General Chat

im back from shoping

and im not going to cook dinner today i carnt be botherd now iv just had some think to eat
so my lot can feed them selfs or starve

Shelly.

Your daughter must be trying to get the vicar for a pass into heaven !! that takes a long time to discuss ..LOL

Pat ...my fish pie is basic just cod & king prawns & leeks & capers in a cheese y sauce .
nothing grand...

Good lord my sister has arrived already ....hmmm

back later tonight ...

Hi All,
just back from a walk on the beach with dog. Rainy and windy and now its time for a cuppa and a snooze. Dog already asleep!!!
Made a big pot of soup for tonight so no need to spend hours cooking.
Back later

cath xx

Maddie how could you have offended me.?

we had those walls in both our first cottage's the cottage's were built in 1870 the first one had a dark brown thick paper at the bottom, the top was a wallpaper with big flowers over on a trellis. we soon got rid of that. the papers were seperated by a wooden strip that had been decorated. this ran all along the wall from the front door (which had a step down ) along the passage to the kitchen and from the front door up the stairs to the three little bedrooms.
The next cottage a few doors from our first, had a creamy coloured thick wallpaper at the bottom patterened and the top was painted a cream coloured. the kids use to put their hands on the wall going uptairs .it too ran along the passage to the kitchen we had one door under the stairs wooden pained brown (why brown ) a step down brought you into the kitchen with a wooden floor and brick walls down another step brought you to the scullery which was also brick and had a fitted brick boiler. the toilet was outside.
My husband guttered the cottage we had our first bathroom what a joy that was..
the people in the little cottages did that as they only had to paint the bottom of the walls to keep it looking smart and clean. no one had any money. we all had butler sinks.and no bathrooms only a tin long bath that hung on the wall outside the back door.

Rita

im sitting here whating for daughter to get back from church

i recon she is bleeding chating up the vicer as she is nomaly back by now

Marilyn,

Three bottles of wine ! What did the others have to drink ?

I enjoy rebuilding and general decorating etc. The biggest job I have done was for my daughter. Her first house. Literally took the roof off. I was left with just four outside walls. All the interior walls were demolished as well.

The finished result was great. Hardwood floors, Stainless Steel , Glass, Sandstone, etc. An article was published in one of the Housing Magazines about the complete renovation. I was pleased as punch.

My pride and joy was the stair, a curving stainless steel stair with mahogany treads with small lights recessed in at the sides. Looked magic.

The Dado Rails in this house only had a decorative function. Originally the Dado was the line that separated the lower part of the wall from the top part. The lower part was decorated with a hard wearing finish and the top a more decorative material or paint.

I love to talk about building work...........if I'm talking I'm not working........love it.......ROFL

Morning everyone
I remember Dado rails Stephen but luckily we didn't have any ourselves. Prior to that was the picture rail just a higher up version but useful for hanging family portraits from I guess. I remeber them from my parents homes and of course older family homes too.
We only have the 3 stage decorating to get rid of in this house. You know the pattern on the bottom a band round the middle and the different pattern on the top bit. As I hope to retire in the late spring I think this will be my project. Lounge Dinning Room and second large bedroom. All need doing and it will give me a project, especially if hubby carries on working. Unfortunately as the house is only 20 years old it means that when I soak the paper off the only layer of emulsion and fine plaster layer or is it the actual plaster board comes off too. So it either means Anaglypta heavy embosed type paper. OR getting these rooms platered with a light skim. Bringing in tradesmaen as it's not something I feel able to do.

Well I went for my 20 minute walk. It is damp out there a light rain and light breeze too. But I did it, even with the blisters from yesterday. I feel really unfit when I think I used to do 10,000 steps a day before last winter when I had my chest problems.
Now it is time ffor me to start thinking of myself and taking care of myself for my retirement and not just vegetate.

I have just seen Neil Oliver on Country Tracks making a bronze sword.

Be back later. Have a peaceful day all

Linda :o) XxX

3 bottles of wine Marilyn!
between how many people? It sounds as though you had a good time!
Is you fish pie "starry gazey pie"? with the fish heads stucking up through the pie.It Cornish dish. You're nearer to Cornwallthan I am!

Morning All,

Its raining AGAIN .......

Had a great evening last night with the Chinese Grub.......drowned 3 bottles of wine .

Tonight I have my sister and her Hubby for a Fish pie ....home made .

