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Post by ProdigalAlan on Dec 28, 2012 10:22:45 GMT
Well good morning one and all.
Sorry I have been absent for so long.
Much, much, much has been happening.
As we all know I finished a job I have held for nearly 20 years and started another. It's actually going really well, but it's not particularly exciting. Then again excitement isn't what I was looking for.
There have been some highs and lows along the way.
The big high is that my youngest son and his beatiful wife are due to present me with a grandson in a few months time - so the Bishop name will go onwards into the future. The millenium truly belongs to me!
I spent Christmas in Leicester with Diana and have come to the unavoidable conclusion that there is no more milage left in the relationship - just nothing in common I guess.
Oh and I suffered a very expensive visit to the mechanics with my Triumph - spark ignitor box was more or less kaput. Ouch!
So what has happened here in the real world ?
What should I know about ?
Births marriages deaths etc.
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Post by tangent on Dec 28, 2012 10:36:22 GMT
Greetings, Alan, and welcome. We were slightly worried you might have disappeared into oblivion.
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Dec 28, 2012 10:43:10 GMT
Yeah I know - just when you thought it was safe to post again . . . . . . . .
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Post by charliebrown on Dec 28, 2012 12:01:41 GMT
Alan! you are back!!!! The only thing that has been changing in my side of pond is that my sons grow a bit taller every month, which is a very welcomed development  |
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Post by bill on Dec 28, 2012 13:13:30 GMT
Welcome back Alan. Hope Christmas had some highs as well.
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Post by Kye on Dec 28, 2012 13:30:22 GMT
Good to see you back, Alan! Nothing new here.  |
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Post by Moose on Dec 28, 2012 17:17:35 GMT
Hi Alan Things here are much the same as always though Gandalf (my new kitten) died a couple of months ago  . Back to being a one cat family... |
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Dec 29, 2012 11:36:41 GMT
Well at least you have been spared my pre-christmas assesment of the horible holiday season. Now that I am working back in the city centre ( joy joy joy ) I notice just how much vomit there is on the pavements in the morning during advent - I was right all along
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Post by ProdigalAlan on Dec 29, 2012 12:02:02 GMT
Oh yeah - one of the things that I didn't tell you about that was really good was my new/old watch.
Since the day that they had to take Lynne's rings off her fingers I had been wearing them on one of her best gold chains around my neck.
Sometime around August I bought a really great antique gold hunter pocket watch from a shop that is as old as time itself in Nottingham. They specialise in antique watches and repairing them. They turned the chain into a rather impresive watch chain and hung my wedding ring and Lynne's wedding ring and engagement ring and a masonic jewel on it. On high days and holidays and visits to London I wear it across my waistcoat and look a proper swell.
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Post by Moose on Dec 29, 2012 17:41:28 GMT
Don't get mugged I would not like to walk around London with visible bling. That siad, you're bigger than me (well height wise anyway  ) |
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Post by charliebrown on Dec 30, 2012 14:37:34 GMT
Only some hours left before 2013. Time flies...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2012 17:58:11 GMT
Nice to see you back, Alan!
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Post by Mari on Dec 31, 2012 14:37:37 GMT
Hi Alan! Nothing too new here. My grandmother who was very ill for a while seems to be getting better, slowly, the job is still good except for one class and the cats are doing great. And that is my life in a nutshell... |
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jan 1, 2013 20:47:38 GMT
Nice to see you posting Alan!
Not much new here. Oh yeah I did finish my studies! I now have a PGC (or will once it is confirmed by the Board of Examiners at Liverpool). Don't think I mentioned that on here yet since it only happened last month and then we had to travel and then get busy with xmas and then travel again! We've also started gathering documents and hope to send the completing application for DG's visa this month and then relocate to Oz by the end of the year.
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Post by charliebrown on Jan 1, 2013 21:07:54 GMT
Wow! Babora, that's some change indeed. All the best!
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Post by juju on Jan 2, 2013 1:12:29 GMT
Hi Alan, good to see you! I've been a little sparse here myself, really really busy. I'm now a specialist support lecturer working with SpLD students, and teaching art online, and still trying to keep up the painting. Adrian nearly finished the PhD (hopefully), moved house, boys all taller than me now. I think that's about it. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2013 11:38:07 GMT
We want to look for a new flat and I want to look for a new job this year. I'm hoping that in a year from now I'll be writing my Bachelor's thesis and finally finish studying.
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Post by tangent on Jan 2, 2013 12:23:19 GMT
... boys all taller than me now. Crumbs, you're not exactly a short person yourself. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2013 12:25:07 GMT
That's what boys tend to do, though: they grow. A lot of female teachers I know are smaller than most of the boys in 7th and 8th grade because that's when they really start growing. Most of them.
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Post by charliebrown on Jan 2, 2013 12:40:57 GMT
I am rather short. I hope my boys will grow taller, much taller than me |
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Post by Moose on Jan 2, 2013 22:21:42 GMT
Oliver is claiming five ten now though I think five eight is probably near it. He's definitely got several inches on me tho
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Post by tangent on Jan 2, 2013 22:56:30 GMT
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Post by Shake on Jan 3, 2013 1:52:42 GMT
Welcome, Alan! I'm another year older now, still at the same department at my company, and still waiting to find a suitable engineering position/promotion. But I don't want to focus on the negative. Trying to keep things upbeat. Like how in less than 6 weeks we leave for Walt Disney World! Woo hoo!
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Post by Shake on Jan 3, 2013 1:53:07 GMT
Oliver is claiming five ten now though I think five eight is probably near it. He's definitely got several inches on me tho My 12-year-old is about 5' 7". |
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Post by raspberrybullets on Jan 4, 2013 20:16:35 GMT
You could move to Australia, Shake. They want engineers there all the time. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2013 10:34:57 GMT
Oliver is claiming five ten now though I think five eight is probably near it. He's definitely got several inches on me tho My 12-year-old is about 5' 7". That's tall. Frank is 6' 1 so I expect that, should we ever have kids, they will be tall, at least the boys. He is skinny as well and I and two of my sisters are quite slim as well. |
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Post by Mari on Jan 5, 2013 11:48:28 GMT
I'm not allowed to marry anyone shorter than me (though at this point I think my mum is willing to drop that criterium as long as that gets me hitched  ) so I doubt my kids will be shorter than 5'8 or something, seeing that I am 5'10. |
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Post by jayme on Jan 5, 2013 15:07:39 GMT
Hi Alan! *waves*
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2013 7:59:00 GMT
I'm not allowed to marry anyone shorter than me (though at this point I think my mum is willing to drop that criterium as long as that gets me hitched ) so I doubt my kids will be shorter than 5'8 or something, seeing that I am 5'10. I'm actually glad I'm not very tall. No problems finding a man who is taller than me. Frank is 21 cm taller than me, not sure what that is in inches, though. I like it. |
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Post by Kye on Jan 7, 2013 14:14:38 GMT
I always liked it when the guy was close in size to me. My first husband loomed over me and I hated it.
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. Back to being a one cat family...
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) so I doubt my kids will be shorter than 5'8 or something, seeing that I am 5'10.