*Daily Chat Thread 27th July - Monday again|!*

becky_rtw

Ames I hate value loo roll - my housemates always buy it - I buy nice stuff and they go through it so quickly - might start buying loo roll for them (value) and loo roll for me

There are two of them as well so I think they should buy it more often...but hey ho thats the joys of living in a shared house

Key cutting - I think its just central London - they can get away with it and the other place near me is only open a few hours a day so I can never get to it!

Burlesque_Babe

I was shocked at the price of key cutting the day I had to get some after mine got stuck in the door one night after teaching and it snapped (eek!). It was something like £6 for 1, and £9 for 2.

Been finding out a bit more about my sister's move to Canada. She's going to be living in Scarborough, Toronto. That's pretty ironic really as we spent many a summer holiday there as kids - but the Yorkshire one, not the Ontario one! She's got a flat to rent, she's found tenants for her house and has applied to go to uni. there as well as working. I'm so proud of her, most people either get out of Grimsby at 18 or never get out and she's 29 next birthday and was getting very depressed about living there still.

Ames

My sister found that in a shared house, she ended up keeping hers in her room and taking it with her!

One of the (many) things I'm looking forward to when ex goes is getting nice loo roll. As I'll use less it should cost about the same. Funny what a difference the smallest things in life make!

Ames

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

I was shocked at the price of key cutting the day I had to get some after mine got stuck in the door one night after teaching and it snapped (eek!). It was something like £6 for 1, and £9 for 2.

Been finding out a bit more about my sister's move to Canada. She's going to be living in Scarborough, Toronto. That's pretty ironic really as we spent many a summer holiday there as kids - but the Yorkshire one, not the Ontario one! She's got a flat to rent, she's found tenants for her house and has applied to go to uni. there as well as working. I'm so proud of her, most people either get out of Grimsby at 18 or never get out and she's 29 next birthday and was getting very depressed about living there still.

You have my deepest sympathies.

Burlesque_Babe

lol.....it was ok in the late 70s - or perhaps that was because I was a kid and a bucket and spade, an icecream and a ride on a donkey was great, anything else passed me by. I used to love going to Peasholme Park - it was a ritual really, watch the miniature battleship 'war' on the lake and in the evening go around the walk that was all lit up........I can't remember what that was called.....the treewalk??

I do remember one of the highlights being a visit to the waffle shop (remember, we're talking late 70s/early 80s here so sweet waffles were really seen as 'different' - how times have changed with food!!) and I'm now having thoughts of moving out with my sister and opening a waffle shop in Scarborough, Toronto

Ames

Wasn't it the catwalk?

Yeah it was ok as a kid, but once you got to be a teenager there was nothing. All you could do was go to a crappy nightclub, get wrecked and get in a fight. You even had a 40 minute drive to the nearest decent cinema, in Scarborough one was part time and the other was a druggie den, then when it got done up it had one screen and showed films weeks or months after realease. I was so glad to escape!

Burlesque_Babe

I think a lot of seaside towns are like that - great for kids but nothing for teenagers/young adults. Growing up in Grimsby had Cleethorpes next to it and as a small child that was great on the beach, the amusement arcades, big wheel on the beach, but the reality is that it is (and was then) a tatty hole. They are trying to clean it up and to be fair, it did look a lot better when I was up there a year ago, but a lot of it is still run down.

Burlesque_Babe

what a strange way of thinking....there are plans for an extra bank holiday 'Workers Memorial Day' - to honour those killed at work........what about those killed fighting?

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090727/tuk-holiday-bid-on-workers-memorial-day-6323e80.html

Ames

Yeah I thought it sounded like Scarborough when you said about getting out at 18 or not at all. Scarborough's so like that, and if you've escaped and done well for yourself, going to uni or earning above minimum wage, then you're an outcast.

Ames

Workers memorial day, that's just bizarre.