Hi there! Just wriiting a line to say "hello" to all I spoke to last year. I certainly had some fun with it all.
Have not used the puter much due to some ill health in the family . I hope I can catch up with you all and continue to read all the interesting mail. Hello to Hazel and Kirby Owdlad and all the gang. I really missed reading all the news old and new. Best wishes to you all for 2005
Regards. V. Hopkinson

Hi Vera, I wondered where you had gone, but thought you had probably gone away to one of those warm places.....like all the exotic birds do in winter :)

Hi,
I think owdlad,
that Vera is already warm, and it's summer there so is prob trying to escape it.

Hi Vera I woneredwhat had happened to you I hope whoever was ill is better now.
Lucky you, all those back posts to read
Hazel

Originally posted by hazel
Hi,
I think owdlad,
that Vera is already warm, and it's summer there so is prob trying to escape it.

Hi Vera I woneredwhat had happened to you I hope whoever was ill is better now.
Lucky you, all those back posts to read
Hazel

Hangs head in shame :( I had forgotten where Vera lived, it's my age you know dear :(

I know I won the title for the oldest Forum member ( I don't think anyone else wants it ) But I don't feel an old dear yet
Just checking that you were on your toes owdlad and keeping up with me.
Hazel

Originally posted by hazel
I know I won the title for the oldest Forum member ( I don't think anyone else wants it ) But I don't feel an old dear yet
Just checking that you were on your toes owdlad and keeping up with me.
Hazel

Hazel
Maybe Veras older than you ? I think she came back to claim the crown, bet she wasn't ill at all, it was good timing don't you think ?

Anyhow, yes we always had a nice dress on for whitsuntide, but my frien and i use to go and show off our new clothes to people we didn't even know and get sixpences from them, just in the local area of course, just use to knock on their front door and show them our dress, they never even hesitated, just gave us money.

Hi Poppins
I think you may be right about the crown, my heads getting too big for it anyway and it has a habbit of falling in the soup when I move my head, don't know how the queen manages..
Hazel

Originally posted by hazel
Hi Poppins
I think you may be right about the crown, my heads getting too big for it anyway and it has a habbit of falling in the soup when I move my head, don't know how the queen manages..
Hazel

Hazel i think someone brings the soup up to her mouth .

Originally posted by poppins
Hazel i think someone brings the soup up to her mouth .


No she doesn't. She lifts up the plate and slurps it :P

(big silly grin thinking about Lizzie with the crown on slurping soup)

Originally posted by poppins
Hazel
Maybe Veras older than you ? I think she came back to claim the crown, bet she wasn't ill at all, it was good timing don't you think ?

Anyhow, yes we always had a nice dress on for whitsuntide, but my frien and i use to go and show off our new clothes to people we didn't even know and get sixpences from them, just in the local area of course, just use to knock on their front door and show them our dress, they never even hesitated, just gave us money.

Before I got my sixpence I had to show my new frilly underwear too. It was all innocenct and no one thought a thing bad about it. These days you would be arrested if you tried to look at a childs underwear. What a sad world we have created !

Originally posted by vhopkinson
Hi there! Just wriiting a line to say "hello" to all I spoke to last year. I certainly had some fun with it all.
Have not used the puter much due to some ill health in the family . I hope I can catch up with you all and continue to read all the interesting mail. Hello to Hazel and Kirby Owdlad and all the gang. I really missed reading all the news old and new. Best wishes to you all for 2005
Regards. V. Hopkinson

Where in Oz are you V ?

Originally posted by Banksia
Before I got my sixpence I had to show my new frilly underwear too. It was all innocenct and no one thought a thing bad about it. These days you would be arrested if you tried to look at a childs underwear. What a sad world we have created !

This is SO true, even an inocent person would get arested today for asking that, i never dared lift up my witsuntide dress as i probably had my mucky nickers on, Just Kidding !

Originally posted by poppins
This is SO true, even an inocent person would get arested today for asking that, i never dared lift up my witsuntide dress as i probably had my mucky nickers on, Just Kidding !


I always have to laugh when thinking about my Mother insisting that I always wore clean under pants when I went out " just in case you get knocked down" They would have been in need of cleaning anyhow if I had got knocked over :(

Originally posted by owdlad
I always have to laugh when thinking about my Mother insisting that I always wore clean under pants when I went out " just in case you get knocked down" They would have been in need of cleaning anyhow if I had got knocked over :(

Too much information owdlad !!
But yes, I recall my mother saying the same thing

We were so poor that my underwear was always in need of repair anyway , So it's a good job I didn't get knocked down.
I was very agile, so could have been a gymnast if my knickers had been the sort that could be shown the light of day.
So one failed career down the drain.
Hazel

Originally posted by hazel
We were so poor that my underwear was always in need of repair anyway , So it's a good job I didn't get knocked down.
I was very agile, so could have been a gymnast if my knickers had been the sort that could be shown the light of day.
So one failed career down the drain.
Hazel

So you mean you didn't have the navy blue school knickers in your day Hazel ? What a treat you missed !

banksia
I wore bottle green, with a pocket,
I went to the Convent School, Notre Dame. Straw hat too in the summer.
We were too ladylike to do Games in our knickers so we had to wear dresses with splits up the side. (plus the green knickers with the holes in them )

Hazel

Hazel you've done it now! those straw hats and the green uniforms used to drive us mere mortals mad with passion when we were on our way up to Glossop Rd baths. :hihi:

Quite liked the young lads appreciation,
it was the dirty old men I disliked. Something to do with the uniform I suppose.


Hazel

Originally posted by hazel
Quite liked the young lads appreciation,
it was the dirty old men I disliked. Something to do with the uniform I suppose.


Hazel

Errrrrrr I wasn't a dirty old man.........well not then anyhow ;)

As I sit here reading you Aussies with your summer, while I look out my window at yet another Connecticut blizzard, I wonder if I didn't go in the wrong direction. This is a state of mind which will not last however. April will come, the Redsox will win another world series, the cover will come off the gas grill, and the lawnmower will run again dammit!

Originally posted by buck
As I sit here reading you Aussies with your summer, while I look out my window at yet another Connecticut blizzard, I wonder if I didn't go in the wrong direction. This is a state of mind which will not last however. April will come, the Redsox will win another world series, the cover will come off the gas grill, and the lawnmower will run again dammit!

Dare I say it ? Who are the Redsox ? Remembering I'm not a typical Aussie.
Sorry but you can keep the blizzards, suffered enough of the cold in England. I prefer the air conditioner on our hot days.
But - as they say, it wouldn't do for us all to be the same would it ?

Originally posted by Banksia
Dare I say it ? Who are the Redsox ? Remembering I'm not a typical Aussie.
Sorry but you can keep the blizzards, suffered enough of the cold in England. I prefer the air conditioner on our hot days.
But - as they say, it wouldn't do for us all to be the same would it ? Forget the warm stuff..I've just been through a week of misery, not seen the sun for a week, just drizzle and heavy cloud..but yesterday the sun came out and it is great..
the daffs are coming up.."Frosty" a bit in the mornigs Spring is just round the corner, Blue Tits are visiting the nesting boxes in my fir tree..Blackbirds are on the scrounge for breadcumbs..and all in all things are looking good..English weather is a lot like life
(You don't appreciate the good times without the hard times)..well! it gives me a lift anyway.

Originally posted by Banksia
Where in Oz are you V ?

For Banksia.
Sorry Banksia, Just checking the pages I missed in January .
Still not following the threads real clever. Anyway I live in Lake Macquarie . Thanks for asking will try to look out for you in Forum
Regards Vera.

Hi Vera
I wondered where in Australia you lived, In Austalian terms quite near my son. I've flown over lake Mcquarie in a Twin
Otter from Sydney to Beaumont Think that's the right name. It's a small airport near Newcastle. Used to visit Lemon Tree Passage and Mallabula. You live in a beautiful part of the world.
Hazel

Originally posted by hazel
Hi Vera
I wondered where in Australia you lived, In Austalian terms quite near my son. I've flown over lake Mcquarie in a Twin
Otter from Sydney to Beaumont Think that's the right name. It's a small airport near Newcastle. Used to visit Lemon Tree Passage and Mallabula. You live in a beautiful part of the world.
Hazel

Hi There Hazel
My goodness you flew over my place just about. It,s BELMONT only 5min away. It,s Pelican airport about 10min from where I live passed there only this afternoon visiting my daughter. Talk just now of closing it down too. You would have had a great view of Lake Macquarie. Been to Lemon Tree passage a fair bit too. I,d say that would be about half an hour away It,s nice at Mallabula. Hope you had a good trip when you came any chance you may come again. My sister used to come regular but she died only a few weeks ago
Regards Vera

