Made me smile

 Alexander video called me yesterday with a bit of a problem. They recently had their loft boarded and had started to put a few things up there (after everything he said to us about loft clutter). He had gone into the loft yesterday only to find that the stored things were getting damp. 'It's only lack of ventilation' says me.  'Have a look on You Tube because all you need do is remove a few bricks and install a vent'...(I feel it should have been done by the builders as it's a new build house). It made me chuckle as I remembered my daughter bringing a new wooden kitchen worktop that she needed to have cut into a particular shape. The conversation went a bit like this..... Please could you use your Jig Saw and cut it for me mum...  Aren't you supposed to ask your dad to do that kind of thing' says me.. No says daughter.  He would make a mess of it and I know you would do it properly.... :-) 

When Tony and I first got together I had just bought myself a little house. Tony was working up in Scotland at the time and a sleazy local man  (total creep) assuming I was alone offered to repair my fence for me... No thanks says I, I can do it.  He scuttled off and came back with a tool box filled with rusty crappy tools. He got the shock of his life to see that I had fixed the fence and was in the middle of planing some wood with one of my lovely sharp and shiny planes.  The  neighbours there referred to me as 'Charlie Dimmock'  as when I moved in I arrived  with half my garden in pots and set to creating a pretty garden within days of arriving. They told me that they kept expecting the BBC Ground force team to arrive at any minute.  Just before I moved out I loaned a load of the flower filled pots to my new next door neighbours when they put their house up for sale. It totally transformed their drab little garden and they sold within a few days.