Memorygirls - The Matrix Re-inspired

Memory_Girl

I wonder if they are having a ceildh band tonight??

.................. and which part of the family will start the fight in the car-park??

......or is that just a Scottish wedding tradition???:rotfl::rotfl:

MG

Firewalker

Looking at history it is very much a Royal tradition as well. The fighting I mean...

FW

susan946

Good Evening Matrix

Well..........you all did a fantastic job re-inspiring me and then along came this horrible gut bug thing and tried to undo all your good work. Determined not to go backwards again and at last I am getting my oomph back and can at least face the thought of food again. Number 2 grandson is to blame for this one. Little monster!!!!!!!!!

Perfect excuse, though, to crash in front of the telly and watch the events in London. Have to confess I love these spectacles.

Sorry to hear about your back, MG. Please look after yourself. The cause of my miseries over the past few months has been the incredible back pain I've had. I really thought I had got on top of the problem following surgery last October, but not so. I looked at my records and found I have been battling with this for 4 1/2 years now and still I have to cut shopping trips (and only local essential local shopping, not long distance luxury marathons) trips short because I can't bear it any more.

Still I've further tests next week and then back to see the surgeon again so hopefully they WILL find a solution. Positive vibes, please...

Will try to keep up, peeps..........promise!!!

Sue

Memory_Girl

Firewalker wrote: »

Looking at history it is very much a Royal tradition as well. The fighting I mean...

FW

:rotfl::rotfl: You could be right.

I have given up trying to stand and do the ironing - DS2 has got clothes for next week, DS1 has all his jeans done and will just have to muddle through with his t-shirts as best he can. The rest will just have to wait.

I have pulled out my Slimming World books as I begin to work from them from tomorrow. What has cheered me up is that everything we will have growing in our garden is FREE!!!!!

My first goal is lose 5lbs - after that I will set another goal, but baby steps, baby steps. Will obviously be doing "Green" in a bid to use up some of my stockcupboard staples. Also I find it works out a lot cheaper that way for us that way too.

DS1 is asking me to come and watch the wedding highlights so I'm going to move over to a hard seat with my hottie.

TTFN

MG

greenbee

Firewalker wrote: »

It is not hard to be more British than the Royal family; they Saxe Coburg Gotha, arn't they? Have to explain to my sister that there is no wonder that Simeon (this is the Bulgarian king who is not a king but became Prime Minister of Bulgaria several years back) is invited to the wedding; he is family.

Katherine (as she has become) is a commoner but this doesn't mean she is common. As to improving the gene pool - what can I say. Lovely...

Firewalker

I seem to remember that Diana had more British royalty in her ancestry than Charles (and clearly had the height gene!). This lot changed their name to Windsor to try to make the German connection less obvious during WWI... Even before Victoria married Albert, the family name was Hanover... so we acquired a German king in 1714 to take over from the Dutch one we had before him... (mind you, the search for a protestant king does mean that succession at various points has been down the female line...)

crickett1234

Oh, and we can't forget the honorable royal tradition of marrying your cousins. The Queen and Prince Philip are some kind of cousins I believe.

Beencounting

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Its only a few days before I start working with the Mentors again so I would also like to take some time to create a framework / set of groundrules for how we work together now.

They have been suprisingly good at accepting that the way were working before perhaps wasn't approporiate - I think a lot of earbending by a lot of wives has been going on, but the simple upshot is.

They have worked in the past solely with Guys - those guys were either single or married with wives / support networks in place and so didn't have to deal with all the "keeping the home together and being there for kids" stuff.

I am female, on my own and am responsible for everything - and as everyone knows "doing it all" and doing too much is a recipe for burnout - which does not benefit the kids, me or the mentors.

So I need to write a new set of rules of engagement - a new model of work for 2011, how you can do a little bit of everything and still kiss your kids whn they scrape a knee.

Should be, ahem!!! interesting this time around - because things that are of upmost importance to me - don't even feature in many of the mentors working model at all.

Mars and Venus - Eh???

Right, first Froggie thing - shower and dressed

TTFN


MG

That's really interesting MG. I've read loads of self-help books in an effort to 'get on top of everything', but they pretty much ignore the other responsibilities most women have (and some men too I'm sure). The overall effect is therefore to cause an imbalance between home (incl children, housework, OHs and relaxation) and work - one side gets ahead at the expense of the other...it really is a conundrum (sp?). It'll be good to see what you come up with - if you're able to share, of course.

Been

Firewalker

Yep, they are cousins. And Greenbee you are correct - the Royal family were Coburg Gotha till WWI when a German aircraft called 'Gotha' started making the occasional flight over and bombing (one of Bulgarians' claim to fame is that we used aicraft for military purposes for the first time; agaist Turkey during the Balkan Wars). It sounded wrong on many levels to have RF with the same name as the enemy bomber. So they became Windsor.

The whole cousin thing is very interesting as well - it caused much trouble during WWI.

I not a royalist and Royalty for me is part of fairytales. I just know my history - sorry.

Firewalker

tellmeitsfriday

crickett1234 wrote: »

Oh, and we can't forget the honorable royal tradition of marrying your cousins. The Queen and Prince Philip are some kind of cousins I believe.

I also think that Sophie and Edward are cousins of some kind too (11th Cousins I think, but don't quote me )

crickett1234

11th cousins okay... that is a lot of blood difference. Any closer, and it starts to get...icky!!