The Retirement Thread

[BoldonLad]

Is a poss tub the same as a dolly tub ?

I will have to find a medium and ask my grandmother

 

[BoldonLad]

Mr WD remembers the wash house out the back of the back to back terrace houses, and using the mangle, and what he called bluey bags. He used to turn the handle of the mangle for his mum.

Yes, I remember all that, but, I wasn’t going to admit it

 

[Dave7]

So HRH Phillip is to be buried next Saturday.
I believe us pensioners are to get a days holiday

 

[Tenkaykev]

Just been out fixing up some shelves for the bike shed
Go two sorted out and it started raining - so everything has been chucked into whatever shed was handy any old how

looks like tomorrow will be spent sorted it all out properly - plus some more shelves in the main shed
I will probably end up putting some old stuff on Freecycle to clear out some space

Mrs Tenkaykev has found a use for some of the leftover tubs / cans of paint from the big shed prior to repainting the outside.

 

[welsh dragon]

Mrs Tenkaykev has found a use for some of the leftover tubs / cans of paint from the big shed prior to repainting the outside. View attachment 583216

That would make a great workshop for a woman. Just saying.

 

[Tenkaykev]

That would make a great workshop for a woman. Just saying.

That’s Mrs Tenkaykev’s own shed, it usually contains her Big bike , we have one shed each. Mine however looks like a sh*thole

 

[Dave7]

Raining here now.
Hail forecast for tomorrow and sleet for Monday.

 

[12boy]

Until age 10 I lived in India and our clothes were washed by a Dhobi Wallah who beat them on a rock in the river. All my shirts had studs instead of buttons since they would be broken by the beating. So, Dhobi would like to thank Master for presenting him with a sock.

 

[rustybolts]

Didn't mangles have problems with buttons and other fasteners?

So did I in the back of an Austin A60 with the windows all steamed up on a Saturday night after the dance hall

 

[pawl]

Yep. Sometimes I would turn the handle, other times I got to feed the sheets while my mum turned the handle.
Then we got to 'twist the sheets'......I would hold one end and twist to my left......mum would twist to her left. As it tightened it would squeeze the water out.

And singing let’s twist again like we did last summer

 

[pawl]

So did I in the back of an Austin A60 with the windows all steamed up on a Saturday night after the dance hall

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[classic33]

Raining here now.
Hail forecast for tomorrow and sleet for Monday.

Didn't they promise it was going to warm up this weekend?

 

[classic33]

Until age 10 I lived in India and our clothes were washed by a Dhobi Wallah who beat them on a rock in the river. All my shirts had studs instead of buttons since they would be broken by the beating. So, Dhobi would like to thank Master for presenting him with a sock.

Even in the river, there was only the one sock that went missing.

 

[ColinJ]

So did I in the back of an Austin A60 with the windows all steamed up on a Saturday night after the dance hall

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Time for another Monty Python sketch...

 

[classic33]

It's snowing here.
2200 hours, 10th April 2021.