The OS Doorstep - a helpful and supportive thread in these tough times

Knit_Witch

My Mam is a Durham Miners daughter! There are obviously a few of us around :o

tattycath

Well I think I've located some elderflowers will try and investigate further tomorrow.

savingqueen

Peony, glad you are feeling a bit brighter. From the little we were taught abut chakras the other day, my understanding was that the philosophy orginated from India or certainly from the Eastern world and was originally an ancient rather than New Age belief system.

To be honest my not "getting it" may have had more to do with the tutor who knew what she was teaching in that session but I feel probably not much more. I hope that makes sense. Maybe my rant should have just been about people turning up late and the course being advertised wrongly and my frustrations with all that.

I feel I may have upset you or maybe made you question your beliefs which was never my intention. I hesitated in posting as I had a feeling that maybe I shouldn't have shared that experience. I am sorry if it sounds like I have made light of something personal and important to you. I will try and be more mindful of how I express similar things in future.

take care
sq:)

nitnurse-not2

Hi all

GreyQueen…Have you tried the Astonish cleaner?If not you can buy a scraper with a blade which will lift the speckles off in no time at all. Hardware shops tend to stock them. I think they are glass cleaners but I use mine on my glass hob and doors for a fab finish.:D:D
BYW it was Vicks nasal pray that Malcolm used.;)
Tattycath. I used the tablets to stop smoking and they were great. The name escapes me ATM:T:T
Dashuri I loved dial a disc and do you remember calling the speaking clock?:)
JackieO What a lovely long and reminiscing posts you do. I really enjoy them!!!! I also remember having my hair done in rags to produce curls that would not be out of place on “The little house on the prarie”:):)
SavingQueen I remember the power cuts with a warm fuzzy glow. It always seemed so exciting to go to bed in candle light rather than electric ones. As for hollow legs….an extra shift a week may pay for the additional food and I had 2 ai the same place at the same time
SDG31000 I also had a Silver Cross with a seat wich my middle son used and my elseast used to travel in style on he tray below on a duvet with a pillow to make him comfy. an Anerican tourist who saw us deemed it a “Most magnificent Carriage”

EstherH

Thanks Nuatha, Mrs Chip and TattyCath. I had looked at what others had said about making stock and got the impression that the cooking liquid should be thrown away as stock was made with the bones when the chicken had been eaten. I could never make sense of this but thought that was the way to do it for some reason unknown to me lol. So....I have thrown away tons of valuable stock over the last few months - aaaargh!
Oh well, I know better now. Thank you very much. God bless. Esther x

Popperwell

Welcome newies and lurkers again:)

Am awake with restless legs again:mad:just taken some tonic water...hope it works, may have to take some more...

Every year about this time(well 3 years running that I know of)this passes by and by chance I was coming out of the Supermarket tonight and with luck got this image. If you click on it a few times you can really see some detail.

I had no idea that approx 8 people were in the basket below...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sBHSiZmVhkM/UcozSFRHMAI/AAAAAAAABDw/xFYEubXMmsU/s1600/DSC00089.JPG

Got a bargain(I think)a Rainbow Trout worth £5 for 69p so I know what I am having on Friday...but will have to see how to cook it, how long and what to have with it.

ETA I think the TW is working, so I may get some sleep after all...

siegemode

Hello Everyone :hello:
I have just discovered this thread and almost read the lot this evening. I think oh might have felt a bit neglected but he said nowt and carried on reading his book.

I feel like I've been on a real journey sharing in all your wonderful memories and found myself pausing loads as they triggered my own. Me and the oh had quite different childhoods, him north and urban me east and country village.

I look back on my childhood and remember so many happy memories and such freedoms. I spent all but school nights with my grandparents in the next village as home was not a happy place for me and my grandparents were wonderful, how I miss them even now almost 25 yrs since they died (although I swear to this day they are still with me in spirit watching over if you know what I mean).

I remember getting stuck up trees and being rescued after my younger brother had to go and get help. I was much more at home playing with the boys, making camps and going off for hours on end across the fields.
Bike rides and picnics. Scrumppng and getting belly ache so bad because the fruit wasn't ripe.
Being caught up plum trees and getting a right ticking off from granddad. Sitting at the top of granddads step ladder in the garden shucking freshly picked peas for lunch.
Going down the land to help granddad pick strawberries for market and eating more than I put in the punnet.
Crawling through haystacks and playing hide and seek.
At 7 I would cycle the 3 miles alone to nan and granddads with my nightdress and toothbrush in my saddlebag without fear of the dangers about today.
Going to sunday school for a few months each year and getting to dress up and go on the float for feast week. That's when I would borrow one of nans brushed nylon nighties.
Going to the seaside most weekends in the summer and sitting in the back of the car in my cozzy long before we got there and sticking to the seats that granddad had polished earlier.
Picnics at village cricket matches.
Nans cakes and scones and learning to cook. How I miss her brawn and Christmas puds.
Cold winter mornings snuggled between nan and granddad having tea in bed and rich tea bickies. Then granddad would go down and light the fire and make the best porridge ever with loads of tinned milk and sultanas or raisins and Demerara.
Snuggled on nans lap with my head on her pillows in front of the fire and watching sale on the century etc.

I remember going into the cubicles in boots to listen to singles and dial a disc.

Does anyone remember pippa dolls and collecting petals for bonus outfits ? Other than that I was more of a tom boy.

If I asked granddad for a toy or something he would often say ok I'll chalk you one out. Has anyone else heard that said ?

I have done a lot of family research in recent years and it has helped me to appreciate their part in my life even more. Unfortunately we moved when I was 10 and I didn't get to go and stay so much.

But since we still lived in a village I was able to escape home life going for bike rides or Blackberrying etc I loved the space and freedom and never had any concept of time and still don't to this day.

Well I seem to have got carried away and feel quite emotional and tearful remembering all this and more. How lucky and blessed I feel to have had the childhood I did despite all the horrible stuff at home. Without the OS skills I learnt from nan and granddad I would not have survived what life has thown at me.

Popperwell

Good to read your remenices too...:)

siegemode

Popperwell wrote: »

Good to read your remenices too...:)

Thanks

I see you are still up, How does tonic water help restless legs please ? I suffer at times and never know what to do about it.

wondercollie

Quinine. It's found in very small quantities in tonic water.

Dialysis patients have it on prescription for leg cramps.