General Chat

Afternoon everyone

A bit breezy here and overcast

Jean glad your foals are doing well, do you have names for them, what colour are they.

Rita I read your thread about the census, I remember the last one, I had a n interview to be an enumerator but I didn't get the job probably because my son was small and I didn't have anyone to look after him when I had to collect forms

hope everyone is ok

x

Apparently, China employed three million enumerators for their census.

Results shouldn't be too difficult to count - two parents & one child per household.

Afternoon All
Hubby is back at the dentist, hopeully his last appointment, though he has one more booked for next week if needed.
Is your crown any better Marilyn? I hope the antibiotics worked.
Mo I hope your nephew is finding his way through the necessary treatment. Rita hoping Mike is better every day
Jean glad things are better for you.
Best wishes to everyone else
Got the food in for the party just have to tidy the house yp for tomorrow now

Linda :o) XxX

Hello all,
I overslept this morning and so am behind with everything,lol. My mum wasn't too happy as shes a stickler for routine and we were late to go shopping. I had to get up in night as cough was disturbing OH and he had to get up for work at 5am. I am feeling better and hope antibiotics are doing their job.
Dermot you're a tonic.
Jean glad your back is getting better and the foals are doing well.
Mo hope your nephew is ok.
Rita still thinking of Mike, hope he's doing well and will soon be home.
Stephen glad you didnt get blown away in the night but shuddered when I thought of "Haggis wind" lol.
Hope everyone else is safe, well and warm, going to pick grandaughters up from school now, be back later,

Cath xx

Good afternoon everyone.
Linda, how many are you catering for at the party.Is it going to be all hands on deck,prepping and tidying, or is it down to good ol mum,as is normally happens in most households.

Jeniwren,carry on speaking to us in Romany, it's lovely to hear it. Just as long as it's followed by an explanation, for some of us ficko's (like me) who may not understand.
I would love to see a photo of G.Grandma's Vardo. I hope you keep it safetly locked up,as it's such a rarity these days.
Do you just travel locally to you in it. Oooh I am so envious,and would love to see it.

It appears that most regions of the U.K,are suffering from high winds at the moment.
We have not even stepped over the front doorstep today, it's to flipping windy,and cold out there.

I hope you are all o.k today.

Marilyn i will wait and hear what Tony has to say. they might have overlooked the card,.but I joined 8 years ago. I can email Margaret at the Lace Museum and ask her. she is related by marriage to me on my Dads side of the family. but I will give it two days and see if I get an email.

I went out this morning and it was blowing like mad the leaves were lifted off the ground it was like a shower of leaves..
I watched the news on TV at lunch time they showed you scotland and there winds 130 miles per hour. they took you along to where there were big trees up lifted by the roots and the announcer said Dingwall that was where my Great great Grandparents came from. That was the first time I had heard that name on TV there is a road near my sister in Hampstead and that is called Dingwall my sister has lived in Hampstead since 1966 and she didnt know that road was there named Dingwall

Rita

just been reading some of the other threads. one said Dizzi had been rushed into hospital for a blood transfusion

I read another one that said Maddie has been called away. that was on her own thread. so she has gone somewhere I hope it is not bad news..

I am going to do my tea now.

see later.

Rita.

The Packman

You never would know when he’d come for he had three ways at his will
From Ball Castle through Glen Chesk; by Armoy & the brandy hill.

Or by Rochane & through the Brade; through Carnlough round Red Bay
And up Glen Arif; or he might come by the Island town through Glens Brae.

And any month of the long, long year, himself & his pack might bring
Over the ups & down the downs - but the love of his heart was spring.

When the buds would break on the blossoming thorn & the light grew on the hills
T’was he would whistle the April roads with little lilts & thrills.

And answer unasked the lovely calls of the blackbirds & the thrushes
And still in their throats the envious notes from the best of the April bushes.

“Grand day, thank God” as he’d spread his pack by your leave on the kitchen table
And rise up with the weight gone from his back as high as he was able.

I would run from my lessons to listen with the rest & be told that I should behave
When he loosened the straps & the lid swung back on the bright magician’s cave.

Scissors & spools of coloured thread; thimbles that shine like guineas
Aprons, laces, embroideries & the loveliest pinned-up pennies.

More things that you could ever think would be packed into a space so small
By the big merry man with the moving hands, but the ribbons were best of all.

The blues, the yellows, the pinks, the reds round little white cardboard rolled
And the light would fall on them one & all; the cherry, the move & the gold.

The very last day he ever came & the ribbons were bright to see
He gave me a piece of lilac once, a present from him to me.

It wouldn’t go with my eyes, they said it wouldn’t go with my hair
Nor yet with my new cashmere frock or anything I would wear.

It wouldn’t go with my tip-straw hat; lilac & cornflower should be kept apart
I wore it the summer through because it went with my heart.

I wore it when he should have whistled as the green spring took the glen
When he should have leaned for the latch of the gate but he never came again.

Time & change have had their way & the Packman walks no more
No child today gets a ribbon gay that would go with nothing she wore.

It is long ago since he & his like from the roads of the world were driven
But I think he opened an honest pack at the end of his road in Heaven.

Lovely, Dermot.

Cath xx

Hi Dermot,


You should start a Poem Thread........too good for us !!


I'm getting concerns for Our Maddie .....gone ORF and left us in a stew !!

Hope its nothing to drastic.....

grand daughter has gone home better than she was this morning.
had plenty of cuddles.

Pat I have just had your favourite dish ...Chicken Curry.

Two days in a row we have had spicy food ....must go back to plain English 1meat & 3 veg...

Testing ..... .. ..

Lovely Dermot,may I ask is this your own verse.

Maddie is not here, because she has Family problems at the moment.

Dermot thank you for the poem, very evocative and I could actually see as I was reading.

Just a bit concerned for Maddie too. Hope things get sorted.

Had a message from my cousin her hubby was having a cataract op on Tues, well has had complications. All day yesterday at Moorfields in London.............they live in Watford. Waiting for emergency op on Sunday(if they call). There is damage to the capsule that the eye is in and they are worried about his retina. Just something that sometimes happens,but rarely.

Oh well I'm only coughing but I'm Ok really

Linda :o) XxX

Hope Maddie's problems aren't too serious.

Marilyn, doesn't look like you got your face back then.

Are you saying Dermot's too good for us?

Do you think he's slumming on this thread?

Hope Maddie is ok and will soon be back.
(((((((HUGS))))))) for our Maddie.

Cath xx

Pauline I'm doing my best..

But it wont let me put a new face on ( *v* )))))))))))))))>.



I will keep trying ......

trying another one ....

Marilyn, it's on your PM's.

Reply to ( *v* )))))))))))))))> .Marilyn '

Click on your name on your post, you'll see it.

Click on 'Sign out' at the top of the page and then log back in again.

I have been watching the" Island Parish". those priest have such a great sense of humour. I wish it was on longer than half an hour.they altered the clocks in this one and it was pitch black the fishing trawlers were coming back in the dark.

Marilyn I dont know why you cannot get a face. tell them you cannot see where you are going.and need eyes a nose and a mouth.and it is urgent.
lol.

I poped in to see how you were all getting along.? I am doing my Take a Break Crossword book and watching Tv at the same time.

be good.

Rita

Rita, we're always good!!!!!! lol,lol.