General Chat

Good morning all. sunny and 6 degrees b4edding in the wash. Tesco due 11-12.

Yes Mel a good tour guide makes all the difference. He is only in his early 30s I guess and he was saying when he started to research his family he was amazed to find that as far back as he went his whole paternal family had been born and lived in Gloucester and it was in the exact area we were in. How amazing not to have to search the whole country. I am sure he is an amazing English teacher to 11-18 year olds as he says he loves his job.

Daughter last emailed me from on board her flight to Crete before take off. So hopefully she is on her way.

Sounds like you had a great time and a good guide with interesting conversation it makes an outing so much more enjoyable if the speaker is well informed with knowledge to pass on. Glad you had a lovely time and it was'nt disappointing.

Had an excellent tour of Folk Gloucester today. This used to be Folk museum many years ago but was owned by the council and let go until not able to make a profit. Was finally purchased by the Ciivic Trust it is now a shell but a good one, being properly restored when gradually the cheap bad rebuilding and refurbishing is removed. They have already j covered so much interesting in the three old houses sixteenrg and eighteenth century. All the old beams and a lot of the original windows still in place. The tour guide we had is an English teacher, loves his job and loves this voluntary job and you could tell, he told story after story about the three buildings and really made it come alive. The houses were originally a pin factory. The volunteer has found that his Great great great grandfather was an apprentice there.

Morning Anng and all,

11 degrees here and pc says mostly sunny.

Just the shop to do today and deliver Em's eggs and I don't think BIL is coming today as he mowed everything yesterday and he said he was going over Exmoor today with his camera. I forgot to tell him that the barn owl has been flying over here at dusk and I tries to get a pic but was too late

I have more midge bites this morning so I hope my antiwhatsits are at the shop today as I get such a reaction with any bites especially horse flys.

Good morning all misty here this morning and 6 degrees but the forecast was good. Hopefully the mist will clear. going into Gloucester this morning as we have a tour of the Folk museum booked.

Was my sons birthday today.

BIL came quite early and he is still mowing. I have been pulling up nettles and cutting off brimbles.

Morning Anng and all,

Quite bright this morning with some sun and pc says mostly cloudy and 10 degrees.

I wonder if BIL is coming today? I must go up the top field and set the mole traps as I have a whole village up there at the moment. I have found more traps now so I am well prepared.

Feel all itchy this morning so I am going to take myself off for a nice shower now. tjhis is the first morning I hav'nt had the central heating on for an hour just the hot water.

Good morning all who look in. Another week coming to a close. sunny so far and 11 degrees I think showers are forecast but hopefully I can get an hour or so in the garden.

Hope all goes well with your journey Vera.

Safe jpurney and have a lovely time Vera <3

Morning Mel, AnnG and all

Quite bright here this morning and 13 degrees. Yesterday was a very hectic day including having problems with my prescription when I went to collect it.

OH is loading the car so we will be off in a few minutes.

good morning all. quite bright here this morning and Alexa says 13 degrees. But PC is on a different planet as it says 11 degrees and cloudy. :-(

Morning all,

Quite bright here this morning so far and pc says 10 degrees but mostly cloudy.

Slept well and hope you lot did too.

Just having my COC and I am going in the shower.

:-D :-D that's this tablet its added the g :-D :-D

I guessed Mel!!!

I'm pleased you enjoyed your day out Anng and it sounds a very interesting place.

Mandy's walking greenhouse should have read walk In Greenhouse.

Good afternoon I was too tired to come on here yesterday and too rushed to get the bus to town (chiropodist) this morning
So, reading back Mandy I am intrigued as to what a walking greenhouse is. Sounds fascinating, hope it doesn’t run away.

Frank, so good to see you and to see that you and Ros are well, it makes us think all sorts f things when we don’t hear from you. Please do just call in sometimes.

William, It took us almost two hours by coach to get there but we did stop for ten minutes to let off half our coach load who were actually more interested in walking or visiting the cathedral in Lichfield itself. The Memorial arboretum is fantastic. Most of the memorials can be approached by or seen from proper paths/roads. But there is also a Land train which I am pretty sure had access for wheelchairs. There is a large accessible restaurant and also good accessible disable loo.
We really enjoyed it but that is probably not the correct word, we were humbled and over awed by the whole place. It is really big, just walking to all the memorials you could not see it all in a day, but by taking the land train you can see them all and there is a good commentary. You can then walk to where you want to have a proper close up look after you get back to the centre. There are over 400 memorials and right in the centre is the National memorial with thousands of names on it. In the centre of that there is a genius idea the ‘wall’ is split with about a 6 inch gap and wording running down the end of half the wall which reads. “At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day or the Eleventh month, if the sun is out it will cast a beam through this gap”. And we were shown a photo of this happening.
Tony was in the fleet Air Arm and the very last memorial we visited was the Fleet air Arm one which gave me pause for thought of course as not only is it dedicated to all in the Air Arm who died in the war but to all those who ever served in the Air Arm who have died. And H.M.S. Eagle was mentioned with thanks who served on here between (I think) 1954 to 1972 He was on her in 1963/4 After she had undergone a full refit.
There are memorials to Civilians as well and I can remember Medical personnel and Fire Service, also the Post Office. Also The women’s Land army.
While we were there, there was a large reunion for those who served in National Service. This is a special day called Remembering National Service on its 60th anniversary. There were hundreds there many of them wearing uniform and also many wearing medals. Princess Anne was there (we didn’t see her and there was a fair amount of current ‘gold braid’. There is also a very emotive national Servicemen’s memorial where it speaks of so many million young men being taken forceably from their families to be taught to fight in a war.
You can tell the day made a big impression on me.
Vera I hope that you have a lovely time with your family and that your back behaved itself

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Iv'e just lost a post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mandy I was going to tell William to take his email off but forgot as the washing machine had stopped and I wanted to get the sheets on the line.

Morning all,

Clouded over here now but we had lovely sunshine while we were out in the front garden doing some weeding .

Nice to William again ,that's a lot of poems, I have read a few on FB and really enjoyed them .
William I'd take your email off here ,anyone can read the threads you don't want to give any scammers your email .

Don't know when your off Vera but have a lovely time with the family .

Coffee time now then we'll get a bit more done .