General Chat

hI that is so funny children were surposed to like father christmas but my
children did not like to sit on his lap my son once pulled fathers christmas
by his beard because he was talking to his sister and said hurry up where
is my present.I never took them again. He was seven .School teachers
seem to have been very scary to us children did they forget we were just
children. nice to get peoples comments on this subject.

Evening all
Hi Catie and Niggly Nellie

Been busy the last couple of days. Had all the family round for sunday dinner and today was spent visiting all the garden centres, MIL loves going from one to another buy toiletries in one , and little gifts for her friends back home in another.

I'm another one didn't like school, being little I got picked on a lot, we had a teacher who would threaten you with the ruler if you made a sound, she once caught two boys at the back of the class whispering and rattled their fingers with the ruler, They must have gone home and told their parents because the next week she didn't appear and another teacher took the lesson.
Also the maths teacher didn't like me cause I was hopeless at my times table, never remembered what came next. so I was always sent to stand at the back of the class. mind you their was often more kids standing than sittling by the time we had finished the lesson.

Jane, I think that maths teacher was really unkind. You must have felt so humiliated - poor you.

Ann, I'm not surprised you were upset by your first day. There was a boy in my first class just like the boy who stole your choc. Was I glad when the class hamster bit him lol

NigglyNellie (love your name), I felt the same way about father xmas. I remember going to santa's grotto and refusing to sit on his knee lol. When I was asked why I didn't want anything to do with him, I apparently replied 'stranger danger'.

Did any of you have a terrible crush on one of your teachers? My friend Barbara and I fell for the music teacher in a really big way. We virtually stalked the poor guy lol. Funnily enough I found this guy registered on the facebook page of the school I attended. He gave a summary of what he had been up to and he said he would love to hear from anyone he taught.
I didn't make contact though lol

Catie x

Niggly Nellie.....love the name lol,it nice to some new people joining us.
As some of you know I am still in contact with one of my primary school teachers and the Headmaster.Mrs.Wood is now 91.She taught me to sew !!!!
Mr Eaglestone (The Head )is 78.They were family friends,which is why I am still in touch.
As for Father Christmas,I have a photo somewhere of my daughter sat on his lap with tears streaming down her face and she was screaming!Poor child lol

Catie ,I think we were all in love with one of our PE Teachers lol.Oh he was GORGEOUS lol

Many years after I left school I went out with my old French Teacher.!!!Just a couple of times.I can't remember how I came across him again.He had some kind of open top sports car,and he must have been in his early 30's then.He lived at home with his Mum.I often wondered if he ever married!!!!In the back of my mind I always thought he might be Gay.I will never know.

Jane, when I was in the last year of sixth form a friend of mine went out with our history teacher. It was all hush hush. He was absolutely gorgeous..... Was I jealous lol. He was about thirty and she was verrrry attractive. The relationship lasted about a year and then he moved on to new pastures.......
I was really the only one who knew and I was sworn to secrecy.
At least you had left school when you went out with your teacher Lol

Catie ,I am pretty sure that one of my friends has a 'fling' with that PE teacher lol.But yes I had left school many years before I had that date or two with my old French Teacher.

I am just about to climb the stairs.After my really early start this morning I am pooed.

Sad thing tomorrow.My daughter is going to the funeral of her friends little baby who was born dead at 21 weeks.A difficult day.I didn't even know that there were funerals for babies under 26 weeks gestation.It was a boy .From what my daughter said her friend is not doing so good.
Looks like RAIN tomorrow!!!
See you all again in the morning

Night, Night to you all, sleep tight.

Night night to all and Catie& niggly nellie ------catch up tomorrow xxxxx

My thoughts are with your daughter's friend Jane, on this very sad day. Wishing her strength for today and the difficult days ahead. Only time will heal.

Catie x

Oh dear, your poor daughter's friend, it must be just dreadful to lose a child never mind a tiny baby; I'm not sure that time ever completely heals, I think,however, that in time you learn to live with it and get it into some sort of perspective, but I'm afraid that that is a long waydown the line. You can feel very isolated so never be afraid to ask for help if things get too overwhelming. Very best wishes.

Morning All .Old friends and New.
The funeral is taking place right now.Better to have it first thing I think,and not have to wait all day.Yes it is very sad,but like I said before the babies brain had not formed properly and it would never have survived.
No rain yet,but it is coming.Still muggy,muggy.
I have a tower of ironing to get done today,I can't believe how high it is !!!!!!.I will wait until it rains I think before I make a start.First I have to go to the PO and then buy a bag of long grain and wild rice to have with dinner tonight.
Back Later folks.

Morning All and welcome to Catie and NigglyNellie.

It has been raining in the night and it's all horrid and wet outside. OH is power washing the bungalow and then he is going to do the caravan. I shall be on cleaning duty today so you won't see much of me again.

It is so nice to have some new people on my thread with their memories...............................................

Shame all our post have been whooshed away but we still have the memories in our heads whether they be good or bad ones.

