General Chat

Morning All and Evening Kim,

Hope Kim feels better today.

Sunshine here today but I hav'nt been outside yet!!

I should be going to get my new glasses frames today but must remember to take my other pair with me.

Morning Frank and all ,Evening Kim

I'm an early bird too today Frank.No lazing in bed for me.I have been for a walk !!!!.Honestly I have.It was very fresh with lovely blue sky .Now it is clouding up ,so I went at the right time.
I hope Ros feels refreshed after a lie in .She might sleep better without you in the bed too :-D

I am going to attack a very cluttered bit of my bedroom today.It's pretty bad :-S
I took a pic of the Badgers Earthworks in the field down the lane.I'll see if I can send it on.
I fancy a cuppa now so BBL

Morning all/Evening Kim,

Clear blue sky's but with a cold wind.

Got myself up 6.45 am On my 5th cup of tea, have finished reading Sat/Sundays papers..

Ros. is still in the land of NOD. She hasn't had the best of nights with her back, so I will let her sleep. We don't have anything pressing like a Royal appointment LOL LOL

Have put a call into the doctor, he will ring me late morning for a chat about my knee.

What have you all got planed for today. We know Mel will be off shopping as usual, are you working today Maureen ??

No gardening for us, I know Ros has a basket of ironing, so I expect she will see that off today.

I had the Dyso# in pieces the over day. She was complaining it wasn't picking up. The roller brush at the bottom was clogged with cotton, and loads of bits in the tubes.. Cleaned it all out, put in back together, and I had a bit over.!! It took ages to find where it went LOL LOL But all tickerty boo now. So no reason for dirty carpets. lol lol

Put your Chopper away Mandy.!!

Thanks Ann for the list of programmes. I will look into it tomorrow Could save me £38.00 a month.

Not only not allowed in bed, I can honestly say I never heard my M or D say they LOVED ME. I tell Ros and the boys often, and Lewis every time I speak to him.

Off to bed now. God Bless.

Well now we have some really strange names down here. The one I like is Woolfardisworthy pronounced Wolsery. Fancy having to write that on an envelpoe or letter for your address? Too tied now to thik of anymore tonight but some may come to me later in the week.

Mandy we all know what you mean. We had one when I was young to chop the kindleing for the rayburn and fires. It had quite a flat large head with a hammer bit on the other side. It was only really the way you worded the last sentance, it made me laugh so much. :-D :-D :-D

Hav'nt read al your posts yet but must just say what oh told me tonight.

It is'nt an free view box we have but a Foxbox I think thats what he said. You can get more channels than a free view box. It is something to do with a satalite ariel I think. We have the BT vision box too. so many controlers I never know which one to use for what!!!!!

Am watching The Legend at the mo a fairy story.

OH has got rid of loads of his ties now Jane, but still has quite a few! Some do tend to date after a while. The first thing I ever bought for him was a tie and the old softy has kept that one, even though it is about worn out!

We have a Wymondham too Mandy, a Sharnford pronounced Shanford, Shawell pronounced Shouwell also a Hoo Ash.

Off to bed now I think to watch a bit of telly.

Dermot ...TIES now your talking.
My OH has about a hundred ties .But he gave up wearing ties a few years ago.The only ones he would wear now would be for a funeral ,wedding or some other important occasion .
My Dad always wore a tie until he had Motor Neurone Disease but because he couldn't speak or swallow properly the tie felt constricting.I think he always felt scruffy with no tie.He also had to have the top button of his shirt undone.He always thought it wasn't a good look lol.I thought he looked cool :-D Ties are no longer worn by Doctors (long ties ) because of picking up and transferring infections.!

Thank you Liz ,at least some one knows what a chopper is !!

