General Chat

Hallo Cherry, I'm so glad you like the bin bag, it suits you very well :-D. I may run up a couple of onesies for you and Auntie, you will be warm as toast or as warm as FTE in Greece :-D

Yes I still have the rope you kindly supplied last year. It's doubled up as a washing line during the summer but I will retrieve it when I return to paid toil. I also have Lesley who will kindly throw a bit of grit on her portion of the road :-D :-D :-D

Thankfully FTY finished the compulsory book on Sunday. He tutted and moaned his way through it and tutted some more. I don't know where he gets that from ;-)

Settling down know to watch Supersized Earth. It's been a good mini series, very interesting and informative and holds FTYs attention :-D

Tootle pip for now

Teresa :-D

Thank you for the Toddy and the Thermal Bin Bag Teresa, I have drunk one and am wearing the other, do you think it suits me?

I hope you still have the rope I supplied last winter, to help you navigate your way to and from your place of work. Perhaps now is the time to get it out, and give it an overhaul to check it still works.

Has FTY caught up with that required school reading yet? I know ..... do hens have teeth.

We had snow this morning, but by the middle of the day the sun was shining again and much of the snow melted. No doubt it will return. One knows when one has become old (as opposed to getting old) when one experiences a shudder of horror at seeing snow first thing in the morning.

CC

Hello Lesley I hope you are warmer than I feel, this weather is quite punishing isnt it. Dear Petunia even threw another piece of coal on to the fire.

*thinks*
oh dear, another one with a Fireman fetish. Its the uniforms and their very long hoses, isnt it.

I'm pleased to hear that E is doing well, and do give her a hug and a peck on the cheek from her Auntie CC

CC

a chilly good evening everyone ..... brrrrr ..... can you hear my bones cracking from the cold? I can.

Oh Petunia dear, was that the aria from Madame Butterfly. Goodness me. Perhaps you should try the Humming Chorus.

I shall not be doing any knitting for the new arrival (or, arrivals ..... it could be twins !!) I feel there are enough knits out there .......

I mean, knitters.

I hope your Christmas tree in the attic has not turned into a multi storey spiders web. Did you wrap it up securely after last Christmas? But, I am delighted you have agreed to let Pat rish aaaah go to the North Pole and be one of Santa's helpers. Believe me, it will be the making of the gel. Dwarves are not just lawn ornaments, you know.,

As it happens, I thought I had been very careful around the Dresden china cabinet. But your vacuum cleaner has a mind of its own and it is uncontrollable. Just like Pat rish aaaah, when you are not here and I have to ask her to do something in your absence.

Yerrsssss I wondered what was different about you today. I see you have been to Maison de Coiffeur in the High Street. Monsieur Chevaux sure knows how to shingle. You look extremely .... unique, dear. Yes. Unique. There is not another head of hair like yours in the world at the moment.

I shall go and stand upwind of those candles, which are really joss sticks, and quite overpowering .....

CC

By the way ladies I sent a communication and photo of the weather to FTE today. She communicated back via the blooberry and said she was "we'll jel" :-S :-S :-S

Susan dear where are you? It's very cold can you send a warm blast over please :-D


Teresa

Cheeeeerrrrrry, are you there?

I fear you may have frozen to the spot somewhere. Here, catch this medicinal hot milky toddy and thermal lined designer bin bag. It will help warm your cockles a little :-D :-D :-D

FTE will bring the sunshine home in April :-D

Teresa

Oooo Lesley, there is a emporium of the very name you mention in Cambridge. I try and avoids those shops like the plague but the one is Cambridge is very nice and laid out in a pleasant way :-D. FTE said it was one of the better ones she had visited and I think she has made her way round them all in a 70 mile vicinity :-D

Baby E is starting young with the shopping trips, keep up the good work, she will be dragging you in to the toy shops before you know it :0)

I do remember that road near you Lesley, I think it was last year when we had to bypass it on more than one occasion. I have been driving backwards and forwards up and down that road to paid toil since 1989 and before that on the number 88 bus over the years. i don't remember it being that bad back then.

