go to the BIG Post Office yesterday! The one with the slippery pavement outside and the "queuing system".

I only wanted to know where I could post a letter to Ruta. The woman who served me had no idea what I was on about so I told her she was a 15 year old girl I had been watching swimming.

There really wasn't any need to call the Police because I didn't know the feckin postcode!

I can help you there - Home Park is at PL2 3DQ. No, really, it is

I know that. I have a t-shirt with it on.

The Police didn't care about the postcode when I said I had something I wanted to put in a 15 year old girls gold letterbox

On Wednesday, I had to take my mum to an appointment in Plymstock. En route (that is yer actual French) I drove up Memory Lane.

Yesterday, I had to go to Plympton. There were no interesting street names.

Oh - forgot to say. Sainsburys are doing double nectar points innit all weekend.

Managed to get down to St Budo Kwop today. first shopping for 10 days, was running short of everything.

10 days.......I wont try to workout what you used for bog paper...probably didn't have any papers to recycle last week....that's when quality newsprint is best to buy.

During the last war the shortage of proper toilet paper lead to a resurgence in the Black Bottom - a dance that was popularised in the 1920s.

Seen it all today, as I looked out of the kitchen window I saw a bloke on the roof of the house behind us power washing the tiles. The force of the water was blasting black shite everywhere including all over their next doors house leaving the white upvc facia, guttering, down pipes, alarm box, windows and yellow painted masonry plastered in this black grime. Not only did their own house not fair any better but the cars parked in the street close to the house also coped it. He had no scaffold, harness or roof ladders just him and the power hose on a wet roof, twice he slipped but twice he steadied himself, it was real fun watching and it was free. Never have I ever seen or heard of someone doing such a thing, it made my day.

ZYPH wrote:

10 days.......I wont try to workout what you used for bog paper...probably didn't have any papers to recycle last week....that's when quality newsprint is best to buy.

Normally keep eight rolls in stock (2 toilets) so lasted out.

Sainsbury's Basic toilet roll says on the packet that it's for 'everyday use'.

So are there people who have a different one for best?

We had to buy bog roll this week. We just have 1 variety in the house, although I have been to a house with bog roll that was colour coordinated with the bathroom decor.

Peggy wrote:

Sainsbury's Basic toilet roll says on the packet that it's for 'everyday use'.

So are there people who have a different one for best?

Yep quilted with Aloe Vera for when guests are coming.

I'm always worried about recycled toilet paper.