General Chat

Two questions:

I would like to know what Rose deleted (No. 2) because I bet that was the most interesting of all ;-)

Also, why does Mersey burn wood for a hobby - is that a ******** (can't think of the word - Rose will tell me!) for something else?

Tomorrow's another day Dermot :-D <3

Wend - I've ran out of words now!

lolololololololol Wend....that did make me LOL :-D


But they are interesting though :-)

I think Dermot should put up his own thread now:

*1000 things you don't know about me*.

;-) :-D

1. I was very young when I was born.
2. I worked 34 years for the same employer.
3. My paternal grandmother was baptised in 1879 at Knock church - the year of The Apparition there.
4. Pope JP2 made a Papal visit there in 1979 - to honour the 100th anniversary of The Apparition. Poor granny didn’t get a mention.
5. I’m still trying to fill-in the questionnaire supposedly requested by our current Pope Frankie. It’s online - if anyone is interested. My brain hurts.

My bil's family provided a safe house for Michael O'Coileain (probably about 1919?). They lived in Birkenhead and his mother was 7 at the time.

When Lord Lieutenant Fitzalan remarked that Collins had arrived seven minutes late for a 16 January 1922 ceremony, Collins replied, "We've been waiting over seven hundred years, you can have the extra seven minutes"

BC :-)

I returned the first one when we got 'disengaged', the second one I kept for a long time, but sold last year when gold was a good price and I needed the money for D's birthday lol, ( also because having seen him post on FB I was of a mind to think he was not the same man I used to love with such a passion ) .

It made about the same as it cost originally, but I asked the jeweller if she could manage to remove the amethyst could I keep it, which I have. Sentimental to the last :-(

You will never antagonise me, Dermot :-D

Did Rose give her ring back to you, too :-S

Just to keep RR company & to antagonise the other reader:-

1. Contrary to local gossip, I have never kissed the Blarney Stone.
2. I dislike the taste of Guinness.
3. Despite my failing eyesight, I can still easily tell at a glance the difference between Irish whiskey & Scotch whisky.
4. I was 18 before I ever travelled on a train.
5. In 2002, I had a photo taken with Mary McAleese at Bristol University while she was President of Ireland (1997-2011) on the occasion of her being awarded an honorary ‘Doctor of Laws’ degree. The photo was published in a national newspaper.

No, BC. Both returned. Still got mine , if you are asking :-D ;-)

Just one question, Rose, and call me shallow if you wish, but did you keep the two engagement rings? :-D <3

Five other things. well I might as well as I'm the only one here lol

1) nearly everyone who knows me well calls me Rosie ( family always have)

2) I deleted number 2 !

3) I sound exactly like my mother on the phone.

4) i have a sense of humour, but it doesn't always come across :-)

5) I read LOTR at least once a year :-D

1) I have always "loved not wisely but too well". I have been proposed to 3 times, engaged ( as in getting a ring) twice but never married.

2) I am very soft-hearted so although I never fall for scams in other ways, I am a sucker for lame dogs (of all sorts) with 'problems' which I then take on.

3) Even my best friend of some 30 years, doesn't know everything about me (though she knows me better than anyone else).

4) If you phone me I will always say " I'm fine" even when I'm not ( see 1,2,3, only my best friend and brother can recognise this as a lie lol) )


5) I would love to write a decent book ( and my writing is where I am most 'laid bare' lol)

:-D

K. I met Joan Bakewell at a book launch back in 2003. She loooked very youthful and was very sprightly (quite serious).

She mentioned that you were one of the nicer senior girls at school (not so serious) ;-)

1. I have ridden a former racehorse that was previously ridden by Lester Piggot

2. I once picked and sold a tonne of damsons in two weeks

3. I made a cheesecake for the Queens Gynaecologist

4. When I graduated I was one of 2 women and 500 men

5. I went to school with a bomber in the Angry Brigade- the same school as Joan Bakewell - although not at the same time :-)

1...I live on an island, surrounded by a sea full of fish, but I can't swim and I'm allergic to fish.

2...I married when I was 18 and he was barely 17 for no other reason than my family were moving away and we thought we were in love, the relationship ended in divorce 7 years later. I married a second time to the love of my life who died 2 years ago.

3...I was Dandini and various others in PTA pantomimes and the local amateur dramatic society productions.

4...I love my life but don't want to live to a hundred, or anywhere near.

5...I have driven an HGV

Think it should read "at the double" Dermot. Not so rare, and not so Irish :-D

I have to read everything you write twice and three times. "My mum was a great mimic, although she never recognised her own talent" That old blarney and special Irish logic. ;-)

How many of us can mimic ourselves? My rendition of myself sounds nothing like me. :-(

1. Two of my cousins in Manchester married ‘in the double’ (an Irish expression, I believe) - and I’m not talking about second marriages either. (Just another teaser for John to explain to readers on this exceedingly eloquent & exciting thread).

2. Quality words are my insanity.

3. My mum was a great mimic, although she never recognised her own talent.

4. My dad was a quiet chap but, when he did speak, he could hold on to his hearers.

5. My youngest brother used to have his own radio music show in Dublin c1970s. Begorrah!