General Chat

Good morning!
Early start here as we got a quick Tesco slot but..... the delivery is 9-5pm lol so they could come very soon or much later!

My nurse was coming at 9 and now that's going to be mid to late afternoon grrrr Oh my that's 3 times the time has changed.

Anyway, it looks cold outside and its breezy. I need to go out to the bins with recycling so going to don a warm jacket and gloves and not hang about.

The storm warnings were on the news last night for Fri and not looking too good.

Have a good day all

Florence in the hebrides

AG, I never watch that man or listen to his speeches and certainly not today!!

I hope to manage to avoid looking at that man, or hearing his voice, for the next 4 years - or forever, if his threats about never having to vote again come true.

Can't stand the look or sound of him, nor his personality!

(Perhaps I shouldn't put that in writing on a public site?! Reprisals??)

The outdoor laundrettes are good because they usually have a large industrial sized machine as well as normal ones. Plus a large dryer.

I thought that I was going to have an easy afternoon, but it didn’t turn out that way. Esme had a hospital appointment this morning., so her dad took her. Then he said that he was starting with a migraine, so instead of taking her to school, he brought her home. Of course then she decided that she had a tummy ache and headache, so she didn’t go to school for the afternoon. As soon as she was told that she could stay home, she made a miraculous recovery . My daughter had an online meeting at 1.30, so she asked me if I could go down , which I did. Just after I got there, Eve texted to say that she had forgotten to take her PE kit for after school trampolining, so OH had to take that in. :-(
I played schools with Esme and we made some biscuits . OH has just set out to collect Eve from school, to save my daughter having to go. Her daddy couldn’t because of his migraine, although every time I saw him this afternoon, although every time I saw him , he looked perfectly fine to me :-|

I am listening to Trumps inaugural speech. Goodness what a worrying time this is.

wow would you believe it. We apparently have two in gloucester

Afternoon all
Yes the coop does have an outdoor launderette! i did find it somewhat unusual when it was first put there as never heard of it.

Linda, hope your arm is getting better. You were so lucky not to have blistered it.

Its now raining and the wind has got up, the fog is here too and so glad the bin lorry has been and gone.
The forecast for the end of the week looks dire!! Some very stormy weather heading our way called storm Eown...think that's the spelling.

Anyway my shelves are fully stocked etc and daughter getting milk in town later.

Thankfully i had a xmas present that was defective so managed to wrap it this morning and daughter was going to get it posted so thats a job off my list.

I have half stripped my bed so need to get that sorted.

Nurse just rang and is now coming at 9am tomorrow so shall have to be up very early for her.

my new washing machine is on order and hoping it will come this week but no phone call yet. Ordered locally as they deliver free of charge, connect it for me and take the old machine away for a small charge so a really good service all round.

Joan, hope if you are looking in, you are keeping warm and your water hasn't frozen up anymore. Have you gone back to doing your cross stitch yet?

Well a quick coffee and then finish off what i started lol

Have a good day all

Florence in the hebrides

I discovered one of the outdoor launderettes by chance early in December, when we visited a little town on Romney Marsh.
I thought then that it would be useful for washing a duvet, as I don't think my home machine would cope with the uneven placement of water.
When I enquired a few years ago at a service launderette in a town, the cost for a duvet was about the same as a new quilt at a sale price, so I didn't bother.

I see many of them are open 24/7 so I might make use of one some day.

I'd never heard of them either. The "nearest" one to me, according to Google is only 5 miles away - on the other side of the Clyde!! A mere 50 miles by road. The nearest one is actually about 25 miles, but somewhere I rarely go. There is also a launderette in the nearby town, which will do duvets if required.

That's very interesting - I'd never heard of outdoor launderettes.

However, I've now looked them up, and find that there are a couple only about 25 miles from here.

And even one at Stornoway Co-op, Florence!

The website for anyone else interested:
https://stores.revolution-laundry.com/en-uk/

Good morning everyone, welcome to a new week. It is overcast here and fairly chilly, so I will just stay in the warm. OH had his annual MOT at the doctors this morning, so he walked there, only 25 mins each way. That is why I take the car ??

