Quotatin 3 and Nostalgia

The last day of March and the last day of Lynnes challenge. Avery special day as well as we are celebrating the rising of Jesus.

 

Thank you for this week Lynne. I hope you don't mind if I catch up on Kathis  challenge.


Photos from my early life

Nana and granddads Ruby wedding anniversary taken before we moved.
 I'm sitting at the front, Nana and granddad at the back.


Marion in the garden at Limestone Cottage

Dad on the right talking to Mr Wrench, the estate manager.

Myself with baby Marion on my knee and Mary standing at the side
It was Marions christening day.
You can just see Limestone Cottage in the background.

My oldest piece of clothing

It's 24  years old and I can get in it again.

 

 

Things I can't leave home without

 

I always take my purse and a packet of paper hankies

I often forget my mobile phone.

 

The person who has probably influenced me most or who I really admire.

 

is probably Tina Turner.

I so admire her for the way she got out of a terrible marriage

and went on to make such a success of her life.

 

My 5 minutes of Fame

 

Not sure if I had one

but I can remember shaking my shoes

when I had to give a talk to the parents of the children in the school

when we got a new maths syllabus.

I had to explain it to them and answer questions.

 

I think I said I would explain about Oxcroft in my last blog on Nostalgia.

 

Oxcroft was one of many estates around the country that was created after the first world war for people who lived in towns and hadn't any work. Each estate had houses with land to make small holdings. There was an estate manager and a packing estate manager - my dad - on each estate along with farm equipment the tenants could borrow.

The tenants sent their produce into the packing station where it was sorted and then sent to market.

 

We left Oxcroft when I was 9 to go to Crofton in Cumberland when my dad had a promotion to a much larger packing station that served 3 estates.  

Quotation2

Sorry Lynne, I've really not been able to join in this week. I haven't been out much and have been sleeping a great deal.

I think my answer to the quote" what are we not going to do this week" is everything.

Roland took me to see Nikkie, Jo and Sian yesterday afternoon as Jo was going to finish school early and we could go and look at his school work and take Jo and Sians Easter Eggs. It was lovely to see them but I have been shattered today.
Roland has recovered from his cold and has been really busy today in the garden as the weather has been good- sunny but cold.

I have had a letter from the hospital and I go to have this stone removed on Wednesday so things should improve after that.

I went out this morning and looked for things I might have missed

The tiny Daphne flowers that smell so lovely

 

A tiny fungus hidden behind some plants

It's growing on a piece of tree trunk we have against our wall.

I can't remember what these are called
They're at the bottom of our rockery

These dainty PINK flowers are sheltering under the Rosemary

I really need to catch up with last week so I'll do that tomorrow.
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Quotation

I've not felt too good since I got back from our hols so I'm not posting at the moment. Roland has also got a very bad cold and feels awful. I will catch up with last week and get on to Your challenge, Lynne ASAP.
See you all around soon.

Nostalgia

Yesterday we left home after lunch and came to Pine Lakes for a few days. Pine Lakes is on the Southern edge of the Lake District, situated around a lake that used to be a gravel quarry. It is very close to the M6 and only about an hour away from home. We just needed a break for a few days.

Kathijos challenge this week is Nostalgia: Five thing about me.

Today is the day I tell you where I was born and my early life.

I was born in a nursing home in 1947 in Chesterfield in Derbyshire (home births where the norm then). Mum and Dad lived in a tied house at Oxcroft - tell you about that another day. It was quite a few miles away from Chesterfield and as it was a really bad winter it was still snowing in March they had quite a bad time getting there in time. When I was 3 and my sister Mary was born we moved from the semi on the estate to a stone cottage on the same estate and it had cellars and attics. I loved that house even though I wouldn't go up into the attics by myself.

 

The Hills around where we stayed.

 

A lady reseating a chair in her shop in Sedburgh

 

A Bookshop in Sedburgh.

This is about 1/4 of the space they had.

Laugh

I just can't believe it is Wednesday and I have only just posted.
I had sort of good news yesterday. I have a rather large gall stone in my bile duct. It had been seen on the CT scan but needed to be confirmed with an ultrasound. The radiologist said she had never seen such a large one and kept going back to it to have another look. So I know what it is and when I see the specialist I will find out about what will be done about it.

