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len!!! where have you been???? ive not seen you around for ages :( my lawn is now growing back ,at last lol i really thought i'd killed it lol there are 2 big patches on it though,they look like oil slicks lol very dark and black.cant for the life of me think what they are! gaynor lol!!!! susie

Susie lol - where are you - hard work this thread lark lol Gaynor aka Dumb

Hi gaynor ,iv,e just come back from a busy day at the seaside with half of the grandkids,well ive only got a car and 14 into 1 dosn,t go ,so the other half have to go tomorrow for my sins.[take no notice i enjoyed every sandy, salt water in shoes minute].Totteridge is in the outskirts of high wycombe on top of a hill ,hence,i suppose the bit of the name ridge,perhaps some local could tell me where the totter bit comes from,i lived there for 19 years and i don,t know.Any way i live in Newcastle now but miss my old home after all these years ,i think that part of the country gets under your skin,i,m always tuning in to this thread to see what the latest scuttlebutt is.Fred.

fred i thought it was in wycombe but i didnt want to ask incase i was wrong lol cos i usually am:(:( im nearly catching up you on the grandchildren front...number 8 is on the way!!! god help me lol i admire you for only taking headache pills,i reach for the valium lol no,not really,i love 'em to bits and wouldnt swap them for the world ive been into town today with 2 of them and ive come home £15 lighter .what with a couple of comics(that i really must have those nanny,theyre my favourite) and some sweets and crisps(oh nanny they are my favourite)and a few more things cos(they are my favourite),i now need a lie down in a dark room and think about what i must have done to deserve it all lmao susie

Susie ,you talking about shopping,do you still have the market in the high street along with the fishmonger with his whelks snots and winkles once a week ,or has that gone the way of millets ? i never thought to look when i was there last.Fred.

fred no..hes gone,along with everything else staceys florist in desborough rd has now gone it closed down last week,sainsburys bought him out but...we do still have childs toy shop wycombe is terrible now,not many of the old shops left were you born in wycombe? my rellies on dads side are all wycombe people,well from 1900 anyway,before that they were aylesbury so they didnt move far did they lol mum is from bourne end but her parents were londoners susie

Well I envy you both with all those grandkids - I have jsut the 2 with no sign in the near future of anmore on the way. Still be positive eh? I have 2 fabulous grandkids. Fred - can just imagine you with all that clan in tow - hope you have a brill day wtih the other lot. Susie - not long to Saturday :-))) And maybe, just maybe we'll all be aroung together on thus thread - now that would make a change :-))))

Yep Susie born in the shrubbery home off amersham hill ,you can,t be much more wycombeite than that . My gawd,it sounds as though there ain,t a lot left of the old stomping ground at all,i knew the old fountain in frogmore had gone ,along with the cinemas [all four i believe] but i thought the market was a part of wycombes fabric,oh well it would seem that nothing is sacred anymore.I have some family still living on the Hicks farm estate in Hatters lane but the rest have moved on ,my mum and sister moved to linc,s and my uncle and family moved to chipping norton,but the area keeps calling to me ,and after all i spent a happy childhood there despite the difficult time just after the war .I still remember the sweet coupons and food being on ration ,so i guess Len does as well.Fred.

fred 2 of my children were born in the shubbery,its now an old folks place the market is still there but not as it was.its mainly old tack as hubby calls it lol i was born in booker and still live there,so does mum and dad gaynor not long now eh?lol soon be saturday susie

My sister was also born in the shrubbery(1957). I was born in Huendon Road next door to the little police station which hasent been a police station in donkeys years now.

sheila i never knew there was a police staion in hughenden rd lol my sister was born in 1957 aswell.i was born in 1959 susie

Susie - hi - there's me asking if anyone is around on chat and you are here :-))) lmao

gaynor YOU silly billy lmao

Me silly ??? Naaa - and now you're somewhere else lol

Hi Susie I have been around. I looked for the thread but it seemed to have disappeared so I thought it had become time-expired. Glad you're back. How did you manage it? I cannot imagine what the two oil-sliks are, on your lawn. Could it be something seeping up from below ? What was there before you laid the new turf?. Len

I think we should call ourselves shrubites instead of wycombeites,its a small world for a fact ,.maybe i should go back again and complete the full circle lol i,m about due for the knackers yard according to the missus,i think she is trying to trade me in for a newer model,but this old heap has a few miles left yet.Fred.

Hi Bucks friends Just about to turn off puty and thought - mmmmmmmmm - where's that thread and who's here. Will we ever get togehter on it? lmao Gaynor xxx

Hi Gaynor Ive just come on line! Sheila

hi len before we had the turfs we had paving slabs.praps thats got something to do with it:(:( lol its really muggy outside today but just starting to rain,typical!!! and i was going to mow the lawn aswell lol susie

Morning Susie, Muggy here too - lawns were cut last week hehehe - naa don't bother hun - have a good day around the old boards. Hubby is looking forward to his Guinness - did you manage the rein purchase ??? Hope so, think we'll need 'em :-)))) Gaynor xxx