Peggy's Mundane Thread

Peaceful night, wife baby sitting. Where the fridge

Summer last week, winter this week, FFS! The heating is back on FCOL!!

Cornish Chris wrote:

Paid £1.49 for a pint yesterday in Truro. Felt like a time warp.

Much too verbose Chris. Only the final seven words are necessary to convey your proposition.

Took any hour away from web to finish reading a book by M C Scott. The Coming of the king.

bjorn_yesterday wrote:

Cornish Chris wrote:

Paid £1.49 for a pint yesterday in Truro. Felt like a time warp.

Much too verbose Chris. Only the final seven words are necessary to convey your proposition.

cup of tea in Devonport Park cafe,

'Tis proper blowy the last couple days. Need to trim my bush hedge soon too.

Hung some washing out, having a cup of tea.

Plumbed in my new (well secondhand really) washing machine today, good riddance to the twin tub.

hippo wrote:

Plumbed in my new (well secondhand really) washing machine today, good riddance to the twin tub.

What a twin-tub......we had one of them 51yrs ago when we first got married.....has it gone back to the museum ?

watching Corrie

zyph wrote:

hippo wrote:

Plumbed in my new (well secondhand really) washing machine today, good riddance to the twin tub.

What a twin-tub......we had one of them 51yrs ago when we first got married.....has it gone back to the museum ?

No, it's off to the scrap man once i've taken a few 'useful' bits off it, not that there are many. I got sick of constantly mending it. The 'new' one is worryingly quiet

hippo wrote:

zyph wrote:

hippo wrote:

Plumbed in my new (well secondhand really) washing machine today, good riddance to the twin tub.

What a twin-tub......we had one of them 51yrs ago when we first got married.....has it gone back to the museum ?

No, it's off to the scrap man once i've taken a few 'useful' bits off it, not that there are many.  I got sick of constantly mending it.  The 'new' one is worryingly quiet

Are we talking of the same sought of Hoover twin-tub that we would of bought in 1961 ?

Nothing automatic about it.

1.....Fix hose to hot tap and fill up washing tub with hot water....turn on....washing tub rotates with washing.

2.....With wooden tongs transfer washing to spin tub and turn on, another hose pumped the water into sink.

3.....When all washing done,pump washing water into sink.

A labour intensive process.....but it beat the scrubbing brush and washing board....(later used for skiffle band).

Mine, a Dutch model:- make water hot on fire, pour in, fix hose pipe (cold) wait ages, yank stuff out (by this time cold, no need for tongs), throw in spinner thingy (till it broke) then hang out. I'm too young (sorry) to remember proper uk twin tubs, but even they and my old Dutch model is so much easier than handwashing everything on a concrete wash area/ own concrete tank next to a stream. I hope you don't see this as a simile to the 'four yorkshirmen sketch'.

I forgot, in more modern news, I've been 'smoking' an e cigarette thingy for 2 weeks. I like banana flavour.

alannotivvy wrote:

watching Corrie

Ha, I'm watching Corrie (and Emmerdale) in Saffer. Arrived here from the 1st May. Cindy is thinking about shooting herself.

[quote="Charlie Wood"]

alannotivvy wrote:

watching Corrie

Ha, I'm watching Corrie (and Emmerdale) in Saffer. Arrived here from the 1st May. Cindy is thinking about shooting herself.[/quote]

Prolly along with half the people that watched it.

Coffee off Anvil Point

6.5 knots, heading West.

The kyboard on my lappy is gettig well dodgy. It keeps on issing letters as I type.

Epect to see pleny of edits to my posts in the near futue.

If its a wi fi one then change the batteries you tight wad!

It's not a ifi one. It's an ify one.

hippo wrote:

I forgot, in more modern news, I've been 'smoking' an e cigarette thingy for 2 weeks.  I like banana flavour.

Swapped one death wish.....for another healthier death wish.....you just die slower that way......you might be around for when Argyle reach the Premiership .

Just been to B & Q and bought a garden fork, garden brush, some nitro mors and some brushes.

Asked at till if I wanted to join some over 60 discount club.

cnuts! I'm taking my custom elsewhere in future!

8 out-of-date mini M&S pork pies cut into quarters and thrown on the garden for the birds today.

Lasted about 3 minutes (Jackdaws, Rooks and Herring Gulls scoffed the lot).