James Bondish

[swedeheart]

Trying to recall a television series from my childhood. This would have been in the late sixties or early seventies. Can't say if it was American or British and the only clue I've got for you is that every episode started with the hero listenig to his new assignment on a cassette tape which always ended with the words "this tape will self-destruct within thirty seconds" - something along those lines. Driving me crazy!

TIA (back tonight to say thanks to anyone who's been able to put me out of my misery, as it were:)

[LoftyLottie]

Try again

http://www.mtv.co.uk/...467-back-to-front-arm

[woofgang]

proof,Lottie, the person is an alien!!!
Phew what a scorcher today!! just sticky and nasty. Mind you it was lovely out at 5am this morning with the dogs. Rab's first run since he hurt himself...he just vanished into the distance then came flying back grinning.
Sis comes back on thurs, we are hoping that DH will be well enough to leave for a while to go to London (craft event) he is insistent that we go, I am not so sure....but I do fuss.

[Robinia]

well if the rest of you copied Amy's other party trick I'm sure you were very popular Lottie!

[shaneystar2]

My old friend Jean used to sew my knitting up for me but alas she's no longer around to do it for me .
I did try bribing my niece who did say she would do it but she's another one you have to wait about three years for :))
My sis in law and her sister sewed up loads of squares I'd knitted .I suppose I should have slipped the jumper into the bag of squares .I'll go begging with it with the next lot of squares .I can't sew for toffee !

[LoftyLottie]

Ha, ha Robi!!

Woofy, I know just how you feel. After Mr Lottie's heart attack it took me ages to feel relaxed when he was out of my site. Even when he took the dog out for a walk I was all of a dither. It will pass. Make Mr Woofy have a mobile phone by his side and make him promise to phone you immediately should he feel unwell. Poor Mr Lottie had to abide by these instructions for well over six months!!

[LoftyLottie]

I have crocheted some things up rather than sew them, Shaney, especially squares. Much quicker. Do you crochet?

[LoftyLottie]

Out of my 'sight' of course!!

[swedeheart]

Evening. We've had two smashing days here, rain tomorrow they say. I went for a little walk to a small park nearby where people like to sit on blankets on the lawn around the pond. There was a beautiful cat on a long lead, one of those cats that look like a lynx. I asked his people could I pat him and they said yes but the cat just turned and walked away from me, the way cats do. "He knows how handsome he is", his Mummy explained, ha ha ha, I laughed at that. Later I sat on a bench and a sparrow jumped up to me from behind, the way they approach when you're eating something, only, I wasn't, and he came VERY close, for a while there I thought he would sit in my lap! Strange but nice. (Guess he didn't know he was handsome:)

Do any of you have problems with your cursor on this site? Mine often seems to live its own life on here, i.e. it doesn't move across the screen the way you would expect it to, given the moves you make your mouse do. Is it all the flash ads?

Shaney I don't enjoy the sewing bit but the mattress stitch seam is kind of neat when you get it right... and I only get it right, I hasten to add, when the yarn isn't too dark. But with a bright, bulky yarn it's sheer magic http://www.wonderhowt...titch-seam-4579/view/

[Jude123]

That's fantastic Kit I wish I could do things as neat as that. I can knit ok but haven't ever known how to do that stitch. I can crochet too. In fact I like crocheting better than knitting and have made quite a few things. I'm absolutely rubbish at sewing. I can sew a button on and simple things but that's it.

Neti just finished watching Spain get through to the quarter finals.

Still haven't done my table. Thanks for the instructions Vin. Very helpful (she said sarcastically). If you were a gentleman you'd come and do it for me! :)

Have a good time with your sis Woofy. Hope the weather stays fine for you but a bit cooler than today. We could do with a drop of rain over night.

[Jude123]

I forgot to say I've see 'Maggie' today as I do every Tuesday and I told her that you were asking after her. She says she is fine thankyou but she has lots of outside interests and her family to keep her occupied and doesn't get much time to come on her PC. She is on face book though so I can email anybody her name if you let me know if you would like to contact her.

