Nice People 13: Nice Save

SingleSue

It more clipped her than ran her over, still broke her hip though. She was a tough old bird was my nan, her house was bombed during the 2nd world war and despite being thrown a good distance, she was perfectly alright and still holding the door knob to the toilet in her hand!

She never looked frail, she never looked like the typical little old granny, she was always larger than life....in her 80's, she took me to Spain, the previous year, she had got so drunk she had laid down in the road and had been directing traffic! At the age of 87, she outdanced and out can canned all my friends at my wedding.

At 90, she still looked like a woman in her early 60's but minus the wrinkles.

PasturesNew

SingleSue wrote: »

.... still holding the door knob to the toilet in her hand!

For dignity and comfort, I hope that was the inside knob (on her way out) - and not the outside knob (on her way in).

vivatifosi

SingleSue wrote: »

It more clipped her than ran her over, still broke her hip though. She was a tough old bird was my nan, her house was bombed during the 2nd world war and despite being thrown a good distance, she was perfectly alright and still holding the door knob to the toilet in her hand!

She never looked frail, she never looked like the typical little old granny, she was always larger than life....in her 80's, she took me to Spain, the previous year, she had got so drunk she had laid down in the road and had been directing traffic! At the age of 87, she outdanced and out can canned all my friends at my wedding.

At 90, she still looked like a woman in her early 60's but minus the wrinkles.

She sounds an amazing woman sue. I love the fact that it was still ok for her to feel sexy in her nineties. She sounds like someone who ploughed her own furrow rather than toeing the line. What a fantastic role model to have growing up.

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

For dignity and comfort, I hope that was the inside knob (on her way out) - and not the outside knob (on her way in).

I think it was the outside knob but she wasn't heading to the loo to go to the loo, I think she was taking shelter as there wasn't the time to get to the bomb shelter in the garden.

SingleSue

vivatifosi wrote: »

She sounds an amazing woman sue. I love the fact that it was still ok for her to feel sexy in her nineties. She sounds like someone who ploughed her own furrow rather than toeing the line. What a fantastic role model to have growing up.

Oh, she most def went her own way in life....in her teens she was told she would be dead within a short space of time because of a heart condition and that she was to take things easy, bah to that she thought and went all out to enjoy the little time she had left.

Think they got it wrong :rotfl:

Spirit_2

GDB2222 wrote: »

Also, is there a loo in there?

When we had our VW camper and went to glastonbury we investigated portable loos. there was the s h 1 t box which was a cardboard box with a hole in it into which you inserted biodegradable bags.

OH was fascinated by the idea of it's weight bearing capability on the likely Glasto mud.
We
went for the mate giving us backstage passes and access to proper loos option.

Spirit_2

Doozergirl wrote: »

I am losing the will the live.

Then stop doing the draining stuff and do something nice uplifting. At the least take the Doozer dogs to somewhere green and go for a walk.

If you have go to do dreary stuff try and make a radiator and drain sandwich withe drain task in the middle of two activities that give you energy/feel good

vivatifosi

Similar happened to my mum. Her house was bombed, they survived as they were in cellar, but oldest child in the house was my aunt who was 12. She identified a small air hole to the outside and held the children up to it one at a time so they weren't breathing only dust. My grandparents and older uncle had to dig them out with their hands until back up arrived (they were in Woolwich and my nan worked at the arsenal so it was a target area). My granddad was a fireman putting out fires on the docks and arsenal... Also v dangerous although home front jobs often weren't seen as much.

A woman was walking her baby down the street so threw herself over the pram when the doodlebug stopped its engines. She died but the baby survived.

PasturesNew

All these bombing stories - we all have one in our family - and these are the elderly so many young people moan about, sucking up resources by being old. They've no farquin idea have they - what they went through, how they lived, how they rebuilt the country after all that and plodded on.

The young have been given it all from birth - this lot built it, made it - and are only now seeing a level of non-poverty they could never have dreamt of.

And, they didn't have 'benefits'. You either got family to put you up, or the kids went into care and you slept under a bush.

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think I'm nailing this list of "Would you really use a SC? What would you really be likely to make with it?"

It's coming down to: kebabs/kebab meat, meatballs, (stew)/dumplings, beef in gravy, try a curry, try a chilli, leek/potato soup - and, banana bread.

So I think .... I really could use it.

I am trying to separate "could" from "would" here. I needed a "would" list, not a "could" list. There are 1000 things one COULD make, but it's WOULD you that matters.

when you vist would you like to borrow mine to trial if you would use one?