What do we talk about every night

09 Jul 2015 - 4 comments | Translate title into English

Is a question we get asked,well it's not earth shattering.
Jenny kicked off with a report about the shopping she had delivered,shopping is always a good subject for us with bargains to discuss. This led on to cooking and a little of how I learned to make more varied meals than the standard fare. Recipes brought Ceefax to mind for Jenny and finding recipes on it. This then lead to copying recipes for friends which had to be done on a typewriter with carbon paper. Jenny said the girls used to put streaks in their hair if the were natural blondes by rubbing it with carbon paper. Jenny's isn't and hers turned a funny green I think it was. Of course this lead on to the vivid colour the young women have their hair dyed today being talked about and how much we both like them.

Somehow this lead to Mandi complaining to Jenny it was too hot at 41c-105.8 f while Jenny was a lot colder at 16c-60.8 f. and Mandi's cats attempts to keep cool. From there we somehow got to Tupperware containers and this lead to other early kitchen gadgets. I remembered the chipper a gadget you put a peeled potato in pulled down a lever and a guillotine type thing sliced the spud into chips. Very high tech for it's day. Self assembly furniture was the next subject and Jenny rather alarmingly gave a single humming noise,as though she has another job lined up for me
Street life was next a web site to keep in touch with events in your area,people offering the services for small jobs are wanting somebody to do a chore for a few hours a week etc.
I gave Jenny lots of brownie points when she told me she had mopped the hallway. She uses a mild bleach solution and of course this reminded me of the way cats really get excited my bleached floors and roll about on them rather like a dog in mud.
On to the big cycle tour in France which we were still discussing when the gong went and it was time to say goodbye until tonight. Not very exciting stuff but it keeps our simple minds alert.These are just the bare bones of the subjects we have wander off many times.
We will have another raft of subjects turn up tonight along with the reoccurring ones like food,cats and the weather.

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Bee Orchid

I think it's great that you can both find so much to talk about. I chat on the phone with my friend 3 or 4 times a week, and our conversations are just as varied if not earth shattering. The only topic not allowed last night was politics as I was close to having an episode lol.
I occasionally think about getting my hair died a nice colour such as purple, but I always chicken out, especially when I see how things can go wrong and how some people are highly allergic to the hair dye. Just my luck, I'd be one of them! We used to have a male student who had long, bright blue hair, and another male student who wore long skirts. We get all sorts here...

9 years ago.

Stormlizard ^club

I do exactly the same with my friends on the other side (Eastern side) of the globe, often getting group chats going all using video cams as seeing is good when talking. we use Skype, but in the early days when Skype was typing only we combined it with CQ Phone for the visual part. when a user sets it up correctly nobody can jump in and disturb and they guarantee absolute privacy. In all civilised countries nobody can listen in, and in any case they'd need one hell of a lot of agents to do so. What goes on in North Korea, China and USA may well be very different.

As you say we talk about any and everything under the sun with one thing never mentioned of course.

9 years ago.

Jenny McIntyre ^club

Oh my - I had to giggle when I read this - we really do go 'off piste' don't we when we talk. We digress so often, but we often get back to the original topic if we have time. I am still amazed when the alarm goes off - it hardly seems to be an hour - we are lucky that we enjoy talking about similar things. Don't forget Tour de France was one of the topics we talked about tonight. LOL

9 years ago.

Stormlizard ^club has replied to Jenny McIntyre ^club

Going from one to the next is probably very normal Jenny, one does the same even when sitting face to face in the same room or restaurant.

I know some of my here to Japanese group meetings often included friends from Taiwan, Thailand and China with the odd Korean at times. We would begin on Friday night and end on Sunday evening coming in and leaving now and then to make food or eat etc. The subjects were very varied and went as you say back and forth often never reaching any specific end to where we began.

9 years ago.

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