Morning everyone..It's a new week...11/08/2014

First topic message reminder :

I think when cumber is peeled it looks nicer sliced up.  

I have a jar of Cranberries Bond and I put a spoonful, teaspoon, to a salad, just my salad, or in a batch with chicken, every so often.   but grapefruit I've not had any for years and years,

Avatar.....St Mary's Warwick Don't know who the woman in pink is......

That good then about Matthew good to keep a open mind about the future,
Teaching it depends on where and who

Matthew's been here which was lovely......he's enjoying being at Uni, made some great mates, did well at his first year exams,  which wasn't a surprise,  talked about whether to go to Teachers training but he was saying the pros and cons,  then talking about going into Insurance my SIL had said to Matthew they're crying out for good maths students,  though the Country is crying out for Maths Teachers.    None of his Uni friends are doing Maths.  

Right later......

Hi all ,yes the Morgan top of the range wheel on each corner are a thing of beauty with the long flowing wheel arches
On the tour we were on was a Man that had been on the waiting list for years and he knew his was being built (all hand built ) so he came on the tour in the hope of seeing it ,if it had been in the spray area he wouldn't as the tour didn't go there,
There is still some wood in the frame but the main part is a big lump of metal/aluminium? But they have to get the wood from a different area than the used too as with all the wars and fighting that's gone on they have found lumps of metal and bullets hidden in the wood that they don't see until the saw hit them and ruins the blade ,
John had a beautiful silver grey with red upholstery one stored in his garage for a friend's dad that was having work done at his house

Not my cup of tea either Carole but only around 800 cars built a year,    the Morgan company have been going since 1909 ........it is a status symbol though,  you go on a waiting list to get a Morgan. it's  about £70,000 to £90,00      But I agree with you it's not my cup of tea.  

Yes Margaret and Bond I can imagine  owners looking at it as a fighter plane    White scarf flying. leather cap, googles    

Avatar.....more cars and you can see the Morgan badge  on the building. Though the photo is a bit dark.   These are more like a sports car though the 3 wheeler are more popular.


Oh Matthew is popping over ........he's had a holiday with some Uni mates, in this country,

04:40:58
Morning and White Rabbits X 3 to one and ALL

Starting off at 67f today going up to the low 80;s
which it seems is MY bodies BOILING point as last night
I had to go into my bedroom and put my A/C on as i could not get cool
with the fans in the living room and windows all open
They are saying though the nasty humidity will be returning
and some scattered thunder storms coming in Friday

Bond/Vicky  its telling me Atherstone and Nuneaton are dry but could see
some  over night but that you are only in the low 60's
right now

Not sure I would want to drive in that car Vicky

Marge you do realize we have yet ANOTHER thing in common
I started work in Dec 1957 just before my 15th birthday with my
Aunt at the Armstrong Siddeley
she was a Verifier I was taught on the Hollerith machines punching
all the info onto cards that then went to her ,I LOVED it but after
learning you sat with your head down and just your hand on the key
pad never having to look up from the keys  and THAT was when my body got what
the DR said was Abdominal Migraine as I would first start with a  bad headache
then get REALLY sick to my stomach
Ended up I was being taken to the nurses office to lie down more than working ,so I
had to give it up ,Dr said find a job with more fresh air and where
I was moving around {went to the  Coop greengrocers in Tile Hill}
Nothing MORE FRESH AIRED than THERE  

Our offices were also in a "hanger" type room no windows
except WAY up in the roof My supervisor told my aunt I was a natural
maybe why after coming here I was good on a store register punching
in things people bought and then when I trained as a Telephone operator
and from the old "Cord Board" we went to key pads , my boss said
he was amazed at how FAST I sent a call to extensions
Magic FINGERS  

OK waiting on Spencer to get up ,have the windows open and screened
back door to get a bit of cooler air before I will have to close them

Lasagna today I am thinking with a LARGE fresh salad

MORNING LADIES  

White rabbits x 3 good morning all from Atherstone it's a bright morning here but grey in the horizon,
Marg I've seen one like that with the sharks mouth
Teeth with the RAF roundel on the back part it it's a popular style,
Breakfast and it's cornflakes and cold milk coffee tea and a large lemon and lime for later
We are off to Hinckley to do some birthday presents for the grandkids

Dannys wife's father (In the US) bought one of those
3 wheelers and had it done up as a wingless plane
with all the decals on it! 
He ever wore a leather helmet while driving it! 
Flaps flowing in the wind. 
He passed away a couple of years ago so i guess
they sold it  but it was a sight to see him driving it
out on the main highway!

