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Hi everyone
Lorraine like Jane I also have visited San Gimigano while were were on holiday , Tuscany is a lovely part of Italy we have been to several times. we usually stay in a villa there .


AB. Marsden Grotto thats my home land, I come from Sunderland and many times loved to go there to the Marsen Grotto pub for a drink or take my kids on the beach, my part of the coastline is seaburn & Roker beach thats where I grew up, mind you it was always to cold to go swimming.

goodnight to everyone
back again tomorrow.

Lorraine ,what a cheeky cat !!!!!!! Has he done it before.Do you know where it is from?It isn't a stray is it?
I have a ton of washing and ironing to catch up on so better get cracking.I have one eye on the line as it is looking a bit like rain on the way.

My friend's cat used to catch frogs out of their pond, she used to get fed up because if he ate them he was always sick......indoors.

I just googled Marsdens Grotto as I'd never heard of it........a pub in a cave! It looks very nice as does the area. Much further south on that coast I stayed at Alnmouth once, an unspoilt little place, where you could walk on the flat onto the huge expanse of beach within 5 minutes of where we stayed. Hardly a soul on there when we went, just wild beauty. It was bliss.

i don't often go abroad, but when I went to Tuscany a long time ago they had torrential rain and floods......I have never been so wet......paddled and steamed around Florence under an umbrella.

Lorraine, that puss sounds as if he cleans up the food bowls where he visits too if he is a good size! It was a good idea to shoo him off as I know of one cat who wouldn't go in his own home, even to eat when another cat started to invite himself in through the cat flap.

I would loved to have seen your face Lorraine.Those people are not easy
to get rid of either are they?( I hope I am not offending anyone)

I have had a few odd people in my lounge at times ,although I did ask them in or took them in.
One was a man who had turned his landrover upside down in a ditch at the top of the road.I stopped as he was out and just standing in the road looking a bit shaken with a huge cut on his forehead.His 2 dogs were still in the car,but seemed ok.I knew he needed an ambulance and as I lived just down the road said I would take him there.Dogs went in the boot of mine and then ,I shut them in my kitchen where immediately started peeing everywhere,and they ate my cats food !!.I had a chap trying to tile the kitchen at the time.
I sat the man down on my brand new suite (3days old) but asked him if he minded me covering it up with a sheet as he was bleeding and he was smelly.He was a rat catcher LOL.Then I rang an ambulance, whilst in the meantime used my ironing board as a table to put bowl of water and cloths for his head.THEN I had 2 ambulance men AND 2 policemen in the lounge.
It was hilarious .Then there was the problem of getting hold of someone to collect his stinky dogs!!!!!!!!!!!
He flipped the landrover because he was eating a pork pie and the dogs tried to get at it!!!!!
Then I had to go and get the children from school.Poor things had had to stay behind until I could get there.
What a day that was.
OMG I think I have just about written an essay.Sorry if I went on a bit there.

Lorraine as my OH said at the time ......it would have to be you that found the man and his smelly dogs.lol.Also at the time I stopped for this chap a cyclist stopped.He was in all his lycra gear,and when he saw the cut on his forehead he actually fell back over his bike and got tangled up in it.I said for him to carry on and I 'd be fine thankyou !!!!!!!!!!!!.I thought he was going to faint so the best thing was to send him on his way.
About 8 pm that evening the door bell rang and there was a man with a big bunch of flowers from the mans family.he was being kept in hospital overnight as it was a head injury.
I have more dramas I could tell you ,but I wouldn't know which one to start with LOL.

Hi all
Now I don't wish to offend anyone either BUT!!!
I have had a lot of trouble with Jehova witnesses too, About 7 years ago They kept knocking on dads door and he kept letting them in. what got me angry was they could see that he was not normal(compleate in the mind)and unfortunatly dad would let anyone in because he was lonely living on his own and just wanted to chat.
I was worried in case they asked dad for money or asked him to sign some papers , he would have done it too , even though he told them he went to his daughters church they kept coming back, I finely got the nieghbours to ring me when the next arrived and I went up and chased them telling them to stop pestering my father and don't come back .
it worked.

Even though I have lived here in Scotland for almost 20 years there's still a lot of beautiful countryside out of the Glasgow area I'd love to see. and it looks great when we are lucky and the sun's shining.

Ha Ha Ha AB, which area does your OH actually come from,
my maiden name was Robinson and all my lot came from mainly Newcastle and Sunderland though my G.G.Grandfather was from Blackburn, Lancashire, It was a funny coincidence when I found that out as my OH is from Chorley.

