General Chat

CC I think I'm going to start sleeping under a mosquito net spiders don't bother me but the thought of them crawling on me or possibly biting me makes me shudder :-(

You are so right about weaning fashions changing not all for the best I don't think my eldest is going to ask the midwife about gripe water, I suggested boiled cooled water this is boohooed now :-S and bathing babies isn't advised for the first week :-S :-S

Not guilty of nicking a big bar of Cadburys chocolate Oh unless you mean the big bar of Cadburys fruit and nut :-D

Auntie Petunia You paint such a vivid picture I can imagine you being driven past the Old Brewery amongst all the hustle and bustle of Brick Lane, ah a thought maybe Lulu and Lush on the corner of Fashion St and Commercial St would stock just what you are looking for.

Tonight I have tried both your suggestions, laying on the chaise longe fluttering eyelashes whilst fanning myself, you will never believe it do you know my hubby turned to me and said do you have to make such a draught :-0 well I thought know it's time to try fainting did this work no he dared to put his feet on me and said that better I'm much more comfortable and carried on watching the football :-|

Mmmmmmmm Susan a nice Italian for dinner I can't think of anything better :-D

How is the dear little puppies eye, healing well I hope :-)

Spitalfields :-D... Try M&S Petunia, I am sure their 'underpinnings' are delicate enough for you ;-)..

By the by, I don't know of the Rowena you mention and I do take a keen interest in cooking shows - until they bore me silly with the vast quantities of 'chefs' who have made it to the small screen. We have a dedicated cooking channel :-S.
My fruit was out of town again yesterday for her work and rang me on her return to say meet me at the fence, she then handed me a bag of goodies, lovely lamb shanks for a meal and a nice fresh bread base to make a gourmet pizza, along with a nice fresh chunk of mozarella and a bag of napoli sliced salami... I have in the fridge a bag of rocket, a pear and some parmesan..... I feel an Italian meal coming on tonight, must buy some vino. I appear to have finished the last bottle :-D. What a good little fruit I have :-)..
The pup went off to work again with her master, I sent along a lamb leg fresh bone, she was given it at 7am, by 11am there was not a skerrick of it left....

Lesley, I remember well how useless I was with my first born, he was a prem, in hospital for six weeks before he came home, the first night home he cried in the night and for a minute, I couldn't think what on earth the nosie was :-D. he survived my mothering and is a strapping young man of nearly 29 now. I too used gripe water for baby... MIL came to ours with baby two who never liked to sleep in her own room... Two nights of putting her to bed and shutting her door, leaving her to scream and then OH climbing in her window to put her back into her own bed.. Of course she wasn't a newborn at that point :-D. She always did and still has, a mind of her own - now she brings me food parcels ;-).

We still have rain about and lots of it, where does it all come from and don't tell me ths sky cause I know that... Very annoying indeed, we need some sunshine to lift our moods out of the doldrums.. or an overseas holiday - a cruise perhaps ??

Today I am orf to town (after work) to finally print photo's of our UK trip... I have had to choose carefully as the album I bought only takes 300 photo's :-D.. Not quite sure how many I have saved to usb stick to print.. Thank heavens for food parcels as no doubt the pics will cost me a pretty penny to print. Oh well ,

goes off singing "Memories, all the .... can't remember the rest :-S

Toodle pip
Susan

Scott of the Arctic has nothing on me dears, I have survived wind, rain and humidity today. What a funny old day!

No sign of dear Upsidedown Susan for a day or two. She is probably on the night time patrol..............remember the old song 'When it is night time in Italy, its Wednesday over here? No? Me neither! That nice Mr Alan Breeze used to sing it on Billy Cotton Band Show on a Sunday lunch time. When I hear Wakey Wakey! I can almost smell roast beef!

Ah, my shopping expedition, I was warned, was I not? But needs must when the whotsit, ouzits. Pat-trish-aaaah got out the tuk tuk this morning, and we pedalled down the City Road, along to Liverpool Street and over to Spitalfields.

Did you know that Arry Potter is filmed in Leadenhall Market?

There was a tour guide waving her umbrella with a crowd of oriental tourists following her. She was going on about the various characters, and what film etc. I am sorry dears, I just could not stand it a moment longer.

