General Chat

Done a sky water flight on hols! Never again !
Love to go up in a WW2 plane or helicopter tho

Dad used to all the autumn picking, living in the country,and eat them or make wine with them.

Have you ever made home made wine...?

My husband went through a phase of making our own wine and my dad also, we still talk about dad's experiment with pea pod wine, UGH !!
The best wine my husband made was plum really nice.

Have you or do you still use herbal medicine over conventional?

I'm a pretty healthy sort so far, luckily. But I do get migraines and I use conventional medicines for that when it's really getting to me, but if I feel a headache beginning to come on I will try lavender oil on my temples and getting some sleep to try to prevent it becoming major. Seems to work sometimes but not all the time.

Actually l'm a bit of a fan of lavender oil and find it's helpful for lots of minor probs. I also grow quite a few herbs in my garden and like to make sure at the moment that I have something with sage n it reasonably regularly, being of a certain age. So I sort of mix and match a bit.

Have you ever cooked with lavender? It's lovely instead of rosemary with lamb. And I've tried it in other things too.

| don't like the smell of lavender, dad always grew it in the garden , but I never liked it, with no disrespect it was like an old women's smell. Don't like sage either, dad used to grow all herbs. Don't like mint, everyone else in the house does tho so we grow it ,. Love parsley but not thyme
I like rosemary tho. And chives I adore.

We have a large garden and hubby grows loads of veg, unfortunately it's going over now expect for the sprouting broccoli, I do hope that comes thro cos I luv it

Do you like beetroot..? (Home grown is wonderful)

Sorry Sandie, I never have liked beetroot. Although now you can get crisps of mixed root veg, I like it in that.

I've been growing veg for the first time this year. Never had enough space before except for a few pots of tomatoes. But my tomatoes came to nothing this year - they were doing beautifully and suddenly keeled over. Similar with potatoes, but I did get a very small crop of them at least. And everyone says they do taste better home grown. They both succumbed to a disease, I can't remember what it's called, but I'm not the only one apparently and the two plants are related so that's why they both collapsed.

At the moment I still have a few cucumbers in the greenhouse to finish off, and I have leeks, celeriac, jerusalem artichokes and brussels sprouts which all look to be doing well. My daughter wanted me to grow the celeriac and the sprouts for Christmas.

People are very divided over the Christmas sprouts. We all love them in our house but are you a sprout lover or hater?

My parents and parent's in law have died, my sister lives in the US and my bil
lives North Wales, so it's a bit impractical.lol
My closer living cousins all have their own large families, so it will just be the 4 of us:))

Do you celebrate the new yr out or at home..?

mainly at home although we did go away for a short break over the New Year last year, some years I have to work though.

Do you buy Charity Xmas Cards?

Yes.

Do you have naturally curly hair ,straight or do you have a perm...?

Straight hair, very straight! no need for straighteners although I do sometimes use them.

Have you had your heating serviced yet this year?

Yes, last week !..better to be safe than sorry. It's 3 yrs old but always done by a Corgi registered company.

If you have a car have you had that serviced for the coming winter..?

We have 3 that all come up for service at the same time !
Son's is still under warranty ,so had to have it done with the manufacturer at £250 odd whereas hubby's was £145 for service and MOT.( only a 54 plate )
Mine was similar ( 04 plate) but I just closed my eyes when I punched in my pin No.lol
Son say's he can't be doing with MOTs...!! Well he'll have to buy his own next car!!! Boys ☺☺

Just for once both ours are up to date with servicing, and our daughter's and our son's scooter. But yes, I put the pin in quickly and hoped the nasty numbers would go away too...

We've said we'll give our daughter a year from graduation and then she needs to let the moths out of her purse. Our son only just started riding so we've given him a year too.

I'll have been at my new job for a month by the end of the week having been a housewife for a year while we settled into our new area. Thought I may have made a mistake when I first started but I'm quite enjoying it now. I work the second half of the week on a job share, so I still have some time to myself.

Do you work? Full time, part time or not at all?

Although I retired a few years ago I have returned to my place of work to cover long term sick leave of the person that replaced me. As it's in the local Arts Centre and Theatre, it's a fun place to work even though it's in the finance office.

Do you visit the Theatre very often and if so what do you prefer to see ?

No , I'm not at theatre goer...failed my English Lit at O Level !
Although I loved the arts, it's visual, and hands on, passed my Art and Pottery at A level.

Our town has it's Christmas lights up already.. Do you think it's too early..?

Yes I'm afraid I do. I don't mean to be a spoilsport but I think the beginning tof December is plenty early enough, but I don't mind too much if they start prepareing in November. This year in the supermarkets there were Christmas items coming in alongside all the back to school stuff. I think it spoils the celebration if it goes on for too long. It's more special if you have to wait and anticipate it more.

What do you think about supermarkets making hot cross buns all year round?

It takes the fun/novelty out of buying them at Easter,Cadbury Cream Eggs can also be bought all year round now.

Have you finished with drying the washing outside until next year yet? have you put away or given up with your washing line?

Probably, but then I do have the heat of an aga always there to help me out and save running the tumble dryer.

Do you iron everything or only what you think needs it? My mum used to starch most things and iron everything including pants and socks. I've always thought that was taking it too far.

I only iron shirts and blouses, T.shirts, Trousers, Jeans, cotton hankies(my dad's he won't use paper tissues.) Duvet covers& pillow cases & Table cloths, (only used on a Sunday)
I never iron underwear or tea towels. Ironing is not a favourite job of mine and if I can do something else I will do instead of the ironing.



It's really getting quite chilly outside these days , have you started wearing your winter outdoor clothes yet, (warm coat & Boots)?

I would have loved Dixxie Lixxies question
I Iron as least as possible, hubby's shirts are a must, and son's tops if he's on a good night out!

We live at 1350 ft so it is quite cold, but I haven't taking to wearing boots or jackets yet , I often have to wear my wet weather jacket ...light weight cos of the rain.

I have my nan's barometer,but can always tell by how the weather is if my hair is curly of frizzy in the morning i Pain !!!


Does the weather affect you hair...??

No not really, mine's always straight as a die. Used to dream of curly hair but I've given up. The only time the weather affects my hair is if I'm out in really pouring rain. But I love walking and will walk in almost any weather. Once on an autumn holiday in Dorset we went walking along the coast to Durdle Door in torrential rain with gales. It was absolutely exhilarating.

Is there anyone else mad like me who enjoys walking in bad weather?

If your dressed for it there is nothing better than walking along the sea front when it's wet and windy and the sea is coming up over the pavement. Brought up in Hastings so we did this quite a lot.


What is the highest hill/mountain that you have ever climbed or walked up ?