General Chat

Cooooeeeeee, I'm back :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D,

I do hope that there is room for one more. :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

We have been sailing dears on the seven seas to the Fjords etc What a beautiful and breath taking place Norway is. A little expensive so you will forgive me for not sending anything thing down the cyber hatch. I did look at the reindeer hides to send you for the cold winter months but I thought they may get the moth and the mange before they arrived. They were on sale in all the markets, very soft to the touch but not quaite if you see what I mean.

We saw dear FTE as twas on her ship that we travelled. We were lucky enough to have a couple of days orff the ship with her and dinner for a couple of nights. FTE is on her way to the America and Canada now lucky gal.

I was suffering with the blessed bad back when we got home and have been pulled and pummelled so I can now sit and walk in more comfort.

I may try to pootle to your little Church Lesley, what time and where?
I do hope all is well your end, its a little cold today, I feel a pair of socks are needed and a cardi. I hope you enjoyed your dinner Lesley, I had been at paid toil and my dear Sister provided a pleasant tea so I didn't have to cook yesterday.

Now Auntie how are you and how is Nurse Soper ;-) If you are in need I can join the merry throng, I'm orff for a couple of days or so. I will bring the owl key ring I fashioned from cross stich to show you :-D

Are you watching "strictly " Ladies. That naice Mr Revel Horwood is on. FTE had the pleasure of seeing him when he and the team were at her place of work earlier in the summer. The Fruit said he was a really nice man, and not at all like on the TV :-D

Orff now to do what needs doing. :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D Auntie Altha and Donna are playing on the radio, Up Town Top Rankin. It makes me think of you at Carnival :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D




Diving for cover


Teresa ;-)

Hello Teresa think we cross posted............................................. your recent travel experience sound wonderful plus you were able to spend time with FTE that must have been the icing on the cake :-D :-D :-D

The exhibition is from 10am-6pm, coffee and scones available 11-12 afternoon tea 3-5pm, how to find the church mmmmmm if your are coming from your home town turn right just after the pubs you want to be heading for the fairly well known garden center.............................no stopping off ;-) carry on to the top of the hill and you should see the church on the left and village hall on the right, only guessing but I would think you will be able to park at the village hall, if you are lucky.

Good evening Ladies,

Now that we are a trio again, I can say Ladies! Hurrah!!!!

How lovely of you to see your fruit dear Teresa. And how lovely to visit Norway. A relative of mine is buried there, and there is to be a commemoration for his aircrew in two years time. Will be the 70th Anniversary. We have been asked to attend, and visit the Commonwealth Cemetery. It will be sad. But I feel I must go.

I hope the back is now better, and you are flying around. I too am a little more supple now. And no longer hanging on to furniture.

Nurse Soper? Am I in a Cuckoo's Nest dear? Or was that Nurse Rachet?

I think you should make us all key-rings dear, and send them down the cyber hatch. Then it will be an affinity between us all. 'sighs'

Lesley dear, I am quaite jealous of this church outing. I could come to visit had I not been poorly sick. I do hope little E is better now. Children being unwell is a worry for all concerned. Especially when they cannot tell you exactly what is wrong. I know of a little girl who was constantly plagued with ear-ache and sore throats. She was constantly on anti-biotics.

I shall be endeavouring to visit the Thames in the tuk-tuk dears. There is a festival going on down there. No doubt they will want me to address something, or open something, and just be there for publicity purposes.

The devils game is on the television I believe. I can hear shouting and swearing from next door!

Closing all the windows
Auntie Petunia

Thank you Lesley, I know where it is, the 88 used to take that route many years ago when I was at college :-D

I have sent the key ring down the cyber hatch along with some choc chip choc buns I made just now :-D :-D :-D :-D FTY needs to be fed on an almost two hourly basis. The fruit is like a string bean with hollow legs. :-|

Aunty Nurse Soper looked after Pop Larkin in The Darling Buds of May, the book dear, not the TV series which was not much like the book which perhaps may have not made it to the prime time family slot ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

FTE is in NY, the Fruit has seen a show and visited a famous park :-D The Fruit is happy.

Just orff now to do some chores, Auntie what festival are you eyeing up? Do be careful with your breakage. I understand Si Elt was at the Beeb yesterday. DId you see him???



