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HELLO FORKERS ... March 2019

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  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    Dove, I'm worried, I knew about one brother..   but the others I wasnt aware of!!! But yes, those stories were fantastic! All of my brother's thought so! 😂
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I can remember Rag, Tag and Bobtail, vaguely.   Possum being an only child and born in the age of wall to wall Children's TV and having decided at a young age that she didn't like all the creepy crawlies has never felt the age to build a hide in the garden or camp in the living room.

    The weather has changed its mind and we now have gusty winds and wet bits.   
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @WonkyWomble 🙄 flippin predictive text 😝. I think you’ll agree one of them was enough 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Glad you said that @WonkyWomble, I was sure I only knew about you having one brother. 

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    Lol Pdoc it did raise a tads concern for a moment, thought it was Papa Womble that would have things crawling out from the woodwork!!
    Yes Dove! One is more than enough, if only they came in half measures lol 😉
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Hello  :) Miss me? No? I haven't been able to sign in for a day or two. It all went a bit peculiar. I have been reading though....

    Glad you've sorted out the sibling count WW.

    I would add Bagpuss and Mr Benn to your list, Dove - and a more obscure one called 'Mary Mungo and Midge' that I also loved.

    'Eternal father strong to save' has long been a favourite hymn (or 'for those in peril on the sea'). I'm not a church goer - or remotely religious - but a few hymns are just beautiful pieces of music and that's one. It always gives me chills - memories of the loss of the Penlee lifeboat. I am perpetually amazed by the bravery of lifeboat men - when they are asked the question 'why?' most reply that they are generally fishermen down here who man the boats and it's often fishermen who need rescue so they are there primarily to help their own. If they have to pick up the odd stray tourist on a lilo they do that too - but the starting point is to help those whose livelihood depends on them taking risks and occasionally losing the bet. In a similar way that most local farmers give money to the air ambulance charities - they know they (or their neighbours) are very likely to be the ones calling them out someday - so many places that they do dangerous work have no access by road.

    Miserable morning but the sun's out now. Too cold to be out though 
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I would add Fingerbobs to the list, I loved that hippy fella. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    islander said:
    Lyn said:
    I would add Fingerbobs to the list, I loved that hippy fella. 
     if that hymn moves you and from your wiords, you are truly deeply "religious " in the true meaning of the word, that has nothing to do with church etc. 
    I think spiritual may be a better description of me. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I use to dive regularly out of Lamorna Cove, down towards Lands End, there were various good dive sites. We knew where the Solomon Browne(the Penleee lifeboat) went down, below the lighthouse, but we never dived it out of respect. Some dive groups would come down and want the location markers for it. We always said we didn't know. Those waters can be rough in good weather, but I have been there at Easter and seen water from huge waves cascading down from the top car park. The seas that night were horrendous from all accounts. The cox who decided that only one lifeboat volunteer per family would go, must have known what they were heading into, but they went out anyway.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    True heroism Fidget ... there just aren’t the words ...

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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