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Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:24 pm

englishangel wrote: If you check Veronica Gravett's FRU details she graduated in 1967 which would make her 59 or so now.

So she was about the age I am now when I started at Hertford

A little bit younger in fact!!!

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 9:51 pm

My head hurts

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 10:06 pm

englishangel wrote:My head hurts

So does mine - I had a migraine today after some daydreamer slammed their car into mine

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:00 pm

Ouch Vonny that must have hurt - are you ok?

I had a bad head the other day - eventually crawled back to bed and slept like a babe - I guess I'm lucky - having had my children early and now being as they say - a bit on the elderly side (bless!) I now have no real responsibility to sorting out their daily routine - I get up at 7am make my daughter her breakfast and her lunch - see her off to the bus, and then the day is mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Although there are days when I don't talk to a "real" person - ie someone outside the family and not the cats! Son lives with his girlfriend and her parents - at 21 I don't think he really thinks living at home has any merits!! (too right - especially when he wont pay anything towards rent!)

Anyhow - Vonny - hope your head is less painful now and that your car isn't too damaged - and a lesson from me - don't ever lend your offspring your car just after they have passed their test..... unless you want it back in pieces!

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:24 pm

Jude, you area mere child.

there are several of us on here older than you.

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:17 am

Thank you Mary for that dig...

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:20 am

Euterpe13 wrote:Thank you Mary for that dig...

I was thinking about midget actually.

You are as old as you feel, I think poor Jude has 'good' and 'bad' days.

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:24 am

Indeed ... my son ( in the days when he was still talking to me) once sent me a b'day card with , on the front " You're as old as you feel" , and inside " and you feel lovely!".

Did Jude mention she has MS in another post - horrible illness, but she sounds v. brave about it. Must say that this forum also give me a much-needed daily chuckle, and sod the time-wasting !

Juie sent me mail about a get-together, but I never get over to the South - only to the 'pool to see Lovely Laura
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englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:30 am

Yes she did, didn't want to mention it in case I was imagining it.

Perhaps I should have said, "You are as old as you THINK you feel".

YOur son sounds lovely, I have 2 like that, and a cuddly daughter too who just recently said, "Why do people send birthday cards with horrible jokes about how old you are?"

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:39 am

Re. Lovely Son : ah, yes, but he also says think like " Mother , when are you going to start acting like an adult ?" ( I start when I'm dead - eternity lasts a long time...) or " Mother is like a lovely house with landscaped gardens - all the lights are on, but there's nobody home..." ( ouch) or, the best : " I can never talk to you seriously about anything ... " ( we were discussing whether he should dye his hair orange or silver, and I'm afraid I lost it...)

At the moment, he isn't talking to me at all, which is perhaps just as well... but my Laura is a joy, so not all is lost ! ( but she also opines that her Mum is an overgrown adolescent )
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englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:09 am

Euterpe13 wrote:Re. Lovely Son : ah, yes, but he also says think like " Mother , when are you going to start acting like an adult ?" ( I start when I'm dead - eternity lasts a long time...) or " Mother is like a lovely house with landscaped gardens - all the lights are on, but there's nobody home..." ( ouch) or, the best : " I can never talk to you seriously about anything ... " ( we were discussing whether he should dye his hair orange or silver, and I'm afraid I lost it...)

At the moment, he isn't talking to me at all, which is perhaps just as well... but my Laura is a joy, so not all is lost ! ( but she also opines that her Mum is an overgrown adolescent )
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Depends if he is blond or brunet. Silver is nice.

Mine was going to go blond for Â£50, Green for Â£100 and bald for Â£200 for Children in Need but chickened out.

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 11:09 am

His natural colour is a lovely dark chestnut.... and since he couldn't decide ( and I didn't dare comment again ) - we had orange ( and I mean nasturtium here ) , followed by metallic silver..... along with green contact lenses on his brown eyes... ho hum

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 11:15 am

My daughter also has extremely dark brown hair, very, very thick and shiny, with dark brown eyes (all 3 have them), and whatever colour she puts on her hair is magnificent. (red, blue, purple and black so far) she hasn't (yet) bleached it to change completely, too proud of it at the moment.

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 11:20 am

Lucky mother.... believe me, you do not want to go and pick up a 6'4" tall ,dark & handsome at the station, to find a an inverted carrot waiting for you - gave me a nasty turn, I can tell you !

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 11:28 am

I have a carrot top nephew, who was blond at last meeting.

Own son was very Goth. When he was 14 I arranged for him to go to a Marilyn Manson concert with a friend of mine who did not know him.

Friend said "How will I know him?" expecting a little boy.

" He will look as if he is going to a M M concert"

5'11', white face, black eyes, black lips, black hair. Black leather jacket, black combat trousers and boots.

Looks a little more normal now though he does have long hair (usually in a ponytail)