General Chat

I am off for a shower now and then bed.I didn't sleep too well last night and I think it has caught up on me now.
Sheila yes it is Torpoint.Did you go on the Torpoint Car Ferry?

Night Night Everyone xx

Sorry you have not been too well hope you feel better soon. I try to look to see if everybody is on and read all the messages. Telly is awful just lately what happened to
all those lovely programmes we got years ago .comedies old films and interesting
programmes now I end up reading or putting a video on. Just turned it off the TV.

Beryl is a bit like Joanna in Ab Fab she had wonderful natural curly blonde hair
I was envious of my straight permed job. now Beryls hair changes from lilac
to Blonde, very blonde and once she put a reddish rinse on it over lilac and it
went purple. I love stuffed marrow but cannot get any big enough .I can amagine
if I tried to grow one it would be like a cucumber. Ramadan is coming up for
my son in law soon that should be interesting. SHEILA.

well wont go in go Connie enough on Beryl to last for months. Spot got burnt poor dog a coal fell out our
fire and he got so badly burnt he had to be put down
Spot had to not Connie ha

HI Elizabeth did you go to Kingston Bagpuize in Berkshire or Wantage
how are you .SHEILA.

that killed me you are funny Jane.

Time I went to bed do have a good memory but also
my daughter askes me all about my life and what I have
forgotton she reminds over the past years what I have told
her .She puts photoes in a journal and everything about me and her dad these things have mentioned were
important memories to me. I loved my childhood but hated my teens. Like I said my dad died and I had to work to keep my mum going until I got married it was one hard slog
i had to keep doing different jobs to make more money and it was great to get married and by then mum was fine
but most happy when I moved to London have lots of
wonderful memories of my time in London. but wont
bore you with those. well I can go to bed now it is late
and deleted one message by mistake my arm is so
sore I have trouble in bed thats why I am still here
just typed up several ancestry notes bye all have a lovely
week

Morning All
Look at the time!!!!!! I can't sleep.Have been awake for a good hour or so.Tried reading in bed with a tiny light so I didn't wake Chris,Then I wanted the fan on,so just thought blow it I may as well get up.
Sid the cat from next door is sat out at the edge of the road staring into the verge.Must be mice or something there.I just hope Sid doesn't get hit by a car.
It looks like we may have had a teeny drop of rain in the night,but hardly anything.
Right I am going to let Chester out for a wee and make myself a cup of tea.See you in a while sleepyheads.

I feel like I've been up hours now lol
It is very muggy this morning,and still those dodgy clouds are hanging around.James girlfriend is arriving today,so I need to clean the bathroom and suggest that James cleans his room!!!!
I need to do food shopping ,but my brain is blank and I can't think what to have for meals over the next few days.Maybe a cup of coffee will help.
I hope Ann is feeling better today and that Sheila's arm is not so sore .
BBL

Morning all,

Still dry here at the moment. BIL came over yesterday and helped us cler up and cut some grass. OH has been so busy with the pond the grass had been left. We have been having mushrooms growing on the front lawn, loads of them. I always get them when the grass is left a bit long.

I have'nt cought up on your posts yet!!

Afternoon all,
I've been sitting here catching up on posts, and forgot I had a saucepan on the gas, cooking carrots for shepherds pie. (I like to cook them down before going into mince and onion) Saw Janes posting about food. I jumped up and just caught it. THANKS JANE !!!

Had a fair bit of rain, and more to come.

Had a bad throat for almost a week now, used two bottles of Benalon, now started on Corvonia. hope it clears up soon.

Hope all you who are under the weather feel better soon.

My site page today is huge!! The writing is so big and I have a slider bar at the bottom because the page is also very wide.

Off shopping now as I have a lot to do this week with family coming down on Friday.

My son just rang from Northampton where he went to pick up his girlfriend.Somehow they are at opposite ends of town lol.Frank you will know .James is down by the Derngate and Jess is up near the bus station !!!.

It's quite dark here ,and STILL no rain.

When I was up at 5.30 I spotted 2 woodpeckers on the dead tree,and then a 3rd !!!!!!!.I managed to snap 2.The light wasn't too good though.
Glad I was helpful Frank and you didn't burn those carrots lol

AFTERNOON -BOY'S & GIRL'S
wHAT GOING ON ALL THE SOAR THROATS---DONT NEED ANY THANK'S-----
Frank---give your head a shake-----Dont need the house to go up in flames---I think ROS-- WOULD REALLY BE MAD AT THAT LOL XXX

Mel think you've been doing to much POOPED right out---Must say it must look beautiful now with angeles....
Mandy do you ever make fruit Smoothes in this weather?

