General Chat

Janey


you might take some comfort in the fact that Stephen is not going to allow the MPs to take their usual 2 week break ............. once they go back, they're going to have to work all the way through to the end of the session



which presumably menas that you will also get to work through, and no more boredom :))))





sylvia

deliberately???



I think we might be in competition for being matriarch!

Well now where do I start.

First and foremost you lot will be bowing to me from now on. It is quite obvious that I am the matriarch of this little group. The elderly citizen, the grandma of you all.

What do I remember about 1956. We moved from Darwin to Perth and I was enrolled in an all girls high school for the first time.

If that was the year of the Hungarian uprising I also sang Sibelius Finlandia in a massed choir as part of support for Hungary. Always wondered why we sang a Finnish song in support of a Hungarian revolt.

The most memorable part of that performance was tipping melting wax from our candles onto our arms and hands while we were waiting for the incredibly long instrumental introduction before we arrived at the singing bit.

Louis Riel is not being taped by CBC ................. they are busy elsewhere


It is being taped as usual by someone connected with the program, and OH will be buying one of those DVDs to add to his library



sylvia





errrrrrrrrr......................................... one of the Headmasters of the Grammar School I went to was called Beynon


He was, I believe, of Welsh origin


He left the school in ca 1955 to go overseas ...... as a missionary??????????



Nah ............... there can't be any connection!

I can run but I can't hide.

Okay. When *is* the talk?

Notice how I studiously avoid "Beynon" ... You're on the wrong board!!!

In that case I have just 2 words for you Janey to help you out of your boredom through lack of work.....:),

Beynon.

Talk.

My Mum was a bellringer at Woolwich and her picture was in the paper because she greeted the new queen as she came up the River Thames.Rumour has it that Greenwich will be given the new status of Royal Greenwich.

You'll have to wait for that answer LadyKira!

In my case, it is soon going to be something my tummy says. It's fixing to put out a mighty growl, and most nights I ignore it until TV prime time at least. But today is Friday and I am unchained from sitting at the keyboard waiting for the last-minute weekend job that usually arrives but doesn't these days becuase we have no working government so I have no government work ...

And Sherlock claims to be a thread killer.

Did anything happen the year I was born? Oh yeah, the Queen became Queen. Well, not officially until the next year.

I remember when I was little asking how come she got married first and didn't become Queen until a good bit later.

Surely the way to become a queen was to get married ...

Was it something I said?

Have to go


afternoon coffee time


see you later



s

me, gracious?!

I arrived in the world just in time for the Suez crises and the Hungarian uprising.

Fine thing Ladykira! - I make fun of Sylvia for being old, and what happens ... ;)

oh yes, Janey


I was in high school ....... and I remember talk about what would happen if those two teams ended up having to play together.



The Russians lost the battle, but I can't remember who won the game!


Interestingly enough, I went to Austria on a school ski trip at Christmas 1956. We had to spend a long time (several horus) on the Munich train station waiting for our train which was coming throuhg that country ............. and continuing unrest had delayed it.




sylvia

Well I did not arrive until after it as all over.

Sylvia, you are so much more gracious than I.

Interesting about those Olympics, didn't know that.

Of course, in 1956 I hadn't started school yet, although we had just got television I think.

That's a lovely keepsake and reminder of your OH's uncle, Ladykira


Oh isn't that the Games where there was a blood bath in the pool?


.................... Russians vs Hungarians (or was it the Czechs) I believe


The Russians had invaded the other country some months previously ....




sylvia

Lucky I saw there was a page 5 -- I was just about to say ...

Okay, who did you steal that from?

;)