General Chat

Well some things are in the genes. ;) My mum's current two cats are ferals from my sister's back yard -- a mother and daughter. My sister has two daughters from two previous litters, before they managed to catch the mother. Who lived under my mother's bed for a few years before deciding the life of a housecat really did beat living in a barn in February in northcentral Ontario, and it might not be a bad idea to come out and get petted occasionally. But only when no eek! strangers are there.

And all the daughters have taken to licking all the fur off their lower bellies and bums, giving them the appearance of baboons, even though they were reared in separate households from birth. I was telling my nieces it reminded me of those monkey colonies that learned how to use a particular tool at just about the same time, even though they lived on islands separated by vast stretches of ocean and had not had contact in many generations.

My poor mum. She actually can't quite figure out how she produced such an oddball bunch of kids. (You think I'm obnoxious, you should meet *all* my sibs.) All her friends' kids are normal. It's those Y chromosome genes.

One is talking about the cats in one's central paragraph , isn't one??? Please???? ;))))) Cx.

One assumed one's gentle readers would not be so vulgar as to think otherwise. ;)

Granted, when the penultimate paragraph is read with the one succeeding it ...........................

One is greatly relieved to hear it. I was feeling so sorry for your poor mum....mind you, perhaps I still am!! :)) Cx.

I was going to say that there is little chance of me getting an e-mail from my Mum. She can't even come to terms with a mobile phone, or her all singing all dancing tele. Plus she has tried e-mail once before but needed a neighbour with her.

Then today I got a phone call what's your e-mail addy so I told her and she passed me on to some nice chap and he said we have already tried that address. and do you have Skype.
Yes said me but I have taken it off PC but will put it back on ....ermmm can mother use Skype? No said the nice chap not at the moment ! but I will teach her. Crikey I hate to think how old he will sound by the time she's learnt !

Then I got an e-mail saying she had your surname wrong !!!

Oh well it was the thought that counted.
So Janey you are to blame for my Mum now contacting me on e-mail lol

Hahaha. I think the oldies may be plotting a coup. ;)

I'd watch out for that nice young man. Next thing you know he'll have her downloading do-it-yourself will forms ... but then, as you say, she might still outlive him!

Janey he sounded such a nice boy ......

and hopefully mothers will is well lodged, sh*t will have to keep a check on that lol.

Oh boy here we go again ..Dear Mum why don't you sell up and move to Spain you can buy here and put it in my name, no sharing of offsprings that way, or no need for you to worry about NIE numbers.

Sod I think you could be right about a coup, I have just remembered telling Mum about her ancestors and she was really interested ( for once, after I had found the dirty details out ! )

Gawd nooooo
new letter
dear GR please do not let my mother join

lolololololol

she sounds brilliant - and she is right not to trust social workers - I couldn't agree more!! good on her and long may she put finger to keyboard!!! You are your mother's daughter - no question Janey!!!!

Ann o' GG - taking a break from your overheated social life? ;) You're an example to us all in every way!

I haven't heard anymore from her since. She's probably out triumphantly driving around.


I must say hello to AuntyS whom I seem to have ignored. You just puzzled me with that running in the family stuff. Have you died recently and neglected to inform us??

You're right. I do treasure, and I have no idea what life will be like some day without.

~~~~~ to Janey from Aunty.

re my neglect of informing of my demise.......

Entry on marriage cert and military papers FW Hill, "parents deceased, orphaned early".

No I am still alive and kicking.

And I am so relieved you qualified your mention of the daughters exfoliating their bellies. I was rushing to google the Canadian yeti stories, just in case.

Social worker update!

Oh -- my mother has a collection of china shoes that occupies about 3 shelves of her living room wall unit. These ones (in various shades of blue, and some yellow ones, about 6 inches long):

http://cdn2.ioffer.com/img/item/145/030/217/gX8Avng1KAgK1KL.jpg

Collected from her travels to flea markets and antique shops around the continent with my dad.

Oh, and the difference between us is: a social worker would walk into my living room and start filling out the forms for me to be put into sheltered housing.

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No not the drivers test - the senior's test! Drivers test is next week.

I was nice to the social worker. She came an hour late - walked into the living room and said what a nice place you have and seemed a little befuddled.

Then she said she did'nt know why she was here! That made two of us. She looked around briefly, said everything was fine,apoligised for wasting my time, admired the shoe collection, apoligised again and left.

Apparently the same thing happened with Ron down the hall almost word for word. APOLOGIZED!!!!! sorry.

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I see she's discovered the caps key ........

Ooooh, I get it. She'd misspelled "apologise" twice, so then she typed it right and said sorry.

My mum is in Portugal - went out there in her 60's was meant to be back in Britain in her 70's.
80 this month. Never seen a health worker etc in her life!
Sister & I sent some lovely photo's of houses for sale in the West Country to her - are we hinting too much? lol

Wot maggie, you haven't invited her to move in with you??

;)

That's nice

I've got 3 cats (all non-aggressive), she's got an uncontrollable bdly behaved huge dog - so no!
Besides which - she wouldn't want to move in with me, I only have one bathroom!
One brother lives in a flat, and the other also has a cat - but 1 bathroom.
My sister, however has 1 cat, but it's a stroppy aggressive piece of work, but she also has 2 bathrooms ;o)

I love my mum dearly and can't imagine life without her but I couldn't live with her. She fusses too much and I'm too "not fussy" for her.

Sue xx