Sheila --French& Saunders ---should get your life story's so much fun and laughter--- and a 'WEE'' bit sad --Can you just see it a TV show--

It's for sure I'd be writing it all down-- for -Grand childeren ..

Afternoon All,

We had a bit of rain earlier, but dull and dry now. I have been flopped in bed a few hours with hot cheeks!! lol Tried to snooze, but there are men with guns out the back shooting the bunnies!! Then a neighbour got his mower out so not much luck. I Had a restless night and an alarm went off at about 3.00am, then just as I decided to watch TV at 6.30am the electric went off.!! I seem to have the start of a chesty cough and cold now......still, a better sign than a dry cough for me. paracetomol and some honey and lemon I think.

We are booking up to go on a wildlife and Osprey spotting trip on Rutland Water next month. It starts at 6.30am so we will have to be up with the lark that day. OH will want to be early!!

MIL's telegram from Buck Palace for their diamond wedding is in hand. We got a quality envelope with a big ER in red on it this morning and a letter on thick posh paper. lol

James is lucky we have mobiles these days isn't he Jane. lol They could be waiting for ages. lol

As much as i like to get out-------To-day is getting so hot----HE####L
But must go---Need food and pay house bills --
My toms are doing nothing---Where are they--have three flowers---BIG DEAL LOL----But do see some lavander showing at front ---Can you tell me WHY no sent to them?????I just had spoken to Frank about this flowers no longer have fragrence---

OH well just have to go have some french toast / bacon for lunch

I love reading all your memories.

One of my earliest memories is my first day at school. I was so looking forward to going, but what a shock when I did lol. The problem was my teacher. Boy was she scary. Mrs H had the loudest voice you can imagine and jumped into a rage at the slightest thing. She wasn't how you would imagine any 'reception' teacher to be. I retreated into my shell and it wasn't long before my parents' were called to the school. I'm not sure exactly what they were told, but it seems she thought I was 'backward'. The truth was that she scared me so much that I couldn't muster up the courage to read to her or to focus on my work. Eventually I moved into a new class and was much happier. Never liked school though lol. My dad always used to say that 'your school days are the best days of your life'... He was so wrong lol

Catie x

Hi Catie,
Glad you like the thread.What a pity you didn't like school.Horrible teacher!!.Someone like that can put you off forever.One of my teachers in primary taught maths(He was Head too) and because I messed up my maths ,because I just couldn't understand it,he chalked a X on the floor and made me stand on it.He said it was a tin of Kit-e-cat.From that day on .I had a mental block when it came to any type of maths ,and am still a bit like it today..
I have just watered the garden .......and it is just beginning to rain !!!
Poor Ann ,and your hot cheeks!!!!!!!!.I bet Frank will have something to say about them lol.I hope you don't get worse.
Shirl ,our tomatoes are not doing that well this year.Have no idea why.But we do have some wonderful lavenders with a strong scent.

Hi Catie

I didn't like starting school either and remember being so choked up with tears I could hardly swallow. I was an only child till I was 9 and lived in a small village and had virtually no contact with other children........I was terrified. I remember just sitting there with some peg and hole game they put in front of me and not knowing what to do. Then a boy started stealing my penguin bar and followed me into the girls toilet to get it. I told mum about that and the teacher kept him in in the mornings after that. I remember I could hardly wriggle onto the bus leather seats and was frightened the bus wouldn't stop at my house. I was a very worried child.

HI THERE Shirl are you mickey taking only joking my friend the B refuse to say name again was more like BIRDS OF A FEATHER Dorian the naughty next door neighbour not the french and saunders clan not a bit like
the AB FAB lady she was completly over the top. No my
B is a sweet soul really ??? me well I was always in trouble
with somebody when young. would loved hospital and nursing but it was all that cleaning out sluices and sterilising instruments I did not like everything was immaculate in those days pity it is not the same now have known pretty nasty case of people being ill when out of
hospital now its all changing. Ive had to go back to today
in agony with my arm full of infection they squeezed it
all out rotton lot. I have been typing with two fingers for
a month thats why my typing is naff .Lucky you got your
American poor me saw mine sailing off into the sunlight
could see him on the ship waving his arms. They would not let me go across in the boat from the dock the silly goose did not give me a pass I sat and saw it later sail
up the solent and disapear do not know where it was going never thought to ask. I was left with a photo of him and a botton off his uniform .He was cute really. Oh well
he probably got married and had 12 kids.

Just read your account of school glad someone was
like me and I was not a coward like I thought nobody mentioned
school until you did .my mum came for me and like I said I was
standing up against a wall in a coma like state waiting for my mum.
I hope it got better for you it did me later on.