I hear a cold winter is on the way. Must get some logs in for the fire (smokeless of corse )

They said that last year.


lee

It has to be a mild winter this year - to make up for the fairly lousy summer we have had!

I've heard it's going to be cold too... but I've got my logs in already. Chopped back in March, and drying in the sun since then.

They say it will be cold every year - if it is they are right, if it isn't everyone is glad & don't worry that the forecasters got it wrong.

This is a very polite conversation. Are you having a TERRIBLY S-L-O-W day, immy?

Will the forecast for cold weather affect your business? is the current Indian summer an advantage to house selling?

I've started two posts today! and am sitting here swotting up on home info packs so you could say I am BORED OUT OF MY MIND!
2 months to xmas and counting.
What shall I do today? I have no appoinments

You could start a competition to find the most unusual household object available on eBay. How about a purdonium?

We did find ' a date with my hairy friend' on EBAY last week! urrrgghhh!

how about an elastic band fight with your coworkers?

I found a used sock the other day.

I have some used socks in my drawer at work!

so have I

I've heard the warm weather is due to air flooding in from Spain.

The purdonium might be just what my dad's looking for - I've sent him the link

Meanwhile, as most unusual Ebay item, can I suggest the following 'mystery item', described as follows:

"The other wooden item is rather a mystery

It is beautifully crafted but I have no idea of what it was made for, I thought it may be to hit a gong with, or maybe to grind something with but I am really not sure."

immy
now is the time to start your searing expose of EA's at work......or your novel....

immy are you saying that no-one is registering property for sale or is it a lack of buyers?

a bit of both we are selling stuff but from viewings that took place weeks ago.
We are down to almost the fewest properties for sale in 10 years
I should write a novel perhaps
Anyway we were joking that the 'Penny for the Guy' kids outside the post office next door are earning more than us right now!

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Originally posted by Hatster:
Meanwhile, as most unusual Ebay item, can I suggest the following 'mystery item', described as follows:

"The other wooden item is rather a mystery

It is beautifully crafted but I have no idea of what it was made for, I thought it may be to hit a gong with, or maybe to grind something with but I am really not sure."

Hatster - I saw that very ad on eBay! The object looked like a wooden mushroom, didn't it. I'm such a saddo - I happen to know it's a thing to help you darn a sock. I don't know this because I darn socks - I don't, in fact, darn socks, but my nan had one.

I don't think it is a thing you darn socks with, because it doesn't have enough width at the end - I think that might be another thing? (My granny too has a sock darning mushroom) I think it might be a porridge stirring stick?

Is it not for keeping your PIE CRUST up so it doesn't get soggy? (from the gravy). Oh well, just a thought, mmmm, almost lunchtime I can smell the bisto.

patpot.

Sorry - I got all excited because I thought it was a sock darner. perhaps it's a different item? The one I saw didn't look like a stirrer of any kind.

Patpot - do pie crust holder-uppers have to be china or ceramic? My nan had one like a singing bird.

we're clearly all finding very different objects...

Was it a singing pigeon??

patpot.

An elderly neighbour who does wood turning made my mother a porridge stirrer, called I believe a spurtle (sounds like something you might buy at an Ann Summers party! )
It's a Scottish name I think.

Yes it is Scottish, and it's used for stirring things which is why you can buy them at Anne Summers, they are sold with a tartan ribbon tied to the handle.

patpot.