General Chat

I would like to introduce you ladies to this wonderful new range of Toiletries, in readiness for 1st April.

May Dew.

Who would like to have some free samples of May Dew Look ?? !! :-D :-D :-D

Cake sorted :-).

Nearly had an upset on Saturday, fruits fiance went into the room where 'the' gown is hanging, luckily hidden under a large white sheet. He certainly got the hurry up out of the room.... Phew.

Petunia dear, at the risk of upsetting your sensibilities, mumble pants are those lycra/stretch type leggings that women wear. Usually under a tunic or longer shirt. Some wear them with a short top :-D, mumble mumble mumble :-S.

Another weekend done and dusted, how come they go by so quickly? We had a nice drive out yesterday to visit my parents. I managed a quick trip to the shops, purchased six new towels, flannels and two new bathmats.. All on sale, my lucky day. I did notice a jewellers with a sale sign, my OH suddenly went blind. :-S....I did go into a Chemists, purchased a new lippy and some moisturiser. Those purchases entitled me to a bunch of freebies, all of which the assistant explained to me in detail... Got them home, yep, can't remember what they are all for.. Oh well, here's to trial and error.. Oh, and I don't like the lippy colour now - not telling OH that though.

Are you better Petunia, golly, you are all falling by the wayside with illness :-D. CC , keep your distance from t'others.. Obviously, my cyber sunshine was not enough to ward off the chills. Never fear, our temps are on the decline in the mornings and evenings, the days are still hot. Last week of Summer we are told. So, things should improve for you all soon :-). Spring is on it's way.

Better get of my chuff and on with my day. OH has gone on a callout and will be gone for some while....

Toodle pip,
Susan

I just realised Petunia dear, I didnt answer a question you put to me. You wanted to know if we had shares in BP, because of all the petrol we have purchased recently to get us around from A to Z on our days out. We are thinking of investing in BP - but first I need to buy some beehives .....!! :-D :-D :-D :-D

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ to Susan, put your foot down with a firm hand and stop the Cake Lady from giving you the run around :-) Have a good weekend and I hope your Mama and Papa are both well.

Petunia dear please to cover your face properly when you sneeze. Here, let me pass you this box of disposable hygienic handkerchiefs on the end of a 10 foot barge pole. I hope I do not catch any germs from you. I have enough of my own.

Did the Tarot cards foresee you getting such a severe chill? This is what happens when you flit around on a cold winters day wearing just chiffon and lace. Woollens and furs dear, woollens and furs.

Before you disappear orf to bed, I would like to moot something with you. If Scotland gains full independence from the United Kingdom .....

(i) will they have their own prime minister reporting to Her Majesty like wot David Cameron does at the moment?
and
(ii) will Sassenach visitors to Scotland need to have a genuine Scottish passport to cross the border?
and
(iii) will displaced and impoverished Sassenach persons have to swim across the Tweed to gain entry into Scotland? albeitly illegally.

and (iv) where can I get cheap swimming lessons?

Also, if everyone hightails it north of the border in the hope of a better life with top notch uisgeach, kilts, haggis, the skirling of the bagpipes, and Stanley Baxter, will the combined weight of all the additional peoples oop north push down the highlands and islands into the rising sea levels?

And, what is the correct pronunciation of Altna Harrah?

Oh dear me, every time you sneeze your top rides up, baring flesh; you will get a chill on your kidneys dear. Shall I make you some hot chocolate to help you settle down for the night?

Good evening Ladies,

You find me in a quandry dears. I am settled into my high quality button studded, leather armchair, in burgundy hide. I am sitting with my feet in a mustard bath, I have several hotwater bottles about my person, and a inhalation in a bowl under my nose. In short dears, I am proper poorly and have a cold.

