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.

[AB Editor]

I think my favourite is the Victorian theme - I'll see what I can do!

[Robinia]

Aaaaggghhhh!!! ....running in from H&G....banging head....somebody get me a strong cuppa please..........readthis .......!!!!!!!!!!

(apologies ed if I'm being a horrid old Biddy but oh dear..)

[Robinia]

Agghh, that's better I've calmed down & hopefully redeemed myself. This younger generation ...mumble.... I made sure my sons could wash, iron & sew their own buttons on before I sent them into the big world.....when they were seven, hehe.

...time for that dripping....hope there's plenty of jelly..

[smudge]

In & out - in & out - all it's been this week!

I was going to request a Victorian theme too, as it's my favourite era! I love the clothes, decor & furniture, so how about it Ed? Very serene atmosphere for all.

'Scuse haste - off out agian now! -x-

[smudge]

*again even!

[smudge]

P'raps you could place one these in the corner for us Ed!

[woofgang]

sitting here a-readin' and a-grinnin' at Robinia's outburst

Merry Christmas to all denizens and visitors to the Biddy Grotto and special Christmas Wishes to Robinia (? Redbreastia at this season) for thinking it up.

Ed before you take wing for snowier climes, here are my thoughts on the review, some bits have already been mentioned by others.

1. Fix the search engine please

2. Chatterbank didn't really work which is very sad BUT the Biddy Grotto has demonstrated what a chatroom for us silver surfers could be like...maybe volunteer moderators might be a way forward?? and poss a linked site but not onsite

3 that strange quirk where you can't switch categories except by going through the home screen and not always then is still there and IMHO getting more frequent

4 "Subscribe to this thread", ask the monks to either ditch it or fix it

5 Answer notification is a bit iffy as well

6 I am not crazed on the colour scheme but can live with it but a skin choice would be nice

7 A post an answer button at the bottom of the screen would save me scrolling up and down like a demented thing

lastly, a change of ED would be a really bad idea!! You were the newbie earlier this year, IMO you have settled down and fitted right in soon you will be as batty as the rest of us, end of term report A+ !!

[gessoo]

***************************************** !!!!!!!!

That represents all the rude words I can think of joined together and shouted out loud. I am exhausted after having an ordeal conquering Morrisons!!!

Why are people pushing and shoving and grabbing food and drink as if the shops are due to close for 6 months. Two days, that is all, two days equals 24 hours. 24 hours that the shops will be closed. What a greedy, materialist, shopoholic society we have become. I want to go back to the 50's when Christmas started one week before and people went out on Christmas Eve and bought their food and presents and everybody was full of good cheer and relaxed and happy and content without stuffing themselves like Christmas Turkeys and going into loads of debt in the process.

Baa Humbug, etc. and I like being a Grumpy Old Woman.

[gessoo]

Have a lovely Christmas Shaneystar. See you in the New Year. Where is Shaney Dog going for Christmas?

[VINNY100_2]

Blimey..Smudge..!they had BiddyBidets in victorian times...!...it can double up as a wash basin...and we can wash the dishes in it...!save ED a fortune this will( :)..me daughters just told me off..she asked me what time Lloyds closed..so i said it was 3.30...she just text me and said it was 5.30...and called me a Dodo..how did i know she meant the blinking chemist?not the bank...(:)by the way ..what's a Dodo...its not that extinct bird ..is it...it is...!!!right thats it,she's getting a fried snowball and a rasher of wind for her dinner..(:)

[gessoo]

....... and would love to return to the era when the sales started in January, and I would pass a Law that everything should close down for Christmas Day and Boxing Day and people should just relax and enjoy themselves. Why on earth would anyone want to go to DFS for a new sofa on Boxing Day. Baa Humbug........................................

......... and people are not looking happy. Everyone I saw this morning looked exhausted and harrassed and even the kids were grizzly and fed up.................

.......... and bring back times when people had no washing machines, or dishwashers and lino on the floors and no heating, and ice on the inside of the windows, and scratchy vests, and hand knitted jumpers for Christmas, and children should be seen and not heard..............................

Off to unpack my shopping now and possibly uncork one of those bottles of red wine (for medicinal purposes only). Baa Humbug!!

[gessoo]

Here you are Vinny ......... (hands Vinny a pint of Becks and one of Woofgangs bran muffins.) Sorry, I didn't notice you over there inspecting the Victorian Bidet.

[VINNY100_2]

Oooppps.sorry..methinks to much italicy things...makes mental note..check before submit..(:)

it was nice and calm in morrisons(brand new store in Biddyford)yesterday...gessoo..and the becks was cheap..(:)the police wern't to happy about me bumper touching the road..He..He..(:)they said id have to get rid of some of the beer...or lose a passenger....i think's me daughters still waiting for the bus..(:)only yoking...!!!!

[netibiza]

Hello - sorry haven't been around - have been shopping with hubby - then a few ciders in the local watering hole - have to say my typing's getting better. Got loads of totally unnessesary food and drink but hey it's Christmas. Have booked for a night out on New Year's Eve (one of the big nights in Spain) Still got raging toothache and have noticed that hair looks particularly grey at moment - will have to get bleach bottle out. Ho hum Merry Christmas.

[netibiza]

gessoo - it's almost like that over here, everything shuts for Christmas and only food shops open on Boxing day for half a day (as by ancient law shops cannot be closed for 2 days running as there were no fridges) it's very quiet. Have borrowed the latest Trivial pursuit (Anniversary the last 20 years) as daughter 19yrs didn't have a clue before that) I shall win . I always do.

[Robinia]

thanks woofgang - this wasn't so much thought up as thrown in and Best Christmas wishes to you & yours too! A big tick against all your suggestions - and well done for having enough brain cells left at this time of year to put it all so clearly.

hahaha gessoo - glad someone else is on a rant today too! You're right the world's gone barmy! I was going to go to Sainsbury's but it would have been a taxi as my friend (I've got one!) has a chest infection and they make you wait so long when you call from a supermarket. Heaven forbid they have to get out & help! Nipped to the local shops & came back with 3 bottles of rose, some flowers and some footsoak! I'll use in the bidet later, it is what it's for???? Anyway cupboard is still (fairly) empty! Wonder whether VINNY is up for taking me on the BiddyBus?????

Well I've got to go & wrap my doggy's pressy - a squeaky snowman's nose & some choc drops. Sounds like the ideal present to me..... :-)

If you've bought too much send me a food parcel neti please.

[netibiza]

but Robinia its Spanish fare, spicy sobrasada sausage, goats cheese,you name it and hubby (mr bah humbug has bought it) nutty chox which I cannot eat huh!

[Robinia]

Oh heck neti that sounds like less irritable more livid bowel attack!! Haven't you anything I could puree??

[jno]

poor neti, have now had my root canal stuff and feel as if kicked in the face by a horse. Am now negotiating with a mine in South Africa to get gold for my new crown (on the NHS; nice white ones only available privately); many more of those and I'll look like a Russian granny.

[woofgang]

Babushka!!