General Chat

Kim I didn't forget you and Shirl, ONLY Mandy. But I sorted that. (Can't do anything right) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)
How are we all this morning ???forcast not good, showers later and for the next few days. Hope Sat. is good for the Scouts fun day.

Going for my Bacon Sarnie.

BBL

Just lost the lot, again. These emoticons are a problem, will not be using them again.

Hello Pat, nice to meet you. I'm Kim, the Australian connection and constantly losing my posts.

Will have to come back later. I was so excited with some news about a genealogy find, but just lost my momentum.

Frank, how could you forget Shirl, Mandy and me. Terribly offended, I am!!!!! Going to have a cry now. Might be back later when my hanky is soaked.

Hello everyone, hope you all have a good day. Kim

Goodnight all as well,

I have been waiting for a friend ( A distant relative to pop up on MSN )

I connected to her way back when researching my tree

My great grand aunt Ann went to the usa in the 1870 's and my freind follows down from her...... Ann being her great great grandmother lol..we have been freinds every since..

Catch you another time

Pat

Evening all
Went for a bath earlier and for some reason the hot water was not very hot , OH having to fix it, something to do with the boiler :-S

Anne , I still can't get on to GR through my front page, in fact I have no front page, just managing to get on here through any link I can.

Time for a hot drink to relax then I'm off to bed.

We have the council road works laying new tarmac all over the main road that runs into our street, it was really bad with pot holes from the last bad winter we had, unfortunately you can not use your car between the hours of 8am -4pm unless you park it some where else , a few of our neighbours have taken their cars to relatives who live near by, and walk to the car in the morning. work is due to finish by Friday, I hope it finishes earlier than that, Daughter no 1 had to park her car in one of the near by streets today and walk with Sofia to my house ,

I'm going for my milk now, will be back tomorrow,
NIGHT NIGHT :-D

I'm off to bed now.I do hope I sleep ALL night.(But won't hold my breath lol)
Night Night everybody xx

Oooh! don't remind me of the showers.Weren't they awful.I seem to remember there were lot of 'notes' from parents saying so and so couldn't shower that week lol.......all written by the girls!!.Miss Pemberthy was always watching.
I wonder if the boys hated the showers as much as us girls.
I think some of us girls would try and take a long time changing and hope that the teacher hadn't noticed we hadn't been through the shower.

I'm watching some programme about young Doctors now.Just my thing lol
;-) ;-)

Evening All,

Hi Pat/Patricia, nice to have you join us. We still have the odd flurry of memories at times, so just add any you can think of.

Communal showers......makes me shudder!!! That dash to get through and get your bits covered up with your towel. If you hadn't got much to see you were embarrassed and if you were well developed you were embarrassed.....so we were all embarrassed!!! lol With the PE teacher watching too.......really cringeworthy.

PS I think Frank meant to say 'Young at Heart'!!! lolol

Mandy I can just imagine Toby looking up at his toys.......wondering when they learned to fly!!! lol I can just picture Chester too...... he would have his eyes glued to Jane mending his toy.......and wanting his toy back ASAP !!!! lol

I must look that up Jane.....how fascinating Fitz's family is.......much more interesting than my lot!!

Well I'm off to see the Fairy Jobmother now......I enjoyed the last series.

Sorry Mandy, Trust me to leave someone out. A little spending money, does not mean a new outfit :-D :-D :-D

Ann, please remind me what does TIC stand for. I know you do a lot of hospital shop work. I have thought of volunteering fot something like that. But it will mean Ros having to take me and bring me back. Would be very expensive with the cost of petrol. and her, not being able to go anywhere when I was working. I did offer my services to the Heart Charity shop. They took my name and number. But I never heard back from them !!!!

Just heard from our friends who own a place in Teneriffe, the weather is very warm and sunny. they are there till 23rd June. They also have a place in Florida, and Hastings. He will not settle down in this village,so bought these places which they use on a regular basis. Oh to have money !!!! We will have our holiday in sunny Blisworth, as we have for the last few years.

Where's Aunty Mel,??? Hope she has got all her jobs done in the tunnel, and Mr Mel is getting on allright with the NEW BUILD.