My mum only took me to school a couple of times when I started and then I walked home on my own. It was sooo safe in those days.

I can remember being taken to London to see Father Christmas with mum and my aunty Iris and her daughter Jane. We used to go to Gamages I think. There was also a character called Mr Holly who dressed in a brightly coloured check suit with a top hat to match I think. We were given badges with Mr Holly's face on but nobody seems to remember him!!!!

They always had the biggest teddy bears there that I had ever seen and some of the toys were wonderful.

We always seemed to get a post office set for Christmas and a sweet shop with little glass jars of sweets and weighing scales and a little till and tiny paper bags. Or a fishing game with little rods and line with a magnet on the end and coloured fish made of card and a square tank also made of card that folded flat that you put the fish in. A knitting Nora set with instructions on what to make out of the loooonnnngg line of knitting that came from the bottom of Nora in all different colours with the bits of left over wool mum provided. Sometime dad would put four pins in an old cotton reel, then wooden, and we would use those.

Being an only child I seemed to always have a friend round for tea or be going to tea with one os them. Once when I went to Denise Brown's house her mother gave us tomatoes on toast done in a way I had never seen it before. She did the toast first and then cut the toms up into slices sprinkled them with salt and pepper and popped them back under the grill. It was delish and I have done this many times since then.

I should be getting on with things ,and I'm still here !!!!!!
Dolly Mixtures were my favourite sweetie ,and I loved my sweetshop .Just thinking of that made my tummy feel funny.Do I remember the post office set having a little counter and a cut out hole to serve customers through?I felt dead important being Postmistress lolol.
I am definitely off now.BBL

Morning all,
Still got this horrible dry cough. Ment to ring the Dr. to get something for it, but forgot.
Ros and Lewis are at the cinema, then of to Mac Ds I suppose, chicken nuggets, chips and Co#e.

I have hoovered all through, the cat is moulting like mad, hair everywhere. We even run the soft brush attatchment on the Dyso# over him, he just lies there and enjoys it. but 5 minites later it's all over his places he likes to sleep. Under the computer desk, in front of the hostess trolley
on the back of the armchair, he decides, and we go along with him.

Steady shower of rain at the moment, and posting jumping like mad again. BBL

Frank click on the broken page again at the top bar.

Busy doing the bathroom.

Have to keep doing it Mel, looks like the old trouble is back !!!!

So humid at present, shorts on, doors and windows open, still spotting with rain. Washing machine full, and waiting to go out. Cats laid out under fan.

Roast lamb already for the oven, Garlic rosemary, and celery stick in bottom of dish, New pots, from garden, runner beans dito, peas and carrots, broad beans, and fresh cabbage.
I can imagine little Jane being "BOSSY BOOTS" behind her P.O. counter. "I'm in charge" and don't you forget it !!!!
I wish I had some nice memories of childs toys. I did have a cotton reel with 4 nails in it, where you wound the wool round and round and pulled it through the bottom. I also had a little wheelbarrow, that I would take to the bus stop to meet dad during the war and bring his small case home in it. He was in the Port of London Authority during the 2nd world War, as he was too old for Active Service. He was 53. when war broke out. Thats why I was bought up by a "grandfather" rather than a dad. But my elder brothers made up for it in play. Jack, taught me football, cricket, boxing and all the boy type sports. Dad was the disciplinarian. and Mum had one Hell of a left hand !!!!

Hello Frank,
I was never bossy lol !!!.When Mum had dementia she always called me a Bossy Bitc* .,and when she was in the care home she used to call poor Sharon you Big Bossy Buxom Bitc*.
It is so close here ,still no rain to speak of.Have been to the cinema by Mazza (Franks knows where) to get tickets for James and his girlfriend to see a film called Inception this evening.Popped down to see Fitz.He has cleaned his house big time as his wife and son are coming back from Beirut tonight.He has an appointment at the hospital with Social workers about his Mum who is still in there.They need to assess her before she goes back home.
Looks like it might be brightening up a little now.

Afternoon all,

Its so muggy ,we've had a few spots of rain ,but hardly enough to wet the ground .

I've been tidying the shed ,i tidy it ,hubby messes it up !!!!
The trouble is its full of blow up things for the pool and you carn't move in there , i had a good sweep up too ,and now i'am all dusty .

I remember having one of those little weaving sets ,it had a wooden frame and you had lines of wool and then weaved coloured wool through ,i always pulled it to hard and ended up with it all tight and pulled in at the sides .
i had a knitting set , a little basket with plastic needles and tiny balls of wool.
And did anyone have a Spirograph ? loved the patterns that made ,it came with four coloured pens and pins to hold the paper down .

Picked my beans...... well all of 9 beans !!!! and if i'am lucky i might just be able to pick 9 more LOL had plenty of flowers but they didn't come to anything .
So for tea tonight we're having four and a half beans each,carrots, peas and new potatoes with Steak and Onion Pie.

Better go and have a shower now ....i look like the coalman !!!!! well not quite as black .