 

Laugh

 

 

We laugh a lot in this house. When ever I feel down Roland can make me laugh and feel better. It is said laughter is the best medicine of all and I agree.

 

Most of the shows on TV that make me laugh have been mentioned

Miranda (Have you seen her on the one show)
Allo Allo
Stella - not a comedy in fact can be tragic but I can't help laughing at the really funny bits.
The Royal family
Wallace and Gromit.
etc

The best laughs are with someone else eg Family and friends.
We aren't laughing much in these photos but these people are who I have a good laugh with. 

 

Alistair is a real comic

 

and we laugh lots when he is around

We are too busy to laugh.
but believe me we have lots of laughs at the craft group.

 

 

 

It's been a busy week this week since I last posted. On  Wednesday I went with Catherine to see Nikki, Sian and Jo o. We went late in the afternoon so we could see Jo after school . It was lovely to see them all. The last time I saw Nikki, Jo and Sian was when Jo and I went to the cinema. I was so cross with myself because I forgot to take photos.

Thursday, I did some gardening, ironing and general cleaning. It's been a long time since I had the energy to do anything. We also went into town as we wanted to change my bank account to joint names with Roland but they said we had to close my account and open a new one. It would have been too much trouble to change everything so we decided against changing and I will transfer any extra money  over to our joint account with another bank so there is not too much in mine.

Friday, Roland and Pete from next door went to replace a blown window at Jaynes. When they got back . Roland took me back to Tarleton to visit Stampers Gallery. I had not seen Sue since about October. She moved to a shop round the corner from the old one between Christmas and New Year so it was the first time I had been in it. Sue and I had a good catch up while I was there
Of course then we popped in to Jaynes again and had a cuddle with Amber.
Oliver came to sleep  over as his mum and dad were going out.

Saturday,  Oliver woke up at about  7.30 and got into bed with us until it was time to get up.
Later they went to look at cars with Leo , who is looking for a new one.  Mum and dad came for him about lunch time and went off with him to get a car mat for his other grand parents house.
Roland and Leo went back out to Blackpool to look at another car and came back with Leo having bought one - result. While they were out I baked my fruit cake and a custard tart

Local scene

 

The Mackenzie Arms in January

 

Its been empty for a long time

 

In February

 

And in March

 

An old local landmark gone in 3 months to make way for a road

It's so sad

 

 

I finished this in February but I've only just photographed it

 

 

A day early I know but these came today from Jen



 

 

 

 

 

View 2

Another lovely day today. I went to the hairdresser this morning and actually walked there. Roland came to pick me up and we went to look at sinks and hobs for Jayne. We found a sink in B&Q and a hob in Currys. Roland ordered the hob on line to be delivered there and we'll go and get the sink from B&Q on Wednesday(tomorrow) - pensioners 10% off.
I then went to look in Insperations and found some empty spritzer bottles so I can have a go at what I want to with a journalling page. I'll show you if it works out.

One of our miniature daffodils
In the garden we can see from our kitchen window





March View challenge

It's good to back with the view. Ours has changed because Roland was doing some tidying up at the weekend.

Doesn't it look tidy?

 

I went to Tarleton today to get some supplies from the craft shop there, forgetting it was shut on Monday.

We still had a good day though as we went to see Jayne and her two little ones. 

 

 

Lynnes quotation

Well this is the end of Lynnes week and what a brilliant week it has been. It's really made me "look". The good weather has helped of course even though today was overcast.
We went to see my sister yesterday. She has packed everything ready to move out as she is going down to her daughters to help with looking after the grandchildren and cooking the meals while they are lambing. I just hope that the sale goes through and she doesn't have to unpack again.

She gave us some prints of oldish photos and when I have copied them and downloaded them I can put them on my blog.

 

As a footnote this is a photo of little Leo on the 20th February last year the day he was born.

I was looking at our photos and found it doesn't time fly.

 



Look closely

Another lovely day today. Roland and I went out to meet another member of his family he had not met before. We met Liz and her mum at a pub called "The Grapes" near where they live.
It was the pub where Roland and I had our first date so it was lovely for us to go there again.
Lizs mum had a lot to tell us about Rolands family,so much that we couldn't take it all in so we are going to see them again.

Some of the lovely Close up photos Roland has taken in the past