I stood behind them and shouted 'It's not real you know.............it is only a film, they are only actors' Well the guide went potty [sorry another pun] and she chased Pat-trish-aaaah and I off with her umbrella. Tutty tut.

So...................back to the business in hand. We then ventured past the Brewery, and along to Ann Winters.

Do you know dears, I thought it was a Fancy Dress shop, with the little nurses uniform in the window. In through the doors and we saw a heading BloomerBox. Aha, I thought, some underpinnings, just up my street. Well! I dont know where the bloomers were, but I could not find them, only skimpy bits of lace which I presumed where bonnets you wear when your hair is in curlers.

Past some rather strange looking stays, I half expected to see Mr Benn and the Shopkeeper. As they used to say in the News of the World, I made my excuses and left......................so back to square one.

I agree Cherry dear, baby practices are a la mode of the year. When dear Bonita was born, she was swaddles, and only allowed to excercise herself when she was changed. I dont suppose that is the norm nowadays.

Spiders I do not mind dears, it is the rodents I do not like. As clean as Motie Towers is, I do hear scratching at night. I hope it is the mice and not dear Pat-trish-aaaah tearing at her skin. I thought it was snowing one morning, until I realised she was shaking her sheets out of the window.

Lesley if you DO come over un-necessary, then do as Cherry and I do. Drape yourself over the chaise longue, look pale and interesting, flutter your eyelids, and fan yourself with an ostrich fan. If that does get the attention of someone, then you are not doing it properly. A low moan may accompany these actions, if ones partner is engaged in watching the football. Failing this, fall to the floor in a dead faint.

Yes I read that about the chocolate too. Thank goodness for medical science.

Pass around the violet creams.
Auntie Petunia

CHOCOLATE HALTS OR PREVENTS DEMENTIA !!!

Its been in the papers. A daily dose of cocoa is good for us, it seems.
whooppeeeeeeeeeee !!!!! good news for chocoholics ...... who's nicked my big bar of Cadburys????? :-D

CC

aahhhh - spiders !!! hello Lesley, I could tell you a story about spiders. When one's first husband was working in a burned-out flat, cleaning it up prior to redecoration, he developed a problem with the skin around one eye. He thought a bit of grit had got into the eye and was going to "wait and see", but went to the doctor, who found a bite mark, and the doctor told MFH he'd been bitten by a wolf spider probably during the night. It was "this time of year" when the spiders migrate into the house. I was horrified to think a large spider might have been running across my pillow as I slept, but I didnt so much have a fit, as a cleaning frenzy.

I was bitten by a spider, myself, not long ago, I found a spider running up my arm early one morning, and in spite of my new hip being at the "running in please pass" stage, I leapt off the bed, and flushed the spider to Southend. I know it bit me in the night, because I developed a large painful lump inside one ear flap, a classic reaction to insect venom; fortunately its healed now.

My Mum and sister have also had a spider experience this week. One very large one, and one slightly smaller large one. Neither could be caught - until their cat caught one of the blighters and attempted to eat it, as cats do, while mother and sis had hysterics.

Colicky babies end up becoming adults prone to "gas". A dummy doesnt stop the colicky tendency, but it stops the crying which causes air to get sucked into the tummy. I used to give my infants gripe water, I dont know if this is still available, I recall hearing there were some problems with the stuff but this was possibly due to over-dosage by over-anxious mothers. I also put my babies on their tums across my lap, which seemed to soothe them. I used to do a lot of things which would have horrified the health visitor, but my children survived :-D

The trouble is, as you have no doubt discovered, fashions in weaning and child-rearing change every three to four years. Things I was advised to do regarding my oldest, were "out of date" just three years later. I ignored the health visitors, and followed my instincts, and anything I wasnt sure about I asked my mother ..... after all, she raised me.

I wish I could meet Emilie, to cross her palm with a 50 pence piece :-D but fear not as I wouldnt give it to her to hold afterwards ..... I'd put it into her money box.

