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I think it would be beneficial if they had a testimonial wall to explain what it was really like. Where my grandparents lived they have been demolished but there is documentation under glass in the churchyard and an artist's impression of the cottages

On of my Nan's stories was when they ran out of toilet paper in hard times and in good style her mum cut up the inside bags of packet cereals as she thought they may come in useful and her dad said that's first time he had wiped his xxxxx on Sugar Puffs. They must have been going along time. He...

We had them at school a long a wall they called the chamber of death or wall of death . In the juniors. The boys the tough kids would surround it and the contenders would try and get through whilst being punched and kicked.If you got through without falling off you were a hero, Needless to...

My mum's friend was brought up in a court, they held a stigma she said but it made the people from there very proud of where they came from. They have kept some of the courts names or maybe invented some? as the lady said they didn't have court names or numbers even but everybody knew everybody...

Where my cousin was brought, by his great granny, had a small front garden like in the picture but no back to it no running water or inside toilet in the seventies. It was right next to a pig farm. We have been to see it. They have been preserved and modernised and are now very desirable. In...

One set of grandparents (I have four due to my personal circumstances) lived in a back to back. Their's had no back to it at all. All the windows were at the front the coal cellar was accessed from the front. They were nomadic as they got a cottage with a job often. One I was able to go inside...

Maybe it died of shock

I almost gave myself a hernia dragging the geranium pots in to the garage,. Normally they are light at this time of year but we have had so much rain. I left one out in the chimney pot by the front door and it is still flowering after the frost even.The garage is bitterly cold but at least the...

Barmy neighbour has one too and does the same. His partner said to me, (she speaks to us,) he is only person she knows that can spend hours pretending he is doing something when he isn't doing anything.

Lots in pots too

Did you ever see the Wicker Man? ..... Well I live in Coventry . The blooms are not in abundance apart from the hydrangea but they are all there. I forgot the hyssop. I think maybe I should take the geraniums in?

Our winter flowering jasmine has been out a month, still have geraniums Canterbury bells, Japanese anemones, hydrangeas, spiked speedwell. mimulous, verbena yarrow, coreopsis petunias , but that dill I was asking the forum about, is in fact Cosmos now I have pulled them out, they were massive...

Good old leatherette with studs

I rescued a bumble bee hopefully yesterday my partner saw him walking up and down all day on Sunday, it was very cold, then he got into a pot with a geranium and coreopsis and didn't move. I tried this tip before and it didn't work but it did this time. I made a flat ish receptical out of...

What is it called?

No we aint not. Nan's saying

There a street here call Mashin Street but it is spelt Machin and Catherine Street my dad's family pronounced it Cather eye n