Sorry to hear about your sister Vera, was she a Killamarsh resident too.?
that's right it was Pelican I remember now
I visited Oz last about 2/3 yrs ago My son's father-in-law lived at Mallabula at the side of the ? Hunter river / Pacific Ocean?
I thought it looked like paradise, if I had won the Lottery I could thiink of no better place to live and the prices were within reason without a lottery win.
Together with neigbours they had built a jetty, concreted one side of it so cchldren could paddle, while they fished off the end.
The other side they lef for their boats.
An unbelievable way of life to me
Hazel

Originally posted by hazel
banksia
I wore bottle green, with a pocket,
I went to the Convent School, Notre Dame. Straw hat too in the summer.
We were too ladylike to do Games in our knickers so we had to wear dresses with splits up the side. (plus the green knickers with the holes in them )

Hazel


Hazel
Did you go to the Convent High School on Burngreave Rd ?
my sister and i both went there, my older sister went to Notre Dame, straw hat and all.

Hi Poppins,
I was a scholarship child from the council estate, at Notre Dame.
I think the only child there on free dnners or so it seemed.
How old is you sister?
hazel

Originally posted by hazel
Hi Poppins,
I was a scholarship child from the council estate, at Notre Dame.
I think the only child there on free dnners or so it seemed.
How old is you sister?
hazel

I think she's in her early 70s, she was Marie Kynes then.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by hazel
[B]Sorry to hear about your sister Vera, was she a Killamarsh resident too.?
tha

Hazel my sister lived in Gleadless . Mullabula is great we often go there. Yep this is Gods Country even though there is a certain element of people trying to change it we are very lucky

Vera

Hi Poppins,
Your sister woud be too old for me to know 3/4 yrs make a diffierence at school but not later. A lot of Maries there tho.
I don't know about you and Vera but I don't find many people of my age that use computers so I'm very pleased to talk to you all on the forum.
I'll let you know Vera when I next drop in at Belmont (if it is still open) what we are going to do with owdlad I'm not sure He'll never fit in a Twin Otter and we might find his wife following with the frying pan.
Hazel

Hi Hazel
I realy think more people our age are getting into computers now and it's our kids that are making us, my son got my husband and i into it over a year ago, he insisted on it, anyhow we went out (took him with us) and bought the BEST, as we think any how, flat screen wireless this and that, all the bells and whistles stuff, but we do enjoy it now after playing a card game on it for 3 months before getting brave.

always nice chatting with you Hazel,

Popins

Oh! by the way Hazel, you can tell me it's none of my buisness if you like, but do you and owdlad have something going ? as you always both seem to be off the Forum around the same time !

Don't let your crown slip Hazel !

Hi Poppins
My crown has slipped slightly many a time in the past Poppins but I'm afraid I'm not guilty now.

Don't know about owdlad, he has gone remarkably quiet for him. Perhaps he knows something we don't!!
Hazel

Originally posted by hazel
Hi Poppins
My crown has slipped slightly many a time in the past Poppins but I'm afraid I'm not guilty now.

Don't know about owdlad, he has gone remarkably quiet for him. Perhaps he knows something we don't!!
Hazel

Tell them nothing Hazel! Whatever we say is going to be twisted by that Poppins.;)

My lips are sealed
hazel

Originally posted by owdlad
Tell them nothing Hazel! Whatever we say is going to be twisted by that Poppins.;)

Owdlad
Thats not true, whats goes on in the Forum, STAYS in the forum, no one would ever know about it.

Originally posted by poppins
Owdlad
Thats not true, whats goes on in the Forum, STAYS in the forum, no one would ever know about it.

That's alright then Poppins. We* were in Edinburgh for a couple of days :o
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* My wife and Daughter, I did wonder who that woman was that kept sneaking up on us though :P

Hiya
I'm an ex-pat but still love dear old Sheffield . Used to live at Walkley and went to St Marys School from 1945 -1950 ish .Anybody out there an old pupil from that time ? Love to hear from you.
Loll

Hi Loll,

Sorry--- I'm no help to you I lived the other side of the city, But nice to hear from you,
Hazel

Originally posted by Loll
Hiya
I'm an ex-pat but still love dear old Sheffield . Used to live at Walkley and went to St Marys School from 1945 -1950 ish .Anybody out there an old pupil from that time ? Love to hear from you.
Loll

Hey Loll
I can't help either, being a mere lad of 54 :D