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Hi Tecwyn and anyone else who is around
I second what you have said Tec, tend to keep out of those thread's too.
I often have a read just to see what is being said and you can usually quess when thing's are going to get nasty. At the moment through August we have a steam train going along one of our main line's the sound of it is great, I love the old steam train's, used to go to the Lake's with Friend's for weekend's and visit one of the steam train line's that run train's through the summer and special's at christmas, at this moment in time I can't recall the name of the line the train's ran on, my friend's were also volenteer's at the station and helped out in the cafe and on the train checking people's ticket's. It was run completely by volenteer's who did all the upkeep of the train's as well as the rest of the station's need's.


Hi SueMaid, glad to hear your grandson's party went well and that all the children were well behaved.

Feel sorry for you Berona, make sure you have all 10 toe's still attached after you finish your dancing with Tec lol

Hi Allan, I too have a cat but don't let her in the bedroom anymore because she snuggles under the quilt and start's pummeling me and her claw's hurt so I don't let her in, if Idon't get up when the alarm go's off she sit's outside my room and meow's until Iget up and go's straight to her bowl to be fed.
Well I came on to let you all know I wont be around for a week as I'm off to the Isle-of-man with my employer and his mother,as they are going over for his brother's wedding and I have to go to help his mother to look after him [ i'm his carer ] as he is disabled. So until Iget back, have fun speak to you all when I get back

Diane x

Hi Diane,
Don't know what it's like where you are today, but it's absolutely teeming down here, and very dark. They forecast over an inch of rain this afternoon.
Glad you agree with me about the disagreeable threads. So nice to come on this thread and have a laugh with people with a sense of humour. They put up with me, so must have a sense of humour.
The steam loco's are brilliant aren't they. I went to school on one for about five years. After the Romans left.
I hope you have a good time in the IOM, in between your caring duties.
Hope the weather is better for you'

Take care Diane
Tec.

Hi again Tec
just read your post, it's been raining on and off all day here, but it's suppose to be better tomorrow, glad about that as I like to go up top deck on the ship as we go across to watch the view as we leave Liverpool, and go up again as we arrive in the IOM, mind you the view of Liverpool is not as good since they built some of the new { modern } building's especially the one with a square on top of it that look's like it could topple off any minute, who ever designed that she be shot lol { that's my oppinion anyway }.
Yeh Tec steam train's { bring them back } I travelled down south on them when I was a little girl { oh that's so long ago } to go on holiday, bring's back some great memories.
Must go and do some packing now, if I have time later I will try and come back, if not see you in a wks time hun

Diane x

Good Morning all you upside down people:)

*whispers* while you were asleep ENGLAND won the Ashes.

*Runs off thread whooping and hollering*

Jean do you want to split a bottle of champers with me?

we won we won

Sorry I haven't been around for a couple of days. I had to rush off to look after my mother who is ill. She is now in hospital and not very good at all,so I will be spending most afternoons there. Once she comes out, I will have to go and stay with her to look after her.

I don't know how long she will be in hospital for, last time she was in for over a month. We are supposed to be going on holiday in nine days time,so that is in the balance.

Allan to answer a question form ages ago, the average allotment is about 250sq metres. Our plot is just half an allotment and is 65 feet by 27 feet. Sorry that is in old measurements, you will have to convert it. That is only a rough estimate,we haven't measured it accurately.

Oh and yes I saw the blonde joke, a very old one indeed

Linda

Good morning Aussies.....I'm not talking to the Poms. Shame on you Miss Jean who used to be my friend and I see you encouraged others to come on and boast about it too. See if we care:))

Diane I know you're working this next week but I hope you enjoy the change of scenery.

Tec, my daughter does have a large yard but the area that is set up for the animals isn't as big as you would imagine. They set up a pen for the lambs, a couple of young goats, a piglet and a couple of chickens and ducks. The rabbits, guinea pigs and smaller chickens are in small hutches and these are placed on the children's laps so they can brush and stroke them. Some of the animals are put back in the horse float and then a young calf and a pony are brought out for awhile. It's very well set up. The animals live on a small farm not far away and have a really good life.
Tec your OH must be speaking from experience about your dancing:)) If Berona has been busy practising perhaps you need some lessons.

Linda I'm sorry to hear your mother is in hospital. I hope she's home before long. What a worry for you. Please update us when you get a chance. We'll be thinking of you.

Sue xx

Hello Linda,
I am so sorry to hear that your mother is unwell. That must be a great worry to you. Is the hospital far away, or near to you? We never know when these things are going to strike do we? and when you've made plans, then it just serves to complicate matters. Do you have siblings nearby?
I had noticed that you were very quiet on the thread, and assumed you must already be on holiday.
Anyway, I, and I'm sure everyone on the thread, wishes your mother a speedy recovery - I hope things improve very soon.
Chin up Linda - and keep in touch. SueMaid needs your backup to keep Allan and I in check.
Best wishes to your mother - and to you.
Take care.
Tec.

Good Morning SueMaid..........
I wasn't going to mention cricket, or Ashes, but as you've brought the matter up, I just wanted to say, how kind of the Aussies to hand them back after four years. Thank you. I have to say the young Australian fans interviewed outside the Oval after the match, were phlegmatic and magnanimous in defeat. True sportsmen!
Thank you for explaining the farm animals set up. Sounds great. I don't think we have anything like that here. What a brilliant idea - I bet the children loved it.
I don't need to practice my dancing technique - they didn't call me twinkle toes for nothing - I wonder if you happen to remember Lena Horne singing "A New Fangled Tango" maybe before your time, but it was hysterically funny.

