General Chat

I remember as a boy that big freeze. Ice on the insides of the windows

Snow ? it was half way up wall !! No cars or buses running.

How people got to work and back beggars belief.

My Father worked for Wimpey. I remember him getting picked up

in a lorry, he travelled in the back. He must have been frozen to the bone.

Maggie your childhood always sounds more like an adventure from a childrens book I read in my childhood :-D Maybe thats why I have always enjoyed reading about it on here I am often mesmerized. :-D

Madge, I suppose it was unusual.
Probably because dad was in the Fleet Air Arm, and neither of our parents would live in married quarters, so we ended up in fairly strange places.
Then I met my ex, whose father had been in the Navy, and we carried on traveling until the children were born.

When I moved here, I was 34, and it was my 28th move.
Some moves had been to just down the road, others to miles away.
Ex and I moved 4 times in Shetland.
6 months in a tent at Clickimin Broch, then we moved to a mouse infested croft house, at Eswik, with gas lighting in the kitchen and candles everywhere else.
Then another croft house on East Burra, and finally, a caravan next to Sumburgh Airport. The caravan actually had a flushable indoor toilet - the first we'd had in Shetland!
It also had a tiny, empty shower cubicle, with no shower so we bought one of those huge pumps for weedkiller, which we filled with hot water.
One of us took the nozzle in the cubicle, the other was the other side of the curtain, furiously pumping the container - Our shower! :-D :-D

Of course I read people's posts!
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Oh, that's generous of you! :-D

See I can count on one hand the address I have lived in my life time we have lived in this house for the past 24 yrs ...all had flushable loos and running hot water, by eck I dint know I 'wer born :-D

Your life was one aventure Maggie ;-)