Seeyalater

Teresa :-D

#peeps from beneath the bedclothes#

Good evening ladies, is it safe to come out now? Tis Friday the 13th after all. Not that I am superstitious, but I have a black cat in bed with me!

Thank you for the key-ring Teresa dear, my, my, what dainty stitches, you are a treasure dear.

An 88 bus dear Lesley. We have one of those too! It sails forth, but I don't think it passes any churches.

The festival on the Thames dears, it has been wonderful, if a little chilly. Why is it always colder by the water. Lots of entertainment and jollity.

It has been dismal all day, and the weekend is to be no better. What a miserable time!

Have a good time at your needlework exhibition gels, and pick up something for me, I will send you the money down the cyber hatch.

Pip Pip
Auntie Petunia

Auntie, coooooeeee are you there and where is Lesley ??????? I fear she may on the number 88 still now, it takes weeks to get anywhere on it.

I have been at paid toil, unpaid toil and stitching like a dervish. The heating is playing up and we have a bloke from the Gas to service the boiler and blow through the system. I blame the very hard water we have in this part of the world which furs up every appliance on a regular basis. Tuttty tut tut tut .

I will get some of those little toilet roll dollies for you Auntie and sling them down the cyber hatch. I think it rather vulgar when certain people, who shall not be named, put rolls of lavvy paper on top of the cistern, or even worse leaves empty rolls everywhere. :-|

How is Pat rish aaa and Mrs Berry and all your Staff. It has all been rather quite of late down your way.

Its very dismal here as well and cold. Did I mention how cold is was???? Tis a pleasure to go to paid toil to warm up, even the hot flushes have gone AWOL.

Auntie dear may I ask a delicate question, we were watching an educational TV viewing last night about Thailand, can you just tell me exactly what is a ..................
............................................................................................oppps must run the butternut squash soup is about to boil over, back soon



Teresa :-D

Good Evening Ladies.

I have now returned from my mystery tour on the number 88 bus :-D

Teresa gas is this some sort of modern commodity that is still not available to everyone .....................................everywhere :-S

Petunia I do hope you were suitably dressed (sou'wester, raincoat and wellington boots) for your weekend on and around the Thames............................I'm sure you must have been as there has been no news of an events organiser impersonating Mary Poppins.................................again :-D

Today we went to my MOG aunts funeral, the service was held in the village church were MOG grew up and to take my mind of off things I was reading names that had been etched in the shelf that holds the hymnal books, thought I might see MOG's but no, what I did see was R-----t S------y Loves B-----a S------r
...............................................B-----a S-----r was my mother in law :-D.....................I felt awful as I sat smiling to myself at a funeral :-(

Hello Susan I hope you enjoyed your week away <3

Good upside down afternoon Ladies,

We are returned... we arrived home here at 1am :-D. Sadly my OH has picked up a bug and is most unwell. I am back from taking him to the doctor.. That aside, our little holiday was lovely. Quite a bit of rain earlier in the week and then beautiful sunny days. It is cold and very windy here today :-P.

Our house is still upside down, as I have now decided to have the kitchen/dining room walls painted, it will be a few more days before the furniture is put back in its place....

Teresa, your holiday sounds lovely too. How nice to spend time with FTE. Did FTY miss you ?? ;-).

