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Okey dokies.

Wallies.


Seeing as I am now a clean girl, I wanna play.

Mommy I hope you want to PARTY. And not PARTAY.

You naughty girl.

I'm not sure what I wanna do Maddie. I'm glad you got the answer right.
Thought it might take hours in translation for our Stephen, he being of Scottish origin, it could translate as something else.

How can we party when half the girls are away.you will have to have a late one when they are all back.

You left Kiss chase of that list too. I am not playing if that isnt included and I am not kissing the girls so who does that leave ? that will keep the guys away. Lol

I think Mrs Stephens put a bit too much sherry in that Christmas pudding they had, and then slipped more whisky in his drinks so he is feeling merry. He will wake with a headache tomorrow .
I am away now time for my tea,


Rita

please has someone got my missing keyboard letters A and I. I want them back.

Yep, going around to Torriano Avenue Chippie.

queing around the block, for 4d chips and a wallie.

The chippie was the local meeting place for young blokes and girls.

then to the off licence for a can of Coke, and a can opener.
lol

You are showing your age now Maddie. A wallie, chips and crackling, those were the days, but we had to pat sixpence, how come yours were cheaper.
No cans of coke though, bottles of pop instead, little stubby bottles.

Oi, Oi, lady, watch it.

Our Chippie sold chips at 4d, 6d, and 9d.

The cans of Coke were 1/- and we got a free can opener. no ring pulls.

See, poor working class area. Chips were the staple food. We walked around there with our feet wrapped in rags. with cardboard strung underneath. Our shawls wrapped around our shoulders, and a bit of a mustard plaster, that could be wiped on the chips. Plenty of salt and vinegar, that should send your levels haywire.

Salt, citric acid and sugar.
lol

Crumbs you woz rich, salt n vinegar,cor blimey. We could only get a bag of chips if we, scrubbed the kitchen floor and blackened the aga, then we had to do the front door step. That had to be spotless, so's the neighbours didn't talk. For doing all this our prize was the bag of chips.
Hard times gal, hard times.

Nah, nah.

Whitestoning the kitchen flags. Then black leading the range with a toofbrush. Then Cardinal polishing the top step red. Then bleaching the front steps and poking the moss out from the steps and risers.

Gosh times waz hard.

No wonder my hands are so very bad now.
lol

See ya later Mommy, gonna have my dinner.

Not tea. Thats posh, eh.
lol

Evening anyone who is still here.
Hubby is working.
FIL packed off home with all his pressies and having had far too much to drink yesterday, knowing the pills he has to take. I get quite worried but how can you tell a man of 87 he's having too much !!! I think he tried every bottle and went home with port, whisky and wine too. He had sloe gin, sherry, baileys, port, whisky, brandy, wine, bubbles oh and ginger wine too I think, that's me forgetting the lager, cider and beer too. He tells me he can't have too much tea cos he's up too many times in the night needing the bathroom.
Then he and hubby spent most of the evening asleep too.
Two of the children went home last night, son now has flu so didn't come to take FIL home as planned.
Both daughters took him home instead when hubby got ready to go to work.
Their partners went home to tidy their own homes to get ready for their friends visiting tonight.
Must still be off colour as I have slept all afternoon.
Two games I thought of were sleeping lions.................. great for calming excited children so might work???? And the age old one of sardines, though I don't actually remember playing it myself.
My darling hubby decided that the TV he treated us to was our Christmas present so no surprise for me. I hate that he dislikes Christmas so much that he won't try to get anything for me. I can have anything I want but no surprise!!!
Yes I did get him extra gifts that he knew nothing about oh and guess who bought the family presents?
Roll on spring when I can get out on my own again for walks and fresh air. I feel like I've been trapped indoors for 6 months. The snow is melting and hopefully the ice will go too.
Tomorrow supposed to be going to my brother and his family, but they have been unwell so it depends how my sister in law is as to whether we drive 30 miles there and back to catch another bug !!! But I should be able to pop in on my parents too for a short time, though Mum has had a virus too, so they stayed home for Christmas.
Wednesday hubby's sister & her hubby are coming so long as they hacven't caught flu from their daughter.
So much illness to be passed on.
I want to do a bit of research this evening so I hope to pop on again before I go to bed. Hubby should be home around 11:30 pm.

Linda :o) XxX

Mommy,

Glad Maddie got that one......I had never heard of a Wallie.

Here we were just building up to Postmans Knock and I get collared !

When our Swimming Club finished at night we went to the Chippie and had a 'tanners' worth of chips. The shop was good and gave a hearty
helping every time. At that time they still used newspaper for the outer wrap.

Hard Times.....you don't know what that means.

We were so poor we couldn't even afford to smile.......That's hard times.

One bowl and one spoon for the porridge....passed around the table...That's hard times.

Not a bath of hot water for us lot. One cupfull liberally sprinkled. That's hard times.

Seriously....... it's not until you look back you realise how unaware you were to not having a lot......we.were all in the same boat......and accepted what we had.

Peace and love were in great supply though. Sittting on my Mums knee as we listened to the radio or she read to me are Treasures that are beyond measure.

Linda, what a shame that your Christmas was blighted by people being unwell.
Do you know what I believe, men find it hard to buy for us women because their mums did it for them for so long, that they have no idea what we might like as a surprise. When my mother in law was alive, Roly would ask her what she thought I would like as a pressie, yeh well, I didn't particularly like what she bought me for xmas, let alone what she suggested Roly to buy.LOL
Even then when we lost her, he would ask what I wanted for xmas, so no surprises then either, huh some men have no idea have they, and I should know being married to one. Guess what he bought me this year, yep nothing.
Stay well love and keep away from all those germs.

Look Stephen I have gone back to being Mo in Kent again. It made me feel ancient having everyone calling me Mommy.

Cuddles, and being read to, was what my grandmother supplied me with aplenty(sp), no mummy cuddles though. Mum was a very stand offish woman, who didn't know how to do it. But dad did, when he was home on leave.

Thank goodness Mrs Stephen called for dinner, before you started on your Postmans Knock.

Ok Mommy.....Mo it is.

Hello Mo,

Nice to have you back on the boards. Your stand in was posing me some awkward 'I Spy' questions.

I failed at the first one.

I know Stephen but then I did cheat in the last game of "I Spy", as it was kind of a word association game really. lol

Telly must be good just now........everyone has gone AWOL.

It's because the soaps are on Stephen. I wil be going soon as I want to watch "Upstairs Downstairs".

Upstairs Downstairs

I have a house exactly like that.

No sooner have I finished Upstairs but she wants Downstairs done.ROFL

When I was rebuilding my daughters house, what had been the Servants quarters on the lower floor had, hidden in a previous job, a Dumb Waiter to take the food from the kitchen to the dining room.

I also found wires leading to the Call Bells in various parts of the house.

The Butlers Pantry became a Utility Room.

The lower floor still had bars on all the windows. The Servants would never have got out in a serious fire.

The coal chute also led to the servants quarters. The Coal Cellar would probably have held a couple of tons easily. It must have caused a lot of dust.

Must have been hard at times coming from 'Downstairs'.

"Well, I'll go to the bottom of our stairs!"

I'm Downstairs...........going to go Upstairs..........that's where my bed is.

Night all.