First family car I remember was a red Riley - reg plate GEU 777.....as you say @Obelixx, it’s funny the things you remember. I can still remember it’s smell now - old cars always had a distinctive smell didn’t they.
Sat outside in my veg garden with a cuppa. Needed a break - all that forking in is hard work 😓. Sun is shining brightly, littlest Chicklet is soon home for the weekend, and all feels well with my little corner of the world. I won’t consider any wider than that for the moment .......
Hi folks, We never had a car, could never afford one. We didn't have a phone until I was well in to secondary school. Don't know how old I was when we had the luxury of a fridge and a washing machine but I remember it well so couldn't have been that little.
Lovely sunny day here. Have pottered in the garden a bit and been to Sainsbury's with Bestie to get some Easter eggs for the girls and picked up some hot cross buns for me. Taking it easy today as I had a lousy nights sleep. Enjoy your day everyone.
My parents moved into a brand new council house in 1953 and were the first to own a phone and second to own a car ( someone moved onto the road before them who had a car ). We were about the first to have a phone. I remember folk knocking the door to use the phone and leave 2p on the table as they left.
Our first family car was an already old Morris Oxford estate. Father and son in old car with L plates, must be dad teaching son. Well after a fashion, he was taking lessons then giving me the benefit of his newly aquired knowledge. Both of us passed our driving tests first time so our unusual system worked.
It may not have been our first family car but my childhood memory is of a Ford Zephyr. I remember really liking the shape.
The first car I bought after passing my test was a mini clubman, sadly I'd only had it a week and it was stolen, never to be seen again. 😢
Regards telephones, I remember us having a 'party line' with the next door neighbour, somehow or other we shared it, sometimes if you picked it up you could hear them talking. 😱😁 I do still remember the telephone number bizarrely.
Lovely evening here, just had a seafood salad for dinner, sat out on the back terrace with my sunglasses on.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
we got three big bags of Notcutt’s compost, two even bigger bags of soil conditioner and a bag of JI No 2. They’d run out of ericaceous, but I think we’ve got enough left to manage for the time being.
I walked around and pointed ... OH loaded and did the checkout ... I feel strangely lightheaded. It’s the first time I’ve been anywhere since last summer where they’ve not stuck a needle in me 😂
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I remember being out with my dear late Mother and an A37 went passed and I said "How did 4 of us ever fit in that car?" "You can't possibly remember that car, you were only 3" "Well I do, and that's the same colour as ours , isn't it?" " yes " "See? I DO remember it".
Our first phone was turned into a party line as others needed them. Cragburn 4139 was our number. I was 4 and still have my original school satchel with my name, address and phone number written inside
Snap! We had a party line too and the number was Reigate 5601. We were there from when I was 3 to 11 years old.
I've spent the afternoon in the veg garden, one more day and it will be weed cleared. Can't do it tomorrow, have to go to the post office and to a garage to mend the punctured tyre from the hay wheelbarrow and get a new number plate for the horse trailer. Then, in the afternoon, I will start painting the study. Couldn't do any tonight as the access is blocked by wet levelling stuff on the utility room floor. I'd wanted to do it before they tile the floor, which they said they would do next week. Now they have really got a move on and they want to do it on Wednesday. They won't get tea on Wednesday, I'll be out most of the afternoon, meeting with the bank and taking Son 2's youngest her birthday present.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Sorry folks, this was last night's post I forgot to post. Will post again after diner, the bell's just rang on the cooker!
"That's looking splendid @Busy-Lizzie, you must have worked very hard.
I'm pleased I finished manuring all the roses and finished mulching the main flower bed by the drive. Very exhausting though, carrying half a bucket at a time from one end of the garden (at the top of the slope) down to the bottom. OH is watching the F1 racing on TV so I think I'll be having an early night soon! "
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sat outside in my veg garden with a cuppa. Needed a break - all that forking in is hard work 😓. Sun is shining brightly, littlest Chicklet is soon home for the weekend, and all feels well with my little corner of the world. I won’t consider any wider than that for the moment .......
We were about the first to have a phone. I remember folk knocking the door to use the phone and leave 2p on the table as they left.
The first car I bought after passing my test was a mini clubman, sadly I'd only had it a week and it was stolen, never to be seen again. 😢
Regards telephones, I remember us having a 'party line' with the next door neighbour, somehow or other we shared it, sometimes if you picked it up you could hear them talking. 😱😁 I do still remember the telephone number bizarrely.
Lovely evening here, just had a seafood salad for dinner, sat out on the back terrace with my sunglasses on.
we got three big bags of Notcutt’s compost, two even bigger bags of soil conditioner and a bag of JI No 2. They’d run out of ericaceous, but I think we’ve got enough left to manage for the time being.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
"You can't possibly remember that car, you were only 3"
"Well I do, and that's the same colour as ours , isn't it?"
" yes "
"See? I DO remember it".
Our first phone was turned into a party line as others needed them.
Cragburn 4139 was our number. I was 4 and still have my original school satchel with my name, address and phone number written inside
I've spent the afternoon in the veg garden, one more day and it will be weed cleared. Can't do it tomorrow, have to go to the post office and to a garage to mend the punctured tyre from the hay wheelbarrow and get a new number plate for the horse trailer. Then, in the afternoon, I will start painting the study. Couldn't do any tonight as the access is blocked by wet levelling stuff on the utility room floor. I'd wanted to do it before they tile the floor, which they said they would do next week. Now they have really got a move on and they want to do it on Wednesday. They won't get tea on Wednesday, I'll be out most of the afternoon, meeting with the bank and taking Son 2's youngest her birthday present.
"That's looking splendid @Busy-Lizzie, you must have worked very hard.
I'm pleased I finished manuring all the roses and finished mulching the main flower bed by the drive. Very exhausting though, carrying half a bucket at a time from one end of the garden (at the top of the slope) down to the bottom. OH is watching the F1 racing on TV so I think I'll be having an early night soon! "