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Demon Drink
Posted Aug 17, 2003
Dearie dearie me, I had a drink tonight and the buzz is going away. I'm getting a need for the old junior asprin.
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Press manipulation or idiocy?
Posted Aug 14, 2003
A genuine quote from Tuesdays Daily Mirror:
"Brittish women were granted the vote centuries ago in 1928..."
Is it me, or does the math not add up (even slightly)?
The easiest explanation is that whoever wrote this, and then the person who edited it were idiots.
The concpiracy theory is that the media are trying to manipulate our veiw of the U.K. saying that we have been enlightened and forward for much longer than you remember. I *know* women who were not allowed to vote not so long ago in the U.K.
What do you think?
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Latest reply: Aug 14, 2003
Megan's Birthday
Posted Aug 11, 2003
Happiness is here! My little one is five today, and all is good in the world. Happy Birthday Megan.
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Latest reply: Aug 11, 2003
Strange times
Posted Aug 5, 2003
It has, as they say, been a strange old week, and so far it's only tuesday!
There has been a lot on my mind. My Dad passed away in January, quite suddenly it seemed, although he had very advanced lung cancer. My Dad and I were never a pair who talked too much, not in any kind of bad way, just that a lot of things went unspoken because we didn't see the need. Now this is where we come down to it, my father did not leave a will. Please do not read this as I wanted my fathers money, lord knows I would rather have my Dad back, but rather that it left a lot of work for his children to do sorting out his buisness.
Because of this work I feel I have gained a brother. I always knew he existed, but we had never really spoken or communicated, again not because of anything between us but more through the situation in which my father left my brother and sisters with their mother. The reasons he did this are many but not worth going into here, as the man in these stories is not Dad as I knew him, and the situations are outside my experience. The fact is that as my brother and I have administered my fathers estate we have spoken and become close, sharing stories and memories and have both been able to build a fuller picture of our father. I feel that without my brother to talk to, my situation may have been a lot bleaker than it is now, because of the support he has offered me.
What worries me is that the work now appears to be coming to an end, we are finally able to sell my fathers house, I can collect what is left of my property that is there, the money can be divided up and there will be nothing to force us to talk again. I don't want to drift away from the family I feel I have gained in the saddest of cicumstances, or to lose the bond that we now share. But I know what I'm like, it is very possible for me to slip into the same kind of relationship I had with my father, a kind of distant closeness, that will rely on nesescity to make us speak. I know that I can not, must not and will not let this happen, yet still the worry niggles.
The reason it has come to a head now, while on line, is that I have just printed some scanned photos of Dad to give to my uncle. As the last page spooled out and the passport picture of my father taken at 4am was there to see, memories came back of all the times I should have said something. The times when we could and should have talked but didn't' and I regretted the way I let our relatioship slip. I don't want it to happen again and that is hanging around the back of my head like a lost puppy that won't go away.
People will say that any loss of a loved one is hard, a parent especially so, but I am not mired by his loss. I have accepted that he is no more, I am sad about it but no longer depressed. The future is my concern, and my ability to build on what I have gained.
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Latest reply: Aug 5, 2003
Junior asprin
Posted Aug 2, 2003
Who remembers junior asprin? abbi if you are reading I know you do!
Junior asprin was a childs painkiller in chewy orange flavour tablet form, now sadly lost to all in the U.K. It was blessed with many uses, my favourite being a variable strength hangover cure, but had it's downsides, being bad for asthmatics and making your brain swell.
It should be noted however that all current pediatric medicine tastes of plastic fruit, so now is our chance, flout the risks, enjoy the benifits
JOIN THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE RETURN OF JUNIOR ASPRIN!
It started elsewhere ...but now its here!
All suggestions for uses and support gratefully received.
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