General Chat

Marilyn, there was only one of those caravans built ..........and I bought it. The picture can still be googled but the caravan is gone, it's on it's way to Skye........just a little bit late.

By the way, that tent of yours is very similar to our caravan awning. The only difference is that your tent is a bit smaller. :o)

Sorry to hear you haven't been well Jean, hope you have the chance to relax and put your feet up at the weekend.

How many weeks of the treatment have you got left?

*Runs in exhausted* >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.

Sorry Marilyn, I had to do the ironing before I left for the weekend.

All finished now - so I'm ready to leave.

Oh Well good job I have Champagne on board ....I have opened it and now its all mine .......mine mine .......no Pauline either ..


I will fall asleep soon , so please don't wake me up until tomorrow .

What a let down, at least Jean had the decency to pop in. Bless her.!

Hi Jean thank goodness we have found you .


Yes we will tell you all about it WHEN EVERYONE turns up !!!!!!!!

Pauline, looks like its Me & You .......Stephen has done a runner !!!

Hello Girls and Stephen, sorry I haven't been on for a few days, my daughter has been doing the birthday thread for me but didn't think to put a message on here for you. had to stay in Christies for 3 days as I reacted badly to my injections, but came home this morning.
Hope you all enjoy the weekend, sounds like it will be a lot of fun, cant wait to hear about it.
Take care and behave yourselves, dont want to see you all in the Sunday papers.
Jean xx

Photo of Tent sent........

You will all want to sleep in it, but you cant because you have all made your choices.

Pauline I seem to believe that your caravan in on Google , just wondering IF that's the same one ...LOL

Hi Pauline,

Where are the others. ?.....see all talk no action ...LOL

We posted at the same time Marilyn!!!

Stephen,


I'm at Fort William.........

Don't know where the others are, maybe there caravan has broken down already ...Tut Tut ...

Just waiting now for my team to arrive ,if not well they will have to catch us up later.......cant always rely on people you know ...LOL

Liz might be still looking at the wedding photos.....as for Linda if that mother of baby is late collecting her , that means she will have to fly up here as time is running out !!

Our jean might not be able to make it, so at least we can tell her all about our trip when we come back.....I'm just going to PM her as I 'm a bit worried about her ..,

Rita I've taken some photos of our caravan and sent them to you, it's all ready and waiting for you.

Marilyn, that tatty caravan with the cheapie curtains wasn't ours. Ours is the big flash one with the fancy drapes.

I've got it all packed full of food and drink.

Come on then, are you going?


Edit: Oops, it doesn't have any drapes, it's got blinds.

Hi all I was wondering if Jean was alright her threads appear but not Jean. did she have to go for chemo today ?

Yes I am ready. I was just going out the door when the telephone rang my cousin Doris sittting in he garden on the" isle of Sheppy "enjoying the sun didnt have her hearing aid on so I had to shout. she told me she has lots of big hairy spiders she put her plugs in her sinks and bath at night fills the sink with water. she said they come from the garden up the plug holes so girls beware ?
also she said the Dragon flies come next it is the change in the seasons that does it.

My sister emailed me to say she found two big furry spiders in her kirchen big as baby mice so I told her try conkers. so girls be warned spiders are about.
I sent two copies of my Dads life story we had published to Doris my cousin and she sent a copy to one of her brothers who when speaking to his other brother on the phone told Freddie( he lives in Scoland has lived there since 1954) he wants to read it now they are passing the books about the family Doris said she wants it kept for the family so it has to be sent around . I have five spare copies so I am going to send them off to them I have not told them yet..

Marilyn our Caravan had five bedrooms in it and has all the little luxuries incliuding a shower.but the caravan goes seperately as it is too big to be towed by a cor.

jus got to put my tablets in the bag and I am away forgot to tell you I am flying up to Scotland..

Rita

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag, and smile smile smile. Two and a half hours before we have to be at Fort William. I was very lucky, I got a lift up as far as Motherwell, with my son and his girlfriend.
Now which way do I go from here. I've got my compass out, but now I am lost, HEELLPPP Stephen.
Where are the girls, I thought Shelly was going to meet us Rita, Pauline, and Jean, what does this here caravan look like.
Marilyn, have you seen the others.

Seriously, has anyone heard from Jean. I have not seen her on here for a while.
I know she is still doing the thread for birthdays etc.
I do hope you are o.k Jean. Can you let us know how you are love.

Morning Everyone,!!

