Weekly Chat, Sunday July 25, 2010

DjoanS said:

Gosh ... liberty bodices???? (I seem to remember rubber buttons???)    :-))))

  Keep going, Joan!! Rubber buttons and strips of cloth like bias binding going down the way--- Another version was like a vest but had the same strips------

Lindybird - I'd like to say that I read about them in a book but well- no!!

Liberty bodices and rubber buttons.... Last year, after my dad died and I was clearing out his home,  I found a button tin that my mum had kept odd buttons in ... and in it were .... the rubber buttons!!!! Looking through all the buttons brought back so many memories of the clothes that they had been on ... it was lovely, but why she kept the rubber buttons I shall never know :-))

My Mum and my Mother in law both kept button boxes, as do I --  its a left over from the war times when everything was precious.  I do agree that finding the buttons from an old favourite garment can bring the memories flooding back.

I heard about someone once, who had a hoarding Mother - she had left a tin labelled 'String too Short to be of Use.....'

Lindybird said:

My Mum and my Mother in law both kept button boxes, as do I --  its a left over from the war times when everything was precious.  I do agree that finding the buttons from an old favourite garment can bring the memories flooding back.

I heard about someone once, who had a hoarding Mother - she had left a tin labelled 'String too Short to be of Use.....'

I think that our mothers must have grown up in this way. My Mum saved butter papers, ripped open envelopes to write shopping lists, and yes, had a button box, which I have inherited. She also never threw string away. Mum was born in 1908 and always said to me ' I have lived through two world wars so I will never waste anything'.

Good evening all and thanks for some amusing posts.  Liberty bodice yes I remember them and I also remember navy blue nickers with the elastic round that left lovely red welts  on your legs.  I still have my Mum's button box and it is full of memories for me.

 

 

It was drummed into us not to waste anything, but now I seem to have translated this into 'never throw anything away or you might need it' -  to my families despair!  Luckily my OH is the opposite, and will throw things away with gay abandon, so maybe we cancel each other out.

-- must go now, as my eyes are tired.   'See you'  tomorrow, All.

Night , Lindybird and thank you.

I have been doing some 'landscape gardening', (mainly digging) now pleasantly exhaused, lots more to do though. Caught up with the news, blogs etc...........now going to relax.

On returning from chiropodist, found a lot of catching up!  Called in at the Coffee Lounge – first time for ages – and had a decaff latté – but with toffee vanilla cheesecake – apparently my tastes are changing!

Diane – “little pointy white flowers” are Astilbes – related to Meadowsweet which grows wild in damp places – the pink one next to it is same, but about a week later coming fully out – loads of tiny flowers forming a pointy spire.  Just plant them, keep moist through summer – dead easy.  These are old varieties, passed around in the family – there are modern developments, including dwarf ones for rock gardens.  We weren’t sure where the pink one should be – pink very “cool” corner, but its leaves are red – pink won, so it’s out of place except when in bloom!

Lindybird – well done with the poem for Margobird!!  I know what you mean about the birds and the garden chairs – our chairs have to be under cover or away in the garage, so we never seem to sit on them!

GeorgeG – I hope the case conference comes up with a sensible (and sensitive) care plan for your BiL.  I loved your atmospheric picture of Loch Garten – those Lochs in the Cairngorms look so animated when the wind whips up some waves.

Margobird – your social life wears me out just reading about it!  I hope you will enjoy the folk club and everything else you have planned.  Sorry to read about the bird poop – we’ve had only one item “bombed” this year – and that was just the underside of a pillowcase.  It tends to get worse (and stain more) once the hedgerow berries ripen!  And then the soaking with the hose – what a day you had!

Lindybird, Heather and DjoanS – I remember wearing a liberty bodice – and it had two extra rubber buttons at the bottom where you could fasten your drawers if you had the right kind! (I didn’t).  I seem to remember some which buttoned all down the front (again, rubber buttons) but others which went over your head.

Joan and Lindybird – I used to play with the contents of Grannie’s button box, then Mum inherited the contents and added to hers – now I have them all!  There are memories in there, as well as the occasional times when I’ve found a match for something.  I am not the hoarder in this house, but that is something I have kept!

Jsb – I hope you are enjoying a relaxing evening after your hard work.

 

Son phoned this evening and blagged his way into coming to visit next week – but I told him he’ll be on the floor one night as his nephew gets the bed on the Thursday since he “booked” first and will be “saddle sore” at the end of his cycle ride through the length of Scotland (final day’s stage is 80 miles, so goodness knows what the time will be when he actually reaches the Mull of Galloway).  Grandson is only here the one night, Son here three, then we have to empty the kitchen ready for new sink, worktop and doors/drawer fronts.  Maybe Joan would like to advise – or come over and do it for me since she has practised on her kitchen?!!