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Oh oh......looking round anxiously.......no delicious smells wafting around.


I'll let Dea lie this morning as she will be sooo tired.


Hope I don't wake her clattering about...


Erm......nothing like Persie's or Sylvs's delicious breakfast...but I'll do me bestest... :-D



Boring as usual:

Choice of cereals - milk in 'fridge.
Porridge - just being mixed - ready soon.
Fresh grapefruit and fruit juices - must get out of the'fridge.


Fresh croissants
Hot rolls
Toast - brown/white/granary


Bacon
Tomatoes - fresh or tinned
Eggs - anyway but give me warning.
Locally produced sausages
Black pudding
Beans
Mushrooms


Selections of preserves/Marmite/peanut butter.


Coffee (various)
Tea (various)


Erm.......what have I forgotten?


Oh well....Have a nice day !

:-D

Thanks Cyns.....mushroom butty please, to go :-D

Thank you Cyns,,,,

I see my OH has grabbed Beans and has fried one of your eggs.

I had it ready but got called away..

Just done a little chuckle.. Interview with big rugby player who had won something or other (did not catch the beginning) and the interviewer asked him how did he celebrate the win... He said he went to his Aunties and they had a seafood dinner... How sweet!!


Persie

Ohhh thank you Cynthia,

I thought Sylvia was back today but it must be later in the day - I get my times confused!

I will have Bacon, Sausages, mushrooms and tomatoes please ...... yuummmm !! - Just what I need to start off the day <3

The sun is shining, I had a BIG sleep and I am going to enjoy the day 'pottering' around, tidying and sorting !! - LOTS of catching up to do on my 'tiding and sorting, I am afraid ! - I will actually enjoy it though today, I think :-D

I loved your story about little grand-daughter blowing a raspberry in the middle of the 1-minute silence Persie - that's exactly the sort of thing you need to 'lighten' the occasion!

Anyway, hope everyone is well today - 'happy thoughts' to everyone !

See you all later.

Dea Xxx <3

Glad you had a good sleep Dea - you sound full of beans today.



Gins.......rentman calling at that time of night indeed.! 'Twas our vicar calling in for a large mug of tea and a 'relax' after being at the hospital for ages sitting with someone who is not long for this world and their family. I showed him Jonesey's Australian story which made him laugh out loud. Sent him on his way with a smile on his face.


Coffee time....a quick sit down after shopping before whizzing round the bedrooms with a duster.


Hey up....here we go again......

Lying in bed at 7am this morn and hear pedal car being driven round outside...

Arggggggghhhh

Mr Hurricane has got dressed (first time doing it himself) got Nans keys from on top of cupboard and unlocked Porch door...

4 keys on keyring but he found the right one....

I asked him if Man dressed him and let him out.

NO,Man in bed with Nan,me big boy I do it with Nans keys.... :-D

OOOooooohhhh !!! Fans - It is SO frightening !! - You have to be so very careful with them at that age as they can do things you never would have though them capable of !!

We have to be extra careful with our grandson (3 next month!) He is into absolutely everything and keeps telling me what a big boy he is now and wanting to do EVERYTHING for himself!

We have long since learned to lock all the doors when he is here and to put the keys VERY well away !

Little grand-daughter was not like this at his age but he certainly is a little 'hudini' and has absolutely NO fear of doing anything - If he sees a big ladder, he wants to go on the roof and he would it you left it in place !

We always make sure that the two of us are here the whole time he is with us as we dare not leave the 'little monkey' alone even for a second !

We have stair gates, window locks, cupboard locks - you name it! - ALL totally necessary with him ;-) :-D

Good luck with him - you will need a good rest when you take him home.

Dea Xxx

Bet you got outa bed smartish Fans....... wot a sight that must have been!



Clever little chappie you've got there. Now, how to outwit him ???


We had stairgates to keep our dogs downstairs......so they came in handy when the grandchildren came along. When both my children and the grandchildren were small, I found a playpen a real boon and could get on with things knowing they were okay.

Stairgates???

I have them to keep dogs out and Mummy had one on his bedroom door.

No problem if he cant open it...Just lift it right off..!

Skinny little weed he may look but those gates are no problem..

Face painting this morning as it was raining....Pics next week.. :-D

When he was aged 3 my eldest son decided to go walkabout one summers afternoon.

The first my wife knew about it was when there was a knock at the front door and upon opening the door discovered him accompanied by a lady who my wife recognised as the mother of one of my 6 year old daughters school classmates. She had discovered him walking along the street which led to the school. To make matters worse he was completely naked which was the state he had been in playing contentedly in the our back garden when my wife last saw him. Apparently he had decided to go to the school to collect his sister which he usually did (Whilst clothed) with his mother.

