General Chat

Kevins' Nanna was 102 when she died in Sunderland. She had been moved into sheltered housing, but she was as sharp as a tack.

She had her telegram from Queenie and everything.

She was a bonny lass.

jean we didnt have alot of material things either but I think if you have alot of love and cuddles in your life it makes up for the material things.. I was going through some old diaries sorting out another drawer and reading bits in them, things I had forgottten about. I lost my mum in August 1978 she died of breast cancer she was looked after by Nuns in Westminster. she was 68 when I see now what they can do when you have that she would have had a chance and I realised she never had a bathroom in the house only a bath that hung on the wall in the yard, when I think of what i have and what she had I feel upset..

Rita

Hello, all horses are settled for the night.
Rita, the foals are growing very quickly and are doing fine. when I travelled with my Dad and Great Grandmother I was washed every night standing in a large enamel bowl and was sponged down with soap and hot water, usually outside the vardo unless it was raining, then it was inside.
Have just realised I didn't write very clearly before, it was my Gt Gran who lived to be 103 not my birth mother. I was given to my birth father by my birth mother because she was leaving the family group to marry and couldn't take a baby with her, my father was married to my non romany mother, so in a way I was lucky, I was born Romany and enjoyed their life but also grew up with a house dweller, so experienced both sides of life.
I never knew any of my family to ever be ill, they were all very healthy, when they were on the roads their main meal was in the evening, stew with lots of veg, not much meat. as children we ate whatever was put in front of us, we didn't have a choice.
My Dad died in December last year, 2 days after his 98th birthday.

Dermot, those thatched cottages are beautiful, you must have lots of happy memories of life in Ireland.

Well I'm off to bed now, been a long day.
Hope you all enjoy a peaceful night.
Love to you all.
Jeniwren xx

Maddie Juanita! that's funny!
Unfotunately both my parents died relativley young. My Mum was 52 when she died and my Dad was 66 when he died. I'm hope to buck the trend. I want a ride in a limo when I'm 90!

Jeniwren, you did write it clearly, I understood that you were saying your great gran birthed (delivered) you. My grandmother delivered me, she delivered all of her grandchildren, we called it 'brought into the world', you called it 'birthed'. My grandmother came from an Irish Catholic family and she was very similar to the way you describe your great gran. She brought loads of babies into the world and she saw all the old people 'out of the world'........... in other words, she 'layed them out'.

We'd like to hear more about your days with your dad and great gran, when you were on the road.

well I'm going to bed now.
I'll read a bit. I don't know if it's going to be just as cold tomorrow or no.
Ist of feb. Where did January go?

Evening all................

Night all.

Well that was short and sweet Stephen.

Morning all.

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A cuppa for everyone while we wait for breakfast.

Morning ......

Hi Pauline & Stephen...

Has Stephen not done the shopping this morning ? No Breckies !!!!!!

Dont know why I'm up so early ......must see the doctor ..LOL

Got dentist though later then an eye test ..

Bath is running...........now about to run in it ..

Morning ......

Hi Pauline & Stephen...

Has Stephen not done the shopping this morning ? No Breckies !!!!!!

Dont know why I'm up so early ......must see the doctor ..LOL

Got dentist though later then an eye test ..

Bath is running...........now about to run in it ..


Oops ! did that twice....

Morning All,

Marilyn......are you gonna have two baths as well. ROFL

No Breakfast......Cooker is on the blink. I'M the Cooker.

Day off today.....but guess what......will be busier than ever. Phone call at 10.30pm last night. A niece shouting for HELP ! I'm the 'Help'.

Checked in the cupboards and fridge. You can have some Irn-Bru, Cheese and Tomatoes, Lettuce, Cucumber, Branston Pickle, Morning Rolls, Butter. and other such things for Breakfast. Cold beans if you wish.

OOOpppps ! And some Crispbread for those on a diet.

Dark and miserable here. Strong wind making it feel cold although the temperature is up at 6C.

Time to get the tools organised and ready for the off.

