Peggy's Mundane Thread

Just sat in the Lisson Grove doctors surgery - bloody nightmare - kids screaming and a woman across from me lifting her right cheek, farting loudly and then declaring 'pardon me'..... Was like Bedlam

On the sofa, Poppy McDougall is snuggled underneath

ive put my back out

Bad news just heard the little ones are having a sleep over tomorrow. if I like a glass of alcohol I would go to a pub.  (by the way my brother owns a pub)

I like pubs

White van dropped off a young fella over the road at about 7.45 this morning. He got a wheelbarrow and started shifting 'stuff' about. White van drove off. Young fella gets his phone out and a flask and sits down. 8.35am White van starts coming back down the road - young fella drops his phone, stuffs his flask inside his jacket and hurriedly starts moving 'stuff' about again in the wheelbarrow.

Amusing.

Decided to wean myself off playing Farmville.......   

On the little one's computer (PC) which I set up in a cupboard, My laptop has broken its hinges rails on an HP Pavilion DV2000 laptop 14.1" LCD it will take a month to get here. (£6)

Not sure where to put this. Was reading, conspiracy theory books mainly, and saw a reference to dish-towels. Why are they called tea towels? Can't even imagine a reason for this. Just made me ponder.

Steve

Towels used to dry the dishes you used when you had your tea, maybe? But then you'd have dinner towels too, and breakfast towels. Not to mention snacks-in-between-meals towels.

Surely that would mean that you need a massive cupboard in your kitchen for towels, a towelitrie if you will. Just wondering on the origination of the term tea towels. It seems odd to me and something that I'd never noticed before. Mundane, but unusual perhaps.

Steve

Quite beautifully mundane. Foreshore.

Elsewhere, it's getting a bit blowy outside.

I've got a really itchy ear.

Tea-towels were used to dry expensive china tea-cups & saucers in England. Dish-towels are American. (Thanks google.)

I use a dish-cloth to do the dishes. This all gets confusing.

I prefer to wash the dishes than use the dishwasher - I use that mostly as a massive draining device - keeps the draining board clear and then just close the door while the dishes dry   

I don't even have a draining-board.

knecht wrote:

I don't even have a draining-board.

Not surprised about that Knecht, you don't have a road to your house either!   

Should have lots of water though

Just nailed the garage roof down!

hand towels, face towels, bath towels, tea towels - bits of material to dry things with.
i own an arse towel

Mapperley, darling wrote:

hand towels, face towels, bath towels, tea towels - bits of material to dry things with.
i own an arse towel

It happens to us all eventually.

 

I have a bar of soap that says face on one side and fanny on the other....... Never used it!

My cats don't like catnip.

Someone was telling me about a friend who was asleep starkers upstairs one morning. When his wife shouted that there was a leak under the sink he jumped up, went down stairs to fix it. Anyway while under the sink their kitten decided to attack him with its claws! He ended up with 12 stitches. 6 on the top of his head when he jumped up and 6 on his onion bag!