Oooh dear, the wind is getting stronger. I must go and rescue my washing before it sails off over the neighbourhood...

~~~~~ to Petunia and 'Diamond',

back another time

Ooooooooh Susan I much prefer the name Diamond to Lesley :-D

I hope your OH makes a speedy recovery <3 I also hope you are pleased with the end result of your upside down kitchen.

Diamond :-D shivering in Essex x

Hallo Ladies :-D I thought we had a new member Lesley ;-) Who was the person who proclaimed their love for your MOG <3

Its cold but I have managed to get the washing dry while waiting for the Gas boiler bloke who was supposed to be here between 8am-12 midday. British Gas informed me the system was down this morning which allocates the workload. Tutttty tut tut. So everything is running late. I've heard it all now.

You are very fortunate to not be connected in your parts Lesley. MOG is not connected either in her neck of the woods. I shall be thinking of lighting the fire soon.

Lovely to see you back Susan. Hope your OH is feeling a little better. How is your Pa ?
FTY came on holiday with us. The Fruits spent a bit of time together and then I found them bickering about the TV channel in our cabin. Nothing new there then :-|

I wonder where Auntie is. I do hope she didn't see the television program abut Thailand that I did. She may be in a state of shock ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

Orf now to continue to serf the net and make Christmas cards.

Teresa

Good evening Ladies, we are complete again, my heart is soaring.

Do we have a newcomer in our midst................no! Tis our little friend Lesley with a nom de plume. How very select! One seems to remember a John Wayne fillum with a lady card player called Diamond Lil. Surely not!

We have a bus in our neck of the woods, tis the number C11. It goes around most of north London before it terminates at one of our original shopping centres, called Brent Cross. This shopping centre predates Lakeside and Bloooowater, and it was very modern and large in its day. However, it now seems very small and pokey, and the variety of shops have dwindles. It is now like the average high street with the same old shops, no individual ones, just the big chains. Aaaah so sad.

It is so nice that you are all back in the fold, Susan has returned from her travels, and is fighting the gales that we have now! I tend to think we have the high winds during the day, and when we sleep, dear Susan has our wind as it moves around the world. Am I waffling? Probably!

I do hope your dear Papa is feeling a little better dear.

I fear that Autumn has come to us with a bump, and it has become very cold indeed. We are at the top of the Hill dears, near where dear Island lived, and the wind fair whistles around the eves of the houses.

Pat-trish-aaaaah and Mrs Berry? Alas, we are the middle of a war zone since the Bake Off has returned to the television. Both believe they are the better baker, and we have pies and puddings coming out of our ears! I leave them to it. All I can say is that the amount of flour knocking around the house is tantamount of a years worth of dust! Do you know I can write my name in the surfaces around Motie Towers. If I was used to manual work, I would actually polish it myself, but as you know I have a sensitive skin that cannot abide housework.

Actually, I think that Pat-trish-aaaaah has a little crush..............she is more than interested in Bake Off than is healthy for her. She is also writing the word Paul in the floury surfaces..............................oh dear, here we go again!

Now dear Teresa, you know I am a woman of the world, and indeed I DID watch a programme about Thailand. They were showing a cabaret of the most beautiful ladies imaginable. Such delicate creatures, with perfect skin, slim perfectly proportioned bodies and wonderful costumes plus a little added extra..................such said the over-voice. Can someone please enlighten me dears? Would that something extra be a hair piece?

Oh my, the devils game in on the box again. I can hear the rabble screaming from along the road! So common! One simply cannot choose ones neighbours!

I shall retire gracefully to my boudoir and read a novel.

Adjusting my pince nez
Auntie Petunia

Moi Diamond Lil :-S ............................although I wouldn't mind making diamonds my career :-D ................................ being Snow White and never having drifted it probably wouldn't be a very successful career :-(


Lesley much warmer in Essex

Come up and see me sometime :-D :-D :-D

There now............................I can tell I have upset you dear, and that was not my intention! Just a little jest that backfired..............badly. #blows nose very loudly into lace edged hankerchief#

I can hear echos of the lovely Mae West echoing down the line. Oh but you had her money, eh dear?

Much brighter here today dears. The sun has his hat on and was alright with the world.

Diamond dear, the lovely David Tennant is on tv tonight. On Drama in Casanova. If you have not seen it dear, it is rather racey................

Good evening to Teresa and Susan. ~~~~~~~~~~

AP

Good Evening Petunia

Oh my dear aunt you did not upset me.................................... if you saw me wiping my eyes or heard me sniffling that was due to the onions I had been chopping to make my tomato chutney .................................I'll send you some down the cyber hatch, be ready to catch I don't want you to be hit on the head with a glass jar :-0 you must promise not to open the jar for at least a month............................... I'm watching............ .......................... the pretty pink gingham lid cover opens out into a very useful linen napkin..........................I hope:-D

