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What kind of things do you remember from Childhood
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David | Report | 5 Jan 2016 06:54 |
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Mel Fairy Godmother | Report | 5 Jan 2016 08:34 |
Morning all and evening Kim, |
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magpie | Report | 5 Jan 2016 10:09 |
We were married 52 years ago on 1st Feb, a week after my 21st birthday!! For the first five years we rented, then we bought our first house in 1969. It was a very pretty but tiny cottage without a bathroom!! we had an outside loo, (flushing!!) a tin bath on the floor of the kitchen, and bathed the two little ones in the kitchen sink!! We eventually had a bathroom built on the back, and I can remember living in complete chaos for a few weeks. We got a partiall grant for the work to be done along with having a chemical damp proof course put in. It was one of the happiest times of our lives, we all loved it there, probably because although it was a bit basic, it was ours, and I can remember us both feeling a great sense of achievement. In 1971 we regretfully had to buy somewhere bigger as two youngsters in what was virtually a box room was just too small! Our second home was a snachback and had been empty for months and needed a lot of work done to it. It too was an old cottage with a lovely big garden, which was like the jungle when we first moved in. Like you Ann, we had very little money, but lots of enthusiasm, and over time turned it into a proper home which we lived in for the next twenty odd years, till we moved to Somerset in 1992. |
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Frank | Report | 5 Jan 2016 11:16 |
Morning Everyone, Evening Kim, |
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magpie | Report | 5 Jan 2016 12:08 |
I can remember my 30th birthday Frank! OH organised a surprise party for me! I was convinced no one had bothered and was feeling really fed up when a load of our friends appeared with balloons and decorations! Food appeared from nowhere, and we had such a lovely evening. I've always remembered it!! ( children were in bed, they were in those days!!) |
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Frank | Report | 5 Jan 2016 14:51 |
Liz, As I said when I first married Oct 59, I was in the RAF.Two months later was my 21st On the actual day I baby sat for my Comanding Officer.. They treated me so well, left me a nice steak dinner for me to cook and a Crate of beer. When I came home for Christmas I expected some sort of celebration. But nothing. BUT the MIL was doing loads of cooking and sandwhich making for her sister, who lived round the corner. That evening I went out for a drink with my new wife, She said we should call in at Aunt Rose's to wish her a MERRY CHRISTMAS. When we went in, all my family were there, excluding my MOTHER to celebrate my 21st. |
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Frank | Report | 5 Jan 2016 15:53 |
Got that wrong, the matches are next Tuesdat 12th. Tonight it's L'pool V Stoke. |
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Mel Fairy Godmother | Report | 5 Jan 2016 17:37 |
Here I am Frank. After the dentist we went and did a shop at Lidl and then came home had a scotch egg each and oh went off to Holsworthy for some electric fencing stuff for the ponds. He spent all the daylight hours left setting it up and I took down all the Christmas decs while he was out which only left the tree which is now stripped and everywhere looks extremly bare and dull and dreary. |
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Mel Fairy Godmother | Report | 5 Jan 2016 17:39 |
I would have been married 47 years this year if I had'nt got divorced but have spent 17 good happy years with oh. |
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MillymollyAmanda | Report | 5 Jan 2016 17:41 |
Evening all , |
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magpie | Report | 5 Jan 2016 18:10 |
I keep having to sign it, wonder why, as it's getting a bit of a bore! Weather's been a lot better here today, so we've put a whole load of chain link round one of the flower beds to keep that little monkey off them, there are so many bare patches soon we won't have any flowers at all!! That should fox her!!!! |
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MillymollyAmanda | Report | 5 Jan 2016 18:40 |
Oh the little monkey ,has she chewed them or has she been digging them up !! |
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Mel Fairy Godmother | Report | 5 Jan 2016 19:02 |
Forgot to say before we went out the switch busted on the central heating so we had no hot water or heating. When oh went to Holsworthy I had rung a place to see if they had one of these Honeywell things and they had one left!! Were'nt we lucky as the first place oh tried had'nt got one at all. He fixed that first then the fencing. He is tired out now with all the running around he has done today. |
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Mel Fairy Godmother | Report | 5 Jan 2016 19:06 |
I wonder when they are going to take the baubles off the site. I bet they were the problem with having to sign in before Christmas. Perrhaps they are now taking them off Liz and thats why. :-S |
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Mel Fairy Godmother | Report | 5 Jan 2016 19:10 |
O forgot yto say the dentist said my gums are healing nicely and she adjusted my bottom set by taking a bit off one of the front ones so I can close my teeth together better now. she also took a bit off the outside at the back but they are still making my mouth at the side sore a bit. Next appointment is 11am 15th March and they are going to make me a new set of bottom teeth which I hope will fit around my existing teeth better than the set I have now. |
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magpie | Report | 5 Jan 2016 19:24 |
No, Cas doesn't dig the garden, she just chases her dummy all over the |
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Anne | Report | 5 Jan 2016 19:40 |
Evening all |
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Jane | Report | 6 Jan 2016 07:56 |
Morning All |
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Anne | Report | 6 Jan 2016 09:36 |
Good Morning Everybody |
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Mel Fairy Godmother | Report | 6 Jan 2016 10:01 |
Morning all and evening Kim, |