General Chat

Hi Pat - Things didn't work out for me to go for a haircut today, so I got to keep it for another day, just as well because we had a cold wind today, will try again tomorrow.

Amanda I'm glad your daughter is getting some proffessional help. My sister had a similar problem a few years ago, but when she got help it was soon remedied, and she's been fine since - it was all to do with stress.
I'm sure your boxes will be very welcome Christmas gifts - so much nicer to receive a gift someone has made themselves.

Perse - There is an ancient law here that decrees that every swan in the land is the property of the Monarch, so you would end up in the Tower for eating one. A local farmer rears buffalo/bison and sells buffalo steaks and burgers in the farm shop. I haven't tried it, but my daughter has, and said it's very nice - a slightly stronger taste than beef.

Sandie - I live in the wild and woolly North - the Snowdonia National Park in Gwynedd. I share my cave with my OH, my dog, and 5,000 sheep lol.

Tec.

Good evening Tec, Amanda and pat

the wind has been wild again here,

Pat did you get a card for your sister, lucky you haveing some sunshine.

Hi Amanda glad to hear your daughter is getting some help and I hope she soon improve's.

Tec you now have a fellow welsh person on the thread, though you have alway's had me who is welsh by birth. If I were you I'd keep the hair until the wind disappear's hun.

Allan, I know you will arrive soon so I would like to thank you again for the lovely photo's you e-mailed to me, they are fantastic and I really enjoyed looking at them.

Diane

Hello Pat , I hope you are feeling well today .
I'm hoping my boxes will be useful , I'm going to fill one of them with basic sewing stuff ( ie needles a few reels of cotton etc ) , that will be for my eldest daughter and then hopefully she will mend her own clothes ....lol
Chicken curry sounds good . We had slow cooked beef with veg , it was scrummy .

Tec , I'm glad to hear your sisters stress was soon remedied , hopefully it will be the same with my daughter : ))
I think you ought to keep your hair until the Springtime now .


Apparently our Queen owns all the Mute swans on open waters , so I guess that the other species are less protected ?

Hello Amanda
your boxes sound a good idea and if i was one of your daughter's I would be very happy to receive one, it would be of no use for me to give my one and only daughter one as she is hopeless at sewing and when-ever her girl's need anything mended they alway's bring it to me to do it for them.

Diane

Hello Diane - It's great that your son is enjoying his new job, and making such a good impression with the DVD he made will surely help towards getting a more permanent or long term position - good luck to him.

Amanda, Good idea to keep my hair until Spring, but I'd be walking on it, or have to have one of those beehive styles, which wouldn't do anything for my image in the village lol.

Tec.

Tec you could alway's wrap it round your neck as a scarf and keep your neck warm hun. Just tell people it's the new fashion lol.

Diane

Morning Diane, Tec, Amanda and Pat who is probably reading.

Trust you have all had a good day and slept well in your large feather (swan's feathers perchance) bed last night.

I have just been looking up Swans, I did not realise there were so many varieties... and it says Swans usually mate for life, though 'divorce' does sometimes occur, particularly following nesting failure.

Very interesting thread this yesterday I was googling lizards and today swans.

Good idea Tec to put off the haircut, my neck always feels cold when I have my winter haircut. I am reading about the princes in the tower at the moment - maybe if I was consigned to the tower I could get to the bottom of it all and find out exactly what did happen.

Persey

The Sikhs wrap their hair up in their turbans - you would not look out of place where I live wearing a turban. The length of those turban wraps is huge, the length of a large room some of them. You need a hall to lay it out in before you put it on.

Perse

Good morning Perse, mind you if it's ( morning for us brit's ) it must be evening for you hun ?

Hope you are well hun and have a nice plan for today, or are you doing your usual house doing up. I was awake most of the night in the large bed, all the snoreing that was going on and people's cold feet, I was glad to get up for work at 5-30am to get some peace and quite :)

Diane

Good evening Diane and Pursey ,

Diane , well done to your son on his new job ( I must have missed that bit of news ) .
My daughter can sew a bit and has in fact done a bit of cross stitch before ( something that I have no patience for at all ) , if I get her a basic kit , in the personalised box , with " A Stitch IN TIme Saves Nine " painted on the lid the might not have an excuse to bring items in need of mending to me anymore .....lol......one can but try .

