General Chat

21.26pm
I'm doing what OH does while this freezing weather is with us and putting an extra coat and a hat in the car boot, just in case the car breaks down and I have to wait ages.. I can use an old floormat that is in the boot if a wheel gets stuck. I'm being prepared!! lol

I think we wore them because there was no alternative David. Made our legs look slimmer than being bare and us ladies put up with a lot when young if we thought we looked good!! lol Oh....and we liked the attention we got wearing them too!! lol

Frank I was a tiny baby in the winter of 1947. I bet I didn't get much fresh air in my pram that winter. Those icicles must have been like cell bars!

I'll be having a look at that Andre Rieu DVD/album.........if OH thought I might have stockings to put it in it would make his christmas. lol On that note I'll say night, night too xx

9.02 pm

Hope Jane and OH get home safe and sound .
Jungle now ,so i'll say night night all xx

20.16pm
Going back to the winter of 1947. The icicles were from the roof of our house down to the ground. Started at the top about 15 inches round and came down to the point at the bottom. We use to break the small ones off
and suck them like ice lollies.

As you can guess my programme is on T.V. Can't stand it.!!!! to loud for my head. Why can't we have some decent tunes and lyrics. All we get is THUMP THUMP THUMP and thats what they call music. Misserable old B##### arn't I.????

Very cold out there now, I think it's bown to -6 at the moment, and getting colder.

Thanks everyone for your good wishes for my brother.

I see Andre Rieu has a new albumn out with a DVD when he was in Australia. Who knows it might turn up in my xmas stocking.!!!

Jane should be on her way home by now. She might pop in, who knows.

Hope Janes having a good time and manages to get home safely.

Daughter no 1 made it home ok to night after work , she said she just kept at 40 on the dual carriage way as the steering wheel had a mind of it's own, also there were some real nutters flying past her, she was glad to get in the house, she has no work this week until Sunday , so she says she won't be going anywhere at all unless is absouloutly essential in this snow.
Sofia is teething again and has a bit of a cold so it's probably better to keep her in.

Not sure when I'll get back on here tomorrow, OH has a days holl and we have to take daughter no 2 to the hospital to see the Dermatologist(sp)
for treatment on her Alopecia, so we could be there all morning.
Also my dad is being taken into Hospital tomorrow morning , so I do not know what time I will see him, will try to get there in the afternoon.

anyway I'm going to close down for the night, hope you all are keeping warm, and take extra care if you go out tomorrow anywhere.

Night night
xxxxxx

The 2 feet icicles are hanging from the gutter above my bed room windows.Three houses to the left of me at the end of the street the icicles and snow off the roof have began their down ward slide.The way it looked earlier there's a real danger of it taking the gutter with it.

I might deliberately start mine sliding to avoid the same happening to my gutter, and make sure I'm not in the way of it.

Yes Ann, that journey to and from Blyth should have been a one hour round trip. Due to the severe weather it seemed to take all afternoon.
Check your coolant and oil level and tyre pressures.


Stupid question.... How were so popular and fashionable so long if they were so uncomfortable?

19.56pm

You won't be seeing me out in a 'bare' skin Shirl!!!!! lol Seems it is colder where you are than here though. We are due more snow in the week according to the forecast.......what's the deepest you've had since you went to Canada?

OH got the salad all done for tea and even put the breaded camembert in the oven tonight........and cleaned my shoes I'm wearing to go out tomorrow. Think he's trying to make up for the 'wallet' incident yesterday. lol

I have to be up earlier tomorrow, so will go and sort out what to wear and watch tv now. May BBL

Evening All,

No more snow here but a good frost again and very slippy on the close. Hope Jane had a good journey and is coping with her tights!! lol I haven't worn any for years either. I used to wear stockings and suspenders, but they were very uncomfy. If mini skirts hadn't come along I wonder how many years it would have been before we got tights.

Frank.......OH told me at lunchtime that Andre had been on! Fat lot of use that was!! lol I wish I'd known I'd have recorded it. That sounds horrid with your brother's toe. Good job they have sorted it now and that they spotted he needed that bypass. Hope he makes a speedy recovery.

You have had a lot more snow Fiona........the kids would be loving playing in it. David, that trip sounded very tiring.......still, better going slow and arriving than the alternative. I have never seen icicles that big. OH had some tiny ones on his car this morning.

I am meeting some friends in the morning about 20 miles away at Loughborough. It is virtually all motorway there so it should be ok. We are having brekkie together at a posh tea-room (tablecloths!!) and giftshop and a having a good old natter. In the evening OH is meeting up with some people from work for a meal at Burton-on-Trent so no cooking to do.

