General Chat

I think all the aircrew have the ability to key in the flight deck number, so in any emergency the cockpit can be entered. The pilots can immobilise the key pad from inside their cabin if any aircrew have to give the number under duress from a high jacker or whatever. Apparently they can see through a glass panel who is threatening them if this should occur and take appropriate action.
Yes I think mooring will be pretty expensive! Can't quite see me at the tiller though!!! Thank goodness we're not paying!!! Just enjoying!

It all happens with my Sister !!!!.This week her OH reversed her car into the garage door ..The car has been towed off as all the lights went plus the bumper.Then today (while she was at work) Larry looking after little William with his itchy Chickenpox spots,had to grab one of their dogs that was going crazy at something behind a settee.
IT WAS A CAT.(It must have snuck in through the back door).He had to pull Riley off and the other dog who was just getting interested .The 3rd dog has a few marbles missing so wasn't bothered. But after a lot of chasing around the cat got out through the Patio doors(that Larry had opened) ..But then he noticed Riley was limping :-S
So it was a visit to the Vets,and Riley had a couple of puncture wounds(from the cat!!!)
So £40 later and antibiotics all is calm again.
Now they are worried about the cat as they have been around all the neighbours and no-one seems to know this cat.It might be injured after Riley got at it :-( :-(

I think I am ready to think about going up to bed soon.I had another bad night sleep last night.If I don't get a good night sleep in soon I will be a right old *itch :-S and that won't do :-|

Afternoon.

Been busy this morning and have to go shopping this afternoon in a min so I will catch up on posts later.

Sorry Mel <3

O I did'nt have to catch up on your posts because nobody had posted to day anyway!!

Afternoon Everyone

Goodness where is everyone today? Looks like we have all been busy..Is it Today that Frank comes home? Was it 2 or 3 nights away?..It's quiet without him isn't it :-D :-D
I hopw he had had a good time and hasn't got himself into any mischief ;-)

Jess will here for the weekend this evening and Hannah will be here in the morning.
Not that we will see much of her .

I need to crack on with stuff now so will BBL

5 years ago today I was in Dubai with hannah for Rachel and Darren's wedding !!!!!
Sheesh where dd those 5 years go??? and they are still together !!!!!But a lot happier in South Africa

I have just stopped and am having a sit down for the first time today.I am really pleased that there is not one bit of washing or ironing left :-D and I don't intend to do any more washing until after the weekend.Hoovering and Bathrooms cleaned and Spag Bol cooking away.(the sauce is from a jar though :-S).No Garlic Bread :-( we decided not to have it as there is no need really.

It is a lovely sunny evening,but it seems it isn't going to last.Sunday looks wet all day :-S
Tomorrow afternoon Chris and I are going to the Derngate Theatre to see The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night.(Present from Hannah) :-D

My car is starting to pull to the left again :-S so I will be ringing the garage AGAIN on Monday.I never seem to remember my Dad having to take cars in when something was wrong.I think he tried to fix things himself if he could.But I suppose cars were a lot simpler back then...I don't know how many times he put his poor back out trying to start a car with the crank thingy !!!.....Am I right in remembering the the bonnets sometimes opened up from the side and folded back???? Or have I lost the plot :-S

Evening all,

Another lovely sunny day here today but still a cold wind blowing .

Gosh it's been quiet on here ,usually takes a while to read all the posts !!

DIL rang and said she would come for the day with Lacey and Lewis after dropping the others off to school ,so we had a look round the shops and i bought Jake a Cap which i've put away for his birthday ,when i'am with DIL and she says one of the children would like this i buy it to put away so i know i'am getting them things they would like .
I bought the buttons to go on the girls Jackets i'am knitting and when we were in there they had some new wool laid out on the table ,he then got out some patterns for the wool ,well i just had to buy the pattern it is for knitted Hedgehogs :-D i didn't buy the wool as i would want to start knitting them and i must finish the girls Jackets first :-D

I think Frank is home tomorrow Jane ,i'am sure he said four days away.

