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25-06-2013, 09:00 PM
Originally Posted by Tangutica 
Very interesting stuff. For all that people moan these days about the nanny state and the welfare state and their 'benefits' and the state of the NHS and so on - and the cries of those who yearn to return too what is often called the 'good old days' the reality would be no clawback easily from poverty - killer smogs - no health service or free doctors - take your pension books away from you and shove your grandchildren up chimneys and down mines to work.
Originally Posted by Eileen Duffy
Were you able to go back very far in your research Bitkin?
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25-06-2013, 09:03 PM
Originally Posted by Tangutica
I must try harder to project my more scholarly and sombre side!
*just get my face straight first!
All this talk of workhouses reminds me of one of my dad's christmas ditties
T'was Christmas day in the work house
The snow was falling fast
We don't want your Christmas pudding
Stick it up your @***
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25-06-2013, 09:04 PM
Originally Posted by Nippy
Thanks for that vote of confidence H but everything I have tried so far just looks c**p. So I'm going to revert to my white trousers and a new top I bought a couple of weeks ago!
Lynn I couldn't make out why cows would be chasing a bird of prey, then re read your post
Hate you Tang!!!!
Lab Lover, does Steve catch fish you can eat? Not so bad if he does. Hope you are not sickening for anything.
Jenny, your outfit sounds lovely. I'm glad your son wasn't injured.
Awww TW isn't that lovely? there are some great peeps on here. I won't embarrass them by asking who it was.
I don't think Abbie knows what she is going to do even now
I have a cracking headache, maybe too much sun
Originally Posted by Lynn
What a lovely surprise June.
Jenny someone thought Dillon was a cow at the weekend while he was in the long grass and they were a distance away. Your son was lucky jenny it could of been a lot worse thank goodness he stopped the lorry and they paid for the damage.
Pat the pool looks lovely I am not jealous. Really.
I had a text from Gill earlier who is on her chemo today. Gorden had some extra work so I couldn't sit Maisie so Peter had to go home again from the hospital after dropping Gill off.
Her cancer marker has gone down to 65 from 2000 and something and she still has 3 more chemo sessions to go.
You must all be so relieved. Long may it continue. ((hugs)). I can't believe someone though Dillon was a cow .... I hope you gave them a quick whack round head
Originally Posted by tawneywolf
Glad you got a card TM, Youngest Son brought mine round on Friday and put some money in for me to go and get my acres of greying mane sorted, so coupled with the Bob Dylan concert I have had a good turn out really. He text me Happy Birthday on the way to Glastonbury, can ask no more really. Hope you get as nice a day on here as I did, you may even save any chocolates you get till the evening, because you are a better person by miles than either I or Tina White is.
Jenny you just reminded me, coming back on the M60 there was this massive bang from a lorry on the inside line and just ahead of me, I thought the engine had exploded, instead this big black piece of STUFF came whizzing up the middle lane just in front of me, I was able to take evasive action, if I had been a couple of seconds earlier I don't know what would have happened. I glanced at the lorry as I went passed and the black stuff was actually a tyre
that had blown, pretty scary as to what COULD have happened. It was round about the area poor Duke was found as well, couldn't help but think about him as I went along that section of motorway this morning.
I should think the statistics in the UK of people being killed by 'flying' objects must be huge. A friend of ours sister was killed on the M40 when a trailer being pulled by a van in front of her came adrift and it hit her. I often think of her when I'm following something being towed. That tyre which had blown out must have been like a flying missile.
Originally Posted by Tangutica
jenny.g
Great news about son's interview. Lucky escape for your other son. Stones hitting screens can be fatal.
Your silk top sounds fabulous. I once opted for separates for a company dinner 'do' at a posh golf club - smart black calf length pencil skirt (high heels - in the days when I could bear them!) and a really pricey white crepe top with sort of frills down front. We had just walked inside the venue when someone approached me and asked about a table! I COULD HAVE DIED they thought I was one the catering staff lol!
You won't have that problem with the chinese style and the black embroidery!
I love black and white and frequently wear black trousers and white tops. I'll have to make sure I leave the tea towel at home
Originally Posted by Helena54
Hi Jenny, all that trouble and you've come home with nuffink (again!!!) I dunno, maybe I'm going to have to drag you round some shops here to see if we can find you something for the next wedding. I like the sound of that coat, and that's made me laugh you walking about the place with socks and killer heels
I've got some fantastic heels, love them all, and I will wear them on the odd occasion and stuff my flatties in my handbag which I've always done, so make sure you take some with you. They even do the roll up ones in all the shops now, really pretty flatties around.Well done to your son there with the job, got everything crossed he gets it. How lucky was that with the bolder though
Could have smashed right through his windscreen and injured him that could. A friend of mine was killed when she was following a lorry of pallets....that slipped...... killed her outright she wasn't so lucky. Yes, I should have moved a lot of that dosh a long time ago, but I'm making a start, I can't believe I've been that stupid to have left it all in one place like that anyway!
.... maybe a tissue and one cigarette
Flatties for me are not an option - people would tread on me as I'm barely 5' and I would be out of most people line of vision
Sorry to hear about your friend being killed by those pallets. My son was so lucky as the rock bounced once on the road and landed straight onto the very top of his windscreen and then must have gone off sideways. How it missed his bonnet, roof and boot I have no idea. Just as well it didn't as he only got the car a couple of months ago and its his pride an joy ( a 2 year old Merc E-class sport coupe) and very very nice.
Originally Posted by tawneywolf
Glad to hear the interview went well for your son, Jenny, when will he hear whether he has got it or not
Originally Posted by Bitkin
Had a pottery type day in the garden as it was so glorious, but made sure that I didn't overdo it - such a bore having to be careful these days!
Am sitting here gritting my teeth because OH initially said that he would just make himself a salad later (he is supposed to be on a diet.........again), so I loaded up the dishwasher and cleaned the kitchen only for him to bumble through and declare that he was going to make a curry
I am not happy Right going for a read of the thread and others
Did he tidy the mess up in the end? Did he choke on his curry? It's awful getting older and having to be careful what we do now - I do hope you are feeling better ((hugs)).I started this posts about 40 minutes ago and have had to answer the phone twice
and make myself a hot chocolate
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25-06-2013, 09:06 PM
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25-06-2013, 09:06 PM
Originally Posted by Bitkin
Not to mention leaving them to do all the housework and bring up the latest batch of sprogs in between working in the fields, whilst you go out scrubbing floors
I have spent nearly ten years doing it, and have taken most of the various lines back to the eighteenth century with conviction and proof, and further with some question marks. Some of it is truly remarkable, but it's not a cheap hobby and it's frustrating at times!! Don't believe those Ancestry adverts where they tell you that all you have to do is put a name in and hey presto.......all is revealed
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25-06-2013, 09:08 PM
Originally Posted by Tangutica
Eileen my more 'serious side' was evident down at the pool today. I was in my usual frivolous mood when I took the photo of my left foot dangling over the pool. It doesn't look as pretty now with a big purple bruise at the base of the nail. Because two minutes later as I pulled my sunbed into place I managed to drag it right over my big toe on that foot! Ouch! My 'serious side' could probably be heard from here to Limassol!
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