General Chat

Just going to bed now. Knew I would forget someone's name in my last post, sorry Mandy.

Annx OH went up to see the neighbour. He is a bit shaken, but otherwise ok. Poor fellow is planning to put the house up for sale and now has all the damage in the backyard!!! Mother Nature doesn't care about timing. My father would have to walk me around the block in the pram at all hours. As soon as we would get back I would wake up. I think they were ready to throw me out the window, cradle and all, lol.

Thanks for your well wishes. Will be a massive funeral, so many police and navy people and all the family. Rod would be impressed!!!

Maureen I do love your wedding outfit from what I can see, such a pretty colour.

Anne have a lovely time in Jersey. I have been told it's so nice. Will have to Google in a minute and have a look. One of my doctor's lived there for a few years when he was a teenager. He loved the life on the island.

Off to the land of nod, goodnight everyone. Jane let me know how those meatballs turn out. Frank we are going to try your Leek Pie recipe this week.

It is now 12.18 am EST 16/6

Lots of posts on various threads have got requested reviews. Some crazy things going on at the moment. There is nothing wrong with them. Some idiot is enjoying causing havoc. Hope GR reinstates them again.

Just been out to the BIN and found the outside tap running. Tried to turn it off but just carried on running water down the side. I bought a new tap a couple of months ago. So decided to fit it. The stop cock is under the sink unit. I got down there allright, but getting up is so difficult. Not thinking I put my weight on the door to get me up. The bloddy door broke at the joint. So now have the job of repairing that now. Typical, do one job and make another. I have a new tube of "NO MORE NAILS" when I opened it ,it is solid.!!!!! So have sent off an Email to the makers. asking why it should go like that. Will have to get some other wood glue to fix it.

Yes Mel, it was a gas oven the type that stood on forg legs, with the oven door with a lift up catch on. Think it came from the "GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY"
Ann, I was always in front, when it came to trouble. My nickname was "BUSTER" and still get called it by my elder brother, and an old school friend, on Friends reunited.

Didn't grow any peas this year. We are getting English peas from Tesc#s
The pods are very full, and taste wonderful.

BBL

Honey is very good as a 'cure all' particularly burns, takes away the pain and blistering. We used to use an ointment called 'Lion Ointment' years ago, it had beezewax in it and was brilliant for everything from sores to burns.

Still not very clear though is it Ann. Yes that's me on my wedding day. Keep trying different pictures to see if I can get a clearer one.

We will have to do a proper base for the shed first, guess who's going to be mixing the cement ...lol

Maureen, you've got a BIG picture!!! Is it you?? I'd leave the shed for now.........3 of us put our wooden one up and I think one of the doors is upside down!! lol

What a difference a day makes, beautiful warm sunshine yesterday, cloudy and windy today but I must get out in the garden and finish off the bottom bit, mentioned to son the new shed is coming on Friday, he made no comment, oh well, will just have to wait until he has time, he does work so hard I always try and fix things myself but putting a shed together is beyond me. It's one of those metal ones, he had one for his garden recently and said it was like putting together a giant meccanno set.

Will be thinking of you tomorrow Kim. hope all goes well.

Poor Liz, selling a house is so stressful, I'd hate to have people traipsing through my home and then for it all to fall through, still I think things happen for a reason. Glad all has gone well for your move David. I'm beginning to realise how lucky we were to sell my mum's house without any hassle.

Afternoon All,

Spitting with rain here, but not much yet. Very cloudy though.

Frank you were a right little b#**#r weren't you!!! It's a wonder you didn't maim yourself!! I'm glad that that lady was ok.

Kim, what rough weather you have been having!! Lucky no-one was standing near that tree when it fell but what a mess it must have made for your neighbour......and expense!! I hope your cold is improving.........as you say, the vitamins may help. My sister was the most difficult baby of us three. She had such a paddy!!! She screamed the first 2 years and we ALL got disturbed nights!!!! lol I used to get sent out with her to walk her in her pram. Mum would say, 'bring her back when she's asleep'!!!! lol

Anne, I would enjoy that talk too, it sounds as if it would be very interesting. It would be good to hear what folk say when they see your mum's dress too if it is on show. Hope you enjoy your break and that the weather is kind.

I'd not heard of Tin Can Copper Liz, we called it hide and seek. I hope your buyer wants your place more than he is fussed by the neighbour. It would be a real shame if he pulled out now.

Mandy, those Pigeons will drive you mad with all the cooing early in the morning, as well as blocking the gutter. I think I have worked out why the Magpies here try to pull out the grills on out gutters. I watched one with a baby on the roof over the road this morning. The baby dropped the food and guess where it rolled down to????

