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BiddyGrotto
What do all the biddies/grumps want to find in their wrinkly stockings this year then? Do you like all this festivity or will you be the grumpy gran/grandpa from hell this year?
Please feel free to take a present out of the bran tub as you leave by the way. Contents may be unidentifiable....oops sorry...be varied.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Thank you again all. I am feeling better these last few days & trying to keep abreast of the more important things in life! Need to keep going for the sake of the family (as my dear old Mum used to say)!
P.S. The date of the Memorial service for my dear sis Amy, is now on the 17 Feb. In the meantime, I think of her sharing a pot of tea with her husband & my Mum & Dad - that makes me feel happy.
Yes, shopping it was what I would call fun in those days gessoo & all.
Funny you should mention that Robi - I also used to love going into the local hardware shop - we called it the Oil Shop! Either one of my 9 siblings & I would take empy bottles along to fill them with parrafin for the victorian looking heaters in the bedrooms! We then used to lay in bed of a night talking & watching the lovely soothing patterns on the ceiling, until we dropped off to sleep. zzzzzz
That really made me laugh gesso - paying for shopping looked so complicated in those days, compared to paying by switch!
Thank you for your good wishes for me & my dear Amy.
Looking back on the posts, I'm glad you're feeling much better now & able to get around more. There's nothing worse than not being able to get out in the fresh air & meet people! Oh, yes there is - it's called ironing! He, he!
Neti - The first service will be held in Eastbourne on the 16 Feb (not quite sure where tho') - that one is for the friends Amy made whilst living there.
The second & main service will be held on 17 Feb in Bexleyheath - that one will be for lots of family & friends (who are still around of course).
If you've been looking in the Gazette - Amy was christened Annie after my Mum, but was nicknamed Amy from a baby by my Grandmother & is what we always knew her as. Her married name is/was Farmer.
And what is wrong, Jude, with working in Sainsburies? Some of the nicest people I know work on the checkouts of our local Morrisons (who are happy to take on us seniors). I always have a good chat to all the lovely checkout people and shelf fillers when I go in there. In fact, several years ago I did consider applying for a job, but it's not the best work for someone with osteoarthritis in the neck and upper back!!
So keep up the good work, you are very valuable.
Sorry Smudge didn't mean to take the conversation away from your dear sister. I hope all goes well at the services.
As for where I work, I dont really mind, I've made some very good friends there who I will keep in touch with when I retire.
Just got back from the docs. and he's given me another week off work to get my strength back!! Bless 'im.