Fruity is in the pie of the beholder - 10 / 10 thread

[FrannyandZooey]

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MamaG where have you been??????????

Boco glad thy were ok,have a luverly day with Beeeeeeeee.

MrsC, to the cottage being grubby & the painters!!!!!
Blooming cheek!
Glad the camping was good tho...was it featherdown one?
I really quite fancy doing that.

Boiler has broken again
Well...was making horrid noise,so turned it off 2 days ago
Boiler man turned up this am & announced it was a valve gone & we would need a plumber to fix it.Also pressure was far to high & water was poring down our back wall into neighbours garden...cue furious shouting from mad said neighbour.
Plumber cannot come out till tomorrow evening..
We will be stinking by then.I've had to wash my hair & do the washing up by boiling kettles
Bah humbug

making blackberry jam this afto

We went to a farm about half an hour drive north or Dundee (my geography is dreadful). It was nice. I felt very relaxed afterwards but now am in full scale flap as to whetehr to move house/towns/schools/jobs etc (but thats a whoooole other thread!)

Cave fairy sounds a bit rubbish. Prefer cave baby, or mini pirate

that would north OF Dundee, not north or.

Where WAS this holiday cottage? Grubbiness aside, I like the sound of it (am i odd?)

Oh lordy

Lol at cave baby being rubbish

Hmm..we only have boyish stuff I'm afraid
gave huge amount of fairy costumes etc to my god daughters when ds was born.

Yes you are MamaG
But we still love you

What do you mean, sounds suspiciously like Withnail and I, OB?

I wish I was exaggerating, I'm really not. It was a lovely cottage with an amazing view and quite comfortably furnished but it was NOT CLEAN. I have photos.

I have just spoken to English Country Cottages about the ponds and the woman was a bit funny, said it was up to the owners to declare ponds. Well, yes, but some of the houses advertised say toddlers beware, unfenced pond, so you don't imagine there to be two hidden behind bushes at the end of the enclosed garden. I have to write a letter.

Lully - it was Featherdown, and we will be going again. It was great.

I've just passed a fairy costume for a 2yo on OsBa, you missed it by less than a week.

I like the cavebaby idea though.

Hmmmmm...it it's not up to the owners tho is it?
They should inspect all their properties for suitability & ponds are not generally suitable for small children.
I would be cross.

exactly, they should ask their owners to declare ponds. Ponds kill toddlers every year. Obviously we checked the garden but it was dd who found it behinid the bush.

I would be writing letters too Guad. Fairly strongly worded ones at that. Surely a cottage with unfenced ponds is unsuitable for families with small children and should be declared as such? If I were letting a cottage out (I wish!) I'd fill any ponds in.

We are going to fall off the edge of the world soon...

Ponds should be declared and fenced if young children will be going anywhere near.

When I phoned and said we were staying in her cottage and I was having a few problems, she said, 'which one?' in a very snooty voice. That annoyed me straightaway.

quick someone start a new thread. Ican't as I'm still a newbie veglet.

and after that she didn't answer the phone

Well I think it is a very bad attitude to have to be huffy about it when they were obviously at fault & had been lax with inspections & descriptions.
Can you imagine what would happen to their business if there was a fatal accident at one of their properties?

I think Franny was thinking the alfa alfa garcia one?

Sounds v. dodgy.

it does?

I'm not wrinkly long standing enough either MamaG

And have never been clever enough to contribute properly to a thread title discussion

I therefore absolve myself of any responsibility

Guad - did she sound like Hyacinth Bucket? That is how I am imagining her. Hyacinth Bucket with propery in the cuntry dontcherknow.

or perhaps even property

I bet Hyacinth Bucket doesn't make typos

No no, the cottage situation, not the title

I'll do it if there is agreement on the title. Franny wanted the potato one, but potatoes aren't actually veg, are they [pedantic]

yep, she sure did. And she said, loudly, 'I can't hear you properly, I'm in the Shetland Isles and it's absolutely bucketing down'.

Ok, she didn't say bucketing but you get the jist.

oh, yes, we are close. Still the same title I see though, this one has been here for ages.

go with alfalfa

Franny & I agreed that because the potato one made us giggle, it didn't qualify as humourous just becuase we sniggered.