Persey , I found the chat about Lizards interesting , it must be a great wonder to see them scampering about amoungst the flowers .

Tec , will you be sporting your beehive hair doo whilst wearing your flares ? ...lol
You sound like my Dad , he used to say he was tripping over his hair when it just touched his ears ! ....lol

I think I will go very trendy and have a Pony Tail - I heard they're coming back in fashion.

Perse, I've been into the room in the Tower where the Princes were murdered several times. When I was a boy, and I was once, I often went to the Tower on Saturday's.I got to know all the Beefeaters by name, and went into parts of the Tower where the public don't get to see now. This was of course in the Dark Ages, before mass tourism. Last time I passed the Tower about 20 years ago, I was amazed to see the huge queues waiting to get in.

Tec.

My Mum used to have a turban , my Granddad had bought it back from India ( WW1 ) , it was a lovely colour blue and very very long . I wonder what happened to it ? I haven't thought about it for many a year .

This place could do with livening up a bit - so yes - beehive hair do, purple flares - cuban heel shoes.

I visited the tower in 1965 Tec.

They did a program here on TV back in the nineties on the only New Zealander that was a yeoman. About a year later a chap came in my shop and asked to look at one of my books that was up high on display - a book on the Yeoman and I started to tell him about the TV program and then stopped short, looked at him and here he was in person.

Persey

How extraordinary Persey, that the very man should walk into your shop in NZ - I expect he was also amazed that you recognised him too.

Tec.

Good morning/evening everyone. I'm running a bit late this morning. I wanted to finish a book last night so went to bed later and got up this morning later than usual.

You lot are mad:-)) I've been reading through the posts and having a good laugh. Don't try to fool us, Tec. You know that you are infamous in your village for your hippy clothes and funny hairdos:-))

Amanda - the boxes sound lovely. I've done a few and covered them with scrapbooking paper and paper flowers etc. but I've never thought of making them into gifts. I did do a couple of pencil boxes. I made a very pretty one for my granddaughter's pencils. Her brother was most put out that he didn't get one but sometimes I like to do something special for my only granddaughter.

We have lizards in our garden. I've found them sunning in the garden over the last couple of weeks so I know spring is on the way. I love them.

I've been to the tower too. It was amazing. The history is all around you and I loved that I was walking in the footsteps of so many people over so many years.

S x

Good (fill in the time of day here, as applicable) to you all.

Amanda, I'm pleased that your daughter is getting more help. It will be a reassurance for her.

Persey, you would seem to be an environmentalists nightmare, consuming so much native wildlife!! Nice, isn't it :0))

You mentioned corned tongue> I love tongue and will usually boil some up in summer to have with salads. A bit of a clat to prepare and skin but fantastic eating.

Allan

Thank you Amanda and I have told him you said well done on getting his job.

Tec I have told my son of your congratulation's and I too hope the good work he has already done will help when a position become's available, he will have to have an internal interview with other's when the next position come's up. If he hasn't been successfull by the time his 6mths are up then he is out of a job again. I'm hopeing that won't happen as he really love's working for this firm.

Diane

Do you think I should write it in my memoirs Tec.... I had forgotten about it until you mentioned going there. It was an extremely good documentary - showed where he lived in a flat at the tower etc. He was over here on holiday.

Well I would like to apologise for any bad language that came forth from your computers (this morning your time) last night - The genes website kept going down and I was helping contacts with messages going back and forth each time I pressed submit it would say loading and fiddle around and then show problem page with firefox etc. I was fuming, I kept having to copy my text elsewhere and then try again. I come through the UK site so I tried all the others to no avail.... I got worried in case you lot would not be here when I got up this morning.

I would have had to do a missing friends file.

Persey

Good morning Sue and Allan : )

Your boxes sound delightful Sue . I bet your Granddaughter was over the moon with her one . I've made one for Daisy , bright orange and with Daisies painted on it , her Mum says to fill it with hair bobbles and other hair related things , it should make a nice gift : ))

Allan , eating tongue !! I'm happy for you that you enjoy it but I couldn't eat it in a million years .