I do like layout new haircut Auntie, I always think a bob is very fetching especially when the hair is such a nice colour. I do think purple becomes you, just like Dame Edna :-D
May I ask Auntie, who is the Lady by your Christmas tree? Is it Pat rish aaaa with a mob cap over her rollers? Oh yes of course she is to be Santas little helper and she is bedecked out ready for the orffff :-D :-D :-D :-D

We have had some snow today Ladies but it is gone now :-D I was to do some sending of cards etc etc but could not face traipsing around sliding about. I have been doing housework and tidying instead. Orfff to feed FTY now


Teresa

Sorry Auntie Petunia I didn't see you sneak past me :-S

I am a dab hand knitting and have needles in most sizes.................................any spare wool would be gratefully received though :-D

Good Evening.

Crawling onto the thread after a days shopping 30 miles south of home, myself two fruits and baby E ventured out into the cold to do more seasonal shopping and visit the recently opened Primark, again the girls shopped whilst I just dropped :-( I don't think I'm very good at shopping with others, I never seem to buy anything apart from lunch for everyone :-S

E is doing really well thank you, were off to the special hospital again a week today, I have booked the train tickets in advance and they have gone up £1 on Octobers prices :-0 I thought rail fares didn't go up until January :-S

Can you remember how bad that road was last year Theresa? it seemed to go weeks without being gritted properly :-|

CC I would much prefer to get the car washed by a fireman rather than an ambulance driver ;-)

I do hope Auntie isn't suffering from knitters cramp :-( therefor unable to type :-D

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~to Susan :-)

Tra la la la la, tra la la la la. Traaaa laaaa, laaaaa, laaaaaa! Well dears did you recognise it as the aria from Madame Butterfly? No? Shame on you all. Tutty tut.

Oh Teresa dear, I could do with a bit of warmth dear. Please do ask your fruit to bring a little sunshine into our lives. I know she brings it into yours naturally, but a little tossed our way would be wonderful.

Oooooh do you know I had forgotton all about the Christmas Tree. I must get Pat-trish-aaaah to get it out of the attic, before she beetled orft to the North Pole, to be one of Santas' little helpers. Little helpers! Little indeed! I think she is kidding the troops! Scoffs!!!!!!

Lesley, are you any good with the knitting needles dear? If you are we can work in tandem for the New Arrival HRH. I can find a whole bag of needles in all sizes, just let me know what you want to knit and I will send you a pair down the cyber hatch.

Cherry dear, as much as I appreciate it, please leave the hoovering to Pat-trish-aaah she may be a lummox of a gel, but at least she does not bash the display cabinet with the Dresden china in it every time she swings the hoover around. The china figures are looking like the walking wounded dear, I have had to prop one of the shepherds' head onto its shoulders with a matchstick. Think of my insurance premiums dear...........................please.

Of course we will be going to the Christening...............we went to the Wedding did we not? I think we should be considering what to buy as a gift soonest. If it is to be bespoke, we need to get our order in now.

Now..............................what do you think of the new haircut gels? Seeing as I am to be singing at the Albert Hall, I thought I should spruce myself up a bit. It is a long time since I have had an Eton Bob, and I think it suits me very well. Dont you think so gels? Go on, say you do like it.

I must say it looks very cosy in the Parlour tonight. Pat-trish-aaaah has just discovered scented candles and has a row of them along the sideboard, rowed along the mantlepiece and another row on the gramaphone.

Lovely I can hear you thinking, but they are all different fragrances as she could not decide what to buy.................she bought one of each. It certainly is very.............smelly. It smells like a concubines boudoir. Whatever that is. I remember an uncle always using that expression. Which in my ignorance, at such a young age, I always thought a concubine was a porcupine.................never mind! Sighs. Was I ever that young?

If Cherry is sniffing out food, then so am I. I wonder what is on offer?

Sitting at the dining table like Desperate Dan
Auntie Petunia

oh Lucky lucky FTE ..... yes Teresa you MUST insist she brings some warm weather with her when she returns to Blighty. But am not sure if I can wait until April.

How the cat can go out in the cold, I just dont comprehend. The central heating is on, and I still feel like I am sitting in the freezer. At least MFH and myself have received our respective cold weather payments. Mingy Cameron, reducing it to £100 each. And more government spending cuts are to be announced which will of course affect the inhabitants of these islands wot pays their NI and Taxes. :-| Whilst I appreciate that other countries have their problems, surely it is time for the government to sort out UK problems first, and pay a decent living pension to retired people, and invest more in the NHS and other social care services, before financial aid packages are sent overseas. There are people in the British Isles dying of the cold every year because they cannot afford to heat their homes, or going short of food, or being denied medical treatment because the NHS doesnt have the funding, etc et al.

