childhood memories

childhood memories
Originally uploaded by lizjones112

This wonderful shop has been there for a long time, I was quite surprised to find it was still there and even more delighted to find it hasn't changed a bit since I was little. My Dad used to go in here when he was a kid, he took me and my brothers there regularly, it was great to take Ben in there again, he had been in once when he was little. It is packed to the gills with every kind of toy imaginable; all the things you remember from your child hood, things that you had forgotten about.

Teachers strike

Teachers, College Lecturers, and Department of Work and Pensions staff on strike against pay offers lower than inflation, i.e. pay cuts
Originally uploaded by Roger Blackwell

No work today because the teachers are on strike so Ben's school was closed. Now don't get me wrong I think most teachers do a great job and I wouldn't want to do it. They have been offered 2.73% this year.The nurses pay offer has just been announced we have been offered 2.75% this year, given the rapidly rising cost of living thats hardly going to allow the ordinary staff nurse to buy petrol. Just how would everyone react if nurses went on strike?
Out of interest at present a newly qualified staff nurse gets about £20,000, a newly qualified teacher about the same.

Just what is all that about?

I brought some mince this weekend it was labeled as per the picture just what does suitable for use in recipe dishes mean!? So If I don't have a recipe is that OK ?

A find at last!

Ben and I went geocaching today in Graves Park, we had much more success than my first attempt. The rules of geocaching are that you arn't allowed to give away the location of the caches in case someone steals them or trashes them so this is a close up picture of our find, it was hidden under some stones and leaves and stuff. It was very cold today though so there weren't to many people about to worry about them seeing us people not in on geocaching are known as Muggles the term presumably stolen from the Harry Potter books.

I can't stop laughing!

Female hysteria

Complete Satisfaction
Originally uploaded by abneypark

I was watching Casualty 1907 last night for a while, I don't usually watch this as I can't shout at the TV telling the team what they should or shouldn't be doing as I have no idea about the disorders and illnesses they had to cope with in those days Thank Goodness! But I did learn about one condition and it's treatment. Female hysteria It's not a recognised diagnosis these days but in Victorian times it was thought that this condition caused many ills. Last nights show had a woman presenting at the hospital with various problems her doctor told her that he knew what was wrong with her and what the treatment was a massage he then produced a rather crude looking device the scene discreetly changed some while later the woman emerged from the consulting room with a smile on her face! I was it fits of giggles by this time! I must be very naive or I missed out on my education somewhere but I had never heard of this cure. As you will see from the links the supposedly repressed Victorians invented some very "interesting" devices .

no cache just dog crap

Well I figured out how to use my GPS; well sort of! So off I went geocaching along the canal near Mums. We didn't find any of the three caches we were looking for but we did find lots of these little plastic bags of dog crap!. Why on earth don't people take them home or move the dog crap into the undergrowth where it can rot away naturally it's going to take a long time for these bags to decay they were festooned all over the trees and brambles !