We never did discover how he had managed to open the garden gate as its latch was out of his reach but just in case the latch was quickly supplemented with a bolt at the top of the gate.

P.S. Cyn, So your vicar found the Australian Army letter funny. That's a first, something I have written amusing a member of the clergy.

Watched Heir Hunters this am

and spotted the dreaded GR Tree print out --- could not mistake the little pink and blue boxes -- and the massive size of the printed pages sellotaped together

"spect that will be boasted about on FB ---

Fans how come you were still in bed at 7.00 am -- when ours stayed we were all up watching cartoons at 5.30 a, m

Renes

Fans,

I have the ones which go across like a roller blind - They cannot be lifted off or, much to his GREAT frustration - opened by my little grandson and he is a VERY strong boy !!!

Let me know if you want more details!

Dea x

Renes.
I have worn him out so much during the day that he sleeps till 6.am now. :-D

Makes his own brekkie as its all set out ready.

Banana,cereal in bowl,milk in cup to pour over and a digestive for after...

He big boy now,gonna be FOUR on Sept 9th..

Pink kittens delivered all round I think Jonesey when that sort of thing happens.

Middle son was the worst of mine for escaping...

All quiet one morn when he was 18 months and I realise he has not woken me....Toooooooo quiet.

Go in his room and he has squeezed between the cot bars screwed in front of window and the window and has window open looking out...Top floor of 4 story house..Arrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhh.

Man in to put bolts on all metal frame windows later that day....

Garden had a fence that turned over at the top as he would climb it with dog and go off through the back gardens....That stopped that as they couldnt work out how to get up past the overhang.

Watched one episode of Heir hunters the other day and tried finding the deaths (2006)of 2 people they say they have got nowhere with....Not on FMP Index as far as I can see...So do they make some stuff up?

Renes.......you know full well that Fans doesn't get up till midday most days! This early rising is doing her no good whatsoever..... :-D



Fans, it's probably a good idea to paint your face actually. It certainly couldn't do any harm. Did your grandson recognise you??????? :P



Jonesey.....I must send your funnies on to him in revenge for what he sends to me! Great sense of humour. Sometimes, the clergy surprise folks! (in the nicest possible way I mean). :-D :-D :-D

He did the painting....!

HID ,me and then his own while looking in a mirror.... :-0

FBG,

I have long thought that some of the content of programmes such as Heir hunters or WDYTYA if not exactly made up is "adjusted" to make it seem more exiting/miraculous than it really is.

Heir hunters in particular always makes me smile when they incorporate a segment where one of the Fraser partners pays a visit to dilapidated home of the deceased and finds evidence or photographs which they claim were instrumental in cracking the case. Unless I am mistaken Fraser's were unlikely to be given access to the building before the case was solved and proven.

WDYTYA is also guilty at times of doing something that we as family historians know to be "Iffy" such as making assumptions and then making the details fit the facts. Last week was a classic. The program declared that J.K. Rowling's ancestor Louis Volant and his wife Eliza were matrimonially separated at the time of the 1911 census. They made this assumption based upon the fact that they were shown as being at 2 different addresses when the census was taken. In the case of Eliza they made play of the fact that her status had originally been written as "Wife" which had been crossed through and replaced by "Head". What they failed to notice or point out was that the crossing out and the word "Head" was in a completely different colour ink and a different hand. Had they thought about it a little more they might have equally assumed that the reason Louis was shown at a separate address that night was that if he was regularly working as a waiter until the early hours of the morning, then sleeping in a single room close to his place of employment on work nights may well have been preferable to returning to his family home in Marylebone at 3~4am.

Still I suppose it makes for more entertaining television if there is a hint of sensationalism added.

Hi all

Very busy week.so slept in today. I am off tomorrrow too.

YIPPEE

See you have all been busy without me.

Hugs to you Dea dear. I am sure you will have your own private send off for him with your own memories that only you and he could appreciate. <3 <3
You do not need a stranger priest for that.

Must say

Dont watch WDYTYA -- unless I am desperate to watch something and nothing else is on ----

have to say my sister Marie ( who has no interest in anything much but gardening ) faithfully watches it --- so as to discuss it with me ---on the assumption I watch it ---- so had to watch the Dot Cotton one -- which I thought was quite interesting --luckily I was not here to watch JKR ---

But I do watch Heir Hunters coz it is my coffee time ---- but it is all only entertainment --

--- Frasers knocked on my brothers door - looking for me when ex died intestate --- did not know of divorce ---- my son did not pay fees -- we claimed ourselves

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Hi LK,

Thanks for the thoughts - yes, I did !

Enjoy your day off !

Dea Xxx <3