Where are you moon?  Sounds like down here in Tasmania, although this morning is a generous 6˚, but it was - 2 yesterday morn.

I up here in the Nations Capital

 We are about 70 ks fromm the snow country.  We had minus 1 this morning.

Evening  gerriies--not whinging about the cold

weather again-after posters suffering from--minus!

Been lucky here--the test is if the car windscreen is

frozen in the morning-so far this year-hasnt happened.

Hi to you all, little late but better late than never as my nana use to say,

Porridge and brown sugar yummy, love that too, my nana use to make some bread and dripping, i use to love it, and i remember when she use to dip the bread in egg then put it into the pan and speinkle salt and pepper on it, put a tomato half on top and shed surve it up for breakkie or dinner, i also loved her bubble and squeak, mmmmmmmmmmmm, my nana was a good cook and she would make a feast out of what some would consider nothing.

Made her own bread and scones i loved those scones, when my mum use to make them she would use cream and i tell you what theyd rise like towers and gosh they were beautiful, amazes me now when i hear people say they havent go tanything in the cupboard and they have more than what nana had in her's yet she would cook up a feast with what she had.

Gosh i think about how i see people waste so much these days, waste not want not shed tell us, always good for another meal.

Oh those days are long gone and now we live in a world of spoilt people who just want want want, it would be nice to give a little.

I remember my nana also use to teach my sister and I how to sew, she would give us hankies to put our names on embroidery and they were lovely too, we would make tea towels and aprons, Come to think of it my nana taught us alot of things, i also remember the blu she would do her whites with. I use it too, to this day, and often people ask me how i make my things so white, hahaha i tell them elbow grease, i have to tell you about elbow grease, my poppy he use to tell my cousin to put some elbow grease in to it when he was doing a job and nan put some lard on his elbow and he beleived it made him work harder hahahahahaha, i miss them days but i wouldnt want to change how things have got easy too, im part of this lazy times.

I do remember nana washing the sheets by hand, and i also remember how red they were at the end of the day and how she would rub them. Poor nana, but she was the best cook i ever did know, mum was good but nothing on my nana. lol

What a nice post, Zaidee.

Re your nana's toast.  I think today it is called French Toast.

We were so lucky to have experienced those days gone by.

Life today seems kinda sterile and impersonal in comparison.

Don't misunderstand me, my life is still full of whoopeeeee !!!!

Evening gerries--Hi Freshwater -the thrill seeker,

and the other oldies.

Great post Zaidee---shame a lot of the old skills

will be lost on the new generations.

-past cot time.................Richo.

Hi everyone,

thanks for the niceties, gosh i could do with some spelling lessons the mind goes fater than these fingers, my excuse and im sticking to it;-)

I got some Lavender oil today and i put it towels and goodness they smell so nice, really nice, i did it to my sheets too, just a droplet, and i think i will sleep well tonight.

Remember when we used or i should say my nana used vingar and news paper to clean her windows, she would use lavender oil too for her carpet she would put it in a bottle of hot water and sprinkle it then let it go and then sweep it with the straw broom, she never had a vacc,

i also remember when she got her first tele, i liked it better when we would lay in bed with her and we would listen to the wireless, the stories that were told i cant recall some of them but nan would laugh and that was a nice sound. I was only about 5 when most of these things happened, but everytime i went to live my nana she would teach me something new.

I recall the big room as we called it she would rub floor polish on the floors and we would slide on them, my sister and I loved that, we would laugh so much, now them days id like to return too, the happy days of when children knew what fun was really all about self made fun.

My nana use to make us dolls out of her pegs, she wold paint faces on them and make little dresses for them, she even made a doll house for my sister and I, she made it out of wooden crate. Nan would make lots of things by hand, she sewed cooked cleaned took good care of my sister and I and she smelt good too.

We had blankets not doonas sheets that would be tucked in at the sides, when my sister and I were in the orpahanage, we had to make our beds like nurses made beds or cots as they called them. I still roll the socks like i did when i was 6 yrs old, never changed, lol still fold singlets and clothes the way i was made to, i guess it is the only thing i can thank them for.

But my nana and mum did teach us alot, organisation was the best thing i was taught,i think, well i have lots of stories of only a few years spent with my nana but they were great ones, after we got out of the orphanage we were young women.

I learned one thing from each day though made a memory and i was part of it, what a wonderful thing, happy or sad, i was there.

Sleep well and I wish you all a safe and happy day tomorrow, i like it here mum, its a place i can remember the good thing.:-x

Zaidee, your grandmother was heaven sent.

Hi Richo,, this thrill seeker was up on the 2nd story roof this morning getting rid of leaves (I live in a mini rainforest).  After hearing Gilly's experiences on a ladder I now wear a bike helmet as an extra precaution, along with anchoring myself to the antenna.   I sometimes think that it would be useful having a man to do this.....then I think again....Nah! I like my freedom too much.

Native Australian rats (a protected species) recently got to the wiring of my convertible...$850 in repairs.  I now hang mothballs in the engine bay overnight to deter them.  Fingers crossed.  I love my Barbie car. Zooooom !

Evening gerries.

Glad you took precautions Freshwater!

Old story of the bloke who tied a rope to the towbar of the

car in the driveway-then tossed it over the gable roof to

have  a safe way of cleaning the gutters.

Safely first-tied it around his waist.

Everything was -ok til someone backed the car out the driveway.

Morning all 🙂

Aaarrggghhh Richo, tying oneself to a car... not a good idea :^O

I was just saying this morning to someone who is driving down to Canberra today Moon, that quite often you get the same temps that we get here... bluddy cold 🙂

Actually this morning is lovely.  12˚ and sunshine, very autumn with the trees turning.

D what wonderful posts and yes you are bringing back many memories I have too - blueing the whites, 'eggy toast', Oh bread and dripping with vegemite... and did you know that they would save all the fats up from the roasts and then would put them in a big pot with water, bring them to the boil and when the fat had set on the top of the water they would cut it off and scrap the bottom of the fat to take away the impurities.

I can remember doing that with the fats mother boiled up... after that it was called 'dripping' and it was truly yummy.

Yep embroidering handkerchiefs and cotton (huckaback) towels.  Knitting and sewing, crochet and all sorts of other skills that just don't seem to be around nowadays.

Love your posts and PS I'm still smiling 😉

Well I'm off to do shopping today, have friends around on Saturday to do a barbeque which will be nice.

Gil, you didn't know did you, you always wanted a horse in your garden :^O

Waves to all you lovelies out there.  Just clocking on.