Put wood int'ole child!!!!

How many times have you heard that one? Or one similar anyway, maybe it was one of these in your house...

"Were you born in a field? no? then shut bloody door!!"

"Shut bloody door.. I'm not paying to heat the whole street!"

"Doooooooooooooooooooooooor!!!!!"

yes.. we had them all in our house when we were little... we even had

Dad: "JenJen, go up stairs and tell your brother to come down and shut the bloody door."
Me: "Why?"
Dad: "Cos he left it open."
Me: "Can't I just shut the door?"
Dad: "is tha summert wrong with yer bloody legs child?!?!?! Get up stairs and get yer brother to come and shut bloody door!!"

Dad logic... love it.

anyway, its passed down from generation to generation.. "Put wood int'hole", "So it's raining.. tha's not made o'sugar, yer wont melt.","when ya fall off and break both yer legs, don't come running to me.." etc. its the stuff of childhood memories..

Well my lot made a knew memory this morning... one of them put wood int'hole for good. Whoever it was (and there are no takers for the title of 'best door closer of 2009') shut the door so well it wouldn't open again!!!

I woke this morning to Heather in her nightie and trainers excited telling me we were stuck upstairs and she'd had to put her shoes on and go OUTSIDE IN HER NIGHTIE (she was thrilled by this) to walk around the side of the house to come in the front door and go up the stairs to have a wee.

She then proceeded to tell me that she must get back cos Daddy had sent her for the screwdriver from the bathroom (don't ask... Rich's last project was to put a new toilet seat on - it's been a difficult task thats not complete yet...but this is why the screwdriver was in the bathroom) and take it to him for he was struggling to get the handle off without it!

You know that sinking feeling you get sometimes? its part premonition and part dejavu? yeah... I got that... tell you what though, I flew out of bed...lol

I get downstairs to find a troop of kids in pyjamas and trainers most amused by all this running around the house to go for a wee.. and Rich trying to take a handle off a door that wont open... and proceeding to get nowhere fast either. Bless him, he doesnt DO DIY. He got the handle off but door still stuck.

I sat on the loo and texted my Mum.. it said "Get up. living room door stuck, cant get in. Bring John and tools!"

bless em both they came down and the men managed to get the door out of the hole (by brute force I think) whilst the women sat in the sunshine outside totting up the cost of a new door and drinking tea and the kids continued to enjoy the new route to the bathroom!

A very entertaining (if costly) and different start to a Sunday. I know I like to experience new things each day but come on... even I couldnt have dreamt up this one... and all before I'd had my coffee too!! It could so easily have been a disaster...lol