Afternoon all
Still hit and miss getting on here again today.I'm here now,but for how long I wonder lol.
I just saw the funniest thing.Well it might not have ended up funny.I watched a Stoat chasing a little rabbit around the back garden.I have never seen that before.I don't think it caught the rabbit,because a few minutes later I took some scraps to the compost and the Stoat was just mooching around under the hedge.Chester stood poised ready to run at it,but I shouted and it disappeared .

Just in case I don't get back on later ,I just want to say KIm, I hope Rods funeral goes ok tomorrow.A sad day for you all.
Anne I hope your trip goes well to Jersey and that the weather is kind to you.

I have been picking peas this morning,but they aren't a patch on last year.Maybe it is down to the lack of rain.Also they were almost being strangled by weeds ,so I have pulled out loads now and tried to untangle some of them.

I must have missed loads of posts ,so please forgive me if I haven't mentioned something that I should have commented on.

Liz .It is a right old business this house selling isn't it.Maybe if this buyer decides to pull out you could think about trying again next year.

I have made my Olive and Lemon Meatballs this morning and they are in the slow cooker.I haven't used it for a while.So all I need to do later is the Tagliatelle to go with them.I have used the first of our home grown garlic in the sauce.The first year we tried to garlic it was a disaster,but this lot looks really good.

I must make my bed.Just realised I haven't done it.Tut Tut!
I expect the poor lady from Scouts will need to rest up a while Frank.It sounds as though she might have been doing too much.
I hope you are behaving yourself and not getting yourself into any trouble lol
;-) ;-)

Oh Frank what a naughty boy you were.....it is just as well you did'nt set fire to the house drying the newpaper in the oven. Was it a gas oven????????????????????

Good that you are not sore this morning. The rain has passed here and the sun is in and out.

morning my Lovelies,

What a difference a day makes. Today is very cloudy and looks like rain. !!! I am fine this morning not sore anywhere.I think it was just being in the sun.

Liz, That game you played. We called it "POT RELEASE" The searcher, when he/she found you. You had to go the the "POT" everybody who was still hiding would try to get back to the "POT" and release those who had been caught. Hence "POT RELEASE" it would go on for hours. Till Mum or Dad came out and called "BED TIME" Wasn't it great to have the freedom, and no worries about cars.

Mandy. The boys who lived opposite us, had the "Telephone system" We would push the can up and down the string to make a grating noise, what we now call a ring tone. They would answer and we would say "OVER" and then put the can to our ear while they spoke. Another thing we would do. (Don't let the children try it) was to soak newspaper in parafine and dry it in the oven. Then screw it up,put in a large tin with a lid. Light the paper and push the lid on tight. It would blow the lid 10s feet in the air. We only did it when Mum was out !!!!

The head scout mistress is out of hospital, after loads of tests, they put it down to stress.

I trust everyone is well,

BBL

Anne I hope everything goes off ok for you and the family, and my thoughts and prayers are with you. <3

Hope Frank is not too sore this morning from his sunburn. I had a friend who always put milk on sunburn. She was a great one for home remedies. Came from Liverpool but sadley passed away now.

Hi Everyone. I didn't even try to get on yesterday after all the problems of Monday but have got straight in today.Reading all the other posts it seems that I was not alone. IE9 has changed some of my settings but never thought that it would cause problems with Genes.
Yesterday was simply glorious and I spent the afternoon in the garden after TIC but we did not have a BBQ as I wanted to cook something for my neighbour which she could eat one handed so had pasta a la Jam*e Oliv*r. Hoping to barbie tonight but more cloud around.I trhink I told you about the History Wardrobe lady,well discovered that she os giving a presentation at Richmond station today about war time weddings so am going to see it and hope mums dress is on show. We have got most things organised now for tomorrow and just hope the weather stays fine in Jersey for the next few days.
Son and family back from Norfolk and had a super time building sandcastles and riding on the steam railway.Have not spoken directly to him yet but got the impression that the girls were fine.
David Good luck with your house removal.
Will try to post again tonight but if not will be back after tuesday. Take care of yourselves and don't over do it Frank :-) :-)

Thanks Liz a bit like hide and seek then??

Sorry to hear about the new buyers pulling out. How old are the rotten neighbours????

I am ironing.............................................on and off!! ;-)

Bit cheesed off this am. Our buyer is having second thoughts! not to keen on living next door to what he sees as a difficult neighbour!!! Don't really blame him, but obviously this will come up all the time , so if he pulls out we shall stay put, end of!!! Have had enough of all the stress it's causing, not sure I can face all that packing and hassle anyway!!! Tin Tan Copper was a game of Tag, everyone playing hid somewhere while someone else counted to 100, and called 'coming', this person had to seek the others out, while they tried to get back to home base without getting tagged, if you manged to get back you had to call out Tin Tan Copper, and you then became the seeker so to speak!! Hope this is clear?!!!!!

