General Chat

Well that was why my friend had a milk delivery ,she thought she was helping him to keep his job.
It's like when i go into the supermarkets i refuse to use the self service tills ,one of the ladies asked me if i wanted to use the till and when i said no it will put you out of work ,she thanked me !!!! :-S
They always seem to be going wrong too.

I haven't tried this Philli chicken before ,will let you know what its like , son did chicken breasts with Mayo, Parmesan and breadcrumbs and said that was very tasty .

I see Frank has been doing his homework, :-D :-D keep it up and you'll soon get your Prefect Badge :-D :-D

Just rang BIL and he answered the phone ,he's feeling a little better the doctor gave him some of that Build up drink and tablets for the sickness ,but now sister has the trots and sickness .....so that must have been what BIL had . :-S

Los Cristianos Frank. I'm getting memory blanks too. Couldn't for the life of me remember the name of the actress who played Grace in ...... oh gawd, here we go again, can't think of the name of the programme now, the one with Trevor Eve as Boyd. I could picture her face as clear as anything and even the characters she has played Barbara in the Royles, Sheila in Brookside, really niggles at me I went through as many girls names and finally when I got to Sue remembered it was Sue Johnston.

I think Pat is away sometime this month she is going to Lanzarote. Not going to look at the long range weather again, it keeps changing now showing full sun up until the day after we arrive then rain :-0

I loved Trevor Eve in Shoestring.I know the programme you mean Maureen but I can't think of the name either.....what are we like?? :-S :-S

Just had a call from my friend Margaret in Cornwall.The one who had to have her little dog Puffin put to sleep.
She has just got another Border Terrier called Molly :-D.She got her yesterday.A rescue dog 15 months old.Margaret sounds like a different person again.She was so lonely without a dog.I know Molly will just have the best home ever :-D :-D

It is beginning to feel a little nippy now that the sun has gone down.But what a wonderful day it has been :-D.

HI ALL FROM SUNNY CANADA :-D
THE TREES ARE TURNING TO SUCH BEAUTIFUL COLOURS.

MY POOR WEE MONSTER (15 YEAR) WHO JUST GOT A JOB WELL YESTERDAY AT SCHOOL DAY TRIP--WAS HIT ON THE HEAD WITH A GOLF BALL
& TAKEN TO E.R. SLIGHT CONCUSSION AND A LUMP THE SIZE OF A DUCK EGG :-( :-(

WILLIAM WE SAID --TO STEEP THE TEA-- & PIECE WAS SANDWICH--BUTTER ROLL OR BAPS-- WHEN I CAME TO CANAD AND ASKED FOR ''CHIPS'' I WAS GIVEN A BAG OF ''CRISPS''

Been in the tunnel and picked toms about 3lb beans 5 courgettes 7 cues and brought another pumpkin down.

Must just say I use chicken breasts and cut a line in the top and then through the side a bit and put the garlic philly in and then wrap in pancheta and bake that way. It is luverly........mmmmmmmmm :-D :-D

Spag bol for us tonight with garlic bread. I am supposed to be being good............................... :-S I'll only have a little pasta. :-)

I have heard of a Peice for a sandwich and baps, rolls etc.

Mum always said "I will make a pot of tea" and "don't let is stew"

Was'nt there a saying "a dish of tea".
Don't forget the first cups had no handles.

We used "butty" for a sandwich.

If I asked what was for tea or dinner I was told "Bread and pullit" I always thought it was going to be chicken as nan worked in my uncles fish shop and did a load of chickens at Christmastime and talked about pullets.

Oh I forgot 'Steep the Tea'.Let it Steep.Is that a Scottish saying then Shirl? My Dad was a Scot.
Goodness I hope your little Monster is Ok after the bang on the head.Golf balls are blooming lethal :-S :-S

Mel I haven't put slits in the top of my Chicken Breasts .I just smothered the Philly over and then stuck Asparagus on top ,then wrapped with the pancetta.I bet the Philly will melt and run out :-S.I have put the Chicken on baking trays with all sorts of veg and Charlotte Potatoes.It is all ready to go in the oven now.So fingers crossed :-D

Shirl I hope your young monster is alright and will this stop her getting her job? Golf balls are so hard and if hit from a club come with such force. Wish her better for me please.

