Chitchat thread #24

[Snoop Puss]

Is the butter dish for you, Flo?

Edited to add: coffee and cake are good. Better even than lunch, perhaps...

[Bren In Pots]

Evening

I’ve started my new jigsaw puzzle oddly all the edges were in a zippy bag, I just tipped them in with the rest otherwise it feels like cheating.
It sounds like you had a good outing Flo.

Off to make tea enjoy your evening

[Nicos]

Mornin n’alln’all
my goodness…its not raining!

I remember my mom buying me a corset with clips for stockings when I started secondary school and nah…I never wore it either…socks right up until 6th form…and beyond. Still can’t stand stockings or tights.
Rary..those make the best work trousers…you don’t care about getting paint/ glue/ tearing them and therefore you can focus on personal safety! ( use that one on yr Mrs)

Fourteen Bramble?..that’s a lovely houseful of family!

Bren…Am I dreaming it or does Flo put her jigsaw edges in a seperate packet?…I wonder if it’s an old one of hers?

Anyway…it’s too early in the morning for thinking hard…anyone fancy a brew? ( I was wondering however what cakes Flo and her GG decided to buy…mmm….cream apple turnover would be my choice this morning.)

Have a lovely day peeps. The smiles dropped buy to play in the leaves on my driveway earlier…little rascles…..they can’t half make a mess

[Bren In Pots]

Morning

Another day of rain. Nicos looking at the stickers on the outside of the box my jigsaws its done a tour of the local charity shops.

I was away at St, Johns Ambulance holiday weekend some of the other girls stitched buttons to their PE pants so they could wear stockings. I was 11 and all us smaller ones were asked to wear ankle socks and march on the outside so we'd get a good collection of sweets to share out.

enjoy your day

[Florence Fennel]

Good Morning All Gloomy here. I do put the edges in a separate bag Nicos, you're not dreaming. I did wonder if it was appreciated - obviously not by you Bren! The butter dish is for me Snoop. I've not found one in a charity shop, so Have bought one new. It's got cows on it Have a good day

[bramble]

Good morning and we have the rain and the gloomy day. Catch up later....off to my line dancing.

[Florence Fennel]

Edited to add: coffee and cake are good. Better even than lunch, perhaps...

I had raspberry almond slice and my GG had carrot cake - very nice

[greenishfing]

Good morning.

It's a chilly wet one here. The heating is on and I'm about to make myself a coffee and bring it back to bed. I really need some more sleep but it can wait until later as my grory hop is due to be delivered between 10am and 11am. I just couldn't sleep last night and put the TV back on at 3am to try and occupy my overactive brain.

I agree about the jeans. The well worn, scruffy ones are like old friends. Even though I actually started sorting out my wardrobe the last time a charity bag dropped through the letterbox, my pairs of Wranglers are going nowhere ..... even if they are all too small I wasn't allowed any jeans as a child. According to my mother they were "common". The first pair that I bought with my own money were my most prized possession at the time and my mother rarely saw me in anything other than jeans for decades. They were like my second skin. My youngest sister used to sometimes buy "stand up jeans". They were so tight she couldn't sit down in them

Oh Bren ..... PE pants Ours were navy. How could anyone think it was appropriate for classes of teenage girls to wear just PE pants and airtex tops in a gym that was mostly glass on the side that faced the street. I hated gym unless it was the end of term and we got to play "pirates". As for the (cold) communal showersOur gym/games teachers all seemed to be chain smoking sadists who dedicated their lives to making our lives as miserable as they could.

These memories are just too gruesome! School days .... Best days of your life .... thank goodness they weren't or the rest would have been unbearable.

I'm going to try and think nice, pleasant thoughts now..... 🏖🍰🍹⛵️.

[rary]

Good afternoon, though its stretching it a bit saying good, it has been heavy rain here all day and its still raining, I like your advice Nicos, though its not dont care about getting paint or glue, its that they have all that along with some rips, anyway I like them so they are being kept, . Reading some of the comments today I must say that I am glad I am not a woman, having to wear corsets, or buttons to hold up stockings, fortunately the socks that boys wore stayed up by themselves, though by the end of the day there was usually a bright red ring round the lower leg where the socks were digging into the skin, and talking of red ring on legs, that reminds me of wearing ankle socks with your wellies, you always got a red ring where the rubber was rubbing against your legs, though it wasnt long till you discovered that folding down the tops stopped that, even today though I wear long trousers, when wearing wellies I fold the tops down, some habits are hard to break. Enjoy the rest of the day and keep smiling

[Nicos]

Mornin n’alln’all

Talking of jeans Rary- I was wondering if you own a kilt?, and do you often wear it?
I went to a Scottish wedding a few years ago and all the men looked magnificent wearing their kilts.

