Eyebrow threading

[shaneystar2]

Have any of you ladies had this done ?
I was in town this morning and there was a stand in the shopping centre and they were doing eyebrow threading for a fiver .I dithered :)
Does it hurt ? My eyebrows are nowhere near as thick and dark as they used to be these days but I was wondering if it might make them "look" neater and thicker.

[jno]

alas it probably is... the shell of a once useful building now hanging around on the waterside waiting to be pulled down... I want 800 words by morning on whether this is a metaphor for modern Britain.

[woofgang]

We'll given that it got to this state because no one would let previous owners get on with stuff "because it was listed" I think there might be something in that!
On which philosophical note, oight oight all

[shaneystar2]

I think they wanted to turn it into a theme park at one stage .
I enjoyed Downton too Neti .
Oight Oight folks .

[woofgang]

"I think they wanted to turn it into a theme park at one stage . "
ha Shaney, another metaphor for modern Britain!
We decided to go out despite the forecast for fog and it was lovely and clear. Dogs had a good run around. I need to do a waitrose online shop as knee still isn't up to wandering around supermarkets.

[Robinia]

Morning all...a very sad stick just popping in to say hello for now, too early in the day to think. :'o(
Ozzy left for Brussels about an hour ago - leaves there for Oz Fri night. Going to be a long day...hope to be back later to catch up. x

[jno]

that's right, there was a theme park plan a few years ago, wasn't there. I don't know that listing was a problem, there were lots of plans announced with great fanfare, I seem to recall one as long ago as Thatcher's day. We'll see if the current one goes anywhere, I suppose. But the US embassy is definitely moving out there somewhere and there are plans to extend the tube (no doubt for the Americans' benefit). I would have thought turning it upside down and using it as a billiard table for the gods would have been nice.

[shaneystar2]

Morning all
Quite warm here but a bit dull as yet .Hope you're all ok .
I expect you are feeling sad Robinia ...it all goes by too quickly .I hope he has a safe journey.Take care of yourself x
I have to go and do battle at the surgery ..they won't let me order my thyroid meds until the last knockings and I need to have one months reserve in case I can't get out .

[Jude123]

Hi All I've caught up at last. Thinking about you Robi. Take care x

Didn't there used to be a Funfair in Battersea Jno. I'm sure I've been on the big dipper there in the later 40s we stayed on and had 2 goes. Mum and her sister and me and mine (Fuschia). I'm sure I've told you that before Jno. It's an age thing. :)
I'm not mentioning the weekend except to say it was a good one - except Derby got beaten 3-1. I'm off to school this afternoon as on Wednesday it's Live at Lunch in Nottingham. There's a jazz pianist and a singer on which appeals to me.

Hope you are all ok and I'll see yer later 'gater(s)

[woofgang]

Channelling some cheerfulness for you Robi.
Yes jno, There have been various plans, according to the local papers at the time, most of them were snookered because of the high additional costs of the changes required by the panjandrums who administer listed buildings in Battersea. At one time, the shell of the building was going to be a pleasure park with attractions, shops and restaurants and flats around the outside. The "powers", as I recall, required the addition of social housing and "social amenities" which tipped the project out of profitability so it came to nothing and the building was allowed to crumble. All very sad.
Yes Battersea Park had a lovely funfair. It opened for the Festival of Britain and stayed open after the Festival ended.
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/funfair-at-battersea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battersea_Park
It closed in 1972 after an accident on the Big Dipper.
such memories.....
http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/RiversideTheatre.htm
Shaney go and kick butt at the docs!!
Stay well everyone

[netibiza]

Morning all.
Robi I feel for you.

Sat night and haven't seen her since! she does text me though!

Went out for coffee and a catch up gossip, now have no energy for housework or cooking, time for thyroid checkup I think.

[netibiza]

Jude there was the Festival of Britain there I believe in the 50's, I remember the Dome of Discovery and that's about it, I was only young.

[netibiza]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_of_Britain

[jno]

we have finally got the harvest in... hundreds of apples this year, biggest crop ever, and that's just from one tree of Worcester pearmains. The other tree is new, just eight coxes. Plus gazillions of plums (also one tree). They actually started budding in February then got blitzed by the frost and I thought that was it for the year. But the winter went on for so long they started over again in the spring.

[netibiza]

Ooops sorry woofy I didn't read your post!

[netibiza]

Oh I remember harvesting the aples when I was young, we had an orchard, and could only eat the windfalls and Dad reckoned he could tell if we had picked them! We had to wrap the individual apples in newspaper and store them in the cellar. Had many different type of apple, I remeber one called russett, lovely it was.

[jno]

oh yes, I remember russets, no doubt they're still grown. I think there are 3000 different varieties of apple in the UK asnd Tescos stock about 3 of them.

[woofgang]

Actually our Tesco is pretty good for English fruit. We had an apple and a plum tree when we moved here but the apple became diseased and the plum was a real nuisance as it was about 5 feet from the living room french windows and the wasps came from mile around so it had to go. The apple tree is no loss as it was a really sour cooker.
I'd love an orchard though, or better a wood. I've still got a beautiful bird cherry (gean) The woodpigeons hang upside down in it like monkeys to get the fruit.

[netibiza]

I loved the orchard, we had pears, cherries raspberries, strawbs, wild strawbs, goosegogs, and dad also grew loads of veg and sweet peas, which are my very favourite flower. Whenever I was in trouble or when Eddie Cochran died, I used to hide in among the raspberries, only my sis knew and never told. We also had a pet cemetery there with our pet rabbits, and cats!

[Jude123]

Yes that was it - The Festival of Britian 1950/51.I was10 and Fuschia was 11. I remember the wooden parts of it on the track.

I love apples but I can't eat them in my hand like yer do. I have to have them chopped up in yoghurt or porridge like I do for my breakfast. I eat the skin as well though I'm not so fussy that I have to peel them.

http://i40.tinypic.com/2h7q7uv.jpg like this

[netibiza]

That was at the back of the house, at the side we had a tennis court, and in the front was the "posh"garden with roses and whatever! There was a tradesmen entrance which ran all the way round the side of the gardens, to the back door, took the poor butcher and bakers ages to get there. There is also where I hid my forbidden tight skirt and high heels, to change into on the way out. Used to say goodbye and go out the front path and gate, and then 50yrds down nip in the back gate, change my clothes and go out!! Oh the follies of youth, and hija wonders how I know most of her tricks!!