Olive Oyls 12-month Countdown

OliveOyl_2

Thanks BL, It IS good, I thought it was going to go up this month as I've just bought 2 more return flights. (mine for early Feb, his for Easter).

The current advice (thanks Martin :money: ) is that long haul prices are liable to fall during this year as fuel is cheaper, and flights are harder to sell to people cutting back. So there should be a gap before I have to buy Popeye's next flights in June......

Karmacat

Flights sound good, Olive - and that list looks *great*!

PS - the dates bought in 2007 - pah! Carry on girl, thats fine :rotfl:

ampersand

What a nice little afternoon spot to find, listening to you all and being part of a quietly companionable raft of people I rather think I'd like to meet In The Real also.
Lemon curd re-done(it's v.g., says she of Her Own Work) - lemons bought along with good late night finds chez Mr T hier soir. Now awaiting peculiar bread, to which various bits have been added in a vaguely Mediterranean fash, I suppose.
A had bad cardiac episode again last night, but he refused hospital admission and language difficulties meant he got away with it - I haven't been gone a week.

Jenny Josephs and wearing purple is for me and I have a good Irish purple homespun tweed cape, which lives in car as garment, cuddly, rug, whatever.

'Old' is other people's description - it's never had anything to do with me in my head, nor will it. Not that I don't at times feel older than Methuselah - but that's nothing to do with age and I think everyone has their own clock and system. Conforming to one that's not your 'fit' is not a good way to live.

Could converse with you about Bernard Cornwell, but won't...that was then and this is now.

OliveOyl_2

ampersand wrote: »

Could converse with you about Bernard Cornwell, but won't...that was then and this is now.

:rotfl: I was grasping at names from my memory - I actually meant David Cornwall aka John Le Carre. :rotfl: (early signs of Dementia :eek: )
I've Never read B, though DS1 is a BIG fan of Sharpe

If we ever meet in RL - and I quite hope that I do meet more of my "virtual" friends - you can dish the dirt on B

boredofbeingathome

Another Sharpe fan here and i confess to a couple of his other books.

Maybe a tad off topic, but is it just me or does anyone else count how many times he comes out with the stock phrase 'Oh, ya B***ard!' when he is referring to a baddie? Just me then?:rotfl:

Karmacat

:hello: Another Sharpe fan here! I was a fan of Sean Bean's for ages, and then I discovered in my genealogical researches that my direct female line was an Irishwoman who married her sweetheart, an Irishman who fought in the British army, and carted her children through the Peninsular War - he was a bit like Harper, I think - he made sergeant, was demoted to corporal, and fought at Waterloo, tho I'm pretty sure the resemblance ends there.

Wouldn't it be nice to meet in RL?

boredofbeingathome

Good grief KC, i am shocked at our similar taste in these things...well not really once i knew you were a Sci Fi fan, then the rest follows.:T

That is an interesting bit of info on your family tree. Do you have any letters or anything to corroborate?:D

Although there is a lot of Irish and Welsh in me too..a bit of a Heinz 57 i think.:rotfl:

I think if we all met in RL then we would 'out gas' each other with a wide variety of tales:rotfl: Elantan has experience of me, so will verify ..but then again she is as bad:D :rotfl:

ampersand

Oh I did have to chuckle at your post OO - yes, there is a difference and the Le Carr! version is my preference. But it's the other one I had connection with, via late a.n.other.
Back to voluntary day tmrw - book lady among other things.
It's fatal.

OliveOyl_2

Not sure about meeting in RL, to me you all look like your Avatars (frog??? ) and I'm hoping you think I look like mine
Whereas I'm from Eastern European stock, mixed with sturdy Scots and I'm built like one of those "outhouses" as you say

Back to work today and I'd cleared my desk last week, so I have not a lot to entertain me. Once FK gets in I can't even lurk here

Karmacat

boredofbeingathome wrote: »

Good grief KC, i am shocked at our similar taste in these things...well not really once i knew you were a Sci Fi fan, then the rest follows.:T

:D:D

That is an interesting bit of info on your family tree. Do you have any letters or anything to corroborate?:D

No letters still exist, no, and not all that many of them could read or write; we found out the old fashioned way, through birth/marriage/death certificates and census records. Because I started work on it in the 1960s, believe it or not, I talked to my nan lots over the years about what she remembered, when she was quite young, so I knew a fair bit about her grandparents, so they were easy to trace. And then her maternal great grandmother was born in France, which is a bit of a giveaway in working class nineteenth century Liverpool (they lived in courts, which is another way of saying "Irish ghetto", more or less). I checked what few Overseas Records the Family Records Centre held, just for something to finish off with one day, and she (my grandmother's grandmother's mother) was there. So I found out what regiment her dad served in, and where and when her sisters were born, and I found his discharge papers at Kew, and his place on the Medal Roll. She'd been born in France because her dad served with the British Army of Occupation till 1819..... I bet thats more than you wanted to know :rotfl: Sorry for the hijack, Olive.

Although there is a lot of Irish and Welsh in me too..a bit of a Heinz 57 i think.:rotfl:

We all are, if truth be told!

I think if we all met in RL then we would 'out gas' each other with a wide variety of tales:rotfl: Elantan has experience of me, so will verify ..but then again she is as bad:D :rotfl:

Absolutely! It would be *very* good ....

Olive - I *better* not look like my avatar, all furry with a crown on, otherwise I've got problems I never knew I had :rotfl: