General Chat

Oi Shelly, you haven't answered my question, so I will print it out for ya.
WHATS HAPPENED TO THE SUNFLOWER SEEDS YOU PROMISED TO SEND US LAST YEAR. LOL

Marilyn it was my dad who was glad to get rid off ME. Roly is a big softy
where our kids are concerned.

Oooh Liz,Paul Robeson had a voice like that was as smooth as chocolate.
Ol man river was favourite of mine.

Don't worry Rita,the only ladder I get close to,is a ladder in my tights. You lucky girl,getting all those pressies from your sister. Glad you had a nice day with her.

Got to go now,coz I have got darts tonight.

good here init marilyn get to make curtens and i get to look for thomes
think i have the best job though i dont like sowing although im not to bad at it

me belly is to full from eating to mutch dinner

rita rhat was nice of your sister to take photos for you

Mo I am good at holding ladders not good at climbing them so I will help if need.
I have been having a good time with my sister she brought me presents from the Holyland and some lovely little sweetcakes. also a card blessed in the holyland as well as a fridge Magnet. I said did you see the wailing wall she had and taken photo of it she took so many photos .they came out really good.
we have paid for our holiday in Dorset in July and booked out rail tickets now I need the spending money lol.
It is begining to get black the sky has big black clouds coming this way.
not good.
I am going to glance through the threads then get something to eat.

Love Rita

I put the song on cos Rita mentioned her Gran singing something like it to her, my Dad was from Buckinghamshire.

It was sung by Paul Robeson, from the film Big Fella (1937)
I never had curly hair either, straight as a die, mine lol, but Dad only sang the chorus part, not the verses.

Don't think he was a film goer but maybe he was in 1937!

Lizx

Hi Everyone.

Mo I had to laugh at your Roly....well I can tell you that my Dad was elated to get rid of me , all his worries were at an end ..LOL

Just a tear drop in his eyes when he saw me dressed up pretty ..LOL
Then a the biggest SMILE & GRIN with relief......

Now I have got to finnish these curtains TONIGHT ...or I'll be all behind , trouble is I keep popping in on thread. and I mustn't

Gone now ...for a while !

Oh my god look girls,Shelly has arrived.
Hello flower,hows you doing. What happened to the sunflower seeds you were going to send us,from last years crop. I bet you have forgotten lol.
If the kids knocked the wall down,get them to put it back up for you. Ha thats a joke. Ollie will love playing out in the garden. Watch out for your flowers though,he is likely to pick them for you.

no need for an axe mo im here been helping marilyn and doing some odd jobs at home and i dont clame to no enthy think about bricklaying LOL
iv got some loss brick on the flower bed dident need to fix them befor cos if my kidsk nock them and thay full on there toes that there thought but carnt have then fulling on baby

got to put in my flowers no but i may do them tomorrow and iv got a hell lot of sunflowers spuating up from last year that have fullen fron the dieing heads

lady think he has change breff cos he nos his in the wrong and carnt win the case but its always twats like that that do win well win or not id like to stamp on his head till it pops


ritas wrighting a book must be catching iv rote lots today 12 lines

Pauline I was up at seven this morning. Our neighbours are teachers and leave the house at that time,banging every door in the house on their way out off the front door.
Like Marilyn we have got bright sunshine here,but it is very very cold outside.
Good grief Marilyn you are a cheerful charlie,four months off summer left.
We are going to have an Indian summer,way into October. So no need to chase the sun,just stay here with us lot.
Good luck at the doctors tommorrow Linda.
Did both you and your OH cry when you saw your daughter in her wedding dress. We both had a good weep when we saw ours,but it is better for the father to see,before the big day,so that he gets over the shock off his little girl who is now a woman,dressed in all her finery.
Roly cried for ages afterwards,and said that even though he knew she was now an adult,it suddenly bought it home to him,that he was losing her to another man. But not in reality,just how he felt at the time.
Those were the days Rita,when I think we all had signs outside off the house,saying "CAFE OPEN " all welcome. My lot used to bring all their friends home for a meal,or a cuppa.
It all changes when they have families off their own,and roles are reversed. When the grandchildren,have friends come for a sleep over. I think I preferred it my way with just a quick meal.
Pauline I think we need to go and rescue Shelly from Marilyns tree. Get the axe out ready,Rita you can help me with the ladder, Linda can stand by with the phone,in case we have to call the emergency services. Lady and Yvonne can do the first aid if we need anything doing,like splinter removal.

