General Chat

Hi, Diana and Berona - didn't see you.

Diane hopefully the novelty will wear off as far as your enthusiastic neighbours are concerned:-))

Sue xx

Hi Berona
You came on while I was posting, I live in Liverpool, what area was OH from. You say there had been changes in 1989 when you last came here, well you would be shocked at how much it has changed since then. Some of the new building's that have gone up for Capital of Culture are awful, the view of the Pier Head from the other side of the Mersey has changed so much and not for the better, The main Building's like the Liver bird's and India bulding's have been dwarfed by new modern monstrosity's, and the worse one is a straight tall one with a square block on top of it { Yuk } .

Diane

Looking for your Piggs? and you live in Herriot country? Very handy! Are you, by any chance, in the veterinary business?

Diane, I quite like Liverpool but I have to say it had changed in just four years between visits. We went last year and wanted to do a Beatles tour. We had missed the tour bus and the yellow submarine so the tourist info. fellow phoned someone who takes people by taxi on various tours. Well we had the best time - it was cheaper for four people than the bus, we saw so much more and he knew the lady who lives in Ringo Starr's old home and she allowed us inside. It was incredible. He also had a little claim to fame himself as he is the brother of Holly Johnson from Frankie Goes to Hollywood. He not only took us to the former homes of the Beatles he also took us to Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane and the graveyard where Eleanor Rigby's gravestone is. We had such a good time. OH and my brother are huge Beatles fans and they still discuss it in detail everytime we meet.

Sue xx

Edit - Berona, Linda said DON'T ask:-)))

lol Berona, my Piggs have two g's in the surname and are of the two legged variety.

I remember the Birkenhead ferry crossing Diane and the nice view of Liverpool from there. My sister used to live in Eastham woods on the Wirral side, right on the side of the river,so you got a good view, pity about the oil terminals when you looked the other way though

Good morning/eveening all,

Colin, I'm glad you enjoyed the joke: as Diane said, I did post it on another thread a couple of weeks ago. Regarding Kalgoorlie, at one stage flights were going to be operated to the Eastern Staes from there. The airport is only one of two commercial ones able to handle the big jets.

I feel sorry for people when they say a flight has been diverted to Kalgoorlie, particularly if they do not know WA. They probably think that it is about fifty or so miles from Perth!

Linda, keep taking the tablets, as the old saying goes, and Diane you also take care.

Sue, your grandson sounds like a real little charmer and it's nice for him to get the attention.

Berona, a beautiful day in Bunbury yesterday although the wind was still around. It took the bite from the heat. The Leschenault Estuary was very placid and families making the most of the remaing day or so of the school hols.

Allan

Good Morning Berona,
Are you skipping today?
All of your vast country and only 21 million, whereas on this little island there are 61 million - standing room only. I expect when you came to England in the early fifties it would have been quite an adventure, as people didn't travel as they do now.

Linda,
I can see the Lleyn Peninsular and Bardsey Island from my house, tonight it is very clear across the bay, and I can see the lights twinkling on the other side - sometimes it disappears in the sea fog.

Tec

Diane, my OH was raised in West Derby. He made a business trip there in 1982 and saw his siblings; then in 1989, I went with him to see them again, but they were in Winsford, and he wouldn't take me to see their old house because it had deteriorated when he saw it previously and he didn't want to go there - so I didn't get to see much of Liverpool. He had seen it on his earlier trip and was quite shocked - but he had been away from it for more than thirty years! Cities change. It's hard to realise that while you're away because you remember them as you last saw them.

I lived in London while I was there in the fifties and I too, saw changes when I went back. Even the people had changed! No longer were they all people whose ancestry was obviously English!

Ahh, Berona, the cultural changes of the early fifties in th UK. I was living in Manchester at the time in a suburb called Rusholme. It was adjacent to Moss Side. There was a major influx of West Indians, presumably to help the shortfall in manpower following the war, as many became bus drivers and conductors and hospital orderlies.

Once that group had assimilated and integrated along came the Indians and Pakistanis.

Interesting times!

Allan

Time for bed here, I have had a busy day once again, so I need my beauty sleep.

On second thoughts, it is probably too late for that,so I will just sleep and hope.

Good night everyone.

Tec, I wasn't ignoring you, honestly.

I thought that I had given you greetings but apparently I hadn't

Allan

Hello Sue, Diane, Allan, anyone I missed,
Ionly turned my back for a minute to take the dog into the garden, and you all arrived at once on the same bus. I've now caught up with posts.

Tec

I'm just going to make my son and myself some banana's and custard, be bck soon

Diane

Edited= goodnight Linda sweet dream's hun

Skipping, Tec? Moi? Well, I suppose I would be, but I just can't seem to find any rope at the moment!

Goodnight Linda, sleep well.

Tec

Goodnight linda

Allan

Tec, Berona could always mix skipping with dancing and skip the light fandango

Allan

'night Linda.

Take care.

You boys make me tired, just listening to you say what I should be doing!

Editted to say there was a time when I could tap dance whilst skipping but that was a looooong time ago - I had forgotten about it until now.

Allan,
I know you would not ignore me - it gets a bit frantic on here sometimes and I have a job keeping up - story of my life.

Berona, I've got some rope, Allan can holds one end, and I the other, you can skip in the middle - how high can you jump?

Sue, Grandson sounds very bright and good fun - I have three little boys live near me, brothers. They treat me like some kind of celebrity, trouble is they all talk at once, telling me all their news, but great fun.

Diane, Enjoy the bananas and custard (any lumps)

Tec