Unusual Sunday

Oops - just read the rest of the thread and quite a few people beat me to it! What a well-read bunch we are!!

Gally and

It's dgd3 first birthday bash today, lots of the 'other' family, and on my sons side just me and my first ex and his partner.
I get on with her really well but he just rudely ignores me and reawakens all the feelings of being bullied.
After 20 years you'd think that the feelings would be long gone, but it always gets to me in the last few hours before I go!
I shall rise above it!

Rise! Love that song by Gabrielle, it's shaken me out of a few sad times.
Gally or maybe would be better.

The sun is shining but I'm quarantined now for five days so feeling even more sorry for myself.....well would be if I could keep up the feeling sorry for myself

You might be quarantined for five days vamps but unless your computer gets a bug too you can still talk to GNetters all over the civilised world... and some from the uncivilised world too!

Gally - thinking of you

You're right nanadogsbody...the internet is my contact to the world.

Gally a virtual arm around your shoulder.

thanks very much for that information!! I think Sophia said it in one of her films got that idea somehow!!

is a very apt statment for when things going well!!

gally
What's wrong? Anything we can help with?

gracem
I think we won at Flodden! Perhaps that's why the scots got hissy and went off on their own?

Didn't Gally say it was a hangover, and we are not to ask?

'All's right with the world'. Really?

Maybe you did - but you got David Cameron and we got Alex Salmond ( oh maybe I didn't meant that) - I think I'd better think it out again!

Listening to radio 4 they are talking about a book called 'the sexual life of savages'
I inherited this large tome from my father! It very useful . It gets used as a doorstop, mattress raised, missile against invaders and numerous other uses!
No household should be without a copy!

Unusual?
Just been out to remonstrate with a visitor to the people next door after I saw him spitting onto my path over the garden wall. Still shaking - even though he (teenager) did apologise, as did my neighbour.

Arrived home at nearly 2am after collecting our son on his return from Greece.

Spent part of last evening on the phone to mentally ill relative who was angry, depressed and suicidal, but much more positive by the end of the call. Can't get any response today from his switched off phone. Has happened before, but it's hard not to worry. Will keep trying.

Gally - hope it was worth it!

Dh is just back. I expect I'll be regaled with an arrow by arrow account now. Till later then.....

Bags

graces, now you're quoting from "Oliver Twist". Isn't that the line of a song the Fagin sings at some point? "I think I better think it out again."

DH learned a lot about how archery competitions work, and he has a badge.

A badge!

Wow!

Are you going to sew it on for him, or has he already got that badge?

Wow - a badge Bags! well done Mr.Bags. I think I deserve a badge too for spending 4 hours today emptying my summer house, filling the car with old paint pots, fishing nets, carpet pieces - you name it, ready for the tip tomorrow and then putting everything else back tidily ready for winter including garden tables and chairs (which were washed first). Not only did it cure my hangover but got the adrenalin going and the miseries cleared as well. My neighbour, the psychiatrist, came over the wall to give me a bit of therapy when he heard me sniffing and snuffling (and swearing); I think he 's taken me on as a bit of a case........

Oh Gally your neighbour sounds like a true gent. I find that cleaning and sorting stuff creates a diversion whenever "the glums" are threatening to settle in for a wee session.

Aw, gally, so pleased you busted the blues and the hangover. Thank goodness for kind neighbours!

Glad you're feeling better, Gally.

Nothing like a bit of physical activity to chase away 'the glums' as soop says.

Carried on gardening, in a gentle rain. Raked up wheelbarrows full of sodden leaves and finished off re-shaping the box balls - all 16 of them! - and trimmed the tops of little box plants, which I hope will make a little border one day. I've nearly achieved the look of a typical French curate's kitchen garden. All grown from cuttings - it's only taken 8 years so far ........

Pleased