Mundane News

[fossyant]

Wish my luck, the brushes have arrived for the washing machine motor - I'm about to start open heart surgery on it.

It's still dead, changed bushes, cleaned motor, checked wires. It pumps etc but no spin. 15 mins onto Hoover Care and still didn't get through. Will try tomorrow - it's supposed to have a 10 year parts warrenty, but there will be a call out.

Phew, just logged into Hoover on line, and I have registered it previously, via the WIFI app. This means the call out os £65 with fre parts. Not too bad.

 

[Illaveago]

Anybody remember the "Onion Johnnies".
I remember them coming here so they must still have been on the go in the 1970's.
We did have a French Consul then so that may have brought them. We also had lots of large French fishing boats calling in for crew changes for the same reason. He was also in demand to lecture unruly and badly behaved French school parties. One of out coop staff was also a very "colloquial" French speaker and often shocked them into behaving. Their teachers did not seem too bothered about keeping order.

I can remember hearing about them at school in the early 60's. A good cover for smuggling bicycles ?

 

[tyred]

Two of the downsides of temporarily living with my elderly parents is that the heating is turned up to the levels usually found in a blast furnace and the TV is still loud enough to be deafening even though I am in a different room.

 

[oldwheels]

I can remember hearing about them at school in the early 60's. A good cover for smuggling bicycles ?

I seem to remember the onion sellers during the war years but that seems unlikely at that time. They came round the area where my grandparents had a croft also but that would be post war.
On the itinerant trader theme I remember an Indian with a turban who travelled by bus and on foot round the crofts where my grandparents lived carrying two large suitcases. He sold fabrics and haberdashery and was always well received and fed. He bought a live chicken from them for ritual slaughter sometimes. The religious difference bothered nobody. He was known as Barkat Ali but I doubt that is the proper spelling.
Eventually he got a bicycle and later a car so he must have prospered.

 

[woodbutchmaster]

99p for three here in blighty (local Co-op)

Oi! don't rub it in...honestly l cannot figure this out, food is normally very reasonable in france. I will go to the shop in the morning and politely ask the question "what is the price per kilo of onion rouge " except in French not English

 

[Reynard]

Cats have been fed, cucumber and onion pickle has been made and the soup is on to warm. Bitsas supper for the Humans chez Casa Reynard tonight. The girls had Felix AGAIL with plaice.

 

[Reynard]

I had tea and peanuts earlier. I'm also listening to the cricket. Tense stuff!

It sort of slipped away in the end...

 

[Reynard]

Our coop would probably say they have never heard of such things.

Reminds me of my friend Linda when she moved up this way from Berkshire in the 1980s. The greengrocer in town didn't have a friggin clue what an aubergine was...

 

[carpiste]

Oi! don't rub it in...honestly l cannot figure this out, food is normally very reasonable in france. I will go to the shop in the morning and politely ask the question "what is the price per kilo of onion rouge " except in French not English

As I haven`t been over to France in a whole year ( ) I have noticed, like the UK, the cost of groceries has risen a bit..... but the wine and beer is still very cheap

 

[woodbutchmaster]

I seem to remember the onion sellers during the war years but that seems unlikely at that time. They came round the area where my grandparents had a croft also but that would be post war.
On the itinerant trader theme I remember an Indian with a turban who travelled by bus and on foot round the crofts where my grandparents lived carrying two large suitcases. He sold fabrics and haberdashery and was always well received and fed. He bought a live chicken from them for ritual slaughter sometimes. The religious difference bothered nobody. He was known as Barkat Ali but I doubt that is the proper spelling.
Eventually he got a bicycle and later a car so he must have prospered.

If you remember onion sellers from France during the war years and you mean the 2nd WW , you must be at least 85 years old. on the other hand l can recall seeing a bloke in a striped sweater riding a bike with onions hanging from the handlebars and l'm at least ten years younger than you. Of course he may have been a canny english guy thinking the "get- up" was a good selling rouse with the ladies

 

[woodbutchmaster]

As I haven`t been over to France in a whole year ( ) I have noticed, like the UK, the cost of groceries has risen a bit..... but the wine and beer is still very cheap

Lets be honest , that is what counts , you may be hungry but you can still be happy

 

[classic33]

I think it's best if I plug my phone in.

Where!

 

[carpiste]

Lets be honest , that is what counts , you may be hungry but you can still be happy

"Groceries? We don`t need no stinkin` groceries!"

 

[classic33]

99p for three here in blighty (local Co-op)

He wanted four, not three.

 

[Reynard]

I am feeling very