CC

Oh dear did you all hear me scream then :-(

I live in the country and am use to BIG spiders :-(

But we have just had the BIGGEST spider ever in the house :-0 :-0 :-0 it made me come over all unnecessary :-D

Hello CC I was sorry to read that you have FM.

Baby E is doing well thank you, mum and dad are making a rod for their own back though :-( she gets picked up as soon as she cries, I can't say anything I was the same with our first born :-D I do think a dummy might help to pacify her also she is quite windy and I think a dummy might help relieve the pain from the wind.
Yes this is the only thread I'm having a problem with but I'm sure GR will sort it for me :-)

Auntie Petunia I am sorry to hear your Marleybone haberdasher has done bust (pinches your joke)

I can just imagine the headlines on the front page of Thursdays newspapers.

READ ALL ABOUT IT READ ALL ABOUT IT

The Right Honourable Auntie Petunia is photographed leaving the Ann Winter shop in Spitalfields
As you can see from the picture she was very heavily laden with her purchases

Shock Horror don't do it Auntie Petunia think of your reputation
:-D :-D

ah Petunia dear how kind of you to grace us with your presence; after all, this is only your home - but you seem to spend so much time out of it, organising others, when you are sorely needed here. Pat rish aaaah keeps twittering dear, perhaps you ought to get her a laptop so she can Tweet instead?

You may be an honorary Kiwi dear, but please refrain from trying to rub noses with me. As for those frightening faces you've been practising in front of the large framed mirror, and the war paint ....... Well, Hiawatha has nothing on you, dear.

Well I do not know who you heard playing Michael Ball CDs all night long, but it was not me. I should know - I was using my personal CD player so I wouldnt disturb anyone. In fact, the mice in the wainscoting made more noise than I did, and they are as quiet as ..... mice !! :-D Perhaps Pat rish aaaah borrowed one of my CDs, I certainly bought enough new CDs from The River to keep me going for quaite some time. No I havent caught up with the Demon Barber yet, dear, but give me time ... and money ....

*collapses in hysterical giggles* oh perish the thought of you wearing Ann Winters unmentionables Petunia dear. Have you any idea just how unmentionable these unmentionables actually are? No ?? Well lets put it this way - you wouldnt see me wearing them in my coffin.

BTW - have you seen the £3m house in Dorset overlooking the Solent and The Needles? Its for sale, should you be thinking of relocating from Motie Towers. I wouldnt mind being a guest in a large cliff top mansion with a thatched roof ..... :-D And the interior is exquisitely decorated in the best possible taste. I'm sure your furniture and other household goods etc would slot into the mansion's rooms very naicely ..... as would I !!!

CC

Good evening dear Friends,

Well what a clammy dehydrating day it has been. I have been sipping elderflower cordial all day. I fear I shall put down roots soon if I dare to drink any more. As refreshing as it may be................one can have too much of a good thing.

Are dear Upsidedown Susan, I did know that your Enzed team won medals, I was just teasing you dear. Seeing as I am now an honory Kiwi, as I have my magical necklace, of course I took full notice of their endeavours. I did so like that John Walker many years ago. He of the flowing locks. Any news on him dear? Is he still in the public eye? We still have our dear Brendan Foster giving his opinion on the new runners. I still have visions of all Enzed houses being wooden bungalows dear, please dont think me patronising. It is just a romantic view I have, along with the lush green fields and dear little baa lambs. We had a 'celebrity cook' many years ago on the tv over here, from Enzed, called Rowena.................there you see I have gone orft on a tangent again. Please give your fruit with the holey roof my best wishes dear.

Now Cherry dear, I will have to take you to task once again..........I do appreciate that you are a little bereft of sleep dear. But it is getting to the point that so am I! As much as I like Mr Ball dear, I feel a little against the idea of listening to him all night. I presume that Mr Ball has not sent you his new CD, being Mr Todd, for we would be listening to that too. I do so like that dear little Imelda dear, his co-star. Did you know that she is married to the butler in Downton Abbey dear? Of course you did!

I did think we had lorst you dear Lesley. Once your new babbie batted its dear little eyelashes, then you would never returned to us. Give her a big hug from us all dear.

