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  • Waves_and_Smiles
    Waves_and_Smiles Posts: 5,263 Forumite
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    You can pm me anytime, whitewing!

    I hope you have a good time with friends and family over Easter, it will just WaSp and I here but I do have a roast dinner and Easter eggs planned and tomorrow I attempt to cook a Simnel cake which may work or may not.
    Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened - Anatole France

    If I knew that the world would end tomorrow, I would still plant apple trees today - Martin Luther King
  • tea_lover
    tea_lover Posts: 8,261 Forumite
    I have done some work! Not much admittedly, but enough that I now feel I can come back and play :rotfl:.

    GG - thank you for sharing about your Dad. He sounds lovely :). I hope that, over time, your many happy memories become more of a comfort to you.

    I am much closer to my Dad too. I get on fine with my Mum (it's her birthday today), but it's just not the same. My Dad just 'gets' me. Like you, he's the only person that compliments me when I'm looking far from my best!

    Wish there was something I could say that would help. Am thinking of you xx.
  • jobbingmusician
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    oh georgie, your dad does sound lovely. I was daddy's girl too - I think closer to him and further from my mum than either of my sisters. And I have married someone who is very like him in lots of ways! I am so glad they got to know each other. Heart shaped pebbles - maybe a rockery of them in his memory? It could be your special place to remember him.

    Looking forward to the happy exciting thing... :)

    And to hearing that melly has had her smoothie. x
    Ex board guide. Signature now changed (if you know, you know).
  • whitewing
    whitewing Posts: 11,852 Forumite
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    You could buy yourself an Easter present from your dad, georgie

    https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/212380248/you-are-my-rock-heart-shaped-sea-pebble?ref=market
    :heartsmil When you find people who not only tolerate your quirks but celebrate them with glad cries of "Me too!" be sure to cherish them. Because these weirdos are your true family.
  • Waves_and_Smiles
    Waves_and_Smiles Posts: 5,263 Forumite
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    edited 2 April 2015 at 12:33PM
    The heat detectors are done! They will be back in an hour to test them and then it's over. They let WaSp keep the old alarms because they're so cheap they aren't worth keeping hold of. He is now in his element taking them apart, he loves electronic things.

    What a lovely idea, whitewing!

    Hahahaha! WaSp is even happier now! The fire alarm man just gave him the entire old alarm control box that used to be in the hall. They would just throw them away whereas WaSp will take apart the circuit boards and use them for other things. He's like a pig in muck right now!
    Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened - Anatole France

    If I knew that the world would end tomorrow, I would still plant apple trees today - Martin Luther King
  • codemonkey
    codemonkey Posts: 6,534 Forumite
    I have achieved something today. Hurrah!
    Eu não sou uma tartaruga. Eu sou um codigopombo.
  • Waves_and_Smiles
    Waves_and_Smiles Posts: 5,263 Forumite
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    Hurrah! Well done code! (You deserve a reward now).
    Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened - Anatole France

    If I knew that the world would end tomorrow, I would still plant apple trees today - Martin Luther King
  • tea_lover
    tea_lover Posts: 8,261 Forumite
    Well done code!

    WW - that pendant is lovely :)
  • mellymoo74
    mellymoo74 Posts: 6,529 Forumite
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    just seen a sparrowhawk - this is good
    was killing a pigeon - this is not good
  • Waves_and_Smiles
    Waves_and_Smiles Posts: 5,263 Forumite
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    edited 2 April 2015 at 1:28PM
    Awww, good and bad! I do love hawks, though. Every year I watch a pair care for their children on live webcam, so far this year there are 2 eggs!

    We have been adopted by the alarm fitters, this is what happens when you give people tea and cake. Not only has WaSp got all of the old fire fittings, we have been told where the secret key to control the main box is hidden in case anyone steals the communal one. I am now workmen free for 4 days at least!

    Ps. I have the fitters mobile number in case anything goes wrong. Today I got a volunteer firemans number, things are going well.
    Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened - Anatole France

    If I knew that the world would end tomorrow, I would still plant apple trees today - Martin Luther King
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