The scumbag is going down the very dodgy medical route & our barrister doesn't want to relay on reports given by deffence barrister & wants our own reports.
The scumbag changed from his original barister only 2/3 weeks ago!! There is too much for me to go into on an open forum.
It was not at all easy for either of us to experience!!!

Hi everybody.

I've never heard that song either Liz - and like Marilyn, I had a mop of curly hair, still have if I don't straighten it. My dad sang to me every day but he didn't sing that one.

Rita, you must have spent a lot of time making chips for your grandchildren, must have been nice to put your feet up after they'd all gone.

Linda, you've got quite a hectic social life, you'll have to tell the doctor to hurry up and get something sorted, because you haven't really got the time to have an illness.

Marilyn, you're making Shelly work too hard, she hasn't got time to come on here now. Let her have a little holiday. Come on Shelly, get down from that tree.

Why have you got to go through the whole thing again in November Lady?
Did he turn up? I don't understand why it wasn't sorted, I thought he was going to plead guilty (I don't really know anything about how the legal system works). It must have been hard for you and your mam.

Are you still in bed Mo?

Morning Liz, Marilyn and Linda

Linda hope things go OK for you at the Doctors you sound as if you had a good night out Saturday. wish your eldest a happy birthday .you didnt say whether it was male of female.?

Liz I know that song well it was sung to me as well by my Gran I think it came from a film of Paul Robson not sure which one he did quiet a few but had trouble in America as I recall.? could be wrong but I think it was him I saw him once in a film about a coal mine where they were trapped below.

Marilyn you treat your children too well they dont want to leave you but I always felt like a wet lettuce when they went home from my house I use to say to John (my husband) leave the washing up I will make a cup of tea and we can sit quiet for a while.

When I lived in Ealing the children use to come for Saturday lunch egg and chips or pie and chips it always had to have chips in the menue.
there was my daughter her husband and there three children My eldest son and his wife and there four children and my youngest son with his partner and their children (one was hers from her first marriage the other was his ) I put up a BIG NOTICE "RITA'S CAFE "we didnt have dishwashers then so you can see the amount of washing up I had. when I moved to Norfolk that was the first thing I missed Saturday Lunch with the family.

I better get a move on as my sister is coming to day so want to sort lunch out.

see you later
welcome all you late comers
Rita

Morning All
Well another new week starts.
Late in on Saturday. Only a couple of small drinks saturday eve, punch and a glass of bubbly. Nibbles to eat too.
Yesterday the dress looked lovely and hopefully her bridesmaids know how to lace her up !!! If not I was watching too. All back here at the house now. 27 days to go !!!
Meal out tonight for eldests birthday. Rather overshadowed by the wedding this year.
Tomorrow is Drs.
Friday a family meal for the older members who couldn't get to Butlins !!!
Next Monday my breathing checks at the hospital.

So like Rita all appointments coming up.

Linda :o) XxX
Thanks for the tea Marilyn. You snuck in while I was typing

Morning All,

I'm refreshed..!! LOL

Liz I could almost hear you singing that lullaby, but cannot ever say I have heard it before, and I had a head of curls !! hmmmm wonder why my Dad never sang it to me .....

I have to try and finish the curtains today,

Shelly keeps finding me everything I want with this tree .......its growing so fast I wont be able to climb it soon ..LOL

Now it is lovely and sunny here in Devon ,but a bit chilly best to have the sun shinning I guess , makes it feel a little bit summer ,but when you think of it we only got 4 months left of summer !! happy soul aren't I ?
Just as well I go away and follow the sun.....

