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I have to agree Jax it's very good

I have just seen my old house on TV sad b*****s looking to buy a house in the villiage of the dammed place in the sun home or away...but we recorded it....luckerly they did'nt like that property

ja...x

Syls beats me by 1 43 this December

I agree ........ CJ's wall is very good!

Light breakfast

Toast, crumpets, jams, jellies

Tea, coffee, juices





Brunch served at 11 am


Mimosas, Bloody Mary

Tea, coffee, juices, Banana Papaya Delight


Cold cereals:-
Corn Flakes, Raisin & Almond Oatmeal Crisp, Raisin Bran, Honey Nut Cheerios, Frosted Flakes


Hot cereal:-
Porridge, Maple Nut Instant Oatmeal

In the warmer:-

bacon, Canadian back bacon, ham, sausage patties, turkey sausages, cheesy potato cakes, eggs benedict, grilled tomatoes, grilled mushrooms, baked beans, fried bread

shrimp quiche, spinach quiche, fritatta


Buttermilk Dollar Pancakes, French toast, Maple syrup, Blueberry Fruit Syrup

Crepes with various fillings .................... fresh fruit, whipped cream, chocolate sprinkles, bacon bits


Toast, Danish, croissants, crumpets, buttermilk scones

Jams, jellies, Seville orange marmalade, Ginger marmalade, marmite, peanut butter, vegemite




Enjoy





s
xxx

Good morning all.

Dea x

Ohhh - yuuumm! - Sylvia just opened the doors to the breakfast room while I was saying 'good morning' I couldn't have timed that better!!!

Lovely breakfast again today, LOTS to choose from.

I will have all my usual things plus some of those cheesy potato cakes.

Thanks Sylvia,

Dea x

You're up early Dea! Good to see you looking so well. Gosh, spoilt for choice again..........lovely spread - thanks Sylvs....mmmm



What is CJ's wall when it's at home?


Very dull and overcast today. OH said there was thunder and lightning during the night. I never heard a thing! Must have been sleeping the sleep of the just.....hahaha

Bloody Mary for breakfast?????


I'll just grab a cuppa if that OK Syl

Okay, the penny has finally dropped. Got the CJ wall thing. Nah, don't like it. Unnecessary. Not my style. Each to their own. Prefer trying to be nice to people - even when they wind me up. If it doesn't work, I holler in private. Just call me boring..................... :(


But then............I'm basically a happy little bunny despite all my probs and have been told I spread happiness, so maybe I'm not so boring after all.......lol


Gins......that's for those with a slight hangover - you could always have two of them!!!

Very loud thunder,bright lightening illuminating the house and heavy rain at some time in the small hours of this morning so HID tells me..

I must have been in the same kind of sleep as Cynf...Didnt hear or see a thing..:)

Spill please....CJ??????

Many thanks for the anniversary wishes.

Fanny's memory has not completely gone after all. It is indeed 43 years since that fateful day when I swapped my mothers cooking for that of another fine woman.

Remember those good old days back then, when the main reason you chose a wedding date in March was because you could then claim an income tax rebate for the whole of the tax year just ending. Quite useful when you had very little money and loads of things to spend it on.

During the first few years of our married life the birthday, Christmas and anniversary presents exchanged between us were by necessity of a practical nature rather than a romantic one. I remember that for Christmas one year I bought the wife a dining table and she bought me 4 chairs to go with it. Carpet for the stairs comprised of 2x 12' wide x 10" long strips purchased as "Ends of roll" from the local market. We cut these into 14 pieces each about 20" long and nailed them on to the "Going" of each stair. Not pretty but they helped to keep the noise down. On other occasions I gave my wife a fridge for her birthday and she gave me a lawnmower for mine.

I may be wrong but I suspect that one of the reasons that some more recent marriages seem to fail relatively quickly is because those couples may not have had to share such experiences which may have helped to add to the bond between them.

Today we live in a much more materialistic society where it appears that some people believe that they should have all the luxuries of life on day one rather than when they can afford them. That puts additional pressure on their relationship which has really only just begun and may take many years to fully develop. Don't get me wrong however, I am as materialistic as the next man but if it came to a choice between getting rid of the 42" plasma Tv or the wife, the Tv would be the one to go.

After all the Tv can't cook my favourite meal but the wife can.

I am totally in agreement with you Mr Jones...I still have a very good relationship with No 2 sons father due to the fact that we really struggled to put a home together,and I do think it is because we shared the hard times and now can to some degree share the better times.
We bought only practical presents for each other and any presents from others had to be of a practical nature also or we asked for them to be taken back and exchanged for something useful,like a set of cutlery or something..Or even better power tools due to the nature of the business we started...
We seperated for a reason that was not because we stopped loving each other or did not get on,but I will not go into that on here.....

Only thing is Mr Jones my mother would have your guts for garters if she were your wife(lucky for you she is not.!)
THE wife is not to be used in her hearing as she is not an object,it has to be MY wife.
Dad is never to be heard calling her anything but MY wife or else..

Edits....I do hope you and Mrs Jones had a lovely day.......

Awww - How very sweet Jonesey ! - I hope your wife is reading this.

Mind you, given the same choice, I wonder if your wife would keep the TV ?? (tee hee).

I do agree with you though - we 'struggled' financially for many years and everything we achieved, we achieved together and gained a great deal of pleasure from even the smallest things.

Even when we moved to this house, 30 years ago, it was such a big step up from our previous one that we did not have money for carpets and curtains etc for a very long time. We only had curtains at the bedroom window for the first 6 months or so and then we were bought some for the lounge by my mum for Christmas. The rest we did 'step by step' as the idea of getting into debt has always frightened me.

We saved up for everything and then when we had the money we would buy the next thing we needed. It does though, as you say, help to build that 'bond' between you over the years.

We did the same thing on the stairs as you with those strips of carpets and I remember, in our very first house we also bought some 'end of rolls' for the lounge which my husband and I fitted together and put down. Now, that was a TRULY 'bonding experience !!!

He bought a large tub of 'bostick' glue and we used it to bond the strips of carpet together, then we sealed all around the edges to stop them from fraying............ It took several hours but the result was worthwhile.

However, when we tried to stand up and look at it, we realised that we were both 'high' on the glue fumes............ We laughed about it later but it was not very pleasant at the time.

We had to almost crawl out of the room and up the stairs to the bedroom where we closed the door and opened all the windows to let in air and we stayed in bed for the rest of the day, recovering............. I think that may have led on to another 'bonding experience' but I don't think I will go into that one on here (tee hee).!!!

Happy days! Happy memories! Happy Life together !

I wish everyone else could share the same.

Dea x

Congratulations Mr and Mrs Jones.
I agree with you about going through tough times together. It does make a relationship stronger.

No wonder my marriage did'nt work, I cannot ever remember going through tough times. We had debts eg Loans and credit cards but nothing we could not afford to pay back.
He went through tough times after I left so it goes to show he needed me to hold the purse strings

Congrats to all those who made it past one "life sentance" though

ja...x

Dont you hate it when you think you have made a major break through in finding something and they b&**%r orf....Oh well they went to Canada cant help any further with that

ja...x

Arrrgggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....
Nope,that doesn't feel better....maybe a better day tomorrow..

I have Worldwide if you want some lookups for Canada ,unless of course its too late for what is able to be accessed..

I haven't got 'worldwide' Ja....x but have found a lot of Canada info websites, if I can help?

Fans, - I don't know what has gone wrong today but DO wish you a better day tomorrow!

Dea x