General Chat

Wend, I don't think you`ve lost your marbles, but you may have a hole in the bag, he he.
:-D :-D :-D

Stray's son is amazing - and very cute :-) Stray's Mum is also amazing :-) Don't tell Stray I said so ;-)

You didn't all believe Susanwiv's little porkies did you? A nun indeed and Queen Victoria's great great granddaughter? Come on :-D Great way to start a very interesting thread - wouldn't you say?

lol wend not today tho :-D

wow - what amazing stories - Florence :-D :-D <3

MistyCat - we need you on the depression thread

I'm looking for a saxophonist doubling french horn wearing size 37 boots.

I was Kaiser Bills' batman

I'd like to teach the world to sing

I talk to the trees

I saw mummy kissing Santa Claus

6. Wend gets wine flu all year round.

lol @island, me n Wend could be wine flu twins ;-)

The revelation about Queen Victoria being your gt gt gt grandmother is quite common, I have found in my life. Or at least claims of that. Usually via Prince of Wales (Edward VII)

Have just been reading about the entrance of Princess Alexandra of Denmark and her 2 sisters through London Bridge station in 1862 (I think) in preparation for her marriage to a bronzed and fit young Prince of Wales. Well, that bronzed and fit young man was already paying off lovers at Trinity College, Cambridge and seemed to continue his lifelong hobby till his death in 1910. How many of us are first cousins 3 times removed of Susan with, I wonder. I worked with a girl in Cambridge about my age who claimed her gt grandmother had a fling with Bertie - and the photo of her gt grandmother more or less convinced me she was right. :-) She was a single mum never short of cash was her gt grandmother!!

I have one on my tree - Mme Augusta d'Este, daughter of Duke of Sussex. Her brother Augustus could easily have been King and perhaps Victoria would not even have had a look in, except as a minor royal. But Duke of Sussex married a "commoner".

Isn't family history interesting sometimes?

I fell in the pit we emptied our lavvy bucket into twice. Each time I was wearing some new clothes and each time I was with my cousin.

This same cousin has never forgiven me for passing the eleven plus fifty years ago.

I can gas, arc and MIG but can't TIG.

I own a commercial torque wrench.

My eyes are a funny colour.

Doris Day!!! Shortlist (and it will be a smash hit) are Leonora Lewis, Jane MacDonald, Barry Humphries and Bonnie Langtry :-D :-D

Island is pants at growing mushrooms :-D

Tweedledum and Tweedledee Stray - chin-chin! :-D

I get a Vodka Virus sometimes too ;-)

Mushrooms grow themselves Wend. Pants or no pants.

Have you worked out what my mystery flower is yet? :-)

Oops sorry, Island :-0

Just trotting orff to have another looksie >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

oh voddy now ya talking ;-)

I cannot walk on ice cos I'm too scared

I used to be a hurdler and gymnast

I lived in Germany and Spain

Geese HATE me

I am a very demanding in pricey restaurants if food isn't just right ;-)

Ann Cardiff, know how you feel aboutthe "32JJ bust". Mine is a 42H and the pain of my life, gives me backache permanently. i also have a toy boy but most think he looks older than me.... :-D(keeps us young though ;-)

Florence
In the hebrides :-)

My OH is younger than me, I have just told him he is my toy boy, he said I have made his day...... <3 <3

my number five is that I lied about the other four :-D

But I am amazed at the interesting lives you have all lead and the family history.

I can't really think of much more about myself that I haven't bragged about before now....The GGGreat who was shot in 1715 uprising, the gggt who was disinherited leaving me a bit peeved cos they owned much of Durham and Northumberland, murderers! dukes ladies etc....and just so as not to disappoint you too much....I was going to be a nun :-)


ok.....I know of one that you don't know.......we won the competition this day, then also got 2nd and 3rd.......my eyes are blue and I have a great big grin on my face.

Am loving the stories though and would love to hear more......the truth though :-D

5 more things to relate - try not to fall asleep.

1. I sang a duet with Daniel O'Donnel in our local church service c.1980 - that was long before he became famous. Unfortunately, I'm still awaiting my fame! Don’t tell me you’ve never heard of him!

2. I helped an aged corner shop owner to hold on to a young miscreant, who was trying to do a spot of shoplifting, till the police arrived.

3. I cycled 100 sponsored miles in 8 hours with a bunch of others - proceeds went to BHF.

4. A school pal joined the Irish Garda force & was subsequently shot dead by the IRA.

5. This chap's forebears were amongst the few who, in 1879, claimed to have seen an apparition of the Blessed Virgin at Knock, Co Mayo - now a worldwide recognised Marian Shrine.

I survived life threatening cancer in 1948 and 1951 due to a wonderful caring consultant and radium needles.

I played piano with a jazz band at the cavern,,Beatles supporting group...late 50s early 60s

I was on a programme called People and Places on Granada TV when Corrie was just starting.disappointed with the set in those days..of course it was black and white and filmed live

I am left handed...got strap in school for this.

Have 9 grandchildren and 6 greats,but I was an only child.

As a youth I was a choir boy at St Judes

I once worked 3 paper rounds a day and sold papers a day.

My Father is Irish

I love you.

My SIL was born in Kuching.