That will teach me to flaunt around in chiffon, when I should be in fine merino wool. But at least dear Susan has approved my apparel, so it will be ready when the nuptials arrive. Dear Susan, all things sound as if they are coming together, you must be firm with cake people dear. I know of a Mama who had similar problems, then resorted to buying three cakes from M and S, and icing them herself. Thank goodness she had lessons from the Evening Institute several years before!!!!

Please let us know the final countdown dear, we are all very excited for you and your dear gel.

Cherry dear, I hope you have shares in a Petrol Company dear, you sound as if you have had a tour of middle England.

Lesley dear, you are returned to us dear, that is all that matters. Teresa, I can sympathise with you dear. We are lame ducks together.

I am orft to beddie byes soon dears, I hope to visit an exhibition on Saturday, and need to get myself in fine fettle for that.

Pip Pip
Auntie Petunia

Petunia, your weals don't sound very nice, I hope they are not shingles?. I have never had shingles but I hear they are most unpleasant...
So glad to hear the stole has been incinerated, I hope you left it to burn to ash?. Now perhaps the itching will abate a bit.

Shame about your trinket from CC :-S... Oh well, how sad never mind. :-D. One less thing to dust? Dusting is such a bore.

What a lovely day out you had CC, I do love the quirky village names. I remember driving towards Exeter, seeing signs to Puddletown, Piddlehinton, two of many that took my fancy :-). I wonder how these places came by their names? OH and I bought an AA large scale road atlas of Britain for the grand sum of 3.99 pounds, I don't have a pound sign on this computer.... The atlas was most helpful to us and fun to look through too. !!

Lesley, have fun with your cousin :-S, not too sure that you are looking forward to a busy time?.

Poor Teresa, are you any better yet?. I shall send you some cyber sun and warmth :-). Maybe that will do the trick?

Ladies, today is the day - I hope. Fruit and I are off to a dress fitting, hopefully the last and we can bring the dress home :-). Fingers crossed it all goes well and I have a happy happy fruit - otherwise there will be a very unhappy Mama :-(...
Fruit is getting the run around from the cake lady... Time is agin us, we need firm details. I don't want to have to find someone else at this late stage.

Friday again, hooray. A quiet weekend me thinks. Housework and gardening....Oh, I forgot, we are going to visit my Mama and Papa on Sunday..

Have a pleasant weekend, keep warm.

Toodle pip
Susan

Oh what a busy day I have had !!

I hope you feel better today Teresa, actually I was a tad poorly in the night and wondered if you had sent some virtual germs my way. My lungs and windpipe felt woolly and I was coughing like an old man with emphysema. I bestirred myself and got a tot of best brandy, for medicinal purposes of course, and washed that down with a cup of tea and eventually got back to sleep. When I awoke at a more respectable hour, my lungs and windpipe felt "normal" again. But, I couldve sworn in the night I was coming down with a lurgy.

Today I gave the MOG the pleasure of my company and we drove all the way to Langham Glass, having seen some nice pieces of Langham Glass on eBay. What a disappointment. Everything was over priced, especially as some of it was clearly seconds. We didnt fancy anything there to buy as a souvenir of "a day out" - in fact the nicest thing was a paperweight priced at £50 and we didnt like it enough to pay Silly Money - so we drove across Norfolk to Caithness, where we purchased several quality items for less than £35, and on the way home we stopped for a bite to eat at a lovely little pub called The Ship Inn at Downham Market, which I can heartily recommend.

On the way there, we drove past RAF Lakenheath, and on the way home as we travelled via Downham Market we drove past Waterbeach Camp. So many signs saying MOD property, danger, keep out. But, no visible sign of Men In Uniform. However I saw some hares on the Lakenheath site, probably one of the few places they'd be safe from poachers.

