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Mel fairy godmother

Yes I remember these things , plus I grew up in my home with gass-light untill age abt ten , who remembere this ?
Plus I used to go to sweet shop with a ration book ,

WHAT WOULD THE YOUNG DO NOW , !

No Computers - Personal phones - No buying sweets so long as you have enough money . ?

And I am only 69 ( one foot in the grave, ha ha ha )

Mel fairy godmother

Yes I remember these things , plus I grew up in my home with gass-light untill age abt ten , who remembere this ?
Plus I used to go to sweet shop with a ration book ,

WHAT WOULD THE YOUNG DO NOW , !

No Computers - Personal phones - No buying sweets so long as you have enough money . ?

And I am only 69 ( one foot in the grave, ha ha ha )

My word Frank , you'll have some fat birds in your garden if they can eat all those :-D

I bought some of the dried meal worms from Joll*ys this morning ,well the Starlings have had a field day eating them and the little Blue Tits didn't get a look in !!

Does any one use a jug water filter ? we use to have one donkey years ago and i see they are on offer in Tes*o's ,why i ask is because i carn't remember how long it takes to filter a jug full, and it doesn't tell you on the box , my kettle needs to go on twice to make all the family a drink when they come and i'd soon use a jug full ,although i suppose could always fill a bottle and store in the fridge .

It's so warm out ,i had to come in to cool off and get a drink .

Hi Ruby, have a lovely lunch today with your friends , the pies sounds good , i wonder what you will try today :-D
So you like your embroidery Ruby ,what sort of things do you embroider ?i like to do a little cross stitch ,knitting and crochet , and i'am going to have a go at some jewelry too ,you should see some of the lovely Jewelry that Ann has made .
I shall have to have a goggle to see where Piedmont is :-)

I live in Norfolk ,i'am married with one son and four grandchildren ,husbands a builder .
The others on the thread are all scattered about the country although you might know that as you've been popping in to read the posts .
I;ve never heard of a pressure canner ,is that the same as a pressure cooker ?
I should imagine the saw dust on the floor was to catch the blood as they cut up the meat :-S

Time for a cuppa i think .
BBL

Can't get to the last page again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello everyone,

I'm only just getting started for the day, and this is as far as I've got! I'm going out for lunch today with my sister and some other friends. On Wed. we go to a restaurant where you can have a piece of pie free, if you buy a meal. Last week I chose the peach pie and it was really good. The week before that I had Ooee Gooey Fudge, and it was good but so sweet and rich. One bite would have been enough, but I didn't waste a lick.

I live in the Piedmont of S. Carolina, about mid way between the coast and the Smokey Mtns. I have also lived in Georgia, and in Texas over the years.

Our weather is warming up. It reached about 22' yesterday and I sat outside most of the afternoon with my embroidery. We had had a couple of days rain, so everything is lovely and green and growing like mad. Most of the trees have leafed out - I have a Japanese maple at the front and with the sun shining on it, and a slight breeze, the colours were brilliant. The azaleas have almost gone over, and the irises are in full bloom. I dearly love the colours, especially of the Siberian iris.

I've planted 6 Roma tomatoes. I grew them from seed for my youngest son - they like to make their own sauce. They have a large pressure canner, and later on will can (bottle) green beans and other veg. I used to do all that when I had all the children at home, and made loads of pickles. I still like to grow a few pickling cukes because they're always nice and crisp.

I remembered something yesterday that I wondered about. I believe it was the butcher's shop, used to have sawdust on the floor. I wonder what the purpose of it was.

Almost forgot to tell you - home was and still is, Beautiful Wiltshire.

Ruby.

Thought of Maureen when I did some ironing this morning. I only did a little but at least it was better than none!! ;-)

Frank do you buy live mealworms for your birds?

Morning All, Evening Kim,

The day started with rain ( nothing new here) :-) but the sun keeps trying to pop out , there is STILL WIND but that chill factor has gone, yesterday was great, OH even sat outside for his lunch, if we have any more sun he will be taking his shirt off. :-D

No coffee today there is usually 4 of us , but 2 of the ladies have other plans they could not cancel, so the other lady and I decided to give it a miss to , by the time it gets to next Wednesday I will be longing for another coffee and a natter,

Did a big cupboard tidy out this morning of all Sofia's baby toys , clothes she has grown out of that her mum leaves here in case of accidents. put the clothes in a bag for daughter (if she doesn't use them for Matteo she sells them on e-bay and the toys in another box for Matteo when he starts to take an interest.
running out of boxes and space, also decide to throw out some of my dad's papers from the care home, don't think there's much point in keeping them,
already got lots of Birthday, Fathers day cards and other personal items which I want to keep fro sentimental reasons.

Morning all/Evening Kim,

Awake at 5.15 am. up by 6.30 tea and toast for breakfast with "MY MATE"

Have been and feed the birds, they are going through food as though it's going out of fashion. Run out of fat sticks and meal worms now. I have ordered 10 kilos of fat sticks on ebay and 4 kilos of meal worms. Hope that lasts a bit longer.

