tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419860268577817026.post1334281502632103593..comments2023-09-13T10:42:31.958+01:00Comments on Blighty: Blighty goes to Morocco and other domestic newsBlightyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17567627987700387034noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419860268577817026.post-44809031483609157682010-10-05T19:25:47.514+01:002010-10-05T19:25:47.514+01:00Blighty, you do make me laugh! Love all the doonas...Blighty, you do make me laugh! Love all the doonas and reading about Grandma's new computer. I don't know what your flower is but I don't think it's a gladioli - you do have a pretty garden though.Living near the seahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02628613990338430084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419860268577817026.post-91773310907549077262010-10-05T00:39:42.739+01:002010-10-05T00:39:42.739+01:00Dear B,
Togs are what we Queenslanders swim in.
W...Dear B,<br />Togs are what we Queenslanders swim in. <br />We sleep under 1200 thread count cotton sheets (however, FF recently advised me that top sheets are the devil's work). Sometimes I do iron the sheets, particularly when essays are due.<br />In August, the last month of winter here (winter in Townsville means it only get up to 24 degrees C maximum), we have an hour a day, between 4 am and 5 am when it drops to 4 degrees C. Then you pull the bedspread up.<br /><br />HOWEVER<br /><br />There are very unfriendly to the environment people here who run their air conditioners all night and have very lightweight doonas to get the wintry sumptiousness of snuggling under the doona. I could be one of them.<br />Townsville doonas are very, very lightweight and despite the heat here they don't have togs. <br /><br />Louise<br />xxxLouisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01129308341122720075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419860268577817026.post-69866259754267126702010-10-04T20:01:49.076+01:002010-10-04T20:01:49.076+01:00Dear Lousie, yes, tog is warmth rating, 4.5 is sum...Dear Lousie, yes, tog is warmth rating, 4.5 is summer, 9 is winter, 10 plus is for very cold places or very chilly people..so what do you use in Townsville? is it soo hot that you all sleep in hammocks on the veranda? or you are soo posh you sleep under freshly ironed linen sheets?<br />A-M - had no idea you had once lived near Watford, what a small world, but i thought you were a musician, what were you doing in a hospital? confused!<br />Dear Linda, i know so well that feeling of running out of puff, I become very sluglike depending on the weather - actually I think slugs like rain, but I don't, rain makes me feel tired.. and it rains here a lot..Blightyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17567627987700387034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419860268577817026.post-45462973373789981822010-10-04T02:50:00.640+01:002010-10-04T02:50:00.640+01:00Hey B. Hi. What's a tog? Townsville is NOT ...Hey B. Hi. What's a tog? Townsville is NOT doona/duvet territory, so I need an explanation. Guessing it has something to do with the heating factor?<br />I actually liked the chook/cock(eral), are you sure it wouldn't be happy in your garden?<br />Louise<br />xxx<br />laughing, laughing, laughing,Louisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01129308341122720075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419860268577817026.post-3539841101222745692010-10-03T21:12:26.967+01:002010-10-03T21:12:26.967+01:00Blighty dear you are too funny and have cheered up...Blighty dear you are too funny and have cheered up my Sunday evening no end! I also have the EXACT same feelings about Primark - have to enter with daughter but get also get sucked into the 'OMG its so inexpensive (ok, CHEAP) must buy' routine and then feel bad. xSemi Expathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12839322243900070800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419860268577817026.post-21815480691148001512010-10-02T08:49:31.362+01:002010-10-02T08:49:31.362+01:00Love the pucci-esque Wallis dress! It's fab! I...Love the pucci-esque Wallis dress! It's fab! I bought three of those tops at Primark two weeks ago - black, red and black and white stripe. for 9 pounds - absolute bargain!<br /><br />I think I need a silk duvet - absolutely decadent. I might have to look into Gingerlily...Miss Kitty-Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15799389451342532485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419860268577817026.post-88421011972272439182010-10-02T02:38:00.082+01:002010-10-02T02:38:00.082+01:00hi blighty,
isn't it fun shopping w/mother? ...hi blighty,<br /><br />isn't it fun shopping w/mother? my mom is passed away now but it was always a strange sort of adventure going out with her.<br /><br />it is so funny to me the differences in the way you brits talk compared to us. a duvet here is what you put over the comforter to protect it from dirt/spills, etc. to action something means to be cooking up a storm in the kitchen and i'm not sure what tat is and valances are curtains. <br /><br />one thing we do have in common is that i def need to get a life too.<br /><br />~janetthe gardener's cottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16447809353998632722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419860268577817026.post-13919214873090932082010-10-02T01:36:17.773+01:002010-10-02T01:36:17.773+01:00Laughing so hard I can hardly type.
I definately ...Laughing so hard I can hardly type.<br /><br />I definately have the same impulse shopping habits Blighty.<br />My new year resolution was to buy only white bed linens. How many white sheets, quilt covers, throw rugs, cushions etc does a family possibly need? Apparently alot my husband informs me. Or language to that effect.<br />But men don't get it do they?<br /><br />You are an absolute scream and I love your blog.<br />Sending hugs (watch your toes)<br />xxAnnie ~ Red Roses and Crystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02054762115763930358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419860268577817026.post-56918743500080728962010-10-02T00:14:40.110+01:002010-10-02T00:14:40.110+01:00Blighty,
Maybe you brought all your duvets from p...Blighty,<br /><br />Maybe you brought all your duvets from planet Dork when you returned. My computer is duly fed and watered.Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13872411319194316039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419860268577817026.post-86910290122505460742010-10-01T23:11:19.928+01:002010-10-01T23:11:19.928+01:00Ha, ha, ha, love the possum in the doonas! Fancy n...Ha, ha, ha, love the possum in the doonas! Fancy not knowing your bin had wheels. Glad you've sorted all that out. I used to shop in Watford, well browse the shops as I was too poor to shop when I was working in Northwood (Mt Vernon hospital)... while we're on the topic of depressing and boring... and heartbreaking... sad hospital.... burns, plastic surgery.. oh stop. Glad Grandma is nurturing her new computer. Russian?... lots of surprises.. don't you love that! A-M xxThe House That A-M Builthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17870752194541203656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419860268577817026.post-4369048970641761222010-10-01T20:51:08.664+01:002010-10-01T20:51:08.664+01:00Dear Mrs Blighty, I am awed by your energy and ind...Dear Mrs Blighty, I am awed by your energy and industry. I loved the trip to Morocco which enabled you to meet school pick up (such organisation skills!) and have the very same problem with what we call doonas (duvets). I have to get mine sorted, cleaned and put away too - in this respect, I am a fan of the Spacebag. One feels a sense of good housewifeliness with a sorted linen closet. However, at present, I am a slug. I have run out of puff which is a worry as my mother-in-law who has taken a dim view of my housekeeping skills in the past and also comments on the girth of Mr LiC while looking at me meaningfully is arriving on Sunday morning. Aussie women born just after the war have very high standards!!! I think that there will a mad and undignified scramble tomorrow morning. However, I am going to a ball tomorrow night so what you lose on the swings you make up on the roundabout...Linda Back in Canberrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00178732122269665163noreply@blogger.com