BiddyGrotto

[Robinia]

It seems we're not getting any changes on AB 'til after xmas so I've set up a grotto for us. Sorry it's a bit like a scene from Great Expectations but I've sprayed a few cobwebs silver & blown the dust off me doileys so please come in & sit down.
What do all the biddies/grumps want to find in their wrinkly stockings this year then? Do you like all this festivity or will you be the grumpy gran/grandpa from hell this year?
Please feel free to take a present out of the bran tub as you leave by the way. Contents may be unidentifiable....oops sorry...be varied.

[jno]

M25 racing

Funny thing, I can remember, as I expect other Biddies can, when nobody wore deodorants except for funerals and moose hunts. I never really noticed. I suspect our noses have just got more pernickety over the years, thanks to dedorant use, smoking bans and whatnot that have removed most smells from our surroundings.

[Robinia]

Congratulations shaneystar you are post no 1500!

Maybe we could be like Kim & Aggie & drag people out of queues & give them a hose down & a good squirt of Mum.

[netibiza]

You want smelly people then you want to sit on the Sta Eulalia to Ibiza bus, some of them really honk, it is noticeable that it is the folk from North Africa mainly. I feel really sick sometimes and try to move seats but it's not always possible. It is unwashed bodies and not curry.

[woofgang]

Mr Woofgang and I were wandering round the shops on Sunday and he said "Is it me or are people getting grubbier?"

I travel up to London by train on a friday evening occasionally to visit my Mum, got to say that a crowded train really reeks these days.

[Jude123]

Hello all. Neti I have done that trip to Sta Eulalia on the local bus. But can't say I noticed any particularly bad aroma,Mind you it was during the 1990's andf my memorie's not what it used to be. Probably a good thing if it is as bad as you say it is!!

[jno]

smell?

[netibiza]

Jude there weren't so many smelly people about then!!

[Jude123]

Very funny Jno

Also Neti The bus was summery and breezy with all the windows open.(Btw Had some good holidays on Ibiza)

[netibiza]

Jude - the bus is always packed and hot and crawls along.

[netibiza]

One day Jude a window fell out as the bus was going along, it was hilarious although a bit frigtening at the time. Could only happen here.

[Jude123]

Neti I bet it was the same bus as I was on but on it's last legs!!! :o)

[Robinia]

The Biddies introduce new stringent hygiene standards on all visitors to the Grotto........ hands-up

[Jude123]

Well I don't want that job thankyou very much! :Oo

[netibiza]

Yuk - just am I am about to sit down to Beef Stew and Dumplings. What a job - I don't want it either thank you.

[shaneystar2]

Well I watched Balderdash and Piffle last night and they were looking for the origin of the words "Nit Nurse".Fair turned my stomach Pictures of nits crawling in peoples hair. It's a wonder I haven't caught them from smelly people on the bus.
Last week I sat next to a person all done up like a dogs dinner..all fur coat and no knickers.. and they absolutely stunk of stale urine.I have frequently got off the tube because of the stink..anything like that makes me heave.
I know we didn't have the facilities as a child but I was scrubbed throughly every day ....with Lifebouy soap.
At school we used to have health and hygiene lessons.The times I have been in public lav and people don't wash their hands...yuk.yuk yuk...and pooh.

I see I was post 1500 Robinia...I shall expect my packet of penny chews in the post tomorrow.!!

[Robinia]

tut - looks like I'll have to ring the agency then.....they might send some naughty people up from the dungeon. Sorry shaneystar I didn't think any of the biddies were capable of chews so you've a dozen rolls of Izal on the way instead.

[Robinia]

.... and shaneystar the Preparation H will follow shortly.
Why do all 'bottom creams' have hideous names? Is it to pile (sorry) on the embarrassment at the counter when you ask for it? What's wrong with something like Bliss...or Reprieve.....or Halellujah?
don't try telling me you've never bought any.......

[shaneystar2]

Oh nooo....not the dreaded Izal and whatnot cream !!

[netibiza]

I loved Lifebouy as a child but it was the ornage transparentish one not the pinkie/orange cloudy one. Used to suck the bubbles off the flannel. My mouth is watering at the very thought!!!

[netibiza]

*orange*