Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Generali

oldandhappy wrote: »

just do not understand<snip>regards from Dianne

Sorry to hear of your family's travails o&h. I had cancer (lymphoma actually) a couple of years back and it really took a terrible toll on the family. I was ridiculously tired all the time when I had radiotherapy. Plus because it was around my mouth all I could really eat was jellybeans and soup so I wasn't eating well either.

Horrible dark days.

Generali

chewmylegoff wrote: »

It snowed in London last week. Twice!

Meanwhile the chap I sit next to at work went skiing in whistler during the last week of March and came back moaning about it being 20 degrees.

Stupid English weather. I do not miss that aspect at all.

oldandhappy wrote: »

just do not understand<snip>regards from Dianne

Sorry to hear of your family's travails o&h. I had cancer (lymphoma actually) a couple of years back and it really took a terrible toll on the family. I was ridiculously tired all the time when I had radiotherapy. Plus because it was around my mouth all I could really eat was jellybeans and soup so I wasn't eating well either.

Horrible dark days.

We live next to a church and when it's quiet the hymns drift through the window. I think they must be quite old school judging by what they seem to sing and I just realised that they're singing 'Bread of Heaven'.

When The Girl was christened I asked the vicar if we could sing Jerusalem. He was pretty noncommittal and I wondered if I'd made some sort of faux pas, not being the religious sort.

When we got to the service a couple of weeks later he said his bit and then broke into a huge smirk as he said in his loud, proud Welsh voice, "...and now we sing hymn number 289, Bread of Heaven". For those that don't know, as the England sports fans sing Swing Low Sweet Chariot and Jerusalem, so Welsh rugby fans sing Bread of Heaven.

Altogether now:

Bread of heaven, bread of heaven,
Feed me till I want no more,
Feed me till I want no more.

chris_m

Generali wrote: »

When we got to the service a couple of weeks later he said his bit and then broke into a huge smirk as he said in his loud, proud Welsh voice, "...and now we sing hymn number 289, Bread of Heaven". For those that don't know, as the England sports fans sing Swing Low Sweet Chariot and Jerusalem, so Welsh rugby fans sing Bread of Heaven.

You sure it wasn't Cwm Rhondda?


He wasn't a cheeky looking chap with a big leek, was he?
You could have been hit with Sospan Fach and Hymns & Arias too, not to mention Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau :rotfl:

vivatifosi

It rained here a lot of the day yesterday, in spite of forecast saying it would be lovely. Of course it did, I wasn't working like last Saturday. Hopefully today will be as advertised.

Generali

chris_m wrote: »

You sure it wasn't Cwm Rhondda?


He wasn't a cheeky looking chap with a big leek, was he?
You could have been hit with Sospan Fach and Hymns & Arias too, not to mention Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau :rotfl:

Haha.:rotfl:

It was very funny. I wouldn't mind if this was at some chapel in the valleys or something but it was in the middle of bloody Kent. At least it gave us a funny story to tell about the morning.

I made sure to thank the vicar in particular for the beautiful hymns we sang.

Pyxis

CKhalvashi wrote: »

The moment the taxi driver tells OH to wait in the car a minute, and comes back with a rose

I'm still trying to work this out.............

Your OH was somewhere in Europe
The taxi driver tells her to wait a minute
He comes back with a rose

........ and gives it to her?

:huh:


I's very confoosed.


(It doesn't take much, though!)

GDB2222

Generali wrote: »

Stupid English weather. I do not miss that aspect at all.



Sorry to hear of your family's travails o&h. I had cancer (lymphoma actually) a couple of years back and it really took a terrible toll on the family. I was ridiculously tired all the time when I had radiotherapy. Plus because it was around my mouth all I could really eat was jellybeans and soup so I wasn't eating well either.

Horrible dark days.

We live next to a church and when it's quiet the hymns drift through the window. I think they must be quite old school judging by what they seem to sing and I just realised that they're singing 'Bread of Heaven'.

When The Girl was christened I asked the vicar if we could sing Jerusalem. He was pretty noncommittal and I wondered if I'd made some sort of faux pas, not being the religious sort.

When we got to the service a couple of weeks later he said his bit and then broke into a huge smirk as he said in his loud, proud Welsh voice, "...and now we sing hymn number 289, Bread of Heaven". For those that don't know, as the England sports fans sing Swing Low Sweet Chariot and Jerusalem, so Welsh rugby fans sing Bread of Heaven.

Altogether now:

Bread of heaven, bread of heaven,
Feed me till I want no more,
Feed me till I want no more.

Not the religious type. Girl christened. Is this just a nice thing to do, so nobody is offended, or does it go further than that? Covering all the bases, just in case?

Generali

GDB2222 wrote: »

Not the religious type. Girl christened. Is this just a nice thing to do, so nobody is offended, or does it go further than that? Covering all the bases, just in case?

I might not be the religious type but Mrs Generali most certainly is: her uncle was a missionary for 20 years and recently retired as a vicar and she's very much the Aussie Anglican.

I didn't want us to marry in The Church as it seemed hypocritical to me but I always said I had no problem with the Generalissimos being raised in The Church as long as I wasn't expected to convert or anything.

The Boy has taken to it very enthusiastically: he has read a pretty full version of the Bible written for kids twice of his own volition. The Girl is a little more circumspect about it.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

I wasn't christened/similar.

If that means I'll burn in hell's eternal d4mnation ... then at least I'll not run out of ways to light my cigs

Hell for you might be a room full of cigs but no matches.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

I wasn't christened/similar.

If that means I'll burn in hell's eternal d4mnation ... then at least I'll not run out of ways to light my cigs

Nor was I.

If I'm down there with you I'll probably take up smoking again. You'd be welcome to cadge a couple but never take the last one. Addicts hate to run out of their drug.