The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

mardatha

I'll find something to do, don't worry. It looks a far easier place to cope with than Newcastle. We went there once many years ago to Westgate Rd looking for a bike shop. The shops refused to take Scottish notes and we couldn't understand a word that anybody said :D: It was an adventure.
Polly my dad's side come from Anstruther and Pittenweem, they were on the fishing. My granny lived in Methil and I used to love visiting. The RV won't drive over the bridge because of the chaos caused by the new bridge opening this week.
Other granny was from Galway, and I'd go back to Ireland in a minute if I had a current passport and some money lol. I always wanted to retire to Ireland, it feels more like home than home does.
Re religion, it scares me rigid and makes me back away fast. I must've been a witch in a past life or something because it's a very real fear and distaste. I can't even sit in some churches, I get upset and paniciky and have to get out. Yet I suppose I have far more in common with religious people than with materialistic ones.

burtha

River cruse mar, beautiful way to spend an hours or so , and don't think it costs a lot ...
But lots of bits to potter in , they do a full moon market ,food ,music ,stalls think it's once a mth starting tea time , plus regular market place ,....was a bikers pub just as you go into durham ... will check ...
And yes park and ride and suttle buses is the way to go ..

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Hard_Up_Hester

I love a Geordie accent, must be from watching When the boat comes in. I had a sil with the accent.

ivyleaf

maryb wrote: »

And so is the station!! But at least nothing is very far from anywhere else. Week beginning 1 October is Fresher's week and the following weekend is when all the other students return. It's very busy at the weekend because all the parents drop their little darlings off.

In my day you went by train and sent your trunk on ahead. Our college porters were ex-miners and they could lift a trunk full of books and stuff and just sling it over their shoulders!!

Ah, I didn't know the station was up the hill too I've only been there once, and we had the car as we were on the way to somewhere else.

Hester I hate it when parents let their "spirited" children behave as they like and ruin things for other people. I read not long ago of someone who was in the V & A museum and watched in astonishment as a mother let her child climb on one of the statues, and then when an attendant asked her to make him get down, she crossly did so, and she said to the child "It's all right darling, this man's just forgotten what it's like to be five." :mad:

pollyanna_26

Hester One of my Bils is a geordie and I could listen to his accent all day . It's lovely to be called pet however old you are .James Bolam is a favourite of mine.

Maryb Are those the triple pack "Gently does it " scourers ? I can't imagine how many packs I've bought over the years . In the family they're known as scrubby things and are on shopping lists as such. I use them for pretty much everything from washing up to cleaning the bathroom . When they get a bit tired they get used to clean flower pots and other outdoor things . They're brilliant on big terracotta pots .A while back they were missing in the shop for a while and we all went into panic mode until they returned in a smarter pack . We all buy 3 packs at a time now just in case ! Always prepping .
polly

maryb

Polly, gentle isn't how I would describe them, lol! They look like coiled wire and you can only use them on stuff that won't get scratched!

Ivy, yes, the station is up the other side of the valley where the big viaduct goes across.

It's not quite as steep as the hill on top of which our college was perched - in those days the colleges were single sex so the womens colleges, being newer, were outside of town. You had the choice of going a mile round by the road or climbing 85 steps cut into the hillside, up which no boy ever willingly trod!! made us get out and about a lot more so that we could meet 'people' ie boys! And the wind that blew up the Wear Valley came straight from Siberia!!

Quite different now that the colleges are all mixed. People socialize much more within their college and nearly all DD2's friends were the ones she made when she was living in in first year

nursemaggie

Would that be what we call "green things" polly? I noticed a few years ago my DD calls them green things too.

You can get bath cleaning sponges with the same stuff on the surface. They are better on plastic baths.

We have been talking moving again over the week end. DS wants to move nearer work and he still wants to stay at home with me. He has had to get a taxi to work twice because the link bus, that he also has to walk about one and a half miles to, has not turned up. The bus is expensive as well and you have to wait an hour if you book it after the shift. His shifts are open ended, they work until they have cleared all the orders that come in between midnight and midday.

We have got to dislike this flat even more this last few weeks. We have a noisy neighbour above, first thought she was running an illegal childminding business, lots of mums coming and going with children and going away without them, but the noise also goes on most of the night and I am beginning to recognise cars that come at all hours with their male owners. I have seen her out with lots of men. I am not going to say the word I am sure you all know what I mean. This is a Muslim black African refugee with a 4 - 5 year old daughter.

Next door we think they are drug dealers. That is why the former tenant above moved out. People come to their back door dozens a day and often knock at our door. We never answer the back door. The former tenant above said the people calling were mostly at night so we did not hear them. Now that DS goes to bed at 7 pm I get very nervous when people knock at our back door at night. The noise seems to be at its worst in the evenings.

We are looking at moving to one of three villages near DS's work as soon as he saves up a deposit.

pollyanna_26

The ones I buy are oblong , silver in colour and a mesh type smoothish surface with a foam inner . They're tough but not damaging . I've never tried them dry so can't speak on that .
polly

pollyanna_26

NM I only read maryb and your mentions of the scrubby things . I was about to log out for much delayed lunch when I noticed the last line of your post . Woo Hoo I'll be back later . Really hungry , trying to catch up with my thread and a leak under the kitchen sink . Just another day in Paradise !
I will return
polly

Hard_Up_Hester

NurseM, I'm sorry you have such horrible neighbours.
Maryb, I have some of those and I've bought some rubber gloves, I've never bothered before but if I'm cleaning for a living I think I best try to protect my hands.
I'll try the bicarb and bleach trick today and let you know how I get on.
So far today I've delivered CHS to work, set a job going on one of my machines, taken my car to the mechanic who has got my window working again, oldstyle with a 2nd hand part, that's my type of mechanic.
I did a bit of shopping, bicarb, bleach and rubber gloves, when I got home I connected us to shore power and put the washing on, I'll probably do 2 loads as it will dry easily in this heat.
I'm going to do another boat clean at 2:30, then clean my own boat, cook a meal, by which time it will be time to collect CHS!