A game: Have you ever...

[tansy]

NO...and the only way you'd get me into one is if it stayed on the ground, or I was being rescued by it - and let's hope that never has to happen!

I don't think that 11plus exam was a necessarily good indicator of anything, was it. From what I know of you online, I should have thought you were perectly capable of passing it.
I was fortunate in that about the year I would have been due to take it, was when they finished with it (although I think we may have done it, or sometning similar, just for the heck of it). And in any case, to go to the secondary school I went to, we had to pass an entrance exam to get in..which luckily |I passed.

I have failed a couple of other exams though.

HYE been made redundant?

 

[davedajobauk]

Yep I had to sit it ...
when at the time I was night times
being sexually abused by a Bristol City Councillor

HYE been made redundant ?

Yes... kinda / sort-of....
when I got ill... My spouse saw no-future with us remaining together
and after denying my virtually invisible illness, she trashed our marriage
with the company of another guy that she picked up in a pub
I found myself no-longer-recognised as a husband [my breadwinning days curtailed]

but... they say that one girls 'rubbish' is another lady's 'treasure' I'm sure



HYE been made redundant

 

[tansy]

Yes..the company wasn't busy enough and I was only part-time, so I was one of the ones who had to go.

HYE with friends , rolled a giant snowball your height or higher?

 

[davedajobauk]

LOL yes... in the field at the bottom of the street from my childhood home
it must have weighed at least a couple of tons [maybe]
there were about a dozen of us pushing at it towards the end
then a bit dropped off and the 'flat' meant we couldn't budge it any more



HYE with friends , rolled a giant snowball your height or higher?

 

[tansy]

Yep, at primary school...we would roll it round and round the playing field behind the school, and then somehow climb on top of it.

HYE been shopping in a shop that used those overhead money and receipt box things that would shoot along a wire to the little kiosk by the entrance, where you would get your change?

 

[davedajobauk]

Yes I was often sent to the coop to get family shopping
I can still remember our share number 2, 4, oh, 1, 2 [24012]

and a coincidence was
my army number [?]
it began 2401 followed by four other numbers




HYE been shopping in a shop that used those overhead money and receipt box things that would shoot along a wire to the little kiosk by the entrance, where you would get your change?

 

[tansy]

Yes I was often sent to the coop to get family shopping
I can still remember our share number 2, 4, oh, 1, 2 [24012]

and a coincidence was
my army number [?]
it began 2401 followed by four other numbers




HYE been shopping in a shop that used those overhead money and receipt box things that would shoot along a wire to the little kiosk by the entrance, where you would get your change?

LOL..lucky I know you mean the Co-op..someone who didn't know, might think you meant the hencoop!
Weird about your army number...at least it must have meant it was easier to reemmber.

Yes, we didn't have a local co-op, and am not sure if the one up the road in Horfield or Southmead wheever it was, had that system.
But our local Bendalls, kind of an old-fashioned grocery store, used them..I used to love going to that shop for my Mum. Such a shame when it closed...they used to sell salt in blocks. The butchers used to have sawdust on the floor and big parts of animals hanging up in the window.
And I loved going up the road when it was raining, and risking getting water down my neck th.at kind of billowed out from the awnings over the shops...that is the awning might blow in the wind and dump a load of water over you hehe.
I HATE modern pedestrian precincts, and closed in and covered shopping areas...what's the point of going outside of your house, if you can't STAY outside for a bit. I avoid those sorts of places as much as I can.
Unless one actually works outdoors, one seems to spend most of one's life indoors...I would live out in a field if it were practicable (of course it's not, I know)
Sorry...gone into Grumpy Old Woman mode


HYE gone into Grumpy Old Man mode?...ref the tv programme, or Victor Meldrew?

 

[davedajobauk]

yep I meant Co-op as you said... tch tch ... didn't type that hyphen
must need my bed for a few hours


You mean cantankerousness [for sure]
nah, happily-not... and Mary loves-that, about me
am kinda laid-back
when I KNOW, I can do nothing about, something or other



HYE found yourself in GRUMPY mode

 

[rebornfree]

In the sense of things not being what they used to be, as in the programme - yes! ..... not that I liked the sixties which most of them seem to, but I'm a fifties fan, and can get into a lighthearted niggle about things now, in the same way as they do. For example: music - not the headbanging stuff youngsters go in for these days, but actual tunes with words you can hear.... and no girl bands in hardly any clothing, but people decently dressed in nice frocks, and the men in suits! See what I mean!