Once again we drove through quaint little villages with names like Blind Summit, Loose Chippings, and a new village called Raised Ridges. And we also ventured into Biblical Times with Shepreth and Meldreth and Babraham. I didnt see Noah but there were lots of fields in the land of Much-Boggy-in-the-Marsh.

~~~~~ to Lesley, I hope you and your cousin have a great gabfest!

Petunia dear, why is it that an ugly man can look almost handsome once he puts a smart uniform on?

We brought you a glass souvenir back, dear. Here - catch !!!

Oh dear. Oh well. I will fetch the dustpan and brush before Tricki Woo treads in the shards.

Good evening dear Ladies,

I am sorry you are still unwell dear Teresa, Menthol inhalations are good dear, just pop your head over a bowl of steaming water, it will clear your tubes and give you a facial at the same time!

I am playing with Tarot cards dear. I used to like to try and forsee my future, but when my future turned into the present, and latterly my past, I realised I have interpreted the cards all wrong. Tutty tut.

I fear I am to end up like dear Ann Havawaywith in The Glums. I am still scratching and tearing myself to bits. I have also developed strange circles in my skin. They are little red ones. They look like polo mints! Perhaps dear Teresa can let us know what they are. Or perhaps I should pop a piccie off to Dr Christian. He of the bulging biceps.

I agree it was VERY cold this morning. The frost on the cars this morning looked like snow, and it was very slippy on the pavements. Thank goodness I have the tuk tuk and dear Pat-trish-aaaaah has all the hard work to do, while I sit back and shiver.

I must say I looked like the Black Widow when I went out this morning. I had a picture hat with a veil to hide my disfigured face. No amount of powder and paint will hide these wheals. I am mortified.

Now do you know, that is a strange thing..................the stole has just travelled the rug and jumped into the fire by itself. Ugh, it smells of singeing hair!!! Reminds me of when I used to have my hair Marcel waved and then tonged.

Applying the calomine lotion.
Auntie Petunia

Auntie Petunia I am sorry I went AWOL :-( I promise to try not to do it again ;-) this week and next I will be partaking in genteel talk very little if at all.....................tomorrow at 11.50pm I shall be at the airport to welcome my cousin whom will be staying with us for 6 day's :-D I feel tired already just thinking about everything she has planned for us :-(

Teresa it sounds as though you and FTY have had a nasty bout of flu and it's really knocked you for six, easy said but try and rest as much as possible. <3

Leaving this thread as quick as I can 100 years of dust mite and scratching.........................no thank you.

Lesley.

*smiles sweetly* and thinks *tit for tat, and revenge is sweet*

I know just how you feel Petunia dear, I felt a tad lousy after you loaned me your coney fur the other week, the one I accidentally knocked into the fire. Ah well, these things are meant to try us. I noticed earlier that Tricki Woo was scratching rather suspiciously. Perhaps he needs a good brushing down with a dog brush dipped in coca cola and Full Marks.

So sorry Teresa you are still feeling rough, and FTY too, I hope your hard working OH has remained healthy enough to keep working to keep you in the luxury you'd like to become accustomed to. Although, once these germs are in the house .......

The weather today was not at all like February, it was quite pleasantly mild early afternoon, enough for me to put my hood down. Late morning, I spied the cat sunbathing on top of the cold frame. But the weather frogs have promised us a change in climate from tomorrow, the cold weather will return they say, from the East. That means a lazy wind - it goes through you and not around you.

Wrap up warmly ladies, to dissuade the impending chill from reaching your unmentionables.

Hallo ladies, pass the cinnamon, Vick, brandy calpol and any thing else which FTY and I can aid our selves with please ( no brandy for FTY of course)

We feel rough, FTY feels rough in the evening, I feel rough morning and evening. I was speaking with a fellow toiler today from another toil area, they had felt rough since before Christmas :-(

Keep warm Ladies and keep the bugs at bay.

Auntie, are you playing cards there dear in your avatar :-S


Teresa

