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15th Jun 2020BrendaEvans commented on:
A bit of music fun and hope you will all join inOoh some great memories there soulman. I remember those cassette types, and funnily enough I recently bought an 02 registered Volvo and guess what - the radio is a radio cassette player! I thought, "Oh no! I've got to buy a load of music on tape!" But I plumped for the mobile with a play list! Still got some of those cassette kicking around the house! My most favourite was Chronologie by Jean Michel Jarre. Anyway, getting to those tracks. Purely from memory (and a quick cheat), I can add a couple more. Firstly, there's that wonderful track by the Isley Brothers, Summer Breeze. Oh wow. And then I had one on my mind, I could hear the track but would the title or artist come, would it heck. So I played it in my mind a little longer, and suddenly the artist came to mind. From there, it was a quick cheat to see what the track was called. It's Bobby Goldsboro and Summer. And while I was cheating, I noticed he recorded another favourite of mine - Honey. Oh wow - just going to go and download Summer Breeze and Honey. Thanks for the memory trip.ViewDate:
15th Jun 2020BrendaEvans commented on:
Been a member for a while, but only just started using SSHiya again Oh I knew there was something else. I was smiling like mad when you said about the tea party. You guys are brilliant, and wonderfully mad if you don't mind me saying. What a great giggle you gave me. It meant so much to me to see you guys sharing such love and laugh with her, so I know it meant a whole world more to her and you guys. And goodness knows, we need those moments of laughter and attention in these days. And then giving her technology - absolutely ace. She reminds me of a work colleague's auntie and how she regularly rings her niece up, chats for about an hour, sometimes going over stories shared so many times before, reminding me of the chinwags I used to have with my mum - and relive it all again some other time. And you wouldn't swap it for anything. But I wish I'd been a fly on the wall to see her "spaced out"! Been ages since I had space dust. We used to get it in those chocolate bars, mainly for the kids, but I would get myself a bar too. Wow that memory you just brought back!ViewDate:
15th Jun 2020BrendaEvans commented on:
Been a member for a while, but only just started using SSHiya Bee Oh look, I'm sorry to have been so long in putting computer to paper, I work full time and have decided to start driving in to work and back home - well you've got to make use of those quiet roads before the traffic queues start up again :) I got the notification on my email and kept thinking "Right, I'll sit down and write ..." All good intentions that go the way of the Dodo. Anyway, how are you and how you keeping. I hope you're ok and been experimenting in the kitchen a bit more. My mum used to make a great bread and butter pudding. I tried it a couple of times and it just tasted like bread pobs with custard on it. Nothing like how mum made it or you get in cafes. e and bread and butter puddings are just not meant to be! Yeah, you should write a book. I've been thinking of telling others because when you think of the things we got up to in our childhoods, all those adventures that needed sorting out, all those tennis balls playing two-ball and three-ball against the house wall, kick-out-ball games long into the summer nights - I was only reminiscing with my Line Manager along the same lines today - and concluded that we were really almost dragged in by our mums and dads. And you compare our stories to the stories of kids today, and there is such difference and richness. Not saying kid's childhoods these days aren't rich, they are but in a different way. But when you think of the swashbuckling, re-creating film scenes out on some piece of rough land. When we reminisce in front of our kids, who are now all post 30, and the looks of incredulous but awe on their faces - it's worth it! So, recently, I've been thinking it would be really good to get some memories of what we got up to. On top of that, another good thing about jotting stuff down, is it keeps the memory banks intact. Just recently, my brother, sister and I have really been going down memory lane with our childhoods, it's been lovely and comical to share. I've included my 32 year old son and 30 year old nephew in on the emails and visualise their faces as they read what their parents got up to! So yeah, go for it. Books can be as short or as long as you want them. So yeah, do it. I'll badger you along with your daughter :) Oh nice one with the garden. Don't they taste good! Have you managed to put in some raised beds - I went on a waiting list for some local allotments years ago and got the grand tour. And what was nice, was to see about half a dozen raised bed areas for those who struggle with floor level beds. And I thought what a great idea - crikey, given how soon my back can ache, I could do with raised beds. But even in plant tubs, these can help enjoy a bit of pottering about without getting aches or if a person feels prevented from gardening and facing the inevitable having to bend down to ground level. But doesn't home grown stuff taste good - and don't you get a great feeling of harvesting your own stuff. I had an allotment at an old house, and the first batch of vegetables - oh my goodness. I soon came to appreciate the Harvest Festivals we did at school and church. Again, in a recent reminisce with someone at work, I was telling them about my mum and her growing tomatoes in the "front room" (the parlour for the want of a posh word). She was working part time and one of her bosses decided he was going to grow tomatoes - he bought the proper plant food, tended them etc etc. Mum just got some seeds out of a tomato, plonked them probably in some bit of compost, or dirt, shoved them in an old tin toffee tin kept from Christmas. Well, both lots got growing, and growing, and growing. Mums took over the entire window area, and grew the full height of the window so you can imagine the fight for sunlight between human and plant in the room. And it came to harvesting the fruits. Her boss was going on how good his was, how tasty etc. She took a couple of hers in, and they tasted mums. He turned round to her and asked how she'd managed to get sweet tasting tomatoes and what food had she used. She said none. She just watered them, kept them in the window, encouraged them to become triffids. And the difference was put down to the tin - as she put water in it, the metal in the tin rusted, and the contents of the rust with iron, lent to the taste. Come the following year, she grew them again, but they didn't have the same taste - but you find this don't you. Something that turns out good one time is compared against with subsequent attempts, and you never quite get the result again. Sometimes it works out, sometimes not. But wow, the difference in taste is always there to be noticed between home grown and those grown for supermarkets. Talking about gardens, I've got a cherry tree out on the back garden. For the last couple of years, its given a handful of cherries - oh my goodness, you should see it this year, branches and branches of them! What's happened is that some Leylandii have been lopped a couple of years ago, and the back garden isn't too far from gone mental. I call it the Amazon! I took down the last of a shed that David built (I helped) over the weekend. There's still quite a bit of stuff there which was housed in it which I'm moving, and then the idea is to just sit out in the area. The original idea, a few years ago that David and I had, was to take it down and relocate the fruit trees to the back of the garden, but how it is now, I think where the shed was would make a nice little grotto and it keeps the fruit trees where they are, and I get to enjoy a Mock Orange and the Magnolia at the back. Taking the last of the shed down has been on my to-do list for about a year and a half but it was protecting the stuff that was in the shed but I had been toying with the idea of taking it down sometime this year, and hoped to consider it during the pandemic but never got round to it. Then my neighbour, who has a little girl, had a tree guy round middle of last week. I don't know what happened, but one minute the wall was flush upright, then on Thursday I noticed there was a slight lean on it toward her garden. It wasn't looking dangerous, but what I was really mithered about was her daughter. The little girl normally plays round the back door steps. The tree guy had left the felled stuff in the garden, and among it was quite a bit of blackberry vines - well you know how prickly those are. The chances that the little girl would go over are next to nil -but you never know. So that was it, over the weekend, I took the shed wall down. And what I started to think was to shift things round in the garden and make a little seated area up in that part of the garden. So, now I have something to show for something I did during pandemic. I confined myself to home because a work colleague went home on Thursday afternoon showing symptoms - and work had a deep clean on Friday. Obviously, I didn't want to go out anywhere just in case, and thought what shall I do - answer, make safe a shed wall. On top of that, I'm part way through an embroidery project I'm doing for another workmate where embroidery has become something of a regular funny joke between us and he reckoned that the Bayou Tapestry was probably done quicker - so I'm making him a cup mat based on the Tapestry which I've told him about - it's a Piglet Tapestry (try and google it - it's really cute). Then I've decided to make a sampler for a baby who is due in about 3 weeks, but I want to make a cuckoo clock with it. So that's another embroidery project. All this will keep me quiet for the rest of the year :) Then I'll get back to a project I was doing before all this recent stuff. I did another Covid 19 project just as all this was kicking off which has a cute little fieldmouse peeping out of a lily flower, with the words something like "Stay safe, stay inside". Awwwwwwwwww. So, are we ready for Wednesday? I was rather hoping they'd write the season off on one hand, but then wanted it to resume on the other and make Liverpool deserve their win. But a big part of me was hoping it would be written off with no winners! Can't think why! What about you guys. And of course, cricket is back yyayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy But really think on about jotting a book together. It's a bit daunting and you might wonder how on earth you start it off, but once you start, you'll find your fingers and pen won't know how to stop :) Hey, just had an idea or two. I went to a workshop run by a local poet ages ago, and she gave us a blank sheet of paper and the subject of the class that night was wondering how and what to write. And with the blank piece of paper, she was going to conduct an exercise in getting the pen going. She told us, not asked us, to entitle our pieces "I want". And from there, we were to write the things we wanted, but with starting each sentence with "I want". We had a right laugh. And it got the pens moving like mad. And if you want any help - there's a pair of hands here. Okay, I'm going to love you and leave you, and hope that you have a nice day tomorrow and nice week. Take care, BrendaViewDate:
26th May 2020BrendaEvans commented on:
Been a member for a while, but only just started using SSHiya Bee Oh I love what you wrote, put a right smile on my face! I'm Brenda, and I live in a tottery little town which time forgot called Heywood up in Lancashur (I have to write it like that simply because that's the way us folk in 'eywood pronounce it :) ) Rather like you, I'm in some sort of time warp regarding my age. My lovely husband David and I were convinced that we were circa 28, any many times the ideas we had seemed so great, but sometimes the bodies would remind us that they weren't as young as our minds believed! And I like the idea of young minds. I mean, let's face it, young minds - young(ish) bodies. So why not. The other aspect is that keeping a youthful feeling, is that it keeps an energy going which, crikey, we need it these days! There are quite a few things we actually share - I like to read and write. i started with poetry as a kid, and have gone on to write a few books - suffice to say, I tried a couple of publishers, got the usual rejection letters, and have just dabbled to satisfy my urges rather than anything else. But I like to play with poetry - as a kid, I would draw little pictures at the end of the lines, depicting what is said in that line. Awwwww. And crikey, yes, gardening! Crumbs, the times I wish I could grow something, then suddenly, I talked my David into keeping our ponies on the back garden. Well! Bee! You should have seen the bit of lawn - it got rotavated, good and proper. The upshoot was that I grow different things, even today! I have to admit, I like to see gardens, but only give short spells of work during the year. I should spend more, but there is always something else to do. I used to tell David how this fruit tree "followed" me home from the shops! And right now, both front and back garden both look like mini-woodlands! Can't prune them back as fruits are coming and the little birds pop in to say hi and it's nice to leave fruit on the trees if they fancy a munch! Bit like you, bit of a footy person. I sort of followed Man United, but since meeting David, I became a City supporter and the last couple of seasons have been interesting, to say the least. But I do like watching the impact of other teams. My lovely David fell asleep a couple of years ago, and I still love him and feel married to him. I wouldn't have it any other way, but you do get to feel lonesome. Ironically, I've been a member of this community for maybe a couple of years, and been meaning to dip the toe in the paddling pool, never got round to it, and just decided to click on the link in the email, then I thought - "Let's see what's happening in the forums', found your message, and here we are! Sad to say, I do have some rather sad hobbies. A main enjoyment is model trains and building stuff from scratch! David and I went to a toy and train fair a few years ago, I was eyeing up a rather neat looking Swissy sort of engine, we were surrounded by eager fellas, I did a bit more eyeing up. The stall holder asked David if he could help David, and was he interested in anything. I asked him about the price of the engine, the stallholder - although addressing the pair of us - seemed to focus his sight more on David. So the stallholder asked David if the engine was for him, to which David replied, "No." And went on to say it was for me. You could have knocked the stallholder down with a feather. The stallholder replied that he rarely had women customers. We all laughed! In the words of a group from something like the 60s/70s - the world is a great big onion and one great big mixing pot! I shall close in saying I hope you have a brill day.ViewDate:
26th May 2020BrendaEvans commented on:
Win a £50 Amazon eVoucher!Like many others here, I rate the Amazon service. I currently have an order of clay with a seller I regularly buy books from. With the current restrictions, the order is temporarily held pending the return of services buy my seller, but I know that my money is safe, and I know that the order will be delivered with the dexterity my seller has given in the past.ViewDate:
10th Jan 2020BrendaEvans commented on:
I Made My First Music Video At 60!That was really good. I was happily going along with the music, but when I read the lyrics - so phlippin' true. Thanks for song.