General Chat

I remember you having that job done Sue. If it's shoddy workmanship then it's up to them to put it right - without argument :-0

My mum was a weaver until she joined up in the war. Then she married and never worked after that

I'll have a look for my book and tell you the name and the author, Sylvia. Might be the same one.

Linda - we had leaf guard put on the guttering around the house. As we have a large bush area behind our house we need to be careful with leaves in the gutters and OH knows there will come a time when he can't climb up a ladder to clean out the gutters. Some parts of the gutter guard is not sitting flat and looks untidy.

Linda ............... I never knew what it was like, but I can imagine!!


we used to see the mill girls going to and from work, with their hair in curlers and covered with a head scarf, and bits of cotton clinging to their clothes.



I discovered many years after her death that my mother had been a velvet weaver ...................... which is apparently a very skilled job. So skilled that the mill owners did not want her to leave when she got married in 1927.

My brother had a story that they offered her more money to stay .................... but she was determined to leave


She was a stay-at-home housewife from her marriage until late 1945, when there was a mini-depression as all the soldiers returned home from the war, and Dad lost his job in Restricted Employment.

That's when she started working in the high-class ladies and children's dress shop in the town centre.


She always had a wonderful sense of style.

Eyam was fascinating, wasn't it?


I had never been there until that trip in 2008.


I read a fictionalized book about the village about 2 years later ............. I enjoyed it, but wish I could remember the author!

What have had done Sue?

My mum came from a village just outside Huddersfield Sylvia, but working in the cotton mills can't have b even fun

even living in the cotton mill town of around 60,000 ........... we could be out on the moors in less than 10 minutes from most areas.


we lived just off the main road to Huddersfield from 1951 ................ 5 minutes from home, down the hill away from the main road, and I was out in the wide open moors.

The intriguing thing was that the last 50 yards to being out there, was a little narrow street between two large cotton mills!

Well the contractor came again yesterday morning and took more photos. He wasn't as friendly this time. OH told the company in no uncertain terms that we wouldn't be paying a call out fee.

Sylvia - we've been to Eyam. It was fascinating. I'd just finished reading a fictionalised account while we staying with our lovely friends and very much wanted to see the village.

Sylvia - If you don't get on that plane we''ll have to leave without you :-D

Sue ..............


that was a wee bit cheeky on their part!

Amanda ..... how lovely to have everyone home :-)

Actually, my university friend was more taken with our different language ............


dialects were still quite strong in the 50s ...................... so Penny and i would exaggerate outs :-)

Hi Sue


I'm back form lunch


Well Dressing is fantastic!!


The one at Flash was just beautiful.

the we went on to Eyam, sometimes known as the Plague Village.

Hello Sue,

What a cheek. :-0 I hope you told them where to go, must think you're a soft touch.

I had just spotted it and corrected it when you posted Sue

Did you manage to persuade them that you don't owe them the money

Who is Suet, Linda - are you being mean again?

oh yes - I forgot about that. :-D

I often thought that if Israel could take part in the competition, then it should be open to everyone.

We're here for the next leg of our tour :-D

How lovely that Megan and the twins are home. I hope they are good sleepers :-)

Sorry I disappeared suddenly yesterday. We had a job done awhile back and we were not happy with it so OH rang and told them. They said they would send someone out to check on it. He arrived last week and checked it all out and came up with a ridiculous explanation as to why it didn't look right. We then received a phone call telling us that we needed to pay $120 for the call out as it wasn't their fault and that the contractor said we accepted his explanation :-0

Sue doesn't have to come so far now that Oz is part of Europe

What about Sylvia, she hasn't even left yet :-(