Another busy day withTIC and hospital shop.Welcome Pat and hope you enjoy the chat. Glad others are having trouble with the site but my front page seems to have more information on it including numbers of post etc,
The weather here has been quite warm with sunny showers but it has meant that I do not have to water nextdoor tonight.
I hope everyone has a better sleep tonight
No more news

This Poem is obviously taking the mickey of Dame Clara Butt.She was 6ft 2" and a larger than life woman lol.As I said it was written by `Fitz's Step Grandfather who I think knew this lady
FOR DAME CLARA BUTT

A Mammoth went a-marketing
She bought a disused tram
She said"This should do splendidly
For Darlings little pram"
She took it home,pressed baby in,
Despite protesting squeals
Only to find her offspring's weight
Had buckled all the wheels.

A Mammoth went a-marketing
An Elephant she bought
She said"A love of tiny things
too early can't be taught"
She gave it to her little girl
Who took it up to bed
All night she clasped it lovingly
Next morning it was dead.

A Mammoth went a-marketing
She bought the Ritz Hotel
She said"We need a summer-house
And this should answer well"
She took it home ,and found of course,
The building far too small,
And so she hurried out again
And bought The Albert Hall

A Mammoth gave a concert,
All the Nations in a ring
Encircled those colossal feet
To hear their Clara sing
She drew in one portentous breath
Emitted one great roar
Our Solar system's disarranged,
The Earth exists no more...................Amen lolol


Fitz's step grandfather was called Major Patrick Beynon.He was up in the Old Bailey on charge with having relations with powdered and painted men!!!! lol.I think if you google Patrick Beynon the court case will come up.
Fitz has given me permission for me to tell this.
Lordy Lordy ! Fitz doesn't half have an interesting family!! ;-) ;-) ;-)

Don't forget little me Frank in Norfolk LOL

Hi Im back

My thread seems to have vanished.posted it about 5pm

Thanks Jane for putting my mistake right on names...sorry Frank..

I will pop back from time to time need to renew on here in afew days..I will just take the basic one out this time......

I remember being at school when young and having communal showers

I was right a new bird on the block !!!! Hi Pat/Patricia. So nice of you to join us. We are a happy bunch of people, and would be pleased if you would join us. Are you under or over 50 ???? I like mine young :-D :-D :-D and what part of the country are you from. At the moment we have Devon/Dorset/Middlesex/Northampton Leicester/Birmingham/Yorkshie and Scotland. Not included Canada and Australia SORRY GIRLS.

Rain and sun here all day. very wet this afternoon. No watering tonight.

Just saw on local news about a bloke you was evacuated in the war. He was told his dad was dead then his mum. He was worried about his little sister, but she had been taken to Norwich for the day. This was the bombing of Great Yarmouth.

Frank, i'am sure i'll be allowed a tiny weeny bit of it for spending money LOL
i haven't bought my new Sandals yet !!and i've seen a nice skirt i quite fancy .

Sheila, we haven't filled the swimming pool yet , i think there was talk of the Spa being filled on Thursday ,the little ones love it .
you could fill a book with the tales of your Beryl and Donnie lol


Hello Patricia, another new name ,welcome to the thread , hope you stay with us and give us some of your childhood memories ,you'll find us all a friendly bunch !! :-)

Maureen , i remember knitting dish cloth's , it was a bit like string !!! i think you can still buy it , we used Raffia in school, i seem to remember it had a funny smell, but i carn't remember what we made with it now !!!

I bet my elastic dug in Patricia and gave me itchy skin lol I think we thought you were a Pat who came on here some time ago .......so welcome !
Jack ( I think you mean Frank) is a bit of a devil!!!!! You have to watch him lol
Don't mean it really .He is a lovely cheeky chappy.
Do we call you Pat or Patricia?

Sheila ,it sounds like you have had quite a day at the Safari Park and those Baboons lol.They do have horrible bottoms don't they.Thank heavens ours don't look like that lolol.

I have a funny poem that Fitz's Step Grandfather wrote back in the 1930's.I think it is great.
It is about a lady who was a singer called Dame Clara Butt (I must google her).I will put it up on my next post. :-D

If I wasn't already busy with the ironing I can see an opening for another little business. I'm quite good at sewing, although if my needlework teacher was still around she would be speechless, all she ever let me do was knit dishcloths on those gigantic needles with a material very close to string. I was very naughty at school and was really only interested in my friends and having a natter and of course the boys that used to hang around the school gate ......

Keep at the book Sheila, if it's anything like your posts it will be a good read, and I for one would love to read it.

Hello All.

