maple syrup products

[woofgang]

does anyone know where I can buy maple sugar, cream and butter from a uk mail order company? I know I can get it straight from Canada and the US but the p and p and customs make this very expensive.

[netibiza]

We only had central heating when we lived with in-laws in Sutton for 2 years. Dont have it here but air con turns into heating!
Growing up we always had 2 indoor bathrooms and hot water, we were
lucky, but a freezing cold big house . I always wanted to live in a cosy prefab!

[netibiza]

It was here that we had to boil water ( after hand pumping it from the well 300 times). I arrived after living the London life and it was a culture shock!

[shaneystar2]

Morning all
I should think that was a bit of a shock Neti. You would need muscles like Popeye pumping water all the time.I suppose growing up with no mods cons didn't really bother me at the time because what I didn't have I didn't miss.
No water here today though unlike yesterday where it hammered down non stop all day,just cloudy and dull.

[jno]

no telly when I was young, shaney, we just had to stare at the wall. Very character-forming.

[shaneystar2]

Haha Jno. Must be why I'm good at watching paint dry.
We never had a television until I was about 13 or 14 and it was from Radio Rentals. My mum was very anti(we've got a perfectly good wireless) but my dad wanted to watch sport but once we got it she was hooked and we couldn't tear her away from Coronation St and Fanny Cradock.

[netibiza]

We only had tv after I, the youngest at the time, had passed my GCEs ( or at least sat them) so we got it at 16.
We loved reading and listening to the radio by the fire which did not heat the whole room let alone the 3 storey house!

[netibiza]

Just had a lovely evening going to cinema to see Downton
Ita o ly a small.cine but nice. Then we strolled.around the town and finally settled on a place to eat
Really enjoyed each others company!

[shaneystar2]

Hope you enjoyed it on the big screen Neti.
I went to the cinema yesterday to see Judy.Good cast and Rene Zellweger was brilliant in the role.
There were two women, who had plenty of seats to choose from as it wasn't a full house but just had to sit behind me.They kept gassing and slurping their drinks and dropping their sweets all over the floor thinking it was highly amusing to do so and their mobile phones kept pinging.Somebody further back told them to shut up!
People like that annoy me.It's a public place not their front room.
Bosom flattening early tomorrow so I'm going to bed .Night all.

[woofgang]

We had TV when I was about 8 I think so that would have been very early 60's. My Nan was rehoused by the council because her house was condemned, at about the same time so she had running hot water, heated off a back boiler behind the fire, well before we did. We used to go round to hers for baths which was amazing after the tin bath in the kitchen and water boiled on the stove routine. No central heating though. The council condemned our house and rehoused us in 1965 and that was when we got an indoor loo and running hot water off a back boiler. The first central heating I had was in the house DH and I bought in 1978 and shortly after that, my Mum, then a widow, had central heating fitted in her flat which she had bought from the council. It sounds like a different life now.

[jno]

one of Dickens's former houses in London (just down the road from the workhouse that ended up in Oliver Twist) had indoor plumbing back in the 1840s or thereabouts - a guide pointed it out to us: there was no garden or backyard or anything, it was a true back-to-back, so the loos had to be indoors.

Gah, another miserable damp day. I did get out yesterday to see a mini-exhibition on Robert Paul, who had the first film studio in Britain. He was really a sort of electrician/inventor, he gave up film-making and invented an iron lung that didn't need electricity and something to help submarines.

[woofgang]

I hope the boob flattening went ok. Today i have done several tons of washing and a load of messy crafting.

[netibiza]

Woofy that is very interesting to learn of your childhood. Was it down south? We were very lucky as we didnt know any of those disadvantages. We didnt have a car so had to walk to most places. Big house was absolutely freezing though which is why I like cosy small homes now!!
Yes Shaney, it was nice seeing it on big screen although it's probably the size of a smart tv in some homes! Hija had a big box popcorn and left a trail, I was embarrassed as she was the only one with some!!
Cant wait to see Judy, just hope it comes to our local cine!

[netibiza]

We also went to the Overseas supermarket and bought lots of treats Robert's bread and kippers and a gammon. I ended up paying for it all which surprised me somewhat! Also.order two.more bedding sets on ebay so.I can make matching curtains. Have no money to buy the white paint now so Mr N will have to cough up!

[netibiza]

For some reason I woke up at 2am last night and took another load of my BP meds, I appear to be ok but maybe I should miss out tonight's doses? What do you all think?

[woofgang]

when do you normally take them?

[netibiza]

About 11pm so I retook them at 2am

[shaneystar2]

✽✽✽ Happy Birthday Neti.✽✽✽
Have a lovely day and many happy returns.
You can never have enough cake...
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[woofgang]

happy birthday Neti!

[jno]

ooh - happy birthday!

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[netibiza]

Good morning and thank you. Overcast here so that's ok. Not doing much. Been out for brekkie and boy can our daughter can eat for UK! Resting now tilwe go to a "nice" restaurant tonight. I cant be bothered with all this "niceness'but hija wants to try it!! I'll eat anywhere!!