Last Sat. Ros bought me a new summer short sleeved shirt, large size, when tried it on it was too small. She took it back yesterday, and the only size left was XXL It was like a tent on me.

It reminded me of my cloths during and soon after the war. They were always bought bigger than you needed. YOU WILL GROW INTO THEM, was my mothers words. By the time they fitted they were worn out :-D :-D

She's having trouble with the dyso# so I had better go and look at it. BBL

Morning All andEvening KIm,

Pinch and a kick for being so quick you lot.

First of May I can't beleive where this year is going!! This is the fifth month of the year and we only seem to have just had Christmas!!

Bright sunny morning here to and we also have a red Virgin balloon come over. I wonder if thats the same one????? I doubt it somehow.

Ironing this morning then gardening this after noon. I don't ache too much this morning so thats good.

Shall be thinking of our David today having his pins out. Well wishes David <3 <3 <3

Morning/Evening All
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Yes it's a lovely morning here too :-D :-D Sun sun sun.

Mandy that seems odd that your bank things are coming but not OH's :-S.I hope you sort it out.
William have a nice day.I'm sure they will love to see some of your models and will be most impressed :-D :-D

We sometimes see that Hot air balloon Mandy.I wonder if it is the same one?
I better feed the birdies now.They will think I have abandoned them lol

Morning everyone, evening Kim,
Morning William, yes pinch ,punch and all that , oh i like a nice door stop ,plenty of butter and marmalade LOL

What a lovely sunny morning we have here, every where was white with frost when we got up, i did remember to cover some of the plants in the green house just in case .
As we sat having breakfast we spotted a hot air balloon going over, a big red one with Virg*n written on it ,i got a photo and a bit of video ,i went out in my dressing gown and it was a bit nippy i can tell you !! but i bet it was even colder up in the balloon .
We use to see a lot of balloons go over as they use to take off from one of the schools playing fields ,but they stopped doing it for some reason .

Off shopping this morning ,and i have to go in the bank as i had my new card come and hubby's didn't, they ordered him another one and cancelled the one that didn't come but this other one still hasn't turned up either !! he wants me to check the account just in case :-S you never know whats going on these days there's so many rogues about :-S
Also i had the ISA interest come through, and he hasn't , i think our post must be going through some one else's door !!

BBL

Morning/Evening everyone. Pinch Punch, First day of May - Little fluffy white rabbits, Big fluffy white rabbits and all that stuff. Bright shiny day here and the blackbird is singing. Calendars to change - and all after I had to go 100 pages at a time to get here this morning. Is it a before-9am thing with GR???

Hope you all have a good day, busy one here for me. Carers Group meeting at 1.30pm (the one I help run) then it's my model club meeting tonight. I'm going to take some of my special models along to the Carers Group to show them what I make. Most of you have seen them on my email shots, now it's time to get local approval.

Off for some toast now. Anyone for 'doorsteps'?

That should have been LAWN and NOT awn.

Going to have a little glass of port and relax now before bed.

Night night all see you in the morning. xx

Nice to see Lesley posting again. Stay with us please. Your post about the caravan brought back a lot of our memories.

David the chances of getting the same bed in the same ward must be very high!! I hope you feel more comfortable after tomorrows op. Will you have the whole contraption off your leg or just the pins in the knee? Good luck we will all be thinking of you.

I have been up the border all afternoon. Boy do I ache..... :-| I may even feel worse tomorrow but I hop enot as I want to do more up there if I can. Today I pulled up all the blimmin bitter cress that have showered it seed far and wide as usual. I wanted to get it out now as the seed has'nt set yet, well some pods on it but they were'nt ripe enough to burst. It will go on a bonfire tomorrow. Oh had a good clear out on the new pond again and repotted some of the plants that were too big for their pots and got more blanket weed out. I put my tiny miny fish in it last week and have seen a couple of them since.

Caught what I think is Hogwart in the garden tonight and he now has a pink blob on the back of his head. He was still quite heavy but when I picked him up he could roll in a ball completely so must have lost a bit of weight with all the running around he is doing now. Put the camera down there again tonight. Also started feeding on the front awn as there was lots of hedgehog poo on it before oh cut it today.

David all the best for tomorrow ,you will be glad to get rid of the contraption after all this time i should think .

Jane, i'am watching Keeping Britain Alive The NHS i like all the medical programmes .

North Creake is here in Norfolk ,about five miles inland from the coast between Wells and Hunstanton .

David you must be MRSA Free otherwise you won't be having any op done.

Ann yes it is the Benjamin Britten thing he is going to.It is the Centenary .