How ever did the cat get in with three dogs in the house !! you wouldn't have thought it would come in as it must have smelt the dogs , hope the poor old cat is alright ,he must have had a scare :-0

Clocks go forward tomorrow night ,it will be nice to have the lighter evenings again .

Yes they did Jane, but before your time I'd of thought!! My S-father had an MG sports car when he and my mother were first married in 1947!! I can remember travelling in the luggage space in the back! That had a bonnet that opened from the sides. After that I THINK all subsequent cars opened like they do today, but I could be muddled?!!!

Jane, hubby was saying ,has your car been in a crash ? he had a new Mini ,he'd only had it for a few months when he had a crash in it ,it was repaired but he said from the day he got it back it always pulled to one side and never drove the same again, it had done some thing to the tracking on the car .

I can remember Dads car with the crank handle it took some turning and would kick back at you so you had to watch out !!

Things were easier to fix on the old cars ,now the have to be linked up to a computer .

Liz I think it was an old Hillman Minx we had that I think the sides of the bonnet went up.I could be totally wrong though.
Mandy I will have to be tough with the garage and say I am not happy with the fact this will be the third time I am having the steering checked.It isn't bad but is something that I am not happy about .Something is causing it to happen..They might not know if the car had been in an accident (especially if the previous owner before hasn't been truthful)
It still has a lot of warranty time left.

So knitted hedgehogs next then :-D..I think you are going to be busy Mandy lol

Janice said Larry has been all around their estate today asking about the cat ,but no-one knows it :-S :-S.It is a mystery .
Just going to dish up now.My tummy is rumbling :-D

Could have been a wild cat Jane and it was looking for a free meal.

Did'nt the old Austin 7s have lift up bonnets either side? I think a lot of the early cars did come to think of it.

I brought fish and chips in tonight and it was a very nice piece of fish both mine and his. He has haddock and I have cod.

Mandy knitted hedgehogs, how lovely and will you please knit me one and I will pay you for it. Do you still do your needle point?

:-D :-D :-D :-D i knew you would want one Mel , course i'll knit you one ,i was going too any way no charge .
Google King Cole Chunky Tinsel Hedgehog pattern.

There's Owls and Teddy pattern too :-D

I just managed to drag a coffee cup off the draining board and it smashed on the floor :-S :-S..Bits everywhere !!!.....It was supposed to be Chris's job to do the dishes but he was watching Gardeners World.
Now it is my turn for TV Gogglebox :-D :-D.One of my favourite programmes .
James has just gone to pick Jess up from the station.

Evening All,

That's brought a memory back Liz. My friend and I went on our first 'date' with two boys who had MG sports cars. There was no second date as they drove the wrong way onto a dual carriageway and had to drive over the central reservation to get on the right side of the road........that gave us the heebie jeebies and put us right off them!! Dad's first car that was a Singer had the sides of the bonnet lift up too. I think on the Triumph Herald the whole front of the bodywork including the wings hinged up from the windscreen end. They were liked for being so easy to work on.

Jane, they should have sorted that problem out with your car by now. I hope they haven't just tootled up the road in it and thought it seems ok. Do they give you something in writing to show what they've done when you've taken it in before?

Gawd, it's all been happening at your sister's! A bet Larry is in the doghouse....with the dogs in there too!! I'm surprised the cat came in with the smell of dogs around too.

Oh the knitted hedgehogs look so sweet Mandy. I would be starting them if I had the wool too so it's a good idea not to get it yet. I've never seen wool that gives that effect before.

I was like 'billy no mates' at beading today, I was the only one sitting at my side of the big table as the 4 others that sit my side were absent. The teacher wasn't very well last week but has a hacking cough now. I thought I was getting on well with my necklace till I spotted I'd missed one bead out and had to undo most of it to start again :-S

We noticed today when we drove along the lanes to go and eat out that a few of the grass fields next to the road have been ploughed up and wonder if it means more oil seed rape and runny eyes? We also noticed 4 birds of prey circling. We see some almost every day now so they are obviously on the increase. We both said we couldn't remember seeing any as children.

