So you think that I sit here all day ??

[tim]

kitty - I always buy screw tops - no fool!!

Feed? All comers. Typically - every so often - up to 13 - when 2 families join us. Mostly, at weekends, only 8.

[tim]

[Debs]

only 8!!

BTW Tim, your yorkshire pudding recipe was such a triumph that I was forced to eat 3 of the monsters

on my roast chicken dinner!!! :-X :-X

Debs ;)

[Debs]

This week???...











I will mostly be eating salad ;D

[Gardenantics]

 There is something incredibly pure about hearing kids play, and laugh and make up games....

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

That reminded me of when our kids were little (Both in 20's now). We used to wake up in the morning to hear my son singing to himself in bed in the next room. Lovely memory, thanks for bringing it back. His favorite was;
'I jumped aboard the pirate ship, and the captain said to me' etc. etc. etc.
I must remember to bring up this subject with him now he's home from uni, and is unaware of mornings!

Brian

[ellkebe]

Mine's just turned 10 and I love the fact that he burbles away unselfconsciously to himself all day long - you can always tell when he's in the loo cos there's the sounds of some epic fight (plus dialogue for all characters) or a song or animal noises he's trying out (you get the idea) ;D  - all at the top of his voice of course.
(If I ask him how his day at school was, though, I get a muttered "s'ok, s'ppose" followed by silence  ;D)

[Paulines7]

I'm fortunate that I have now retired.  No more getting up at 5am to start a 6am shift.  I really make the most of it these days.    ;D ;D

6am   I get up for a quick trip to the bathroom and then back to bed and a bit more sleep.   
7am   OH's alarm clock goes off and I snuggle down the bed and nod off again as he gets ready for work.   
7.30am   Sons alarm clock goes off and a smile comes over my face as I realise how lucky I am to have retired.   ;D ;D
8am  Dog arrives on bed, OH and son go off to work, I snuggle down for another half an hour or so with dog snoring on the end of bed.   ::)
8.30 to 9.15am  I get up, pull back the curtains and having binoculars handy, scan the back garden for birds, having frightened most of them off the feeder by drawing the curtains back.   :D
9.15  Feed cat, dog and myself, checking A4A and other mail on computer.
9.45 - 10.45  Check on chickens and greenhouse, tidy up kitchen then get showered and dressed.  Check A4A for those I didn't get round to earlier.
11 am  Out in the garden digging, weeding etc.
1.30pm  Lunch.  Still need to read the rest of A4A as I have only got down to the Swap Shop by now.
2pm.  Out in the garden again, working.
3pm. Watch old Gardeners World programmes on TV.
4pm.  Cup of tea.  Pot on any plants.
5pm.  Cook evening meal.
6- 7pm.  Eat evening meal.
7pm.   Catch up on the rest of A4A forum, play computer games or watch TV.
10.45pm.  Run off a Sudoku from the Internet and get ready for bed.  Do Sudoku.
11.30pm.   zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[fbgrifter]

pailine, you and i are going to fall out.... :P

[katynewbie]

;D

Grrrrr cant wait to retire...I whizz up to the plot before my late shift and then just as the sun comes out and all the other plotties are having a well earned cuppa........ I AM OFF TO WORK!!!!

It's just wrong!!

:-\

[tim]

Nice to know a little more of people. Smile with the smilers & gnash with the workers! I just hope that all live long enough to get their just due of retirement. Rich or poor, it's worth the wait.

It's not about not having to work - on retirement, I went straight into framing & teaching for 28 more years. It's about living - & working - at home  & dictating your own life.

Finally put the shutters up 3 years ago. If we didn't have a biggish garden - & you-all - I would go mad!

No1 son might have seen that coming - hence the PC 3 years ago!! It has brought so much of our family together, from all over tha world, & I've sent our American cousins the first photos of their grand & great-grandparents that they had ever seen!! Small world, courtesy of Microsoft?

[moonbells]

I think I'd be breathless doing all of that!

My parents looked forward to retirement - Mum so she could do nothing if she could (!) and Dad so he didn't have to do a job he loathed any more.

I had always worried about the 'retired man' effect, where a chap retires, and without something to do or his work (aka status in society) to keep him occupied, he expires inside a couple of years.  So Mum and I conspired - she bought him a greenhouse and I bought him a computer! Since then, there's been another PC, National Trust membership and after 9 years he's happily gardening and they are both toddling about the countryside seeing places and... :)

My day's a bit crazy, not being retired. I'm emphatically not a morning person, so what possesses me to get up at 6.30am and go to work for 8am in order to leave officially by 4 (ha! More like 5.30) can only be the increased chance to get into the allotment while there's still daylight!  That and a home-working husband who is so morning-orientated that he virtually passes out at 10pm and wakes on the dot of 6...   ;D

Now if only he'd cook *me* dinner every night!

moonbells

[littlegem]

moonbells, i'm not a morning person, but why is it when the bloke gets up he thinks you should be up, yet when they fall asleep on the sofa at nine/ten and you make a noise they go balistic cos 'they're trying to sleep!' and when you mention you don't want to get up yet (nicely i might add) they reckon you've got the mardies on!!!
blokes, humph!