General Chat

Maddie,

That's a cracker !

About tattoos.
One of the grils who used to work at my place had a little girl last year. She had a tattoo done yesterday on her back. It was the date her daughter was born and it looked very nice,
Maddie that's so funny!

The girl in the Stieg Larsson books had a tattoo.
If I was brave enough I'd have a black cat tattoo! The girl with the cat tattoo!

Who remembers Dado Rails ?

Fashionable a few years ago. I am starting to remove the ones that Mrs Stephen convinced me to put up. Luckily I had them screwed and rawlpugged in place so they are coming off without pulling half the plaster off the wall. Friends that had glued them up damaged a lot of plaster taking them down.

It all makes work for the working man to do.

Morning All,

Its raining AGAIN .......

Had a great evening last night with the Chinese Grub.......drowned 3 bottles of wine .

Tonight I have my sister and her Hubby for a Fish pie ....home made .

Stephen ...The dado rails had a purpose didn't they ? I think it was so chairs did not mark the walls whilst leaning on them.
So your house decorating which I love as I am always looking to do things in the house to up grade it .........if I left it to Pete he would be living in a museum .
I have just asked him to take the tiles up in the kitchen as I have got tired of them and they have been down 15yrs!!.

So a job for him in the spring.


Maddie that was hilarious..!! I must remember that when at a dinner party....

Dermot..... How can you remember all those tales of years gone by ?
I tried to forget most of mine as I had nothing much and was quite poor, so I could only remember certain things that were either sad or funny....

I'm now going to make this fish pie......back later. x

3 bottles of wine Marilyn!
between how many people? It sounds as though you had a good time!
Is you fish pie "starry gazey pie"? with the fish heads stucking up through the pie.It Cornish dish. You're nearer to Cornwallthan I am!

Morning everyone
I remember Dado rails Stephen but luckily we didn't have any ourselves. Prior to that was the picture rail just a higher up version but useful for hanging family portraits from I guess. I remeber them from my parents homes and of course older family homes too.
We only have the 3 stage decorating to get rid of in this house. You know the pattern on the bottom a band round the middle and the different pattern on the top bit. As I hope to retire in the late spring I think this will be my project. Lounge Dinning Room and second large bedroom. All need doing and it will give me a project, especially if hubby carries on working. Unfortunately as the house is only 20 years old it means that when I soak the paper off the only layer of emulsion and fine plaster layer or is it the actual plaster board comes off too. So it either means Anaglypta heavy embosed type paper. OR getting these rooms platered with a light skim. Bringing in tradesmaen as it's not something I feel able to do.

Well I went for my 20 minute walk. It is damp out there a light rain and light breeze too. But I did it, even with the blisters from yesterday. I feel really unfit when I think I used to do 10,000 steps a day before last winter when I had my chest problems.
Now it is time ffor me to start thinking of myself and taking care of myself for my retirement and not just vegetate.

I have just seen Neil Oliver on Country Tracks making a bronze sword.

Be back later. Have a peaceful day all

Linda :o) XxX

Marilyn,

Three bottles of wine ! What did the others have to drink ?

I enjoy rebuilding and general decorating etc. The biggest job I have done was for my daughter. Her first house. Literally took the roof off. I was left with just four outside walls. All the interior walls were demolished as well.

The finished result was great. Hardwood floors, Stainless Steel , Glass, Sandstone, etc. An article was published in one of the Housing Magazines about the complete renovation. I was pleased as punch.

My pride and joy was the stair, a curving stainless steel stair with mahogany treads with small lights recessed in at the sides. Looked magic.

The Dado Rails in this house only had a decorative function. Originally the Dado was the line that separated the lower part of the wall from the top part. The lower part was decorated with a hard wearing finish and the top a more decorative material or paint.

