Posted By Request
Posted 18 July 2008 in Random Photographs by Catriona
Admittedly, only at the request of one person, but that person is extremely important and shall everything she asks for (up to free babysitting—an easy promise to make from one-thousand kilometres away—but excluding blood transfusions. It helps that you’ve never asked for one.)
Share your thoughts [4]
1
Leigh wrote at Jul 18, 10:47 pm
Its beautiful,gosh your dads good at that stuff.
Hmm is it unPC of me to red dot it in case you die ‘grin’
2
Catriona wrote at Jul 18, 11:02 pm
Nah, I’ll put a (metaphorical) sticky label on it for you (this and Golly); after all, we happily sticky labelled (metaphorically) all our parents’ stuff, so it wouldn’t do to baulk at my own stuff.
He’s clever, isn’t he? He’s always been good at the practical stuff, but I didn’t expect he’d have such a talent for building and restoring furniture.
3
Matthew Smith wrote at Jul 20, 11:54 pm
Haha the red dot thing also happened in Steph (my wife’s) family with Steph’s mum getting a bit insulted when the inheritance cat fights broke out from when she was about sixty.
4
Catriona wrote at Jul 21, 01:19 am
We sticky label everything in my parents’ house, but they’re all metaphorical sticky labels, so we’re still relying on the goodwill and good memories of siblings. Plus, none of us really care; saying, “Ooh, I“ll put a sticky label on that!” is shorthand, now, for “Nice new sideboard, Mam.”
Also, this was all my Mam’s idea, originally—but this is the woman who wanted to edit her own obituary poems.