But I suppose that as it has always been, so shall it always be.

Oh well - my freezing bones and I are off now to find some dinner :-)

CC

Lesleeeeeeeey, can you get the CDC blokes out to grit your portion of the road. 'twas very icy again this morning on the way to paid toil. My dear FTY was very observant and saw the grit blokes were filling up the yellow grit bin at the end of our road. OH nipped down with the wheelbarrow and filled it up ready for the freezing weather which is on its way. There is enough for the neighbours as well. He will grit the road as much as possible so we are not all driving on the ice like a formation dance team :-D

FTE is in warmer climes, in Greece my dears and warm as toast :-| I instucted her to bring some nice warm weather back when she returns in April :-D :-D :-D

Now Cherry dear, I am glad you are a little more comfortable. Pay housework it's never ending but a lot less since FTE moved to the seven seas, I'm on a day orfff tomorrow so will have to get the feather duster out and give the house a bit of a do.
Now we have hear clear recycling sacks which you can fashion into a suitable Christening outfit. Being clear you can decorate them as you like :-D :-D :-D

Auntie, keep knitting, little Willie may get very cold in the Highlands during summer and winter holidays. Maybe you could knock up a few onsies for your staff as well. It will save a fortune on the winter fuel bills. What is Pat rish aaaa up to at the moment?

Lesley how is dear little E, I bet you can't wait till Christmas :-D we put the tree up today at work and the lights :-D :-D :-D it looks very tasteful and not tacky at all. :-D

Hallllllloooooooo Susan, have I missed you???

Tootle pip for now


Teresa

hello Lesley, My GOG does clean the cars, when he feels like it, which is when the weather isnt too cold or wet. I once tried a young man in a car park, but was not satisfied with the job he did, so Never Again. Every so often, a nearby ambulance station offers car washing to boost their funds. I am tempted but am never in the frame of mind to wait in long queues.

Yes my back is easier thanks, this morning I went back to bed with a hot water bottle to lie back on, and did some movements to try and crack my spine and free the vertebrae. Not sure if I was successful - I mean, there was some cracking, and the pain has eased a little, but I still need to be very careful how I move. I'm surprised you havent heard me eeeching and ouching, because Mrs Berry heard me and thought the cat was having kittens, a remarkable event because dear Petunia doesnt keep a cat, only Tricki Woo.

I've been a good little hausfrau today and vacuumed the upstairs, and also the downstairs thru to the kitchen which will be left to another day. When I was younger, I could vacuum from the stairs all the way through the downstairs including giving the kitchen a jolly good clean, leaving the other days of the week free for me to do other things. Now, that one days' work has to be spread over three days, interfering with the things I used to do on the other days of the week. I told the cleaning lady not to come in today, because I am very cross with her.

CC

Hello Petunia dear, I should have known it was you when I heard the click clack of knitting needles. So you are knitting for Little Willie? That outfit looks so small, do you think it will keep Willie warm?

I watched the documentary about Claridges last night, and what a lovely set up it is too. I felt quaite at home, for of course everything I do and say, and wear, is in the best possible taste.

Speaking of good taste - no doubt we shall all be attending the christening of Little Wills (or Little Elizabeth Catherine), which means I must create another ensemble to wear. Unfortunately, I have run out of black bin bags. However, the neighbouring council issue green sacks so I shall purloin some of those to work with. It will be fine, once I've emptied out the gardening refuse. As usual, I shall be saving toilet rolls and string and double sided sticky tape to make a suitable hat with a fascinator, and after I have worn it I shall auction it on E Bay. My dear lady Mama always says that royalty sets the fashion.

Yes your vocal exercises are coming along well. *inserts ear plugs* Perhaps you should try singing Over The Hills And Far Away.

CC

hello Teresa, yes Thalidomide was around for quite a few years (with horrendous results) before the NHS and the drugs company admitted the drug was responsible for the defects.

Dont you mean Driving On Ice? Another warning has gone out that later this week wet areas especially roads are going to freeze over, when temperatures plummet again, but I dont remember which part of the country. Probably oop north. Our northern friends do seem to get the worst of it, not that we southerners get off too lightly.

I've been stuck in heavy traffic in floodwater, caused by a flash flood during a heavy thunderstorm, and it took me a long time to stop shaking.

