General Chat

Karen, great to remember those times and good you can meet up with your friend annually.

Ann, I have changed a lot, but C. hadn't changed much at all, she attended a school reunion while she was over here as she did a while back and had her pic in the local paper so I had no shock there, she just looked the same almost and is in great nick for 68! Her first husband was in the entertainment business so before they divorced she met many famous people, mostly in the music business, and she was name dropping madly on Weds lol, but it made for more memories thinking of who the people were. Her son has followed in his Dad's footsteps so still mixes with musicians etc.
Great fun was had by all, she met Roger Moore when he was married to Dorothy Squires and stuff like that so way way back.... had to dig deep in the memory for some of the names.

Lizx

Lovely to meet up with old friends Liz and when you do the passing of years is mirrored in their faces and yours. Somehow I don't mind though, I feel my face, such as it is is proof I have lived. But I do get a shock sometimes when it comes to me that I will reach my 'three score years and ten' next year and we will have been married 50 years next year too. Inside I don't feel 'old' though and have a surprise when I realise that some of my friends are 15 years younger.

Ann
Glos

Thanks Lindy, hope you find your dream home and have plenty of grandchildren to spoil, you are waiting like me lol

Hope your weekend is fine too, how are the family of Vitor's friend getting on without him? I bet V. still misses him lots.

Lizx

David, I was given a copy of a photo of myself with a Maltese friend, when I was there in 2007, of us both, taken when we first met, he was 18 and I was 32, we had another taken together, what a difference lol On the first one I was skinny and dark, and he had lots of hair and looked boyish, the recent pic, well omg, he had lost his hair and we had both filled out and my hair is no longer dark, what a shame!

Morning Liz,

What wonderful memories and thanks for sharing.
With the exception of one of my cousins that I grew up with I have to admit to not having long term relationships with old friends. My late Dad was constantly transferred so we never really settled anywhere.

As an adult I too have constantly been on the move and the last seven years is the longest we have lived in the same house, which is up for sale.

The next move I make is going to be the last where I hope to stay for a long time and hopefully have grandchilden before moving on to the next life.

Enjoy your weekend!

Lindy xx

It's great when there is a chance to reminisce, last year I did a little of it with my friend Liz while she was in the hospice, we had a few laughs but bittersweet as we knew there would be no chance to make more memories, she lost her battle at the end of last August.

My head still thinks I am a spring chicken and then the old bod lets me down, and I remember I don't have all those years ahead to do all I had hoped to do, all I want is to last long enough to see my son settled and hopefully have grandchildren - I don't think I will be around to have great grandchildren, as my parents I was a late starter in the having children game so again like them, probably won't be around to see any grandchildren grow up past their teens. It makes me angry with myself at the time I have wasted and now I don't have the energy needed to do much.
I am glad I became conversant with computers tho as that opens up a whole world to me compared to my older cousins who are not computer literate and live much narrower lives, now they can't get around easily.

Oh well, time for bed, night all lol have a good day

Lizx

I don't know where they go but I wish they wouldn't:) Someone passed a photo on to me yesterday they'd been given taken when I was about 21 and I really didn't think it was *that* long ago but I barely recognised myself:) Shocking:))

What a lovely story, Liz. I'm at the point now when I go shopping I see old schoolfriends with their grandchildren. Some of the grandkids are a lot older than mine. Sometimes I see an old schoolfriend and I think "she looks older every time I see her" then I realise that I probably look older too. You just don't realise how fast time passes.

Sue xx

On Wednesday I went to see an old friend of mine over from America, she was staying with her sister. I haven't seen C. for a long time, caught up with her through Friends reunited a while back and then her sister contacted me through Facebook and let me know C. was coming home for a holiday. Another of their sisters lives in Canada now but was my lodger for a while in 1973/4 - we lost touch when she moved away altho I did stay in touch with C. for a while when she went to live in California.

It was great to meet up with the two women today and the husband of the one who lives here, who did some decorating for me many years ago too, but I couldn't believe it when I asked C how old she is now, knowing she was a little older than I. She is actually nearly 7 yrs older than so is already 68 to me coming up to 62 this summer! I can't somehow come to terms with having friends who are almost 70! Scary! Of course I do have older friends but when we were all pals in the 70's we all seemed the same sort of age now suddenly it hit me lol!

Anyway it was a great couple of hours, and we all remembered things we had forgotten about, and had a great laugh. C. lived in Leicester, divorced with three kids, now one son has just left the RAF after many years service, the other son lives in France and is very good friends with Julian Lennon as he is a musician, and the daughter is living in America, divorced with three kids not far off the age of my own son! Yet I can remember them as youngsters making a surprise tea party for me and their aunty when we went to their home in Leicester, we had homemade icecream that had the wrong proportions of milk in so was very runny, jelly that hadn't quite set and a sponge cake that was pretty good. We had to stay out of the kitchen for ages while we listened to them scrabbling about and bickering about what they were doing but it was so sweet of them and they were so proud, we had to eat - well drink - the icecream lol
My cat sitter had let me down so I had had to take my two cats with me in my friend's car, I had them on leads on my lap, one of them sat round my shoulders, you should have seen passing drivers do a double take! Then when it was time to go one slipped his collar and scooted over the road to a neighbour's garden, led us a real dance to get him back to the car and on the road home, the kids loved it!
Happy times!

Lizx