Tec.

Thank you all for your concern, mum is 88 and has severe heart and lung problems,so when she gets any sort of infection as she has now, it quickly starts to spread through her blood stream. She is having antibiotics through a drip,so hopefully, they can sort it out quickly.

I visit every afternoon without fail,it is only about a thirty five minute drive each way, but when you add it onto the hour and a half visiting time, it adds up. My brother lives close to mum,but rarely visits or picks up the phone. He will do some of the evening visits, but his enthusiasm for that soon wears out,so it is mainly down to me. Still she is my mum,so naturally I do all I can to care for her.

I will be here at home while she is in hospital, so will be on the thread, but when she comes out, I have to go and stay with her. Unfortunately there is no internet access,so I have nothing to keep me occupied. I have already resorted to cleaning every square inch of her house,so next I will have to turn my attention to her garden.

Linda

Good evening/morning all,

Tec, our OH's can be very cruel at times....once when we went dancing she accused mo of' 'moving about like a drunken idiot' Sheesh, that gave me a right complex. I have also been accused of being as graceful as a hippo wallowing in mud! As my OH did not speak English until the age of five her command of it now is surgically precise!

Sue, I'm glad that the party went well. When you started on about the farm animals I thought to myself that the kide wouldn't get through that much food! Then I read a bit further....lol

Linda, thanks for the info re allotments. I do hope that your mother is soon better

G'day Diane

Berona, Colin, I also saw the Christmas thread, but couln't be bothered posting. I keep my religous beliefs to myself and I hope that I respect other people's. Look at all the wars over the centuries fought in the so called name of religion.

As for the Ashes....well done England. This is the point where I now wave my pommie passport in the air and go skippping down the Street.

I too hope that this thread stays as is...a few laughs, a few serious moments, but each enjoying the company of others and respecting their views

Allan

Tec I don't remember Lena Horne's song but my parents were great fans of Perry Como and I well remember his song "Papa Loves Mambo". I also love Dean Martin's "Sway". Hearing these songs are bound to get your feet tapping.

With the Ashes I just like the competition - I guess I really don't mind who wins. I enjoy the cricket but I'm not a fanatic. Still it's good fun to get emails of friends and family in England ribbing us about the loss.

Linda, are you the eldest? I am and I find that a good deal of the responsibility is on my shoulders. When dad was ill I was mentally and physically exhausted although my brother did what he could. My OH was a rock and I don't think I could've got through it without him. As my daughter was pregnant with the twins through this time I found myself run ragged trying to help everyone. Unfortunately my sister did nothing to help my mother through this time and this has damaged our relationship to a certain extent. However, as you say, they are our parents. I would never turn my back on my mum especially as she is now alone.

Allan, I stay away from contentious threads now because I get so annoyed with some people and myself. I can't always sit on my hands:))

Sue xx

That was me who deleted. The site is playing up at the moment - or at least it is for me.

Sue xx

G'day, Sue

I'm disappointed.....I thought that you may have deleted something contentious!! lol

Allan

Good Morning Allan,
Skipping down the street? in your pyjamas, and green wellies, wearing Paddingtons yellow hat, waving your passport?
You could be grabbed by the authorities, bundled onto the next plane, and deported back to the UK .
Imagine arriving at Heathrow dressed like that! What would they think?

Yes - Our OHs can be so cruel sometimes. I'm not saying anything more, must remember we're on thin ice here.

Regards
Tec.

When have you seen me being contentious, Allan:)) A little irritable at times perhaps. Yes, Tec. You should be careful of what you say - I am copying and pasting everything you both say about your wives to keep for future blackmail:))

Sue xx

G'day Tec, they'd probably put me on the first plane back to Oz.

That could go on indefinitely. Just imagine...staeless, witless and dressed down to the sartorial nines!

Just as long as I am allowed to keep Paddington!

Hi Sue,

Having posted on that other thread, I'm not even going down the road of 'blackmail'!! lol

Allan

I knew, before I came on here, that I would have to say something about the cricket. My clock-radio gave me the news within minutes of waking!

OK. Congratulations. You deserve to win! (this time!).

My son-in-law still plays cricket (at 41) and coaches his son's team (Under 14's). My grandson plays cricket summer and winter. My three sons all played cricket and my OH (a Pom) used to watch it on the TV with the volume turned off, but the ABC radio ON. He said he got a better commentary from the radio.

In spite of living with that for many years, I still don't understand the first thing about cricket! Perhaps if my grandson ever gets to play for Australia, I will take more interest in it!

I did take an active role in their other sports, though. I never missed my daughter's games of Netball (two reasons - I played myself in earlier times - and I had to provide her transport!). but their soccer and little athletics took up a lot of my time, as I was a foundation member of both of the local clubs and am still a Life member of both of them. I now watch my own daughter doing what I did (trying to keep up with getting them to training and matches and trying to support them on the sidelines - working out timetables of how to get from one game to the other. They never seemed to play on the same park at the same time!). My OH and I used to write off Saturdays to sport - just transporting, supporting, etc. He also coached a team, and even after arriving home, there was the paperwork, phone calls, results, etc. I often wonder how I had so much energy!