General Chat

Afternoon all (I was going to say morning but by the time I finish this PM it will be afternoon.
OH just phoned leaving Lancashire and will be home around 3, said the roads are not too busy going down so hopefully they won't be too bad coming back.
Glad your back sheila, its always hard work after you have had an operation and takes a while to get back to normal. Don't mention headaches too me (Voice of experience in that department,) rest & more rest is best
Gray & dull here but so far no rain but we are due some later,
I'm off to get some lunch and make a strawberry flan for tea.
MIL says she's bringing up some steak pies, Butter pies( are they just a Lancashire dish or does anyone else get them,) Whimberry pie ( not sure of spelling) and some Lancashire cheese for OH
, Off to get my lunch
BBL

Afternoon all,
Lovely and sunny and very warm again

I saw that item on the news Jane about the geese ,the chap shouts out "Bedtime" and they all came walking in !!!!

Its funny Mel ,just as i was reading about you getting the bell money ,our church bells started ringing ! probably a wedding .

Frank , a heated swimming pool is very tempting to a little boy LOL i bet you'd be there to if you had the chance !!

I've never heard of Butter pies Fiona,don't think we have them this way .

I took back one of the tins of paint i got for the staircase as i didn't like the colour ,had to keep one as we had opened it and hubby had painted some on the wall, it was a really sh*ty colour !!! yuk!

I now have Apricot white for the staircase ,hope i like this one as it is a big tin this time ,and once it's opened we won't be able to take it back .

Still no Ann ??

Have never heard of butter pies Fiona,nor Whimberry pie.
I can't believe it is 3 pm.Chris ,Fitz and I have been sat out having 'lunch 'for the last 3 hours!!!!!!.Just french bread,pate, and cheese and wine.I feel a little tiddly poo lol.Chris is just mowing the lawn .....I hope those stripes are straight lol !!!!!!
Fitz's Cousin is the barrister on the side of John Venables!!!!!!He has been on the news quite a bit in the last few days.
Off to get a coffee now
BBL
Frank,your little Lewis will be a happy bunny when he is with his Pappy.Did you say you have him for a week?

Hello All ----sun's out not to hot just nice-----Nothing to exciting here ((just-me- ha ha ) ---been up couple of hours--fed ''THE-BIG-ONE' now going to put his Elastic stockings on----Now that's a thrill I know your all green with envy lol ha ha

Ther'e's no flys on Lewis Frank --A dip in the pool lol xx
Mel how long do you play bells at a wedding? I've only seen bell ringing
in group Compation or single.

Going to have your hands full Fiona --Beware Greeks Baring GIFTS ---(STEAK-PIE)) Just kidding lol

Wonder what Beryl DONE -TO-SHEILAS -HUBBY ?? Poor man lol xxx

I have put many an elastic stocking on Shirl (not on me ) but patients lol.I know what you mean .
Beryl sounds a minx lol.I like the sound of her.

Yes where is ANN ---Did she say anything about going to Garden Center??-------OH Mel I think I've had it all wrong---You do CHURCH
ROPE BELL RINGING ---NOT -HAND BELL 'S

AnD no cracks from you FRANK ------XX

Quiet here today.I hope you are all enjoying the continuing good weather..still no rain here.I wonder where it has gone?

Been hanging aroond here J but just in menacing clouds. I think a good down pour over night would clear the air, it's stilll very humid OH say humourous

Shirl,
What are you implying. ???? My mind dosen't work like yours.
Done to much bending under the trees this morning, my back and arms are killing me. Quite day tomorrow, me thinks.!!!!

Lewis arrived with his dad about 4.30pm. He said he's had a nice day. Straight to the fridge, to see what goodies were for him. Ros has cleared one shelf and put all his bits on it, so he knows where his goodies are.

He's just gone to bed, and was asleep before I could go and say goodnight. He's had a busy day. Hope he sleeps in in the morning. or he will have me up for his bacon sandwhich, and a cup of tea. !!!!

I bought Judgement at Nuremburg DVD a powerful true courtroom drama that's recent history acted by Spencer Tracy,Burt Lancaster,Montgomery Clift, Richard Wydmark etc

Came back from ringing and made a late lunch and then felt really tired and went and had a lay on the bed. Now thats very unusual for me!!!! Just fell asleep and OH came in to ask me to help him!!!!!Got up but did'nt feel 100%. Anyway i helped clear up and took some ivy off the wall and cut old dead wood out of a climbing rose. He has finished my bit of decking and I have my new fairy in place. He is still got to build some steps and has an idea for half a tree seat under the red sycamore type tree. Will play around with it tomorrow. Mums fairy is by one of the pools on the decking.

Did spag bol for dinner.

Oh and yes where is Ann????????????????

Hope she is ok!!

Mel saw your fairy very lovely

Hi Amanda I am up so late I have slept all day and into the evening the op just tired me out.Now cannot sleep .I am glad you like my ramblings Mandy how are you .once again
thanks so much for the kind thoughts.

