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TrulyMadly

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Finish Shine & Dry Rinse Aid Lemon Sparkle (400ml), £3.48 as per online or really 2 for £5 in A?

I HAVE missed you savvy:cool::D

fairclaire

rhosynbach wrote: »

Fc sorry but had to laugh at ds 2 and hg antics today. At least they were trying to help.
Reminded me of a similar lad staying at the holiday home near us. who broke the tv when his dad shouted through to turn it over.as the sky signal was not picking up properly. And he took it literally. The mum did say it was the owners fault as the tv should have been on the wall.

I honestly do try! but it's just not possible to avoid the pitfalls of someone who takes some things so literally
My own lingo/dialect.....whatever you want to call it doesn't help at times. I do use the language I was brought up with.....which my kids haven't......which doesn't help.

I call fizzy pop 'juice' they call anything that comes from fruit and isn't fizzy 'juice'

I call a sandwich a 'piece' when I don't remember to call it a butty.

I call a chimney a 'lum'

I call a drain a 'Grundy'

I could go on and I do try to remember myself but unless I'm really concentrating, I do forget sometimes my whole family notes I am 'worse' if I've been speaking to any friends on the phone or had a visit recently :rotfl::rotfl:

TrulyMadly

fairclaire wrote: »

Second part of my night has had me on epic a death certificate hunt

I had a load of paperwork from the new hospital to fill in. Included was a family medical history sheet which wanted as much family history as I could provide.
I filled in details of my parents' demise and that was all I knew properly :eek: I had vague details in my head of my maternal grandfathers health later in life.....
I knew my maternal grandmother died very young and I was a child at the time but I've never known what she died from and by the time I got curious enough to ask, there was no one left to ask

I think all this is being magnified by my emotional trip last weekend.

Anyway I found grandfathers papers and as I thought, he died from heart problems. As for grandmothers papers I found very little and no death certificate. No idea why that is and there's no reason why I shouldn't have it. So of course I was like a dog with a bone then :o

So I've been online......Scotland's people website........and I found her. I was very sad to learn that she was 51 when she died :( I knew she was young but that seems shockingly young!.......at my current age anyway. So I've ordered a copy of the certificate. Chances are it might not tell me anything, as death certs are notoriously ambiguous and will only record the terminal event. But we will see.....

Dad was 'adopted' so there's no history to find there. An unplanned thought provoking evening

And you've done all of that without the BBC film crew following you to Denmark, without sitting in a huge library and wearing little white gloves to turn dusty pages on a huge copper plate handwritten ledger, without visiting that distant aunt who is totally deaf and lives in Bridlington and without wiping away tears while being comforted by an elderly French mayor wearing a uniform and lots of gongs:D

rhosynbach

Just been watching eric jones an amazing man sat at the tp of a patagoniia mountain eating barabrith. With Ioan. doyle Such an interesting programme and an insight into the welsh in patagonia.

Have sat in erics cafe and passed many a happy hour.

fairclaire

TrulyMadly wrote: »

And you've done all of that without the BBC film crew following you to Denmark, without sitting in a huge library and wearing little white gloves to turn dusty pages on a huge copper plate handwritten ledger, without visiting that distant aunt who is totally deaf and lives in Bridlington and without wiping away tears while being comforted by an elderly French mayor wearing a uniform and lots of gongs:D

Damn! :eek: did I miss an opportunity to get on TV? :eek:
:rotfl::rotfl:

TrulyMadly

fairclaire wrote: »

Damn! :eek: did I miss an opportunity to get on TV? :eek:
:rotfl::rotfl:

Well they say we will all have our 15 minutes of fame .........I'm still waiting:D

rhosynbach

fairclaire wrote: »

I honestly do try! but it's just not possible to avoid the pitfalls of someone who takes some things so literally
My own lingo/dialect.....whatever you want to call it doesn't help at times. I do use the language I was brought up with.....which my kids haven't......which doesn't help.

I call fizzy pop 'juice' they call anything that comes from fruit and isn't fizzy 'juice'

I call a sandwich a 'piece' when I don't remember to call it a butty.

I call a chimney a 'lum'

I call a drain a 'Grundy' r

I could go on and I do try to remember myself but unless I'm really concentrating, I do forget sometimes my whole family notes I am 'worse' if I've been speaking to any friends on the phone or had a visit recently :rotfl::rotfl:

i am sorry fc but if I dont understand you what chance have the poor boys.;):rotfl:
There again in my house its a mix of bad welsh and worse english.:rotfl:

house_elf

queen_of_cheap wrote: »

My local superdrug is too new and too clean for the sort of stuff you got shame cos it's only 3 weeks until my hols and P20 bargains seem to be ultra mega thin on the ground :(

We got our P20 from a reduced bin in TESCO Express. £2.99. Was about £15 in the shop on hols!!!!!!

vanilla_twist

redrose1414 wrote: »

Morning all,
Thank you for all the advice re wills yesterday. It appears that the proverbial poop has hit the fan anyway. I can't bear it, arguing over money, just money, when an amazing, loving woman has been taken too soon. Seriously, stuff the money, even the amount that is being talked about as every time I used it or went into any property it could buy I would just remember what we lost.
Arrgghh



Have fun, I LOVE Ipswich. We live about 90 miles away now but hubby and son pop up to see the tractor boys as often as finances allow.
We are going to move to Ipswich or a surrounding village in about 8 years once ds1 goes to uni/starts his career.maybe even be in a position to buy and not rent by then.

So sorry for your loss.
You are quite right nothing can bring back a loved one.
Stay out the fight and leave the solicitors to do what they are paid for.

Loving memories are priceless.

V x

fairclaire

rhosynbach wrote: »

i am sorry fc but if I dont understand you what chance have the poor boys.;):rotfl:
There again in my house its a mix of bad welsh and worse english.:rotfl:

So true

All I can do is try Deoderant wars is still going on. I think I may have made a breakthrough there this week.Ds2 and I talked about bullying.......which he's all too aware of.

I tried to explain that his autism is something he can't ever do anything about but his personal state is, and why give anyone a reason to bully for him for something that he can do something about. I hope he gets it. we will see.....