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Hi Kay, welcome to the Boards..... my board name will give you a clue where I'm from ;-) :-D

Obviously I come from theTown with No Name ;-)

Hello Kay, welcome. If you watch Strictly Come Dancing, and want to add to the Da-da-da-da-da thread, please do. :-)

Welcome Kay
:-D

I live in Scotland in bonnie Aberdeen but I speak
English on here so my GR friends can understand me :-D ;-)

Welcome Kay

I too am in Scotland but a little further south in Edinburgh. I’m married and a stepmother of four. I also have two furry toads otherwise known as cats who answer to Meg and Mog. As others have said we’re a friendly bunch so please do join in.

Hello Kay

I also live in Scotland, but further south on the banks of the Clyde. I am also in my 80's, married with a couple of sons and two granddaughters, who live down south and we haven't seen for over a year. We were hoping to spend Christmas with them, but that is looking more and more unlikely.

One thing you will notice is the abbreviations used on here. The most common is OH, which is "other half" and is used to mean any partner, be it husband, wife, or unmarried partner of any sex.

Welcome Kay.
I am from the West Midlands and have 2 children and 6 grandchildren and am just a tad away from 70.
I also make greeting cards mainly for myself to send but occasionally for a friend . I don't do much research now
OH and I both do the garden, he does veg and i do mainly flower beds . Otherwise I enjoy reading.

:-)

Greetings Kay!

1. I'm told that I was born with a slight 'stiff upper lip' - but I'm not British.

2. I obtained Cilla Black's autograph outside the BBC Shepherds Bush studios - c1970s.

3. I took 3 flying lessons at Exeter Airport - c.1992. Twin-seater Cessna.

4. Two of my older brothers were involved in stock-car racing.

5. I have 4 siblings; but I'm the only one without a second Christian name. I still feel deprived! :-D

More to follow if anyone (including RTR) is even slightly interested. And I really mean that!

Do tell Dermot. :-)

5 more things to relate - try not to fall asleep.

1. I sang a duet with Daniel O’Donnell in our local church service c.1980 - that was long before he became famous. Unfortunately, I'm still awaiting my fame! Don’t tell me you’ve never heard of the Donegal fellow!

2. I helped an aged corner shop owner to hold on to a young miscreant, who was trying to do a spot of shoplifting, till the police arrived.

3. I cycled 100 sponsored miles in 8 hours with a bunch of others - proceeds went to BHF.

4. A school pal joined the Irish Garda force & was subsequently shot dead by the IRA.

5. This chap's forebears were amongst the few who, in 1879, claimed to have seen an apparition of the Blessed Virgin at Knock, Co Mayo - now a worldwide recognised Marian Shrine. Pope Francis paid a brief visit there recently. It rained!

I liked your stories of Ireland when you wrote
for the greaders thread.

So did I Emma :-)

Yeah Ann :-D

Welcome Kay...enjoy <3 <3

Wow, so many lovely responses and invites to join threads. Thank you all very much for taking the time and trouble to respond. I really appreciate your efforts. I like the way Sharon wrote she "infests the South coast"!!! I guess she might be the joker of the pack? I love the way Dermot gave so much info. More of the same please Dermot if you don't mind. I see lots of you have animals and cats seem to be the favourite. They're definitely easier than dogs to care for, but often more "trouble"!

I've got lots of reading to do by the looks of things-some of the threads are massive. I'll try to catch up with them as much as I can because I don't usually turn my laptop on until the house is quiet with all the animals tucked up in bed;usually about 11pm, so you'll all probably be in bed by that time and wouldn't be active on here. I'm a night owl, usually going to bed about 3am which I think is a habit formed from working the night shift for so many years. Having said that, I don't do mornings!! In fact I don't usually open my eyes until about 11-12am.

Once again many thanks to everyone who replied to my post and I look forward to joining you all in some lovely chats. Take care all. X

Hi Kay

Well, you and I are almost kindred spirits! I am a night owl too. Nice to meet you. I don't know how I missed your thread early yesterday!

I am 73 and Iive in Norwich. I have a son of 38 and no blood grandchildren yet altho my son's fiancee has a 12 yr old boy who is diabetic. My partner has 2 grandkids in Essex who we see a couple of times a year and 3 in America, who he has never seen.

I have fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome and I have a very strange sleep pattern. My 'toyboy' partner of 25 yrs is losing his memory and has dodgy knees so falls a lot. He is 66 and has become very anxious and needy since he retired nearly 2 years ago. I feel suffocated by having to watch out for him all the time. He often sits around till all hours dozing and talking but he tells me things a dozen times over because he forgets what he's said, while I try to watch things I have recorded on tv. If I try to watch things 'live' he talks over the programme or keeps asking me what has happened, he can't follow a programme of any kind without getting confused.