Rob goes to the factory often they get things from his company.

Hi Vicky,sorry I missed out ? , I blacked out ,must of been the steam
Yes a Morgan a very fast motor iv done a really good tour of the factory
To cover all the rules over there in  parts of America it's sold as a three wheeler motorbike
Did you get to see Alexander and Buckingham Palace, next it's Queen Victoria trying to get rid of the rats
Roll on the jiggling strappy tops

Bond you missed out  "But I never saw any of it I'd come to an interesting part of my book.....so the guy  sitting near me had to tell me what I'd missed"

Avatar......this car Rob took I think it's an old Morgan.

We just hit 82f here but with 69% humidity it feels like 86f !

Hi Marg that's the girl guides in you
like idea of the magnifying glass ,no good having a map if you can't read the little print.
Put the Snickers in the freezer

I found the large magnifying glass in the storm bag in my car.
I set that up at the beginning of the storms we had here.
It was just basis stuff, a pair of hiking boots, a Pack a Mack
(Still got mine) and a AAA paper map of the local area.
I put the magnifying glass in there to read the street names
if I got caught somewhere I was not familiar with.
I also put some Snickers bars in there, which after all this time
had melted to mush! Good job I put them in a jiffy bag!
The small magnifying glass is still AWOL! 
One has to be prepared if the wifi goes out and the iPad or mobile
won't work.

I am more the country girl stock, never looked fetching in
a swimsuit.  
Thighs were too fat and when us girls had a diet contest
at work ,I weighed the most even after following  the same diet
plan as the rest of them.
My natural weight was 140lbs, got down to 137lbs but it
would not stay there even with all the cycling I was doing. 
Peter and I did a lot of dancing in those days too. 
Every week it was the Locarno or the ballroom at the then new
Police station. We are talking about Jiving! 
along with the Foxtrot and Quickstep. 
During rainy days at school when we could not go out for PE,
we did Scottish Country Dancing in the big assembly hall.
I should have been wafer thin! 

Hi Vicky,excite me as much as you can I'll put up with the cough and keep taking the lemon and honey,
When we only had John we had a holiday in Ibiza
Almost all the beach was topless but a group of Scandinavian girls came down jeans flying jackets
Cost and cowboy boots and take the lot off just folding their knickers into a small V to cover their lady garden ,so no tan lines .

Hi Guy's......and it's rain, stop, rain, stop. dry at the moment.

Oh going topless was nothing to do with being a good girl Carole just felt  "I don't think so"  though I did go without a bra when I wore a silky blouse,  before Susan was born so I was in my early 30's onwards.    but topless      but I went to France and sitting on the beach with lots of topless women I thought it was silly not to.       No I was sating I used to say "I'm not that sort of girl"   because I just wasn't that sort of girl,  and if I ever did my gran would kill me,  until I was 19, almost 20 and I just thought "Oh why not"  and so did,  

Oh well Carole just think of the Hay Wain and that's the photo, though more up to date, steps now going down to the water where the Hay Wain didn't have but same cottage there.

Lovely Bridge Bond and do keep taking the lemon and honey etc/ We'll have try and not excite you.

We like your  waffling, Margaret.

Later......

Hi both,I don't think I could work with my dad .I remember many years ago towards the end of my apprenticeship we were doing maintenance work at the same place ,my mate who I was going to be a £10 pom with ( he went ) any way he came back from the wash room and said I've just had a shock I just heard your dad swearing really swearing he was shocked he had never or I never did and he never heard me ,
I have got a couple of bottles co-ops own cough mixture mrsb for a wet cought and my is for a dry thickly cough ,to coat your clack in sweet stickiness, I only really went to the doctor's today as last night after getting all wet,I was drinking a hot lemon and honey and cought and they started cough cough cough as it went down the way it shouldn't and the cough cough cough was that strong and long I blacked out only for a second but out of it ,the excitement of washing Vicky's hair,
So I was checked out again and all well so keep drinking the honey and lemon and the cough mixture

I think my Dad was hoping I would work at Armstrong Siddeley. 
Not on your Nellie! 
Having him looking over my shoulder for 8 hours was not on. 
I told the lady at the Youth Employment Center that I would be willing
to go almost anywhere else but there!
She warned me that AWA was not taking any more trainees but
in my case she thought it was worth a try. 

