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I just noticed your name on another posting and the words 'it's my birthday' just sort of popped out at me. So, I thought I would drop by and wish you a very Happy Birthday.

Liz
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hello Liz

Thankyou very much.
that was so kind of you,and well apreciated

You're very welcome. I hope you had a nice day.

Liz
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Hello Liz

Hope today finds you well?

Yes i had a good birthday thankyou.

Can i ask where you come from please?
Im in the UK


M~A Ace

I'm in the UK too, Ipswich in Suffolk. Where abouts are you?

As usual, I am on here when I should be working and I really haven't got time to be messing about today. Best get on with something in a minute.

Liz
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Hi liz.

Im In Birmingham.
oh your another of these many people haveing a sneak on line why at work

I did try and get on-line in my own time and at my own expense yesterday, but hootoo's server didn't want to talk to me.

My brother lives in Birmingham (Kings Heath). Whereabouts are you?

Liz
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Oh i know Kingsheath although its the other side of the city.
Im more solihul way.

Did you have a good week end??

I did have a good weekend, actually. I have been looking around for a new armchair ever since I redecorated my lounge last October and I finally bought one on Saturday. Well, I paid the deposit. I now have to wait about 8 weeks for it to be delivered.

The best thing about Saturday was that I got 4 numbers on the lotto and won £84! I've been playing the same line of numbers every Saturday for about ten years and have previously only won the odd tenner, so to get 4 numbers was a bit of a result.

I think I have been to Solihull. It's not very far from Kings Heath, is it? Last time we went to stay with him, Jon (my brother) took us for a meal at a Tapas Bar that was located in a shopping centre and I'm sure that was Solihull. It was very busy and the service was terrible! Never mind. I spoke to Jon on the 'phone last night. He works in Nuneaton and he was telling me that it took him four hours to get home when we had the snow two weeks ago.

Anyway, I should stop waffling and go and do some work.

Liz
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Morning Liz

thats a long time to waite for your new arm chair.
Im buying a new 3 peace next week and i will be able to purchase and have it delivered the same day.

Glad you had a good week end and congratulations on winning the loto
To be honest ive never dont the loto,im one of these people that thinks i wont never win so dont bother.

i think Kings Heath is about a hour and half away from solihull.

im not suprised it took your brother that long to get home in the snow it was awful.
I hate the snow..

Have a good day in work.
Take care.
speak soon.

M~A Ace

Kings Heath is only about six miles from Solihull, it's near Billesly and Hall Green. Are you sure you are not thinking of Small Heath? (I get those two mixed up all the time).

The people that own my brother's flat want to sell it, so he will be on the move again at the end of March. That is the trouble with renting privately, you get moved on from time to time.

Liz
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no i know where im talking about i should do been here all my life

Im just no good with distance



ooo your poor brother i know how that feels ive been a private tenant a couple of times i remember the last time before the place im in now, sspent a lot of money on the place re landscaped the gardens spent a fortune in side the house and replaced every single door cos the landlord said he wanted permanant tenants. then he went and sold it

I dont think i would go private again though i feel you cant trust them at all.

I suppose it might take and hour and a half to get from Solihull to Kings Heath if you walked.

Renting can be a drag. I rented privately before I bought my house. The last flat I had was in a block that was owned by an Investment Company and they wanted long term tenants so there was never any question of having to move. Before that I shared a house and got kicked out when the owner decided he didn't want lodgers any more. And before that I lived in married quarters and got kicked out when I ceased to be married. Life is more settled when you own your own home (repair and maintenance is scary though). My brother would like to buy somewhere but the housing market has got a bit beyond his reach in recent years. I was lucky in that I bought my place in 1999, just before the market went mad.

Liz
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Hi Liz.
I dont think i could live on my own now i got married at 18 and im 35 so its a long time to think of liveing alone.
I like the company to much. Yeh ok its nice to have some time alone but over all i would be realy lonly i think if i ws totally alone.
my home is always busy my son as his mates staying over most nights and my sis calls in most days and i have a friend who often calls in and a cousin. and even now with all those i sometimes feel its to quiet

You're very different from me in that respect. But then the world would be an awfully dull place if we were all the same, wouldn't it?

I lived on my own for about 8 years between getting divorced and my present boyfriend moving in with me about 18 months ago. I LOVED living on my own and sometimes I still miss it. My bloke works shifts, so I do still get some time to myself. I haven't got any children and my family are not nearby (brother in Brum, as you already know, and parents live in Lincolnshire, as does my dearest friend) so I don't see many folk other than those who I work with. I have a group of local friends that I socialise with about three times a year and my boyfriend and I got out with his friends probably about once every two months - which is quite enough for me.

When I was growing up, me, my parents, my brothers, my father's parents and father's brother all lived in the same house (albeit with separate living areas) right up until I was seventeen. It was awful! I think that because I grew up in an overcrowded, multi-generational household that is why I rather value my own space.

Could explain why we so different in that respect.
when i was growing up i was more of a loaner then when i did start mixing more i was a tom boy.
i spent most my time with just my own company.

