What misconceptions do you harbour..........

Oh poor ou, hope you didn't catch a cold. I think in England we all have the misconception that our summer means warmth and just at the moment we could be right. When was the match?

Oops the 'y' dropped off, sorry

Yesterday . I had got burnt by the sun on Monday and Tuesday whilst gardening and was worried about sitting in the sun for a whole day and becoming more beetroot like - silly me!!

We also have the misconception that you catch a cold from being cold...

I think the whole English season thing has become a misconception Kittylester. I vaguely remember long, hot summers, crisp autumns, cold winters and delightful springs. Or is that my imagination? I actually turned the heating on for a while yesterday - it was so chilly here that poor OH (who works from home) had frozen extremites and looked very miserable when I took his afternoon tea in...

That it's reasonable to expect a twelve year old to hang up a good jacket rather than store it in a crumpled heap on the floor along with ... you really don't want to know.

Been there, got the T shirt!

That men and women are the same species.

Galen , me too. I once realised that I had not seen 8 year old DD2's 'best' black dress for a while and she needed to wear it. Eventually tracked it down to behind the wardrobe

Moved, now, that really is a huge misconception!

kittylester I'm still having similar problems with my 22yr old! Asked him to put out white shirt for wash. "I haven't got a white shirt" (I knew he had) It made it to the laundry basket 2 days later looking like it had been stuffed into the smallest space ever.

I have the misconception that SIL will ever talk about anything but cars bless him

I thought "couldn't give a toss" was a perfectly OK expression (if not for use in social situations).

Not something I used often .... as demonstrated by my SIL of 7 years acquaintance, being stunned when he heard me use it for the first time, last Christmas.
Nowhere near as stunned as I was when he enlightened me as to the meaning.

OMG !!!!

As a child and living on the east coast of Scotland, I remember each summer as being sunny but cold. It probably rained half of the time! Winters were very cold with many feet of snow!

@inthefields - Thanks for the laugh! In a similar vein years ago I was visited by friends, who jad a positively cherubic little boy of five, rosy cheeks, blonde curls - straight out of a Pears soap poster... He went in to my next-door neighbour's house to watch TV with my neighbour and her little girl.

Apparently impressed, he pointed at the screen and said 'F---ing hell!' - then turned with great composure and said 'Oh... sorry', and carried on watching.

My neighbour nearly wet herself telling me about it... ah me, her little girl is now a mother of eight, and Vasco (that was his name) is a businessman in Las Vegas...

I harboured the misconception that having spent all morning cleaning the inside and outside of my windows that they were sparkling and not a smear in sight. Then out came the

Aka!

lol Aka

And on the subject of domestic misconceptions, I fondly imagined that hoovering before going out meant returning to a tidy house.

Apparently I should have mentioned this to the dogs (or possibly the cats ....but the spaniels look distinctly pleased with themselves)

inthefields I know what you mean! We once had a puppy when left alone for the first time opened the kitchen cupboards and shredded 9 toilet rolls and scattered a large packet of cornflakes all over the floor

I thought that I would wash an Indian cotton rug in the bath and put it out in the sunshine to dry to perfection. I could envisage it, sparkling clean on the sitting room floor, complementing the decor. The dog waited till I had laid it carefully then promptly threw up on it. It's soaking in the bath again. I don't know if I've got the energy to do all that again today. It's really heavy soaking wet.

my memory of living in Edinburgh during my childhood is of long hot summers but not much snow in winter but then again that could just be an illusion, perhaps english seasons dont apply here in Scotland,

having lived in Glasgow for very many years there can be quite a lot of difference between weather in east and west

We had a golden retriever, red setter cross some years ago. When he was rescued by us he was 15 months old. We left him to sleep in the kitchen of our Victoian house and because the walls were thick no-one heard anything. Came downstairs the following morning to find he had climbed onto the kitchen units and smashed all the china to the floor. I mean all the china, we had to replace everything.

The next night he was allowed to sleep in a cubby hole outside our bedroom and he became the most perfect, beautiful dog ever; still miss him.

That Peggy, our younger Jack Russell had started to grow up and stop chewing things. The other day she destroyed the bathroom door, having accidentally shut herself in, received a very slight whack on the bottom from my slipper, sulked then had the bright idea of pooing in said slipper. As they were nearly new suede slippers I attempted to wash them. They have shrunk by at least two sizes.

Our young dog chewed anything and everything (she's a mix of two different gun dogs so very 'mouthy') We just made sure there were permitted chewing toys that don't look like anything else (daft to buy those that look like shoes etc) all around the house. Yes, it was a bit cluttered for a while but slowly she got used to what she could and could not chew - big raggies and cow hide chews worked best- and nowadays she rarely chews anything she should not.

I had a mini Schnauzer who consumed an entire box of Black Magic retrieved from a closed cupboard (!) while we were out.

He was sick on and off for 3 days, and it put me off chocolate for a loooong time

Gosh inthefields....he was lucky, chocolate can be lethal for some dogs.