Grans are grandma's and grandpa's

A lovely insight into the female mind-space. I recognise myself in Mrs P. She sounds like a proper treasure, Pomps

Great stuff, Mrs Pompa! Keep it up!

Just keeping you on you toes pompa

pompa that's why you love her!

pompa
Mrs pompa

I posted this 3 months ago :-

If it help he understand the female mind it would be wonderful. - This mornings conversation -- me, do you fancy going out for lunch, Mrs. P, no I have already got something out and we can't afford to keep going out. Me, Ok, I'll get some stuff done in the garden. 30 min later --- I'm up to my armpits in potting compost, Mrs. P put her head into the greenhouse(all spruced up), I'm Ready !!!!!!!!. Women !!!!!

back to today's conversation :-

"me, do you fancy going out for lunch, Mrs. P, no I have got to do the housework. Me, Ok, I'll get some stuff done in the garden". 10 min later --- I'm sorting the greenhouse, Mrs. P puts her head into the greenhouse, OK you've persuaded me !!!!

Will I never learn.

yes Annobel ...I know what you mean about the sheep shearing demo ...but we were the last group to leave!! But a wonderful evening!

Jacey, we got off on the other side and met a lovely Highland bull called Duncan; saw a sheep shearing demonstration - blink and you'd miss it!; and had a a farmhouse tea. Maybe I smiled nicely at the engineer or maybe I just gatecrashed the engine room. Can't remember.

I have to say , I think I am on IMJINGL"S side, but thats me !

I certainly could not imagine DH posting here with me looking over his shoulder , he has better things to do with his time [grin grin]

Oh Annobel I've been on the "Earnslaw " too ...Christmas Day, for a super meal on the other side of the lake ...yes, wonderful scenery, but we were not allowed down into the engine room!
Then on Boxing Day ...an over-nighter on Doubtful Sound ...old three master!!

After the Queen's coronation I went (aged 13) with a Portsmouth RN neighbour and his family to be present at the review of the fleet at Spithead. The mother exchanged places with me to sit on a bank ashore with my family away from the nasty waves. We were actually afloat - on HMT Eminent, a rather battered tug somewhere in the back lines behind the magnificent warships.

Neighbour's son and I spent the whole voyage in the engine room with the stokers, watching spotless steam engines chugging the ship into position. We missed Britannia going past down the lines, not that we would have seen much at that distance.

What a scary experience soop. I wonder how often this has happened to the ship in its 65 year career! How wonderful to be able to go and look at the engines - I love all the polished brass too.
In New Zealand there is a wonderful old paddle steamer, the Earnslaw, that plies its trade taking tourists from Queenstown across Lake Wakatipu. She was built at the same time as the Titanic but luckily there are no icebergs on that lake. I was delighted to be able to go below and see the engines working. It was a toss-up between that and the spectacular scenery.

Mr soop and I were on the Waverley when it hit a rock. We were in the engine room - admiring the gleaming brass and such - when an enormous bang stopped the engine. All hands on deck! Mr soop can't swim. I do have life-saving medals but I doubt that I could have managed to keep him calm if we'd been forced to jump in the sea. Eventually the paddles started to work again. On our way back to Campbeltown, the life boat came to meet us. That was an afternoon to remember.

By 'sister ships' I mean sisters of each other, not the Waverley.

I don't think I ever went on the Waverley, though I did see it on the Clyde. My granny and aunt used to take us on boat trips every summer - Arran, the Kyles of Bute, the Cumbraes, Rothesay, but never, as far as I remember, on the Waverley. There were two sister ships, the Duchess of Hamilton and the Duchess of Montrose. The Glen Sannox sailed from Ardrossan to Arran and back every day.

There is a team of volunteers that work on it every winter to keep it in good condition.

Two of my daughters had a school trip on the Waverley when we lived in Hastings, late 80's. Great that it's still operating all these years later.

I am sure I must have been on the Waverley as a child. I have just googled it and seen the photos, very familiar.

The Waverley and the balmoral usually visit us in the summer. In fact, the Balmoral overwinters in Bristol docks. I believe the Waverley does the same on the Clyde!

I am sure I'm a man ............. Yes just checked !

I needed a pair of shoes, 2 shops = 1 pair of shoes
Mrs. P, 6 shops, then revisited 3 of them = 0 shoes

I used to play a role playing game called Wizard101, where you played a fictional cartoon style character, you could be any sex you wished. Many women played male characters because they got hassle from the males. Many males played female, so that they could wind up any men that hassled them. I had 6 characters, one of which was female, some amusing situation could be created. All very innocent, the game was strictly moderated.

Now I simply play a queen --- an ant that is.

Yes, and I have just the person in mind....

I was just thinking earlier that someone, male or female, could pretend to be the other on gransnet quite easily. If they were sufficiently clever about it, we might never know!

Are you sure you're a man, pompa?