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Buddy ell....chatted to sis, she said to phone NHS Direct to ask when I will be OK and infection free

Cripes, just come off phone with them..........had a full verbal medical over the phone and waiting for a call back from a nurse to advise me

:-0

Glad you are feeling a little better Ginns <3

You are right not to go to the hospital yet as you would do a lot more harm than good :-( :-( - You will be able to visit again soon.

Hope your evening with 'the gang' goes well.

Dea Xxx

Morning all~~~~~

Thanks for the tea Cyns, just what I needed, three cups!

Not been with it this week so please forgive me everyone if I have ignored/missed your comments and natter. Today, I just feel like I have a bad cold, which is an improvement on the last week

Pitty Red Nose day is not today......I have the best one every :-0

Tammy arrived from NY last night, was supposed to be meeting up today but there is no way I can go to meet her and sis, I am still infectious :-(

Friday gang are coming tonight, they asked if it was OK and to be quite honest, I am going stir crazy so the company will be most welcome....take away me thinks

No 2 son coming up for a cuppa later, that will be nice, he is bringing his exam results from his first year at Uni

Just going to give sis a ring, might give her daughter my laptop so she can call me on Skype, I sure as heck wont get to see her this weekend, cant risk infection, especially to the others on the ward who are on Chemo

Good morning all :-)

Thank you for the bacon barmcake Cynths - It is delicious <3 <3

Everyone else must be asleep :-0

Dea x

Good morning all :-D


:-S :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S Sylvs? Wherefore art thou? :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S :-S


I'll bet she's nattering on the other side. ;-)


Must get the kettle on.....Gins will need a cup of tea to help make up for all the dehydration she has suffered with that bad cold.

Just looking in the fridge to see what is on offer...


ahhhh.........bacon eggs sausages tomatoes grapefruit

That will get us going!

In the cupboard ........ cereals porridge

Plenty of bread, rolls, barm cakes and croissants


Coffee coming right up folks!! :-D


Hopefully a nice easy day today.......hopefully :-)

Cynthia Just looked at that link that film is older than me :-D


Gins sorry you are still feeling rotten <3 <3

OH has gone to get his eyes tested, for new glasses after the cataracts have been replaced.


He's got his long vision back, but is going to get glasses that vary from reading to plain, so that he doesn't have to keep taking them on and off ........


.... and losing them!

I can remember having a crush on Burt Lancaster after seeing him in The Crimson Pirate :-D


Not the best of his movies .................. and a comedy



I remember there was a scene where the pirate ship was sunk, and all hands lost ............... until the next scene were you saw an upturned boat walking out of the sea on the sand of a tropical island


yep, Burt Lancaster's character + others had ended u[p underneath the overturned boat, and had walked along the sea bed to the island, breathing in the air from an air bubble



Quite illogical when you think about it!


but he was quite the hunk :-D :-D :-D


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044517/

or wikipedia .........


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crimson_Pirate

hi all
xxx



heavy rain today ............ 20 mm

and even heavier overnight ................ 40 mm forecast

:-( :-( :-(


s
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So he was - I'd forgotten about that. Silly me....... ;-)



Just back home from a Lent evening service and straight into my jamas.....bliss. :-D

Still feeling pants Linds.....

Charlton Heston was a gun campaigner in 'real' life Cyns......sigh

Where are you all hiding? Poor Fred was on page 2 :-(

I loved Burt Lancaster and I is only a youngster ;-)

Gins hope you are both feeling better <3

El Cid was another with Sophia Loren.No strong acting though.

Now most of Burt Lancaster was a strong character well acted.
I recomend The Train opposite Paul Scholdfied.
I recomend Run Silent Run Deep opposite Clarke Gable
I recomend Vera Cruz opposite Clarke Gable
And From Here to Eternity opposie Frank Sinatra and Montgomery Clift

Sounds as though you had a gem in Gladys Jonesey......... <3

As far as gems go, my favourite is always the 'rough diamond' and I've known and loved a few of them in my time :-D






Charlton Heston with guns? He certainly didn't have guns in The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur or The Agony and the Ecstasy. ;-)

Actually, when you look at the list of his films, it makes one realise how many great films he was in. He turned his hand to all sorts of genre.

Cyn,

I can't remember whether or not I gave Gladys a raise but I doubt it as I used Ebenezer Scrooge as my business roll model. ;-)

Gladys was a lovely individual. My business partner and I inherited her as part of the fixtures and fittings when we bought our first shop in 1985. She had worked for the previous owners since they started the business some 12 years earlier. By the time we first encountered her she was a middle aged widow. Whilst not blessed with good looks she was honest, reliable and genuine, attributes ideal in a shop assistant. She lived close to the shop and each lunchtime she would go home to eat and to attend to the needs of her companion, a little Yorkshire Terrier. When she returned she would bring with her a "Treat" for my business partner and myself, either a KitKat, a cake or a slice of homemade Bread Pudding.

During the first few months of our owning the business my business partner and myself were always tinkering with the layout of the shop and constantly moving items of stock into different locations within the shop in the hope that it would sell better in its new spot. If such a movement had been made whilst Gladys had been having her lunch our first task (After first consuming our "Treat") was to re-educate Gladys. Had we not done so then when asked by a customer for the item Gladys would have taken the customer to the spot where it had been for the past 12 years and not finding it there would tell the customer, "They've stopped selling it".

If Gladys had a fault it was that she was a bit clumsy. Amongst the many different things we sold were fancy goods such as china figurines, flower vases and tea sets ect. These were often displayed on shelves in the window display area to attract the eye of passers by. Over the years Gladys cost us many hundreds of pounds by reaching into the display to retrieve a trinket worth say £5 and whilst doing so she would knock over and break other things worth much more. On one occasion I recall she managed to destroy well over £100 of stock in one go. Eventually we had to ban her from either putting anything in to or removing anything from the window display, insisting that she get another staff member to reach into the window display for her.

I never got to say goodbye to Gladys. She, like me, didn't like going to visit her doctor. She had obviously been unwell for some time but had done nothing about it. I went on holiday in the USA for 3 weeks and whilst I was away Gladys was diagnosed with cancer of the liver, hospitalised and died. RIP Gladys.

His name was Burton Stephen,
but Burt sounds better(?)

Not his Mother,his Grand Mother was an immigrant to New York from Belfast

It's verty late for you to be up Sylvs :-0

Thank you for breakfast <3

Dea x

could have been this one


The Devil's Disciple is a 1959 film adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw play of the same title.

The Anglo-American film was directed by Guy Hamilton who replaced Alexander Mackendrick[2] and starred Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and Laurence Olivier. Mary Grant designed the film's costumes.

Of course I have heard of all of them except the Victor geezer?

Charlton Heston........he's the one with the guns :-|