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General => The Shed => Topic started by: Yellow Petals on January 22, 2006, 00:56:50
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Hope you have a lovely day (at least it's on a Sunday and away from the classroom!)
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Have a very Happy Birthday Robert! Hope you have a great day. :D love busy_lizzie
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Have a lovely day Robert :D
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Robert :D
VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU 8)
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Have a good one! Best wishes.
Amanda ;D
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And from me too.
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Hope you have a Happy Birthday ;D
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Thanks. Off to take a service shortly.
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Happy Birthday Robert :)
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;D Happy Birthday! ;D
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HOPE YOU ARE HAVING A LOVELY DAY
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Happy Birthday Robert - Have a good day mate. :)
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Happy birthday, Robert. Hope the service went well!
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Me too, hope you have a great day!
C.
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I got through the service. I floundered through the sermon, which as always a bit critical; if #I'm feeling under the weather it shows. I was told ot was 'all right but a bit too long', which was probably about right, as I do tend to put in too much historical detail sometimes, it's a reaction against all the preachers who ignore it. The Temple's a crucial issue, and nobody else ever says anything about what was going on!
Down to the allotment shortly. One thing I forgot to mention yeaterday, I found three of my Podophyllums! I had a dozen, and thought I'd lost them all in the thefts, but the survivors must have got lost in the undergrowth. If I can get one to the point of producing seed (they have big red berry-type fruit) then it'll be easy to raise more.
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Happy Birthday!!! ;D
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Hope I'm not too late... Happy Birthday from me too!
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many happy returns!
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A very happy birthday Robert.
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Happy Birthday Robert!! Hope you are having a lovely meal with your family around you this evening!!
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Meals with the family round don't happen! we're about to go out to see a film Namissa wants to watch, Brokeback Mountain, about two gay Americans, which is all I know about it. We're going out for a meal next week after she's been paid.
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Jealous!! Want to see Brokeback Mountain!!!!
Enjoy!!
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Happy Birthday,Robert - I nearly missed it!! And glad you hadn't lost all your Podophyllums ( ???) - I'll need to google...
Brokeback Mountain - have read the story - it's only 30+ pages in a collection of Wyoming Tales by Annie Proulx but no doubt the film has elaborated!
I know this may be wandering off topic, Robert, my apologies for that but I did Google and WOW Podophyllums! http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/283/11821.html?1115897334
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Meals with the family round don't happen! we're about to go out to see a film Namissa wants to watch, Brokeback Mountain, about two gay Americans, which is all I know about it. We're going out for a meal next week after she's been paid.
Brokeback mountain = A raw, powerful story of two young men, a Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 sheepherding in the harsh, high grasslands of contemporary Wyoming and form an unorthodox yet life-long bond--by turns ecstatic, bitter and conflicted.
Am very much looking forward to seeing it this Tuesday.
We've been to see Underworld: Evolution this evening which was pretty good.
Hope you've enjoyed your day (and film!)
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Happy birthday for yesterday, sorry I'm a bit late!
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Robert,
Sorry I'm late too -
Hope you enjoyed the film and had a great day,
CLx
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BEST WISHES,
angle shades,x
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The film's excellent but rather tragic. Namissa's from a very homophobic culture and she's trying to understand a bit better, which is why she wanted to see it.
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;D Belated Birthday Wishes, Robert. ;D
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And from me too: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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Thanks to everyone. Namissa's sister died last night, and we've suddenly got landed with major problems with our younger girl getting bullied (the school's rapidly getting on top of it fortunately) so things are more than a little difficult right now.
Regards,
Robert
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Robert. So sorry to hear your sad news.
Glad to hear the school are doing something about the bullying.
Best wishes to you all.
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Thanks.
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Very sorry to hear your sad news Robert. I can sympathise very much. Poor Namissa.
Hope the school sorts the bullying out.
Awful time for you all.
Best Wishes
Helen
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Robert, doesn't life have a way of catching you out... Condolences to Namissa and yourself on the loss of your sister-in-law. For the other matter of the bullying - it is frightening because you can feel helpless and unable to protect your child from life's bad side but we can only hope that the school does manage the situation out very soon.
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So sorry to hear of your very sad news Robert. My condolences to Namissa for the loss of her sister and your sister in law. It is also very worrying when your child is bullied. My daughter was bullied when she was twelve and had a dreadful time from some girls in a gang in her class, so I know how horrible it can be. Fortunately the school were quite good too, and dealt with it quite well, but it took ages for my daughter to get her confidence back. My good wishes to you and your family. busy_lizzie
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Thanks, everyone. I got home from school today to find Namissa rather distressed since she'd phoned Freetown to find that they were washing the body ready to take to Kabala, their home town, this afternoon for burial tomorrow. The phone lines to the town, which is still in ruins from the war, are hopeless, so she had to say goodbye then and there.
We had major problems when our younger daughter, then five, was evacuated to Kabala during the war; there was fighting all over the place, and the phone lines were down for the next six weeks, all we knew was that she'd left Freetown, and bandits were waylaying cars along that road. When the lines were eventually 'repaired', they were so bad that we were phoning, and being unable to hear a word over the crackle. It took another six weeks to get her taken over the border and flown out from Conakry, shortly before one of the rebel factions took over the town to use as a headquarters. Mina's grandmother was burnt to death in her bed when they torched the house she was in.
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Very shocking Robert, what terrible experiences! It is difficult to comprehend such horror. I am so sorry for Namissa and the rest of your family. love busy_lizzie
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We'll get over it. Fortunately Mina was never in the fighting, and was too young to understand. Our other daughter, Kumbi, was briefly in the fighting in Freetown, until the Red Cross organised a ceasefire to get civilians out and she was rescued by the US navy, and flown straight over here. We thought she was on some rustbucket on the way to Ghana, then suddenly got a call to say she was in the air heading for Stanstead. She still suffers from PTSD eight and a half years later.
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Dear Robert, i do wish you and your family all the very best and hope your problems are soon sorted. My condolences to you both on your loss.
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Dear Robert, my family spent nearly 25 years in Africa, for the most part amongst unrest, I SO appreciate what you are going through.
Love and prayers for you, Namissa, and your families.
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Thanks. What part of Africa, and when?
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East. We lived in Nairobi. Arriving shortly after Mau Mau, and seeing the troubles through and beyond Independence. Later my parents continued onto Zambia, I returned home to continue my education.
In all we did approx 25 years in that part of the world, we witnessed much sadness, yet also much joy.
I have always said that once Africa gets under your skin, it is there for life. I will return some day, and take my family, to see an exceptional country. (preferably without the tourists!)
take care,
FL
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Very difficult situation for everyone.