looks like a whole bobbin’s worth of thread. No way is that button getting away again!
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The one I use which extends across my whole garden….when I’m around 2/3 through watering with just a few baskets and small pots to go, I turn the tap off and use the residual water to finish off, thus getting pulled back to “base”as the hose shrinks.
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I use the residual to rinse and fill the pets’ outside water bowl
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Nothing changes does it , hopes are always dashed… but they do say as we age that the mind is willing but the flesh is weak.
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Speak for yourself missus, ever the optimist me! 
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An excellent demo of button sewing there. Good and strong. A skill that goes along with darning holes in the heels of woolly socks.
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nice one Azz, what your chip butties like?
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Neat bit of sewing Azz
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Well I wanted to sew another button but I can’t find my sewing kit 
Why do they have to make them so small!
Edit: found it 
Will post later whether my second button is a success or not!
Edit 2: Success! I bought some shorts a while back but I’ve been back in the gym and they felt a bit too big, so added a second button and they fit again 
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I could send Mrs Fox round if you like Azz, my buttons are miraculously replaced after coming out of the wash…
Sorry to go off topic…But those scrunched up hosepipes are no good for sprinklers, you have to turn the sprinkler on to realise the hosepipes full length and you get so wet siting the thing…
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Aww bless her - you should start a ‘Partner Appreciation Thread’ where everyone can say what they like/love about their partners
And maybe post a Your Reviews! thread about the hosepipe? 
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I’ve heard about them … they split and then leak something shocking.
@Azz … so, are you losing weight then Azz? Getting all fit and healthy?
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I put a tiny bit on after my mum died (was craving all her foods so started eating things I normally wouldn’t, like wheat and potatoes) so I did put a tiny bit on. I recently bought some weights and have been back on those so my waist is back to where it was now… and hiking always helps!
I hope you (and everyone else) are keeping fit and healthy too!
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I’m afraid to say I’ve always being a slob Azz 
… even as a kid.
It’s tough when you lose your mum, there’s no one quite like her and it hits harder than other deaths do.
Sounds like you keep pretty active too with hiking. But hopefully not in this weather!
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Very true Mort, when Mum died, it felt like I lost a huge part of my reason to live - was such an unusual feeling, I imagine it’s what people feel when they lost a child. I was Mum’s rock, the person she could rely on more than anyone else and the person that always stood by her. Even though we prepare ourselves as our parents age, it still hits you.
I feel a lot better now - in part, because it feels like Mum’s always with me, I think because subconsciously I know she’s not in her own home (so can be anywhere).
It’s the BEST weather for it! I’ve been out every day and I absolutely love it - nothing beats walking home as the sun is setting and feeling the heat radiate from the earth, it’s when I feel most alive
Get out in the sunshine Naughty Morty 
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I watched Mom sew patches on Pop’s Coveralls, mostly knees but also rips. She showed me how to sew and do buttons. I quit sewing buttons on my shirts around 22, and cut them extras at the bottom off the shirts. The misses sells them at the garage sale ever summer along with Golf balls and stuff I tend to collect. Hers too! I probably have collected over 1000 wrangler and other brand shirts over my Decades of hoarding.
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Sorry to hear about your mum Azz, and am glad to hear that you have come to terms with her passing.
My mum passed away in 2009 having never been to hospital in her life before. She collapsed in the street and although only 9 stone wet through, my Dad, who has always been strong could barely hold her. After a couple of nights in hospital she discharged herself and later died at home in her favourite chair. I tried to get her admitted again but the hospital were having none of it.
Shortly after Mrs Fox had a terrible accident on her bike while riding home from work, broke lots of bones and her and my Mum were in hospital at the same time.
I had just started a new job as a postman with Royal Mail, and although they allowed me time off I was struggling to cope.
I got Shingles and worked throughout because if you took sick in the first six months of employment they let you go. I later found out that I could have had time off with shingles…
With Mrs Fox still in hospital only three people attended her funeral…My Dad, Myself and my daughter. Bad times indeed, Dad passed away just four months later after losing the love of his life after over sixty years of marriage.
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@OldGreyFox … @Azz … 
You look back on these things and wonder how on earth you coped and got through it don’t you. It hit me hard when my mum went.
But as long as people have a home in a living person’s heart they’re still loved and alive and never die.
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My sewing machine sews on buttons. Easy as.
Though to be honest I can’t remember when I last did it. There are no buttons on T shirts.
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Absolutely Morty, and although I’m not too religious I like to think that someone is looking after them. I always light a candle for them whenever I visit a church…
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