Stephen ...The dado rails had a purpose didn't they ? I think it was so chairs did not mark the walls whilst leaning on them.
So your house decorating which I love as I am always looking to do things in the house to up grade it .........if I left it to Pete he would be living in a museum .
I have just asked him to take the tiles up in the kitchen as I have got tired of them and they have been down 15yrs!!.

So a job for him in the spring.


Maddie that was hilarious..!! I must remember that when at a dinner party....

Dermot..... How can you remember all those tales of years gone by ?
I tried to forget most of mine as I had nothing much and was quite poor, so I could only remember certain things that were either sad or funny....

I'm now going to make this fish pie......back later. x

Who remembers Dado Rails ?

Fashionable a few years ago. I am starting to remove the ones that Mrs Stephen convinced me to put up. Luckily I had them screwed and rawlpugged in place so they are coming off without pulling half the plaster off the wall. Friends that had glued them up damaged a lot of plaster taking them down.

It all makes work for the working man to do.

About tattoos.
One of the grils who used to work at my place had a little girl last year. She had a tattoo done yesterday on her back. It was the date her daughter was born and it looked very nice,
Maddie that's so funny!

The girl in the Stieg Larsson books had a tattoo.
If I was brave enough I'd have a black cat tattoo! The girl with the cat tattoo!

Maddie,

That's a cracker !

Stephen2009 - I'm sticking with the Homer Simpson hair style.

Tattoos Once More.

Gonna get Rabbit tattoos all over my head.........from a distance they will look like Hares. (hairs)

Just realised I'll need to go about the house like a Church Mouse, Mrs Stephen is sleeping. She came home at about 5.30am.

Tattoos Again.

How the memory stirs.

A young lad in my Youth Club I was training with weights was lying on the bench. I was lifting a rather heavy weight onto him to Bench Press when his Tracksuit bottoms slipped down a bit exposing a Tattoo just below his Belly button.

The inscription read.......

'FOR GOOD GIRLS ONLY' and had an arrow pointing down to his private parts.

I near dropped the weight on him as I burst out laughing.

He said... 'There's more'......I didn't risk having a look any further.

Wonder what his wife thinks of that one.

I dont have a tattoo never wanted one. we didnt think of it in our younger days which was a long time ago.
My husband had a tattoo on his arm not too big with a pattern and his mothers name on. years afterwards he wished he hadnt had it done.he had it done while in the army.
some people go well over the top with tattoo's.covering there body.
most males in my family never had them either being as so many were in the RN you would have thought they would.

I had a room in my bungalow which was wall lined with books. but when I moved here I didnt have the room . so most of my books go to the charity shop when I have finished..
I have one bookcase full of books I wont part with.

Have a good day.

Rita
xx

Hi Stephen,
if I've learned one lesson in life its: never judge a book by its cover!
I prefer to take people as I find them. My tattoos and ear piercings have never caused me any problems although I understand they are not everyones cup of tea.
Wish I had space for a library, absolutely love books and reading. Maybe when my daughters move out I will be able to use one of their rooms.
Have a great day

Cath xx

Morning Catherine,

You are the only one alive just now......it's Sunday they will all be lying in.

Tattoos, In the early 60s I knew a lass who was Britains most tattooed person. She was covered in them. Sadly everyone shunned this lass.

What the didn't know was her background. She had been the World's Highland Dance Champion, twice, then had witnessed the vicious murder of her mother. That sent her off the rails.

The last I spoke with her she was just like the person I had known in our youth. Kind and caring but with the deep mental scar of what she had witnessed. I suspect she is probably dead now as I have not seen or heard anything of her in the last 45 years.

Yep ! You can't judge a book by it's cover.

Gonna continue with the makeover of my Library. Why the 'H' are books so heavy ???????

Catch you later.

Good Morning all,
just popping in to say hello before tackling the dreaded housework.
Dermot, priceless memories, you make it all come to life.
Rita I hope Mike is recovering well.
Shelly I think Maddie was joking about tattoo. I have 2, a celtic cross on my upper arm and a celtic knot on my shoulder.
Hope everyone is well and warm, cold and drizzly here at the moment.

Cath xx

maddie what tatoo did you have done and were

i have got one of a butterfly at the top of my arm
and a flower change round my ankell

ooops evening all or should i day nite nite all LOL