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The Compers Inn (part 48)

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  • rosemac
    rosemac Posts: 6,576 Forumite
    :bdaycake:Afternoon folks. Happy Birthday shiels have a good one:bdaycake:Hopefully you will be spoiled rotten. Well done on win. Cold and wet here today so not weather for trying to get out.:(
  • sheils6
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    Hi everyone,


    Thanks for the birthday wishes. Have had a fairly busy day but puting my feet up now and waiting on the Prosecco arriving later!
    Made a creamy mushroom sauce to go with the steaks DH is making later. It was supposed to rain all day but it has been fine since about 11am so Ollie got his walk - not that he deserved it after eating my card.
    Going to do a few comps now.


    sheils x
    Mar Wins :- £2 GfK Media


    Best Win of 2019 - Forest Holiday :)
  • indie
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    Morning, suns out here but the wind is freezing.Even Charlie runs out and back in again.Hope you enjoyed your meal sheils, food always tastes better when it's cooked for you,lol. Going to charity shops today to drop a few bags off then Dr's for sons visit.Hope you all have a lucky day.
  • AlfieBlue
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    :hello: Good morning all


    Exactly the same weather here indie - beautiful sunny start
    to the day but brrrrrrr in the wind! Let's just say I walked a bit
    faster in the forest this morning to warm myself up! It was fine
    in the sheltered places but not so out in the open! It definitely
    blew away the cobwebs! :p

    Hope you enjoyed your birthday meal & Prosecco sheils. smileys-cheers-421530.gif


    Happy World Book Day everyone ....


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    https://www.worldbookday.com/


    Have a lovely & lucky day all, take care.

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  • fire**fly
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    good morning all :wave:


    sounds like you both had a wonderful birthday sheils/indie :j
    agree with you both indie/Alfie was sunny early on but
    been out to top up birds etc & it's freezing in
    the wind echarpe.gif
    love the linky for WBD Alfie thanks :T:A
    the wildflower freebies parcel arrived this morning :j:j
    this year we've got 4 large pkts wildflower seeds plus stickers
    & lots of bits'n'bobs in it :j
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5944214/wildflower-seed-kit
    lol, everywhere round near our place we'll be
    sprinkling them jardinier.gifjardinier.gif:D


    have a lovely, lucky day all jardin8.gif
    please be a responsible pet owner & spay/neuter your pets, too many strays & not enough homes for them sadly. k2u58ioz4c8e.png




  • sheils6
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    Had a wonderful meal last night thanks everyone. DH cooked the steaks perfectly and although I say it myself my sauce was delicious! It couldn't have been any better no matter where we had gone.
    Weather been ok here although a bit windy. Took Ollie out for his last walk for a while earlier- DD off tomorrow and he will be boarded out to her bfs dad again next week.
    Going to start packing soon as going to a caravan near Heysham for 3 nights tomorrow and then a Holiday Inn at Lancaster so I might not be online for a few days.
    Hope everyone has a lucky time.


    sheils x
    Mar Wins :- £2 GfK Media


    Best Win of 2019 - Forest Holiday :)
  • leanfun30
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    Afternoon. Very windy here today too. So we have not ventured out.

    Sheils great you enjoyed your special meal. Hope you have a good journey and a good few days away.

    Thanks for World Book Day link Alfie. I’ve entered loads of book comps on twitter. Pleased you found somewhere sheltered for you walk. Know what you mean about lent. Umm.... still deciding.

    Firefly wildflower freebies sound interesting. Hope some come up.

    Take care and Good luck everyone.
  • AlfieBlue
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    hi-there-smiley.gif?1292867616 Good morning all
    I hope you're in fine fettle on this glorious day!girl-power-smiley.gif?1292867604


    Yesterday was quite a mix of weather, sunshine first thing but
    chilly followed by showers & bursts of sunshine for most of the
    day, was almost expecting to see a rainbow! It's another beautiful
    start to the day here at the mo. soleil07j.gif

    fire**fly wrote: »
    good morning all :wave:

    the wildflower freebies parcel arrived this morning :j:j
    this year we've got 4 large pkts wildflower seeds plus stickers
    & lots of bits'n'bobs in it :j
    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5944214/wildflower-seed-kit
    lol, everywhere round near our place we'll be
    sprinkling them jardinier.gifjardinier.gif:D


    have a lovely, lucky day all jardin8.gif


    Sounds wonderful fire**fly 0printemps.gif - brilliant freebies! :T
    Definitely my kind of thing! :j :D


    Have a lovely few days away sheils, safe journey.


    Happy International Women's Day all!


    IWD-2019.jpg

    INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2019

    Campaign theme is #BalanceforBetter

    A balanced world is a better world. How can you help forge a more
    gender-balanced world?