I always used to get into bed with the parents on Sunday morning, when I was little but not till 9am and I always had to knock first and wait till I heard 'come in' (wonder why?!) ;-) When I was older I still went into their bedroom for COT and a chat, but sat in the Bay Window, till we got up. Only on Sunday though,as on other days my S-father had to be at work by 7.30, so we were always up early and 'getting on'!
I know what you mean by a Chopper Mandy, we had one at home years ago and it was called a Chopper, smaller than an Axe and just used for kindling.
William we live quite close to Guiting Power, another name I like is Grittleton! (down the road from us) it reminds me of T.S.Elliot's Old Possums book of Practical Cats!

No its not a Machette either Ann, it must be a tool we only have this way of the country .
William we have a Pudding Norton , Little Snoring ,Bittering ,( Wymondham pronounced Windham ) Titchwell, Gissing and Booton to name a few

Spelling Mistakes put right now Ann :-D :-D :-D.I normally check all my spelling :-S
This new keyboard is to blame ;-)

I was having a little think about place names today and what unusual ones there are about. I wonder if others of you have different ones in your area?
Here are some I came up with: Near to us, Barnacle near Bulkington and also Bermuda (was a mining village) near Nuneaton. Leicestershire has some good ones - Newton Unthank, Newton Burgoland, Barton-in-the-Beans, Husbands Bosworth, Heather, John O'Gaunt. And as Ann will know, there are those ending in Magna and Parva (Love Sheepy Parva). And one I always think sounds like an Indian meal - Nanpantan!
There are also some that sound like peoples names, Nevill Holt (Leics) Norris Hill (Leics) and Mavis Enderby (LIncs)
And another that always fascinates me in the Cotswolds - Guiting Power.
Street names are another area with Whip Ma Whop Ma Gate in York and Land of Green Ginger in Hull.

Anyone got any to add?

Frank, here is a list of the Freeview channels.......free once you've bought the box like Mel says. I think you can get up to 50 but maybe not all of them everywhere? Keep scrolling down and you will see no. 49 appears to be the Jewellery Channel on the first link. It looks like you get S*y news.

http://www.freeview.co.uk/wp-content/themes/freeview/media/flash/fw-value/assets/docs/FRV166_FREEVIEW_Value_ChannelGuide.pdf

http://www.freeview.co.uk/whats-on/channels

There aren't many HD channels yet, but they are gradually adding them.

Oh I had a little 'snigger' when Mandy mentioned the 'chopper' Frank!! lol. Mandy, is a machette what you mean?

Is Jane inventing new words or talking in 'Janespeak'......scarp instead of scart and rost beef instead of roast. lol :-) Chris may be right Jane. It might make things worse if she doesn't see things the way you do. It must be hard to know what to do for the best, but then you do know her well.

Pat, my in laws take something called Fos*max that is mixed with water. They have to stay upright for half an hour after taking it. They seem to be ok on it and haven't mentioned any side effects.......well not yet! I hope things work out with your family soon.

Mum and dad's bedroom was a 'no go' area for us children at any time of the day. If we wanted to ask something, we'd have to shout through the door or knock first! As for getting in their bed, dad would have had a fit I'm sure......no snuggles or hugs anywhere or at any time. I don't think I can remember any praise from him ever.

I had one of those credit card shaped things to start my previous car. It was a pain when you felt in the bottom of your bag for your keys, the times I thought I'd lost them because the card was so thin!! Then when I went back to keys with this one they seemed so heavy and cumbersome. Big cars are a pain to park in small car parks, but they do ride better like you say Mel. OH's car came back from the garage with the steering wheel in a lower position last time and he loved it, said it was much better.........when I wanted to lower it 3 years ago, he wouldn't let me......said it was fine as it was!!!! :-| :-S I shall be hanging on to my little car for quite a while yet hopefully.

Dermot my 92 year old FIL still wears a shirt and tie every day, sometimes his braces as well and he even had those metal armbands on last week! OH usually wears a suit with a tie for his meetings unless it is boiling hot in summer. When he worked it was a suit and tie every day at work. I can remember myself at work when men were not allowed to interview the public without their jacket on whatever the weather.