I am currently listening to Robert & Elizabeth, the 1960s stage musical telling the story of Robert Browning and Elizabeth. I saw the show in 1966, and not long after I bought the vinyl album, which I still have. June Bronhill was always a pleasure to listen to.

CC

A Freezing Good Evening.

How sweet is that dog Susan :-) it looks just like my brothers lhasa apso apart from the tail :-S

My MOG doesn't clean our cars :-| so I pay the men in the supermarket car park to do it :-D

Auntie Petunia and CC I am pleased to hear that you are both much better and Theresa you were lucky not to get stranded :-) I hope it was a male rather than female driver that stopped in front of you :-D

Today I been ordering Christmas gifts on-line MandS have 20% off plus free delivery :-) I just couldn't resist.

Alas I haven't had any cuddles for a week :-(

Clickerty Clack, clickerty clack. Can you hear my knitting needles Ladies?

I am sooooo pleased that there is a Little Willie on the way. I am beside myself.............again. So that makes quads. Titters.

I am knitting in lemon, so that the new infant will be in a neutral colour. I daresay dear Catherine will be looked after by the very best of doctors.

I too know of a Mama who had terrible morning sickness in the afternoon. She rushed home from work one afternoon and managed projectile vomit all the way up the stairs. She too was prescribed Debendox, which she duly took. Only later were the warnings. Luckily she and her sprog were ok.

I cannot tell you dear Cherry who the VIP is. Because I do not know, as soon as I do.................so will you.

Teresa dear. You must have been alarmed by the rising water dear. In the West there have been abysmal torrents of water. Thank goodness you are not in that predicament. Take care dear. Remember I still have the Ark should you need it.

I was listening to the wireless this afternoon dears when the News broke, and later I heard Carwash by RoseRoyce. Funnily enough I thought of our dear Upsidedown Susan. Susan, you really must delegate more. Delegation has got me where I am now dear.

Good evening to Lesley when she surfaces to see us. No doubt she is cuddling that dear little baby of hers. Lucky gal.

Well, just a few more choruses of O For the Wings of a Dove, and then I think I will have a Bath Oliver and a glass of warm milk. I really must protect my voice. I may even whisper when I see you all next.

Who cheered?

Goodnight dears
Auntie Petunia

:-) :-) :-) I wanted lasagna from our local Italian restaurant which also sold take away frozen dishes off their menu. They were on a sebatiacal so I had to forgo such yummy grub :-(

Nice to see you are all back to tickety boo Cherry and Auntie and I do hope Octavia is feeling on the up.

Ah now Lesley, I was indeed working a late last Monday and an early on Tuesday when the rain was pouring down. Some silly driver decided to stop on the middle of the flood and I was just behind :-| :-| :-|
Fortunately I was not stranded, mind you on Thursday morning it was icy, it was like dancing on ice :-(
The other two rivers were ok along the route to work, although the road by the viaduct was a little submerged by the fields.

Goodness Cherry, I remember my Mama telling me how sick she was when I was in situ so to speak. The Doctor prescribed a drug but Ma would not take it. It was thalidomide :-(

I will tootle orff now for I am going to watch Panorama and then Aunties favourite residence, Claridges :-D

Teresa

such exciting news isnt it Teresa. I assume Catherine is approximately three to four weeks pregnant. We shall spend the next eight or so months listening to all the Talking Heads babble about whether the child will be a boy, a girl, or twins. And of course, the likely names the child will be saddled with. Let me see - Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Victoria Margaret Rose Alexandra Sophie Carole Pippa. Or for a boy, Albert Victor Louis Philip Charles Andrew Edward. And as for the godparents - why, none other than Uncle Tom Cobley And All. I never did find out who All was, tho.

I do feel sorry for her having severe morning sickness though, it must be bad for her to go into hospital, perhaps she got dehydrated. I had very bad morning sickness with my youngest, except that I was sick all hours of the day and night, and it went on for weeks and weeks. By the time I was four months gone I couldnt take any more and went to the doctor who gave me a scrip for Debendox. On the way to the pharmacy, I suddenly felt much better, and instead I went to a cafe for an orange juice and a salad roll. because I suddenly had a craving. Normally, I never touch orange juice.

I never got the Debendox and was I glad of it, because not long after a warning went out that Debendox had caused birth defects.

I wonder what cravings Catherine will get ..... and whether Wills will be happy to dash out in the middle of the night to buy her picked onions and ice cream and custard.

CC