Thank you all for your truly lovely words. It means alot, it really does.
I guess we were all feeling very low.
Happy birthday Pdoc!
Hosta, I'm glad you've had positive experiences. I'd love to visit Malaysia but haven't got round to it. It was next on the list after Spain.
Hugs to Dove and Clari you made me smile. You all did.
I hope everyone is ok today. I was enjoying my morning cup of tea outside until I felt a huge dollop of a 'raindrop' hit my shoulder. Then i realised it isn't raining and so the huge drop is from a bird.
I hope everyone is ok today. I was enjoying my morning cup of tea outside until I felt a huge dollop of a 'raindrop' hit my shoulder. Then i realised it isn't raining and so the huge drop is from a bird.
My daughter lives in Manchester city centre, she has made many friends there and been welcomed into the local community. She was out with some of them on Monday night, when the news broke.She was in her local bar, just a couple of minutes from home. The bars all around them were closed and evacuated, but some in her bar (all friends) could not get home safely so they stayed overnight with the bar owner. She and a couple of others went home, but she and her partner got very little sleep for the constant sirens and the stream of emergency vehiclles going by and helicopters overhead. She said it was very scary, even though she lives about a kilometre away from the Arena, and there was a possibility at one point of residents being evacuated too. She let me know she was safe and we had a long phone chat about everything and the response of ordinary people.
They both went to the vigil and she wore sunglasses as she knew she would need them, not just because it was sunny. She said she was in tears from the moment the music began and said the atmoshere was amazing in spite of the sadness, because of the thousands of people and the diversity. When it was over it took them over 20 minutes to leave Albert Square, even though they were near the edge, and they had to exit via a narrow alley, but she said there was no pushing or shoving , no sour looks or anything like that, just a sense of fellow feeling.
SHe said that oddly, at the end of the day, though it was very emotional and she had been in tears for much of it, despite the horror that began it, it felt like a 'good' day and the feeling that remained with her was one of ... triumph!
Terrorists only win if we allow ourselves to be terrorised. If we continue to look for the best in everyone and reach out to all in need, no matter who they are, where they come from or what they believe, goodness prevails and we are the winners.
Last edited: 24 May 2017 12:01:25
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Good morning on another sunny day , weather wise
Just having second cup of tea in garden , off to B & Q looking at paint
with O/H
WelcomebTGG
Happy birthday ? Punkdoc, enjoy that cake ?
Missed Chelsea last night perhaps a double dose tonight
Customer: "This disposable barbecue is faulty - I want a replacement"
Shop assistant "Can you tell me what the problem is?"
Customer "There aren't any sausages or burgers in this one"
Shop assistant "Er"
Customer "See here on the front it shows the sausages and burgers? There's none in this one. I want a new one"
Shop assistant "Um, sir, I'm sorry, I think you may have misunderstood...."
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
clari I just read your post and it made me cry, how perfectky you have expressed what most of us feel
Morning all. Happy birthday punkdoc, xx
Clari has said what I feel.
Off to the supermarket. Looks like being a hot sunny day.
once had a customer on the phone complaining about no topping on the pizza. After a bit of conversation, my colleague suggested turning it over.
" oh, yes, it's there. It must have been upside down in the box"
Got to love them don't we?
Morning all,
Thank you all for your truly lovely words. It means alot, it really does.
I guess we were all feeling very low.
Happy birthday Pdoc!
Hosta, I'm glad you've had positive experiences. I'd love to visit Malaysia but haven't got round to it. It was next on the list after Spain.
Hugs to Dove and Clari you made me smile. You all did.
I hope everyone is ok today. I was enjoying my morning cup of tea outside until I felt a huge dollop of a 'raindrop' hit my shoulder. Then i realised it isn't raining and so the huge drop is from a bird.
Last edited: 24 May 2017 10:31:24
That's said to be lucky. I've never quite worked that out
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Thank you for your kind wishes.
OH has taken the day off and is helping move the Cannas out of the living room. [ She is fed up of the slug trails ]
I hope that all of us posters realise that the atrocities are nothing to do with religion, but acts of terrorism.
I noticed that many of the kind acts after the bomb, were performed by Muslims.
I do not have a faith, but am aware that faith is what will help many people to get through this.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
My daughter lives in Manchester city centre, she has made many friends there and been welcomed into the local community. She was out with some of them on Monday night, when the news broke.She was in her local bar, just a couple of minutes from home. The bars all around them were closed and evacuated, but some in her bar (all friends) could not get home safely so they stayed overnight with the bar owner. She and a couple of others went home, but she and her partner got very little sleep for the constant sirens and the stream of emergency vehiclles going by and helicopters overhead. She said it was very scary, even though she lives about a kilometre away from the Arena, and there was a possibility at one point of residents being evacuated too. She let me know she was safe and we had a long phone chat about everything and the response of ordinary people.
They both went to the vigil and she wore sunglasses as she knew she would need them, not just because it was sunny. She said she was in tears from the moment the music began and said the atmoshere was amazing in spite of the sadness, because of the thousands of people and the diversity. When it was over it took them over 20 minutes to leave Albert Square, even though they were near the edge, and they had to exit via a narrow alley, but she said there was no pushing or shoving , no sour looks or anything like that, just a sense of fellow feeling.
SHe said that oddly, at the end of the day, though it was very emotional and she had been in tears for much of it, despite the horror that began it, it felt like a 'good' day and the feeling that remained with her was one of ... triumph!
So the terrorists did not win!
Terrorists only win if we allow ourselves to be terrorised. If we continue to look for the best in everyone and reach out to all in need, no matter who they are, where they come from or what they believe, goodness prevails and we are the winners.
Last edited: 24 May 2017 12:01:25
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.