General Chat

Why thank you Harry:-) I was always glad that Sue Smith and I relieved you of your £35 BT shares....keep saving the pennies....lol....BC XX

Haven't been on this thread for a while as have had trouble with internet being very spasmodic(a bit like the weather).Also still haven't got my car back since before Christmas,and it's going to cost a fortune as having a new electronics box caused by a leak in the seal of the windscreen that was replaced 2 years ago.Having a dispute with Autoglass at the moment,as 2 mechanics have said it is their fault.Let you know how we get on!
Hope everyone is warm and well.
Brenda x

Hi all, well, although I am snowbound, I have really enjoyed my enforced 'house arrest' for the past 3 days. I hate driving anyway, so it hasn't been a chore to stay in. I have completed a jigsaw puzzle of a thousand pieces, found a few more rellies on my tree and managed to cook some warming winter dishes for OH. My only worry has been not being able to by him a birthday pressie for tomorrow, but he understands.
But I do live in hope that the temperature may rise a little and I can have a stroll and put some rosy into my very pale cheeks..lol
Hope you all are taking care and keeping warm, and reading the boards today, look forward to my extra winter fuel payment ?? Maybe..

Maggie

I've started my 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle "Crazy Cats" by Linda Jane Smith. but it is no where near finished yet.

Had some porridge with a little golden syrup for breakfast this morning. Also writing to a relation re our family tree. It has bought it home just how disorganised my paperwork is.

Might start weaving when I have finished the puzzle. Have had the radio on a little more too. Takes me back to pre tv days.

Ann, wasn't there a "Salt Trail" in the Malvern Hills? Can you imagine trying to bring salt over the hills now.
I think that this was done before motor engines. A little waggon train of carts carrying salt.

Hi everyone

I will be away from tomorrow until Saturday ....... we're going to visit friends on Vancouver Island. The weather might even be pleasant!

Ooh Theresa I don't know, will have to look that up.

Sylvia have a lovely break, we will miss you. Enjoy your birthday.
Maggie you have obviously been making the most of your time, I did do a scrap book page but am ashamed to say I wasted a lot of time on these boards.

Have a good birthday on Vancouver Island Sylvia, enjoy yourself catrching up with friends.

Ann, had a quick google before eating my baked potato The salt trail came trgough Wyche Cutting. Apparently wyche as in Droitwich means salt.

It is seeing all thr snow and hearing about the shortage of salt and grit that tweaked something in my memory banks.

There are some great pictures on Google (but without any snow).

Where did the salt come from then and where was it going did it say?

I just spent an hour trying to get into Slumdog Millionnaire. I gave up in the end, it was a christmas present. The sub titles were rubbish, sometimes there sometimes not and only a sentence, it was noisy and confusing, didn't like it at all so I gave up.

Has anyone seen and enjoyed it?

Ann, I think that the salt had come from Droitwich it came over the Malvern Hills to Herefordshire and South Wales. Wyche Cutting was dug in 1840.
The salt was used mainly to preserve meat.

Slumdog Millionaire .. I think that it is on the box next week sometime. Saw it advertised tonight (Thursday) but didn't take in all the information. Will check the Radio Times later.

We are having the silly season on Television here in NZ so there is not a lot to look at.

I am mostly on here when everyone else isn't - with being 13 hours ahead of the Brits and 2 to 4 - 5 hrs ahead of the Aussies - I am ready for lunch when the Brits are going to bed and the Aussies are just arriving.

The only person I can vouch for that will be on here is Liz - as she is around till 5am British time. It is good as I often get to read all her new posts.

Have just been away for a couple of days - we went to Raglan (feel free to get out your Atlases - please don't use an American Airlines map as according to them NZ is not there) It is a surfies delight - not my cup of tea - I would fall off before even attempting to stand up. We only went as we had not been out there for about 20years.... and it was a bit like "see the tree, how big its grown" - become another café township, where there was once a milkbar and a couple of shops now there are restaurants and craft shops etc. So we ended up in staying the night at Kihikihi where there are still only a few shops.

Townships in NZ seem to want to have an icon - in Ohakune - where they grown carrots there is a big carrot. Another place has a statue of a Weta and Kihikihi has a cicada - we nearly missed it. When I was a child the only one I can ever remember seeing was a Bottle of Lemon & Paeroa in a township called Paeroa - everyone had to have their photo taken beside it.

Oh and Ann you will always be Glossy!!!

Hi Ann
Have not seen the film 'Slumdog Millionaire' but I have read the book it was based on and it's very very funny.
Even thought provoking.

Have passed it onto my sister.
Think the title was Q & A.

Worth a read.

Regards Sylvia

Thanks Theresa for that info I didn't know any of it.

Thank you Persy, I will try and stay glossy and not get dull.

Sylvia, I don't know why I didn't like it, it seemed to be disjointed with flash backs all the time, noisy and a bit violent, not really my type of film.

There is a welcome to Newbies thread on Chat so I thought it a good idea to nudge this up in case they also want somewhere on Gen to chat.

Huffs and puffs my way on to this thread to say "hello"
just been clearing the thick ice off my drive way must be at least 3-4 inches thick..............lovely when it comes down as snow ,not funny when it turns to ice. I think l will be suffering with my back later......ouch, lol.
I hope everyone is ok, speak soon, x

Have been shopping this morning with the Ring & Ride, a wonderful doot to door service.

I anow a little while we were out, and has snowed again since. Has stopped now, and we have got some blue sky.

I have a small front garden and no drive> Also got a bag of salt by the front door. Will use the salt if the snow melts and then refreezes before disappearing. I don't like ice.

Have now looked up the films in the weekly Ra---/----s.

Slumdog is on C4 on Wednesday at 9.00pm Will try to remember to watch it and let you know what I think

OK I may look at it again and see if it is better watching with the TV sub titles rather than the DVD.

Haven't ventured out since Tuesday because our roads are just too slippery.
Ours is quite a busy road, used as a short cut from the main road to the trading estate, the airport or the London road but all drivers are going very slowly as it has not been gritted and is very icy. Even youngsters are treading very warily and my son who walked to our local shops this afternoon fell 4 times. Earlier he drove into Staines and managed to fall once, he said all the traffic is moving slowly. Our local council does not seem to have done much gritting anywhere. Am beginning to suffer a bit from "cabin fever" I don't like not being able to go out.

Our rubbish bin had frozen shut so I could not open it, son went out and managed to free the lid, he decided to clear the frozen snow but halfway through it started to snow again - he felt that was a good excuse to give up.

Have now run out of bird food, yesterday I counted 30 birds on the ground feeding from the left over spag bol, oatmeal, nuts and suet I had trown out. There were another 8 on the clothes line two on each of three feeders and two queueing - three trees in the next garden were full of birds waiting their turn . It was amazing, wish I could identify more of them (no more paraqueets though). A marauding dark tabby cat disturbed them once - chased him off and fortunately he didn't come back so the birds had time to finish most of what was there.

Just looked out and the snow seems to have stopped for the moment.

My daughter saw her Oncologist, though she still has to have a scan they say all looks good so far. She will not have her 5 year check until the end of this year and will not get the all clear for another 2 years after that. I think that is because of the type of cancer she had (likely to return). So a good start to the year, hope it is the same for everyone else.

Kathleen

It was snowing here and then the sun came out and melted some of it, temperature now is -4.0 outside, warmer than it has been. Stayed in and spent £140 on shopping via internet! When the goods will arrive is anyones guess!.