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Such good news Bridget <3 I am so pleased for you.




Henry won a first Rossette and trophy.....I was so shocked that the presenter was all smiles too.......so in all it was two clear rounds , one 3rd and trophy and a 1st with trophy.....and all with a gammy leg ..:-D.....I forgot to tell you that I fractured my leg in two places at training a few weeks back and after having the plaster taken off am now having to put up with a brace until the 17th......Oh woe is me.....but on with the bragging.....and thank you for letting me :-D


My baby is starting gun dog training this weekend and is also getting great at agility....so all is good in my doggie world.....Just to think that 3 years ago I started a new life by training dogs :-D <3

Glad to hear your good news Bridget. I have been thinking of you and remembering you and your family in my prayers.

Hope everyone else is ok. Not been able to access this site for a few weeks due to computer probs but a very talented man came last Saturday spent 2 hours plus and hey presto we are back to normal. OH doing lots of research now on laptops as he does not want this computer to die without buying another one.

We have booked up ferry for August to go back to UK for 8 days - well you loose a couple of days travelling but hopefully we will be seeing our family and friends. Also I have to collect my mom's ashes as her final wish was to be scattered at the crem my dad was cremated at.

Take care all and have a good weekend

Love Mary xx

My dear friends

I am thrilled to say that my family member who caused me to be so very sad, telephoned me yesterday and my daughter is back. We both wept with joy. For those who sent me private messages, thank you.

We both cried, as I had just received the birthday card she had sent me.....I was holding the card when I picked up the telephone........


Many thanks as well for keeping this thread alive. Just let me have a few more days and then I hope I will be truly back to my usual self.

:-D :-D <3 <3 :-D :-D

Susan, well done with the dogs.

Is your leg still in plaster? If so how on earth do you manage the dogs?

Goodness knows what letter I was up to so I will Jump back in with J.

Hopefully June will be busting out all over.
June 23rd 1956 I started going out with my OH. I was almost 16 and he was almost 17.
I like June but hate January.
I actually like Jelly but I am not keen on Jelly beans and don't like junket.
i enjoy books by Jodi Piccoult.
And one of my my favourite singers is Jack Junes.

Hi Everyone

Well done Susan - your dogs sound terrific - I am a cat person myself so I have to imagine how proud you are - but carry on bragging :-)

I think I have got to J

JUNE is my favourite month - I got married in June, started my first proper job in June, had my best ever bowling performance at cricket and scored my first half-century batting all in June. I also love the June weather, not too hot and usually the sunniest month.
This June will be special as OH and I are celebrating our tenth anniversary and renewing our wedding vows in church in front of our usual Sunday congregation (We got married in a mill in Somerset the first time round - so romantic).

Looking forward to seeing lots more entries on here

Prayers and love for all
:-) <3 :-) <3 :-) <3
Gerard

Bridget, I have been away for four weeks where the internet was not that good for much of the time and the IPad didn't always pick it up. Therefore I have not been on this thread. I am sorry you have had a sad time with your daughter, will send positive thoughts now if not too late.

You also asked if any of us were foster carers. We were back in the late 60s/70s, a very rewarding job. We were short term carers, the longest child we looked after was for 6 months, that was a baby almost from birth. <3

Good morning

Just an update on how my dogs are doing.

We have been to a three day competition starting yesterday. it is George's first time and he did well on the first day, the second he decided to play instead of going the course so lets hope today is better.

Henry got two rosettes the first day for clear rounds, yesterday he got a rosette and trophy for third place so guess who is sooooo pleased :-D

Today is the last day and I am hoping the weather gets better. On the first day it poured and I thought it would be cancelled.....but what a hardy lot, we carried on regardless....yesterday wasn't much better. I have been shattered as soon as we got home so went to bed not long after.....Up again at 4 to start all over again......am fair worn out.......anyway....enough of my bragging....am orft to make a cup of tea :-D

J !!
Saw a clip on tv about amusing "got it wrong on camera" a bride (at the alter) was supposed to say something about "Love and JUST(ice)) but instead came out with promising LUST!

Even the minister was laughing.

Jelly is not a favourite food, but reminds me of childrens birthday parties in the 1950's.

J is for JAMBOREE If I remember correctly, some "Lucky bags" in the fifties were called JAMBOREE. (sorry about the spelling - my dictionary has gone walkabout).


Any scouts, guides out there?

My dad was a scout master, I just about remember him talking about the Jubilee Jamboree (again I think this was in the mid to late 1950's)

I wonder if many people met their "pen-pals" while celebrating at the Jamboree? And are any of them still in touch?

As I have some time, thought I would add J.

1. J. John Maynard Keynes wrote this and I think it was meant for me!
" my only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne".
2. J. Jelly. All I can say about Jelly is that I simply do not like it.

3 J. Japan. This is one of the country's I would have liked to go. So what stopped
me, the history of the 2nd World War.

To everyone who has sent messages or continued this thread...THANK YOU.

Now I am going to try and add more letters. I think I am up to I

I. This must be for Italy.
I have been to Italy quite often when I was younger and fell in love with it. Italian food, is still my favourite with those handsome waiters.!

I. If old age in the shape of waining strength says to me often "Thou shalt not" so do my years smile upon me and say to me, "Thou needs not!".

