General Chat

Linda I came from the poor part of Willesden we didnt even have a bathroom and we had an outside Loo

school . we did have wooden desk with ink wells and wooden pens with a brass nib in and a piece of blotting paper.our black boards where on easels and white chalk was used on them.the toilets were outside across the playground. It was not so in my Church of England school the toilets were inside. but then it was a one story building.with a tiny playground. our teacher was one who had red hair and a temper to match it. she threw anything at you book. rulers chalk.
I dont recall any school dinners. but then it was during the war ( and before anyone says anything not the 1st world war.)
we had black knickers with elasticated legs and a pocket to keep your hankerchief in had to mention that.

welcome back Dermot I wondered where you were. ?

I have been into Town this morning had my hair done as I looked in the mirror I said to Daninella my hair dresses I go greyer every time I come here. we had a laugh, she said maybe but your hair is nice and thick.
she is off to Scotland at the weekend for two weeks to her mother and Fathers they live in Caithness.

Rita

Do you mean Carwinion Garden Barbra

Just you wait get you at play time .ref school .think will google see if i can find THe Garden ..it was there honest :-S .com
Better go.to local shops .ours close at lunchtime on a wednesday Bye

Hi Barbra ,
I have been to Falmouth a few times ,but cant for the life of me know about the secret gardens.....oh what have I missed .??? :-S

Just curious now what does j.u.w gyapt mean ? :-D

Just wondered if anyone as ever heard of a secret garden in Falmouth .just off the main rd .there was a bar > dance room .& live entertainment & a carousel outside were folks sat round & enjoyed there evening .found it a few years ago on holiday .it was pitched black along the path to it .we followed some people & boy was iy worth the find .really enjoyed it . All replies care of Barbra . :-D

Hello there All .crickey I remember the the wooden block duster .our art teacher [ lady] was always throwimg it at the class .she was a big lady .you didnt argue with her lol you are making me hungry all these meals & goodies .not a curry fan .do like Chili con. carne . there is so much to read on here. Maddie tired just reading your post ,you have so much energy x Have a good Day ~~~~~~~~~ Cheery Barbra x not old Stephen j u .w .g y a p t :-P

Morning all !

Boy it's nice to read all the tales from you OLD FOLKS.......I don't remember the things you mention..

Aw Sh*t my nose has just banged on the Computer Screen :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Been busy chasing my bum doing five million things at once. :-( :-( :-( :-( :-(

I suppose the natural cycle of events is like that.......sailing along nicely....and then a blinking big storm :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P

Having a coffee a a relax just now :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

We had wooden desks with lids that lifted up, each desk had an inkwell full of black ink. If we forgot our fountain pens we had to use the school pens........ they were just a bit of wood with a nib stuck on the end.

All the teachers threw the wooden board cleaner (we called it a rubber) at us.

The only school dinner I liked was cheese and tomato flan, the other meals were horrible......... the veg was never cooked properly and the meat was always fatty. The puddings were all lovely though........... I even liked the lumpy custard.

I Love Semolina, I still make it.
Your desks sound much nicer than the grey plastic tables and chairs they had at my school, and we had a self service canteen, with fish fingers and Burgers.
yours sounds better.
You might be right Marilyn, but I just can't imagine her Majesty with a bag of crisps

Agatha,

Just a thought ....maybe that little girl was doing some homework !! and her mother could'nt answer so off she toddled to you for the answer

;-)

Please give me Oscar for a day :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Cor Shelly....you sound ever so OLD remembering all that :-S

I only remember semolina with Jam at school , funny but I loved it most kids hated it.,used to make the semolina pink first before I eat it !!


Its lovely here today...Maddie good girl for doing your exercise so early, :-S

Had two invitations to weddings this morning , now how about that , one in Cheshire Petes niece in November, and one in Liskard Cornwall .

