General Chat

I bet my elastic dug in Patricia and gave me itchy skin lol I think we thought you were a Pat who came on here some time ago .......so welcome !
Jack ( I think you mean Frank) is a bit of a devil!!!!! You have to watch him lol
Don't mean it really .He is a lovely cheeky chappy.
Do we call you Pat or Patricia?

Sheila ,it sounds like you have had quite a day at the Safari Park and those Baboons lol.They do have horrible bottoms don't they.Thank heavens ours don't look like that lolol.

I have a funny poem that Fitz's Step Grandfather wrote back in the 1930's.I think it is great.
It is about a lady who was a singer called Dame Clara Butt (I must google her).I will put it up on my next post. :-D

Frank, i'am sure i'll be allowed a tiny weeny bit of it for spending money LOL
i haven't bought my new Sandals yet !!and i've seen a nice skirt i quite fancy .

Sheila, we haven't filled the swimming pool yet , i think there was talk of the Spa being filled on Thursday ,the little ones love it .
you could fill a book with the tales of your Beryl and Donnie lol


Hello Patricia, another new name ,welcome to the thread , hope you stay with us and give us some of your childhood memories ,you'll find us all a friendly bunch !! :-)

Maureen , i remember knitting dish cloth's , it was a bit like string !!! i think you can still buy it , we used Raffia in school, i seem to remember it had a funny smell, but i carn't remember what we made with it now !!!

I was right a new bird on the block !!!! Hi Pat/Patricia. So nice of you to join us. We are a happy bunch of people, and would be pleased if you would join us. Are you under or over 50 ???? I like mine young :-D :-D :-D and what part of the country are you from. At the moment we have Devon/Dorset/Middlesex/Northampton Leicester/Birmingham/Yorkshie and Scotland. Not included Canada and Australia SORRY GIRLS.

Rain and sun here all day. very wet this afternoon. No watering tonight.

Just saw on local news about a bloke you was evacuated in the war. He was told his dad was dead then his mum. He was worried about his little sister, but she had been taken to Norwich for the day. This was the bombing of Great Yarmouth.

Hi Im back

My thread seems to have vanished.posted it about 5pm

Thanks Jane for putting my mistake right on names...sorry Frank..

I will pop back from time to time need to renew on here in afew days..I will just take the basic one out this time......

I remember being at school when young and having communal showers

Don't forget little me Frank in Norfolk LOL

This Poem is obviously taking the mickey of Dame Clara Butt.She was 6ft 2" and a larger than life woman lol.As I said it was written by `Fitz's Step Grandfather who I think knew this lady
FOR DAME CLARA BUTT

A Mammoth went a-marketing
She bought a disused tram
She said"This should do splendidly
For Darlings little pram"
She took it home,pressed baby in,
Despite protesting squeals
Only to find her offspring's weight
Had buckled all the wheels.

A Mammoth went a-marketing
An Elephant she bought
She said"A love of tiny things
too early can't be taught"
She gave it to her little girl
Who took it up to bed
All night she clasped it lovingly
Next morning it was dead.

A Mammoth went a-marketing
She bought the Ritz Hotel
She said"We need a summer-house
And this should answer well"
She took it home ,and found of course,
The building far too small,
And so she hurried out again
And bought The Albert Hall

A Mammoth gave a concert,
All the Nations in a ring
Encircled those colossal feet
To hear their Clara sing
She drew in one portentous breath
Emitted one great roar
Our Solar system's disarranged,
The Earth exists no more...................Amen lolol


Fitz's step grandfather was called Major Patrick Beynon.He was up in the Old Bailey on charge with having relations with powdered and painted men!!!! lol.I think if you google Patrick Beynon the court case will come up.
Fitz has given me permission for me to tell this.
Lordy Lordy ! Fitz doesn't half have an interesting family!! ;-) ;-) ;-)

Another busy day withTIC and hospital shop.Welcome Pat and hope you enjoy the chat. Glad others are having trouble with the site but my front page seems to have more information on it including numbers of post etc,
The weather here has been quite warm with sunny showers but it has meant that I do not have to water nextdoor tonight.
I hope everyone has a better sleep tonight
No more news

Sorry Mandy, Trust me to leave someone out. A little spending money, does not mean a new outfit :-D :-D :-D

Ann, please remind me what does TIC stand for. I know you do a lot of hospital shop work. I have thought of volunteering fot something like that. But it will mean Ros having to take me and bring me back. Would be very expensive with the cost of petrol. and her, not being able to go anywhere when I was working. I did offer my services to the Heart Charity shop. They took my name and number. But I never heard back from them !!!!

Just heard from our friends who own a place in Teneriffe, the weather is very warm and sunny. they are there till 23rd June. They also have a place in Florida, and Hastings. He will not settle down in this village,so bought these places which they use on a regular basis. Oh to have money !!!! We will have our holiday in sunny Blisworth, as we have for the last few years.

Where's Aunty Mel,??? Hope she has got all her jobs done in the tunnel, and Mr Mel is getting on allright with the NEW BUILD.

Evening All,

Hi Pat/Patricia, nice to have you join us. We still have the odd flurry of memories at times, so just add any you can think of.

Communal showers......makes me shudder!!! That dash to get through and get your bits covered up with your towel. If you hadn't got much to see you were embarrassed and if you were well developed you were embarrassed.....so we were all embarrassed!!! lol With the PE teacher watching too.......really cringeworthy.