Jane you can melt any left over philly and use it as a sauce anyway. It is lovely on new pots.

Must shut the chickies in as it is now getting dark.

I hope she hasn't got a 'naughty step', Frank! ;-)

Mel, we just have a few beans left, but we have bags of tomatoes still coming. I need to cook some more down to freeze next week.

I went to my old junior school this afternoon and did have a job to park! Streets one way now, others blocked off with bollards and twerps have twisted round the no entry signs. I'd forgotten how the school looks like a victorian institution......no wonder I was scared coming from a tiny village school. I was amazed that the brick walls inside were still the same and brick arches in the corridors. The hall was just the same too only looked smaller than it did years ago. As I walked in I felt like I should be in my knickers and plimsoles ready for 'musical movement!!' :-0 lol.I'd forgotten it had 'child' bollards outside now.....the eyes on some look scary......will send a pic.

Mandy I bet your BIL is happier knowing it was probably the same bug your sister has and nothing worse. I hope they both soon feel better.

Jane I bet your pots look lovely now. Pansies and Violas are such welcoming little flowers with their velvety faces. How nice that Margaret has another dog......for both of them.

I like Philly with fish! :-D

Your poor monster Shirl, that must have hurt a lot!!

William they had me confused when I went to work in Nuneaton for a while with the 'batches'. In Staffs they were 'rolls,' then 'cobs' when I moved to Leics.Mum always let the tea 'mash', but MIL lets it 'get together'. Packed lunch for work in Staffs was your 'snap'.When I moved to Leics I discovered sweets were called 'rocks!' First MIL always had a 'bag of rocks'.

My how the memories are coming back !!

Thanks Mandy for the photo's Will try to enlarge my Aunt and Uncle (I never knew I had them) and never meet them !!!! Will have to look on my tree.

Thanks TEACHER Mel, I will look at that soon. ;-) ;-)

How nice for your friend Jane. A lad down the pub lost his dog earlier this year. He has now got a Black Labrador bitch from the dogs home. That will get spoilt to death.

Thanks Maureen, I have been thinking of that place all day. We stayed at the Borganvilia sp. Playa over looking the sea. We were in the Attico. The top floor. With balcony. We use to lay out there naked sun bathing ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) We were much younger then and only been married 3 years. :-D :-D :-D

We have just finished our Indian takeaway. Mine was suppose to be half of Tandorri chicken but ended up with two legs. I must tell them about that. Ros had Chicken Tikka. She only ever has that, or buttered chicken.

Watched Come Dancing. I just couldn't sit through that NO LIKEY NO LIGHTY BLOKE. Ros is now watching X factor.

Ann, that must have been an experience, going back to school. If and when I go back "HOME" I really must try to pop in and see what they are like now.

Enjoy the rest of your evening, I am going to look at my tree.

Changed the menu tonight as oh surgested Chilli so thats what we had.

Forgot to tell you oh saw a little lizzard in the garden today by the puddle pond and on the decking. I took a few pics but hav'nt downloaded them yet.

MEL IT WAS HIT WITH CLUB

Ann .Did school smell the same? Those Chlld bollards looked dead spooky :-S :-S
I would love to go back and visit my old schools. Great Pics especially Nora Batty :-D
Just finished watching Frank's favourite ..XF ;-).I have 2 favourites at the moment
Jahmene (sp) and Ella.

Now I am off to bed as James is going to be watching footie :-S He is snorting like a pig with his cold and Jess doesn't sound much better lol.She has gone for a bath and I gave her some Vicks to put in the water.Only thing is it will make the bath really greasy :-S :-S
Chester is mooching around so I reckon he needs out .
Night Night x

Morning/Evening from the early bird :-D
I have taken Chris a cup of tea in bed.Probably the first in 32 years !!!!!!!!!

Good morning all, waiting for the mist to clear so I can get our line of washing out. Supposed to be another nice day. I did get a couple of hours in the garden yesterday 'hedging and ditching'. That's lop the oak tree, get a load of shrubs etc cut down now it's all died off. Almost filled our green bin once again.