Jack Im a new person on here.I have been playing some of the games and reconised Jane from them....I was just browsing this and was wondering what the title meant...had to read a few pages to realise it was freinds talking amongst them selves...
I have noticed different things on here.Have been having to log myself in over the last dew days... Jane that photo of you reminds me of one I had taken at that age..All elasticated lol

Sorry did not realise I had typed so much was relaxing after my outing Im afraid.

Well what is a matter with the site I typed a message and it sent it before I was finished and then disapeared.

I was married at twenty one 1960 June 4th and if anyone asked me how come your married so long I say Oh I could not be bothered to divorce my husband. if they told my hubby he would say oh did she say that end of subject.Thats why I do it it shocks a few locals gets them talking.my husband is so half soaked he would not notice I had done it.

Well I was up early about 7.30 out at the Lickeys for Beryl and Donnie we were taking his little nephew to the Safari Park 13 miles away but it poured with rain when there all morning the little chap was so wet and fed up sheltering out the rain we left and will have to try another day. But later on it will be packed out. Now its stopped raining but is dull now I am home but the suns coming through .

We were coming out and the last thing we saw was the baboon they all ran off after dopey Don blasted apart from one who sat on the windscreen with red mis shaped bottom scratching right on my side and was picking flees and flicking them.Donnie thought it really funny and Beryl said Oh Don he reconises you look he is smiling at you when it turned round. Little Harry who is seven said he is better looking than uncle Donnie Aunty Beryl .Beryl roared with laughter and the baboon was copying her throwing his arms up and down

I am nervous of baboons I had a arial broken and once my ho lost a wing mirror. Beryl was laughing at what Harry said all the way home. She said oh that is so funny I will pay the kid to come and live with us Donnie. Donnie said nothing until we got to the lights and Harry wanted a bag of chips he shot out the car to get them and Beryl told me to drive off however I didnt when will they grow up. Anyway I told them I have to take my car for repair so I do not think they will come round for a while.

I do agree what about wasting water I went to a fete before I went to Wales and they had all these bottles of water and the little lads were buying them and throwing them at each other about 12 bottles of water were wasted plus everyone around was getting wet. Not one parent did or said anything.

My kitchen gets a mess when I am cooking. Jane but all your dinners sound lovely most times .I sit drooling on the comp.

Hello to Pat. thats another new name.

Jess was amused about Kim thinking Beryl was her in law and Donnie she said I like Aunty Beryl and Uncle Donnie they were nice to April when Mat died if you remember she stayed with them and Beryl dressed April up in beads but April picked up some dreadful language if I remember. But she does not approve of the age gap and Beryl planting a lipstick kiss on donnies cheek .Jess did say do those pair really sleep together. I said
yes and she went YUK.

Hello Amanda . is it horrid weather like here with bright spells. But its windy. .Did you brave your pool yet. I have found it chilly.
My dogs just had 360 worth of dentsal treatment and that is my holiday gone up the spout one hundred last year it seems he got infections in his gums. Thank goodness Teddy is ok the one dog I adopted. His teeth are really strong like when he drapes his jaw round my
hand sometimes when I am getting something off him. it really hurts.

Chester protecting his toys Jane so cute. when you mend them.
Mel thank you for saying nice to see me back.
I want time for myself now so much to catch up on.
Amanda I did do one more chaper on my Witches Brew. The witches had a meeting in the village to get rid of a trouble making women by painting all her toadstools in the garden blue and she fled the village. However I decided it was daft and ripped it up. I need some new plots any ideas. I get my ideas more in Wales so many of the old locals remind me of old witches with these dark little parlours in the cottages full of spinning wheels and old stuff. .I saw a stone in one ladies kitchen on the fireplace
it said

Eat me now eat me not
brew me in the cooking pot.
In you go stir it well
cook until you make a spell.

I asked her what it meant and she said Oh it was a stone I got from
Chedder caves one cave was used by witches. I was really chuffed .
At the school another chapter of my book was requested when the kids were asked whoes story they wanted .They settled though for Mrs Jarandos Magic Buns an Indian Story.

i stuck my head in the charity shop door and said hello to a chinese man who tried to sell me a woc. I thought gosh it was rusty and if I had been in the shop thats one thing that would have gone. I notice all the lovely clothes they used to have have disapeared. I have been asked to collect for charity again but think I will let someone else have a go my years been hectic my effort last year was good so they cannot moan at me. Your not surposed to tout for business in a charity shop either chinky chinerman was naughty to do that.

