General Chat

Anne I have sent you loads of info via pm.

Trolly buses I remember at Walthamstow. Frank should too. We used to use them in Woodford sometimes.

Have to find something for dinner now as I forgot to take meat out freezer with all the ironing!!!!!

Still I got a nice lot done but there is still an awful lot left to do. Oh well tomorrow is another day.......................................................

Think it could be omlets tonight!!

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Not a sweet in sight here.We had 2 tins and I think they were gone in just a few days !!!!!!.I think I had about 4 lol.We didn't have a Xmas cake as it never gets eaten ,but had a dundee cake of which there is still a fair bit left.

Ann ,yes Chris did some Landscapes ,and village type scenes.Where they are now I have no idea.He has put them or hidden them away somewhere.I haven't seen them for years..They were good.But he never thought they were.Silly man.

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Anne, on your own posts you can edit them or delete them by clicking where it says that, but only on your own posts which is why it does not show on other people's.

Anne/Mel, what is the difference with trolley buses to ordinary buses then?

I am the same Jane, never think anything I do is good enough! lol I think someone said that it is good to never be satisfied, because that way you will always strive to improve! That is what I tell OH anyway and he gives me a 'look'.!!.

Anne ,all my posts have the Edit and delete thing.I think it just shows up on out own computers and no one elses so we can change our posts or delete if we want to.Does that make sense??

Jane Annx

Thanks for that will not worry about Edit Delete anymore.

Trolley buses were similar to trams and they ran in cities with overhead electrical wires. They were very smooth and fast but are now long gone.*Mel* has just sent me soooo much info on my grandmother. I really am an amateur at this research

To be honest we had a new library built in the town about four years ago ,and i've never been in, i'am sure when the grandchildren are a little older i'll be taking them in as they love their story books ,there's always lots of people in there each time i go past ,i always use to go to the library each week with mum to get my Enid Blyton books.
The mobile Library still goes out each day to the villages round about .

8.21pm

Anne, I remember the trolly buses, as well as the TRAMS. driver use to move from front, to front when they turned round at the depot. If you know what I mean, they couldn't turn round. I have already mentioned about everything was moved around with horse and cart. Baker,coalman, milkman, travelling shop we would hang on the back as kids a grab a lift down the road, we would also fight to get to the horse droppings first for the garden. Ice cream man was always in a pony and trap. The ice cream churns in the front of the trap wafers and cones in box's on the floor. (HEALTH AND SAFETY) you could get a large fruit bowl filled for two bob 10 new pence. and was far nicer than the ice cream of today.

I must admit I used the library, after my stroke, but now I have my E BOOK I don't think there will be any reason to use it again. I suppose as the E books get more popular, people will use them instead of the library and far less trouble. I wouldn't be without mine now.

I was in our Library all the time 5 years ago (no internet at home then) and that is where I met a lady doing FH which got me started!! At that time parents used the staff as childminders, dropping children off after school and picking them up at 7.00pm closing time. They drove everyone mad with bad language and noise, thumping and nearly breaking computer keyboards. Took up computer time to look at anything 'naked' they could access, while adults were queuing to use them. Contrast that with some really lovely downs syndrome children who came in each week who were really excited and loved their books. I don't go so often now, but when I went last year staff were down from 4 to 2 and you scanned your card and library books yourself. There are libraries in most of the villages around here, but they all have different and limited opening times as the same staff man them all moving from one to another. This means half the time there are buildings and computers not being used. Parking charges have been introduced at some too. It is all a pity because I have found a lot of the computer courses they do very good. One library has a seperate room of computers where they do nightschool classes as well.

Oh you had to be really quiet !!! and if you dropped a book or coughed.........the looks you got could kill lolol and everyone would turn round and look at you !!

You dreaded a sneeze didn't you Mandy. It was so hard to pull a chair out to sit at a table without scraping the legs on those hard floors they had then without getting those black looks! Then you'd get the giggles!! lol

I'd get the giggles ,i remember stuffing a hankie in my mouth once to try and stop lol always had your hankie in your pocket .

And i hated mum licking the hankie and wiping my mouth !!!!

I haven't been to the Library for some years.Maybe 5.It's silly really that I don't ,but I just find it easier to have a quick browse through Tes** and buy a couple.
I used to love catching the bus on a saturday morning (once I was old enough) and get off at the Library in Plymstock,to change my books and get the latest Enid Blytons.Secret 7 or Famous 5.I felt so proud of having my own ticket and felt really grown up.Then an hour later I would get the next bus home.I think we were allowed 3 books then.
Then my parents had to put a lock on my bedroom window as they found me with my sheets tied together trying to scale down the outside of the house lolol
I was one of the Famous 5 or Secret 7!!!!!.I still have very vivid dreams.But I don't try to climb out of windows these days.I thank Enid Blyton (is that how you spell Blyton)? for my love of books.I cannot be without one ever.I would have withdrawal symptoms if I couldn't get my hand on a good book lol

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Licking or spitting on a hankie !!!!!!!! Yikes I remember that .I think I probably did the same to my 2 lol.They most likely hated it as well.I must ask them if they remember me doing it.
Having to carry a Hankie either up your sleeve or up the leg of your Knickers .I think that was just us girls.Boys had trouser pockets.

I think my hankies had nursery rhymes on them
Always had to have a clean hankie in your satchel for school.

On that thought ,I am off to bed.I wonder what I will dream about tonight lol
Night Night everyone xx

Ughhh yes, mum spitting on a hanky to wipe your face!!! Awful, remember turning my head away, but there was no escape was there!! I never had any hankies with nursery rhymes on but they all seemed to have pictures in the corner or patterned borders.Some girls had pockets in their knickers for their hanky didn't they. I never did though. Boys tended to use their sleeve.......yuk!

Think I'll be off to bed too. OH will wake me up at about 11.30 when he gets back from a match at Boston, then he will be up at 6.00am to go for a day's training on clerking for governors.......just like before he retired!!

Nightie, night......sleep tight xx

Night Night from me too xx

Morning from a murky and wet Devon...................................................

It is really miserable here this morning and I was going to market today.

The oil has been delivered and we did'nt order it!! but it's now in the tank so I shall have to get that thing where they come and top it up stopped as we don't use so much now mum has gone.

I can remember takng a bowl to the icecream van that used to come round the streets when I was young.

We also had a travelling green grocer called Len. He was lovely and I used to ride in the back of the lorry as he went up our street. I liked weighing out the potatoes on his big scales.

Social services just here to pick up stuff mum had.

10.20.

Horrible morning here, raining and blowing! have just had an e-mail from my cousin who lives in Brisbane!! Luckily their house is on high ground so she and her OH are OK, however, she was sent home early from work and told me that the food shops are being emptied, and the rain and water are horrendous, listened to the news this a.m! what a cranky world we seem to be living in? where will it all end? dread to think!! I remember 'face cleaning' only my mother made ME lick the hanky, so not quite so bad!!!