Thanks for all the sewing machine advice and suggestions, especially Sue @SueTrevor - I was thinking it seemed wrong that I should have to pay for that service which hasn’t helped and you’ve confirmed my thoughts - I’ll drive over there this afternoon and see what they say. I love that your old machine started working again when you brought in a new model Sharon @TheOldButton
Thanks for that Hilary, I find if the URL (is it)? is missing and I click on the item to go to their shop to like their listing, I have to go all round the houses to get back to the forum. But I don’t want to miss them out. Jan
I spent this morning at the Guide Dog Centre. They have some enclosed spaces that we can book to let Dev have a ‘free run’ while he’s on a tight reign. It’s a great set up…didn’t want to leave.
Just to let you know, Hilary, my parcel arrived this morning. Just what I needed and you will see it in future pictures in my listings- that’s the plan ! Will wait for Folksy to ask for review to see how it works so my review will end up where it should, on your page. Ok? Jan
Good afternoon everyone I’m really flagging today.
When I was a child, up till I was 10 we lived in a flat that had no electricity and no hot water. Sunday’s used to be the day for bath, in the tin bath in front of the fire, syrup of figs to keep us regular and my hair tied up in rags to try to make it a bit curly instead of dead straight. We had gas lighting and we would buy mantles from the post office across the road to go on the lights. Cooking, heating and all hot water was got via a black range in the sitting room as the kitchen wasn’t big enough to contain it. It was freezing in the winter and hot in the summer as if we wanted hot water or tea then the range had to be lit. We didn’t have television for entertainment just our imaginations and the radio. Those were the days eh!
Today I have a new listing a white howlite cube bead and silver spacers with a coffee & cream Chinese style shell pendant with matching earrings
That was how we lived here in the 90’s Pauline, gas lights and a Rayburn, we finally had the power brought in, when my toddler was discovered trying to light a gas lamp, standing on the dining room table and fumbling the matches, filling the whole ceiling with gas.
Once the power was put in he was discovered in the same position dismantling the live electric light. He is lucky to have made it to 27, but always has had an inquisitive mind.
Pauline… @OswestryJewels …that sounds like my childhood…gas light…bath in front of the fire and as the youngest, I got the last bath in the same water as everyone else. We were two up and two down…NO toilet… a pot under the bed and my parents had a commode in a cupboard under the stairs…No bathroom either, just a kitchen sink with cold water…if we wanted hot water, we had to boil a kettle on a very ancient gas cooker…
We lived in an old school house and the school had been converted into a toy factory so for toilets, we had to walk down a dark lane to use the factory toilets…which of course was only during daylight. I also had my hair wound in rags…( old bed sheets) and my mum had a blouse made from a parachute. Sing something simple in later years and always the Billy Cotton Band show and the Navy Lark on a sunday with our rare 5/- ( 25p) joint of beef.
Afternoon all,
Happy Valentines Day
Hope all the poorly folk - and poorly dogs - feel better soon.
You can’t trust those sesame seeds Joss, @XStitcherJoss - good luck on Wednesday
Hope you get the heating and reimbursement sorted @GeorginaCrawfordArt - and your sewing machine Mel @aquilacrafts
‘Junior choice’ and the ‘Clithero kid’ were two shows I remember on the radio later on it was radio Luxemburg.
When I grew up in Cumbria our water supply came from a tank on the fell side - if the water supply stopped someone would have to remove whatever had fallen into the tank to restore the supply - a dead sheep etc! I also had the job of releasing back into the ‘beck’ the little leechs and water shrimps the came out of the tap every day - we were tough in those good old days!
me and hubby are off work this week so routine totally out the window 
