Must do HW and bed making today as daughter 1 and 3 small sons are coming on Wednesday for a couple of days, school hols. I have a meeting in Bergerac tomorrow so can't do much then.
Having got over my cough, now have a cold.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Don'tya just love Stevie Wonder? We love his new record - so good, so now - just want to get up and shake my tail feathers every time I hear it - the man's a genius - and he's still here thank goodness - let's appreciate him while we've got him
Thank you all for the birthday good wishes, it does really give you a lift. A real family day with the house overflowing. I was in my chair Grandson one side sitting on the arm Granddaughter t'other side and nearly nine month old Great Grandson on my knee holding court, he knows who is centre of attention. I was thinking this is what it is all about, we had our chance to make this a wonderful world and failed now it is their world.
My cake complete with fire brigade in attendance was one of those things you lot post on here "imagines" imojians, Mojo's, what ever it was nice.
Don't think you/we failed Frank - the world is hugely better in many ways than it used to be. It's just that we're so impatient - just because we've changed some things we want to do it all ... but we have to leave stuff for the future generations to do - they will all need purpose in their lives.
Glad you had a fantastic birthday
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove yes in many ways we have made things better, in some ways worse, talking to my Granddaughters both in good jobs with steady salary yet neither get what I get sitting here doing nothing,(well not quite doing nothing). We could see our way to good pensions they cannot, we could save for the future with decent interest rates on savings they cannot, we could in time afford a Mortgage they cannot. Bank of Mum and Dad is now bank of Grandparents as well, I have and do back my grandchildren to help them move forward otherwise they would be going backwards. OK so I can afford it although it took hard work over a long period to get there, the point being no matter how hard they work at the moment they cannot do the things we did.
As to Politics with idiots in Government who sent our troops gaily off to war to boost their own ego's well I remember the Middle East we left absolute chaos then did it again in 1956 not learning that interfering in other peoples politics never works. In some ways a big improvement other ways rubbish.
On my History Board some hanker after the old tin bath era forgetting or in most cases never knowing what those days were really like, our politicians seem to hanker after Empire not knowing what that was really like. To me the World does not appear safer than during the cold war, we who were there know how close that came.
It wasn't all so easy when we were young. We bought our first house during the 3 day week and the steel strikes. Bought the last fridge for sale in our town, shortages every where. On tv they said there would be an oil shortage (early 70s), there people filling their supermarket trollies with cooking oil! Then mortgage interest rates went up to 19%, OH was tearing his hair out and said England was in such a state he wanted to move to France, which I managed to resist for a few years.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
My parents never owned their own house, I do, but I can't seem my kids doing it any time soon.
I didn't go to Uni, but my elder daughter did. If I had gone, I'd have paid no tuition fees, she has student loan debts of £20K to pay off.
I remember the pain of 18% interest on my mortgage, my daughter pays £800 ish, to rent a room and bathroom in London.
I remember selling our house just before the housing crash in 92 ( ish ) brought it down to the level of our mortgage then we had to rent.
I think, as we get older and , hopefully , more content, maybe we forget the struggles we had . Our children and grandchildren have their problems too, maybe just different problems to those we had.
I remember a thread talking about " the feather bed generation" as if they've all got it laid on for them. Ha Ha. As if.
I think the next generation have it far harder than us.
Very little chance of buying a house, work until they are 90 before they can have a pension, whilst our generation seemed determined to make the world uninhabitable for them.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
Hello all. My goodness you've been chatty! I've skimmed back a few pages but can't remember everything - hope all are well and enjoying the coming of spring (or its opposite for Pat and Glenys).
We'll we survived and even enjoyed our trip (with the M**l-reading, Br***t-voting, Tr**p-admiring relatives, if you remember). Never switched on the news and made a swift exit / changed subject if anything remotely political came up. Normally they would force the conversation anyway but this time our tactics worked a treat and all was pretty harmonious - phew. Had to be done but we usually return angry and exhausted, this was better.
Lovely iris reticulata flowering on the front doorstep for our return. Sadly this is the state of the pots in the back garden - chicken wire ripped off, a whole pot of crocuses shredded, iris reticulata all pulled out and most of the daffs dug up. Don't know what did it - suspect a joint effort by foxes and squirrels, perhaps with a little help from mice, crows, magpies and jays. Annoyed.
But the sun is shining and I've just hung a wash out. Need to go and see if I can rescue anything from those pots. Have a good day all.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
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Morning all. Cloudy, was -4°.
Must do HW and bed making today as daughter 1 and 3 small sons are coming on Wednesday for a couple of days, school hols. I have a meeting in Bergerac tomorrow so can't do much then.
