Lesley is here now - Message Board

Eminently sensible, Gary. We'll send David to Lincoln market. Actually, I might come with him. Do they sell bags of chips there? :)

Reply #601. Jun 08 10, 10:49 AM

veronikkamarrz

I think the last watch I had, was a 'wind-up' model...However, the remote thingy for my car has a battery that seems to be dead! I can't get the back off, so I'm not sure what sort of replacement it takes.

Not to worry about PM's. People DO have other things going on! The very idea...:)

Reply #602. Jun 08 10, 11:12 AM

You mentioned Lincoln- cue story. In 1974 I fell in love with a wonderful girl on holiday, but she wouldn't even speak to me and often ended up comiserating in the pub with her mother who seemed to like me a lot more (it was private so everyone was allowed as long as they didn't drink). They'd moved from London to Lincoln around then, and in 1991 we drove up there to see a friend also from London who'd moved there and while I left my father seeing the cathedral with her I went a couple of miles away to see her mother who was there on her own that afternoon. I spent a lovely time with her and their cat, and at 30 older women look a lot less older than at 14, and realised the mother was just as desirable as the daughter, albeit happily married. Both would have been even better but life isn't like those sort of films. That's my one memory of Lincoln and their house was pretty incredible as well. I wonder how many other places I can pin a story to?

Reply #603. Jun 08 10, 6:05 PM

I used to have wind-up watches - we all did - there was nothing else. And now it seems digital watches have taken over. I wonder if anyone even knows how to make "proper" watches any more.

If you told me any place name in London, I've have worked there, or known someone who lived there, or both. Does that count? OK, just real stories, then.

Reply #604. Jun 08 10, 6:49 PM

As half a lawyer I shouldn't give leading questions, so won't mention Gosport, Bournemouth, Hull, Sutton Coldfield or anywhere else at (er...) random in England. Just for a start anyway. I think everyone has similar, I just tend to remember and repeat them a lot more.

Reply #605. Jun 08 10, 7:05 PM

Oh I think you can mention them here. You're among friends here, remember. Want to whisper?

Reply #606. Jun 08 10, 7:35 PM

I've spent the last few days re-reading my Blog - my real Blog, not this one.

It only goes back to about two years ago but my goodness what a lot of memories. How many people were touched by socalmiguel's death; all the events, and sheer stupidity, surrounding the death of my uncle; How I Met Merv and Wished I Hadn't; my new-ish crappy neighbours; the slightly tipsy man who chatted me up in the supermarket, starting by asking me how old I was; and so many mentions of the things my son was up to - music, elections, cars, girlfriends - anything but studies. It also brings back how much I could cope with then but not now. It's OK, I will again.

The one thing still left hanging is this:

"...last night he went clubbing with the violinist, and his three new flatmates - all girls. He wore a purple shirt, orange shorts, trainers, pink leg-warmers, and Adam Ant make-up. I can't wait to see the pictures."

I asked him recently where the picture was, because I still hadn't seen it, and he said:
"Some pictures are better not seen."

Reply #607. Jun 13 10, 8:49 PM

veronikkamarrz

Sounds like Jonathan is comfortable doing whatever he chooses! Wonder where he got THAT? :) Great kid, no matter what he wears.

Reply #608. Jun 13 10, 9:08 PM

If the things he does now had existed when I was his age, I might have responded as he did - perhaps - but doubt that I would have had the creativity and confidence to do half the things he's done. Right now, I can travel in his wake or, more likely, end up spinning in it.

Last spring, the chair of the ArtsFest committee - that's the music wing of RAG week - didn't do very much, and didn't even put on a finale evening because he was too slow booking the hall it would have been held in. One of the other college societies got there first, booked it for a random meeting, and refused to give it up. Jonathan immediately stood for chair, got voted in, and had appointed his committee ("you've got to start early") last week, even though it's not till February.

I wonder if he'll spend the rest of his life going the extra mile.

Something else I noticed from my blog is the huge numbers of comments on some of them, many from people who have gone very quiet since then, and how moving some of them were. I am half-way through preserving them.

I wonder where and how Sandy - Jordandog - is.

Reply #609. Jun 13 10, 9:42 PM

They aren't rude, I just didn't want to take over your blog. And Clacton, York, Lancaster and anywhere else people want to try. Most are pretty boring, it's just I remember nearly everything that's happened to me.

Reply #610. Jun 14 10, 9:54 AM

Lesley, I'm here to give you a Scottish hug, but you've got to promise to be good for the rest of the day.

Hmmm. I'll come back to see whether I can indeed dispense the affection. :-)

Reply #611. Jun 14 10, 11:07 AM

Professer

Hope your day was good lesley my dear, My mums now got issues with Virgin media, her v box wont work after last nights electrical storm and power cut, cannot get to repair it till friday.

Reply #612. Jun 14 10, 11:16 AM

Sandy posted in so many of my blogs before she became unable to use her computer. Eleven minutes before I posted this:
"I wonder where and how Sandy - Jordandog - is."
Cydonia was posting in the forums that she had no recent news to give us.

I wonder which one of us is telepathic.

Thank you, David. I'm glad they weren't rude. You know that I am of a delicate and sensitive disposition. You wouldn't be taking over, though. You would be participating in the conversation. It's a continuing (rambling) conversation, and I am happy if anyone adds to it.

Lochalsh, I have been good all day. Did I forget to mention that Goody Two-Shoes was based on me? Can I have my hug now please?

Rotten luck, Gary. I hope your mother's is up and running soon. Technology is a wonderful thing, unless it rains, or there are power cuts... I sent an email earlier, and Outlook Express sent it and immediately crashed. It was doing that before, crashing if I spent too long writing, so I would write a reply in a word processing programme, and paste it into the email reply. It's a nuisance, because I often start writing and then go and do something else for an hour or three, but it seemed to have been behaving itself since it melted last week. Back to copy and paste again, I suppose.

Reply #613. Jun 14 10, 5:03 PM

You talked me into it, Lesley the Good:

(((((((((((((((((((Lesley)))))))))))))))

:-)

P.S. When I was in high school (back in that far-away decade), we distinguished between "good girls" and "nice girls." I'll let you figure out that distinction!)

Reply #614. Jun 14 10, 6:06 PM

I can't keep the history of England sorted out (I try, I try), but it seems to me there was a Lesley the Good at some point. Was that you?

Reply #615. Jun 14 10, 6:09 PM

Great stuff. Name a town in England, anyone.

Reply #616. Jun 14 10, 7:04 PM

Yay hug - thank you!

I haven't heard of a Lesley the Good, but there was a Bonnie Lesley:
"O SAW ye bonnie Lesley. As she gaed o'er the Border?"
Will she do?

I don't need to figure out the distinction. I remember it in action. Yes, I am really that old. It was the sort of era when people waggled a finger and said "Mark my words" before every dire pronouncement, and the worst thing a girl could look forward to was Pushing a Pram. "Mark my words, if she carries on like that much longer with that there young feller-me-lad, she'll be pushing a pram before you know it." Happy days. :)

David - Charlton Kings?

Reply #617. Jun 14 10, 7:15 PM

Wolverhampton, David.

Reply #618. Jun 14 10, 7:59 PM

Aye, lass, she'll do.

You are Scottish by conception, you know!

Reply #619. Jun 14 10, 8:01 PM