Back to the vernacular terminoligy (good word eh? just hope I got it right! Ann & Mel beat me to the 'baps'', that's one I was going to add. Also my Midland education included 'mardy, for in a mood, we would often say 'got the rats', 'pots, for the washing up, 'outdoor' for the off-license, 'on the box, for being on the sick list, we said 'on the (doctors) panel'. Like Ann, I was asked if I'd got my 'snap', being my packed lunch for work (or food generally). Like Mel, my parents would often say 'bread and pullit' when it was uncertain what was to eat.
Then of course when I met Carmel my Irish education started as we began to visit her folks in Dublin and other parts of Ireland. The 'press' is a cupboard, especially the airing cupboard, 'delft' is the crockery, 'pan' is a loaf, as is a 'turn over' a different style of loaf. A 'jar' is a hot water bottle , and trainers are 'runners'. Then I had to get to terms with the different food, which I instantly took to, white pudding, barm brack, soda bread, coddle, colcannon and so on.
To add to it, my Dad having been posted out in India for several years when he was in the army in the 20's had his own sayings from this time. I came out with one yesterday when I was washing a garment in the sink and I said to carmel, "I'm like a dhobi-wallah'. and then when it was hot you needed a 'punkah-wallah' (with the big fan). Not sure I've got the spelling right but there was also cup of char for tea. I'm sure I'll think of more, but I think that'll do for this time of the morning.

You guys have a nice day, like Arnie says, "I'll be back . . . "

Morning Jane and William and All and evening Kim,

A cup of charrer veaner for tea in our house too.

When we had been out and returned home my dad would say "home again home again jiggerdy jig" I never knew if it was just something he had made up when I was small or others said it. It travelled with me all my life, I said it to my son and even mum when we had been out somewhere. Or did it come from a song or nursery rymne?

Blackberries were always Brimbles and still are here and woodlice are chuggy pigs as Jane knows. Ants are emmits or flying emmits and wasps are wapsies.

Quite bright here today but not as lovely as yesterday but dry.

Off to wash my hair now whilst oh is out ringing.

The mist has just about burnt off here and Like you Wiliam it is going to be another lovely day.
It was always doing the dishes at home and yet my sister says 'pots'.I wonder if she has got that from her OH who is from Yorkshire.

I have only just got dressed so there will be no roast at lunch time.It will be about 5/6 o'clock.I am going to nip out and get some nice crusty bread for lunchtime as I have some tasty Pate and good cheeses in the fridge.I must remember to get some more Branst** Pickle too as we are just about out.

Jane, I to have only just came out of the shower. Up about nine. Read the paper. Then got veg and sauces made for dinner tonight. We have found eating at about six every night suits us. So when Sunday comes around it seems strange having dinner at 2.00 pm. Even though it was written in stone as a child that Sunday dinner was 2 pm and God help you, if you were late.

Will, My dad, being an old navy man. Would Dhobi the Blankets in the summer. He would put them one at a time in the TIN bath in the garden, fill with hot water and soap. and trample up and down on them with his feet. Each one was put through the Mangle and again would fill the bath with cold water and continue the process till all the soap was out. Then on "HIS" line to blow in the breeze. His line was made from various sized wooden pullies. He would pull on one rope to get it so far up, then another till it was at the top og this enormous pole. If ever the line broke (and it did) under the weight and the strenght of the wind. The washing could end up two gardens away. Thanks for all the old sayings for things.

I am going to set some seeds shortly, Ros likes Pink Wallflowers, and I can't get any BARE rooted ones anywhere, so seeds it has to be. I have also bought some unusual seeds, that have to be put in Vermiculite in a bag and kept in the fridge for 12 weeks.. After 12 weeks they have to go into a sandy compost. If I succeed or not is another matter. They are called "muhlenbergia capilliaris" Also some complimentary seeds called "lupinus perennis" I have to scratch the seeds and soak in warm water for 24 hours Put them in compost at 15 degrees They should germinate within 70 (YES SEVENTY DAYS) God knows what they will be.

Heard from Conrad again yesterday. The weather is still very hot, and have spent most of the time round the pool.

The cobwebs looked wonderful this morning, all joined up between the bushes with the dew on them, and glittering in the early sunshine.

Ros has just put a line of WHITES out. Hope it blows a bit, or else they will come in later as wet as they went out. I TOLD HER TO LEAVE IT !!!! WON't LISTEN. You girls always know best :-D :-D :-D