    Celebrate women's achievement. Raise awareness against bias.
    Take action for equality.

    InternationalWomensDay2019-BalanceforBetter-theme.jpg

    International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating
    the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of
    women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender
    parity.

    International Women's Day (IWD) has occurred for well over a
    century, with the first​ ​IWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a
    million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland.

    Prior to this the​ Socialist Party of America, United Kingdom's
    Suffragists and Suffragettes, and further groups campaigned for
    women's equality.

    Today, IWD belongs to all groups collectively everywhere.

    IWD is not country, group or organization specific.​

    Make IWD your day - everyday.

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    https://www.internationalwomensday.com/

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    Lol - also found the following article re women's public toilets - so
    relieved (:p) I wasn't around in those days! :eek: :D


    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT3huj9SwgN_5wvuwj9V5FguBe1wvhMbr7mS6-g7d5Nc6ig4QGY
    The History of Women’s Public Toilets in Britain

    by Claudia Elphick

    We take single-sex public toilets for granted today. It is hard to
    believe that when public conveniences were first constructed, the
    vast majority of these toilets were just for men.

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    The story in Britain starts in 1851, as the Great Exhibition show-
    cased the first public flushing toilet, created by George Jennings,
    who was a plumber from Brighton. The popularity of this invention
    was such that the first public lavatories opened the following year
    and were known as ‘Public Waiting Rooms’. The vast majority of
    these were men’s conveniences.

    In the mid-19th century, many areas of life were sex-segregated
    and gendered; the private sphere was for the women, the public
    sphere was for men. Whilst working-class women did undertake
    plenty of work, they did not own their own wages, their husbands
    did. The popular image of a woman was the ‘Angel in the House’
    ideal, a woman who was devoted and submissive to her husband.

    In Victorian Britain, most public toilets were designed for men. Of
    course, this affected women’s ability to leave the home, as women
    who wished to travel had to plan their route to include areas where
    they could relieve themselves. Thus, women never travelled much
    further than where family and friends resided. This is often called
    the ‘urinary leash’, as women could only go so far as their bladders
    would allow them. :eek:

    This lack of access to toilets impeded women’s access to public
    spaces as there were no women’s toilets in the work place or
    anywhere else in public ..... [Cont'd] >>>

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    https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/History-of-Womens-Public-Toilets-in-Britain/



    Have a lovely & lucky day all, take care.

    Alfie xxx coffee3-smiley.gif?1292867572
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  • leanfun30
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    Wow Alfie so agree with you would not have wanted to have lived in the time of ‘The Public Waiting Rooms’.
    Having said that most public toilets around our areas have all closed.

    At least even though there’s a long way to go Women have come a long way.

    Not windy today. Neighbours have had a panel of their fence down. Our thirty year old fence is still ok.

    Hope everyone is well. Goodluck with the comps this week.
  • AlfieBlue
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    Today, the Friday after Ash Wednesday, is Kissing Friday.

    On this day in Britain, schoolboys were entitled to kiss girls without
    fear of punishment, a custom that lasted until the mid 20th century.
    If the girl refused, the boys were allowed to pinch her bottom! :p

    safe_image.php?d=AQCFB_S51Tiy87IC&w=476&h=249&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.historic-uk.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F06%2Fkissing-friday-1024x527.jpg&cfs=1&upscale=1&fallback=news_d_placeholder_publisher&_nc_hash=AQCqnPdaPsm3oRPn

    Kissing Friday

    by Ellen Castelow

    The Friday after Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday is Kissing
    Friday.

    Kissing Friday?

    You may wonder why you haven’t heard of this strange custom.
    This could be because it has now died out, but until the mid-20th
    century, on this day a schoolboy could kiss a girl without fear of a
    slap or a telling off! Unthinkable nowadays, but the custom was
    especially popular in the Victorian and Edwardian era.

    kissingfriday.jpg

    If the boys wanted to the kiss the girls, first of all they had to
    catch them! Some boys would tie ropes across the street: the girls
    would have to pay for passage past the rope with a kiss. Others
    would simply chase the girls until they caught them. Indeed,
    Kissing Friday was the one day in the year when schoolgirls were
    allowed to leave school early, in order to avoid being chased home
    by the boys.

    In the village of Sileby in Leicestershire the day was known as
    ‘Nippy Hug Day’. Here, if the girl did resist a kiss, the boy was
    allowed to pinch her bottom, an action known as ‘lousing’, a
    curious – and slightly disturbing – reference to pinching off lice.

    In parts of Cumbria, the day was known as ‘Nippy Lug Day’: yes,
    bizarrely the aim was to pinch each others ears!


    https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Kissing-Friday/



    Alfie xxx coffee3-smiley.gif?1292867572
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