General Chat

Good Evening Linda,

We were so lucky to escape the snow - not far inland they had a heavy fall.
It's just on the hills now, nice to look at - from a distance.

I'm watching a programme about the Hill Railways of India on BBC Four - fascinating. I think I could have lived in India - love it.

Tec

Hi all!! I've been here for about twenty minutes, but it takes me that long to catch up on the posts. Beautiful outside at the moment, but expected to be 34+ later, so I will be hibernating then.

I watched Eastenders when we had cable - until I saw the cast at a Bafta awards night. Didn't recognise any of them because I found that the episodes we were PAYING for were about six years old!!! We cancelled cable after that. Changed to another providor and gave them three years, then cancalled that one too. They will need to update a lot for me before I will pay to watch them again.

Well I would have had to be a mem saab living in one of the hill stations in order to cope.

OH has worked in India a great deal. The chemical plants were built out in the sticks and the locals were so dreadfully poor. He also spent lots of time in Mumbai and Delhi in the very posh hotels of course. The last couple of times he was there, Bill Clinton was in the same hotel and another time president Putin was there. He said the body guards were all over the place with big guns under their jackets

Good evening Berona, i don't watch any of the soaps, not my thing at all. I have seen them at odd times over the years, but gave up on them a long time ago

Good Morning Allan,

I don't know how you cope with 41 c - I would find that very difficult now.
We tend to moan and groan about our freezing conditions, but at least we can get warm - but how do you stay cool?

I was also taught by my mother to cook, clean, and everything else.
At the age of 12 yrs I was keeping house very often for my father and four siblings because my mother was often in hospital at that time. Unfortunately my father was incapable of boiling a kettle, or making a sandwich, and had no idea how to clean or wash and iron.
It was very good training for me.

Tec

Linda - you gave me food for thought when you said what your OH would do with the half-bottles of shampoo (mix them together). I might do that, even though they are different brands - but if it doesn't work, I won't lose anything really, because I didn't know they were there and wasn't using them! I do have a favoured brand - might leave that one alone. I'll let you know if it works.

Good Morning Berona,
Mind how you go mixing those bottles, there might be a big explosion if they don't mix LOL

Linda - I know Mumbai - Bombay as was - very well, and have had many good dinners in the big hotel that was attacked by terrorists last year.
Also I was once attacked in Mumbai by a flock of big black birds like crows - known locally as shite hawks, well that's what I was told by an Indian gentleman, and yes, the poverty is sickening.
But I did enjoy working with the Indian crew on board ship, they were good men.

Tec

Bah, I was just eating something and a large filling just fell out of my tooth. It is one of the back ones and there is not much tooth left as it is, so that is bad news.

The hotel is the Taj Tec, OH hasbeen there lots of times.

OH mixes our half empty bottles of sun cream together Berona and it works well to save space

Tec, my father was the same, but after my mother died he bacame quite the expert in the kitchen. It was acase of having to be as by then I was married and living on the other side of Stockport whilst my father was in Eccles and my brother was here in Oz.

Berona, careful mixing those shampoos etc together you might disappear in a puff of purple smoke

Yesterday after doing the ironning OH rushed into the room and said, in a very accusing tone of voice, "the water's off"

By the time i had convinced her that I knew nothing about it, and hadn't done it to inconvenience her, she phoned the local water supplier only to be told that there was a burst pipe and it would be off for two hours.

So she had to get ready for the choir prformance without being able to wash her hair or have a shower. Just as she was due to leave, the supply was restored!

Allan

That sounds expensive Linda

I'll have to get a new atlas!! I thought Bombay was in India and Mumbai was in Egypt! We live and learn.
For years, I wondered where Sri Lanka was? When the name Colombo was mentioned, I said - "I've been there - it's in Ceylon!".

Needless to say, geography was not one of my better subjects at school and if I hadn't travelled, I wouldn't know as much as I do (which isn't much anyway).

Linda, you have my deepest sympathy.

the same thing happened to me before Christmas, but as I am having no pain yet I have delayed going to the Dentist.

If I don't like Doctors, I absolutely abhor dentists!

Allan

She wouldn't be a happy wife Allan.

OH did the ironing this afternoon while he watched some football. He has always helped out, I suppose because we were both working full time for eight years before we had our first child. He never learnt to cook theough, I suppose because he was the youngest in his family and his mother died when he was so young. He is doing well since he stopped working though. He has a couple of dishes he does well

I have private dental insurance Tec,so it won;t cost anything, well not until next year when they bump the premium up

Has everyone found somewhere more exciting to be ?

Than where?

Than here, everyone seemed to have gone off, so I wondered where you all where

As a matter of fact, Linda,Ii went to take my medication and ended up washing the dishes from last night's dinner.

I'm back now!

Allan

Well I've been in the kitch toasting a tea-cake. That was really exciting!

I'd rather be in Rio since you ask,

Tec

Don't you have a dish washer Allan, apart from you that is?