As it turned out I took some drawings I had done in art school on 
perspective and having 3 aunts who were tracers at other companies.
gave me a head start. I was on probation for 6 months.
I had to practice, practice, practice!
Also, I was the runner taking the original drawings along with the 
completed tracings out to the mainly male drawing and stress office.
I did the tea and batch runs too. 
Luckily, I never got sent to the tech place for a left -handed screwdriver!
( All the male trainees  went through that bit of nonsense) 

The Leader of our Hen Run as it was known thought I had promise.
so did the whole 3 year qualification. There must have been about
300 men working in that converted hanger.
We did not have a proper tracers office but a partition wall with windows.
so we had to walk down the whole office to get to the ladies room. 
We were watched by a load of chicken hawks! 
We even became part of the stress program by walking over one of the 
metal floor plates for the Argosy with our stiletto heels! 
It was an experience I look back on fondly. 
After Peter completed his degree at Cranfield, we both went back there
to work again, this time the tracing section was in the Missile side.

I also worked on the Lofting tables for a while.
A left over from the navy days where you drew on the steel plates
on a group of tables. I was made to wear a white Lab coat to keep
my petticoats from going up when I leaned down to draw on the plates!
(I was working on my knees most of the time) 

I was not aware I was giving them a peep show!  
The company was owned by a nice quaker man who did not understand
women wanting to work in trousers! 

Its 70f here and partly sunny here, it's still quite humid but it is early yet.
High tide warning along our coast, 7 foot waves are not usual here. 

The wildfires we have in S California are all under some control or
are being ground burned to keep the trees safe. 
The fire map on my computer looks like the Pacific Coast states are
coping with a lot of fires but we have some of the best firefighters
in this country working them. 

It's all done with a mutual aid agreement between all fire departments.
If anyone has a spare vehicle and crew, they send them.
You would not believe the on location backup at the really big fires.
Its tent city! (In a safe location I might add) Food and water is donated
and phone service is provided. Usually, it's cool shaded place to rest.
Enough waffling, time to get cracking here. 
Love to all.

09:55:53
I'm back  mowed the back grass then took a shower 
Then ran to the store for things I forgot Sunday
After coming back just made Spencers work sarnie 
put on a pan of rice and when the cut up chicken breast 
defrosts I will finish cooking dinner
But right NOW ,IM RELAXING 

BOND may I suggest you try a sinus medication 
gotten over the counter see if that helps 
Mucinex .Sudafed Sinex 


Nice avatar btw

Good afternoon,I did feel a time wasters as I didn't cough once I walked there and back and did cough,it was the nurse I saw this time she gave me a good going over she thinks it was a virus thats taking some getting over but cary on what you are doing,if it gets worse come back ,
I know Carole rubber gloves and plastic mac's only a little kinky but Vicky's hair did look lovely lots of body and bounce
Avatar is canal bridge next but one to Michael it's about ten to fifteen minutes walk from my house and that gets you into the canal and a lovely flat walk,the blackberries should be out now

New avatar
old garden and one of my peach
colored roses

04:45:57
Good morning
Well what happened was expecting to have to read BACK and nothing
last night
EXCEPT all the talk of going TOP LESS
sorry I am with Marge on that ,never had the confidence
even when first married before having kids would I feel that I looked
OK to strip in public and it had NOTHING to do with being
a "GOOD" girl

Glad your seeing about your cough Bond ,do you have post nasal drip?
could be that

Well it was a GORGEOUS day yesterday and some of the same today
as all the humidity got pushed down to the south and will stay there
for a few more days

Blaine's last week of holiday most of which he has spent first thing

I cannot sleep like my sons do if I am in bed like that its because
I was SICK

Anyway today I want to run the mower over the back grass
but have to also pop back to the store as I forgot a couple of things
yesterday

Vicky I am seeing Matt & Susan with their knitted hats on
and that is on my not my kindle

Last day of July already ,Spencer went to see his grandson
Kahi ,he had put on a pound so 9lb 2oz now Britt said he is a good baby
she will eventually be going back to work and when I asked who will
look after him she said her Mother Jackie is planning on retiring
{must be an early retirement as she is only around Spencer's age and he will be
60 in October , so how she is planning THAT I do not know as here you have to be
62 in order to apply like I had to after being laid off at 59 then I had
to try and find jobs back then until I was old enough ,but it was HARD as NO
one wanted to hire a woman of my age regardless of HOW
MANY YEARS experience I had ,instead wanting to hire the teens
for less $$$$$$