I think it is a very entertaining programme if you take it in a humourous way.....and when they eulogise about becoming interested in gardening late in life I'm there with them!

HYE been part of a studio audience for a TV/radio programme?

 

[joyshirley]

No, I never have.

HYE become hopelessly lost while out driving in the country or in a city?

 

[davedajobauk]

No, I have always had an orienteering ability



HYE become hopelessly lost while out driving in the country or in a city?

 

[tansy]

No..not hopelessly lost.

Though one year we went on a caravanning holiday to West Wales, stopping at a couple of campsites on the way (and having been to visit some relatives near Birmingham),
Anyhow, we were driving through Wales, and I was doing the mapreading (husband driving - he was used to towing things). Came to a T junction on some B road, but somehow couldn't figure out whether should go left or right. Anyway, I chose the wrong way, it was getting late and we were weaving our way higher through these mountains, and hoping we'd find a campsite.
Anyhow, in the end we were really pleased we'd taken the wrong turning because we found an absolutely brilliant campsite (incidentally a Christian one) - they had stuff for the kids and the adults, and it was cheap. We'd only intended staying one night, but ended up staying three. Sometimes I wonder if it was God who directed me in that "mistake".
Actually, I've often found that if something goes wrong, or not quite as planned, it often turns out to be a blessing in disguise.


HYE had something go wrong, or made a mistake, and it turned out to be a good experience, or you benefitted from it in some way?

 

[joyshirley]

No..not hopelessly lost.

Though one year we went on a caravanning holiday to West Wales, stopping at a couple of campsites on the way (and having been to visit some relatives near Birmingham),
Anyhow, we were driving through Wales, and I was doing the mapreading (husband driving - he was used to towing things). Came to a T junction on some B road, but somehow couldn't figure out whether should go left or right. Anyway, I chose the wrong way, it was getting late and we were weaving our way higher through these mountains, and hoping we'd find a campsite.
Anyhow, in the end we were really pleased we'd taken the wrong turning because we found an absolutely brilliant campsite (incidentally a Christian one) - they had stuff for the kids and the adults, and it was cheap. We'd only intended staying one night, but ended up staying three. Sometimes I wonder if it was God who directed me in that "mistake".
Actually, I've often found that if something goes wrong, or not quite as planned, it often turns out to be a blessing in disguise.


HYE had something go wrong, or made a mistake, and it turned out to be a good experience, or you benefitted from it in some way?

Yes...that's happened a few times.

HYE travelled overseas?

 

[tansy]

Yes, I've been to BC, Luxembourg, Belgium and Germany, and France, and travelled through Holland

HYE been camping?

 

[davedajobauk]

Oh yes.... lots !!! as a boy scout, as a soldier, and as a family


HYE been camping?

 

[tansy]

Yep, I love it...even if it's pouring with rain. We went a couple of years ago for about 10 days, and it poured the whole time bar a couple of days. We were virtually up to our ankles in mud! And there was a smell of manure, as the field was uswd for cows out of season

HYE had to go home early from a holiday for some reason..or got stuck somewhere on holiday, and not beeb able to get back straightaway?

 

[JoeNah]

other than flight cancellations, while changing planes in the Minneapolis-St Paul airport, no. I was with a church group, returning home after a missions trip to Nenana, Alaska.

Have you ever eaten grits with peanut butter?

 

[Worddancer]

Nope . . never eaten grits, period! Sounds . . um . . yummy?

Have you ever eaten rhubarb freshly picked right off the plant, dipped in sugar?

 

[tansy]

Nope . . never eaten grits, period! Sounds . . um . . yummy?

Have you ever eaten rhubarb freshly picked right off the plant, dipped in sugar?

No....I always thought rhubarb was poisonous if eaten uncooked..or is that the leaves?

HYE eaten suckling pig cooked on a spit over an open fire? (deliciuos)

 

[davedajobauk]

Have you ever eaten rhubarb freshly picked right off the plant, dipped in sugar?

Oh yes!!! mind you tummy-ache is a possible side-effect of greed

No....I always thought rhubarb was poisonous if eaten uncooked..
or is that the leaves?

nah... it is delicious albeit sharply acidic [uncooked sticks]
I cannot say, whether the leaves ARE "poisonous"
~ I never fancied them though

HYE eaten suckling pig cooked on a spit over an open fire? (deliciuos)

No... I never had spit roast pig
but have often had Roast Pork joint [domestic oven]
with apple sauce and Bisto Gravy


HYE had a cake SINK in the middle
or, had a cake RISE TOO MUCH, so you had to cut off the dome
before you could decorate it with icing ?