Keep well. Keep safe. Keep smiling.

Morning all
Little M is staying with her daddy this morning and Mum will get a Drs appointment for this afternoon. She has a very high temperature and possibly it has gone to her throat again.

So off to do some shopping this morning and then for Tony to choose glasses frames at lunchtime, before he goes to work.

It seems warmer out this morning no frost on the cars, but I believe the forecast is for rain.

Have a good day

Linda :o) XxX

PS Marilyn good luck at the dentist and then opticians

A wee chuckle for the day......

Delayed Reaction

Bert and George were sitting on a Park Bench when a lovely young woman walks past.

Says Bert.........,' George do you remeber those Bromide pills they gave us during the War to stop us chasing Women?'

'Yes!' says George, 'Why?'

Bert said......'I think mine are beginning to work'

What no brekkie!
I don't want any lettuce- that's rabbit food!
Stephen-a phone call at 10.30pm. that's late! you must have wondered what was up. Hope you get the cooker fixed.
Hope the dentist and the optician's go ok, Marilyn. I'm waiting for the call to say that my new glasses are in.
Have a nice day everyone x

Morning everyone
Stephen sounded like Jack Warner in policeman in the Blue Lamp with his short words.
I Was up half the night so took a couple of paracetmols and went back to bed it was so cold as well. and went off to sleep and didnt wake till 8 oclock. thats a good bit of my day gone already . and I have not had a shower yet. thats the next job.
. Dermot I looked at the thatched cottage on the net. There use to be a lovely thatched cottage I passed on the way to Wembley. it was like a painting I undertsood it had been there for many years and cost a lot to insure, It caught fire one day and going back home I was looking out of the bus window and got such a shock to see the damage it had been perfect in the morning and was half gone when I went home.
I understand many Insurers charge a high price for insuring the Thatched proproties now. ?

Hope you all have a good day. see you later.

Rita

Las Vegas Churches accept gambling chips:

THIS MAY COME AS A SURPRISE TO THOSE OF YOU NOT LIVING IN
LAS VEGAS , BUT THERE ARE MORE CATHOLIC CHURCHES THAN CASINOS.

NOT SURPRISINGLY, SOME WORSHIPERS AT SUNDAY SERVICES WILL GIVE CASINO CHIPS RATHER THAN CASH WHEN THE BASKET IS PASSED.

SINCE THEY GET CHIPS FROM MANY DIFFERENT CASINOS, THE CHURCHES HAVE DEVISED A METHOD TO COLLECT THE OFFERINGS..

THE CHURCHES SEND ALL THEIR COLLECTED CHIPS TO A NEARBY FRANCISCAN MONASTERY FOR SORTING AND THEN THE CHIPS ARE TAKEN TO THE CASINOS OF ORIGIN AND CASHED IN.

THIS IS DONE BY THE CHIP MONKS.

(From an e-mail received today. Enough said!)

Hello everyone, hope you had a restful night.
Rita, hope you enjoyed your shower and are feeling ready for the day ahead.
Marilyn, hope your trip to dentist is painfree.

As I wasn't up in time to do breakfast would anyone like a hot bacon roll and a cuppa?

Patricia, hope your new glasses are ready for you today, got mine 2 weeks ago, am pleased cos now I can see more clearly.

Hope you all have a good day and enjoy whatever you do.
Go with God and in good health.
Jeniwren xx

Dermot, we must have been typing at the same time,
love that, very funny LOL

Dermot I beleived all that till I came to the end about the chips being

counted and returned for cash what am I going to do with you. ?

Chip Monks indeed.

Rita
x

Jean
I am just going to have a shepherds pie I made one this morning, looked at the clock and was amazed at how the time had gone.
I be having my dinner and tea together at this rate. Lol

Rita
x

I had visions of a fruit machine being installed in the porch of my church til I read the end! Very good Dermot!
Jean I don' t think my glasses will be ready for another week or so.
A bacon roll sounds a lot nicer than my cheese spread roll.