I’ve woken up to a watery sky with patches of blue, so it looks like we could have some sunshine later.
Did anyone get to see the aurora early this morning?

GF…I too hated school, you’re not the only one!…but the highlights of my week were gym and hockey of which I was pretty good at both. On my 18th birthday my best friend and I bunked off school and caught the train to Chester for the day…had a few pints and got home at the usual time Dear me…

Have a great day everyone and do keep sharing those lovely smiles… I wonder if they managed to see the aurora and super charged themselves?

[greenishfing]

Good morning.

I know it's early, but I've had a few hours of solid sleep The thought of a mug of strong coffee is nearly tempting me towards the kitchen.

I wrote the above at about 5 am. Three hours have somehow magically disappeared since then. I'm awake again now and have just turned the thermostat up. I'll make coffee shortly.

Coffee made It looks very miserable outdoors. While I was making coffee, I was watching a well wrapped up neighbour walking his dog. I suddenly realised that the trees are completely devoid of leaves now. Bleak and desolate are words that spring to mind. I found myself humming "Forever Autumn" from the War of the World's. A happy memory of listening to it for the first time in a workmates Mini on the way to Leeds. It must have made an impression on me. I can remember the music and the car but not the lad's name, although I do remember he dolloped tomato ketchup on everything he ate. How fickle memory can be.

Nicos, I didn't hate school, apart from games and music, including piano lessons, when I was younger, but by the time I was about sixteen, I just rebelled against being treated like a child. For heavens' sake, I could legally have sex, go on the pill, get married, have a child, and I still had to dress like an eleven year old and do as "they" said. Even now I can remember how unfair life seemed. In the school holidays I got a live-in summer job in a small hotel at the seaside when I was sixteen. To be treated completely as an adult for the first time was amazing. I have no memory of my 18th birthday ...... I'm not sure why.

[mothhawk]

Morning all.

Heavy rain outside, and it's forecast to keep it up till mid afternoon. Quite unusual for my patch, the rain usually detours around us. So it's a bit of a dark morning. Went out early for a grory hop while it was still just drizzly. While I love that supermarkets have now gone back to wrapping many of their dry goods in paper rather than plastic, it does make shopping more of a challenge in keeping the rain off. How on earth did our parents and grandparents manage when so many did their shopping on foot or by bus with cloth bags and wicker baskets?

Our gym knickers were navy too, GF, worn with white airtex tops, and "pirates" was the only bit of gym I enjoyed, at end of term. For outside sports we had navy shorts that were almost culottes. We had no showers though, just had to change back into uniform all hot and sweaty (and sometimes muddy) as we were.

[greenishfing]

mothhawk, I remember the fruit and vegetable stall on the market using brown paper carriers with handles that cut into little fingers. The were strong unless you put them on the floor for a few moments when it was wet ...... The then soggy bottom used to just disintegrate .... potatoes rolling everywhere.

[greenishfing]

Another memory has just assailed me from the era of paper carrier bags. The "Crash helmet" hair styles of women. They all seemed to go to the local hairstylist once a week, (I was a Saturday hair washer for a short while). They had a "wash and set" in the days before blow drying. There would be lots of ladies in curlers under banks of dryers. Their hair was then backcombed into a ball like shape and set absolutely solid with gallons of hairspray ..... like a crash helmet. They then put a headscarf over the top of their crowning glory to protect it .... as if anything less than a hurricane could have disturbed it.

[bramble]

Good morning all, a cool misty morning at 8 degs.
A visit to the surgery this morning for my flu and covid jab.

I must say I hated school because as a lefthander I was punished for it.
Being forced to write with my right hand and then slapped for poor results.
Thankfully, when my daughter started school all that nonsense had been done away with,
Navy knickers here as well for our gym classes which I loved.
Not a lot else to report,have a good day all.