General Chat

done!

Hmmmm. Canuckland sounds a very dangerous place to be at the moment. Take care all.



Sylvs, do you think you could pop today's date in your diary please? We could do with remembering the day that JC said that sometimes she is nonplussed!!! ;-)

Janey


did I ever tell you we were in Ottawa when Ottawa was in the Stanley Cup Final??


we stood at our bedroom window in the Westin, watching the game on the big screen TV on a plaza across the street ............... ?? outside City Hall?? There were hundreds of people out there.


The noise was unbelievable, even through hermetically sealed windows!




sylvia

no fireworks here Friday, Saturday or Sunday

....... not sure what will happen tonight



Mind you, the yobbos are all busy downtown supporting the Canuckles ..... either on the plaza outside the CBC, watching the big TV, or in one of the many drinking holes around.


we're off the beaten track here for them!





Vancouver will go absolutely wild if they win tomorrow night ...... that's a) the title, and b) into the Stanley Cup final.


I can remember what happened the last time they got this far, in 1994. Street scenes were unbelievable!



sylvia

careful, Janey!


I certainly hope you don't get tornadoes!





89 dead so far in Joplin, Missouri

Sometimes, Cynthia, even I am nonplussed. ;)

I love fireworks displays almost as much as I love amusement park rides.

Both belong in their proper places. No firecrackers tossed around my block, and no fast driving and hairpin turns to a pounding beat soundtrack, either.

I'll be working tonight so not going out to see any displays ... besides, we're supposed to be getting the storm that just took out Missouri. At least where I am we don't ever get tornadoes.

I'm very surprised that you didn't tell them EXACTLY what to do Janey - were you having an 'off' day? :D


I can enjoy a firework display but despair at loutish behaviour with the things. However, my main concern (apart from sleeping children!) is the effect they have on animals.


When we used to have dogs, Bonfire night was a long hard trawl. We put music on the radio/stereo/tv etc. just to try and drown out the noise. More often than not, they ended up shivering on our laps.........and that was just the Dobermann :D


Cx

We have had morons setting off dynamite late into the night for two nights now. Well, it sounded like dynamite, and it sounded like it was in the backyard. That's the problem in a dense urban neighbourhood -- you just can't tell where the things are going off, let alone where they're being thrown from.

No.1 figures he traced them to the source, a crappy multi-unit small building across the street and through the block from us. Same place they were coming from 5 years ago when one hit my house next door, according to my friend living there, and one hit the car in the driveway next door to it. Someone with a good arm can through an empty space between houses across the street to land there.

That time, the cops said, of course, there was nothing they could do, even after talking to the yahoos and essentially establishing that they were the ones doing it ...

I love cops. There was the time that I and a neighbour both reported a very suspicious descent onto our block by five cars that all disgorged several young men of the same ethnic group, who all went around the corner to a house there. Both she and I saw one remove a package from his car, an oblong shape, wrapped in a green garbage bag. When I asked her what it looked like to her, she said "a gun!" My thoughts exactly. So we told the cops when they came.

Well what do you want us to do about it? they asked.

I dunno ... maybe your job ...

We've had fireworks Friday, Saturday and Sunday night....and more tonight in the neighbourhood....and always just 5 mins after I've got the kids to bed !!!

meanwhile, all is quiet on the western edge!


everyone has gone camping , in the rain, as per usual!


but I've never heard the phrase 2-4 before



Janey ..... Victoria Day is designated as "the Monday closest to May 24th". so it may come before or after the actual day.




sylvia

Yes, well, the Golden Triangle is full of masses of the Great Unwashed then, isn't it?

In my neighbourhood, said masses amuse themselves this weekend throwing loud firecrackers at other people's houses and around the streets ...

but, before I go, here, in the Golden Triangle, people don't buy a 2-4 to toast with it...