Off to make my cocoa now having a change from Horlicks no sugar in real cocoa

Have a good night all and take care. See yer later 'gater(s) x

[swedeheart]

I'll pass on the Facebook offer as I'm not too active there anymore but thanks for saying hello to Maggie for us, Jude:) Re. knitting, the mattress stitch wouldn't be applicable to sewing a sleeve on, of course. There is no end to how much I love Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Knitting Book. The illustrations are extremely clear and they explain lots of different seams, how to do it, when to use it - I'd probably rush back in to save this book if there was a fire ha ha ha http://store.voguekni...te-knitting-book.aspx

[shaneystar2]

I've got several knitting books Kit that show you different sorts of various ways of sewing stuff up but me and sewing just don't get on .I hated it a school.We had a viscious teacher who used to hit me over the knuckles because I couldn't tack straight .
I just don't have the patience for it .You can guarantee that if I thread a needle with a bit of cotton a knot will appear in it as if by magic:)
Yet my Mum could look at a dress in a shop window and go home,cut out a a pattern and run the same thing up on her sewing machine .
The last thing I crocheted was pram blankets donkey years ago !
I bet you if I were to try that matress stitch I'd make a right pigs ear of it .My Mum used to sew my knitting up ,then Jeannie .I'm sure my sis in law will do it for me :)) But that's the last jumper I've knitted . I'll stick to little things now like socks :)

Well done Spain Neti :)

[VINNY100_2]

This is getting so 1930s dears..!its 15 years to the war ..all them bootifull people were drinking and dancing.doing the charlston(ive been groovin with mr blo)(:O)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJC21zzkwoE
pure magic..!

[shaneystar2]

Have you been practicing your Blackbottom Vinny :)

[VINNY100_2]

shaney..im the original flapper..(:O)Ive gotta hit the sack...catch youes guys late.vin xxx

[Robinia]

Vinny I told you not to post that film of me dancin'...hahaha, brilliant!

Erm, a friend of mine sometimes sent for things from catalogues, studied & made a basic pattern & sent them back, tut....I'd never do that of course...<ahem>..

Jude whatever happened to that catalogue of handymen you used to have? have you worn them out?
I've only got two friends on Facebook, <sob>...(no, it's ok, that's all I want), my sons. It's so I can keep tabs on them. I think Ozzy is drinking them dry down there... while he can, haha.

[LoftyLottie]

I can do the Charleston - well I could before me rheumatics set in!! I used to love dancing, it's something I miss so much. Mr Lottie never was interested :o(

As for sewing, I used to make all my own clothes way back when I was so interested in clothes and wanted different things from everybody else. I even used to make tailored and lined suits and evening dresses. Completely self taught. Nowadays I can't even be bothered to take a hem up!

I think I might take up crocheting again in the winter. I prefer it to knitting, although I used to knit very complicated things.

I have just got plain lazy, apart from in the garden where I could spend all day fiddling about (and falling over).

I tried to awaken an old interest in painting a year or so ago, but the enthusiasm just isn't there anymore. I used to love painting and drawing.

I need to focus my mind a bit more - perhaps a degree in nuclear science!!!!

Nite nite xx

[netibiza]

Morning all, my dad was a master tailor so luckily he taught me a lot, but I've always hated sewing machines and used to make things entirely by hand stitching. In my teens I made a lovely blue trouser suit, with long jacket all by hand, it only took a couple of days and lasted a long while. I remember sitting watching the 1966 world cup final and sewing a black print dress (by hand) and my dad showed me how to sew in a sleeve so I sat there for hours doing it and beggar me it was inside out when I had done it, still nil desperandum, I then took another few hours unpicking it and reinserting it, cos I wanted to wear it that night! Mum taught us all knitting and smocking but I couldn't the too bothered with that.

[netibiza]

PS. dad only used a treadle sewing machine which I could not get on with as my feet would run away with me and the stitching went everywhere. I'm pretty much the same with my electric one!

[netibiza]

I can't crochet, I start off and it gets smaller and rounder and ends up looking like a knitted cup!