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    • CommentAuthorC.W
    • CommentTimeMay 20th 2008
     

    Has anyone got ny plans for the Bank Holiday? In our household we will probably catch up on a family natter while we are all catching up on chores. For the last year we have alos been having a major clear (to the joy of the local charity shop), but the junk we don't want seems as much as ever.

    Actually the way our little un has been sleeping this week, it will be nice to just have a kip too.

    • CommentAuthorDray
    • CommentTimeMay 21st 2008
     

    Chill time for me :smile:

    About 15 Years ago, I was a minor leader in a church that specialises in helping peeps who had addiction probs. Drugs, alcohol, prostitution. I retired after a big stroke. You might see their multicoloured bus's knocking around. Anyhow, my lass likes to spent time with the ladies at Northampton two or three times a year - so I get to get some time alone. The Bear and my little 'un, get a good knee's up and lots of female company!

    Much as I love my better half, it's nice to get two or three days me time :smile:

    • CommentAuthorC.W
    • CommentTimeMay 22nd 2008
     

    I know what you mean about me time. It's in short supply in my home too. Thoe looking a little further ahead, there is a steam train rally (a.k.a. anoraks convention) near my home on my birthday, so if I can get the children (the eldest is nearing 60!) to go to that I get to celebrate being 50 the way I want to!

    • CommentAuthorDray
    • CommentTimeMay 23rd 2008 edited
     

    Heck, steam trains :)

    They still ran steam trains here in sheffy well after they stopped passenger trains. In those days we still had a steel industry, so freight ran between
    here and the rest of south yorks and beyond. My fondest memories are sneaking out of my bedroom window aged about 13/14 , at 3 am, shinning down the drain pipe, and jogging down to T'Wicker Arches, (a bridge with a station on top, Victoria..) where there was a fella with a uniform in a little lift with those concentina criss-cross iron doors to take you to the little station on top.

    Then I'd flag down a train, and ride to Manchester and back. I can still remember the taste of bacon and eggs cooked on a shovel in a firebox.....

    One of my neighbours started using a coal fire not long back. The smell brought back a lot of memories :smile: I'm 50 too :bigsmile:

    • CommentAuthorCaroline W
    • CommentTimeMay 25th 2008
     

    There is something nostalgic about open fires and steam trains. Much thoe I make fun of my Tame (or Pet) Anorak, it is nice to have him round. I wouldn't say it too loudly, but I do miss him when he is not here

    In a sense we have parralel interests, he likes steam trains and industrial history (he is an engineer by trade), and I like social history, how people lived, family life and all it entails. Strangely enough (or not) our eldest son likes political history

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