To retire at FULL time is now 67+yrs back when I would have retired full time
had I not been laid off I would have only had to have worked until I was
65 and 10 mths which would have been 2006 instead we got out
in June of 2002 when I would have had 34 yrs service instead of
28

WHoops better stop nattering I will pop in later

MORNING LADIES

BTW I see showers for BOTH Bond and Vicky

Good morning all from Atherstone it's a bit grey but no rain,
I'm going to docs this morning one thing to see about ordering my warfarin tablets but also to see about this little cough that's become almost a habit just cough cough and that's it but odd times lts a little more
I know that was a Knock bad about the tree ,
Breakfast and it's cornflakes and cold milk coffee tea and a large lemon and lime
Back later
We need some sunshine
Nice photo Vicky I'll get my brushes

Oh no Margaret it took me until I was 40 that it was ok off with my bikini top.

Oh I was very "Stop it I'm not that kind of girl"  though I think I gave that impression  anyway so only a few guys tried it,  and got the "I'm not that kind of girl"   my Gran would of killed me.    I can honestly say I didn't do anything until I was 19.

I have gone topless in the back garden  since the kids have left home,   you can't see into the back garden.......unless you're up a tree.     Though that's out now with all the workmen about next door.

New avatar .....this photo was taken by Rob in 2018 when he had to go to look at a job and this is where John Constable painted the Hay Wain.

I was too self conscious to do anything that daring.
I guess it was a form of protection, did not want to be caught
doing anything that could get back to my dad!
(Old prudy pants who never wore underwear!) 
I was at school until I was 15 and then started at AWA
in Whitley only weeks later. 
Never been let off the leash! 
The young trainees and apprentices were as wet behind the ears
as I was!  Too much at stake to be wild and crazy. 
We could not afford to go anywhere. I started going out with Peter
only 3 months later. I had heard wild stories about his time in
Germany at a mixed Boarding school (for children of military 
serving in the British zone as it was then) so was not going to
allow him to get up to any Hanky Panky. 
I had my rules and one of those was to keep my clothes on! 
(except when at a swimming pool.) 

I had heard too many stories of other girls being talked into 
doing "stuff" and then being dumped. 
( I worked in an area with 20 other women who were Tracers)
No women engineers in those days. 
After being at a mixed school but separated by classes and playgrounds,
I did not trust any male! 
Peter and I could never afford holidays while in the UK. 
We might stay at his parent's house for a few days but that was like
being at my house! 
It took having money here for us to sightsee all the usual places
that other people went to.

Good job it's a good size shower
The first time mrsb went topless was also in France,we were there with some friends so she said you go that end of the beach we will stay here and no walking about,we hadn't been there five minutes and someone walked by and don't I know you you come from Atherstone, it was someone we knew from other friends ,after that it was I don't mind we can all sit together,we have a photo swinging her bikini bottoms around her head she was deep in the sea ,

Awww Margaret so sorry to hear you're down.       Come and join Bond and me .....that'll make you laugh.  I'll have to tell him which is Benjie's shampoo, you can check to make sure he's not playing silly devils.    

It was when we all went to France I went topless for the first time,   the boys were in their teens, they couldn't believe it  Mum going topless  but hey after a few days wearing my bikini top I looked at these women and though "Blow it" so off came my top.  but that was only in France, other places  we stayed around the pool so top stayed on.    

Oh yes raining here too

Hi Marg I remember seeing the first topless lady on a beach who had had a boob job they stud up like ice-cream cones with a cherry on the top

Sorry a bit late but been sitting on my pitty pot for a while. 
( A quaint expression for feeling sorry for yourself) 
I find if I allow myself to feel the feelings even if for only
a short time, I feel better. 

Its one of "those" days here, cat won't eat, cannot find my magnifying
glass and the TV is on the blink again. 
I can solve the cat food problem by buying more of what she is crazy about
right now. (That might last until tea time) 
Office supply shop is right round the corner from PetSmart! (Magnifying glass)
The TV remote has no written instructions on how to reset it. 
So off to the Spectrum place at noon which is when they open on Sundays.
(It has 3 tiny lines of print on the back but its instructions might as well
be in Double Dutch!)
I cannot tell without a magnifying glass! 
 
I would guess that the humidity is at the same level as the temperature 
at the moment. 73f and 73% 
Ocean temperature is around 68f in the bay. On a good day its 72f,
Bath water temps! 
It's much cooler out in the open ocean of course.
 
