discussion No Model Making

[Guest]

Oh dear me how will I survive, no model making for a week...we are going to Norfolk to see my eldely mother. I don't think she would appreciate me taking all my kit and not take her out for a ride to places of interest....

 

[Guest]

phil, enjoy your time with her now, as its all gone way too soon, and you end up wishing you had one more day.


I know i do.

 

[Guest]

I totally agree with you since my disability took so much of my career and a lot of my interests I now take one day at a time. Mind you my good mate Matt is picking me up in the morning and taking me on a photographic jolly on the Essex coast.


We are off to Norfolk on Sunday after Collis has finished her shift at the hospital. Let's hope she has an easy day and she doesn't have to find to many additional nurses

 

[Guest]

Funny how becoming disabled makes you look at life differently.


It also makes you think back to the times when you were able bodied and sat around being too lazy at times.


I was living and working in America when i got the news that my mother had passed on, and i had to fight for a leave of absence, and struggled to get a floght, as 9/11 had just occoured the day before and it was ridiculously hard work to get home. I ended up missing her funeral as well.


Hence why i say enjoy every moment of this fragile life!

 

[Guest]

Also when you become old, who me, things change. Slow up physically and mentally.


However there is a bonus that I had not expected. Before getting old I used to use my


life at the speed of sound. Getting everything I wanted to do. Fitting everything in.


Working all hours.


But now I just adjust what I do to how I feel like doing it. I do all the same things but


at walking rate in place of being on the run all the time.


I enjoy it as I see things which I would not have given a mini second too. Just bought myself


this bike, £50, and I enjoy a ride out an hour a day seeing things that I had not taken notice


of before. The joy I get pedalling along taking in the view and greeting people.


Not that I regret one little bit my hectic early life on little bit. That was so enjoyable.


Laurie

 

[Guest]

Oooooh you got it easy.


When i were a lad, I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."

 

[papa 695]

Oooooh you got it easy.
When i were a lad, I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."

Luxury

 

[Guest]

Oooooh you got it easy.
When i were a lad, I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing "