catfan 14,782 Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 You would be surprised what I have been offered by way of tips Margie ! I once got £40 for lifting a hot tub over a garage, only way poosible it was. The HT owner had been quoted between £750 min to £1250 max ! Took me less than five minutes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 Cocoa(Three times a week) ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,393 Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 Is there a hidden language going on here, BW? Catfan, I presume you lifted the hot tub mechanically (don't know the name of the swivelling crane thingy on the back of a lorry) or did you just get angry, turn green and lift it yourself 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 When Mick said he was "delivering" I though he was a milkman Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 Ernie,the song Margie. I'm quite big on manners..not perfect, but I try to treat people how I would like to be treated. A smile costs nothing..nothing worse than a scowl. I think being polite to women is very important.. and if I get things wrong.I own up ..is the wife always right?.......YES. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,393 Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 So.........back to the title of this thread about things you don't see anymore. I have got an old photo of me aged about 6 wearing a KNITTED bathing costume and slip-on rubber shoes for paddling in the sea ( and that photo is definitely staying in the album - it's not finding its way on to here!). 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 Good I have a very sensitive computer. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,782 Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 #3213. MargieH. With this ! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LizzieM 9,222 Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 #3216. Margie, There are several photos of me in the family album wearing knitted bathers too. In fact my little brother was put in the same ones a few years later. My Mum knitted everything in those days! Don't think I ever had any rubber shoes though, I must have been tougher than you!! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,046 Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 The Knitted Bathers were OK until they got wet, and the leg holes hung down to the knees. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 Old droopy draws Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted December 5, 2015 Report Share Posted December 5, 2015 #3220. I could envisage that, carni. So funny. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,046 Posted December 5, 2015 Report Share Posted December 5, 2015 Didn't you have some Michael? Boys version of course. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted December 5, 2015 Report Share Posted December 5, 2015 Rum & butter loose sweets from Watmoughs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted December 5, 2015 Report Share Posted December 5, 2015 Err, no carni, I didn't. I had some that always came off when I dived into the water, though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nonnaB 4,752 Posted December 5, 2015 Report Share Posted December 5, 2015 Knitted bathers .....I had one too it was pink and it didn'arf itch. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomlinson 879 Posted December 5, 2015 Report Share Posted December 5, 2015 Chimneys on new build houses. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,078 Posted December 5, 2015 Report Share Posted December 5, 2015 We still have chimneys on new houses up here in Scotland Tomlinson. Much of Scotland is not covered by the clean air act of nineteen hundred and frozen stiff. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Merthyr Imp 729 Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 It's getting on for 50 years since it last went to a football match - no doubt it would classed as an offensive weapon nowadays. I remember buying it from Beecroft's on Pelham Street. Never did get around to finishing painting it. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 15,477 Posted December 23, 2015 Report Share Posted December 23, 2015 Christmas and birthday cards with MAM on. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,106 Posted December 23, 2015 Report Share Posted December 23, 2015 Thank Goodness! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 15,477 Posted December 23, 2015 Report Share Posted December 23, 2015 MAM,..........Good old Nottingham word............ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,106 Posted December 23, 2015 Report Share Posted December 23, 2015 My wife's family constantly use it. It makes me cringe..... Our mam, me mam. Exasperating! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted December 23, 2015 Report Share Posted December 23, 2015 I`ve noticed that very few children say, 'Mam', nowadays. It`s usually, 'Mum'. Do people think it sounds more southern and therefore somehow more posh? Or is it a sign of the homogeonisation (sp?) of the language? Woddya think? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EileenH 496 Posted December 23, 2015 Report Share Posted December 23, 2015 #3233 Fly? (You replied while I was writing.) I wonder why you dislike it so much? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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