Off to bed now

Morning al and evening Kim,

Wet and windy here today. It is blowing across the back like curtains in the breeze. It is not that cold though.

Mandy thank you so much. They are just wonderful although I don't like the ones with pink faces. The children will love them. Are you going to do them all one colouror in the colours they have on the pattern?

Just showed them to oh and he thinks they are great too.

I can't believe it is Saturday again. I don't know where March has gone.

Bit wet and windy here too Mel.I just got caught a shower in the supermarket carpark :-S.I picked Hannah up at 10 .Buy 10.30 she was off with my car to have coffee with some friends.Now she at lunch with other friends and tonight she is out for a meal for another friend's birthday.Then she gets the train back to London at 11.30 tomorrow morning.I might just see her for breakfast LOL.She is missing the first time of Borrowing a Doggy.This morning Sunny and Monday arrived for their overnight stay. :-D.They look so cute :-D :-D

We are off shortly to the Theatre so see you later

Afternoon All,

Hope you enjoy the play Jane. It's been wet and windy here too, but I'm off to a garden centre near Nottingham after my cuppa. OH has taken a pal to a match near Stratford.

Something a bit odd happened last night. At 2.00am I was still awake (nothing new there!) and heard several times what I thought was a rabbit shrieking. Being as OH's car has squeaky brakes now and it hasn't been worth fixing them with his new car coming, I wondered if someone was trying to move his car on the driveway. I crept out of bed and lifted a slat on the blinds to see a medium sized van that must have turned around at the bottom of the close in front of nextdoor's and made the squeaks doing so, drive slowly past and slowly back along the close and around the bend. They could have turned around sooner where it is easy, as the main close ends before our 4 bungalows, which were added on later. From there they would see that the narrow road from there to our driveways ends with trees across the end and goes nowhere, so why come down the very narrow bit of road in front of us? It just seems odd to bring a van down here right to the end at 2.00am in the morning, unless they were up to no good!! Before the hedges were cut you could only see one bungalow down here from the entrance to the close, but now we are visible right along the road into the village. OH says he sees a lot more people walking dogs on the field since the hedges have gone too. I just hope it isn't someone casing the place ready to come back. Hopefully seeing all the flashing burglar alarms and motion sensitive lights 3 of us have will have put them off if that is what they were doing. :-S. I think I'm going to put my old crookclock on my car at night now, even though it has an alarm.

Hi all

Mum has gone home now so I'm catching up on some housework.

She was going to stay for a couple of days but took another funny turn. She had to use her spray twice which seemed to do the trick but both of us thought it was best she stayed here for the week. My sister is visiting her today so she won't be on her own and she has good neighbours and friends. We are going to visit her in a couple of days when OH has some time off work but mum knows I'm just at the end of the phone should she need anything.

I've missed so much on the thread, so I'd better go and read it all

BBL

~~~~~~~~ to Gill.

good mum thinks she is better and able to go home Gill and as you say she has your number if she needs you.

Ann that does sound a bit suspicious being in the close at 2am.

I am trying to help someone with their tree at the mo.

Afternoon all,

A showery day here ,i don't think we will see the sun as there's more black clouds looming .

I tend to look out the window if i get up for the bathroom in the night ,you never know who's about these days , it could have been some one having a look round to see what cars are about ,they'll pinch anythings that's not screwed down !! , my BIL had his car stolen from the front of his house several years ago i seem to remember it had some damage to it when he got it back !! he also had some one try to pinch his spare tyre from under the car when he was parked on the Ho*ebase car park !!if it wasn't for the office staff looking out the window it would have gone !!!

That's good that Mum is feeling better and well enough to go home Gill, and she has her alarm to press should she need too .
Any news on the viewings ?

I suppose our Frank will be home today from the seaside :-)

I meant to say the police rang and said they had had no luck with the CCTV in the churchyard ,it was too dark to see any thing ,but they said they will keep it in mind should anything else happen round about and then it will be brought up again .