Yes - because I google ' Hagstones " Over a year ago when you wrote in here about having one and . I think you may have said they were one of your favourite stones that you had collected

Your living room sounds exactly like mine when I lived in the ground floor flat in a converted terraced house in Paddington in Sydney on Hargrave Street that we were renting for a few years

I loved it 🌟 and you could only have exactly what you have got in yours
A small sofa & one armchair with TV beside it and a glass topped table I made in the centre
But the TV was on some bricks - With some wooden planks that we found
Same with the Low 2' square glass topped table in the centre of the room
A pane of glass on house bricks
The room was about 8 feet by 8 feet 😁

The property had 3 floors and itvwas a narrow but deep property
A typical traditional terrace found in Paddington

The Small cute kitchen was joined on to this room
and visible through the Original - Window frame
All that could fit in the kitchen
was a little sink area below the stairs - a gas stove at the opposite end
a couple of wall cupboards and a Formica dining table and maybe 2 chairs
Positioned between the sink and the one and only door

The kitchen was also the same width of the living room / 8 ffeet
but was only a foot or two wider than the gas stove / maybe 5 feet ñ

The only other room was a bedroom dug into the earth
In the dark basement behind the living oom
Just big enough for the double bed and a small wardrobe and chest if drawers
It was such a unique cosy cute flat

The living room walls were already painted letterbox gloss Red
With a new soft nice turquoise carpet
It had been painted a lovely leafy green gloss paint
around the existing glassless window frame & 2 door frames

We shared a bathroom etc just out by our kitchen door
And we had a long narrow sunny garden outside the kitchen door

There was a small hotpoint washer spinner outside
In a handmade verandah styled shelter overed by that clear corrugated plastic roofin

Can ya pic-cha --- it ?? 😁
( said in the Ozzy accent with the must have UPward inflection )
& Have ya enjoyed most of yor ' harzes 😐?

I've enjoyed all the houses I've lived in since leaving the marital one....I don't have such good memories of that house other than all the times when my children were small and their birthdays, festive times, etc. Also I loved the house I grew up in despite it being rather a soulless 50s built little box on an estate full of similar boxes.

Of all my homes I love this current cottage the best, by far. This is perfect, I like old quirky places [even though I noticed one of my small window panes is loose this morning and the plaster is coming away here and there ]

Today I bought a bunch of daffs for 90p in Lidl. Have you any spring flowers in your house yet?

Well done 😀
I often see people buying several little bunches of daffa / especially when they are selling them off each night for 19p a bunch

No - not had any spring flowers in here yet
But have a Large **Signature** white floral bouquet / Stunningly beautiful
Was £20 but I paid just

which included Fabulous white large n small roses
And about 5 gorgeous big white Lillies
I removed them all in the shop with some assorted foliage
and handed this smaller bunch which we had wrapped up ⏩
....... over to my friend in there
Because as you would know Any pollen from Lillies is fatal for kitties
Because she has sadly not got her brother and sister kitties anymore

Do you think that you drive >>>>>>> much more than 🚘 ➡ 20 miles ➡ most weeks ?

Probably that amount at least, since I live far out and have 2-3 miles to drive to get anywhere remotely civilised

You forgot to put the total amount in for the flowers...but I think you mentioned these same flowers recently as I recall you saying about removing the lilies.

I am finally watching the last episode of War & Peace which I missed when away. Very tragic

Do you cry over dramas/films or only over real life/news items?

Yes I do start to feel sad n teary at various things I see or read about
..... But not full on crying ..... only because I try hard to keep most of the tears inside
I will nearly always try to avoid those sort of sad & upsetting things-
if I fear it will get me all upset and teary or emotional I will avoid it completely
There are things so sad & you can never erase what you have seen from your memory

The last time was this morning
while watching the sad segment at the start of Jeremy Kyle on ITV at 9-25am today
-The whole story was sad but then
when the mum described how she had just arrived back home
But then Got the phone call from the hospital and dashed back just in time to see and hold the hand of her ** lovely little 17 year old daughter ** 😥


Haha I did type the price in that post
But then I edited and .
Then deleted bits n bobs - of the many ** little screen Kindle typo errors. **
I must have deleted the amount while fiddling with the long post

They were on sale for just £2 - down from £20 😁
and I did mention them here a while ago

A tip I heard a couple of days ago was to add sugar or lemonade to the water to give flowers a boost
as well as changing all the water each ? day ?
searing the end with boiling water and shipping the stem ends
& grouping flowers in their own groups
Such as all the SAME roses together etc

Then do the same with any other different type of flowers
rather than positioning them all evenly around the display
Doing this grouping is the way ..is because they will look ,more like the way . they would be grouped in an actual garden

How do you generally arrange a bunch of assorted flowers ?
In groups or in a sort of scattered symmetrical sort of way ?