I love to talk about building work...........if I'm talking I'm not working........love it.......ROFL

im sitting here whating for daughter to get back from church

i recon she is bleeding chating up the vicer as she is nomaly back by now

Maddie how could you have offended me.?

we had those walls in both our first cottage's the cottage's were built in 1870 the first one had a dark brown thick paper at the bottom, the top was a wallpaper with big flowers over on a trellis. we soon got rid of that. the papers were seperated by a wooden strip that had been decorated. this ran all along the wall from the front door (which had a step down ) along the passage to the kitchen and from the front door up the stairs to the three little bedrooms.
The next cottage a few doors from our first, had a creamy coloured thick wallpaper at the bottom patterened and the top was painted a cream coloured. the kids use to put their hands on the wall going uptairs .it too ran along the passage to the kitchen we had one door under the stairs wooden pained brown (why brown ) a step down brought you into the kitchen with a wooden floor and brick walls down another step brought you to the scullery which was also brick and had a fitted brick boiler. the toilet was outside.
My husband guttered the cottage we had our first bathroom what a joy that was..
the people in the little cottages did that as they only had to paint the bottom of the walls to keep it looking smart and clean. no one had any money. we all had butler sinks.and no bathrooms only a tin long bath that hung on the wall outside the back door.

Rita

Hi All,
just back from a walk on the beach with dog. Rainy and windy and now its time for a cuppa and a snooze. Dog already asleep!!!
Made a big pot of soup for tonight so no need to spend hours cooking.
Back later

cath xx

Shelly.

Your daughter must be trying to get the vicar for a pass into heaven !! that takes a long time to discuss ..LOL

Pat ...my fish pie is basic just cod & king prawns & leeks & capers in a cheese y sauce .
nothing grand...

Good lord my sister has arrived already ....hmmm

back later tonight ...

im back from shoping

and im not going to cook dinner today i carnt be botherd now iv just had some think to eat
so my lot can feed them selfs or starve

R4 - Womans' Hour to be co-hosted on 1st April by Andy Gray & Richard Keys to include an interview with Silvio Berlusconi.

Hi all, the weather's horrible here, cold, dark and wet. It was lovely yesterday, we worked in the garden most of the day.

Dermot, I love your tales of your childhood, you really make it all come to life........... so talented.

I don't have my ears pierced, never liked the look of holes in ears, don't have any tattoos either........... apart from the ones on my face.

My dad was in the Royal Navy and he had tattoos on both arms, both hands and both sides of his neck.

I used to think his tattoos were pretty, he had bluebirds and hearts, and my mother's name.

Stephen, have you read all those books?

Marilyn, that tattooed lady was lovely, wish I'd had my dinner before I'd seen her, it's put me off my food a bit.

Lovely email Linda, thank you.

Going to do the dinner now.

Just to re-assure you all
I have no ear piercings or tatoos either !! It wasn't my picture, I'm so glad to say. Heaven forbid.
Youngest has a flower chain near her waist, no other close family members have tatoos that I know of. Some of the nieces might have but I've never seen them.
Both daughters have their ears pierced more than once.

Just not something I ever wanted.

But have been advised you can have your eye brows tatooed on, maybe just maybe?

Weather miserable very wet now.

Ironing done, thank goodness

Linda :o) XxXX

Linda, the flower chain sounds nice.
i think that according to the staff manual at my place of work Tattoos are a no no.
I've just startrd reading A Week In December. the westher is a bit grotty here. I've got to go out later to count the church collection. I wouldn't mind but I got wet this morning!
I like the idea of a library Stephen but my house isn't big enough!

Pauline,

I have read ALL my books some of them three or four times. My collection is extensive and covers many areas of interests I have. A few are rather valuable. Many are first editions. As a total collection they will be passed to my daughter who is a keen book lover like me. Better than money in the Bank
I 'lost' one really valuable book by lending it to a friend who then died. I couldn't ask his widow if she still had it months after Jims death. Probably went to a Charity shop and would be bought by someone who didn't know it's value.

I do know a couple of folk who have bought books 'by the yard' so to speak just to fill a bookcase and to make it look good.

It's time Dermot wrote a book. I'd love that in my collection.

Pauline how do I go back to Ancestrys old version of census ? this new one is driving me up the wall.
I dont want to end up like Humpty Dumpty and have a great fall.

Rita

Stephen I think 'Dermots book' would be a best seller. Hes got a real talent for making words come to life. I would definitely buy it.

Stephen,
I've just been speaking to my sister. She's thinking of getting an e reader!
First editons! I like paperbacks!
It seems to have stopped raining here.