General Chat

I buy gooseberries here and they are really tart - no hairs on them at all. Maybe some one cleans them first?

I also eat Cape gooseberries - which come in their little jackets. My dad would make them into jam.
We also get baby kiwifruit and I thought that was what you meant as they have hair on them and are the size of a grape.

Persey

Allan why do I find it hysterically funny that you were arrested in a Red Light District - we don't have one of those in this village.

Not even any traffic lights.

Tec.

Persey - I was once a supervisor in a factory dedicated to cleaning the hairs off gooseberries. We had miniature tweezers and hand-picked each hair off the fruit. We hired a little old lady whose job it was to sweep up the hairs and deposit them into a vat which was then taken down the road to a furniture factory and used to stuff sofas. It wasn't great money but it paid the bills.

Sue xx

Allan, I am not sure we can condone having criminals on this thread!!!

Sue..........

Are you pulling my leg?

Tec

Yes:-))

Sue xx

Yep I remember her well Sue - they made palliasses at the factory.

Linda......

I've also been arrested - and spent the night in a Military Police cell.

Then escorted onto a train............another criminal.

Tec.

Tec, of course Sue was pulling your leg!!

They used a razor.

Dont't worry, Linda, I'm a reformed character now, dedicated to saving fallen women

I've saved a couple for myself and a mate for next Saturday Night!

Allan

Hello Persey

I knew a bloke that bred Levretts......it was a hare-raising experience

Allan

My goodness! Who am I associating with?????

Linda - how much of that champagne have you been handing out????

:-))) Allan.

Persey - you know the factory then? Of course the old lady has passed away now - she had a hair-raising experience:-))

Sue xx

Not fair - should've known Allan would use that pun first.

That was her alopecia that did that!!!

Psychologically speaking, the more outrageous the lie, the greater the depth of belief :0))

Allan (ex-convict 99)

Goodness indeed Berona, I bet non of the ladies on this thread have ever been arrested!

I have certainly not been arrested. I'm having a battle trying to find a convict in my family tree!

The best I can do so far, is my gr/grandmother's brother, who helped himself to someone else's brass tap and was sent to Tassie for seven years.

They get less than that for murder these days.

Never, Linda. I remember when my eldest boy was about 17 and he and a friend witnessed someone they knew stealing a car. They told the friend's mother who rang the police. A few days later my son was asked to go down to the police station to give a witness statement - his friend had already done that. My son missed out on going to another friend's house for a bbq and when he'd finished he rang to see if he could still go over. This friend's parents said no and wouldn't allow him or his friend to go to the house ever again because they had been "involved" with the police. They even took their son out of my OH's football team.

Sue xx

What silly people Sue.

Berona OH's convict was more up market. He stole a silver watch, then pawned it in his own name. He was sent to Tassie for ten years

Well this Thread has soon descended into a Den of Iniquity and a Refuge for all who seek to evade the forces of Law and Order :0))

Allan

Excuse me Allan, I have never been in a den of iniquity in my life. Are you offering to arrange a coach trip for us?