Bliss Today.....

[gness]

It wasn’t the arrival and erection of the new shed.....or the lovely shed man offering to re-roof our existing shed.....

It was the shed man taking away with him the eight hundred boxed white wall tiles that I’ve been trying to get shot of since March. Heavy though they were it took me about ten minutes to load them onto his truck before he changed his mind......bliss....... :-)

[Gizmonster]

I wonder if the shed man is going to have some nice white tiles on his bathroom wall sometime soon :)

[bobbs202]

Bliss for me was sharing my grandsons 15th birthday, him being born at 14 weeks premature and is now a strapping 6 ft young man, couldn't be happier today

[spathiphyllum]

Did you give them to him free of charge?

[gness]

His father in law is, Giz....and of course I did, Spath....happy to see them go.
Early baby, Babbs....nice day for you today. :-)

[spathiphyllum]

You could have smashed them and made a mosaic. "A blank wall" you could have called it. OR! Dug a hole and made a pool.

[bobbs202]

Absolutely Gness, from 1-10oz to a perfectly healthy ,loving young man with a wonderful nature

[sherrardk]

... was attending the things’ leavers’ assembly where the whole class received awards and thing 2 received the dinner ladies’ award for being kind and polite - and I didn’t cry :)

[Cloverjo]

Oh, so lovely, sherrard

[Buenchico]

I'm surprised that the shed man's erection didn't provide Gness with bliss ;-)

[gness]

I should be so dull, Spath!
That was tiny, Bobbs.... must have been a worrying start....x
That’s lovely, Sherr... :-)

[gness]

It was a close thing, Chris but when he said he’d take the tiles all else faded away for me.... :-)

[bobbs202]

Yes it was Gness but someone was watching over us in 2004

[goodgoalie]

sherrard, why do you refer to your children as 'thing'? Do you think it's funny? Do you call them that to their face?
Are you not familiar with the awful case of the couple in California who kept their thirteen children chained in squalor, made them pose in T-shirts with 'Thing 1', 'Thing 2' etc on them. If you haven't, have a look, and then tell me if you still think it amusing.
https://www.google.com/search?q=family+kept+captive%2Bthing+T-shirt&rlz=1C1AOHY_enGB708GB708&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=BMoUzMVQ5kUyEM%253A%252CSLvj1lT37ToToM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kRvFAMxC6QV_3e2BKIob_2yBB7pKg&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiXuOamt7rjAhUuUBUIHZhLDKAQ9QEwAHoECAYQBA#imgrc=BMoUzMVQ5kUyEM:

[bobbs202]

GG, I'd say Sherr wants to keep her family's names out of a public forum and I have to say I agree with her

[Toorak]

There are other ways to preserve anonymity than to refer to PEOPLE as ‘things’.

[bobbs202]

But it's not hurting anyone and it's Sherrs choice

[sherrardk]

GG, I shall explain AGAIN. I have boy #1, boy #2, girl and thing 1 and thing 2 - I have referred to them as such for ever. Obviously they have names which I’m not going to share on here but for the purposes of brevity it’s easier to refer to them as I do. If you have any other comments on how I raise my children or comparisons with child abusing nut jobs, crack on.

[goodgoalie]

I fully understand that, bobbs - what's wrong with 'my eldest' or 'my youngest', or something similar. Calling your children 'thing' is really really not funny - look at the link.

[sherrardk]

Toorak, it comes for a world book day when boy #1 went to school dressed as the cat in the hat and the three eldest wanted to dress the two youngest up as thing 1 and thing 2 (and it’s also none of your business).

[sherrardk]

GG - would you prefer #1, #2, #3, #4 and #5? Does that offend your sensibilities any less? I don’t actually call them that.