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Mel, you will soon be living next to a mountain at this rate. I hope he has been keeping an eye open for any artifacts or buried treasure. lol

Iced Coffee's all round tomorrow then !!

Hubby's pleased his friend who is an Architect phoned tonight with two jobs for hubby to price ,one close to home and one at Wells on the coast !
The Architect said did he mind going that far to work ,hubby said no its work !!
he has worked close to Stansted Airport !!

Evening all
It's much more cooler now, I even finished off the last of my ironing, much more pleasent to do when it's not hot.
Just got to do the clear varnish on my wishing well tomorrow, have done the pot blue and the sides but going to clear varnish the roof , then will get some plants and I once I'm finished I take a pic and e-mail it to you
Garden is looking good still a lot of weeds though they keep springing up over night.
I'm going to call it a day on here now.
will watch the tele for a while then of to bed.

Goodnight to every one

Night Night Fiona ,nice to see you back

Don't think i'll be long before i go to bed, this hot weather is draining !!

Have taken the dumper back to our friends across the road and down a bit. Now we have borrowed his cement mixer! More beer hand outs.

Having trouble tonight getting mum and baby away and I think they are in the box hedge!!

Nice to hear from Fiona on the thread. Wishing well sounds nice. I bought myself 4 tins of that garden paint and only used some. When I went to use it to paint some canes for the tunnel it had gone all gloopy. When I read the tin it said keep in a frost free place and it had been in the shed all winter and shed has no door. That was £40 up the shoot!!!!

Am going to have to turn off laptop and Hannah needs to turn hers off as OH is trying to download something and it is taking too long as we are all on line lol
See you all again tomorrow on what I think will be another hot day.xx

Well, when it had gone a bit cooler OH led me up the garden (lol) to see the bunnies in the field. There were 5, .....one big one and 5 youngsters munching away. Just after, as he was locking the windows he called me again. Trotting down the side path was......a hedgehog!! As soon as I said we'd never seen any at this house we find 1 in the greenhouse, 3 in the pond and now this one!! It explains those black blobs and streaks we keep finding down there on the path. I'm going to hang around with my camera at the same time tomorrow and see if it comes again.

Mel, years ago when my first OH and I did a lot of work on a house, we had a little orange concrete mixer. OH used to load it and I would be in charge of adding just the right amount of water, then holding the barrow when he filled it so it didn't tip over!! Having helped mix some by hand, a mixer is worth it's weight in gold.

Hope we can all get a good nights sleep in this heat. I'm finding the shower won't go cool enough for me now. Nighty night.......hope no more daddy longlegs come in tonight. xx

GOOD MORNING---ALL--

YES it's me back again have been busy last couple day's --wont boar you .
just trying to clear up yard to take to waste dump,couldn't get my trellis-up
on my roses-Take OG to clinic--etc--See how boaring----
Thank you for the EM & pic's--that was some size wheel Finley was sitting in & how cute wee Amilia is she is comming along well--

Fiona not to much good health luck between you & your girl poor soul I know the feeling with my eyes & hay fever-
Frank----''Some-mother-do-have-them"" that's all I can say about you lol xx

Mel I can see OH reaching China in no time if you dont stop him lolxx



Amos I think the book OLD DOG TOM IS A BEACON READER

BBL WILL MAKE THE COFFEE

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Jane i'm going to make that coffee but only put one cup cold water & one cup ice cube and put in blender--should make something like
TIM-HORTONS---CAPACHINO DONT YOU THINK????

VERY HOT HERE GOING UPTO 27/8 THINK I'LL TOSS THE BIRD'S OUT OF BIRD BATH AND USE IT MYSELF---XXXX

Morning Shirl.
Phew it is hot already.Chester wasn't really interested in his very early walk so it lasted all of 10 minutes.He seems very uncomfortable around his back end so I think I will ring the vet when they open.
I forgot to make up the coffee last night so have just done it now.I'm hoping it will be delicious later although it won't be the same as Tim Hortons Shirl lol

Worms?

Morning All,

Yet another lovely day, this is more like I remember summers of long ago. I do hope it dos'nt rain yet as OH is getting on nicely with the hole.

Sand and cement etc has just arrived as I type!!

I don't think so David,there is no sign of that and he has had his worm tablets.
I have an appointment at 9 so that is good before the temperature gets too much.
I think I might have made that coffee too strong but with a girt big dollop of vanilla icecream it may be fine.

Chesters problem is allergies due to pollens etc.He has had a steroid injection and a week supply of tablets.
Coffee chilling nicely in the fridge now.I shall look forward to that later.

Touch wood no beetle things here,although when I was sweeping the floor just now I found a huge dead one under the hostess trolley!.
I must get off to the post office now so BBL

I'm having real problems posting here today

I'm not!

