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  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
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    LydiaJ wrote: »
    Thanks treliac.

    Actually, I don't find dealing with his stuff traumatic for emotional reasons. What terrifies me is that there's so much stuff altogether - his and mine and the children's. A lot of it's in chaos - far too much random stuff chucked in far too many random boxes. And the children resist getting rid of anything. Anything at all.

    I have been explaining to them that next week we'll be borrowing a friend's car for a few days while ours goes in to the garage to have a replacement engine fitted. DS (who has never shown the slightest interest in the car engine before) claims to be upset at the idea of the current engine being taken away. I mean I know bereaved children are hyper-sensitive to loss, but a car engine???? :eek: A week or two ago he discovered that I had taken a broken chair to the tip. I had warned him it was going and taken photographs of it (which seems to help him a bit) but he still cried for several minutes when he found out about it. He complained he hadn't had a chance to say goodbye to it and pleaded to be taken to the tip to bid it farewell. I explained that the rules at the tip are that children aren't supposed to get out of cars, so I wouldn't take him, and he got over it eventually, but it's a bit of a nightmare.

    TBH dealing with the clutter would be difficult for me anyway because I'm not good at that sort of thing, and I have very little spare time and find it terribly difficult to motivate myself to use what little spare time I do have to deal with the stuff. However, to have the children resisting even what efforts I do make is doing my head in.

    Just wanted to say all the best Lydia. You know where we are if you need to rant/vent/laugh/cry or just throw your hands up in the air...:A
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
  • lostinrates
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    lemonjelly wrote: »
    Only 3? Erm...Derren Brown, Mark Kermode, & Jack the Ripper (just so I can find out who he really is!) But there are certain other guests I would like, & 1 to stay much later than dinner...;)

    I remember being asked who I would dress up as for a fancy dress party! This was for a job with Customs & Excise!


    I can think of more than three people from this thread, but the point is that its not about that, and I resent a question for which the nly answer is a lie. For the same reason I find mulitple choice things really hard....very few things have a set solid black and white answer.
  • PasturesNew
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    Put on the spot I couldn't think of 3 people to dine with .... or why. I'd probably say something really stupid like: David Cassidy, Donny Osmond and Marc Bolan - because they're hot :)
  • Davesnave
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    edited 22 November 2010 at 11:17AM
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Put on the spot I couldn't think of 3 people to dine with .... or why. I'd probably say something really stupid like: David Cassidy, Donny Osmond and Marc Bolan - because they're hot :)

    Marc Bolan wouldn't be much good for conversation, these days. :)


    (Or anything else, for that matter.)
  • treliac
    treliac Posts: 4,524 Forumite
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Put on the spot I couldn't think of 3 people to dine with .... or why. I'd probably say something really stupid like: David Cassidy, Donny Osmond and Marc Bolan - because they're hot :)


    Were hot - 40 years ago! :D
  • GDB2222
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    Marc Bolan wouldn't be much good for conversation, these days. :)


    (Or anything else, for that matter.)

    Oh, is he dead? I had no idea. Who was he, anyway? :cool:
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • PasturesNew
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    treliac wrote: »
    Were hot - 40 years ago! :D
    Even though they're over 50, Donny and David haven't changed much to look at. They're certainly not bald porkers like, say, Boy George.

    That Suggsy from Madness is another one who hasn't aged 100 years.
  • PasturesNew
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    edited 22 November 2010 at 2:54PM
    GDB2222 wrote: »
    Oh, is he dead? I had no idea. Who was he, anyway? :cool:
    I can't believe you're asking!!!
    Marc Bolan, lead singer of T Rex fame.

    Hit a tree while driving a mini and died. Well, he was a passenger.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Bolan
  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    I can't believe you're asking!!!
    Marc Bolan, lead singer of T Rex fame.

    Hit a tree while driving a mini and died. Well, he was a passenger.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Bolan

    Died same day as Elvis - which is why most can't remember.

    Kinda like Mother Theresa & Princess Di, Aldous Huxley & JFK, Farrah Fawcett & Patrick Swayze etc.
    It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
  • PasturesNew
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    lemonjelly wrote: »
    Died same day as Elvis - which is why most can't remember.

    Kinda like Mother Theresa & Princess Di, Aldous Huxley & JFK, Farrah Fawcett & Patrick Swayze etc.
    I didn't know that. I wasn't an Elvis fan, was a BIG fan of Marc Bolan though. I never had any of his records though as we were poor, but I could listen to him on the radio on Sunday night when the Top 20 came on ... and then I got a tape recorder and could hold the mic near the speaker on the radiogram to record it.

    And I got Jackie magazine, they did a lot of Marc Bolan stories in there ... and some favourites of mine about David Cassidy, I can still see one of the pages now in my mind's eye.
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