General Chat

Morning all
Lovelyhere this morning. We have already been for a walk round the lake with son's dog. He is only here for the day, they will pick him up tonight.
More knitting done yesterday, not much else.

Catch up again later.

Linda :-) <3

It was a sad thing for all those having to serve their sentences on the Hulk ships. and little children like that all those years for a small theift they may have been starving. ?
I feel ashamed of what was done to them I am pleased we have advanced now and they do not suffer like that.
but in saying that some of these people need to be given a rough sentence because we have gone from the curel side to the easy side now adays.

Hope everyone had a good day. it looks nice outside. I am going to have a shower and wash my hair thenh get sown to doing some real housework. had just 2 hours sleep last night,


Rita

Morning all,
looks like it's going to be another beautiful day :-D
Hope everyone is well.
I expect to be worn out by lunchtime as I'm taking mother shopping this morning and have two youngest grandchildren as well.
Jean the two horses in the field next to our house were racing up and down in the night making all kinds of noise, very unusual as we don;t hear them at all most of the time. Hope they are alright.
Not like Stephen to be on the missing list :-S
Have a good day whatever you're up to :-D :-D :-D

Cath xx

Good morning, looks like everyone is sleeping late this morning, lol.

Simple breakfast today,
Cereal or fruit.
Toast, toasted bagels or waffles.
Scrambled eggs.
Tea, coffee or juice.

We have lovely sunshine here and it is quite warm, lots of work to be done in the garden with the help??? of Scarlett.

Hope you all have a good day.
Take care and stay safe.
Jean xx


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Shelley you will have to give me a reminder on that day so I can watch the programme

Did you take more photos of the graves ?

I am looking for graves in Portsmouth cemetary hoping I might find my Great Uncle Walter Lee. I would email them but have no idea when he died it was after 1911 he was still alive then.

I have not added any of the other family to my tree yet. I dont seem to get the time at the moment

I have spent to day moaning about my aches and pains not to anyone only to myself. one straighjacket needed.

did anyone watch the one show where they showed you the hulk ships that were used as prisions . my god it was horrendious. little children died on that ages 8 and 9 years old. given 12 years for theft, yet some of those in jail today live the life of riley.

Thank goodness that does not happen in this day and age.

Rita

yes rita i also have a black stip across google

yes marilyn it did work

been for a nice walk in east london cemetery today
thay are changeing it all the time in there

now if you remember on the 4th july on channel 4 to watch disspatches
aparently it all about were i live so a must what for me lol

Up date on the black strip across Google page, it is an experiment they are doing. it is suppose to seperate the page so you have a clearer understanding. its not working for me.

They have had some complaints and there is a way of getting rid of it and going back to normal but it appears it is a lot of trouble.
so lets hope they find people dont like it and go back to as it was before they did this.

Rita

Yes thats the bit I was speaking about. it has images, videos maps shopping things like that under the black strip. I emailed my son he said his was not like that but his friend next to him in the office was. so itappears some of have this others dont. ? I wonmder why that is ? perhaps we will get 3 D glasses issued so we can read the writing underneath.

I have never hitchhiked..when I was in the land army we got many ask us if we needed a lift but none of us took the chance. yet when my husband was alive and we saw someone in uniform with a board asking for a lift to a certain place he always stopped and gave them alift.until we had the children, then we didnt have room.

Rita

Morning, just popping in before I go out to visit my aunt. I've got my son off to the day centre and watered the tubs........... so I'm ready to go.

Rita, I've just had a look and my Google is the same as yours, must be a new thing.

Agatha, I think that's the bit Rita's talking about.

LOL at your unknown plant............ we could run a book on it, but you'd have to show us a photo first.

Marilyn, we don't pick up hitch-hikers either but it's a different world to when we were young.

Dermot, I used to thumb quite a bit when I was young but it seemed safer then - and I was never on my own either.

Do you mean a black strip with maps etc written on it Rita

No body answered my question yesterday about Google if they had a black strip across there where they tell you things like Maps. webs etc. I still have mine only thing I can read is Web my son reconds he has the normal strip.
If no one else has this I will have to contact them to find out why mine is affected.


Rita

I will let you know the outcome of that plant Agatha.

I think hitchiking is dangerous Dermot.
Cannot wait to find out what your plant is Rita :-)

I am saying good morning but it will be lunchtime before I catch up with myself. today.
The weather is lovely but I am not awake yet to enjoiy it.

I have a plant growing in my little bit of front garden. I was going to pull it up.; I think a bird has dropped a seed ? and that it is a cauliflower growing it is quiet big now. towering over my Chyms. yesterday I went to pull it up only to be asked by two elderly gentlement not too as they wanted to see what it was ? already someone has said it is Kale. someone else a cabbage. now John said he thought it was rape. and Ted said he thinks it might me Kale. so it is staying where it is. I said I could start a betting book on it. a little unkown plant ? growing and the interest is getting bigger.
I said so long as I am not growing canibus or somthing like that I didnt mind.

Rita

Morning All,

Still no Stevey !!......oh dear he might be poorly. awhh we need to nurse him back to thread... :-S

I'm going to be a busy bee today ....I got to cook for my sister & hubby & my brother & wife, at least its a lovely day today and we will be able to sit outside for a drink first.

Dermot ...WE have never ever given anyone a lift by hitch-hiking too frightened they might have knives or guns !! sad I know because some folk could well be genuine.

Hope you all have a great sunny day like I have here.

Shelly ,,,,Well did it work ??????

The rare sighting of two hitch-hikers in the one day got me thinking back on the golden era of the British hitch-hiker when men were men and cars were at least ten years old, broken down & expensive.

Hitch-hiking was a right of passage for anyone born before 1980. If you didn’t hitch-hike, you weren’t a real man (or a woman for that matter). Obviously, hitch-hiking was more the forte of guys because of safety issues but there were still a lot of girls who engaged in the art - and believe me it was an art. Needless to say it was easier for the girls to get a lift.

Hitchhiking (or ‘thumbing’ as we always called it) really was a refined skill. Whippersnappers of the current era might think it is a none-too-difficult task to stand on the side of a road with your thumb in the air but, jeer not you doubting youngsters. Hitchhiking was actually an enormously complicated business, requiring all sorts of ingenuity, trickery and chutzpah.

Not much of it about these days!

Happy Thursday to you all, Thankyou for the emails Pauline, loved the dog and baby.
Dermot, thats typical of politicians doing a cover up.

Morning everyone
Bright and sunny here so far. Might get into the garden later.

Finished the cardigan Mo, and a small hat too all in white. Got some cream wool yesterday to start the sleeping bag.

Went to my friend for tea and a chat.

Not sure what else might happen today.
Little M is leaving for Singapore tonight with her parents, so the end of another era.

Enjoy the ducks Jean.

Linda :o) XxX

Morning everyone,
hope we are all well this bright and beautiful day. :-D :-D
Pauline that email with the dog and baby is so lovely, made me smile all the way through.
Jean enjoy your visit to the ducks.
Off to work now :-P :-P

Cath xx

Good morning everyone, hope you had a peaceful night.

Breakfast is ready.
Cereal or fruit.
Bacon, eggs, sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes and hash browns.
Toast, hot rolls or bagels.
Tea, coffee or juice.

Looks like another lovely day here, could mean another visit to the ducks.
Hope you all enjoy your day whatever you may be doing.
Take care and stay safe.
Jean xx :-) :-) :-)

nite nite every one xxx