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General => The Stay Safe Board => Topic started by: louisa maud on Monday 28 July 25 12:38 BST (UK)
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Good afternoon folks
Hope all is well, weather seems to have settled a bit, cooler which is most welcome.
Hard to believe it is August at the end of the week.
Take care
LM
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Yes, you are correct that it will be August by the end of the week. AND OH and I will have been married for 61 years on Friday. :)
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Congrats BB, you just beat me to it every year!!
LM
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August is looming very fast! We will have been married 52 years on 4th August..
Many congrats BBee 61 years is some going, hope you’re able to celebrate the day.
Lovely and sunny here today despite the clouds that keep bubbling up and it’s quite humid..
just finished cleaning the house so some lunch and then a shower I think or maybe the ironing first, what an exciting life!
Family off to Singapore and Brisbane on Friday for three weeks, visiting cousins and our son.. grandsons are beyond excited looking forward to seeing kangaroos in sons garden. He’s purposely kept the grass long for them, they come in every day.
Miss going out but it’s a long way and although OH is bionic man now he doesn’t find long flights very comfortable, so hopefully they’ll be home maybe end of this year or next. Thank goodness for FaceTime at least we can see him to talk to!
Hope everyone has a good week and enjoy the weather.
Caroline
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Many thanks for your thoughts. No celebration planned - just glad that we're both still alive. 8)
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Many congratulations, we got to 58.
It only seemed so few.
It all flew by so quickly .
I wish we could do it all again.
Viktoria.
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I enjoyed watching England’s team win yesterday evening .
So few fouls ,if any .
Such a lot are allowed in men’s football, blatant fouls.
Not the true spirit of the game at all.
Viktoria.
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Son and D in L celebrate 40 years on the 3rd August. Sadly no celebration for me, it would have been 65 years on the 13th of August if my OH had lived.
A cousin and his wife made it to 74 years, that was good going.
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We notched up 50 years together earlier this year, grateful to have made it so far together, when so many marriages fail, or people don't last that long. Congratulations to those with imminent celebrations!
Glad it's not too hot, 'tho a bit humid still. New, added garden furniture this last week settled in well. Just wish all the weeds hadn't settled in so well....
TY
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Don't tell anyone but I did hear a suggestion the women's coach should coach the men, what a hoot!!
LM
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I agree, perhaps the there would be fewer fouls ,they are blatant in men’s football,they could end a career .
Quite cool this morning ,weak sunshine .
Post just arrived ,a parcel for my son ,something he had ordered for Flash Harry ,a neat little wooden box, with a sliding top, slide it open and out jumps a black spider two inches across - I nearly had my third heart attack.,
Ugh!
I did it two or three times but it still made me jump.
Hoping the young man who did all my garden so well is here this weekend to do a proper ramp for the mobility scooter , with handrail for me when I need to go out of the garden on to the lane as last week when I washed out a dustbin .
Well must get on with something or other -there is a wide choice!
Thanks for your news and hope all are at least safe.
Many of you I know are not well,so many will be thinking of you .
Cheerio .Viktoria,
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53 years for me and the girl of my dreams in October, 57 years when we met in school
SS
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Well done, SS.
I have to admit that whilst OH and I will have been married for 61 year on 1 August, I have only known him for 61 years.
We met in the same lodgings in Runcorn in the spring of 1964 and after a newspaper fight we retired to the pub. I then got my sailing date to go to NZ as I was emigrating. OH said "no, don't go there, come to London with me instead and we'll get married." So I agreed. When I rang my father to tell him what was happening, the question was "do you mean you've got to?" Response from OH "well if she has, then it's got nothing to do with me!" Our only daughter was born in 1966 :o
Added: Our daughter, by the way, was born in West Ham, on Bobby Moore's birthday, and of course, 1966 was when West Ham players won the world cup for England :) :) :)
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BB, must say i had to laugh.
LM
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Pleased to have amused you 8) 8)
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You were obviously meant for each other .
I remember being fixed to the bedroom window as my future OH ,in whites, strolled nonchalantly past with a friend,off to the local tennis courts ,I thought” whoaaaah” he is handsome, then I got back to a bit of swatting for O levels but still watching out for them coming back.
We went out for three years when I was 16 and he 22, But he looked about 18.When I found out how old he was I thought better let my parents meet him ——-
before saying his age.He was quiet and very courteous and they liked him, so different to my sister’s boy friend - a very cocky self assured person, the same age as my sister.
We went out for three years and got married when I was 19and he almost 26 .Wish we could do it all again.
A fresh cool day here ,just doing my Tesco order.
Flash Harry,Kyra and puppy up,here at weekend with grandson and other half ,hood thry bring my big suitcase with all my nice clothes in ,it was left there as I came back on the train , sin hsd to go to Head Office and came here via
Birmingham so could not bring my case.
It will all work out ,
Having my hair cut tomorrow ,it was growing quite well but is not thick enough now for any length so a shortish bob -short on top too with enough length for some rollers .
I will still look as if I have just been let out of prison ( in the old days) .
Well must get on with something.
Cheerio ,thanks for the news and look after yourselves.
Viktoria.
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Physio put me forward for a free 8-week pool, spa and gym pass.
Used pool & spa on Monday. (dry sauna, jacuzzi)
Used gym today - static bike 8 mins, rowing machine 9 mins.
Off to hospital tomorrow!
Scan found a piece of bladder/kidney stone in my bladder.
So General Anaesthetic to sort me out.