If I was you Bond,I would keep the Budgie catchers on.
Cannot frighten the kiddies you know. 
Out here the trend is for the women to show more of what they
have up top! Some do not look good with them up under their chins!
You can certainly tell who has had a Boob job now. 

I think it's time I went and looked in my car for the magnifying glass. 
TTFN XXX

It's just started here , right rubber gloves and a PAC a Mac as you do splash about a bit
I could go a bit on that pudding mm mmm
Blow the Pac a Mac I'll just take my clothes off

Still ok here Carole.

Right I'm off wash my hair.....you ready Bond?

Oh this is the pud I had when we stayed at Coombe Abbey it was caramelised apricot at the bottom then rice pudding then ice cream and spun sugar ......oh it was to die for.....well not really but boy was it good.

Hi Carole,no it's fine here it went a bit cooler half hour ago so I moved indoors but the sun's out now and it's lovely and warm sitting in the window,
So is it a large lemon and lime,I've got a
Hi Vicky,I'm good with the shampoo job head well back , are you going any where nice for you holidays ?
Thank you for the smiles ,what are we going to talk about tonight,I have my tools polished

10 minutes passed 2 Carole and no rain yet.....we will get it this afternoon sometime though.   So they say.  

Yes we have a conversation Bond don't we.?  

I only had cornflakes this morning Bond.....we did go for a drive and stopped at McDonald's  and I had nuggets,  just nuggets on their own and a cuppa    David had chicken select and fries and a coffee.   then we sat in the car watching the world go by.   I've got to wash my hair in a mo.

Later then.......my book is good.

New Avatar......big smile for you Bond.

08:57:28
I'm back ,ummm looks like its already  in both Nuneaton 
and Atherstone    
Relaxing now after putting groceries away ,Blaine carried them up for me
Back later

Time for a cup of coffee in the sun before the grey clouds come rolling our way
It's Dame Helen Miriam birthday today a good 78
Now she had some very good of her when a bit younger but still good today ,a lot of Basque and suspenders shots on Facebook
Soon be somebody else we knows birthday
Morning Carole mind how you go with that trolley
Thats what I liked about CB radio quick chats with people

05:31:45
Morning
FLIPPING HECK you two chatter bugs
Back n forth with your two liners

OK it FEELS wonderful right now our temps DROPPED after the
storms last night from 80's to 65f
There was a confirmed tornado in a town called Chaplin CT
only probably a EF-1 or 2 but causing damage never the less

OK your weather
Bond dry 64f right now with a possible after 3pm
Vicky a bit earlier for you around 2pm its telling me

I have to do my today so cannot dilly dally

BUT I SHALL return

MORNING LADIES

Good morning all from Atherstone it's a bright morning here,
So much to choose from could I have a  cream scone please
I do love that dress such bright colours and figure hugging fits like a glove .
It's breakfast time and Sunday so pancakes lemon juice and syrup
Carole they are very thin even crispy on the edges
Tea coffee and a large lemon and lime
Back later

Ok speak tomorrow Bond......

Avatar.....reading the menu

When king George bought for his German queen
He had only met her for hours and she was a shadow after her weeks sea journey but they made up for it with 15 yes 15 children
Last drinks before bed
It's the Grace Kelly story now

Yes it was built for the Duke of Buckingham .

It is very good, fastening,
It's still Buckingham house not palace yet and it 700 odd rooms

We've recoding it Bond.

Very nice Vicky a bit of class
Are you watching Buckingham palace on the box it's very interested,back to when it was the Buckinghams private house until the mad king bought it 260 years ago
Have you hit the caramel yet

Ok just the one and I'll make last a long time.

I must sort my tools out ,
Any way only one chocolate or you'll never fit back into the lace dress

I love rich things.......though the odd job man is interesting too

Only one Maltesers thing as they are very rich
Kinky boots Missy

Yes that's what you're seeing Bond.   Lady of the Manor    Tea please .....

Got you now lady of the Manor
Fancy a tea
They are a bit Maltesers but with a salted caramel
Soft center
No it was the old one of Benjie and Susan,you put it on last week sometime

Hi , good job I can look it the back door as as I'm seeing Benjie and Susan on the sofa ,
I've been happy painting a Captain America sheeld and a Captain America mask so he will be already to leap into action to save the world or at least save nany from the dinosaurs

New avatar......Lady of the Manor. No not seen a fly around for ages and ages