Let me explain. Returning from a trip out West, in May 1978, we spent a night in what was then a Provincial Park, Ipperwash... of Mike Harris fame, now. We had a young family and a tent. Next site over, at 2a.m., a latecomer arrived. Their tent was stacks of 2-4s, roofed with a tarp. Later in the increasingly loud night, we heard stories of a lady called Dawn... who they began to fight over, and ultimately were ejected for, because of the noise!

Victoria Day. here's to the memories!

I think (infrequently, though), that I have to abandon this double x thread:

"" Don't have to worry about that anymore anyway, now that I have a personal washerman. I like to think of No.1 as the hired help ..."

while I can still squeak up! and do the dishes!

MJH

Well phew, Jen. You just decided to marry into the ruling class then.

Me spend $9,000 on underwear, Cynthia? I admit to having several dozen items of the stuff, but that's because I'm not much for doing laundry, not because I spend my entire income on it.

Don't have to worry about that anymore anyway, now that I have a personal washerman. I like to think of No.1 as the hired help ...

Jen is obviously a cut above all of us here. Bedchamber maid to the mighty.

:-(

Oi! Not me, I am of union stock, remember? Afore t'Labour Party was born!

;-)

OH is the one with ancestor guilt!

You weren't that Canadian by any chance ...????? :D

I just have to reproduce that link, what with it being about Victoria and a Canadian and all.

Maybe they were 50" at the waist -- but had a drawstring??

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A pair of bloomers that once belonged to Queen Victoria have been sold for £4,500 at an auction in Derby.

The knickers have a 50in (127cm) waist and date from the 1890s, which indicates the monarch had a large girth as she approached her old age.

It was thought the bloomers would fetch £500 but a Canadian buyer spent £4,500 on the pants which are monogrammed with VR for Victoria Regina.

The knickers had been owned by a lady-in-waiting to the Queen.

They had remained in the woman's Lincolnshire family until now.

'Very wide girth'

Auctioneer Charles Hanson said: "These pants, considering their provenance and pedigree, are very exciting... we know that they are hers [Queen Victoria]."

Mr Hanson said the bloomers were an interesting piece of social history that indicated Queen Victoria was "a very big lady of quite small stature with a very wide girth".

The knickers are made from a fine cotton and are hand-made.

A chemise with a 66-inch (167cm) bust, which also belonged to the UK's longest-reigning monarch, sold for £4,000 while her nightdress went for £5,500 at the auction.

Well you can raise a glass to your dad on Victoria Day too then!

Jen is obviously a cut above all of us here. Bedchamber maid to the mighty.

My mum and I visited Brighton Pavillion on our trip to England, and admired Vic's bed, several mattresses piled on top of one another with a ladder to climb up onto. I wondered whether there was a pea in there somewhere. I must be related too. In my paternal grandmother's very old age (she lived to her "99th year" as she said), she grandmother had herself a bed like that, an extra mattress or two piled on. Not sure why, as she was about 4'11" at her nadir. ;) Reminded us all of the Queen Mum; I think she was 363 days younger. Much nicer, though.

Nothing tacky about it all Janey. She had many, many pairs of them at her various residences apparently. Don't know where my dad got them from but he used to give talks on Victoriana - A day in the life of the Victorians - sort of thing.

You may like this 'brief'' ;-) link!


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/7533696.stm


Cx

I think Cynthia's right about the Vicky!

But having popped back and seen that Vick's knicks have been mentioned - those very knicks may have been handled by my OH's ancestor. Probably only in passing them on to a "lowlier" servant!

This is from a kind member of another site who has done some work in the Bedchamber field!

Frances was one of the Queen’s original ladies-in-waiting at her Accession. St James’s Palace announced her appointment as a Woman of the Bedchamber on 29 August 1837 (see, for example, its publication in *The London Gazette*), although her ‘waiting’ began a few weeks earlier in July. Frances held this post until 1 November 1874, after which (the following day) she became an Extra Woman of the Bedchamber. Previously, Frances had attended Queen Victoria as a Woman of the Bedchamber at her Coronation in 1838.

:D