General Chat

is from Norwich, it's the one I attended with my son and his gf, on my birthday last July.
I will be recording it so I can look for ourselves on the show, think it's going to be shown in two broadcasts.

Lizx

Liz can I have your autograph please :-) :-) ;-) <3

Oooooh. 15 seconds of fame. My daughter and her husband walked past and hovered behind the presenters in one that they filmed in Lincolnshire

We usually watch Antiques, so what are you wearing Liz, so we can look out for you.?!!!!

Sue

Yes tell us, did you have a wonderful find???

No nothing exciting, just a tiny brass box inlaid with enamel, which was given me by a Great Aunt along with her Singer sewing machine, in 1959. It's still the only machine I own and I use it all the time, keep the spools in the little box, it holds two. Apparently it was probably a patch box - for beauty spots for ladies and gents to cover up blemishes!

Son took two glass vases so we spent time talking to Andy wotsisname, who is hilarious. They take you off to film you later if you have something special to show, and spectators are allowed in to the filming to ooh and aah but we didn't have time to hang on for that part as we were going out for a meal to celebrate my birthday.

I am wearing a denim skirt and an apricot coloured strappy top, it was really hot that day. My hair is grey now. Son has a beard and is in a light coloured shirt with small blue flowers and his gf is shorter, wearing a grey/beige top, and I think she had jeans on as did my son.

I shall be watching the recording bit by bit to see if we are on the show lol but no autographs I am afraid, don't want to show off lol


Lizxx

I'am going to record it too as we live in Norfolk ,i might see some one i know :-)

It was at the U.E.A., Norwich.

Where are you in Norfolk?

Lizx

Dereham , and its a nice sunny day :-D

It is here too, lovely blue sky but chilly in Norwich. I have friends in Toftwood and my brother lives in Brisley. I like Dereham.

Enjoy the nice weather MMA

Lizx

I shall look out for you Liz :-)

Do you come to Dereham very often Liz? at least we do have free parking here ,i'am lucky two minutes walk and i'am into the town.

We like going to the coast ,Sheringham or Wells for the fish and chips :-D i don't know if they are open after all the flooding .
Not that i can go any where at the moment i pulled a muscle in my leg just before christmas and it's trapped a nerve :-(

Ten minutes to go, sitting with my binoculars at the ready ...

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well did you see yourself Liz? I watched it - good show as per usual

We watched it too AnnC. A red hot day which must have had the ice creams melting. I didn't spot you Liz.... did you see yourself, or your son and girlfriend?

MMA sorry to hear about your injury and hope you will soon be mobile and out of pain. I don't get to Dereham much especially now my elderly friend and ex neighbour has died, I am not that friendly with her daughter in Toftwood, that I would visit. We went to Sheringham just over a week ago, all much the same altho I didn't walk to the prom. We use Dave's fish and chip shop in Co-operative street, do you? I bet if you are in Cromer you go to Mary Jane's.

Well, as for the show, my son said his gf thought she saw him in the background, but I couldn't spot him when I watched the recording. However, there was a short piece with Andy McConnell holding an oddly shaped glass and saying that there wasn't much support there. Just then a large denim clad rear end came into view with a dark blue top half and I am pretty sure that was me!!! At least the face wasn't shown so no one else will recognise me lol The skirt shows the little pockets on the side/front and I think I did pop my navy cardi on over my strappy top as it got a bit breezy. I was watching Andy with that glass, it was after he spoke about it that he looked at my son's glass vases. He told the chap off who brought it as it was full of dust, he made some comment about bringing washing up liquid to clean some of the exhibits.

It was interesting tho, and I would definitely go again if they came back to Norwich. I seem to remember Andy told my son the glass vases were spill vases but of course son didn't know what spills were, he was just that bit too young to remember making spill holders at school for Christmas pressies.

Lizxx

Please tell me I'm not the only one who delved into census records looking for Lorina Bulwer who made that sampler.

I haven't done so but there was a lot on the radio about it so I am sure it raised loads of interest. What did you find?

I did have a look but there were so many people around it I couldn't see much. It made me sad tho, to see all the work gone into it and the story of the poor woman. She made it on pieces of scrap fabric apparently and joined it all up.

Lizx

I didn't look at census records Guinevere, but did google her and read a transcription of the sampler. It is apparently at a local museum until beginning of March so i may well go and take a look :-)

She was a widowed "inmate" in 1901 in Yarmouth workhouse. Listed as a lunatic. She dies in 1912 but I can't see her in the 1911 census.

I found her on an earlier one, though. Poor woman.