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Hope you don't flip LK


then it will be flip-flop time :-D :-D


Enjoy the break.

Home at last and 3 days off.

:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Flop time.

So.....you should be feeling MUCH happier now Gins... well done girl! :-D :-D


I think it depends on how big your house is with regards to the time it takes. We've mostly had large houses with 10+ rooms until retirement and it was like painting the Forth Bridge.....the housework never seemed to end.


Nowadays, in our little semi, it's a doddle and I can be finished very quickly - relatively speaking.



I had an email from Tesco yesterday, it was to let me know that I had some unused clubcard vouchers which were due to expire at the end of June. It seems as though if you can't find them, you can print them off!


Oooooer I thought......how have I missed those? I usually keep a stash to use for my RAC membership.

I log onto my T. account and discover that there is ONE unused voucher to the value of..........


£1.50 !!!!!!


The rest aren't due to expire until 2014!!!!


Oh well........never mind ;-)

Cyns...I as pulled every bit of furniture out, hoovered and washed down the paintwork, doors, skirting, bookshelf, cleaned all the windows and french doors. polished all the surfaces, hoovered the blinds, waxed the drawers, cleaned the lights and lamps. fed the leather chairs and the sofas, turned the rugs and spot cleaned them......


.....................it took hours!


So, when my mates say they have 'bottomed' the house in a morning.....youre avin laugh!

I think it might be the results of 'The Voice' finals !! ??? ;-) :-D

Grand-daughter will (hopefully) be watching that - she has been following it with her mummy.

Dea Xxx

Notalot Dea.....notalot! ;-) :-D

How very dare he Cynths ???

Is there something happening on tv tomorrow then ??

Dea Xxx :-D

Hopefully...... I repeat....Hopefully, the cleaning therapy will have worked wonders on you and you can now cease being a misery guts!! :-P



Had an email from a cousin I haven't seen for a couple of years to say that he is calling with his family tomorrow! I have had to hastily rearrange plans but warned him that he will be provided with a gag! Doesn't he realise I am a royalist and will be glued to the tv????? sheeeeesh :-S

I'll come rund Dea, as soon as me and JB have finished cleaning the sitting room, from top to bottom.....Cyns would be sooo proud of me

Hubby has gone for a game of golf and I have NO grandchildren here as my son is at home with them today - the house is SO quiet - I don't like it :-(

Dea Xxx

You been slapping her around now Jonesey seeing as she is now covered in plaster bits?

NZ used to be shut on a Sunday but now we have several 24 hour drive in MacDonalds .. we have come along way lol..

Seriously though nearly everything is open on a Sunday but back in the sixties the pubs shut at 6pm except if you were staying in a hotel and you could get a drink in the house bar.. then it was 10pm and now it is all hours.

The first liquor licenced restaurant was in 1961 .. I think there were two places in Auckland one of them the Gourmet where I went to a couple of dinners back in 1962 (I was still at high school) but I was with older friends and was able to get a drink.... it did put an end to police raids.

Then there was the food .. they had to take macaroni, ham and cheese off the menu it was too exotic no one bought it.

Can you imagine we were always at football socials on a Saturday night because it was the one place you could drink and dance.. other dance places in the city were no alcohol... we were party mad at people's homes.

Elliot Ness and his men kept us in check for years...

Buy a pig shirt...........Mr J, please...........

Stop your whinging woman. You're surely not still blarting about last Saturday's events are you? Worse things happen at sea you know.

Pull yourself together. Try a bit of retail therapy. Buy an Owls shirt and then set fire to it that should cheer you up a bit.

Still not happy!

Persie,

Looks indeed as if it has worked.

My repertoire of New Zealand stories has 2 funnies amongst them:

1) The firm that I worked for won a contract in Tarawa (Gilbert and Ellice islands) in about 1980 and one of my colleagues was sent out to do a survey. Since that trip would take him half way round the world he decided to go out one way (Via the far east) and return the other way (Via Honolulu and the US) so he would get a paid for round the world trip. His journey includer a 2 day stopover in NZ. On his return I was discussing his trip with him and asked him what he thought of NZ. "Not much, it was closed when I got there" he replied. He had arrived on a Sunday.

2) A chap I knew in my sailing club, Terry, had served in the merchant navy travelling regularly from San Francisco to Auckland. One of his shipmates had met and married a Auckland girl and settled there. Terry had spoken highly of NZ and his brother had taken it all in and emigrated to NZ. The rest of Terry's family including his widowed mother and his sisters followed him so Terry became the only member of his family still living in the UK. He was always saying that he too was going to go there and after several aborted attempts finally went. About 2 years later I bumped into him in a shop in the Midlands. "What are you doing here?" I enquired. " I couldn't stand it over there" he replied, "The place and the family were driving me barmy".

One of my old shooting buddies went to live near Dunedin on South Island about 4 years ago and from what I hear he loves it there, hunting shooting and fishing.

Gins... get a hanky.. blow your nose, and dry your eyes and give us a better pic..

Jonesey I thought it was very funny when I heard that there was VAT on pasties and then they decided no it would only be for those that were reheated. And I know what you mean about burning your mouth on a hot pastie.. and it stays sore for the rest of the day.

1952.... immigrants to NZ ... 50% were British.
2012 ... immigrants to NZ ... 17% are Brits..

Does that mean all these years of us being rude to the poms has worked? ;-)

Oooh Pers........ croissant with scrambled eggs, tomato & cheese..my perfect weekend food

I'll be back later for the dried fruit, cheese and crackers

Fank yooo

:-D


Jonesey, you old g#t

Persie,

The proposed "Pastie" tax has now been modified. It is now OK to sell them VAT free if they are "Cooling" rather than being kept hot. One of my shops was next door to a Greggs bakery shop and one of their cheese and onion pasties was often my choice for a lunchtime snack. Trust me, nobody could eat one of those when it had just come out of the oven in any case.

We were all given a crown coin in a plastic case when I was at school.

My father got drunk and my mother got upset.

My mother was a royalist and my father not.. we had a picture of the Queen on her throne with Prince Philip at her side... this was on the lounge wall in prime position above the piano.

The other day my OH sent some pics of a house for sale and the interior of it looked like it had not been changed since the fifties.. and my daughter said she would buy it if it had a photo of the Queen on the wall.

I hope you appreciate my tongue in cheek referral (to your chancellor of the exchequer) in my afternoon tea menu.

Persie

A Jubilee Weekend repast for sure Persie.

Only in Britain would you find a nation that celebrates a Diamond Jubilee (60 years) almost four months after the event (Elizabeth became Queen on the death of her father on 7/2/1952) and fifty nine years after her Coronation (2/6/1953).

I remember the latter day well. Going to "Aunty" May and "Uncle" Bob's to watch the event on their 9" screen black and white television, the only one in the neighbourhood. In the evening we went to a Coronation party held at the local Unitarian Church premises. After the sandwiches, jelly and cakes we kids were each presented with a Coronation Crown coin in a clear plastic case (I still have it) and a small gold coloured tin with a picture of the queen on it. The tin contained Cadbury's chocolate (Which I ate). During the party my sister who is 10 years older than I and always had a better singing voice than I gave a rendition of the popular song of the day, "They tried to tell us We're too young".

Ah happy days.