Keeping me in overnight, because all my family are in Somerset, and I couldn't persuade any of my lady friends to stay the night! :D
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Yesterday I had a follow-up appointment after my pacemaker was fitted (seven weeks ago) and all was well, so now I can at last raise my left arm above my shoulder and put on tops over my head. Hurrah, I was getting fed up with front buttoning blouses! Now we can think about going on holiday again and I'm hoping that I will be able to get travel insurance cover. Last year the insurance company refused to insure me, as I hadn't at that time had a diagnosis. I dare say the cost of a policy will be exorbitant now, especially as I have had yet another birthday. Still, at least there are a few companies who are willing to insure the over 80s.
A warm sunny day here. I've just pulled the last of the French beans, which are turning a bit yellow from lack of water. We'll be having them with our own new potatoes and some seabass fillets. No puddings for us slimmers, though I expect my husband will be hinting that a bit of ice cream would be nice. I can resist plain ice cream, but would find it hard to say no to a choc ice.
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Happy Yorkshire day. :D
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As a proud Lancastrian, who was shocked to discover that she had a pair of Yorkshire born gt-gt-grandparents who came over the Pennines to settle in Lancashire, I suppose I can grudgingly wish you a happy Yorkshire Day, but I draw the line at calling Yorkshire "God's own county". What's the reason for making all these TV programmes called things like "The Yorkshire Vet" or "The Yorkshire Auction House" and so on. Come on, programme makers! There are other splendid counties, you know.
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Well, if you don't want to celebrate Yorkshire Day, then maybe we won't celebrate Lancashire Day :-* :-*
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A cool day here and sun just coming through .
Sadly grandson and family not able to get up here,car problems , but I will see them at grand daughter’s wedding on 23rd of August in Suffolk .
So I will have to wait until then to get my suitcase back here .
Having hair cut today, then next week to visit my sister ,her daughter from Australia is here and those grandchildren .
I leave them alone ,they see so,little of each other but they have asked to see us . My house is tiny and my sister is a “ nit picker” and makes negative comments which really annoy me ,no tact at all.
It is called “ Wilmslowitis” - her sensibilities are easily offended ,like footballers being allowed to live in Wilmslow! ;D ;D ;D and houses not detached in their own grounds !
So I don’t bother to invite them.They look up old friends so time is short enough with my sister who is now 91 but in good health and still very good looking ,well was in the soft dim lighting she likes when last we visited.
A mass of auburn hair all curly .She had lovely ringlets as a child and was really lovely,photographs of her make Shirley Temple look plain .
I by contest have straight very dark hair and just normal sized brown eyes .
This house suits me especially now,easy to run and all modern ,re wired, new plumbing ,new central heating, re roofed, new doors throughout, double glazing ,replastered , garden all new and simple to manage ,new kitchen and bathroom and carpeted throughout ,
Mind you it is not expensive carpet which I had before but it is O.K.
We were parted when evacuees, I with lovely people she with a nasty woman with a spiteful brat of a daughter.
I think she must feel life owes her something so goes all out to get what she wants.We only get one childhood and I was very lucky I know.
She never goes back but I love to and my husband would take me very often ,we could do it in a day .
Well the sun has come out and I might put some washing in if I can find a full load.
Thanks for your news and best wished for those with health problems .
Cheerio. Viktoria.
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Ooer, BumbleB... but Lancashire Day started in 1295 on 29 November and Yorkshire Day is a new thing, celebrated firstly by the Yorkshire Ridings Society on 1st August 1975, but officially in 1985. I claim historical superiority ;D
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To: Gillg :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X Shame you couldn't get the correct date - 27 November!
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Blame the tiny Yorkshire part of me for that! :'( (Or my bad typing :-[)
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Let's not start the wars of the roses again!
I do love my own county but acknowledge that there are other lovely counties. :)
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I'll let you off - just this once ;)
I have to admit that I was surprised when I learnt about Yorkshire Day - for me 1 August is the date I got married, back in 1964, and OH and I are still talking to each other 8)
Roobarb - I think I can safely say that this war won't last ;D
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Fear not, Roobarb! We north country natives are made of strong stuff and can be friendly, even with each other. However, the Wars of the Roses will persist in cricket, I fear.
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Well, I can bow out of that one! No interest at all to me.
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Back to the White Rose - who knows which way it is worn in each of the Ridings?
West and North = white petal at the top. East = green sepal at the top.
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Sadly the boundaries of each are not what they were, and Lancashire is much reduced. Their excellent Online Parish Clerks website until recently contained some succinct slogans such as "Don't say Cumbria when you mean Lancashire". I looked for them a few weeks ago but they seem to have been removed. Has somebody decided they were non-PC or something? (I say this as Yorkshire born and bred!)
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Not sure if I've been misunderstood- I'm a white rose! White petal at the top ((although that's a new one on me) :D
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.... Errr.... ARE there any other counties than YORKSHIRE?
Happy Yorkshire Day, even though it's later in day than usual. We tykes are proud of being Yorkshire. I was sent many years ago to Lancashire as a missionary, and ended up marrying a Lancastrian, - but I've still not really managed to convert him.
TY
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Both Counties are beautiful,but I think Lancashire has the biggest City Manchester, which had the biggest horrible slum areas .
In the Yorkshire Vet series the scenery is beautiful also in Last of the Summer Wine,and the series with the very large family and their son Reuben’s venture into business.
No programmes like those really about Lancashire .
Yorkshire’s large towns /cities are not as big as Manchester so any slum areas are /were not so big .
I do gasp sometimes at the beauty of Yorkshire , and understand the County’s pride.
Fewer programmes aboutvLancashire but as has been stated Cumbria used to be part of Lancashire ,and that part of England is also breathtaking.
Viktoria.