I will be dreaming about bl***y windows tonight . :-S :-S :-S.It's a right flipping game isn't it...Guess whose job it is to ring and haggle a little more tomorrow......ME
:-S(even though we were reasonably happy with the price quoted)...
I might even have nightmares about flying beds!!!!.The more I think about it the more I realise how damned lucky we were.I think because we were the first car and hit the red Triangle button ,the cars behind had just enough warning time and were able to slow down.When I looked back in the mirror the lane had just about come to a standstill behind the bed as it landed right across the left hand lane.

Pat Where is North Creake? Is it Yorkshire? I think you sent pics from there before.??
Just after you had Mocha.

Watching Keeping Britain Alive The NHS . I think it is a brilliant programme .

Well I managed to get back on !!

Did as I said, went into the garden and cut both lawns, trimmed round the edges, watered the greenhouse, and all the plants in the conservatory.

Going back to holiday camps, we use to take Lewis on these 3/4 day cheapies. We had some really good ones, and ONE that was beyond belief. Breen sands, with Ponti#s. We arrived to find the chalet hadn't been cleaned. I went back to the office and they sent cleaners in while we went out to eat. Lewis had made friends with some other boys, and played with them when we got back. Ros and I went to unpack, but to out total disbelief It still hadn't been cleaned . We wanted to move, but Lewis said please let us stay, I have made friends. So we stayed. The evening was horrible, condensation was running down the windows and walls. The carpet was stained with gawd knows what, and the beds were as hard as rock. Lewis got so cold in his bed, that he came into ours to get warm. The next day, we decided to come home. When I went to hand the keys in, the receptionist said "But Mr Bedford you still have THREE days to go" I said no way. I got a full refund plus £50.00 So on the way home we stopped for a slap up meal on them.!!!

Watching Real Madrid V Dortmand Not a great match, but it is football, better than Holby.

Glad you are over your close shave Jane, these people should be fined for not having these things secure.

Come on David, keep getting better a little at a time. Look after yourself Mate. !!

My ex FIL bought a beech hut at Walton on the Naze, that we used most Sundays through the summer. He then sold that and bought a Caravan in Felixstowe. It was soon after that, that I parted from my ex. But I know the children spent many happy holidays down there with the grandparents. When it was my time to have the children for the day, I would drive there and take them out, and return them, before the drive back to Kettering. Which during the school summer holidays was most weekends, if I didn't I wouldn't have seen them..

Well I managed to get back on !!

Did as I said, went into the garden and cut both lawns, trimmed round the edges, watered the greenhouse, and all the plants in the conservatory.

Going back to holiday camps, we use to take Lewis on these 3/4 day cheapies. We had some really good ones, and ONE that was beyond belief. Breen sands, with Ponti#s. We arrived to find the chalet hadn't been cleaned. I went back to the office and they sent cleaners in while we went out to eat. Lewis had made friends with some other boys, and played with them when we got back. Ros and I went to unpack, but to out total disbelief It still hadn't been cleaned . We wanted to move, but Lewis said please let us stay, I have made friends. So we stayed. The evening was horrible, condensation was running down the windows and walls. The carpet was stained with gawd knows what, and the beds were as hard as rock. Lewis got so cold in his bed, that he came into ours to get warm. The next day, we decided to come home. When I went to hand the keys in, the receptionist said "But Mr Bedford you still have THREE days to go" I said no way. I got a full refund plus £50.00 So on the way home we stopped for a slap up meal on them.!!!

Watching Real Madrid V Dortmand Not a great match, but it is football, better than Holby.

Glad you are over your close shave Jane, these people should be fined for not having these things secure.

Come on David, keep getting better a little at a time. Look after yourself Mate. !!

My ex FIL bought a beech hut at Walton on the Naze, that we used most Sundays through the summer. He then sold that and bought a Caravan in Felixstowe. It was soon after that, that I parted from my ex. But I know the children spent many happy holidays down there with the grandparents. When it was my time to have the children for the day, I would drive there and take them out, and return them, before the drive back to Kettering. Which during the school summer holidays was most weekends, if I didn't I wouldn't have seen them..

The op is to take some of the pins out
The nurse said any one testing positive for MRSA is given their own room.
Apparently it starts it the nose and throat.

Yes,what were the odds of getting the same bed in the same ward?
I'm expecting to be in for 3 / 4 days
I'd love to go from a walking frame to crutches.
Hopping on one leg for 2 months is no joke I assur you.

David .Sending all my love to you for your next op tomorrow <3 <3
Lesley I would have loved to have gone to a Butlin* or some Holiday Camp.My Mum thought they were common!!.She did have a few airs and graces. :-S
Me! I'm happy to mix with anyone .
Now I love Scotland.I am a Scot by birth .Born in Greenock ,then adopted and grew up in Devon (DERMOT'S favourite place) ...I have to agree with him :-D. Shame on me I will have to look up East Lothian.
I agree the weather in Scotland ....Rain!....But it is the most beautiful place to be
:-D
I have many cousins and my last remaining Uncle live in Moffat.I had many a happy time in Moffat when I was a child .Especially eating ~Moffat Toffee :-D