My sis lives in the same area as myself my brother lives in Hereford. Sadly my parents are no longer with us.

we have a big family with aunts uncles cousins but since the loss of my parents i dont see them i was never realy close to them anyway but my sis and bro as contact with some of the family ive just basically been left to get on with it.
so i think that has a lot to do with whhy i now like toi have people round me most of the time makes me feel like im wanted im not a very confident person as it is so haveing my husband my son and a few amount of friends helps me wonders.

I've got quite a small familly really. I was the eldest of three children, but one brother died 14 years ago. My Dad's brother never married and still lives with my Grandma (who is my only surviving grandparent). My Mum's sister only lives about 15 miles away but I rarely see her (she and my Mum are not close) and my Mum's brother and his wife live in Cornwall so I haven't seen them for years, but I do write to them sometimes. I have four cousins, one lives in Gloucestershire and I haven't seen him since my other Grandma's funeral in 1992 and his sister lives near Bristol and I haven't seen or heard from her for about eight years. Their younger brother went missing some years ago after a realationship break-up, so I don't know where he lives. I have another cousin who lives in Wales, and I haven't seen her since 1992 either. I've never really liked her - she was beastly to my brother when we were children and she's been a cow to her parents. So I don't have much to do with my wider family, even though there aren't that many of them.

I have a lot of contact with my immediate family though, even if I don't see them that often. I speak to Mum on the 'phone every week and also speak to my Grandma by phone most weeks (she's 84 and she's hilarious!) and I speak to my brother by 'phone at least once a month and we also e-mail each other.

So, how old is your son? My best friend's eldest son will be 18 this year, which makes me feel very old.

Cheers for now
Liz
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Morning Liz

My mom was the oldest of 11 children.
they all went on to haveing big familys each one of her brothers and sisters went on to have 4 or more children and a lot of them have had there own children which explains why i have a big family.
Im the middle child of 3 i was very close to both my mom and dad and miss them terrably.
Both my grand dada are still alive ang in there late 80's

Im sorry to hear that about your brother was he very young?
least you have some contact with some of your family through letter and phone. most of mine walk passed me in the street( i think i said that in a previous post)

My brother i see about twice a year and talk hardly ever on the phone probally about 3 times in a year.

Must have been very hard on your aunt when her brother went missing.
Dont you know if he was ever found?

My son will be 13 in june hes a darling,Never gives me any bother He goes swimming with his mates most days and his mates stay over here most nights where they spend time in my sons bedroom playing the play station or watching dvds or vids.
they are a good bunch never have any cheak from them. just costs me a fortune to feed them all nearly every day

Your best friends son 18 this year? What it woould be like to be 18 again.

I got married at 18 now im feeling old

Hope your week end is going well?
Take care and will speak to you soon.

M~A Ace

Gosh, you do have a big family, don't you? My ex-husband's family was very large and they nearly all lived in the same little town in Lincolnshire. Indeed about eight of them lived in the same street!

My brother was only 19 when he committed suicide. It was very sad and it still is. I don't know what happend to my cousin Andrew - his mother thinks he went abroad but she never hears from him. He might turn up, my best friend's eldest sister was out of contact with her family for over 20 years, but they are all reconciled again now.

You must be relieved that your son and his mates are such an affable bunch. I have a number of friends with teenage children and a lot of them seem to be going through the 'Kevin' stage. My friend Judy's children don't seem to have been like that at all. The one who will be 18 this year is an absolutely charming young man. I wouldn't want to be 18 again, I don't look back on my youth with much fondness at all. I married an idiot when I was 21 and that rather screwed things up for a number of years. I'd like to go back to being 30 and just stay there, that was a very contented time in my life (and recent enough for me to remember it).

My boyfriend bought our local paper yesterday (The 'Evening Star', which is, quite frankly, a dreadful old rag) and the centre spread was all about Birmingham and what a nice place it is to visit. I couldn't agree more. So beware, you may shortly be overrun by East Anglian types!

Liz
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Morning Liz.

Hope today finds you well?

yeh we sure do have a big family. youy can gauarentee when ever their is a family party their is always trouble i stopped going years ago.

I have a couple of relatives that lives close by my sis is just 10 mins down the rd have a aunt 2 mins up the rd but we dont talk a cousin who lives round the courner i dont talk to her either and another cousin who lives round the courner but the oposit end that i do get on well with

Your brother was only 19 thats a trageddy he must have been very sad and low in him self to have took his owwn life.
It takes a lot of courage to be able to do that.

I can only imagine how you all felt and still do feel.


oh i dont know they have had a few Kevin moments over last few days.
they have all gone swimming today and i am so releved for the break from them,They have been realy hypo since they got up yesterday.

Yeah our lovely City was all over the news too for the number one place for tourests. so thats not bad.
a lot of work as been done to the center over last couple of years and looks more up market and no where near as drab as it once did.

I still think i would like to move away from here though. to many sad memories.
yeh we could be over run by East Anglians and lots of other nationalalitys that takes a likeing to ouyr city.
and will all be welcome im sure.
Thats the one thing about us Brummies we welcome anyone.