Leisurely Scribbles (part 5) (Part 1)

gumbud · 3 October 2018 11:04

yep stop drinkin?

gumbud · 3 October 2018 11:10

How are you all, I’ve been busy catching up on a few jobs, had to have the heater on in the shed, I’m afraid the Summer is well and truly gone now.
So what’s new? Pug is posting youtube videos, Spitty has a new guitar, Gummy has gone very quiet, Sweetie is still her cheerful self, RJ I reckon is composing some of his poems, no better man than RJ for that.

I respect everyones right to have their own house rules, but I have my own visiting a house rule too.
I’ve been in a lot of houses, posh ones and poor ones and nobody ever asked me to remove my shoes and I wouldn’t dare ask them either if they visited me.
I was asked to do a job for an old boss of mine, a friend of his had him pestered to get it done, I completed it yesterday as a favour, he was good to me in the lean times.
So today I had to deliver the piece of jewellery to a woman’s house in Blackrock on the posh side of the city, the package was quite valuable, the reason I did not send it through the post. I rang the bell and when she answered dressed in a blue silk nightgown I introduced myself, then she asked me to remove my shoes in the hall and come into the “Library” I flatly refused and said if she did not take the package and examine the contents at the door she would have to call to my house where she could keep her shoes on and examine it in my living room, who knows she might even get a glass of sherry while there.
She put a “”who do you think you are” face on her then took the package inside while I waited, a few minutes later she came back with the cheque, I thanked her and left.

I got rid of all the carpets years ago, carpets are the biggest dust collectors in the entire house, not only dust but all sorts of dangerous bacteria, best not to have any carpets at all as far as I’m concerned, wooden flooring is far safer and easier to look after, as is good quality Lino.
If one wants the ultimate in house hygiene, best to ask your guests to remove all their clothes along with their shoes, clothes that have collected bacteria on the journey from their house to your house “Step up to the fire Molly and watch you don’t burn your bum”.
Come to think of it it could turn out a more interesting evening that way.

part of my family is 50% Thai - they will never enter my house with shoes on - I do of course but they have been so well trained in this etiquette practice that they find it quite embarrassing to change their practice and I would of course not insist they do. Your own practice I humble say seems rather rigid - have you always been so rigid or is that a trait of the Irish?

gumbud · 3 October 2018 11:13

he’s saying he doesn’t want to keep an eye on you!! OK?

gumbud · 3 October 2018 11:16

yes spittie and wot the feck do ya want us to do with that - apart from rude suggestions?? is this a photo of you in your younger days?

Sweetie_pie · 3 October 2018 12:02

We Have Gummy back:mrgreen:

You are looking good Gummy.
http://www.animatedimages.org/data/media/107/animated-dancing-image-0023.gif

Sweetie_pie · 3 October 2018 14:28

His Gibson.

Sweetie_pie · 3 October 2018 14:32

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Jem · 3 October 2018 18:21

My son would love all those guitars, he was in a band in his younger days, he’s 50 now and between working and his five year old son he hasn’t much time for anything else now.

I have several different nationalities in me own family Gumbud.
I don’t know, maybe it’s just an Irish thing, but as I said in all me life I’ve never been asked to remove my shoes entering someone’s house, until that toffee nosed snob asked me, and in a demanding way too, it was me who was doing her the favour because the brooch she had was so badly broken that she couldn’t get anyone else to fix it, it was in several twisted pieces as if it had been deliberately clipped up in temper by someone using a strong wire cutters, I’ve seen this ‘domestic valuables vandalism’ before on jewellery, usually the aftermath of a lovers quarrel. The old goldsmiths, and there are not many left in this town, know how to repair such damage, the newer ones never had the training.
I can understand the custom in other countries and I would naturally respect it if I was there. Of course if I was wearing mucky shoes or wellies I would not walk in and muck the place up, but I don’t were wellies in the city, actually I haven’t had a pair of wellies since I was a kid, and they were black, never green.:-D;-)

Sweetie_pie · 3 October 2018 19:35

Oh dear Jem. I can tell you are still upset about the shoes. She should have offered you some slippers. X

gumbud · 3 October 2018 20:06

god where did you get that blue carpet from? goes well with the gibson though!

gumbud · 3 October 2018 20:06

not blue again???

Sweetie_pie · 3 October 2018 20:17

I hate blue! It is red actually, but it looks blue.

gumbud · 3 October 2018 20:42

My son would love all those guitars, he was in a band in his younger days, he’s 50 now and between working and his five year old son he hasn’t much time for anything else now.

I have several different nationalities in me own family Gumbud.
I don’t know, maybe it’s just an Irish thing, but as I said in all me life I’ve never been asked to remove my shoes entering someone’s house, until that toffee nosed snob asked me, and in a demanding way too, it was me who was doing her the favour because the brooch she had was so badly broken that she couldn’t get anyone else to fix it, it was in several twisted pieces as if it had been deliberately clipped up in temper by someone using a strong wire cutters, I’ve seen this ‘domestic valuables vandalism’ before on jewellery, usually the aftermath of a lovers quarrel. The old goldsmiths, and there are not many left in this town, know how to repair such damage, the newer ones never had the training.
I can understand the custom in other countries and I would naturally respect it if I was there. Of course if I was wearing mucky shoes or wellies I would not walk in and muck the place up, but I don’t were wellies in the city, actually I haven’t had a pair of wellies since I was a kid, and they were black, never green.:-D;-)

removing shoes before entering a house is a very common practice in many, many parts of the world ; particularly the far east; middle east ; India ; Pakistan etc etc - " if ya Irish come into the parlor but leave you soiled shoes out of doors" never heard that sung in Gaelic?

Sweetie_pie · 3 October 2018 20:53

I remove my shoes when visiting my Muslim friend. Not anywhere else I think.

spitfire · 3 October 2018 21:09

Thought politics were excluded, in any form, in this enclave.

Sweetie_pie · 3 October 2018 21:12

Spitty page back, I posted the pics for you.

spitfire · 3 October 2018 21:14

Seen them, but that don’t undermine the principle.

Sweetie_pie · 3 October 2018 21:21

Yes, I can’t play them.
I can sing and dance though, does that count?

gumbud · 3 October 2018 21:23

it’s no longer an enclave - it’s just a man/woman cave? and fyi - removing shoes is NOT political it’s a social mores OK bit like you waving ya jackhammer around for all the ladies to see!!