General Chat

Morning all
Still very dark here
Managed a Valentines card with Little M yesterday
Today I am looking to see when chinese New Year is and do some crafts connected to that.

Well the photos of my son have gone off with his photographer friend, the last 30 years, waiting to see what he does with them. It was good going back through the albums. Not often we look at the old photos is it. Made me realise how seldom I took pictures of him on his own. He was usually with either his older oor younger sister. There are lots of him holding babies too, either his cousins, all are younger than him............... or various minded children. Yes I do remember most of the little ones. Though fortunately I do tend to name and date most of my photos too. A habit I developed as Mum has so many pictures with no names at all. She had 6 of us and hard to decide which child is which sometimes, especially when we were in prams which all look similar.

Well off to make a cup of tea.

Have a good day everyone

Hope all is OK with your husband Maddie

Linda :o) XxX

Last off and first on!!

Morning all.

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Cupper for everyone, but you'll have to make your own breakfast, I'm too busy.

Now how did that happen? I wasn't finished typing and my post just vanished, but it's here. I didn't click 'Submit', so how did it get here?

Hope everything is OK Maddie.

Enjoy your book Pat.

Don't forget to tell us what the surprise was Rita.

Marilyn, are you signing out after you put your little man on?

I think it's definitely time to put him on your gravestone thread Shelly.

Cath, if you've got thyroid problems............ join the clan, there's a few of us on here with that problem.

We have been to the hospital today. OH had to have some tests.

Stressed out and tired.

Going to bed.

Maddie
x

Rita, I hope Rebecca likes her surprise.
I've just been watching Glee on E4.
Come back Stephen................and Fluffy Paws x
I'm going to bed now and read for about an hour.

Marilyn
your little old man went on holiday met a girl and got married so you will have to get another one in his place. I dont like the long tittle you have now
Maybe it was Stephen who encouraged the little man in the first place..

I logged on as it is my Granddaughter Rebecca 17th birthday tomorrow she thinks she has a couple of books and driving lesson for her birthday she will get a surprise..
not saying what. she might read this Lol

Just had a friend phone me from Norfolk she wanted me to go up to her for my birthday. I told her it was nice of her. but I am not able to I have so many hospitals l appointments.. I had to tell her about Mike she was so upset she was my best friend in Norfolk..we went everywhere together.

Off to bed in a little while.
Nite
Rita
x

Shelly ,


I'm trying to get him back.....but its not working ..LOL

I might have to create another Little Man .

Hi Cathrine ...

Going to watch telly now all about babies !!

marilyn you need to hurry and find him or im going to put him on my grave stine thread

Lets start a campaign to bring back missing friends like Stephen and Marilyns little man, lol, and not forgetting Fluffy Paws

Cath xx

testing again..

testing ......looking for my little man ...LOL

Edit ...Nope that didn't work ..

Dermot your bird stories are really great.you have to have a little laugh at the descriptions you give. you can picture them all just doing as you have said.
I lived in Norfolk for 22 years and we had so many different birds about.I use to stand on the clift with my dog and watch them coming across the sea. I carried a little" I Spy book "and they had drawings of the birds so I noted them down. I had a book on" Seals! as well I did a seal watch for the Marine museum and noted down where they were? how close to the beach they were ? how many were in the group? and the date and time.?
I had to report two dead ones. one day they had been shot in the head. and left to die on the beach, I phoned from the beach box and waited till the men arrived to deal with it. not nice.
I find myself connecting with your birds in the fields having farms around me as well
carry on please.?

Pat when you dont have the morden equipemt to use it comes hard. have you every been in one of the stores ? when the elctric or computor Tills have gone down. they shut the shop as the girls cannot add up. ? many times that happend to me. M & S in Great Yarmouth was the worse many a time I have had to leave my shopping basket on the table because of this.

Rita

Evening all,
great stuff Dermot keep it coming. Really enjoying reading your stories.
Well folks have stronger anti-inflammatories to try and ease knee pain while I wait for another x-ray appointment. Also need tests for thyroid trouble which is news to me.
Marilyn how is the troublesome tooth?
Rita you sure have been busy.
Hope everyone is ok
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ to Stephen

Cath xx

I thought the earliest Stephen would be back was tomorrow which is incidently Burn's Night!
I've cranked the fire up and I treated myself to Fish and Chips. It makes Mondays seem an awful lot nicer.

Pauline I brought the Maps from Brent Archives last time I was there
Old Ordance Survey Maps dated 1894 . i looked the prices on line and they were twice the price paid two years ago for old maps of Willesden.

Rita

Dermots stories of our bird life is great. Most of our birds around here are scavenging pigeons.
The darned things sit on the roof's of our local shopping centre, hanging their bottoms over the edge, and do their business on any passing shopper.
The last time it happened to me, I bought a lottery ticket thinking it would be lucky, but guess what, no such luck, just a dirty coat for my troubles.
Keep up the good work Dermot, but can we please have some more of your childhood escapades as well. Living where you did,must have
held such excitement for you.

I wonder how Marilyn got on at the dentists today, and also Pete at the hospital.

Cooee to Stephen~~~~~~~~~not forgetting you.

I hope everyone is o.k, and that all the workers are now home in the warm.

evening pat and pauline

Hi everyone,
An interesting day at work! A digger went through a cable in the vicinity of where I work. Consequently the phones went off and the server went down.
In the afternoon the electricity went off completely. I did my work the old fashioned way-by hand! The leccy came back about 4pm.
Dermot,your description of birds is amazing.
When I was in Lemington Spa for a visit I saw swans and geese on the pond in the park.
I look forward to Bird stories part 5!

Very good Dermot. What do you do for a living, is it anything to do with writing?

If not........... you've wasted a talent.