My shopping is not yet complete dear. One has yet to purchase, erm, how can I put this delicately. Underclothing. I used to buy it from a haberdashers in Marylebone, but along with the recession etc. She has gone bust. Oh, see! I made a joke there! Apparently there is a similar emporium in Spitalfields, I shall go there tomorrow. Strange name for the place though. Ann Winters. Apparently Mrs Berry's daughter buys some of her unmentionables from there, and thought there may be something there to suit me. What a giggly little creature she is. She could barely speak to me, bar laughing. I take buying delicates as a very serious business. If it is not of suitable quality, there could be all sorts of chafing.

I am very keen to supervise the Paralympics dear, and have put my name forward. However, I have had a lovely letter, expressing their appreciation of my endeavours at the Olympic Village. However, they felt that because of my advancing years, they did not want to put too much strain on me. I can appreciate that, and maybe they could be right. Plus, it would give me time to do more shopping....................

I shall contact them tomorrow expressing my appreciation of their kind concern. How polite they are, I do so appreciate good manners....

Oh dear, here we go again, pass the ear-plugs!

Pip Pip
Auntie Petunia

hi Lesley how is the little one? I've got FM so I alternate between flaking out all the time, or having bouts of insomnia, as well as all the other problems that go with the condition. No I dont think that my ordeals as a result of hiding in dear Petunia's wardrobe had anything to do with it, although her rolling pin is a weapon of mass distraction.

I noticed in a thread that advice was being given to click on Tools and Compatibility to resolve some problems, I dont know if that would help you. The site was revamped before you started getting white pages though wasnt it.

Can you get into any other threads, or access any other features of this site? Good luck with asking GR ....... !! :-D

CC

Good evening ladies
Well it's 4 days now without being able to view Aunties thread:-( I have been click click clicking only to be greeted with a blank page:-( I have Auntie Motie saved in my watched threads even click click clicking on this doesn't work I have found the only way I can get into the the Land of Oz is through the mail GR send out when the thread has been updated:-)

I'm sorry to hear about your fruits leaky roof Susan :-(

Oh dear CC suffering from insomnia :-( do you think that could have been bought on by shock following your ordeals of the past days?

Auntie Petunia have you finished your holiday shopping or is there more to be done? Are we to assume you will not be taking part in the organisation of the Paralympics unless of course you can oversee proceedings from your ship :-D

I must away now as I really must compose a mail to the friendly GR Team to see if they can resolve my issue :-D

BFN
Lesley

I see a couple from Suffolk have won £148m on the lottery ......... am in the process of finding out how closely we are related so that I can crawl out from under a stone to send begging letters ..... :-D

But seriously. Lovely for them, but so much money in one go :-S - what a responsibility. They look like a nice couple, and the wife will be giving up her job for more family time, although the husband will continue to run his shop. They said they will donate to charity and other worthy causes, so no doubt a lot of people will have cause to be grateful to this generous couple -)

CC

I have a small quandary. I have a taped copy of a pretty piece of music, mainly piano but some strings. Its a contemporary piece of music, played a lot on the radio during the 1980s, and rather reminds me of snowy alpine slopes and apres piste with all the Beautiful People waving ski sticks at each other.

For the life of me, I have long forgotten the title, so have no means of getting a CD copy. I wondered if it was Bobby Crush but without the title I cant search on You Tube to check it out.

Yet, I have never forgotten a piece of music I heard in the 1960s, namely the Robinson Crusoe concerto, and I often played that in my head when my mind was blank. Thats still available to buy on CD. I know, cos I bought a copy recently.

*sighs and heads back to bed with another Michael Ball CD .....

CC

Susan am not sure what you mean by the Twilight Zone, I hear no eerie unearthly music, and that amiable gentleman Mister Forest Whitaker is not doing any voice overs.

I dont think dear Petunia was referring to the Famous Five. More like, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. While I was "out for the count", I dreamed that dear Petunia was with me and eating sandwiches made by a Mrs Beaver, and she's not with the Famous Five. Perhaps she lives in Toad Hall. You dont want to know what was in the sandwiches ..... but there wasnt mush room left in Petunia's girdle by the time she'd finished munching.

