Hi All

ohareward · Post: # 66306Post **ohareward** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:20 pm

Granny in Wales

I am a granddad, and a friend of ours is a week older than me, and we have the same rappore.
Have you tried making lavender oil, or drying it and making small smelly bags for clothes drawers, etc.

Robin

Granny in Wales · Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:26 pm

nah, I just tell him not to be a scaredy-cat..!

Martin · Post: # 66327Post **Martin** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:37 pm

Hello Granny in Wales - a baby-boomer! - welcome from the sodden south coast!

("en", not "ing")

Granny in Wales · Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:05 pm

thanks oha and Martin....by the way is Heathfield anywhere near Netherfield? I often used to camp in the field at the back of the Netherfield Arms with my motorcycle club. Not riding much now (waiting for my 1961 Ariel to be restored!) but hope to grow old as disgracefully as possible!

I had thought about lavender bags (although it's "old lady" stuff isn't it, LOL) bit like mothballs....

Martin · Post: # 66332Post **Martin** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:12 pm

Netherfield is about 7 miles away!

Which Ariel? - one of the 250 two-strokes? - an "Arrow or a "Leader"?

Granny in Wales · Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:23 pm

she is an Arrow. She was given to me a couple of years ago having been found in a barn during a farmhouse clearance. She had been garaged in 1973 by the previous owner so has the maximum of 12-years' use since she was built, and 2 owners from new, but kept in the same family. I am looking forward very much to getting her on the road, as I have always loved the Arrow and the Leader. However, our lives are very busy and there are always too many things going on and not enough money to begin the restoration...but it WILL happen one day.

Oh yeah, the bike club is the Ariel Owners. I have been a member 40 years next year!!

Martin · Post: # 66335Post **Martin** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:30 pm

The quick one! - excellent - as a kid, one lived just round the corner from me, and sounded great when gunned up the hill! If I remember right, they marketed it as being revolutionary because of the welded "backbone construction" - since adopted worldwide!

And when tuning them, some people put the heads on "back to front".........I can smell the 2 stroke now!

Granny in Wales · Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:32 pm

Martin · Post: # 66337Post **Martin** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:35 pm

bagsie a spin on it when it's fettled!

Granny in Wales · Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:36 pm

if you have a licence...

Mamabiff · Post: # 66352Post **Mamabiff** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 6:58 am

Hello everyone! I am a newbie from New Zealand! I am very happily married and have four children-a daughter 13 and sons aged 11, 6 and almost 2! We live happily in suburbia with a narrow not-quite 1/4 acre section. We have three little bantam hens(so far)one of which has just started laying. Still Winter here but we a gearing up for a self-sufficientish lifestyle with new gardens planned for spring based loosely on Linda Woodrow's mandela system (downsized!). We are complete learners actually! Today I bought my first lot of potatoes to ready for planting once sprouted. Very exciting! *waves*

Granny in Wales · Wed Jul 25, 2007 7:08 am

Hi Mama nice to make your acquaintance..!!

red · Post: # 66363Post **red** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 8:47 am

hi there mamabiff
welcome

Millymollymandy · Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:18 pm

Hello Mamabiff and welcome!

Peggy Sue · Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:30 pm

May need a duck psychologist too! Are you sure they are ducks! May be they have rabies!!