General Chat

Morning All on a filthy ,dark morning.A little snow earlier.
Liz I love Smoked Haddock and egg.Kedgeree too .Mum made the best.The only thing is the smell of the haddock ,it hangs around for so long.
Do you not eat eggs Liz?.My son hasn't touched one since he was a baby as he hated the first ever boiled egg I gave him.He won't even try one now.

The man is here fitting his new windscreen at the moment,so once that is done he is safe to drive again,as he got his new tyres yesterday.

Must nip off to Tes** now BBL

10.29

I certainly enjoyed last night's TV, dramatic or what?! being torpedoed? doesn't bear thinking about! can't wait for tonights conclusion. I must say I don't like Olives at all, and, like you Jane, Broad Beans are a definite No! No! I find that the smell of certain flowers can suddenly give a whiff of the past! have to be careful, though, can bring on the tears if you're not watching out, need to be FIRM with yourself if you are me!! tell you one thing to eat that I really HATE, Smoked Haddock, with a poached egg on top!! My parents LOVED it, but me, I managed to get away with not having the egg, but still had to eat the Haddock which I could just about stand! Yuk, not something we have in this house!!!!

Now and then at this PC I smell tobacco smoke.
I quit the habit 15 years ago and my wife doesn't smoke.
The sweet smell seems on my left.After a while it goes.

Strange

Well i'am off up the wooden stairs Night Night all xx

Well, i'am glad i'am not the only one who can smell things ,this perfume is not a smell i have in the house and i'am sure its from my mum or grandmother just letting me know their still around , well that's what i like to think .
Were does your custard Powder smell fit in with you Frank, did you use to have a lot of Custard when younger .
I hope your behaving your self lol

10.06

9.46pm

Mandy, I often sit here and smell custard powder. Ros can never smell it. and then it's suddenly gone !!!!!

I knew you were kinky JANE rubber indeed !!! lol lol. I loved Radio Malt and Virol.

We like olives stuffed with anchovies, plain ones are O.K. but as you say a bit dry

was it 4711 that came in a turn up stick thing that you rubbed on your wrists and forehead.I remember that smell from Nana.It was a lovely smell ,and I think it felt cold when you rubbed it on.
Another smell from Nana was 'Deep Heat" or something similar.I think it began with a V.'It was her Embrocation lol.I can't remember where she rubbed that.But her bedroom always stank of it.She kept the tube on her bedside table next to her Teeth in the glass lol.I remember scrubbing her teeth when I was in my teens when she wasn't well,and gagging as I was doing it.Little did I know then ,that in a few years time I would be dealing with a lot worse than false teeth when I went into nursing!!!!.I still gagged ,but not at teeth lol
On that pleasant thought ,I am off to bed.See you all again tomorrow.

I hope Fiona manages to get a good sleep in tonight .It will be a long day for her tomorrow.
xx

Childhood smells ....Granmothers 4711 perfume,Lavender bags in her drawers lol .....not that sort of drawers !!! the old Parafin stove with the top bit that turned and made patterns on the ceiling , and those little tins of quickies that you could rub over your face and they cooled you down.

This might seem strange ,but every now and then i can smell perfume round me ,it can be any where in the house ,but if i ask hubby if he can smell it he says no !! i take a few sniffs and then its gone .

9.31

I loved the smell of the washing in Mums Twin Tub.The smell of the Omo and the smell of the hot rubber ring thing that pressed the washing down in the spinner and the hot rubber pipe that drained the water .I know I have said before but I do love the smell of rubber........................in an innocent way (just before Frank makes a comment ) lolol.Give me a hot water bottle or an old fashioned swimming cap and I would be in heaven lol..I think the smell just takes me back to my childhood.They were the nice smells
The horrible ones were Virol and Mil Par.I don't want to smell those again

21.03

I found the black ones dried my mouth up ,i'll have to try the green ones ,might find i like then .

My first washing machine was a twin tub , washing seemed to take for ever ,loading into the spinner and filling up to rinse and spin ,a boil wash would really steam up the kitchen, use to have a pair of wooden tong things to lift the washing out .

We like the Green ones best Mandy.They do have a weird taste .A bit like Marmite either love or hate lol.Yes a kind of bitter taste ,but not really bitter just different.I don't know how to describe it.

David ,I did the same thing with my washing in the bath lol.Just after we married and couldn't afford a washing machine.I remember how heavy it all was to try and squeeze the water out,and heave it all out over the side of the bath,and then lump it downstairs out to the garden to reach up and get it over the line.Didn't have a mangle to get rid of the excess water lol.That would have been really helpful.
But then I was left £1.200 by some lady who was apparently my step grandmother !! The first thing I bought was a washing machine ,then a Hoover,and a fridge.How wonderful was that lol.Bless her who ever she was .I never knew her.
20.06

Are all Olives bitter then? i have only tasted the black ones when on holiday and they put me off.

I used to HATE Olives ,but now love them.We all seem to like them and have got through a ton or two since Xmas lol.It is funny how taste changed.
I still don't like broad beans though !!
19.49

A few years ago when I was skint my washing machine packed in.
Couldnt even afford a repair.
Used to put the entire wash in the bath and tread it as though it was grapes.
Then transfer to a bucket,out into the garden and on to the line soaking wet.Of course it eventually dried.

My feet had never been so clean :)

Evening everyone,
Had DIL and the little ones here all day ,we took a trip to As*a this morning, got a few bits and pieces ,they have some nice childrens clothes there although i didn't buy them anything as i bought clothes for them for christmas, and hubby would have a hissy fit if i bought them any more .

I need to have a good sort out in my cupboards ,i have one unit in the kitchen full of cookery books ,i'am going to take some to the charity shop ,lots of them i've had for years and never use them .
Olives ...yuk
Thats one thing you won't find in my cupboard i carn't stand them ,so bitter .

Frank, i do hope all goes well for Ros tomorrow ,and please be careful what you get up to while she's away , i bet you've had your orders to behave !!! lol

Fiona, how lovely of your SIL to order the flowers ,will be thinking of you tomorrow ,hope all goes well and you give your dad a good send off.
6.53

Jane cut the crackling off the meat and a little of the fat. Put it on another baking sheet and sprinkle the bottom with some salt and turn it over and do the same. Bung back in the oven and let it cook with your pots.

Fiona I do hope all goes well for you tomorrow too. Thoughts are with you and yours.

Ann I have a a little dresser that stands on my worktop. On the bottom shelf are herbs and spices OH brought with him when he came down here to live in 1997!!!!!! I had better throw them all out I think. That will give me a bit more space for newer things.

18.48pm.

Frank, never mind the lessons ......just come and cook for me!!!

Hope all goes well for your dad's funeral tomorrow Fiona, will be thinking of you.