Sorry about Shirls relative I thought things were improving for her.

Kim my nephews having a problem with his house its built on stilts and they are rotting and its costing him a fortune to have it put right.

Well what is a matter with the site I typed a message and it sent it before I was finished and then disapeared.

I was married at twenty one 1960 June 4th and if anyone asked me how come your married so long I say Oh I could not be bothered to divorce my husband. if they told my hubby he would say oh did she say that end of subject.Thats why I do it it shocks a few locals gets them talking.my husband is so half soaked he would not notice I had done it.

Well I was up early about 7.30 out at the Lickeys for Beryl and Donnie we were taking his little nephew to the Safari Park 13 miles away but it poured with rain when there all morning the little chap was so wet and fed up sheltering out the rain we left and will have to try another day. But later on it will be packed out. Now its stopped raining but is dull now I am home but the suns coming through .

We were coming out and the last thing we saw was the baboon they all ran off after dopey Don blasted apart from one who sat on the windscreen with red mis shaped bottom scratching right on my side and was picking flees and flicking them.Donnie thought it really funny and Beryl said Oh Don he reconises you look he is smiling at you when it turned round. Little Harry who is seven said he is better looking than uncle Donnie Aunty Beryl .Beryl roared with laughter and the baboon was copying her throwing his arms up and down

I am nervous of baboons I had a arial broken and once my ho lost a wing mirror. Beryl was laughing at what Harry said all the way home. She said oh that is so funny I will pay the kid to come and live with us Donnie. Donnie said nothing until we got to the lights and Harry wanted a bag of chips he shot out the car to get them and Beryl told me to drive off however I didnt when will they grow up. Anyway I told them I have to take my car for repair so I do not think they will come round for a while.

I do agree what about wasting water I went to a fete before I went to Wales and they had all these bottles of water and the little lads were buying them and throwing them at each other about 12 bottles of water were wasted plus everyone around was getting wet. Not one parent did or said anything.

My kitchen gets a mess when I am cooking. Jane but all your dinners sound lovely most times .I sit drooling on the comp.

Hello to Pat. thats another new name.

Jess was amused about Kim thinking Beryl was her in law and Donnie she said I like Aunty Beryl and Uncle Donnie they were nice to April when Mat died if you remember she stayed with them and Beryl dressed April up in beads but April picked up some dreadful language if I remember. But she does not approve of the age gap and Beryl planting a lipstick kiss on donnies cheek .Jess did say do those pair really sleep together. I said
yes and she went YUK.

Hello Amanda . is it horrid weather like here with bright spells. But its windy. .Did you brave your pool yet. I have found it chilly.
My dogs just had 360 worth of dentsal treatment and that is my holiday gone up the spout one hundred last year it seems he got infections in his gums. Thank goodness Teddy is ok the one dog I adopted. His teeth are really strong like when he drapes his jaw round my
hand sometimes when I am getting something off him. it really hurts.

Chester protecting his toys Jane so cute. when you mend them.
Mel thank you for saying nice to see me back.
I want time for myself now so much to catch up on.
Amanda I did do one more chaper on my Witches Brew. The witches had a meeting in the village to get rid of a trouble making women by painting all her toadstools in the garden blue and she fled the village. However I decided it was daft and ripped it up. I need some new plots any ideas. I get my ideas more in Wales so many of the old locals remind me of old witches with these dark little parlours in the cottages full of spinning wheels and old stuff. .I saw a stone in one ladies kitchen on the fireplace
it said

Eat me now eat me not
brew me in the cooking pot.
In you go stir it well
cook until you make a spell.

I asked her what it meant and she said Oh it was a stone I got from
Chedder caves one cave was used by witches. I was really chuffed .
At the school another chapter of my book was requested when the kids were asked whoes story they wanted .They settled though for Mrs Jarandos Magic Buns an Indian Story.

i stuck my head in the charity shop door and said hello to a chinese man who tried to sell me a woc. I thought gosh it was rusty and if I had been in the shop thats one thing that would have gone. I notice all the lovely clothes they used to have have disapeared. I have been asked to collect for charity again but think I will let someone else have a go my years been hectic my effort last year was good so they cannot moan at me. Your not surposed to tout for business in a charity shop either chinky chinerman was naughty to do that.

Sorry about Shirls relative I thought things were improving for her.

Kim my nephews having a problem with his house its built on stilts and they are rotting and its costing him a fortune to have it put right.