Silly Woman

[bigmarco]

Went for something to eat in Kensington High Street tonight and this is not a popular woman with her fellow Filipina Housekeepers. Not one has any sympathy for her.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/housekeeper-is-jailed-for-stealing-painting-8392479.html

[lastlid]

Went for something to eat in Kensington High Street tonight and this is not a popular woman with her fellow Filipina Housekeepers. Not one has any sympathy for her.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/housekeeper-is-jailed-for-stealing-painting-8392479.html

Do you live there Marco? Near the museums and that?

Knightsbridge just up the road.....popping in to Harrods for lunch?

I used to pop into Harrods for lunch as I worked next door for a while. I bought One of These Nights from there by the Eagles, when it first came out.

[bigmarco]

Do you live there Marco? Near the museums and that?

Knightsbridge just up the road.....popping in to Harrods for lunch?

I used to pop into Harrods for lunch as I worked next door for a while. I bought One of These Nights from there by the Eagles, when it first came out.

I wish Lid. No we were doing a bit of Christmas shopping. There is a hell of a lot of Filipina's in that area as they are very popular Housekeepers/Nannys. We were having dinner with Ida this evening who is the Housekeeper for Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck. There is also a Catholic Church on the high street that very popular with them.

[lastlid]

I wish Lid. No we were doing a bit of Christmas shopping.

Well, even if you are just visiting, you are quite lucky to be able to do that. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[bigmarco]

Well, even if you are just visiting, you are quite lucky to be able to do that. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

Not in Harrods I hasten to add. :NoNo::NoNo: Out of my league

[lastlid]

Not in Harrods I hasten to add. :NoNo::NoNo: Out of my league

:biggrin:

Our office was next door, literally. It was in the days of luncheon vouchers so I sometimes, not always, spent them in the foodhall there.

[bigmarco]

:biggrin:

Our office was next door, literally. It was in the days of luncheon vouchers so I sometimes, not always, spent them in the foodhall there.

Haha Luncheon Vouchers we're definitely showing our age. 15p a day when I first started getting them :biggrin:

[lastlid]

Yes. I gather they stopped Luncheon Vouchers donkeys years ago.

Just read the article on the stolen painting. Silly woman.

My fondest memories of (South) Kensington was the museums. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[Pete/London]

Haha Luncheon Vouchers we're definitely showing our age. 15p a day when I first started getting them :biggrin:

That made me laugh, that must make me really ancient, 2/6 or half a crown when I first had them:yikes:

[Pete/London]

:biggrin:

Our office was next door, literally. It was in the days of luncheon vouchers so I sometimes, not always, spent them in the foodhall there.

I spent a year refurbishing a house in Beaufort Gardens in 1971/2 and there was a nice pub just around the corner in Brompton Road, I think it was the Plumbers arms or Builders arms, something like that, but a really nice pub.
Celebrated the birth of my daughter there.
Harrods was on the next corner.

[Arthur Little]

That made me laugh, that must make me really ancient, 2/6 or half a crown when I first had them:yikes:

Ah ... :wink: ... those were the days, my friend. Do you remember when it was possible to buy a 3-course Chinese meal + coffee for 4/-?

[lastlid]

I spent a year refurbishing a house in Beaufort Gardens in 1971/2 and there was a nice pub just around the corner in Brompton Road, I think it was the Plumbers arms or Builders arms, something like that, but a really nice pub.
Celebrated the birth of my daughter there.
Harrods was on the next corner.

I think it was Hans Crescent we were in. It was in 1975. When all the bombs were going off across London.

[andy222]

Yes read the article and I am not surprised the other filipinas have shunned her. She is giving them a bad name.

[Pete/London]

Ah ... :wink: ... those were the days, my friend. Do you remember when it was possible to buy a 3-course Chinese meal + coffee for 4/-?

"Mary Hopkin" said that Arthur :biggrin:
3 piece suit made to measure for 21 guineas :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[Michael Parnham]

Crikey Arthur, I remember my first wage as an apprentice mechanic, £1-10 shillings per week.

[lastlid]

Crikey Arthur, I remember my first wage as an apprentice mechanic, £1-10 shillings per week.

You are lucky that you can remember. I cant. :biggrin:

[Michael Parnham]

Lastlid, I can remember being in my pushchair in my Grandma's back yard when I was two years old watching Lancaster bombers flying low overhead after going or returning to or from battle, also I remember having Tripe & onions with mashed potatoe every saturday dinner time.

[lastlid]

Lastlid, I can remember being in my pushchair in my Grandma's back yard when I was two years old watching Lancaster bombers flying low overhead after going or returning to or from battle, also I remember having Tripe & onions with mashed potatoe every saturday dinner time.

Well a] you have a good memory and b] yes, amazing that you saw the lancaster bombers in action.

I now have the Dambusters theme tune running through my head. :biggrin:

[grahamw48]

I lived in Cranley Gardens, South Ken in 1970, and then Gloucester Road/junction with Cromwell Rd in 1971. :smile:

I remember it was 5p between close stations on the underground, and if you knew where to get off, you could go all the way from S.Ken to Hendon for 5p and then hitch up the M1 or A1 home to Yorkshire for nowt. :biggrin:

Otherwise it would have been £3 single for the train to York. :cwm24:

[Michael Parnham]

Quite ironic you mention Dam Busters, my father was in the RAF during the second world war, and he was based in kent under Guy Gibson, he was given the job of painting the bombs and the girls also sharks teeth on most of the aircraft before being assigned to Egypt on duty at Suez.