I remember being able to walk to and from school of a morning with a couple of friends from about the age of 9/10years, I would have a shilling a day 9pence for school dinner and 3pence to spend on sweets, I would be able to get 4blackjacks for 1penny, 2flying saucers and 2shrimps and would eat them as I walked to school. School dinner was lovely and I remember having stew and tapioca with a pinksyrup, or Chocolate sponge and sauce.

The school was called English Martyrs it was a Catholic school, we had to learn the catechism and stand up in front of the nuns and repeat after their questions eg “Who made you” ---answer “God made me” “Why did God make you” ---answer “to know him, love him and serve him in this world and to be happy with him forever in the next”. And on and on it would go, I still actually remember pages of catechism. Wednesday we would go to the adjoining church, the priest would always say "those of your who failed to attend church on Sunday are recognised" and we would all get scared (if we hadn't attended) that he might call out our name.
The school had an annexe across the road and I remember once my teacher gave me a written message to take over to another female teacher, and I looked every where for her. I finally found her down in the cells, (it was an old police station) kissing a male teacher. They never even bothered to stop kissing; she just turned her head to me, while I gave her the message.
At school I sat next to the son of a very well known local gangster, he used to get out a flick knife under the desk and if you made a noise or shouted out to tell the teacher or the teaching nun's it would be you that got into trouble and taken to the front of the class and whacked across the hand with a ruler. I remember how this boy and a couple of others once got into the school loft and found birds eggs and started to pelt all and sundry in the playground with them, they were raining down hitting people on the body and head and the headmaster was shouting at them to come down.
At about the age of 8 I made my first communion, I had a lovely white dress and veil and after the service we had a long procession around the local streets some of the boys carried banners and people would line the way to watch. The pipers were at the front playing and leading the way, (it was a big event).

Shopping was always purchased each day, no supermarkets freezers ect, we would go to the local Butchers, Bakers, Greengrocers and Mum knew all the names of the staff or owners of these small shops, sometimes on a Saturday or Sunday after Mass we would go to East Street Market, or the lane as it was known to locals, you could buy almost anything down the lane, puppies were kept in play pens until a buyer came along, birds in cages, fruit, vegetables, household items anything you might want at bargain prices. I loved to pet the puppies and remember going home with at least one from the playpen. I remember being able to walk to and from school of a morning with a couple of friends from about the age of 9/10years, I would have a shilling a day 9pence for school dinner and 3pence to spend on sweets, I would be able to get 4blackjacks for 1penny, 2flying saucers and 2shrimps and would eat them as I walked to school. School dinner was lovely and I remember having stew and tapioca and pinksyrup,or Chocolate sponge and sauce.

Every Christmas Dad would go down the lane to get our Christmas dinner a large Turkey and he always came back with a box of fancy hankies for Mum Lace edged with an imitation rose inside. The trouble was he would go after the Christmas drink he had at work and would be half cut coming along the road carrying the Turkey by the neck and the box of hankies to give mum as a sweetener. The turkey had to be cleaned and plucked before cooking and it would just about fit inside the oven. I would go to bed on Christmas Eve with a pillowcase hanging on the back of the door waiting for Father Christmas to creep in with my presents which would always include a tangerine, some pennies a Rupert Annual and a selection box (oh how I hated Rupert) and whatever would be my main present, perhaps a doll, a post office set, or a compendium of games (not much fun being a only child) and I also remember one year a typewriter.

We would play out for hours and thinking now I don’t suppose my mum would have ever know where I was, We never did anything that would cause permanent distress like some of the kids today. It was just a laugh, and you would always get caught out yourself from time to time.
For instance, we would go to the Neptune’s the fish shop and get our threepenny portion of chips. We would then lean on the railings outside eating them. We were eagerly awaiting the next customer to enter the shop. Why? Because the the last one of us to use the condiments had carefully unscrewed the lid of the giant salt pot till it was barely hanging on the last thread! Another unsuspecting victim was about to get a quarter pound of Saxa all over his cod and chips!
It was hard, and sometimes frightening, trying to keep a straight face while denying all knowledge of the offence when you found out that they could run faster than you could. There was always something to do in those days. We didn’t have computer games or electronic toys, and the nearest thing we had to a mobile phone, were two Cocoa tins, one on each end of a length of string. But we always found something to do that although sometimes annoying to adults, was never vicious or cruel to them.

Morning everyone ,
What a lovely day again ,wonder how long this weather will last ,we always seem to end up with a storm after the heat .

Poor old Chester, what would we do without the Vet !! the heat does seem to get to them too,Toby's just laying about ,i'am trying to keep him in ,he will lay and pant in the sun !!

Just had my go on the FMP site and found my Gt Grandfather and mother in 1911 they had 7 children ,3 died ,i didn't know that, i thought there was only 4 children .

Going to have a iced coffee now i might add some ice and put it in the blender .
Meant to say don't be put off by the ice cream floating on the top of the coffee poke it down with the straw and it should gradually melt in .