General Chat

Afternoon All,

Dull and cloudy here now but no rain today.

Mandy you are well organised with your cards......I tend to be a bit last minute with things! I still have my card you made on the window sill.....will be taking it with Maureen's to show MIL next time we go.They are both lovely.

Jane, well done to get a pic of the woodpecker. Thanks for sending Mel's pics on.....I have seen the first 2.....very impressive Mel......he's good with the spirit level isn't he? Water level nice and even. I drove OH mad when we did our little fibreglass pond, lifting it in and out scraping bits off to get it level. I like the decking at the higher level so you can look into it. It must have been lovely sitting there in the evening with a glass of wine.

My new friend has been around again and I got a pic of him/her having a little snooze on the gravel of all places!! Good job there are no pussycats around here. I will send it on to you shortly.

I bet Frank wouldn't have let you shave him with one of those Shirl!!! lol

More of Mel pics coming through to you all.Wait till you see little Spiky !!!!(Ahh!)

I've just seen 3 and 4 Mel.......fabulous!

Got 5 and 6......Ahhhh isn't he well camouflaged in the twigs.

Hi Elizabeth typed you a message and deleted by mistake.Been very free with the delete button now I am
doing it anyway. Thank you for your lovely support messages I do feel better after some one
phoned and re-assured me that it will not happen again.

That is a nice story about dads gift we women do tend to like household gadgets for gifts
do we. A parrott would have been nice. Mum had a Kenwood Chef we kids got it her after
dad died now it is in our cellar boxed up. Mum loved her Kenwood too. I remember John Bloom
also going broke he did well to start with.
I used to read when a child and listen to the radio we had Beano and Dandy one of several comic
books and Worrles and Biggles annuals about kids flying early planes .I would listen to the Ovaltinies
on the radio with uncle somebody I cannot remember who and they would sing run rabbit and powder
you face with sunshine just two I remember .Then there was Dick Barton and Snowy. The scary Man in Black used to follow with Valentine Dyall and scare me to death. He used to start off by saying good evening I am the man in black my mum would go out and my brother used to put out the light and jump out
at me. I read Enid Blyton . We had a gramaphone you turned at the side and you had to put little siver needles in the arm they came supplied in a tin. I had small records that broke if you were not careful
and later larger ones did the same. I still love the forties music and me and my friend used to stand on our
rockery with the garden rake for a microphone singing Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered and prancing up and down with sweet ciggies do you remember those in packets like real ones and they were white with red on. I had a little pair of salmon pink peep toe shoes and I was a film star or something. Mum used to sit in the garden and shout at us kids if you do not shut up you will be
bewitched bothered and bewildered. oh I loved those days well some of them. I remember tom thumb
drops too used to get 2penny worth in a small pointed paper bag they were tiny fruit sweets lovely.

Ann,I want your baby Robin lol
We will have no Hazelnuts this year.The squirrels have scoffed the lot even though they are unripe !.I didn't think they would be foraging for nuts at this time of year.
Pic on it's way.

JANE ??? THAT CABBAGE&LEEKS ARE THEY IN BAG'S IN THE FROZEN
SEC?? IF SO THATS WHAT I MEAN YOU DON'T GET THAT KIND OF MIX vEG HERE

Thanks for all the pics, How loverly that little robin is still only a baby.

Nice natter with Jane, this afternoon, what a surprise, spoke for some time with Shirl, yesterday on SKYPE


Shelia, I remember all the old forties songs, they were always sung in our local pubs well into the sixties. I still listern to any old music on the radio at night on a Sunday on our local Radio. The old wind up gramaphone with the little box of needles brings back lots of memories. Then we got an electric one which you could change speeds on, at that time we could only get 78rpms later the smaller 45rpms, then the big breakthrough with the 33rpms, How old fashioned are they today. with these i phones CDs ipods etc. I get lost thinking about them, yet alone useing them.

Shirl, the cabbage and Leek bag are in our fresh veg section.Not frozen.Just pierce the bag and pop in the microwave for a few minutes.Brilliant.

Jane i'd have his(squirrel) ''N ###'S LOL- i THOUGHT THIS WAS A AN EYE TEST--UNTILL I SAW THE ''WEE'' FELLOW COULD ALMOST STEP ON HIM----

Mel what a grand job OH is doing --must make you feel good to know one can do a job like that--Sure would give Alan TIT MARSH A RUN FOR HIS MONEY ---WELL DONE Mr Mel

With you on the Music of the 40's Sheila--

You will be near Mel then Elizabeth.Plymouth was my home from my baby years until 1981 when I married.I lived in a village called Wembury ,my house was just a 10 minute walk from the beach.Do you know it?

Evening all
WOW you lot have been busy with your posts today.All the family have now gone home so I have some ME time.

I was at church this morning then after lunch went to buy a single memory mattress for the spare bed as MIL is coming up next week end for a weeks holiday. OH is picking her up next Saturday and bringing her up to Scotland, she does drive but only round the town as she doesn't like driving on the motorway anymore. Thanks Jane for the woodpecker pics and the pic of Mel's pond.

MEL
Mel the pond looks great just like one you see in the garden centre , advertising different brands and trying to get you to buy them and their fish
OH should start his own building Garden pond company , I bet he would be great at it,
10 out of 10 for Mel's OH, also thanks for the hedghog pics Its a good job I wear glasses at the computer or I would have missed him.

Ann thanks for the baby Robin Pictures, he looks really tiny like a ball of fluff, he looks very tired sitting there.

That sherbert was in a yellow color tube Acid drops now that 's sweeties
Treacle toffee was good ----When you think about the wireless with all those tubes and the back with all the holes Do you remember the THE SHADOW--

I loved that Sherbert with the liqourice stick.Did it have red writing on the tube?
When I finished eating the stick,it would be finger in the tube scooping out the rest of the sherbert and getting really sticky.Thinking about it now it resembled a stick of dynamite lol
I am switching off now ,so will say
Night Night xx

Remember Journey Into Space?

Oh Elizabeth!! Where abouts in Devon?

I am in North Devon which I call deepest Devon, Buckland Filleigh.

They still sell the shebert in those long tuby things but they have just changed it and they now have a plastic liqurice sucker on them.

NICE TALKING TO YOU TO-DAY---HAD A NICE HOT SUNNY DAY --ALL FED-- hAVE TO MOVE AND GET O.G. CLOTHES LAYED OUT --HE HAS APPT- FOR HEART ULTRA SOUND TOMORROW----
WHICH WILL TAKE UP MOST OF THE MORNING-----

NIGHT NIGHT ALL XXX

I wish I had you around at my school in the juniors had the life bullied
out of me by two teachers.

I was bullied a bit at secondary school by two particular girls. They used to comment on my ankle socks being bluey white and asking if I had a bit of Sh*t in my bag. I was quite frightened by them and they always picked on me when I was on my own.

Off for my shower now and then my bed.

See you all in the morning.

Can I have Sheila's and Elizabeth's email please by personal message. Thanks girls.

Night night sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite!

XX