Elite 11+ shopping and chat thread

hornetgirl

TrulyMadly wrote: »

World record:T:T

You watching hg?

Bet she's in Rio:rotfl:

Bet she's not :rotfl:

3Dogs

Snap-ant wrote: »

Hall decorated for Party tomorrow.

Friend out of hospital - it was a brain infection :eek: she's very weak & looks like she hasn't slept for a month.
She rang her Boss to ask if she could have next week as holiday as she has to rest - hospital orders, & they said no she has to come into work :mad::mad::mad:
So she has got a sick note from Dr & her Mum dropped it into her work place :)

Glad your friend is home Snap, her boss sounds like your old one :eek:

Jelly_Biactol

Jukebox Corner

Do You Realise? by the Flaming Lips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlaKIyKyGIQ

Do You Realize - that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize - we're floating in space -
Do You Realize - that happiness makes you cry
Do You Realize - that everyone you know someday will die
And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round....

hornetgirl

For the Team GB cyclists

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gSq8ZBdSxNU

davemorton

hornetgirl wrote: »

For the Team GB cyclists

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gSq8ZBdSxNU

Never mind that, the Volley Ball is on

(To be fair, dont know if it is male of female yet, camera is too far away)

Edit: Pah! Mens, sods law!

hornetgirl

davemorton wrote: »

Never mind that, the Volley Ball is on

(To be fair, dont know if it is male of female yet, camera is too far away)

Edit: Pah! Mens, sods law!

Lol, never mind
If you can't tell, probably not worth watching.

Sunshinemummy

Rose, the house seems to be one of those things that you don't want/need to hold onto. Have you spoke to your husband about what he would expect/want/need from the sale of the house. He maybe reasonable... the joker in me wants to suggest you get him a £200 caravan and stick it in a farmers field! You are both likely to be able to agree a resolution together rather then hand what money there is to a solicitor. I hope it goes well for you x

LEJC wrote: »

My sister is a little older than me and was a decade in front of me at school...she learnt sewing and cooking (or home ec)as it used to be called as standard....but by the time I was a similar age in the late 70's early 80's that had all but disappeared...we learnt computer studies on the new fangled BBC computers and played the atari tennis game with the square pixel as a ball!

I guess whichever way you look at it there have been some good advances in technology and opportunity but sometimes its the simple things from childhood that you remember and not everyone is able to pass those things on to future generations.

I was at senior school in the 80's and was taught home economics, sewing, knitting and crochet. I still have the home economics book and will occasionally refer back to it.

My sewing machine broke years ago, it was fab. I used to exchange labour for sewing, one friend cleaned my house over a period of time... and I made her curtains! I even had work done in the garden in exchange for a pair of curtains being run up.

I am loving the conversation about wild food, it is my favourite form of food. Near where we live, we have apples, pears, plums, blackberries, red currants, sloe, cherry, wild garlic and wild strawberries, lots of crops in the farmers field to steal (only joking) and the other day I found a hazelnut tree... whoop whoop. Sadly the gooseberry plants died.

I need to find a sweet chestnut tree... years ago the kids roasted chestnuts..but these were not the sweet ones :eek::eek::eek:

When we were kids, we would be sent out to gather the crops at the side of the fields that the farmer did not/could not harvest. Mum would carefully store/distribute these to the neighbours she liked. I could not believe that people actually bought potatoes/cabbages/peas!!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

scamps1966

I went to secondary school in the in the early 80's and I was the only boy that chose home economics!! I was taught from an early age by my grand mother, who was a school cook, how to to cook. At 9 yrs old, I could cook a full roast dinner from scratch. I was hounded out by the girls and teachers in the the class. I gave it up! Now now looking back, I wish I'd stuck at it.

By the way, I still consider myself a good cook thanks to my grand mother. 90% of the the time, I cook from fresh.

Sunshinemummy

Scamps, I love to see someone cutting an onion up correctly!!

bubbs, at my school only the TP was allowed on the computer (singular)...

Serendipitious, I think you have made your mind up to return home xx

pippo... scrotums :eek::eek::eek::eek:

Serendipitious

Good morning all x