Mundane facts about your day...

[Gadget]

Why love?x

Rent worries sadly

 

[Trumpet]

I was born in Groundslow hospital! I also remember my mum having to spend a week or two in there when I was little. So my dad had to cook. The two dishes I remember were sliced cold leftover potatoes smeared with butter, and mashed cooked apples. Incredibly, I really liked the potato thing, and continued making it occasionally for a while after I left home, then I decided that actually it was disgusting.

I remember calling in at Groundslow with a mate to see his wife and new daughter. She'd given birth in the afternoon, mate wasn't there for the birth but popped in for 5 minutes that evening on his way to the pub.

 

[staffordjas]

I was born in Groundslow hospital! I also remember my mum having to spend a week or two in there when I was little. So my dad had to cook. The two dishes I remember were sliced cold leftover potatoes smeared with butter, and mashed cooked apples. Incredibly, I really liked the potato thing, and continued making it occasionally for a while after I left home, then I decided that actually it was disgusting.

I remember visiting my mum in there quite often (she was in for months at a time, especially when my brother was born really premature and it was a miracle he lived) and she had a room with patio windows looking out onto a field of cows. The cows would spend ages standing looking over the fence into the rooms. My dad used to take me on the bus to stay with my grandparents in Hanley and Aunty and Uncle in Bucknall for months as he had to work. He would cycle to Groundslow every night to visit, often arriving drowned when it chucked it down.
Don't know how true it was, but remember mum telling me there was a black cat which would go and sit by the beds of people in the wards who were about to die. I never saw the black cat....

I had more friends up there as the kids were much friendlier than the horrible lot in my school back home, and of course the bonus was my daily skip to the oatcake shop on the corner for freshly made hot oatcakes to go with the breakfast (Or 'old' cakes as I used to ask for, mis-hearing "Go and get us some 'O' cakes" )

 

[staffordjas]

Drowning my sorrows Cheers everyone!

Rent worries sadly

 

[littleme]

Had a bit of a crap morning & afternoon. Hope the rest of the week is better.

 

[Gramaisc]

Had a bit of a crap morning & afternoon. Hope the rest of the week is better.

Well, at least you're regular.

 

[That-Crazy-Rat-Lady]

Had a bit of a crap morning & afternoon. Hope the rest of the week is better.

I read this as:

'I had a crap this morning and afternoon'

I was thinking - yuk - thanks for that!

 

[Northend Boy]

I read this as:

'I had a crap this morning and afternoon'

I was thinking - yuk - thanks for that!

Probably more to come tomorrow...

 

[Cue]

My cat would like to impart some advice in these tough times.

Be like Bloo, relax and give as few f’s as possible

 

[Tilly]

I read this as:

'I had a crap this morning and afternoon'

I was thinking - yuk - thanks for that!

My friend had 6 poos in one day

Blamed transatlantic travel

 

[Noah]

My friend had 6 poos in one day. Blamed transatlantic travel

Well if they will travel by budget airlines ...

 

[Gadget]

Got up this morning to find I was wearing lipstick. I didn't go to bed wearing lipstick! Then I remembered putting on the new posh lip balm my mum had given me. Turns out it's bloody colour changing lipstick lol. Certainly gave me a shock going past the mirror first thing.

 

[Trumpet]

Been stuck in London all day waiting for Autoglass to source and fit a rear window after getting car broken into last night. Just fitted now, got to wait an hour for sealant to cure.
Bored.

 

[proactive]

Been stuck in London all day waiting for Autoglass to source and fit a rear window after getting car broken into last night. Just fitted now, got to wait an hour for sealant to cure.
Bored.

No pubs nearby, to ease the pain?

 

[tek-monkey]

Was referee in a Staffordshire schools lego competition today

 

[Trumpet]

No pubs nearby, to ease the pain?

Dangerous, would've ended up down there another night .

 

[Cue]

Was referee in a Staffordshire schools lego competition today

Did you wear extra-thick-soled boots, just to be safe? Never can be too careful around Lego.

Grumble grumble I wish I had a Lego competition while I was at school

 

[BobClay]

Watched the news tonight and thought to myself: "What a bunch we are, the human race in general."
Then I looked at this picture again and hoped it would give me a better perspective of things:

 

[tek-monkey]

Did you wear extra-thick-soled boots, just to be safe? Never can be too careful around Lego.

Grumble grumble I wish I had a Lego competition while I was at school

It was pretty damn good, the kids were great. The teams varied wildly, from full on robot masters to some that had literally been using the kits for a dozen hours, but it was great seeing them all compete. Felt very bad when they didn't score though, one team got quite upset

Here's what the competition involved (or at least the robot bit):

And here is a scarily good run, not from today:

 

[Cue]

It was pretty damn good, the kids were great. The teams varied wildly, from full on robot masters to some that had literally been using the kits for a dozen hours, but it was great seeing them all compete. Felt very bad when they didn't score though, one team got quite upset

Here's what the competition involved (or at least the robot bit):

And here is a scarily good run, not from today:

That is some crazy complex stuff for school-kids, full on DARPA Challenge stuff right there.

Never got to do anything that fun. Think I'd probably enjoy doing that now to be honest.