I must scrub out my seedholders and put some food out for the birds tomorrow.....today they just got bread soaked in water. lol

well ''boy's- will-be-boys''-----Lucky your eyes never fell out Frank lol xx
what's up with these pages"' ??will drive me mad---

i'll just cut to the chase---Jane take care on the road's --remember you can always stay over----As for tightsI'm just glad i can get my shoses on --

Fiona it looks like Canada with that snow you've more than we have .

It's a dull cold day --minis 9 if this keeps up will have to get out my bear skins lol xxx

I must try getting out tomorrow I've only a couple pressies to get --Cant put it of--other wise they will just get a ''HAND SHAKE AT-XMAS.lol xx

OG is on the move getting near lunch time --

it's 11.30 am here

I dare say you would !!

But it would only make your glasses steam up !!! lolol

Would rather be watching the stockings and suspenders lol

Your both little Tinkers !!! lol

All this talk of stocking and suspenders !!! watch your blood pressure lolol

Frank, good that your brother is now out of hospital, lets hope all goes well for him and he's walking with his frame soon.

I only wear tights when we go out for special occasions and i'am wearing a shirt ,usually wear trousers this weather ,don't think i could go back to wearing stockings again ,i think they would feel very strange to wear now after all this time ,i don't think i would risk wearing Hold ups ,would be frightened they might fall down.

Well Norwich has won, while that was on i wrapped some more presents ,still got more to buy ,i try to buy the little ones the same amount of things each and then i buy one of those big christmas bags each to put all their presents in.

Its been a dull day here ,not much of a thaw still plenty of snow about and the road out the front is terrible ,all packed down ice !!!
I noticed a Te*co delivery van slipping all over the place out the front he was trying to drive up the slope to the old people's flats beside us ,in the end he got out and walked the shopping up to them.

Easy tea tonight Pizza and home made Wedges ,only because i forgot to take the pork Steaks from the freezer !!! so we'll have them tomorrow.

Forgot the time again 3.27pm !!!!

Just thought. When the Mini shirts came in, before tights. The girls on the underground trains to London. Wore Mini skirts, with Stockings and Suspenders. That was a sight first thing in the morning for a 16 year old LAD> !!!! No wonder I wear glass's. LOL LOL 15.15pm

David, You little tinker !!! Stockings and suspenders, on a Sunday afternoon. I haven't seen those on woman for many years. All the rage in 50/60s. !!!!

Was going to say this morning, when it just posted on it's own. got the gremlins i think. !!

When my brother was in hospital the Doctors found his Arteries were so blocked they also did a TRIPLE BYPASS The family didn't tell me in case I worried. !!

Just been outside, Minus 4 at the moment, will get down to minus 7 tonight. I don't know about TIGHTS. Winter draws more appropriate.

Stay up stokings or crotchless tights for ventilation etc sound far more comfortable.

David

I have worn stockings and suspenders years ago not very comfy suspenders kept digging in. you will never have had that experience ?!!! lol
Stockings are still very much in fashion but now have elastic tops but most younger ladies just have bare legs.
I like wearing tights much warmer especially at this time of the year

14.49pm.

They do stay up stockings now. They would have been better than tights.

If they're keep comming down it would be uncomfortable and awkward.
Take them off again and wear stockings and suspenders.
What ever happened to them?
I'm supprised they never came back into fashion.

Afternoon all,

Had a call from my brother this morning. He came out of hospital last night. Nurse will call each day to change the dressing on his toe. He tell me that when he took himself off to hospital a couple of weeks ago. When the Doctor removed his dressing the little toe FELL OFF. !!! They have removed about two inches of his bone, and removed the gangrine. It will take him about six weeks to get up and about. He has a frame, for when he does.

Had my shower and washed hair (LIKE JANE). have done the veg for dinner.

Turned on TV and on Channal 5 was ANDRIE RIEU in concert in Dublin, Turned the sound right up and lah lahed to the music. What a tonic.

Jane will be on her way now, hope they have a safe journey, to and from the wedding.

It's a devil looking for doggie do's in the snow isn't it lol

Fiona the wedding is about a 1 and a half to 2 hours drive.Hopefully there will be no hold ups on the M1( I think it is the MI)
I have just put tights on,for the first time in years!!!!!!!!!! They feel very strange and the top keeps rolling down each time I sit down.My fault for having a fat tum lol.I will try not to keep hoiking them up.I can actually see me nipping into the ladies tonight and taking them off.