Sunny DFW 17/18 April Chat thread

clairewop

awww bookworm thats lovely!!

katsu

And just for the record - I'd never want our relationship to be different, so I don't have a problem with having disabled parents. I'm sure other people here with disabilities know the challenges and also the joys you find (just don't ask about the day we broke the mothercare lift and ran away )

bookworm8657

katsu wrote: »

*hides ouji board*
Don't they tell men to look at their MIL as that is what their wife will turn into? My Mum and I have the same phone voice, and similar facial features, but different hair colour and shape.

With the greatest respect to my late mum.......pleeeeeeeeeease Katsu don't say that!!!!!!

At least I still have my own teeth...:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Burlesque_Babe

I think it's lovely. There are 20 years between me and my Mum (she fell pregnant at 19 with me) and it was as if there are 50 years generationally speaking, we have never talked about anything, you name it, I can almost guarantee we haven't discussed it and never did. Strangely, my youngest sister and Mum are very close and there are 32 years between them but as my sister said, Mum has 'mellowed' over the years. She was always a 'you don't talk about that' and 'what would the neighbours say' kind of person.

bookworm8657

katsu wrote: »

And just for the record - I'd never want our relationship to be different, so I don't have a problem with having disabled parents. I'm sure other people here with disabilities know the challenges and also the joys you find (just don't ask about the day we broke the mothercare lift and ran away )

I can go even better than that!! Ask your dad about the day we met up with our friend Ms Wong (your namesake!) and she took us to a terrific genuine Chinese restaurant in Dublin....which would have been fine but the restaurant was on the first floor. There was a lift, one of those lightweight jobbies.....which would probably have been ok if it had just been the wheelchair and me...but the owner (who was a friend of KW) insisted on accompanying me in the lift and it was one too many lol By the time we reached the first floor you should have heard the straining noises coming from the mechanical bits.....and the smell of burning!!! hehehehe The look of relief on the owner's face when we finished eating, descended safely and went on our way was priceless! (funny thing is.....we've never been back! )

Ames

My mum's 21 years older than me, but we've never really been close. Once I began to mature she seemed to see me as competition. then there's her alcoholism, her lying that my sister was ill, her telling me she was dying when the doctor's had told her there was nothing wrong with her, and her current obsession with a therapy which makes her 'remember' things like being in the womb...

ZTD

Shoe_Gal wrote: »

Gordon Brown has just called a meeting, this is getting more serious now! Can't see anything flying until Tuesday/Wednesday althiugh there have been some test flights, without passengers, which landed 'without incident'

There's about 4 up at the mo.

http://www.flightradar24.com/

Ames

My flight for Tuesday's been cancelled.

Burlesque_Babe

bum, I don't have any tinfoil to roast the chicken in....just had a shower as well so my hair is wet so I can't pop to the shop (got a thing about going out and being seen with wet hair!! :rotfl: )

elfen

Had a lovely day today, sun is shining, went shopping with Pint, then went down the pub for the afternoon