eliza
Active Member
Terrible, terrible news about the young girl. Unsupervised Schoolies events are never a good thing. In SA it is now very formalised. Kids had been going to the south coast town of Victor for several years, going into pubs getting drunk etc. The local authorities (and others) knew they couldn't stop the kids coming so decided to formalise it and it is now like a music festival that goes all weekend. There is a heavy police presence and loads of volunteers to ensure the kids safety or rescue them when they are too drunk to look after themselves. There are now not too many arrests and most of the biggest trouble makers are the toolies.
A guy at work still darns his socks, we were having a convo about it one day and he said that it difficult to get darning wool. The very next day I was at my local op shop and low and behold in a 20c basket of lose sewing goodies was several packets of darning wool in various shades of grey, blue and black, so I bought him the lot and he was thrilled.
...everybody brace yourselves... I'm going to reveal an amazing fact... it will probably end up in the 'Ripleys Believe It Or Fuck Off' museum when I reveal it... are you all ready???... well... **Drum roll**...
..my mum used to actually darn my socks when there were holes in them!!!!!!!!!...
...there!... I've said it!!!... **Sticky feels a great weight off his shoulders**... wow that feels better!... (it's true... confession is good for your soul)... cheers.
I know how to darn socks. I even own a hundred+ year old darning mushroom. My grandmother taught me. Not that I've every actually darned any for my family other than the ones I did as a kid for practice. I have darned though, when my FIL swiped his keys across the arm of my new lounge chair and sliced a bloody big hole in it. I don't know how he did it with keys but he did. (He didn't mean to cut it but he was still an eejit for doing it.) I darned the hole and after 5 years you can still hardly see where it was. It was fiddley and I had to use a curved needle but it was a bloody brilliant repair job.
A guy at work still darns his socks, we were having a convo about it one day and he said that it difficult to get darning wool. The very next day I was at my local op shop and low and behold in a 20c basket of lose sewing goodies was several packets of darning wool in various shades of grey, blue and black, so I bought him the lot and he was thrilled.