I just go with the flow and if it's a mixed bunch, I will mix the flowers up. With the daffs I just snipped the ends off the stalks and shoved them in a vase!

Several times during War and Peace I had to get tissues and get a grip....but it was a lovely ending

I have beautiful afternoon sun,but it's freeeezing!! Is it cold where you are?

Nope

Back from Wiltshire (& Gloucestershire)

Did I miss anything??

Hi Nate Welcome back
I would say you didn't miss too much

Twassy we have had bright sunshine for 2 days in a row
It was quite mild out there earlier when I had a few chats - till dusk
We have had then had 2 very cold evenings brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Hope you had a great time while you were away
and it did you good

Have you ever used a skate board / segway / surf board / ice skates / Roller blades ??

I've tried all but the segway and I would like to try that.....are they safe??

WB Nate!

Skateboard, surfboard & roller blades

My balance is atrocious so I'd be wary of a segway twass

Had a great time shopping, who knew Cheltenham & Swindon were home to so many 'fashion houses'

I'm scared of ice skates, am I mad??

No! They deposited me on my arse after 30 seconds and I had the bruise for WEEKS!!!

THey are of the devil!

What new clobber have you got?

I got some fab & gorgeous things from my local charity shops

The lad I was chatting to earlier was on his blue light Segway that he got for Xmas
He offered me a go when I was minding his grandparents Doggie over Xmas
but I declined the offer

He whizzies about every day on his - a very fast tooooooooooo

When I was over at the house - were the Doggie - Milo lives - he was using it inside
each day for that fortnight when I over was there

He said it was easy and as soon as he got it unwrapped he was loving it
and was confident on it within moments
But he is good at everything he tries

Glad you enjoyed the W&Peace &

What was the last meal you had in a restaurant ??


>>>>>>>>>>>>>> off to refill the hotties brrrrrrrr

A few days ago with mini twass, when we had deep fried mozzarella in breadcrumbs with salsa followed by king prawn risotto

Do you like fried cheese?

I sure do

Using my lap top tonight
It seems strange after using the Kindle so much lately
especially deleting / on here you remove to the right and the kindle < to the left

Have just turned the channel over to watch Dance Moms - Not watched it for about a year
Until then I watched every episode
Just realized this is a repeat form years ago with Cathy's mum's daughter in a bumble bee costume

Have you ever watched it ?

Never seen, what sort of show is it?

It is an American reality show following the lives of a group of young dancers and their mothers since 2011 in Abby's Studio in Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania
at a very competitive dance school run by a very strict and ambitious dance teacher called Abby Lee Miller, who has been doing this for almost 30 years
She expects perfection - and the winning trophies

Her choreography and story telling is absolutely amazing /

She produces fantastic and award winning ballet jazz lyrical tap contemporary acrobatic and modern routines for the girls ~ who often win the top awards at each National Competition
Most of the children are very dedicated and it is hard to get a place in her dance academy

The Mums often squabble between themselves - but they all want their children to excel and get the leading dance for any competitions they go to

Fancy watching it now ??

Er....I think I'll pass

Did you own a Spirograph as a child?

I recall using one - but don't think it was mine
It was quite good trying the various cogs


Did you ?

Yes, I loved mine! It was much used. Did you have meccano?

No

had leggo - did you ?

I had neither and was very jealous of children who had

I did have a Scalextric which was my pride and joy. Even though I was a girl

Did you?

No, didn't play with one until I was in my teens and the neighbour built one in his loft!

Ralph Lauren or Ben Sherman??

Ben Sherman! My lemon yellow one got in Barnet market off a dodgy stall was my pride and joy....I was sent home from school for wearing it

Were you sent home often? I never WENT home obviously...not til home time

No didn't have a Scalextric either

Was never sent home
My thing was not to go - as mentioned the other day

Did you have a swing in your garden ?

I did, built by my dad. When you went very high the legs lifted out of the ground

I also had roller skates til dad ran them over with his company car outside the house after I left them on the pavement

Did you have stilts?