Jam Insurance Hens

From Facebook Archives

4 August 2009 at 16:27 

Fester came home with a box of chocolates, plums and strawberries - we are making rhubarb, plum and strawberry jam.

4 August 2010 at 12:07

I’ve saved over £200 by changing to Saga from Kwikfit car insurance

4 August 2011 at 16:18

It is persisting down here now!!!

Henlady   and here, the hens are sitting in the hall watching the rain outside.  They don't like getting wet!

Bentonbag  Hence my mother's expression "as mad as a wet hen".

Ernextdoor  Oh I think they sound very sane sitting in the hall watching from the inside - sounds a clever brood to me xx

Bentonbag  She was using mad in the sense of angry rather than insane - I don't know why "as angry as a wet hen" doesn't work, but somehow it doesn't sound right  

Ernextdoor  Never heard of that saying before but after a brief google search came up with various including the gorgeous Richard E Grant or REG's website http://www.richard-e-grant.com/.../reg-is-as-mad-as-a.../

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Apparently there is an app called What3Words which can be used to locate any 3metre square in the world.  I’d be most amused to find out where, if anywhere, these three word blog titles might land.  Not interested enough, obviously, to actually download the app.  

But dear readers are most welcome to elucidate me in the comments box.

 

Scaffolding Underwear Woodpecker

The Loft Extension of 2012 required copious amounts of scaffolding to be erected at the back of the house from around March until October.  When Will Fixit phoned the scaffolding firm to take it away there was no reply; it had folded.  So it remained until he found out to whom and where it should go to.

From Facebook Archives

3 August 2013 at 15:25

After well over a year 

THE SCAFFOLDING IS GONE!

I'd put out flags if 

a) I had any and 

b) I had something to hang them on.

Mr Mull  You could have used the scaffolding..

McChurch  "You don`t know what you`ve got `till it`s gone"

Bentonbag  The cat is well dis-chuffed his climbing frame and access to Thunderthighs' loft window has gone.

3 August 2014 at 22:40

I've decided to stop wearing underwear

McChurch Christ. My head just fell off.

Mr Littlefamily  The mind doth boggle

Ms Telyn  Entirely or just for the summer??

Mercy Dunn  Is this a frape by one of the boys?

Mr Minor  You too!

Ms Telyn  Going commando is a very personal choice usually and a very freeing experience.

Mr Python  Good choice

Bentonbag  It works best with a long skirt and petticoat

Sandy  I shall Try it then…

… with the long skirt and petticoat

Dicky Brown You'll never get your knickers in a twist

3 August 2023 at 18.20

We've just had a Great Spotted Woodpecker on our peanut/mealworm feeder.

I've been blaming the starlings, magpies and sparrows for pulling all the mealworms out of the mix and leaving the peanuts behind.

Iron Retune Saw

From Facebook Archives

2 August 2015

The iron has given up the ghost.   

It was Fat Steve's (RIP) so has had a fairly good innings given the hammer an iron gets in this house.

Trip to Tesco tomorrow. 

Do they do Tefal? 

Mrs Leftfoot  Rejoice!   

I strongly object to having to pay good money for.... An iron. 

I mean, what a waste.

Bentonbag  If we can pay good money for a hoover and dusters....

Drummerman  What's an iron?

Later

Bentonbag  So off I go to Sainsbury and buy a new one. 

Come home and get the old one out of the cwchdanstar and plug it in just to see. 

And bugger me the little light came on and the plate starts warming up.

Himself and I had had some discussion about whether there had been two irons in Sheffield "because Stephen had a spare of almost everything".   

We still have a brand new kettle, a portable tv and several digiboxes in the loft.   

But I couldn't remember a second iron. 

"Stephen pissing about" says Fester.

2 August 2017 at 21:09 

Ferretfingers has retuned all the set top boxes because, apparently, it's retune day.

Fester  "Ferretfingers.  You've lost the BBC News Channel on the bedroom telly.  

Come and put it back." 

A few moments later there is a "Got it" from Ferretfingers. 

Thunderthighs explains that the channel number is now 231.

"Who did that?  Who changed it from 130 to 231 without my permission?"

One feels his megalomania has taken a bit of a knock.

2 August 2021 at 08:12

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Woolerwoman  Did you ever get young Ferretfingers a chainsaw?

Bentonbag  No! He has two garden/pruning saws which have bow/arched handles, a folding pruning saw which is kept in the car for beachcombing trips, and a lovely Axcaliber (guess what I call it) woodsaw Mr & Mrs Quilt gave him for his 21st.

Woolerwoman  Now I know what to get for Christmas.

Happy Yorkshire Day

For those not in the know 1^st August is Yorkshire Day.

From Facebook Archives

1 August 2017 at 19:46

I'm reminded of, more years ago than I care to think about, getting on a train home to Wales and finding Bodrhanman sitting there.   

I knew him slightly through sword/morris dancing and sat opposite him.

"Where are you off?" he asks

"Home...God's own country."

"Eee.  Me too . I didn't know you were from Yorkshire."