It’s a bit like that isn’t it @Cheery Gardener. We had dinner guests for the first time since the pandemic a few months ago and it felt like the preparations consumed a whole week even though the menu was not fancy. Also one of the guests was a very house proud ninety year old.
Well, pooh! The previous resident at my new home doesn't seem to have done any recycling, so there are no recycling bins. So I ordered new bins from the County Council. No problem, they said - just put out your recycling in any bin, and it will be taken.
So I put my paper recycling outside, in a plastic bin with a note on the lid saying: "Waiting for new recycling bins".
It hasn't been taken.
At least the County Council have acknowledged that my address exists now, so there is a chance of the new bins being delivered.
My favourite Chinese gift is a cheerful looking gold plastic pig, which the NE Man got on a trip to China in 2007 - the Year of the Golden Pig.
Not a conference gift, but something the NE Man bought himself - a bright red silk padded tablecloth, embroidered with multi-coloured dragons. The red runs every time it's washed, although, astonishingly, the tablecloth hasn't faded. But it has to be handwashed, and it takes up the whole of the washing line to dry. It takes forever to dry, because of the inexplicable padding.
My husband loves it - he thinks it looks magnificent (it does!) but he isn't the one handwashing a ******* tablecloth.
ETA - I forgot to mention that it has tassels.
That’s the kind of thing you hang on the wall as an art object! (Saith the Vietnamese household). I’ve never met an Asian family that used such a thing for its alleged purpose. I HAVE seen them on walls.
@WormInTheGrass I had to pace myself and plan out my preparations. I made the biscuit mixture one day and refrigerated it. Then the day I planned to bake, it was ready for rolling and cutting out which made things go much more quickly., While the bikkies were cooking I could mix up my quiche and when the biscuits were all done, the oven was hot enough to cook the quiche. It's funny though how all the little things take up time and headspace. Remembering to set out tongs for serving, putting out drinks and glasses, enough plates. I really need to have friends over more often to get myself in the right headspace!!
I love the sound of the beautiful tablecloth/wall hanging NEQ!
Funnily enough we have several Chinese wall hangings too - two come from a former colleaugue of @Celtic Knotweed while the one on the stairs dates back to her grandfather doing the accounts for the Chinese restaurant in Peterhead - this could date right back to the 1940s! That is the nicest, it is a scene full of birds, all worked in silk, so has been hung out of sunlight.
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We managed to look pretty tidy and organised, I felt a bit like a duck with all the activity below the surface.
So I put my paper recycling outside, in a plastic bin with a note on the lid saying: "Waiting for new recycling bins".
It hasn't been taken.
At least the County Council have acknowledged that my address exists now, so there is a chance of the new bins being delivered.
That’s the kind of thing you hang on the wall as an art object! (Saith the Vietnamese household). I’ve never met an Asian family that used such a thing for its alleged purpose. I HAVE seen them on walls.
I love the sound of the beautiful tablecloth/wall hanging NEQ!
That should read "a former colleaugue of Celtic Knotweed's father"... grr!
It's been a long job!
🙂