You can never have enough...

[Lilith7]

Forgot bananas the other day so had to zip over the way to get some - I seem to be getting better at forgetting stuff when I do the dreaded groceries. While I was there had a swift look in Postie plus in case they had any polo neck merino tops but no, so that's probably it until next winter.
It dawned on me while I was there that all the shops will be having the July sales, trying to sell off all their winter clothing so may look elsewhere when I have time.

Quite cold here, such a contrast to the previous two days. Never mind, at least I got the lawns done before we get more rain.

[Roma]

Good afternoon. Blue sky outside now and the day has warmed up after morning rain. 

Yes Lilith, sales will be on soon and before we know it summer stocks on display, even if it's still cold! Not that I venture into them nearly as much any more. 

Morning taken up with a visitor,  a bit of catch up around the place this afternoon. 

Have you tried the supermarket Popeye, they sometimes have sewing oil.

That's a job I could/should do to my coffee table OHH ... plenty of water marks and round circles showing despite the coasters available!

Enjoy the rest of the day.

[popeye333]

Yes Roma I have it on my list to look.

I didn't find it online at the supermarkets so will look instore.

Had an hour yakking with my cousin in Adelaide this afternoon. She's the Matriarch now. The eldest in my generation in mum side of the family. Although all the Aunties are still with us.

I go for my hair consultation tomorrow and I've promised to show her before and after photos too. I haven't seen her for hmmm 28 years lol

[kiwimade64]

morning ladies, another wet day but the sun is trying to poke through. 100 pages! Good grief that has come around quick!

The chess board sounds lovely, OHH. Well done on the sanding and oiling. Rice bran oil is another you can use too. MrK melted some beeswax, mixed it with a little linseed oil and let it set to a soft set, and uses it on the finished wooden goodies he makes. It took a bit of fiddling around to find the right ratio but he seems to have that sorted.

Today is housework day. Might as well as it will be raining. Tomorrow the weather gods promise a fine day so I'll be pruning the roses. The clematis is going berserk and will need repotting soon. It's still flowering so will wait for it to finish. And I still have some other seedlings to plant out but it is far too cold and wet to do that.

I found some dripping at Countdown yesterday so will make some bird pudding today for the birds. Only problem is I hate the smell of the dripping melting.

Happy crafting

[popeye333]

Morning everyone

The sun is trying to come out.

A big day for me today. Will do my bloods and get petrol, Gull has 12 cents off till noon tomorrow.

Then I go for my consult at the hair dresser.. Yay. So the knee will have a break there. Then off to Pukekohe to food hunt and find a couple of things for birthday presents.

And Ill go to Spotlight too even tho Im a little annoyed with them. They wouldn't even consider having the pattern at the desk for me, saving some walking. But I want the pattern so will go in.

Ive decided for Bobbie to get her some hand cream, shower gel type things as I know its something she likes. And I can write her name on it. And its not something I can "Get Wrong" like I could with clothes.

I expect to be sore by the time Im done on the food hunt but I have to do it. And once home I can take a pill.

They are talking about your First Jobs on Breakfast this morning. Unofficially I did piece work sewing before I was 13 , cos after Dad died Mum took on some sewing. Doing the hems on covers for the springs in Jack in the Boxes, but the boredom got to Mum and I ended up doing it. I saved my pay and brought my own set of Bata Bullet basketball boots, I was Ever so proud. They were $11 lol
Then when we moved up here my first full time job was in the jean factory here.. Id been sewing since I was a young girl and it just carried on. $101 a week and I thought I was rich lol.. Id go back to a sewing factory in a flash if there was one close.

Have a fab day all

[Oh_hunnihunni]

My first real job was in a cafe in Palmerston North, they had one of the first Italian coffee machines and learning to use the hissing monster was a challenge. That was the holiday 'day' job, the evening one was kitchen hand in the local Chinese restaurant - used to come home very stinky, the family started calling me 'Chow Mein'. All pay packets saved to fund getting back to Auckland, I hated Palmerston North!