So looks like two new outfits are required !! :-0

Hello Dermot.......yes so true , I can remember a wooden block duster that rubbed chalk off the board , must have had some sort of leather or shammy attached, it often got chucked at the odd boy out of order :-( :-(

we all had slat and chalk at school
only the slat was a very large peace of slat called the black board LOL

its the dinners that have change so much i remember haveing proper cook dinners were the cook and her staff would be in cooking at about 6 in the morning. peel and chop all fresh veggy with proper meet and not just grab a bag from the frezzer and pure in a pot of hot walter or shuff in the oven
same with custerd and rice was all mad fresh with fresh milk and not out of a tin and wormed up

you use to get proper fish not fish fingers
proper chicken not chicken burger
proper home made chips not oven chips
proper beef slice and not a lump of rubber



EDIT.........linda we had the ink wells holes in the desk but dident use them and the flap up top not like now shcool dont have desk with flap up tops thay have table

Dermot
I too think we had slates and chalk at school and I am younger than Rita. Maybe we were poor where I lived ???
I also remember the throwing by the teacher, but ours did throw the wooden backed duster.

Who remembers ink in ink wells too?

Then when I worked in a school about 30+ years ago they had just introduced white boards with pens, oh boy were they hard to keep clean. Bleached every week.

Have a good day all

Linda :o) XxX

Morning everyone,
It's the middle of the week- chicken curry day!
Eggs, bacons and beans Maddie!
I think you're telling porkies about your morning exercises :-D :-D :-D
Have a nice day! <3

Good morning Rita & Co.

What do you mean by 'Victorian times'? I'm not that old - it's just the way my mother put my cap on when I was born.

As youngsters, not that very long ago, we used chalk & slate to do some school work. No worries about inhaling chalk dust which you could sometimes see through the sun rays blasting through the large wooden windows. No face mask for the chosen individual to clean off the big wall board before class either.

Blackboards & white chalk were the order of the day. White boards & multi-colour chalk were unheard of - in our backwater at least. Bits of chalk were also used by the teachers in their occasional frustration at trying to keep some sort of order in a 30 pupil class. I suppose it was safer to fling the chalk at some miscreant than the large timber based duster.

Ah, happy memories - well, some of them anyway.

Morning Agatha

Child are so funny they do ask the strangest questions.
I have been asked some strange question myself from children.
one was
your very old how long will you live ? I was 70 at that time.

another question was
Did you write on a slate when you went to school. ? which seemed a strange question ? her mother laughed they had been talking about children going to school in Victorian days not using paper and pencil but a slate and chalk;
I must have looked very old that day.

Rita

Morning everyone, just got back from walking Oscar, the little girl across the road came to see him, and she asked me a random question which was hard to answer, she asked me if the Queen ate crisps out of a bag, I said I think she would eat them off a silver plate, but I wonder if she does eat them out of a bag. she then asked me what flavour, so I said prawn cocktail, I do not know why she wanted to know this.
I'll try the detox drink Maddie, it might help lower my blood pressure before I see the nurse tomorrow.
Have a great day everyone :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Agatha <3

Maddie you must be tired after all that running and press up you did. I bet you have wet knickers due to the dew. Lol
Morning Cath and Linda glad to see some people on this thread are up early and rareing to go today.

morning everyone else> no Dermot or Stephen or Yvonne or Lady.


Rita

Morning all
Slept later as I stayed up til midnight as I wait for hubby to get in.

Dress is finished Mo. Started a plain jumper for Bulgaria again. Will try to make a few for when the weather cools down again. They don't take as long to make but are a bit boring.

Off to get a few bits at Costco in Reading this morning. Might get a lovely cooked chicken from there as they are really tasty and saves cooking at lunch time and we can have it cold again tomorrow.

Be back later

Linda :-) <3

Morning Maddie and others when they rise,
Lovely start to the day down here, sunny and warm but it was really windy in the night and nothing to do with OH's curry :-S Had to get up and shut the gate as it was keeping me awake.
Mo, hope your granddaughter has a lovely birthday, my grandson is 3 today :-) Very busy month for birthdays and anniversaries for me.
Off to work soon, hope you all have a good day,
<3

Cath xx