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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Fleecewife on June 19, 2021, 03:57:54 pm
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Does anyone know a company which sells boiler suits with shorter legs - not for me. I know I could just turn up the legs, but I haaaate that job :tired:
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Dickies do many chest sizes and 3 lenght (I think) short, regular and long.
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Does anyone know a company which sells boiler suits with shorter legs - not for me. I know I could just turn up the legs, but I haaaate that job :tired:
Turn them up? TURN THEM UP???
Fleecewife! Call yourself a smallholder? That's FAR too professional! Use the hoof trimming shears to hack the bottoms off and call it "good enough"! And if it's a wee bit baggy round the middle then some baler tow makes a fine belt!
:roflanim: You'd think so, wouldn't you. But my man is a pernickety er person and frayed trouser cuffs just don't do. He even once 'tacked' them up he says but they soon came undone again. He's happy to slop around in filthy boiler suits, with holes and rips, but not the hems. :rant: :furious: where's the icon for crawling along the carpet weeping? He loves the baler twine, loves to be covered in paint and engine oil and sheep :poo: so I don't understand about the hems. And now we're old he's shrunk heightwise too so now he really is short.
Thank you [member=156019]macgro7[/member] I've tried trawling through the Dickies sites for short legs and the chest size he needs but that's really the reason for me clawing my way along the carpet. They even have a size called 'X. Large x small' which comes between small and medium on their size chart ??? but 42" chest by 30" leg I can't find. Then he popped his head around the door and said the size which usually fits ok is Army surplus. :yippee: so get some then. 'Oh I suppose I could' :coat: :'( :'( No good deed goes unpunished.
It would probably have been simpler if I'd just turned up the silly things :tired:
Apologies for the domestic discord :innocent:
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Actually he is divine, in most other respects ;D The thing is he's not like the imagined typical burly farmer - he's little and skinny, just needs room for a jumper under the suit. He'd probably love a pink one :roflanim: I'll ask ;D
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Best thread of the day so far :D
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What about iron on hemming tape? I used it to turn up some work trousers once and it lasted fine.
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:thinking: could work....but that means IRONING :tired: :roflanim: :roflanim:
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Yeah, I know. A dear friend gave us an ironing board as a housewarming present.
"Oh, thanks Jan - I'll think of you every time I go for a job interview, or somebody dies" :roflanim: .
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Yeah, I know. A dear friend gave us an ironing board as a housewarming present.
"Oh, thanks Jan - I'll think of you every time I go for a job interview, or somebody dies" :roflanim: .
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Yeah, I know. A dear friend gave us an ironing board as a housewarming present.
"Oh, thanks Jan - I'll think of you every time I go for a job interview, or somebody dies" :roflanim: .
There's a church hall across the road from our house, which normally was rented out for wedding receptions. Most weekends. Really annoying wedding guests who don't care if they park in fron of the driveway that clearly has a sign "please do not block the driveway".
Your ironing board reminded me that the wedding season is starting again :tired:
That was the best thing about the lockdown - no noisy people in front of our house :roflanim:
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Forgive me, but what is an ironing board ? What does it look like ? I ask so that I can search my house and know what I'm looking at if I should come across one ! Lol :)
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Forgive me, but what is an ironing board ? What does it look like ? I ask so that I can search my house and know what I'm looking at if I should come across one ! Lol :)
:roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
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My sister and I facetime every Friday. Invariably she is ironing socks or some such thing. Invariably I'm slouching in my recliner throwing a ball for my puppy :eyelashes: :innocent:
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:relief: I'm in good company. Life's for doing important things :garden:
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I know someone who ironing ALL CLOTHES before putting them in the wardrobe...
Also before folding and packing in a suitcase for going on holiday 🙃
That saying I actually always iron my own shirts (since uni) and my wife's stuff too 😅 (but not before storing them away).
That's the reason I need to get changed several times a day (especially in the winter). Can't teach kids with duck poo on my trousers... and can't be bothered to wear overalls everything I go outside, which is at least 5 times a day
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:relief: I'm in good company. Life's for doing important things :garden:
(https://i.etsystatic.com/19219093/r/il/f668b7/1877006234/il_570xN.1877006234_s5fz.jpg)
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Perfect Womble, thank you :D
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This thread prompted me to check my ironing board. Yes it is still where I left it, supporting the shafts of a carriage in the grain store.
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I have a neighbour who ENJOYS IRONING... I know, they're all mad round here except me (I keep :goat:s)!
Anyway, this one irons everything... and I mean everything! Aside from normal stuff like interview and funeral gear, she does all her own and family stuff and volunteers to do the neighbours stuff too (sometimes taking it in off the line whilst people are at work so that they can come home to freshly ironed laundry as a surprise). She says she likes the smell of a hot iron!
She also likes freshly ironed sheets on her bed (well who doesn't eh?)... but she's so obsessed she irons them every day so that she has that every night...and she doesn't like sleeping in wrinkled sheets. Now, when I'm sleeping I don't worry about whether or not I'm wrinkling the sheets but apparently she does! Her husband (of nearly 50 years) often complains that she wakes him up in the night because he's rolled over and created a crease...
Some people need sectioning!!!
I think she need to start keeping goats :roflanim:
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Can you iron a goat? ???
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Can you iron a goat? ???
She needs a new hobby. Goats are also very good in making everything creased lol