Had fun this morning! Pulled back the curtains to find the windows the wettest I have ever seen, so out came the Karcher. Around a cup full from vacking the french doors and the side windows. As I was swiping they were steaming up again, lol, so I opened one door and popped a cardy on against the chill. All clear now. I do wish the healthy homes thing though involved a dvs system rather than those two noisy fans that do half the job. Still, we are promised a heat pump between now and next year, so we shall see what difference that makes...

It will certainly be useful in summer, if these heat waves are something we have to deal with!

[Roma]

Good morning. 

Sunny outside,  I hope it lasts. 

Popeye, I'm having my cuppa in front of Breakfast ... the crew just read out your email/txt about your first job  doing piece work sewing, which they queried amongst each other! The 'bata bullets' made my ears prick up, lol.

My first job was cleaning the store and staff room in an office supply and stationers after school. I don't remember the pay, but it was my very own money ... that I started saving for my eventual little old Escort car! 

Nothing particular planned but booster this afternoon.

Have a good day.

[popeye333]

Yes I saw them read it out lol..

Emailed them back to tell them what piece work was.

Ive always been lucky in being able to go onto autopilot and do the work while my mind was elsewhere lol.

My first car was a Ford Angliar.. loved that car

[JanW]

My first holiday job was at the plant nursery across the road - he paid me a five pound note - I took it home and was standing in front of the open fire - we lived in a huge draughty old house - my Dad opened the front door - in came gale force wind and my 5 pound note sent into the fire - I can still remember the absolute shock as we watched the money burn - at the time Dads business was really struggling so he gave me an IOU - my next job was much better I went to work in a book and toy shop in the Main Street - she was a lovely lady and you were allowed to read when there were no customers - I spent my first pay on a beautiful leather journal
My Mum used to often talk about her first pay - she spent it on a red beret - a man came into the village on a bike selling French beret and she couldnÔÇÖt resist - she was never any good with money
Better get cracking Hockey at 10am they are playing Auckland - never ever beaten Auckland today might be the day

[Mica]

Morning all
Raining and more rain balmy 6 degrees with, heavy rain watch, strong wind and snow on some roads warning

DD did turn up yesterday morning so granddad looked after DGD while we both went to Spotlight as she wanted to get some material to make a friends toddled a sun hat and while there also got material for friends older DD to make a wee skirt. I had been to SL for couple mo ths seems like there was more stock in at one time it looked like they were having a  losing down sale..

My mum did piece work at home when we were small children. 

Volunteer day it will be freezing but there is so much to do at the moment so will rug up well 
 Definitely a indoors day so will be in sewing cave this afternoon.

Enjoy your day

[kiwimade64]

there is a God lol. I shouldn't laugh or snigger but we are close contacts for Covid from our family lunch in Tauranga on Sunday. We were masked up but MrK's cousin's husband wasn't...

[Roma]

Snigger away Kiwimade   

I have a couple of FB contacts with covid currently ... I SO don't want it! One has been miserable. The one in Oz is isolating at one end of house,  wife at the other.  It will be interesting to see if she gets it ... or not! Though I know of several instances of one or 2 members in a household staying covid-free, no isolating amongst them. There is no rhyme or reason why some get it .... others don't!

[kiwimade64]

yep, Roma. When our grandkids caught it the adults in the house didn't. When the adults finally caught it a few weeks ago the grandies caught it again, this time more seriously.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

It is the long term effects that worry me. Especially among us older folk. I do not have that many brain cells left to afford to lose a chunk. Another couple of weeks and I can get my reboost organised, and maybe by then we will have access to those free fancy masks at the local pharmacy.

I grew up with my Mum working from home. She and her father started a lighting company before she married, and when I came along she would be home designing and making the new shades for the bases, before taking them and me, into the factory to teach her team how to put the new ones together. So I was surrounded by glorious fabrics and the smell of hot glue from an early age, no wonder it became a life long love. One of my best childhood memories was a set of wooden blocks my Dad brought home from the factory, they were the leftovers from the turned bases he was coming up with for the company. Mahogany, teak, walnut - the most beautiful timbers, all hand turned and polished to a shine, and some lovely curved pieces that made great bridges for our little cars to travel over.