Lorraine ,I have been in to many a house in my time when I was with Victim Support.The smell and the filth Phwewwwwwwwwwey!!!.Try refusing a cup of tea when you have seen the state of the kitchen and the lounge carpet jumping with fleas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,and with pet excrement dotted around.I got very good at holding my breath and finding brilliant excuses for leaving quickly lol

Nope Sorry AB none of the names ring a bell. not came across any of them so far in my research.
well I'm off to bed, just finnished an e-mail to a fella in Ireland it seems we have a connection through our Great Great Grandfather which is great as I have been struggling for the last few years to get any infomation at all on the family
catch up with the chat tomorrow
night
XX

Morning Ladies,
I bet you will be glad to see the back of your workmen Lorraine !!!!!!!
No I haven't been with Victim Support for some years now.I loved it and was there for 10 years,but it got to the stage when my friend was in bother and my Mum had Dementia where I couldn't cope with everyones elses problems and it became too much.So VS was the one that had to go.

Rain Rain go away ,come again another day ......

In my working life I visited houses in some 'rough' areas. It used to shock trainees I took with me....remember one saying she needed a bath after visiting one house where excrement was all over the walls. You would look down the street for the address you were visiting and could almost guarantee the scruffiest house with graffiti all over it and an old car dumped on top of the flat roof garage or old mattress in the overgrown garden was the one you had to visit!! lol They always seemed to have the gas fire on which made smells worse and an assortment of noisy smelly pets that battled with you to get on your knee and covered your sensible dark clothes with hair and smell. Every surface would be sticky. I always declined offers of a drink, saying I'd just had one. Toddlers grabbing at my skirt with hands covered in food and mess off the floor, feet sticking to the floor as you walk.. One thing I noticed was that no matter how little furniture there was, there would be full ashtrays and a massive TV!! A colleague said he went in one place where he had to interview an alcoholic who was surrounded by buckets of sick.....nice!!! lol A foreign family I visited told me they 'looked after their elderly, unlike us' Their sick mother was crawling with flies on a filthy bed!! Who said civil servants have it cushy!!!!

I do believe it has stopped raining........need something out of the shed so toodle-pip for now.

Bit like toodle-ooo as well Lorraine. It could be grim at times and quite upsetting hearing about people's lives, but I never regret any of it, taught me a lot about life, not to be judgemental, to be thankful.

You have to keep a close eye on those workmen to make sure they do things right, don't you. Will they soon be done?? Not soon enough I expect!! lol My guttering was to be replaced this week, but has been put off as1 of the brothers doing it fell off his own roof at the weekend and is in hospital!! He is ok but has broken bones and a head injury....was very lucky really.

Hi all
a very wet day to day, went shopping this afternoon with daughter no 1 and came home and put the fire on was cold, it's quite darkish here now outside . OH making dinner to night, so I can have some time on the computer to sorting out papers for my visit to the cemetries to see my ancestors graves tomorrow, hope it stays dry or it will be miserable trailing around in the wet grass etc.
Time for dinner, catch up later.

Oooh Ann Buckets of sick !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.i would have added to it.
I remember when I was a nurse a lady was being sick in the cardboard sick bowl ,but it was solidified blood and looked like liver.I also had a sick bowl for myself at the same time lol.It was at the end of night duty,so I was tired anyway and just didn't have the stomach for that.When I went back on duty the next night the poor lady had died.
I hope you have all had your dinner,sorry if I have been a bit too graphic.

Yes where is Pam???????

Night Night Ladies. xx

Evening ladies,

I'm still about...have decided though to give my back a rest from sitting at the computer and it seems to be working!! My daughter has a laptop and she doesn't seem to get affected as she's younger, but i think with laptops you kind of can sit anywhere with them. But this PC we've got in the study does my back in...even though the chair is a good one!

Don't get me started on Jehovahs witnesses!! Oh they were a pain in the bum for my dad for a while...he didn't tell us that they were knocking on his door a couple of times a week as he didn't want to worry us! His cottage was quite rural and no near nebours (I can never spell that!) anyway as soon as we knew hubby waited for them to visit again..we told dad to give us a ring and we'd be over, they were like bullies in a way...sods!

Victim support eh ladies, must have been a very difficult...but rewarding job.

Speak soon, but going to give the old back a chance to get better!

Pam.xxx

love dropping by to catch up with all the latest posts.They are very entertaining.xxxxx

Glad you enjoy our chit chat E B lol .Let's keep this thread going !!!

Sorry to see you go Family searcher we will miss you , I have not been on here as often as usual but OH is on holiday this week and we have been going out for lunches , or I have been shopping with my daughters. well Jane , Easter Bunny, Pam and anyone else who's welcome to join us, we'll just have to keep this thread alive & kicking!!!!!!