Yvonne you have style when you saw I had all those mod cons in my caravan, we will have loads of fun in comfort ........unlike Shelly's hovel a pokey old caravan she got and Pauline will be horrified that the drapes don't come up to scratch like mine ,
Dont know what was in Mo or Rita's thinking when choosing !!!!!!!!

Anyway Where is STEPHEN ????????

What time do we start this weekend , hope its after BB ..LOL

I am out all day today........will look in to see when we start out I'm all kitted out, got loads of tops !
Liz at least I have strong toilet seats ......electrically warmed ...LOL

Edit...
Opps Stephen you were typing when I was .....!

I'M HERE!

Still without my Broadband Connection though. As usual lot of promises but no action. They say another 5 days!!!!!
Should have stayed with my old supplier.

Using this one at my office...but I'm not here every day...and certainly not at the weekend...unless is something really urgent.

Right! Are you all kitted up and ready for the off.

Beds all fixed out, 'snorers' have been allocated the big field along with the Hielan Co's.

Plan to arrive at Fort William for 5.00pm

The weather is to be good...that's a big bonus.

See you later Campers.

Very few big spiders on Skye.....THE MIDGIES EAT THEM.
Now you know what the midgies must be like!

Pauline
I dont think those spiders are coming in the door as we have two sets of doors the first are worked on electric to open and then
I have the flat door. so if anyone wants to come in after certain hours when the doors dont open altermatically they have to use the outside phone for me to allow them in (Posh. )

Gran never moaned about the shelter I always thought it looked like an animals cage like you got at the zoo. she had a matress in there and pillows. can you imagine two old ladies crawling in and out of that when the siren went every night. Gran use to say" That bloody old Hitler is not getting me out of my house unless I am dead.
" If Stephen is not going to turn up we will have to draw a map I know the way as far as "The Isle of Sky" but after that we need a map. Lol
and good weather.

My husband was born in St Pancras and they were bombed out due to the terrible bombing they had being near the Docks as well my father in Law was a taxi driver and failed the army medical so he became a Part time Fireman, I have somewhere his little book he had to carry about with his number and detail on. They had a terrible time in that aera ours was bad enough but nothing like they had.
My husband went into The Royal Fusilers in 1943 and was posted to Egypt and Greece and France.
Rita

Morning All
Having a senior moment today Really thought I'd already added this morning.
Well I have Little M all week next week as Mum has finally found a full time job after a year looking !! So I will be exhausted in the evenings, not used to this after over a year of only working 2 days a week.
Hubby was sworn in yesterday at 3:00. So he has finally been called.
It is a lovely morning here.
Might get some "Spring" cleaning done. Get rid of some of the spiders Rita is obviously sharing !!!

Take care

Linda :O) XxX

Must have been a bit crushed in that cage Rita.

I can't imagine what it must have been like for people during the war. I was born in a shipbuilding area and it had been badly hit by bombs because the Germans were trying to hit the ships. I remember seeing big gaps where houses once stood and my mam would tell me about the families who'd been wiped out by direct hits. Some of them had been her relatives and some had gone to school with her. So sad!

Rita, maybe those big spiders are just coming in the door, they might be forming a queue outside, waiting for you to open the door for them.............. :o)

Yvonne, you haven't seen our caravan yet, we're keeping it as a surprise.

What are we going to do if Stephen doesn't turn up?

Thank you Yvonne for the bit about Steve my son in Law.

I had a late night last night last night sat in bed till 3 o'clock reading a M&B book as I watch for spiders. I have never been like this before I think it is becuase they are so big and heavy.

I bunged all the overflow holes up before I went to bed and put disinfectant down the plug holes before putting the hair catching cover over the pluig holes. It is getting a night mare now. I will be pleased to get away for the weekend.

we had an air-raid shelter in out little back garden my Dad put thick concert on the floor to save the damp when it rained he then put a rubber sheet down. we had bunk beds a little table a hanging latern and some shelves for books we spent many hours in that, Mum brought us reading books and puzzels to do. The door was a heavy wood and took two of us to lift it to when we got in the shelter. we had an incendary bomb land on top one night and the ARP came and told us to get out we went to St Marys school Hall for the night at the time they thought it was a bomb and did not explode. inside our house we had one of those shelters that went on the floor like a wire cadge with pretected shields over. my Gran used that as she would not go into the Anderson shelter. I never know how she managed to crawl into that Gran was born in 1870.her friend from next door went in there with her.

Rita