At school I fell for knucklebones and became quite good at playing. Of course that sparked my Dad into more ideas and he came home with a set of brass ones for me, made again in the factory where the fittings were produced. But as you can imagine, they were a little harder on the knuckles than the lightweight aluminium set was, so became more ornament than useful.

Early influences, interesting the way they play out throughout our lives.

[Lilith7]

My first school holiday job was in the Sanitarium factory; a friend & I got jobs there to make some money. It was dire; because we were teenagers, it was required that we attend morning prayers before work started - they had a room kitted out with religious portraits (& being 7th day Adventists no one had tea or coffee) & there was hymn singing, usually the most awful dirges they could find as far as we could tell.
The people weren't bad but the work quickly became boring - on my first attempt, I managed to overflow a jar of peanut butter but was told that everyone managed to do that.

Freezing here, & tipping down with strong windy gusts - not looking forward to the walk later.

[popeye333]

Oh Im sniggering for you Kiwimade.. Nice to see Karma hit lol.

A variety of jobs for us all.. Ohh Jan that truly was burning Money.

Mum had to tell me to stop buying things for her when I started working. Seems I must have cared to some point back then. I remember the first thing I brought was a set of Milk Jugs with the 3 different sizes, and there were Pheasants on the side. MrP brought his mother a set of jugs, different shaped but had the same Pheasants. Uncanny.

Soo Disappointed Spotlight didn't have the pattern. Did get the oil and got 30% off cos its a year since they opened ion Pukekohe.

By the end of my shopping I was dragging my right leg, sooo sore but I enjoyed myself and got bits and pieces fpor the birthday presents.

My Spoil was a Pears Soap. The original clear brown ones. My Sister loved them so for $2 I treated myself. It will be for memory for a while before I use it.

Had my Hair consult. Im going grey lol.. Light and dark but more silver than grey. Cant wait, next Thursday. She said it will look natural and wont need so much touching up cos of my own grey. She could tell that wouldn't be happening since its been so long since I was in a hair dressers. And it will be long enough to put up in the summer.

Better put my progress up on Fb and then ring MrP.

Ohh I tried two skirts this morning that I wanted to wear. Sadly they have gone from being too tight, to too loose, they slid from top to bottom.. I will put some elastic on them cos I really love them.

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Karma may have caught up with my neighbour with the ,might be covid, suffering grandson too. Came home from a weekend of babysitting that grandson on Monday, and hasn't been seen outside since...

We are a suspicious lot.

[kiwimade64]

morning ladies from a stunningly sunny Waikato Look out roses, it's prunning day!

Your hair sounds like it's going to be gorgeous, popeye You won't know yourself!

Lol OHH, it would seem karma is doing the rounds Don't you just love it!

Today I have to pick the RATs test kits up, the place that doles them out was closed yesterday. We feel fine but better safe than sorry.

OHH, I read your post about DVS not being part of the Healthy Homes Scheme. We enquired about that too and the chap said they are working on it and hope to have it part of the scheme in a 'few years time' and to 'watch this space'. Far too slow, I think this sort of thing should be available quickly.

Time to get moving, don't want to miss out on the sunshine and get washing hung outside.

Happy crafting

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Windows are a lot less rainy inside this morning, must have been milder out there overnight. I did have a bit of fun late yesterday afternoon, sitting on my bed hand stitching a recycled antique denim blue bullion fringe all along the bottom of half the curtain, so now it brushes the floor rather neatly. I will do the other side over the weekend to match. These really are DIY drapes with a creamy calico extension and then the fringing, they just please me so much I grin at them a lot. Sometimes it is the little things that make life fun...

[Mica]

Morning all
The squally storm continued overnight. Brighter this morning but still windy.

Gotta love karma

Bit house stuff this morning, DH having 2 teeth out this afternoon they have been giving him trouble on and off for some time both him and dentist have admitted defeat.

Need to sew up DGD some new merino bodysuits she has had a sudden growth spurt and grown 2 sizes. Hope to get something cut out this morning.

Enjoy your rose pruning KM

Have a fun day and keep warm