Inconvenient Annoyances

Ok, darning yarn. Darning wool. Whatever they call it here. Wool made from hair of sheep for the purposes of mending holes in socks and like mittens and stuff. John Lewis used to stock it. Toodled all the way to city center to JL to get some yesterday. Not where it used to be on the shelf. No "wool" kind at all, and only like 3 of cotton. Brown. Black. White. I needed OD green and navy blue.  Asked, and they said they were just not going to be carrying it any longer. Try Remnant King.

Forced my way through a sea of Santas https://i2-prod.glasgowlive.co.uk/incoming/article15528580.ece/ALTERNATES/s1227b/0_IMG_1225.jpg, passed the three people playing bagpipes 15 feet behind the guy literally on a soapbox "proclaiming" how only Jesus could save you  (could hardly hear him, though he was yelling himself hoarse to be heard over the pipers), past the living statue guy(s) etc., etc., etc. Got to RK, up the stairs (wheezing - cold enough that my lungs were not happy with me). Looked everywhere for it. Finally asked, and they had brown, black, navy, and a kind of silvery green behind the till. Nowhere on it does it say what the fibre is (cotton? synthetic? natural wool?). But at least I got the colors matched, so they are home with me now, in my mending basket waiting for me to get unlazy.

Ummm, do people not like fix socks anymore when they get holes in them?

Ok, darning yarn. Darning wool. Whatever they call it here. Wool made from hair of sheep for the purposes of mending holes in socks and like mittens and stuff. John Lewis used to stock it. Toodled all the way to city center to JL to get some yesterday. Not where it used to be on the shelf. No "wool" kind at all, and only like 3 of cotton. Brown. Black. White. I needed OD green and navy blue.  Asked, and they said they were just not going to be carrying it any longer. Try Remnant King.

Forced my way through a sea of Santas https://i2-prod.glasgowlive.co.uk/incoming/article15528580.ece/ALTERNATES/s1227b/0_IMG_1225.jpg, passed the three people playing bagpipes 15 feet behind the guy literally on a soapbox "proclaiming" how only Jesus could save you  (could hardly hear him, though he was yelling himself hoarse to be heard over the pipers), past the living statue guy(s) etc., etc., etc. Got to RK, up the stairs (wheezing - cold enough that my lungs were not happy with me). Looked everywhere for it. Finally asked, and they had brown, black, navy, and a kind of silvery green behind the till. Nowhere on it does it say what the fibre is (cotton? synthetic? natural wool?). But at least I got the colors matched, so they are home with me now, in my mending basket waiting for me to get unlazy.

Ummm, do people not like fix socks anymore when they get holes in them?

People barely wear socks here never mind mending anything. 

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Ummm, do people not like fix socks anymore when they get holes in them?

I darn my gardening socks when necessary! 

I darn my gardening socks when necessary! 

What's special about them to make them "gardening socks"?

Nowhere on it does it say what the fibre is (cotton? synthetic? natural wool?).

THIS!  I can't tell you how many times I've not bought yarn since moving to the UK because I didn't know what it was made of.  I assume wool would be more expensive than cotton or synthetic fibres, but I have no idea.  And they seem to call everything "wool", no matter what it is?

(I have to avoid wool, as I'm sensitive to it.)

I wouldn't even know where to begin to darn socks

I wouldn't even know where to begin to darn socks

I do!! My wife hears me saying all the time....”where are my darn socks!”


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I do!! My wife hears me saying all the time....”where are my darn socks!”


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Oh, my god, that is the worst joke in recorded history. You're banned from making terrible jokes for the next 12 minutes!

p.s. To be honest, I also considered making a "darn socks" joke. I have two little kids who would've found it hilarious.

*stands in corner and hangs head in shame*.......honestly, I couldn’t help myself.


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Speaking of socks......have you noticed that there’s always one missing in the wash? Funny how it’s always the left one though......


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Speaking of socks......have you noticed that there’s always one missing in the wash? Funny how it’s always the left one though......


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At least you waited the 12 minutes.

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I wouldn't even know where to begin to darn socks

It's really not hard. You kind of weave a replacement over the hole, with the "mending yarn". 

Never in all the years I have worked in Scotland have I had to work on the 2nd of January (it's a holiday here).
But I was told today that I've got to work it this year, despite the fact I was going to Huddersfield for new year and was planning to drive back on the 2nd.

I'm getting paid double time,  but I'm still raging, especially since she's left it so bloody late to tell me.

Never in all the years I have worked in Scotland have I had to work on the 2nd of January (it's a holiday here).
But I was told today that I've got to work it this year, despite the fact I was going to Huddersfield for new year and was planning to drive back on the 2nd.

I'm getting paid double time,  but I'm still raging, especially since she's left it so bloody late to tell me.

Wow. That's just... inconsiderate!

I saw the emergency OB clinic today, they took it out and that particular pain is gone. I live with enough pain, adding to it on a permanent basis was not going to happen! They tried telling me to live with it a bit longer, when it was severe enough it was keeping me from being able to drive. Yeah, totally something to "live with".

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Great news.  Had it gone "walkies"?  I'm scarred for life after seeing an xray from a friend's IUD that she was told fell out 10 years ago.  It didn't fall out.