AlanHo Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 You've turned into your dad the day you put aside a thin piece of wood specifically to stir paint with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 You've turned into your dad the day you put aside a thin piece of wood specifically to stir paint with.Wonder if I would turn into my Dad? I always thought I looked more like my Mum. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Irene that reminds me the one that goes along the lines of "if your Aunt had ***** she'd be your Uncle"! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchful Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 You've turned into your dad the day you put aside a thin piece of wood specifically to stir paint with. :lol: :lol: Our shed is full of little sticks of wood, and plastic pots! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 On dear. I've been my dad for fifty years or more then.On that topic.... I was ferreting about in one of our sheds, where we keep paint and such like, last back end, and I came across a strip of floor tile. It was about an inch wide and the full length of the original tile. It was left over from when I tiled part of the kitchen and the utilty room about seven years ago.It had brown paint on it for about half it's length. As I stood looking at it, and wondering, management appeared. So I asked the obvious question. "Oh don't throw that away, it's one of my paint stirring sticks." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchful Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 :lol: That sounds just like me! I haven't yet begun to save little pieces of soap yet though, as my mum used to do B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Soap wouldn't be much good for stirring paint with... ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irene Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 :lol: That sounds just like me! I haven't yet begun to save little pieces of soap yet though, as my mum used to do B)I'm almost reluctant to admit that I only recently persuaded myselft to stop sticking the last bit onto the new one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 I must be wealthy, I use a fresh one each job and bin it when I have finished. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 :lol: That sounds just like me! I haven't yet begun to save little pieces of soap yet though, as my mum used to do B)Was she a Yorkshire woman? She must have had some Yorkshire blood somewhere in her pedigree.Talking of soap...When we had the farmhouse we occasionally had mice come in from the barn which was attached to the house. We had a sink unit affair in the old "back kitchen" which had a small drawer under each of the draining board and cupboard underneath all of it. The main purpose of the sink was to be a handy place to wash hands and veg. etc when coming in from the garden (or garage). In one of the drawers we kept a couple of bars of "cooking" soap, Fairy or Jeyes or some such.One day management opened the soap drawer, after neither of us had been into it for months, and out jumped a mouse, leaving behind it a few small portions of well nibbled soap. Just how many mice had been cleansed from the inside we shall never know but they must have been pretty desperate to eat so much soap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted April 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 Talking of soap...When we had the farmhouse we occasionally had mice come in from the barn which was attached to the house. We had a sink unit affair in the old "back kitchen" which had a small drawer under each of the draining board and cupboard underneath all of it. The main purpose of the sink was to be a handy place to wash hands and veg. etc when coming in from the garden (or garage). In one of the drawers we kept a couple of bars of "cooking" soap, Fairy or Jeyes or some such.One day management opened the soap drawer, after neither of us had been into it for months, and out jumped a mouse, leaving behind it a few small portions of well nibbled soap. Just how many mice had been cleansed from the inside we shall never know but they must have been pretty desperate to eat so much soap.Definitely a Fairy story - and here was me thinking that bubble and squeak was a fried left-overs dish - and all the time it was a mouse with painful flatulence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandalph Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 :lol: That sounds just like me! I haven't yet begun to save little pieces of soap yet though, as my mum used to do B)They were hard times when your parents and mine were younger. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watchful Posted April 4, 2008 Report Share Posted April 4, 2008 :lol: That sounds just like me! I haven't yet begun to save little pieces of soap yet though, as my mum used to do B)They were hard times when your parents and mine were younger. :D They were hard times and they, no doubt, made huge savings in their little economies.We've had it so good compared with them but old habits die hard.It is a fact that mice and rats will eat soap as I once worked in an office attached to a warehouse storing Proctor & Gamble soap products and the men often found cartons chewed by rats and the contents. If only they'd had tin-openers they would have had a better menu in the food section :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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