Morning everyone,

Got on here with no bother this morning ,lets hope its all sorted out now !!

Got to wait in for the scrap man to come and pick up some old tower scaffolding of hubby's ,have to keep indoors as if i go out in the garden i might not hear him knock !! although i think Toby would soon let me know if there's someone about .

Must get hubby to have another look in the guttering again as i'm sure those blessed pigeons are nesting there ,every time i go out the door i keep finding little bits of wire and twigs that i think they've dropped ,and their back sitting in the guttering again. i did squirt the hose up there but they flew off and then back they came .

I remember playing Jacks , does anyone remember playing with two tin cans, you threaded the string through them tight ,and pulled, then could talk to each other ,didn't work very well round corners though LOL

We also threaded the string through the cans and made handles that you held onto ,and you put your feet on the cans and walked with them .

Wish this scrap man would turn up i need to go shopping !!

Coffee time i think.

BBL

Oh changed me from IE8 to IE9 and thats when I started having trouble and after a while he changed me back again but I still could't copy and paste things without them coming out all wrong and me haveing to backspace everything and that took ages if you were trying to help someone so I just used to put up the reference and ask others to put the details up for me. Spoilt the hunt for their ancestors though. Now it saeems ok and I can now copy and paste thing once again. I think we should have another lesson in copying and pasteing for those who can't do it as it saves so much time with everything.

Who is up for it :-\

Morning All,

Been raining in the night and still is now, that horrid light stuff that gets just everywhere. So no more work in the fruit cage till it stops as I am looking up all the time.

Liz I have never heard of Tin Tan Copper, was it a kind of Knock Down Ginger?

A friend and I used to make a hole in a penny buy banging a nail in it and tie it to black cotton, hook it over a nail behind her gatepost and tun the cotton up to her bedroom window where we would eait for people to pass by. As they got level with the gatepost we would let the penny drop and they would look all around to see if they had dropped some money!! We thought it was really funny to see them searching about. One day someone saw the penny and picked it up only to find the cotton tied to it. :-(

Yes, I remember playing Jacks/Five Stones, also Tin Tan Copper! Hopscotch, Hula Hooping, Shipwreck, Conkers, and of course Skipping!!! You probably wouldn't be allowed to play most of these now, Health and Safety would rear it's head, so for kids it's back to the Telly/Computer! which could be MUCH more dangerous!!!

Hello everyone,

Survived the night. A huge tree came down and took out the neighbour's back fence and shed and his clothesline is a mangled mess. The State Emergency Service were up there cutting the branches away and clearing up. What a great job they do and last night would have been busy for them. More of this weather is still heading our way, but it has stopped raining for a couple of hours. The lake has been rising along with the creek, but the entrance to the ocean is blocked by the sandbanks. Hasn't been dredged in a while and now causing major problems for residents!!!!

Great to see you back Shirl, have missed you. So sorry to read about your cousin. That was actually our last email when you were going to see her.

Pat I remember playing Jacks at school every recess (or playlunch as it was called) after we had to drink that horrid milk that was delivered and left out in the sun to curdle. The magpies used to pick at the silvertops. When enough kids threw up, some brilliant mind decided it would be best to put the crates of milk in the shed and cover them with blocks of ice.

David have you had your thyroid tested in recent times? That can cause the veins to bulge. The veins and lymph nodes in my neck are currently bulging because I have a respiratory infection. Does that answer your question?? Anyways I hope you feel better soon. Good luck with your move to your new home.

Sheila I do love The Thornbirds and also have a copy which I watch from time to time. Richard Chamberlain is such a wonderful actor. I liked him as a young doctor in Dr. Kildare. Gene Simmons played a her part so well as there was so much tragedy for the family to cope with. You have been in the wars with the cat and that wretched man. I hope you gave him a mouthful!!

Frank I'm trying to keep rugged up and dosed with my vitamins. Will get there no matter what!!! We have IE7 on this computer - could be time to get an update. I don't know, but things have played up for a while on here since they began changing things.

Annx I look happy there; my mother says I was the most difficult baby of the three. She reminded me of that (with a smile) up until she passed away.

Hi to Fiona, Anne, Mel, Janey, Liz, Maureen and anyone I might have forgotten. Must away to clean the bathroom.

Hope to be back later. We have Jacob staying the night; he's going to the funeral too, so I need to do some tidying and there's heaps of washing to be done.

Good day to all when you wake, hopefully to sunshine. Cheers, Kim