I do not see her a lot now Mandy, Beryl ,just once a week
and we go for a meal in the city.I pay one week she the next. Beryl does have a really lovely voice I said she should go on Britians got Talent but she made some rude comment. I was kept away from doing to much with her
when younger by my dad and mum. I had her for my bridesmaid and she had me. I went to Southsea when
fourteen with her my auntie Pat had a hotel a big one on the seafront. Beryl and I met some sailors this was about 1953 hers off the battleship Vanguard and mine off
HMS Worcester it was American . Beryl was never in
in the hotel at night and my auntie Pat sent her home because she thought her to young to be out all night
but she married that sailor later on when she was twenty.
Married for years until he died. Me I fell for the American
called Bill and went on the ship during a open day in
Portsmouth harbour. You could in those days take a trip
round Portsmouth harbour. I fell madly in love with my salior
short lived because after two days he sailed off back to America and poor me was surposed to go and say
goodbye and missed him. They would not let me go
on board the ship and I saw it later sailing out of Portsmouth harbour. Broke my heart. well I was only
14. I do not drink much none of us do in our family I drink
like what I call posh pepsi ice cold in a nice glass
with ice and lemon and some cocktail cherries. Beryl
drinks like a fish and had to put her in a taxi when we
used to go dancing at week ends. My husband did say
today he found her two much to handle poor man.My
husband is very calm and he often deals with under aged kids in the shop trying to buy beer and worse.wont sell it them and we have often have the odd guy trying to grab the till. I stopped working in the shop after a man hit my hand with a hammer trying to bash the cash till and grab the money it unnerved me and no females in our house
are allowed in the shop to serve after 7pm. Les is
72 now and cannot go on much longer but we need
a place to live so carry on until we decide to go or he
cannot do it any longer.
Beryl is ok but I am the one who keeps her in order
I am pleased to say I do not look seventy one have my
hair highlighted and just got my weight down and dress
fashionable but reasonable if you know what I mean
cant wear heels they kill me. so go for wedge heels.
Beryl is just the opposite but her heart is good. I used
to stay with her and her several brothers and sisters
and once slept in a bed with three sisters and had to
clamber over them to use the bucket in the dark it sounded very loud in the darkness of that silent room
with the walls like paper could hear her dad who was
a boozer using the bucket several times during the
night. never stayed again. nite nite sheila.

my favourite food still up would love to go bell ringing
speg bol

Morning All,
Oh Sheila ,reading your post has set me up for the day lol.I think you could write a book about your friend Beryl !!
Talking of weeing in a bucket reminds me of when I was in Canada visiting some rellies who lived way out in the sticks in Saskatchuan .They had a chemical loo in the bathroom.I went to use it and it sounded like a waterfall.Then I heard a voice calling "We know what your doing" lol.How embarrassing !!!!
It is terrible when you think how dangerous it can be to run an off license.You must wonder sometimes what will happen next.

I must go and peel some spuds and do the veg.Roast beef today.

A little sparrow somehow managed to fly through the open window in my bedroom early this morning.I could here a lot of fluttering going on.Thankfully the pulled curtain stopped it getting right into the room.
BBL

Morning all,
Had some rain this morning ,but the sun is now trying to shine
got the family coming round for a barbeque and a dip in the pool

So Sheila ,you fell for a sailor ,how sad you never got to say goodbye to him .
It must be a worry with the shop for your hubby ,he's doing well still working at his age ,he should be retired and enjoying life .

Well hubby has painted one wall that he has scimmed and the plumber should be coming next Saturday to plumb the Loo in and the Radiators .
i like this colour ,nice and light , then the bathroom will be just about finished after all this time !!

hI Jane love your messages in answer to mine you seem to have had a interesting life too. How long did you do nursing and what a thrill to go to Canada wish I had travelled more to places .I have had two invatations to visit
my nephew in Australia but do not have the money to go.
Now I think I might find it hard going that far. That is really funny about the loo .I love your messages to people you great Jane. I would love to write a book called call it me and Beryl. Life in our shop is not too bad now touch wood. The government came up with a scheme to help shops to have security cameras and we was given one
pleading our case we only had to pay to have it installed
and we have a alert bell under the counter to press if
anyone nasty appears . love roast beef we are having
chicken today with all the trimmings my little grandaughter
April is with us for a couple of days. catch you later
enjoy your lunch from SHEILA.

hI Amanda yes my romance ended pity he was cute not very tall but cute and I was so in love I thought never met any AMERICANS thought of Hollywood and my film star books .Beryl never forgave me really for my relative
sending her home. Sometimes she reminds me once
I remember her dad telling me to go out her house I was a stuck up snob who lived in a posh house.

Sheila,I was late going into nursing.I think I was in my early 20's.Before that I had been a Nanny.I worked in Athens for a year 1972/3.I also worked for a family in Cornwall.They had 4 children.I met lots of famous people when I worked there.
After my nursing training I worked on the Renal Unit in Plymouth.I met my Hubby then when he came to do a 3 year Medical Rotation.He started off on the Renal Unit ,and we started going out.Tried to keep it under wraps but the patients soon realised we were an item lol.When we married in 1981,some of my patients turned up at the church,which was lovely.
I have travelled a fair bit over the years and have been to some interesting places.
Off to turn the potatoes now.
I love the name April.How old is she?