Robinia Frisia

[Robinia]

A few people on here were reporting problems with their robinia frisias earlier this year & I wondered how you went on, did they recover? Is it now happening to others too?
I'm absolutely gutted to see my tree has developed some brown spots & curling mainly on it's lower branches & more on the side that gets the east wind. Seems that, according to
this information I've found (in particular see 11th post) it's a problem made caused/worse by this awful weather we've had last yr & this (up to now).
Desolate of Derby
:o(

[netibiza]

he he shaney. Yes we've always had indoor bathrooms but when I was 16 I had a best friend and she had no bathroom and had to go to the public baths once a week, I was fascinated, ask mum if I could go and she nearly had a fit, said I could catch all sorts of things. Although we had four bathrooms I would only ever use the modern one on the first floor. They others were all dark wood , hated them!

[shaneystar2]

I never had a bath in a proper bath until I was eighteen It was a tin bath once a week as a child and a strip wash every day .When we moved to Chatham my eldest brother had a bathroom built on and we used to go down the road a couple of times a week to soak ,but that was just a tub with an immersion heater and it was never really hot .
In spite of primitive facilities I was never allowed to go about dirty .

[netibiza]

My bath nights were Wednesday and Saturday, no idea when my siblings had theirs! Also my crust days (when we had to eat the crust off the loaf) was on a Monday and on a Sunday it was a free for all, but when she started buying sliced bread yuk, we hated eating them.

[woofgang]

Yup, toilet (flushing) at the bottom of the garden, tin bath carried indoors once a week and water boiled in buckets on the stove. My Nan lived across the road from us and her house got condemned before ours. She moved into a council sheltered flat with a proper bathroom with a loo in and we used to go round there to bath after that. Then she passed and we were back to the tin bath then our house got condemned and we moved into a council house with a REAL bathroom when I was 12 years old. We moved on the day of Churchill's funeral (30th jan 1965) and I can remember the moving men bringing the telly in first and setting it up so we could watch the funeral and my Dad carrying most of the stuff in.

[woofgang]

yes we did have to lick the road clean with our tongues and sleep in a shoebox as well

[netibiza]

My dad was forever turning the immersion heater off so we had to put it on an hour before bathing so with so many of us it must have always been on. We had a twintub washing machine which was used in the first floor kitchen, we had a normal one with an ideal boiler with a scullery (yuk hate that word) on the ground floor. Sounds like I was brought up in a home!

[netibiza]

Have to add that we only had such a big house cos there were always 7 children sometimes more, like when we had the adopted ones. and then when my bro was born but then others had moved on, and my dad had bought property in the war and got this huge house for £4,000 when I was five. He sold it to a property developer when I was 16 for a huge amount of money, cos we had an orchard, a tennis court and a front rose garden, and a back path (tradesmens entrance) which was my escape root many a dark night! til I got caught ouch!!!

[shaneystar2]

Haha .Years ago my ancient aunt lived out in the country and she had a dry toilet ..A plank of wood with two holes in and buckets underneath They also had a water pump out the back as there was no running water ..
As a child I used to bike over there with my Dad when he was home to pick lovely loganberries ,gooseberries etc .They had chickens as well and we used to get eggs .Well,the palaver with this toilet .I would NOT go and used to cross me legs until we got home .One day going home I was so desperate I came off the bike and fell in a hedge :)
Dad had to stand guard while I desperately went in the bushes .Hahaa.When I got home all my socks were wet .Ugh .And mother told me off.
We often chat about it ,my aunt and I ,and she often wonders how she managed :))

[netibiza]

snap shaney, my great aunt maud (yes all in black and bonnets) had such a loo, and a man used to come and shovel it out from the back. We used to have to layer newspaper after we'd been. That was in sudbury, Suffolk!

[netibiza]

Glemsford suffolk, that was the place.

[netibiza]

^^^I'm not doing a Pickle honest!!!

[shaneystar2]

I know where Glemsford is Neti ,it's not all that far from where my middle brother lives near Bury St Edmunds and not far from Kentwell Hall.Lovely down that way .A bit more rolling than flat old old Norfolk .

[netibiza]

When I said sudbury I couldn't remember the name. It was a lovely old cottage and mum and I slept on a feather bed, that was wonderful except there was a huge picture of Jesus looking at me and it terrified me, and of course, the house smelled! and was very dark!

[Robinia]

hello you potty lot...had some smiles reading about your facilites. Funnily I was only telling my sis on Saturday about the old schools I went to & the outdoor lavs...wooden bench with a hole in it at the infants & proper lavs at the jnrs but they froze up every winter....by the time she started 5 yrs later new schools were built. At home we had an outside lav 'til I was 4 & then we moved house. All I remember of it is locking myself in.

[swedeheart]

'Guzunder', love it:) We always lived in huge, beautiful flats when I grew up, with several toilets and a room across the landing intended for the maid (we did have one for a short while but she didn't live with us, and my sis got that room as a teenager), that sort of thing. At one time, as a child, I wanted to say goodbye cruel world and run away from home, and I did - I ran away all the way to the "lesser tenants's" outdoors lav and I sat there for several hours, so unhappy, till somebody had to use it and I went back home again... yes that's the kind of free spirit I have always been ha ha ha.

Woofy that was almost like a short story - moving on Churchill's funeral day, the telly being brought in first. One of my moving days was the same day our prime minister Olof Palme had been murdered; I had a feeling everything was being uprooted.

speaking of two-seaters http://i39.tinypic.com/2eksy9t.jpg

[woofgang]

Kit its strange, that day, well bits of it, is realler to me than loads of things that have happened since.
In my work, I used to visit loads of peoples' houses, either to plan hospital discharge or to offer help and advice to make them more independent at home. Its only about 7 years ago that I helped a chap be discharged home who had an earth closet. His house literally had no drains. It had running water in one place only (kitchen tap) a hot water boiler that you filled with a jug and then there was a tap on it to get the water out again and the sink drain just ran out into earth under the kitchen window.
He had dug the earth closet himself some 60 years earlier when he married and moved into the cottage...couldn't use toilet chemicals as it would have messed up the natural composting.
Public health apparently couldn't do anything about it as the whole set up was quite sanitary and didn't actually break any laws.

[swedeheart]

Wow... and he'll probably live to be a hundred. About boiling water on the stove for your bath, I've never understood how that's possible, you'd need such huge amounts and it would cool off before you filled the tub - no?

Neti are you Madam Mim now?

[netibiza]

what is madam mim?

I wasn't going to post on woofy's reply cos even I am getting fed-up with having been there, and got the t-shirt. but when I first came here all we had was a cold tap in the kitchen, and that had to be hand pumped 300x a day to get running water, and yes we boiled water on a stove for a strip wash, and for hair washing, but I always rinsed my head under the cold tap several times, gosh it was difficult and cold, but all the hairdressers reckoned that my long hair looked much better for it esp as I used to dry it by riding my motor bike to the next village and back. We never used fresh water to flush the loo or water the garden, only washing water.

[netibiza]

oh and Robi, guess who also had school loos like that which froze over and I dropped a woollen glove in it but absolutely refused to pick it up!

[netibiza]

Is there anything that I haven't done!!!!