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I don't know where we're going, but we know where we are? (Part whatever)

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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Cold, dry and crisp day today. Working away at my desk in the home office/study. Winter has arrived. ❄️ 🥶

    Reflective mood today - it is my mum’s anniversary. She was over a year younger than I am now when she died suddenly and tragically. I was 15 at the time. Although it was 32 years ago now, the pain in my heart still lingers. 🙏💕

    Taking a long break at 1.30pm to collect flowers at the florist and lay them on her grave to mark her anniversary, as I do each year. 💐



  • Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Oh I know and I was not for several decades.

    Strange letter from officialdom. Been trying to sort it out on the phone. Not happy. And all very confusing. Too old for this.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 60,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    @JupiterKid *hugs*



  • Registered Users Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    👀 Nearly home time and then to bring the boss for a nice long walk 👍🙌





  • Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Ocean is utterly glorious in the sun and that special light when it is very cold. Shines and glows.

    The views from here both back and front are spectacular and always freshly appreciated and rested in.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Early dawn hour



  • Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    The pain will always be there. It is a characteristic of and the "price" we pay for being loved and for loving.The loving never stops. My mother (road death at 68) and my brother ( drowned at 19) are buried in the same grave in my old home town in the UK. Last time I looked at the cemetery online it was overgrown as all the graves were old ones and there was no one to tend the graveyard all these years on. I still grow plants my mother loved here. And when I was mobile/ with the car I would keep a trowel in the car and stop at any graveyard to clear a couple of neglected graves. I STILL need to get to the small graveyard here to make sure it is respected as we are so few.



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,166 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    Thomil inspired me to clean my tech desk. Even the keyboards are shining. We made a start on the Xmas decos. Feck it! Never had a birthday with the decos up. But the tree can wait until the start of December.



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Thank you Grace and Grem for your kind gestures. 💕❤️

    Flowers were laid on her grave earlier. I really must get the stones sorted as the current ones are old and weeds are now coming through.


    Photo of my mum taken in the mid 1960s when she was 22. She would have been 79 this year. 💕❤️



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Not having a very enjoyable day at work today.

    Just need to get home to my haven away from all this nonsense.



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    That's a beautiful photo Jk, now we know where you got your good looks from, the pain eases but never goes away, mind yourself. x

    Have to motivate here and get ready for a few hours socialising, it's so cold, I'd rather stay on my couch with my BFFs aka dressing gown, hot water bottle and grapes.☺️



  • Registered Users Posts: 7,109 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Beautiful tribute to and photo of your mother @JupiterKid



  • Registered Users Posts: 7,109 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Going home early from work. So that's more time to make up. Wrecked.

    9-6 sucks. Thanks to covid the 2-3 hour commute on top of that is infrequent now.



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 60,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    I have accidentally managed to make the next two days very, very long.. Clone time please



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I'm having a pint alone...dutch courage...my favourite pub, my favourite seat and fab music...it doesn't get any better....This is not deja vue.😁


    What did you do Grem, offered to cover days also?



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,246 ✭✭✭Poochie05


    Just finished scoffing cottage pie followed by a custard slice from Lidl. If you haven’t tried them yet, get on it! They are gorgeous 😋



  • Registered Users Posts: 21,915 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    Phone call from six year old granddaughter....Nanny , when you were a child did you have a washing machine or did ye have to use a bucket with a board thing in it ? 🤣

    Pics of twin tubs sent 🤣



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,046 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    You should have sent a pic of an old washing board, carbolic soap and a river. 🤣



  • Registered Users Posts: 21,915 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    Bahahaha after I posted I sent pic of bucket and board, never thought of the river 🤣



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,898 ✭✭✭gifted


    I used love drinking on my own.....find a quiet pub...find the best seat at the bar with a direct route to the bog to strain the boys and sit there playin with a beer mat...bliss.....

    Then some bloody idiot would ruin by sittin next to me and start talking shite 🙄🙄🙄



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  • Registered Users Posts: 7,109 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    A nice quite old pub where you can have a decent pint and a decent conversation is where it's at. No sport or music blaring. Few decent places still in Dublin. Rest seem to think they are in Magaluf. 😂



  • Registered Users Posts: 7,109 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Bladder is singular. At least I think that's what you are going to the bog for when drinking.



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,166 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    Mad memories of a Novum twin tub bouncing around the kitchen on a spin. Tubes into the sink. And that was high tech in the early 80s! Well maybe not. Think my mother eventually bought a Bendix on the tick from the ESB shop.



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,166 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    Can't beat that. A few years ago I enjoyed the Summer evenings sitting on a bench outside the boozer watching life go by. Alone but yet surrounded by stuff. Many a post I made here from that bench.



  • Registered Users Posts: 13,177 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    That's too cute. Obviously learning about the good old days in school today 😇

    To thine own self be true



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 60,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    Oh the song and dance of a twin tub 😂 more nightmares for grem



  • Registered Users Posts: 899 ✭✭✭Addmagnet



    Every Sunday evening when I was a kid, mum had to haul in the ol' tin bath and use the twin tub to heat and pump out the hot water for it. She would get first go in the water, then my brother, and I was last in the pecking order. (This was after I was too big to be bathed in the big Belfast kitchen sink.)

    Then we'd have either cucumber sandwiches or boiled eggs and toasted soldiers for tea and then the weekend was officially over.



  • Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    signing off ... here for email... Blessings and peace and HAPPY CHRISTMAS and a REALLY GOOD NEW YEAR..



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,898 ✭✭✭gifted


    Missus just told me the esb bill arrived....€481 .....dont know whether to laugh or cry...we'll get the €200 towards it but its still high 😭😭😭😭



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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Watched the film Philomena on tv last night. Sad and powerful with brilliant acting from Judi Dench in particular.

    It did a good job of shining a light on the cruel, barbaric and shameful treatment of women and children by the Catholic church in these institutions.



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