I. I first felt old walking in Spain with my friends daughter aged 13 when I belatedly realised the wolf whistle was not for me!. :-)

:-)

Hi Everyone

OH and I are on holiday from work this week, no early mornings and late evenings for a week, and I had my 66th birthday yesterday.

I am no green fingers but I am finally trying to sort out the back garden, it has taken me over 33 years to get round to it, but it is starting to take shape, if only the weather had been better this week.

Our last surviving cat, Sox, is being very comforting at this time too, and we have been spoiling him quite a bit, but I am sure that is only natural.

I think I had got to I in the alphabet

I is for Italian food.- until I left home and went to work in London, my only experience of Italian food was tinned Heinz Spaghetti in tomato and Macaroni Cheese my mum used to make, not really very Italian. I had my first Pizza in 1967, and the Italian chef where I worked when I was an Assistant Hotel Manager, always provided us with a different pasta dish. I just love Pesto and Mozzarella cheese.

Bridget - Thanks for keeping us up to date with your position with your daughter, I am hoping and praying for a successful outcome all round

Lots of Love and prayers to all
:-) <3 :-) <3 :-) <3
Gerard

What have I been upto?
Well I decided that the garden needed some attention and love. So all the flowers in baskets and tubs have been treated with tender love and care. I cleaned the troughs and add new mulch etc, the tidied each plant and put them back to where they live. The top terrace now looks pretty and cared for. It took quite a while and the time just went so quickly.
On the next floor down, the level of where we enter our house, has the best roses we have ever had. I took some advice about leaving the dead flowered on and let them drop by themselves....so I do not know if this is why the six different roses are doing so well or just co-incidence , but to the eye they are beautiful. All the fruit trees are also providing enough fruit to open a shop. Apples, Oranges, Figs, Lemons, all being used, and just eating them is good. The only fruit which has failed is pears, and I do not know why.....any ideas anyone?

Down by the pool and terrace we have added some plants just for there colour and I am enjoying just walking around admiring them.

Well, that is about all for today,


Bridget :-)

Thank you all for keeping this thread alive. I am begining to accept all that has happened and one good thing has come out of it all. My first husband has started to talk to me and my husband and I have learnt just how much he has done for all our children. He is satisfied that the children are now in the write place and that we have to accept this.
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I am not adding anything else on here re this situation but if anyone wishes to ask p,ease do so by personal messages.

I do hope that you all well and add bits and pieces soon.

I will start on my next letter later today or tommorow .

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Well, everyone,
We have agreed to a resolve the difficulty already discussed.
I am sad that I am not able to be directly involved but now that what has been agreed is the right thinking to do.
I cannot add anymore but if anyone wishes to contact me please please feel free to do so. Those who have sent personal messages a very big THANK YOU.

To everyone thanks for keeping the thread going on and on.

Best wishes

Bridget

:-(

Bridget,

one of my friends is a Foster Parent. She is 63 and has been doing it for about ten years.

Some of her "children" are long-term and some she has for respite care.

She also has families - i.e parent/s and children.

She is a normal, hard working, caring woman. Just loves to be busy.

H is for Health and Happiness.
I is for Ink ..
Did anyone else ever use a pen with just a nib - we used to dip it into the inkwell. Of course, I had ink upto my elbows, and all over my clothes!

J is for Joy (sometimes I think that if I had had a daughter, she would have had Joy as a middle name)
J is for Jelly . and the skipping song "Jelly on the plate"

K is for Kin and Kindness.

As other have said L is for Love and Laughter (or if you use FaceBook - L is for Like).

Oh Bridge, sounds an awful situation, cannot imagine not being able to talk to my daughter, keeping everything crossed !!!!!!!!!!!!

K is for Kiss, and a hug coming to you....

K is for Kindergarten....a place where innocence is

L is for Love that you have for your daughter

L is for Laughter the best medicine

Have a peaceful weekend every one

Good evening to you all and thank you for your kind thoughts.

I have waited in all day today as I learnt from my previous husband that the person in charge of collecting as much information as he can about the children and to explain what is likely to happen was going to call me today. He saw my previous husband yesterday. I guess that I simply must be patient. Maybe he was just very busy as I was amazed to learnt that this is not an unusual event. How sad is that?

You are all such kind people so I have decided to come back and add more of our Letter Choices.

Bridget

Thank you to Lynda you for sending me your message, I wish I was 10 years younger and then I just may have had a chance to look after them. I am afraid that I might loose being in touch with them.

Berona, it is kind of you to tell me about your experience .

I am of course worried about my daughter, but she has got her longtime friend who lives about 90 percent of her time with my daughter and they are very close, if you know what I mean.

I am a little better than yesterday as I Will make sure that I send them letters, cards etc, hopefully I will be aloud to do this.

The pain is always going to be with me.

Thank you everyone.

I will look in tomorrow or on my messages



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I did respite care of a young boy for four years. He and his brother were in full-time care and I took him every fourth week from Friday afternoon to Sunday evening - to give him and his carer a 'break' from each other. They were taken from their mother and put into care, whilst the mother was ordered to live with her parents.
His carer did a great job and my son and I liked having him. He looked forward to coming to us each time and we enjoyed having him.