Scratches furiously.................my poor skin is red raw. Oooooooh, I do believe that stole was alive. I threw it into the corner and I swear it moved by itself.................Ooooooh, scratching furiously again.........................

Thank you for your kind gesture Cherry dear, but honestly, I feel quite queasy. I have washed my hair a dozen times, and I still feel lousy. I shall go to the chemist in the morning and ask that nice Pharmacist Mr Remeedee, if he has something to put me out of my misery. Not literally dear, stop rubbing your hands, but something to put on my skin to soothe the itch, and to calm my poor skin. Oooooh, I could scream.

I am quite in agreement with Cherry, dear Upsidedown Susan, good manners cost nothing. I know of a Mama who sent invitations to her daughters' wedding to the selected people, along with reply cards. After a month, she had to send reminders to at least half a dozen. Such tardiness is not to be tolerated.

I am so pleased you like the outfit dear, I have wrapped it in mothballs, so I suspect you will be pleased I am to be a virtual guest dear, I know how sensitive you are to camphor.

I have a collection of 'silvered' photos dears, I do not know the correct name for them, but they are tarnished over the years. One needs to hold them in the light to be able to see the likeness. I also have three wonderful photographs of three separate ladies, but I do not know who they are!!!!! They are ancestors on Papa's side, but they could be anyone! Henceforth, I write the name of the person on the back of photos now for future generations.

I am curious to the name of mumble pants dear Susan, can you illuminate me please dear?

Auntie Petunia

*throws a box of best paper tissues over to Susan*

never mind the dust dear, feel the smoothness of the fur ......... no you're rubbing it the wrong way ..... :-D :-D :-D

How rude of your erstwhile guest for not RSVP-ing before the given date. Cross him orf the guest list and if he does turn up then shove him in the swimming pool, I hear this is done at all the best wedding receptions and hoe-downs in Dallas.

As yes, people smiling (or not smiling) in photos. King George & Queen Mary never smiled as they considered it vulgarity to say the least. Their manner of waving also left a great deal to be desired. They were most displeased with the Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, when she consented to give an interview shortly before her marriage to the Duke of York. It wasnt De Rigeur to speak to journalists either.

We have a photograph-copy of a painting done towards the end of the 19thC. The painting is of MFH's grandfather's grandparents, both of whom were born during the 1840s. They were not smiling. Of course, by the end of the 19thC they were both elderly (and the gentleman was well bearded) and so I have no idea what they might have looked like when young people. This portrait is rather unusual in that HE is seated and SHE is standing. I suspect he might have been one in a long line of Male Chauvinistic Pigs.

We get swarms of little flying bugs nearly all year round, which is why I stopped hanging my washing on the line outside, I'd only find it covered with little blackflies when I brought it back into the house - the price of living near the river in a damp area.

Richard III woz innocent !!! He woz framed !!!

AAAAAchoo !!

100 years of dust mites :-D..... Bury that stole Petunia, or get Patrishaaa to hang it outside and give it a good beating..

I am sure you long johns are most comfartable and about as fetching as those mumble pants, aka, tights that we wear....... or have done in the past ;-).

I am a little cross with a few of our invitees, a reply by date was provided with the invite. BUT, one fellow will let us know next week. Errr, no, last Friday was the date :-|.. A table seating plan has been done without the missing link.. If he decides to grace us with his presence, not sure where he will be seated.... A small matter, but manners people, please. :-S.

I have been unearthing wedding photo's of fruits grandparents. I found two photos, one of each set of OH's grandparents wedding photos, one couple were married 16 th April 1924. Fruit was born on April 16th, some sixty something years later. Very interesting photo's, how times have changed. We now actually 'smile' in photos ;-).

Teresa, I hope you are feeling a lot better or even a little better?. Have you heard from FTE again?. The sun is still shining and the days are hot. She will need a ton of sunblock :-)... if she ventures ashore of course.