So when he finally goes to bed I stay awake to watch my recordings and do what I want/have to do in peace. I have been a night owl all my life but now it's extreme and I go to bed at any time from 9am to 12midday depending when he gets up and then sleep as much as I can! I always have one ear listening in case he falls. He potters about the house and garden

I hope you will soon find your way round the boards and get to know us all. We have had many good times and lots of sad times, as we have lost good friends, but we try to support each other as best we can.

Over the years we had several 'meets' where some of us would travel.to a central
point in the UK to meet face to face. They were always interesting and fun, and some strong friendships came from these get togethers.

Take care and stay safe

Lizx

1. When I was a youngster, sometime during the last millennium, my Godmother used to tell me repeatedly that I was the spitting image of an aged Aunty. Didn’t go down well. May God be good to both of them.
2. I keep mislaying my invisible hearing aids.
3. I haven’t got a bitcoin to my name.
4. I love long words & short words; unusual words & weird words.
5. I am greatly embarrassed if someone points out a spelling mistike in any of my tepid compositions.

Hello kay. Welcome to the boards.

I live in the remote Outer Hebrides

Florence in the hebrides :-)

Hello Kay.

Welcome to the Boards.

I'm another of the Canadian connections, although Caroline and I are the only ones who seem to post regularly now. I'm one of the few around in the middle of the night, along with Caroline, Allan and Liz. We just read threads, and leave comments if we feel like it, and wait to see what the response is next day ;-)

I turned 80 this year, was born and raised in Lancashire not far from Manchester, went to Liverpool University, and taught in Cheshire for 2½ years.

I met my now-husband soon after I began at Liverpool in 1959 but we didn't get serious about each other until late 1966 just before he was to leave England for the US. We married in August 1967 and left the UK 10 days later.

We've lived in Vancouver in Canada since 1968, both of us worked at a university here, he was on faculty and I was a Research Technician in the botanical garden there. I took early retirement in 2000, and he had to retire at 65 in 2003 .......... now there is no forced retirement.

I had 5 cousins, sisters, who all emigrated to Australia back around 1960 with their families. I've been down there several times starting with a sabbatical of almost 11 months back in 1975/76 ........... most recently on a retirement trip in 2000, and then with OH in 2006 (when I was 68). Two of them are still alive, aged 89 and 95, plus I am close to a couple of their children who are actually closer to me in age than the actual cousins.

It would be very feasible for us to go out there again if we went Business Class for the extra space ............... but Australia is all locked up at the moment, and we would want to go to at least Victoria, NSW and Queensland with WA and Pert a very definite wish as we have friends from the late 1960s still living there.

I have no desire to go back to England, even for a holiday .......... we were last there in 2008.

We have 1 daughter, and 1 grandson (aged 10), the family lives in Nova Scotia which is right at the other side of the country. It takes as long if not longer to fly there than it does if we want to go back to the UK! We haven't seen them since we left Halifax the day after Boxing Day just past, and will probably not see her until mid-summer at the very earliest, and possibly not even until Christmas 2021.

I have tickets booked on the train to go over there leaving here on December 12th (arriving there on the 18th or 19th), we no longer fly anywhere in Canada if we can help it. The long distance sleeper trains are not running at the moment, with the first announced possible re-start date just announced as December 11th! The NS border is still closed to everyone without permission to enter, with 14 day quarantine after. I think BC is heading that way again as we have just been told that the second wave of covid is here.

Nothing we can do except hope! ;-)

Looking forward to chatting with you in the middle of your night! I'm 8 hours behind the UK.

Hello Sylvia,

My family all come from Liverpool and I still feel an affinity to the place even after leaving there 62 years ago. I was only 4 when we moved to Northamptonshire so I don't remember Liverpool from then but we often visited my Nan when I was a child and I remember it from then. I've not been for about 20 years now but I will do when I can.

Such a shame it's so difficult for you to visit your daughter for Christmas. It's been a long time but you maybe skype? I often speak to my son via skype-the one who lives in America. I was due to visit him this past August but I had to cancel due to this terrible virus. Oh well, there's always next year if possible, I do hope you can get to see your daughter soon. That journey must be an adventure in itself ! Must be beautiful scenery, and the trip wouldn't be too tiresome if you're able to have a proper sleep on the sleeper train.

I've had some lovely welcome messages and everyone on here seem to get on well with each other. I suppose, like yourself, I'll probably just read through the days postings and learn more about everyone and comment on threads that I find interesting. Also like yourself, I probably won't often be on my laptop at a very social hour so everything's going to be a delayed action!

Thank you for your post and I hope to "talk" to you again very soon. My very best wishes to you.