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**Ann**

**Ann** Report 15 Jan 2025 19:30

They say you are never too old to learn something new….I was scratching me head on a crossword clue this afternoon…tell a lie I was going out,of me mind trying to think what it could be :-D :-D

Anyways want something like….a portable shelf unit for placing small items on :-0 :-0

Answer: What Not :-0 :-0

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 15 Jan 2025 19:30

Do you remember the brown 10/- note :-D

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**Ann**

**Ann** Report 15 Jan 2025 19:31

I do Belle :-D :-D

The Beer Battered Cod in a box MG :-0 :-0

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 15 Jan 2025 19:32

You don't hear of them much now very popular in Victorian times :-D

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LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 15 Jan 2025 19:32

I was very rich if I was given one of them :-D :-D

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**Ann**

**Ann** Report 15 Jan 2025 19:33

All knew to me Belle…never heard them referred to as that :-)

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 15 Jan 2025 19:34

I've been going around and around in circles trying to find out when I'm going to get an appt to have me face thingy removed :-|

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MotownGal

MotownGal Report 15 Jan 2025 19:34

Some what nots were triangular and fitted into a corner, to put yer junk on. :-0

Yep the old 10/- note, or as we used to say Half a Bar.

My uncle always dropped me half a dollar when we visited him as a kid, I thought I was rich :-D

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**Ann**

**Ann** Report 15 Jan 2025 19:34

We always used to get a 10/- postal order from our rich uncle in Chichester
:-D :-D

Gawd what you could buy with that in the 50’s :-D

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 15 Jan 2025 19:35

Any answers Belle :-(

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 15 Jan 2025 19:36

Are you not signed up to My Chart Belle. You can check all your appts on that with your hospital. :-)

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LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 15 Jan 2025 19:36

A whatnot shelf is a piece of furniture with a series of open shelves that are supported by upright posts. Whatnots were popular in the 19th century and were used to display ornaments, books, and other objects

:-D :-D :-D

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MotownGal

MotownGal Report 15 Jan 2025 19:37

As I said a place to display yer junk :-D :-D

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**Ann**

**Ann** Report 15 Jan 2025 19:37

I know now Belle :-D :-D

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 15 Jan 2025 19:38

Twas not something my mother ever purchased MG :-D :-D

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 15 Jan 2025 19:39

I don't think my hospital has My Chart Maddie....my SiL does at her hospital :-(

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MotownGal

MotownGal Report 15 Jan 2025 19:39

Prof Alice is on again tonight. A Roman villa I believe. :-)

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LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 15 Jan 2025 19:40

All I have is the NHS App :-)

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MotownGal

MotownGal Report 15 Jan 2025 19:42

Maybe it is the teaching hospitals Belle. Makes it a lot easier to check appts and letters. :-)

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**Ann**

**Ann** Report 15 Jan 2025 19:42

Am going to catch up with another episode later MG :-D

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