PS I think Frank meant to say 'Young at Heart'!!! lolol

Mandy I can just imagine Toby looking up at his toys.......wondering when they learned to fly!!! lol I can just picture Chester too...... he would have his eyes glued to Jane mending his toy.......and wanting his toy back ASAP !!!! lol

I must look that up Jane.....how fascinating Fitz's family is.......much more interesting than my lot!!

Well I'm off to see the Fairy Jobmother now......I enjoyed the last series.

Oooh! don't remind me of the showers.Weren't they awful.I seem to remember there were lot of 'notes' from parents saying so and so couldn't shower that week lol.......all written by the girls!!.Miss Pemberthy was always watching.
I wonder if the boys hated the showers as much as us girls.
I think some of us girls would try and take a long time changing and hope that the teacher hadn't noticed we hadn't been through the shower.

I'm watching some programme about young Doctors now.Just my thing lol
;-) ;-)

I'm off to bed now.I do hope I sleep ALL night.(But won't hold my breath lol)
Night Night everybody xx

Evening all
Went for a bath earlier and for some reason the hot water was not very hot , OH having to fix it, something to do with the boiler :-S

Anne , I still can't get on to GR through my front page, in fact I have no front page, just managing to get on here through any link I can.

Time for a hot drink to relax then I'm off to bed.

We have the council road works laying new tarmac all over the main road that runs into our street, it was really bad with pot holes from the last bad winter we had, unfortunately you can not use your car between the hours of 8am -4pm unless you park it some where else , a few of our neighbours have taken their cars to relatives who live near by, and walk to the car in the morning. work is due to finish by Friday, I hope it finishes earlier than that, Daughter no 1 had to park her car in one of the near by streets today and walk with Sofia to my house ,

I'm going for my milk now, will be back tomorrow,
NIGHT NIGHT :-D

Goodnight all as well,

I have been waiting for a friend ( A distant relative to pop up on MSN )

I connected to her way back when researching my tree

My great grand aunt Ann went to the usa in the 1870 's and my freind follows down from her...... Ann being her great great grandmother lol..we have been freinds every since..

Catch you another time

Pat

Just lost the lot, again. These emoticons are a problem, will not be using them again.

Hello Pat, nice to meet you. I'm Kim, the Australian connection and constantly losing my posts.

Will have to come back later. I was so excited with some news about a genealogy find, but just lost my momentum.

Frank, how could you forget Shirl, Mandy and me. Terribly offended, I am!!!!! Going to have a cry now. Might be back later when my hanky is soaked.

Hello everyone, hope you all have a good day. Kim

Kim I didn't forget you and Shirl, ONLY Mandy. But I sorted that. (Can't do anything right) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)
How are we all this morning ???forcast not good, showers later and for the next few days. Hope Sat. is good for the Scouts fun day.

Going for my Bacon Sarnie.

BBL

Icy blast here today, but sunny. Bacon, spinach and mushroom Frittata for dinner tonight. Couldn't find a hankie, so had to use my sleeve ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

Silly damn things are all over the place. Enjoy your brekky Frank :-D


7.30pm EST

Hi All

Frank im over 50 lol and have 10 grandchildren....I live in Bedfordshire.

The weather is a bit cloudy here at the moment..but the sun keeps trying to come out ..

Jane.
Yes the swimsuit did make you ich

Anx and Jane...school showers were embassering. Especially when a girl couldnt find their Green drawers or brogs as we called them and the teacher looked at ours to check the names we had in them lol ..

Mel I lost a post on here but didnt have time to type it all out again.

Sorry MEgirl (KIm) read your name wrong

I seems funny to type to people who are all ahead of us by 12 hours....

I will soom get used to where you all are and your proper names..
My connection in usa is 8 hours behind.....And she works part time so I can only catch her on msn after 10.30 pm uk time lol

By then I am getting ready for bed. lol

Morning All
I just dashed in from picking carrots as we are having a sharp shower.These are my yellow carrots.But most of the ones I picked look more orange :-S
Good old Fitz has just picked up my old ironing board to take to the tip with his rubbish.A trip I don't have to do now.

Quick slurp of coffee and then off to pick up these trousers,as they weren't ready yesterday.
BBL

Morning All,

So nice you have joined us Pat.

Weather here is sunny and showers. I think we had quite a lot of rain last night.

I was working up on the border yesterday while OH fitted the new filter on the pond so was'nt disturbed too much as he was occupied.

Pat I am the one in sunny Devon!

Sheila sounds like you had a good laugh at the wildlife park with Donnie and Beryl and Harry. What a big bill for the vet for cleaning your dogs teeth!! Thats when I am glad I don't have dogs anymore. I will stick to my chickens.

I have put the GR link in my Favorites and get in that way now after the trouble I had a few weeks ago. My site still dos'nt work properly though. When I get my tree up it comes out ok at first then the space where you type a name to look for someone on your tree jumps to just behind the first name up on the tree and the cursor won't let you put a name in properly and it takes ages to backspace the first name etc.

Should go shopping today as no more beer for oh!! Just managed to find him one for last night, that I had hidden away in the uti room.

We never had the experience with showers at school so I was lucky!! The only time we had to go through showers was at swimming lessons at a local baths. Then we had our swimsuits on so that was'nt so bad but the showers were really cold.

My dad taught me to swim by taking me to the lido at Snaresbrook on a Sunday morning. Frank will probably know of it. When I was a teenager we used to go there on summer evenings and climb the fence and get in and swim in the dark!! We had a great time. Told my parents that we knew the keeper and he let us in when the pool was closed!!