One of the things which is most annoying is the organisational skills becoming so useless................

[Ginsing]

I used to be a positive organizational Virgo always in charge and knowing where I wanted to go to. Now I am a displaced gnome who finds it hard to organise the frogs at tadpoling season never mind anything on a grander scale. My filling skills are now very pathetic basically when the mail comes in It gets opened and if some one is coming around it gets thrown into the filling cabinet where it can be found months later in a clump of dead wood.

Yes there is even dead wood in there or I should say drift wood. Over the years as a flower arranger demonstrator and teacher of floristry I have collected quantities of drift wood which I encorporate into designs. Some rythimacally beautifl, soft grey colour and others resembling snakes or people dancing.

Yesterday I rescued a piece of staging we used to have in the shop to my horror now home to numerous wood lice, slugs and even snails. It was ot for the faint hearted. I get these ideas of how I will use things and then get carried away putting the ideas into action. The problem is that now in the guise of a gnome it is increasingly difficult and as I am not allowed to perform magic (it is banished except when the moon is full.) almost impossible.

OH wants to know what I am doing (MMMMMMM ) not telling what is the partner of a gnome ? come on VG you will know. He does not understand that bogging like this is actully very theraputic and if you all know I am bonkers it really doesn't matter.

I send gentle hugs (((((((((((((((())))))))))) hope you all have reasonable days xgins van wrinklexx

[Amanda]

You know gins you are so funny and really lighten the mood.I'd say you have really found your vocation in life,,, sit down comedy!

[Extremelygrumpy]

Hmmm that is a tricky question batchalor batchalorettes that fits mods modettes that ok rockers and rockets... See that doesn't fit so I think we have been calling you a gnome ... Male .. While you should be gormless, sorry tongue slip I meant of course gnomeless grrr iPad auto correct you are of course a gnomette, so I will be your taller ugly sister... And when it comes to blogging of course you should shield your OH from this therapy ... I know I do cos if my OH reads the thread about his Brad Pitt wig... I,ll never get him into the legolas ( lord of the rings wig and pointy ears)

VG x

[cobweb]

It's great fun trying to remember where you've put 'important' stuff, isn't it? I decided to stop putting things in the 'safe place' because that's become a black hole - does yours eat up all your things? Mine does. However scraps of paper with random phone numbers that I have NO idea who they relate to, keep turning up - WHY? I still don't know who they are, yet these scraps won't stay thrown away.

One of my favourite expressions to descibe my inablity to find things is that" I could lose an elephant in an empty field." It sums it up really, I can look in the same place 10 times but then it's there. Maybe it's the borrowers again (childs' book)

As for being a gnome (or not) I sell pixie & gnome dust (as well as witch, wizard & of course fairy dust) Maybe you should try scattering some & see if your magic works at other times of the month. It works for me, well, when I can remember where I've put my wand!

Happy pottering, Harry style obviously!

cobweb xx

Grrr, if I hear another Xmas song I'll throw something at the radio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ginsing]

So the dirivitive is "Gnomette" hmm.. but in this sexless Fibro world shorley a gnome is a gnome. Yes in days gone by certainly the male adjective but now no gender is aplicable. Surely a gnomette is something you would find as a hostess on a plane or indeed looking after one in a holiday village. Lets stick with gnome ok sis.

Thank goodness you agree we will sheild OH from this therapy after all he would not understand any way! I have managed to get OH into FC outfit once a year but it did not require legings or stockings to be worn. Large beard an black wellies was enough! rather fancy the thought of LOTRWPE. Is that an anagram I am no good at those. I guess PETROLW help in sanity fast approaches.

xgins van wrinkle

[hamble99b in reply to Ginsing]

gins do you :-

go to the "ideal gnome show";

listen to the "gnome service" on the radio;

have a sign above your door "gnome sweet gnome"?

or is your gp with the "national elf service"?

I'm all out of puns now.

chuckles,

sandra.

[Ginsing in reply to hamble99b]

Nice one andra I am chuckling along ! xgins

[Extremelygrumpy]

True true, now you mention it I expect an 1950s style advert to pop up advertising the new gnomette that no 50s housewife should be without in her kitchen I guess that's why they had time to cook dinner have babies wear full make up and have a waist, all thanks to the indispensable gnomette.. Actually my mum has a saucepan from 1958 as she is proud of telling anyone who will listen , maybe I should ask her if she had a gnomette.

But should you tire of being a gnome I can send you a bag of hair clipping to stick to your feet and you can be a hobbit.... I have told my fibro it has to behave in december cos I AM going to see the hobbit at the cinema....

Plus I am amazed and impressed at you getting your OH into a sort of father Christmas outfit, nearest I got to that from my OH was him standing outside in the freezing cold and dark shaking sleigh bells .... well a tambourine with those little cymbals along the edge to convince our son father Christmas was coming and that was his sleigh and reindeer getting close.

Hmmm think I,ll get my Lord of the rings sheet music out of the piano stool and give it blast soon to set me in the mood

VG x......

[hamble99b in reply to Extremelygrumpy]

my Mum had a mop that was 53 years old! - it had only had 19 new heads and 8 new handles in all that time!

sandra

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[Ginsing]

Talking of Ideal kitchen parahenallia my Aunt (who is now 94) had a fridge it was tomatoe soup colour she bought it in the fifties and it only went to the junk heap in the sky two years ago. I was really sad it should have gone to a museum. Nothing is now made to last the same is it xgins