The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

Morning Fencers . I have a busy couple of hours ahead so no time to reply . Just had a quick scan through and will be back later .

maryc If you come back here even to read please read the post by Fuddle .
She has had a long journey through a complex debt situation . In the years she has posted here about it she has got through and is now a strong woman with the life she hoped for .

Fuds Well done on the sock . Mar seems a bit quiet at the moment but I'm sure she can guide you through the casting off . I've only done the cheats socks , I don't have the patience for the type Mar knits . I feel proud of you today , I remember the start of the learning to knit .
Have you booked the Pneumo vaccine yet ? I did leave a reminder or two after DD got the letter . x

Back later , hope all have a decent day and hugs for those struggling .
polly x

Cranky, When Hester retires in October do you think that between boat cleanings and (cough, cough,) other activities, she might be persuaded to write her memoirs. I for one, would pay good money for them.
As for the stork recipe book, I inherited Mum's and have it to this day, together with scribbled notes.
If your father did no more than tidy your shoes away count your lucky stars. My mother would have tossed up if you really wanted to keep them, did she really like them on you, were you likely to grow out of them in the near future? Whatever, you were very unlikely to see them again, or if you did they would probably be adorning the feet of the child down the road who came from a poor family who couldn't afford shoes for the children.

The one thing my father treasured above all else was a letter that Mum wrote him during the war. Mum had a wonderful way with words and the letter she wrote to Dad describing how she and I escaped from Southampton in the middle of the blitz in 1940 was, according to Dad, an absolute masterpiece. He treasured it for years. However, it didnt escape one of Mum's decluttering sessions. I don't think he ever forgave her.

Maryc, Listen to Pollyanna. If there is one person who knows what you are going through it is Fuddle.
Write out her post and keep it by you. Read it often, follow her advice. You'll never need any more help.

x

The Be-Ro cook book is still available from Be-Ro If anyone wants it I will post the address when I find it.

I had made some tarts from it and my mother said. "Rene used to make these, did she give you the recipe?" Indignation in her voice that her sister should give me the recipe and not her.

I said "they are in the BE-Ro book you have the recipe. All here recipes were in the Be-ro book that was why she never gave you them. You have one".

I think I used to have a stork one and of course I have had Dairy diarys in the past.

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I had the Dairy cookbook when it first came out & my DS1 used it to teach himself to cook. When my mum died it was the one thing he grabbed of hers! A treasured recipe book of mine was given me by my grandparents when I got engaged - by Nancy Spain!

I've just been reading about Nancy Spain... she came up in a library book I got about women in the 50s.. "Her brilliant career : ten extraordinary women of the fifties"

Otherwise I wouldn't have had the faintest idea who you were talking about.

It was a fascinating book which I only got out because I was looking for stuff about/by Margery Fish.

Dreading going monna. I can't be doing with the upset it causes me and can't be bothered to fight right now.

My BeRo book is older than I. It too was my grandma's. It's complete with taped cover that is now yellow and dried and, if I may say so without being rude, a young lassie wearing a sash and sporting what looks suspiciously like a bowl hair cut.

It's the first day of the school walk (I survived 6 weeks!) and the rain is horrendous.:cool: