...that green thing back in our day!!

At least you got a bit of air to your nether regions, phoenix!

No alisonMA I live in a small village and it is the same here, the teenagers are so helpful and polite. It was a generalisation about my experience in the towns and I don't remember such behaviour in the 50's as a teenager in a city. But also when I am on the various school/ballet/brownie runs they all seem in such a rush. My daughter says everyday she has had a busy day and I get a rushed text, yet she has only one child and labour saving devices plus me doing 2 days a week. I worked shifts 6 days a week with 3 children with few mod cons and no grandparent help I just don't remember rushing. I feel I just got on and never thought about if I was busy or not it seemed normal.

Yes phoenix, I did that with tights, although they made me a bit warm. I haven 't worn tights for years, not since I retired, and haven't worn a dress or skirt either!

I still find if I am on one of my mobility scooters or wheelchair, I seem to become invisible!
It really gets my goat! It's only my legs that have gone! NOT MY BRAIN!

I have a real problem with biros, given that the ones we get at work from reps only last about a day and then can't be refilled. It's bothered me for a long time. And I think it's part of my hoarding problem, in that I feel everything should be used again or will have a use one day. Mind you, with the recession and all that we don't get the stuff from reps that we used to! Which is a good thing .

jeni that should be a slogan for a bumper sticker. Do mobility scooters have bumpers? One of your mobility scooters? How many do you have?

Two. One is very steady and I can use it anywhere. I have an electric hoist fitted to my car so om independent!
The other is a very small fold up one called a luggie! It folds up to size of a suitcase and if you take the ,lithium, battery off weighs only 23kilos!. It won't take rough terrain or slopes of more than 6degrees.

But it's ideal for cruises.

phoenix I did that with my tights when I was a college and couldn't afford another pair, it was a bit warmer in the winter two layers

Phoenix that brought back such memories. The thing that gets my goat the most is the 'use by' date on bottles of e.g. chutney for goodnesssss sake - "Once opened refrigerate (okay, I get that) and use within 5 days" - but it's CHUTNEY I say out loud. Makes an absolute farce of Joanna Lumley's shwopping scheme if you're taking clothes in for Oxfam on the one hand and chucking out perfectly good food on the other. Perhaps we should cover every building on a high street somewhere with unused chutneys and sauces, like she did when she hung clothes all over Brick Lane.

Couldn't agree more! But if something is out by one day, DDwont use it!

I've never put tomato ketchup in the fridge. And we're still all alive and well!

I never put chutney in the fridge. If it's good chutney, it doesn't need refridgerating and will keep for months even after being opened. A lot of stuff only has a use by date because manufacturers have to put a use by date whether the product really has one or not. Doesn't mean you have to take any notice.

That explains why following DDs visit , the tomato ketch is in the fridge
But she left the milk out! (even More)

I used to do that with my tights as well! You had to be careful not to cut the legs off too high, though.....it could create a lot of discomfort otherwise!!
My mother used to put deep hems on my summer dresses, and of course when they were let down, a white line showed where the original hemline had been, so she put ric-rac trimming along it. All my summer dresses were very faded, now I come to think of it!

Read the first bit, green, and wondered why you put your tights in the fridge!

I think there was a theory flying round once that putting your tights or nylons in the fridge before you wore them made them less likely to ladder...

Wasn't it in The Seven Year Itch that Marilyn Monroe kept her knickers in the icebox?

God - those were the days when I had to keep my knickers in the icebox.

Well that puts a new slant on 'hot pants'!! [csn't stop laughing] emoticon

I still do cut old cards up with pinking shears to make gift tags.

Oh crikey, yes!! It looked as if I kept them in the fridge!! Then, following that, comes * number*, cutting up her Christmas cards with pinking shears....! Really confused now!!