Having got over my cough, now have a cold.
Amazon are creating 5,000 new jobs in UK, Hurrah for that.
"The company is opening three new warehouses, or what it calls "fulfilment centres", in Tilbury, Doncaster and Daventry."
" fulfilment centres"? Has there ever been a more pretentious title ? Someone was paid to come up with that.
Don'tya just love Stevie Wonder? We love his new record - so good, so now - just want to get up and shake my tail feathers every time I hear it - the man's a genius - and he's still here thank goodness - let's appreciate him while we've got him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNMMN46uFCc
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you all for the birthday good wishes, it does really give you a lift. A real family day with the house overflowing. I was in my chair Grandson one side sitting on the arm Granddaughter t'other side and nearly nine month old Great Grandson on my knee holding court, he knows who is centre of attention. I was thinking this is what it is all about, we had our chance to make this a wonderful world and failed now it is their world.
My cake complete with fire brigade in attendance was one of those things you lot post on here "imagines" imojians, Mojo's, what ever it was nice.
Frank.
Don't think you/we failed Frank - the world is hugely better in many ways than it used to be. It's just that we're so impatient - just because we've changed some things we want to do it all ... but we have to leave stuff for the future generations to do - they will all need purpose in their lives.
Glad you had a fantastic birthday
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove yes in many ways we have made things better, in some ways worse, talking to my Granddaughters both in good jobs with steady salary yet neither get what I get sitting here doing nothing,(well not quite doing nothing). We could see our way to good pensions they cannot, we could save for the future with decent interest rates on savings they cannot, we could in time afford a Mortgage they cannot. Bank of Mum and Dad is now bank of Grandparents as well, I have and do back my grandchildren to help them move forward otherwise they would be going backwards. OK so I can afford it although it took hard work over a long period to get there, the point being no matter how hard they work at the moment they cannot do the things we did.
As to Politics with idiots in Government who sent our troops gaily off to war to boost their own ego's well I remember the Middle East we left absolute chaos then did it again in 1956 not learning that interfering in other peoples politics never works. In some ways a big improvement other ways rubbish.
On my History Board some hanker after the old tin bath era forgetting or in most cases never knowing what those days were really like, our politicians seem to hanker after Empire not knowing what that was really like. To me the World does not appear safer than during the cold war, we who were there know how close that came.
Frank.
It wasn't all so easy when we were young. We bought our first house during the 3 day week and the steel strikes. Bought the last fridge for sale in our town, shortages every where. On tv they said there would be an oil shortage (early 70s), there people filling their supermarket trollies with cooking oil! Then mortgage interest rates went up to 19%, OH was tearing his hair out and said England was in such a state he wanted to move to France, which I managed to resist for a few years.
It's a " funny " old thing.
My parents never owned their own house, I do, but I can't seem my kids doing it any time soon.
I didn't go to Uni, but my elder daughter did. If I had gone, I'd have paid no tuition fees, she has student loan debts of £20K to pay off.
I remember the pain of 18% interest on my mortgage, my daughter pays £800 ish, to rent a room and bathroom in London.
I remember selling our house just before the housing crash in 92 ( ish ) brought it down to the level of our mortgage then we had to rent.
I think, as we get older and , hopefully , more content, maybe we forget the struggles we had . Our children and grandchildren have their problems too, maybe just different problems to those we had.
I remember a thread talking about " the feather bed generation" as if they've all got it laid on for them. Ha Ha. As if.
I think the next generation have it far harder than us.
Very little chance of buying a house, work until they are 90 before they can have a pension, whilst our generation seemed determined to make the world uninhabitable for them.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Hello all. My goodness you've been chatty! I've skimmed back a few pages but can't remember everything - hope all are well and enjoying the coming of spring (or its opposite for Pat and Glenys).
We'll we survived and even enjoyed our trip (with the M**l-reading, Br***t-voting, Tr**p-admiring relatives, if you remember). Never switched on the news and made a swift exit / changed subject if anything remotely political came up. Normally they would force the conversation anyway but this time our tactics worked a treat and all was pretty harmonious - phew. Had to be done but we usually return angry and exhausted, this was better.
Lovely iris reticulata flowering on the front doorstep for our return. Sadly this is the state of the pots in the back garden - chicken wire ripped off, a whole pot of crocuses shredded, iris reticulata all pulled out and most of the daffs dug up. Don't know what did it - suspect a joint effort by foxes and squirrels, perhaps with a little help from mice, crows, magpies and jays. Annoyed.
But the sun is shining and I've just hung a wash out. Need to go and see if I can rescue anything from those pots. Have a good day all.