Off to be shorn again this morning, my how time flies.. Speaking of flies, as we took our morning constitutional around the lake, we were harrassed by swarms of little flying bugs. uughh, they are disgusting, in our ears and mouths, up our noses... We make take a different route tomorrow or a can of fly spray..

Toodle pip

Susan

well you know me and my penchant for charity shops and antiques and collectors fairs, dear. The moment that I saw that mink stole, you came to mind. It must be at least 100 years old so it suits you to a T !!!!! :-D :-D :-D

Dear Upsidedown Susan, sooooo sorry we crossed posts.

Thank you dear, I am glad my outfit meets with your exacting approval.

I can changed back into my long johns again. Thanks for the mink dear Cherry, where did you find it?


Holds nose.

I chased the Dragon last Sunday dear.

It was Chinese New Year after all! Tutty tut.


AP



( we have pass the 1,000 posts dears, who would have thought!)

I did notice the Money Plant, Petunia dear, but didnt like to say anything in case I spoke too soon and the leaves fell off.

Well I dont know about Chasing The Dragon (and am surprised a genteel lady of your refinement should know such expressions) but cinnamon does seem to have a beneficial effect and its one of those things where if it doesnt work, it wont hurt.

*throws mink stole over Petunia's chilly shoulders*

Sniffs the air like a Bisto Kid.

Mmmmmmmm. Can I smell cinnamon? I do so like the stuff. In apple pie, in cakes, in fact, anything at all. The smell reminds me of Christmas. Lovely, pass me a slice of pie please!

So sorry you are poorly dear Teresa, I know the feeling of coughing until your ribs feel like bursting. So sore.

Your money tree cutting is coming on a treat dear Cherry, do look at it on the stairs dear. You have not said anything about the new buds coming through. Pity no dosh has come my way.................................yet.

How lovely your fruit is touring the world dear Teresa, she is a very lucky gel. I have done the Continent, and the Continental with Fred, but have not ventured to the Anti-podes.

Bit worried about the Cinnamon Room dear Cherry, they wasn't chasing the Dragon in there too, were they?

Lovely to see you back Lesley, #looks crossly# dont go wandering again without telling us dear. We were very worried.

Still waiting from dear Upsidedown Susan's approval of the outfit, so that I can change into something warmer!

Pip Pip
Auntie Petunia

Morning girls :-D....

Petunia, what a fetching ensemble in your avatar, you look so demure and genteel.. Most suitable for a wedding outfit...

Teresa, sorry to hear you have been so unwell. I hope FTY and OH looked after you well?. You will have to eat kiwifruit (green), supposedly more vitamin C in one kiwifruit than one orange ;-). Not sure about the garlic hanging off your person :-D. Unless of course you can find odour free garlic?
Glad FTE had fun in Auckland. The Sky Tower is quite impressive. I remember seeing the 'hole' that was dug to sit the footings of the Tower into. Lordy, I thought the diggers would come out in China, the depth was enormous.. Was it Kelly Tarlton's fruit went to?. It is an aquarium, very cool.
Our good weather goes on and on, our poor farmers are desperate for rain now. In fact as we drove to and fro our concert destination, I had to turn my head away so I wouldn't see how little the cows in the paddocks had to eat. I did see one farmer feeding out... That will cause more problems come Winter, feed stores will be lower than they should be.. We are not quite the land of green pastures at present. Hope fruit has a fabulous time for the rest of her NZ visit. A great freebie in Wellington is Te Papa, our national museum. If all museums were of this vein, I could get quaite interested ;-).

Hello Lesley, lovely to see you back. Are you and yours well?.

~~~~ to CC, the concert was most enjoyable. It would seem Mr Giraldo is Ms Benatar's hubby... It was so stinking hot on Saturday, we sat out in the sun from 11am to 6pm, constantly drinking water, supplemented by a few sips of wine, lots of slip, slop, slap too... Previoulsy the concert has been an early evening start. Much more preferable. Supposedly 'local residents' have complained of the noise, hence the change of time. I wonder if it was the same locals we could see sitting out on their lawn, listening to the music for free :-S. All in all, a great day with good company.

Tis Monday again, so back to work we go :-P.

Have a lovely evening.

Toodle pip
Susan