Sorry to hear your Fruit has a leaky roof and I hope its fixed soon. We had a small amount of rain before I went to the dentist, probably not enough to wet the beds, flowerbeds that is, but as I gave the garden a good hosepipe soak on Sunday night so my shrubs etc must be content with that.

You will be pleased to know I dont drink jungle juice, in fact I dont even know where the jungle is let alone know how to extract juice from it..

I suppose the olympics has been good for tourism but I shall be glad when the world returns to normal and all the tourists head for Buckingham Palace to wait for a glimpse of the Queen.

CC

after "sleeping it off" .. whatever "it" was .. I now have a touch of insomnia. the warm milk and arrowroot biscuits have not helped me to restore SlumberMode. The delightful Mister Michael Ball is keeping me company with his wonderful renditions.

The reason you heard no noise from my room dear Petunia, is because I was not there. I slipped out to visit the dentist, where I had a small filling with no needle and very little pain. The old metal filling had shrunk and has been replaced with a white filling which is mine for life.

Please do not chase me around Motie Towers with rolling pins again, dear, because I dont think I could take a third visit to THAT wardrobe. One takes one's life in one's hands hiding in there, I'm sure its a portal to another world although how I returned to this world is still a mystery.

I heard all about your exploits at the closing ceremony and really I do not know how you can face the world so demurely as if butter wouldnt melt in your mouth. Now - please return the gold medal that you wrestled from that lady ... ahem .. person .. errr .. lady .. from Belarus, and give it to Susan nz at once dear.

CC

Morning ladies,

OMG, reading back it is like the twilight zone in here.....

I wasn't sure if it was me you were referring to Petunia, but as I am not too familiar with the Famous 5, I hid myself from view :-S.

Cherry, how are you ? Are you quite sure you haven't been on the jungle juice?

I did chuckle at the stannah gliding elegantly to the Primrose room, even in times of stress, Petunia remains a 'lady'...

I haven't watched the replay of the Closing Ceremony so have not spotted you Petunia.. I trust you emjoyed the celebrations and festivities?
Did you know we have another GOLD, the Belarusian has been outed as a drug cheat so our dear Val gets the gold after all.... The woman in question is protesting quite loudly. Dear Val may have to wait months for the medal to return from its little sojourn to Belarus :-P.

I imagine London is still bustling and full to the brim with visitors?. Marvellous I say, I think London has done an amazing job for the 30th Olympiad. So pleased Petunia, that you made such a generous ambassador .. What is next up on your calendar? Of course, the cruise. I must say, your wardrobe sounds most complete. Thankgoodness you are not restricted by baggage weight. We shall look forward to your travel diary via bloooberry.

My fruit has a new water feature in her house - yes, a leaking roof :-| :-|... The joys of being a houseowner. We have had such intense rain over the lst few days, I was keeping an eye out for the 'Ark'. Parts of the country are more than saturated, enough already I say. Spring is just around the corner :-S.

Must away, can't sit here all day, more's the pity..

Toodle pip
Susan

Well I have been languishing all day in my silk night attire, in my linen sheets in my posture correct bed.

Do you know? I havent known what to do with myself all day. Now that I am not organising athletes, timing records or generally making myself useful, I am at a loss.

My clothes are on order for my holiday with my two dear friends, Mrs Berry has been baking all day, Pat-trish-aaaaah has been pottering about...............but no noise from dear Cherry's room!

I do so hope she has not locked herself in the wardrobe again.

I shall give her another couple of hours and then go look for her.

Picking another chocolate from the box
Auntie Petunia

Did you see me dears?

Dancing next to a Mr M. Python?

Was it not spectacular?

Going back to bed for the rest of the day................oh my aching bones!

See you anon............

Auntie Petunia

The lights are lowering, the night is falling..............

The stadium lights are turning down. The orchestra is tuning up. Big Ben has just chimed.

The closing ceremony is beginning.

Wish me luck girls, and look out for me.

Whoooooooo Hooooooo.

wha ... wha ... who .....

how strange - how did I get from THAT wardrobe to here? how can dear Petunia be in three places simultaneously? Oh I am seeing double plus 50%.

*closes eyes and lets the world and his wife walk on by*

CC