I am still trying to get our duvet dry, I did get a lot of the water out in the tumble dryer, but as it was jammed in, some parts were still quite wet,so we had to use the summer duvet with a blanket last night.
In the last house we had a long landing with a bannister rail over the stairs. That was really useful for hanging duvets etc over to dry them. The stairs here go up the centre of the house, so there is no bannister, which is a nuisance. I spread the duvet over the dining table, so it was lifted up on the chairs and it is nearly dry this morning. My daughter told me that there is a large washing machine and industrial sized dryer outside the Morrisons store. She used them when her washing machine broke down. I was considering taking the duvet to the dryer there, but I think that it will be dry by this evening. I will remember about Morrisons next time I need to wash something large. There was a similar outdoor washer/ dryer area outside one of the petrol stations in Thirsk, so I think they must be quite widespread

That is good news :-D

I did cool it and it hasn’t blistered, so I will live :-)

You don't say if it blistered Linda so hopefully you managed to cool it before it did.

Unfortunately, he had just made it Ann, my arm isn’t too bad now, I must have thick skin there, but my hip is still sore.
I managed to get the duvet in the washing machine, but with the water in it, it wouldn’t spin properly. It is in the tumble dryer now, so I will see how it does, I might have to buy a new one. We do have a launderette in the town, so I should have taken it there.

Oh goodness Linda, hope the soreness wears off soon. Hopefully the coffee had had time to cool or the scald could have been worse.

Oh, how painful, Linda! Not a good start to the day!
I hope it eases soon.

Thank you for looking AG. Knowing that it is Church Hill is good, I thought that it was called Main Street. I have seen the Francis Frith picture and the post office list. I haven’t been able to find it in 1939 either. I found the telephone lists, but without a name you can’t search them. Putting Reighton in doesn’t work, because it is a Bridlington number. Unfortunately OH’s sister doesn’t know who these people are

. A couple of weeks ago, she sent us an Acme thunderer whistle which had a tab on it with his mother’s name on it , a date and the word Referee . I managed to find that it was from the girls high school which she attended at that time. That lead me to some newspaper reports about a school Shakespeare play which she was performing in. One of the reports actually had a photo of the cast. Unfortunately the scan was so black that you could only see a couple of people. We will have to make a trip to the records office in that area to see if we can see the original.

I am rather sore this morning, OH always brings me a coffee in bed and somehow between us, he managed to tip it all over me. My hip and arm are very sore :-( I am currently washing all the bedding including the quilt , not what I wanted to do on a Sunday morning

I'm side-tracking onto research here!

Reighton comes under Bridlington in 1939 Register .

Here's a 1960 photo of the Post Office, apparently:
https://www.francisfrith.com/reighton/reighton-post-office-and-main-road-c1960_r239075

Those buildings are still there, on Church Hill - or at least they were there in 2023, which is the date of the last Streetview image.

In 1939 Church Hill isn't named as such, but the houses are named individually.
Some of the named houses are on Zoopla, and their addresses show they're on Church Hill.

However, I don't see the Post Office listed in 1939 - though it may be obscured in some closed record, perhaps.

Some dates re Reighton PO here - though confusing:
https://www.gbps.org.uk/tools/ukpo/pdfs/england/NorthYorkshire.pdf

Good afternoon from an extremely cold Yorkshire.

We did have a nice meal last night, thank you Florence. The food was really nice and we will definitely go back. Luckily they had put us in a bit of a side shoot, so it was quieter than the main part. Unfortunately they had forgotten to take Esme ‘s ear defenders, so she was getting upset about the noise. She liked wandering around to the entrance part and looking at us through a little window, so her parents took turns in doing that. She normally isn’t that bad, I think that it was just the noise.
We went back for birthday cake and she was fine once she got home.

I went out this morning to help my daughter by taking a parcel back to the post office for her for an Amazon return. I got the bus there, then had a mooch round the town. I was going to get the bus back, but it only runs every half hour and I had just missed one, so I walked back. It is only twenty minutes, but it was really cold, so I was glad to get back.

I have spent the afternoon trying to find out information about a photo which OH’s sister had out in his birthday card. She thinks that some relatives used to live there, but she doesn’t know who. It looks like the 1960’s. It is of Reighton Post Office near Bridlington. I can find it in earlier censuses, but nothing after 1921. I thought Ancestry and lots of telephone directories, but I can’t get any results to come up for Reighton

:-(

good morning all very dull and grey here and only 2 degrees. Pleased that I don't have to go anywhere today.