Peggy's Mundane Thread

I call my sofa settee. It keeps it on its toes.

knecht wrote:

I call my sofa settee. It keeps it on its toes.

I think that's silly - and Bertie, my wardrobe agrees with me.

I need to get my car washed I keep forgetting what colour it is under all the mud

My car's just over three years old. Never washed it. No point - it only gets covered in seagull poo straightaway.

Hectic morning with the four year old (now she's stopped wearing her birthday badge I feel safe skipping the but only just bit). Due to the cold, we had to do indoor stuff mostly. Two rooms are now completely wrecked.

Also had to go to the post office and the Co-op, but not til after I'd dropped her off.

Go on, you haven't finished the sentence. Where ........?!

The post office is in the Co-op in Marlborough Street.

Or did you mean where did I drop her off?

Friday night telly's gone a bit rubbish the last few weeks.

Where did you drop the poor child from?

I don't have a tv. I don't have one because it's much more fun reading the letters that I get from the TV Licence people.

I didn't drop her off from anywhere, bless her (most of the time). I dropped her off at nursery.

Then crawled home as if I'd done a week's work.

Woke up in the middle of the night in a right old state: I've been less than truthful on here, and people have been misled. My car isn't just over three years old. It's just over two years old. Sincere apologies.

The rest of it - about not washing it and seagull poo - was true, though.

seagull droppings are highly corrosive and will damage the paintwork, should be removed immediately.

The rain usually sees to that.

How about pigeon droppings, Pete? I left my car under a tree for a few days last week and the buggers covered it.

all droppings bad, but seabirds worst, has a high acid content to digest fish bones.

Thank you Pete. If anyone has further questions re bird droppings, would you mind if we came directly to you ?

I used to be a member of the RSPB but I never saw any information on this subject.

So now I am the official site shit expert.

Pete I am a RSPB member and I know naff all about bird poo

Off now to watch Grandson get muddy on his motocross bike

Pepsi Pete, knows his shit.

seadog wrote:

Pepsi Pete, knows his shit.

been in it enough times.

Always good to have a resident expert.

Not so cold today. I might actually be able to get some work done without my fingers falling off.

Her indoors has decreed I strip the wallpaper in the hall stairs and landing, O dear I can't wait.

I used to have a steamer thing for that, until I lent it to somebody ... Great, it was, like picking a scab.

Used to try and make patterns whilst stripping it, maps were favourites.

While stripping hideous paper from a whole three bedroom place (not my current hovel) I got absolutely obsessed with trying to get the biggest possible piece off in one go. It had to be completely intact: even a tiny rip at the edge which might have been there already would disqualify it. Measuring implements were at hand constantly, as was a small notebook to write down my latest success.

At the end of the job (which took a few days) I discovered the error of my ways. Bleddy difficult getting a whole wall's worth of embossed wallpaper into a black sack.

Yeah but the more big bits you have the fewer the number of titchy bits. The big bits might be tricky to get in a binbag but the little bits stick to the carpet and are a right pain to pick up. Where you went wrong was allowing the big bits to dry out once stripped. Wallpaper with dried paste on is cardboardy but when it is still soggyish it's all squishy and should easily fit in a binbag.