Chutney also on it's way to Susan and Teresa......................if you can't catch don't forget to duck :-D

Lesley x

There now...........................least said soonest mended! #smooths down skirt#

I knew you would not be offended by the ramblings of an old woman, and as sure as Micklemas is to Christmas, you were not!

I would indeed like to savour your chutney dear. My dear Papa used to love his Pan Yan pickle on a pork chop, but I was a little young for such delights. A pretty cover too, how novel, and ingenious!

I am opening the hatch now.......................................................yes, thank you dear, I held my skirt out to catch said jar, as the saying goes, Up there #points to head# for thinking, and down there #points to feet# for dancing!

I hope you are all well and dry dears, tis a stormy night...................again!

AP

Good Evening/Morning

Pan Yan pickle ......................to young to remember it.......................oh dear how I wish that were so :-(

Teresa did you make it to the art exhibition, if you did can you tell me were there actually any stitches in some of the x stitch samplers:-D :-D :-D

For Susan <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Lesley x

Good evening dear Friends,

What a very strange day we have had today. As you know, I am up with the lark, and what an odd sight met my gaze this morning.

For a start, at 5.30am it was still dark, and the fog was so thick, I could not see to the end of the garden. I was to meet my dear friend Octavia at the airport, she was coming in a 8.00am, and both Pat-trish-aaaah and I were to have gawn by tuk-tuk. I must admit, even I was loathe to send the poor creature out into the fog. Mainly because if the silly gel had lorst her way, we would have been going around the M25 all day. How I miss George and his limousine!

However, by the time we had bathed [separately] and dressed and partaken of breakfast the fog had lifted to a light mist. Never say die, we set off.

Octavia was delighted to see us, and we waited for her cases to come around on the carousel. Duly cased up, we left the terminal, slung the cases on the back of the tuk-tuk, and set it into motorised mode. What a joy it was to see Octavia again after two weeks. She looked quite brown.

We had a lovely luncheon supplied by Mrs Berry, and we spoke of Octavias excursions. She went to Madrid, and visited the old town, and all the churches and places of interest. She also bought me back a beautiful shawl. In fact she bought back three shawls, one for me, and one each for Georgianna and Beatrice. As I supplied the lunch, I got first dibs at the shawls. I have picked a lovely blue-green one, to match my eyes.

I am sitting here wearing it actually, and I must say, I do look rather fetching. I look like Madonna of the Seven Veils. Now was that Jean Kent or Susan Heywood?

Puzzling, but still admiring my reflection!

AP

<3 to dear Susan.

Madonna Auntie?? was that in her coffee table book days :-S :-S :-S :-S I do not know either what the added extra was on those beautiful gals, maybe a new brand of face cream.................................................................................................


I must apologise to Lesley, I have been reading back the posts and missed the one where baby E was unwell with an ear infection. I do hope all is well now. I'm afraid I did not make it to the stitching show, we had not seen MIL and FIL for sometime so hithered over there.

I remember Pan Yan Pickle, do they still make it. I'm cooking batches of cakes for the very hungry FTY. They are too hot to eat at the moment so the Fruit will have to wait. I will send some down the cyber hatch, not to Motie Towers as it would appear you have enough but to Susan and Lesley instead. I will send Auntie the glut of cooking apples instead to make a pie or crumble.

Tis dark when I leave for paid toil but gets lighter along the way. There was a beautiful sunrise over the A12 last week. I was a little later into work. It must have been in your neck of the woods Aunt P for Christopher Evans mentioned it on the beeb.

Tootling orf to wash up


Teresa

Good evening dear Ladies, and a hello to the two new people who have joined the silent majority, who sit and read, but never contribute! Please do dears, we need new blood!

How is the little one dear Diamond. Well and running around I hope. I imagine the little one is now up and into everything. Time to put the precious things up a shade higher, for fear of being pulled over! Such exciting times for little E.

Thank you for the apples dear Teresa. Unfortunately I opened the cyber hatch before reading your missive, and got bashed on the boko! I have divided them up between Pat-trish-aaaah and Mrs Berry and they are having a Bake Off. Some strange smells came from the scullery. I wonder if Pat-trish-aaaah was using that hemp flour? She was certainly mooning around and calling us all Man! Man indeed! I am a fully fledged, fully formed, woman I will have her now. Tutty tut!!!!!

I do hope that dear Susan is well in Upsidedown Land, and I sent her my love. <3

Up the wooden hills dears
AP

Good Evening One and All.

Oh my what glorious weather we are having :-) I have been in my element working in the garden while soaking up the late summer rays and of course dodging drunken wasps :-|

Thank you E is back to normal, at first I thought maybe her ma and pa were being over cautious, then when I saw her I soon changed my mind :-( put things a little higher, already she is climbing onto the settee then onto the window sill :-0

Oh Teresa my cooking apples aren't ready yet................but I have Victoria plums coming out of my ears if anyone would like some.

~~~~~~~~~~~~ to everyone <3 <3 <3

Lesley x