Sartorial elegance or casual.

I blame the likes of Michael O’Leary & Richard Branson but the undeniable truth is that the humble tie just isn’t what it used to be.

Roll back the years to a Sunday morning in any Irish town or village and you’d be hard-pressed to find a self-respecting man without one; the notion of heading off to church, for example, in an open neck shirt was as unthinkable as arriving without your trousers.

And it wasn’t just formal occasions that warranted a tie either – every fellow who ever bought a ticket for the ‘Ballroom of Romance’ had a suit and tie on, if only to keep them standing up straight after a few hours in the pub.

Even manual workers who spent all week in casual shirts or tee-shirts would dig out the good suit for these occasions – or at the very least put on a clean shirt and tie. And they wore them with a shirt fully buttoned to the top, even if they then opted for a v-neck jumper instead of a jacket – in either eventuality, there was no place for your loosely knotted versions with casual shirts.

We had the wide kipper ties, the skinny leather ties, the paisley ones that blended perfectly into the exact same colour shirt, the white ties with the black shirts, the old school tie, the clip-on tie, the novelty tie – and the one that gathered the dropped bits of your dinner onto it like a food magnet. I remember having a bright red tie once & I wouldn’t be caught meandering in a field full of fearful bulls - just in case!

Fathers get them for their birthdays, for Christmas and for Father’s Day – that’s presuming the shops are sold out of aftershave and soap – and often the best use for them is as a makeshift rope for the three-legged race at the following year’s school sports day.

Because there are many who now believe it is square to wear a tie – or at the very least it is a symbol of suppression; a uniform for the working ‘wage slave’ to the point that triggered the phenomenon of casual days at the office or Dress Down Fridays, where you made a virtue of not wearing one.

Apparently, IKEA banned staff long ago from wearing of ties – presumably on the basis that they could be easily trapped under a pallet of flat-pack wardrobes if it got caught up in the low-loader.

We thought we'd have a rare treat and go out for a Sunday lunch - what a mistake that turned out to be! I phoned the Blue Pig at Wolvey & booked us lunch for 1.30pm and we arrived promptly. The 'restaurant' is just to one side of the main bar and I went straight up to the bar, said I'd book and was told to go through to the resevered table. The was a couple already eating their meal and a family of 4 grown ups & 3 children waiting for theirs. The girl at the bar came straight into us and took our order for 2 roast dinners. Half an hour later we were still sitting there, mealless, when the 'gaffer' came in to the first couple. I called him over to ask what the delay was. He came back straight away and said there had been a mix up and shortly after Carmel got her meal and a few minutes later mine turned up. It was alright as such but by then we had gone off the whole idea a bit. No one came in to ask if everything was alright or anything. We decided we wouldn't bother with a sweet or a coffee but would go for a drive. I paid the gaffer at the bar and said I wasn't really satisfied and complained about our wait to which he seemed unbothered. He made out we were ten minutes late arriving which I refuted - I don't do 'late'. The bill came to nearly £16 pounds but I was just glad to get out of there.
To make up for that we drove along the A5 to Dobbies World near Mancetter and headed for the café area. We had a nice latte and a cappuccino with two big fat BOGOF juicy cream & jam buns. Much better value and no waiting.

No i don't mean a Hatchet or small axe ,both of those have a longish handle ,i mean a Chopper ,this has a small handle and we use it for sticks.
FIL had it years ago for chopping sticks it must be over fifty years old !!

You mean a hatchet Mandy or small axe.

Frank you have to pay for Sky but not for a freeveiw box. We have a BT Vision box which we can watch all programs on and it has a film channel too, plus it shows collection of programs. You can record on it too but I can't while |I have the pc on. If I turn the pc off and plug the other plug in I can record but can't use the pc. My pc runs through his somehow. So one payment for the freeview box and no more payments each month.

Oh won't have Sky.

Well i don't know what you lot are thinking about ,but a chopper here means a chopper....... for cutting sticks !!