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Hi all,

Rita, here are the words to that song, my Dad used to sing it to me I seem to recall, but I only remember the verse as you mentioned it!


MY CURLY HEADED BABY
Sung by Paul Robeson on Conifer CMSCD 011
From the film 'Big Fella' (1937)

Oh, my baby, my curly headed baby,
We'll sit below the sky and sing a song to the moo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oon.
Oh, my baby, my curly headed baby,
Your daddy's in the cotton fields a-workin' late and soo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oon.

So lulla lulla lulla lulla bye bye
Does you want the moon to play with
Or the stars to run away with?
They'll come if you don't cry.
So lulla lulla lulla lulla bye bye
In your mammy's arms be creepin'
And soon you'll be a-sleepin'
Lulla lulla lulla lulla lulla bye.

Oh, my baby, my curly headed baby,
I'll sing you fast asleep and love you so as I sing.
Oh, my baby, my curly headed baby,
Just tuck your head like little bird beneath its mammy's wing.

So lulla lulla lulla lulla bye bye
Does you want the moon to play with
Or the stars to run away with?
They'll come if you don't cry.
So lulla lulla lulla lulla bye bye
In your mammy's arms be creepin'
And soon you'll be a-sleepin'
Lulla lulla lulla lulla lulla bye.

On the CD Paul sings lulla with a short a (as in dull) and my baby as written.
Other versions I've heard use loola and ma babby.


Lizx

Court

So no one did their exercies then ? I have hurt my ankle again well it is my heel and so it is in an elasticated bandage.very painful to walk on. my daughter came with my son in Law he is losing his hair and was laughing over it. bless him. they brought me great big bunch of flowers all lovely colours.. then my daughter started playing about with my new
printer she was quiet taken with it she was showing me how I can take the card out of my camera slot it into the printer and print all my photos from it onto photographic paper with a white border.. she has her office at home and works there or at her other office in Stockley Park near heathrow It is good she has her office in the house as well she can keep an eye on her husband after he has had his chemo.
Marilyn you must have had great fun minding those children. not surprised you didn get any further with your curtains.
Mo and Pauline and Lady hope your well., I am going to make my hot chocolate.now.
My sister is coming over tomorrow and Tuesday I have to go to see my consultant about my scan see if I have to start treatment again or whether I can get away with it for another three months.
Wednesday I have to phone about my blood test results and Thursday the man is coming to fit a key safe on the outside of my flat door so it is going to be another week of appointments,

see you later.
Rita

Hi Everyone,

Lady what were you doing at Leicester ?
You cant give us guessing games .......was it a doggy show ?

Well I have just had my second bath for the day...LOL
I'm not dirty I was knackerd and wanted to feel refreshed , the kids did not go until 4pm .....should have been 12pm.


I've had a girlie hour .......painted my nails, and shaved me legs !! feeling human again.

So now I am taking it easy and I'm going to go to bed early as I want to find peace...LOL

My electric blanket is on so it wont be long before I'm it it..LOL

Just had dinner.......now a lovely cuppa .

Have you all had a lovely day ?

I feel that i have lost a whole week this week, what with having to be at Leicester for 3/4 days & not acheived anything and have to do the whole thing again mid November!!!!

Marilyn, it's lovely to see them but lovely when they go home again isn't it?
I don't have my own grandchildren but I get my sister's grandchildren quite often.

Mo, you're right, it's very dangerous for your nephew to be working on a building site. Even when the hospital sign him off, he'll have to ask if he can continue to work in a place where he'll be going up ladders and using machinery.

Hi Everyone,

I want to screaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam out LOUD !!!!!!!

Its like Joe Lyons here ........Cafe open all hours, these kids are ALWAYS hungry .

My house is like a TIP, got X boxes & dolls & bits & bobs scattered all over the house .

NOW WHERE ARE THEIR PARENTS......???????

Should have been here 12pm and the other could turn up any time after.
Problem is they don't want to go home.....wonder why ???????

Worn out Marilyn.......