ITv's This Morning

I have never heard of donkey stone- is this something that used to be used oop north?

This is Liverpool but I do remember it from when I was a child (not so far north)

Here's a better one, this looks like me with my Hilda Ogden curlers and scarf

Surely we are too highbrow and middle class to do our own steps. We pay someone else to do them.

PS donkey stoned steps make excellent knife sharpeners.

Hi Janet
Watched out of interest your interview on TM on catch up TV.
You came across as very nice cheerful lady who seemed very relaxed.
I didn't go as far a watching the phone in
I suspect that the point of your appearance on the show was to illustrate life & forgiveness after an affair.

If you had as said before further up the thread posted under a different heading you may have got a quite different response.
But posting under AIBU (am I being unreasonable) caused confusion.
Just like magazines GN has different headings

Please come back a familiarise yourself with the GN site and I am sure you will then agree that it is anything like your initial thoughts.

Jalima love the cross over pinny!

For all sorts of reasons If I wanted to talk about such a matter as a partner with a history of adultery I would make sure that I had anonymity. What about the effect on other members of the families of these people?

Where you expecting an accolade?

All posters have different views but I would be entitled to give my opinion (right or wrong) that your post could have suggested to others that you might just be out for the money and attention.
This is how it might appear to be to others.

Gransnet cannot win here, MN thinks we are bland and boring because we do not challenge people as much as they do.
To express an opinion which does not fit in with another persons ideas is not bullying. It annoys me that the allegation of bullying arises when someone just does not agree with your views. That is unacceptable.

Great pictures * Jalima1108* Thanks
Charleygirl I always knew that southerners were less house proud than us oop north, now you're telling me they don't donkey stone their steps! Sluts!!!

Oh for the days when gransnet was neither bland nor boring and I'm NOT talking about jingl here.

Greatnan was never afraid to stir things up and fire as many broadsides as she liked. Posts and sometimes whole threads were regularly deleted which may have upset the more sensitive souls among us but nobody could have accused us of being bland.

That was in reply to nelliemoser's post.

I so agree, merlot. Those were the days...

But remarks such as Who the hell are you????, and What a pile of crock are not a case of someone just does not agree with your views, are they? They're hardly witty or interesting either. I certainly don't recall Greatnan responding to newcomers like that.

merlotgran So true are your comments re Greatnan she certainly shot a few guns across the broadside didn't she but she was always respectful in what she had to say,one of my friends knew her very well from when she taught school near us and her opinions where always the same its such a pity we don't have anymore like her on GN.

I don't remember GN as always being respectful!

I remember GN well from a few other forums, where she was a member. She certainly didn't mince her words - a real character.
I joined here at the time the searches were going on, what a way to go. But she was doing what she loved.

*maggiemaybe *I was not trying to be witty or intresting just stating how I feel. This post should never have been posted on aibu. If it was on chat ok, but on iabu you are asking just that.
Someone very very close to me has had to deal with the fall out of a cheating partner, she did so with dignity, she is a respected journalist too, but had had to give up a well paid job to go freelance as she has a 4 year old son and without help the traveling for you much. She also does not run her ex down to or discuss him with everyone. Life is hard for her and this is the reality of a cheating husband/partner.
I also feel the remark about having her hair and makeup done trivialized the subject.
I would never discuss personnel things like that, so on one occasion when somebody said something about my personnel life I was able to tell them to keep their comments to themselves, as I had not invited their opinion.
I do not mind magazine programmes or some reality tv, I also do not read highbrow papers, I just found the way the post was written a bit shallow.

Donkey stone is a type of soft sandstone. You could get it in a variety of shades....every lady had her own favourite. My first proper house job when I was about 5 was to donkey stone the doorstep. First you scrubbed the step. Then you rubbed the donkey stone over it until the step was covered. It was a bit like colouring in with chalk but harder. Then you stood back and admired your work and hoped that no one would step on it because the minute they did your lovely step was ruined.

An in-donkeystoned step was a sign of the type of slovenly woman how lived in the house. No doubt she didn't dry her windows with newspaper or swill her yard either.

Arrrgggghhhhh auto correct.....un-donkeystoned

That's obviously them southerners then

Never even 'eard of it myself!

I just wish I knew what AIBU meant!

Am I Being Unreasonable?

Oh - now it makes sense lol

We just scrubbed our steps with a scrubbing brush and a big bar of sunlight soap and then swilled with a bucket of water.