Things we did before gardening

[Logan]

That's funny @Tetters

 

[Logan]

Annie was talking about a place in America Logan. When the Americans landed in their ''new country'' they couldn't think of any good names for their new towns that they built, so they copied lots of our towns and called them the same. After that, they thought that they had named the towns, and that the English people were copying them. Now, a surprising number of them think that we speak bad English because we don't speak the same way as they do.

Yes i know @Tetters

 

[Tetters]

@Tetters I suppose " telling a Porky" means telling a big fat lie ?
I did the same with my first job with "Uncle Tom". "How long have you been riding?," he asked. "Oh my Daddy got me a pony when I was 5, so, 8 years." (My Dad died when I was 2 !!)

In actuality it was my third time that day apart from sitting on the retired Draft horses one of our neighbors had on their farm. They were retired, as were the horses and I used to come to their farm, play with their Bulldog and Boxer dog, then eventually climbed up the fence in order to get onto their very kid friendly Belgian gelding. After a while he'd walk off to graze with me riding bareback. I was so brazen because the house window shades were always drawn and you never saw a car there.

After a few years of this I was at Lucky's Supermarket, a tiny little mostly bread and eggs store on the corner of my street when the lady in front of me at the checkout dropped a $5 bill out of her purse. I picked it up and said: " Excuse me, Ma'm you dropped this. " She looked at me and said: " Oh, I know you !! You're that little girl who's always playing with my dogs and riding my horses . "

I was never so mortified !! Caught in the act!!

I reckon she was really quite fond of seeing you with her animals actually.

 

[Anniekay]

I reckon she was really quite fond of seeing you with her animals actually.

At least she never did go and tell my mother !! I wouldn't have sat for a week if she had !!

 

[Zigs]

I've found a few more work pics, inside the tower of Saint Edmund's Church in Salisbury.

I did a report on some work that needed seeing to. The report enabled them to get funding to actually do the work.

First is the ringing room...



And the mechanism of the church clock...



The tower itself is built from a type of hard chalk called "Clunch" it's one of the few stones hard enough for building on Salisbury Plain. The dark lumps between are flints, which occur in the chalk and are much harder.

Above the ringing chamber are the bells...



Someone recently had blocked up one of the louvres (the window through which the sound gets out) with concrete blocks which had collapsed and were in danger of falling through the ceiling

 

[Zigs]

This is looking down from the tower of Long Sutton Church in Somerset. Had some work to do on the roof.



We're looking at the Nave of the church, the 2 isles either side and then the North and South porch roofs.

During a funeral the North and South porch doors were both opened in case the devil followed the coffin in through the South door. He'd then go straight out the North door as the coffin turned and went towards the Chancel

With new health and safety rules requiring buildings open to the public to have toilets, a lot of churches are having to block up the North porches to put toilets in.

This means the Devil is in a lot of churches these days and can't get out

 

[Anniekay]

This is looking down from the tower of Long Sutton Church in Somerset. Had some work to do on the roof.

View attachment 1886

We're looking at the Nave of the church, the 2 isles either side and then the North and South porch roofs.

During a funeral the North and South porch doors were both opened in case the devil followed the coffin in through the South door. He'd then go straight out the North door as the coffin turned and went towards the Chancel

With new health and safety rules requiring buildings open to the public to have toilets, a lot of churches are having to block up the North porches to put toilets in.

This means the Devil is in a lot of churches these days and can't get out

They just need a sign at the door: Visit your own loo before you come through.

No such rules like that in the States. Heck, church only lasts an hour.

 

[Zigs]

They just need a sign at the door: Visit your own loo before you come through.

No such rules like that in the States. Heck, church only lasts an hour.

If only that would work here

I passed out in church once

This bit is good, if you look closely you can see the little door at the top of the stair turret that allows access onto the Isle roof