Random Irritations

[Robster59]

I remember many years ago my wife bought me a VCR for my birthday because ours had packed up. Left me feeling very underwhelmed.

Luckily for her none of our other appliances gave up the fight just before her birthday.

My ex bought me the latest Kate Bush CD. And, at the time, we didn't have a CD player. I got the hint. That CD cost me a lot of money for a new stereo system.

 

[Robster59]

Luckily my wife doesnt buy many handbags...instead she designs the bloody things, and writes and sells the patterns so that other women can make said handbags.

We've got a cellar...does it contain Beer? No. Wine? No.

Its full of old handbag projects, completed bags, half completed bags, framed certificates from when she won some national Bagmaker of the Year award (to be fair....more than I've won at golf in the same period), bolts and bolts of faux leather, harris tweed, and other materials, limited edition specialist fabric designs, spare sewing and embroidery machines - I darent ask how many machines she's got in total, but if I walk into her sewing room I can count six simply from the doorway...and another three vintage hand cranked machines...plus whatever might be squirreled away in the cellar. You wouldnt know what colour her sewing room walls are because it seems that the best way to use Victorian picture and dado rails, is to hang completed handbags from them.

She has had to put notes on all the fabrics so that, in the event of her passing, I dont throw away all of the limited edition fabric prints that she wont actually tell me how much they're worth, or indeed what she paid for them!!

Nah...you guys who's wife buys the odd handbag here and there...youve got it easy!!!

A bit like you with your golf clubs?

 

[Robster59]

I mean who wears white shorts anyway…..apart from @Smiffy

Far too prone to "The spot of shame!"

 

[Robster59]

The wife wants me to re- paint the tops of of our 2 keter storage boxes, AGAIN.
Last year I relented and painted them with Hammerite ( wild thyme ).
The wrong paint I think, now it's peeling off.
Any advice on what to use to repaint with a different make and slightly different shade.
Do I need to completely remove old paint. Or just rub it down and paint.

Yeah. Don't paint them.

 

[Robster59]

Mother in law has had dementia for the last 10 years, nil by mouth and been told there's nothing else the docs can do. Whoever described it as the longest goodbye, wasn't wrong.

My ex wife from 50 years ago has dementia, at her 80th birthday last week she didn't recognise me, her daughter, any of her grand or great grand children.
But she did think Daryn our 34 year old grand son was actually me.

I found the Dementia Awareness thread as a great source of support.

 

[Robster59]

Somebody not looking at the Random Irritation thread for a few days and then posting one reply after another!

 

[Robster59]

Sitting next to a similarly aged bloke at a do on Saturday night. We both had our arms folded and were told we looked like Jack and Victor out of Still Game!

 

[HeftyHacker]

With news like that you need to unload somewhere. Here is a good a place as any, fairly anonymous, sympathetic ears. Always better than bottling it up.

Terrible news.

Thanks LT, I think you've nailed it. We're on holiday currently and I've had to keep a stiff upper lip for my missus and I'm not sure who of our mates knows yet, so can't unload onto them. So having a semi-anonymous release on here helped a lot.

With two young kids myself it's absolutely knocked me for six.

 

[Tashyboy]

Local church
So the local RBL branch of which I am treasurer put forward a motion to get the local RBL bench which we own, refurbished. It is looking grubby. It is sat opposite the memorial. A member of the branch who worked in a prison has got permission to have the bench refurbed free of charge by the prisoners. Out of courtesy, rather than just pick it up I contacted the church warden who is a member of the branch. He has spoken to the vicar. The Vicar has informed us that he needs to speak to the Diocese to ask permission. It could take a month or two to get a response.
Irritated is an understatement

 

[Hobbit]

Local church
So the local RBL branch of which I am treasurer put forward a motion to get the local RBL bench which we own, refurbished. It is looking grubby. It is sat opposite the memorial. A member of the branch who worked in a prison has got permission to have the bench refurbed free of charge by the prisoners. Out of courtesy, rather than just pick it up I contacted the church warden who is a member of the branch. He has spoken to the vicar. The Vicar has informed us that he needs to speak to the Diocese to ask permission. It could take a month or two to get a response.
Irritated is an understatement

Easier to apologise than get permission. Just do it

 

[Slab]

Seeded Grapes

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Cyclists, or rather one in particular.
It’s 5:50am, and there’s a cyclist riding up Horseferry Road in more or less the middle of the road. There’s 4 police vans moving with blues and twos and yet the cyclist stays in the middle of the road and shouting for them to slow down.
Ignorance beyond belief.

 

[Slab]

Cyclists, or rather one in particular.
It’s 5:50am, and there’s a cyclist riding up Horseferry Road in more or less the middle of the road. There’s 4 police vans moving with blues and twos and yet the cyclist stays in the middle of the road and shouting for them to slow down.
Ignorance beyond belief.

I'd like to say I saw a cyclist acting stupidly this morning too but it was dark and he had no lights or reflective clothing so I couldn't really see him = eejit !

(not gonna let the car drivers off though, turned from daylight to dark on the commute home last night and several cars failed to switch lights well after dusk had gone = eejits!)

 

[Tashyboy]

Scandals covered up by governments.
post Office,
WASPI
miners pension Robbery,
blood scandal.
Etc etc etc.

 

[Slime]

Seeded Grapes

May I upgrade this to all grapes?

 

[Slab]

May I upgrade this to all grapes?

Narp!

 

[Slab]

Yeah, folks don’t really have a Labradoodle, Sheprador, Cockapoo or any other in-fashion nametag… it’s a mongrel. Enjoy it

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Sitting next to a similarly aged bloke at a do on Saturday night. We both had our arms folded and were told we looked like Jack and Victor out of Still Game!

5’8”, bunnet, pipe and zip-up windcheater - Jack is just sooo my dad - he just is

 

[ColchesterFC]

Yeah, folks don’t really have a Labradoodle, Sheprador, Cockapoo or any other in-fashion nametag… it’s a mongrel. Enjoy it

Completely agree with this. We've got a "sprocker" mongrel. In my opinion the whole thing is the offspring of a bulldog and a shitzu, .

 

[BubbaP]

Completely agree with this. We've got a "sprocker" mongrel. In my opinion the whole thing is the offspring of a bulldog and a shitzu, .

Feeling like a mongrel pictures thread is needed Dogs be dogs.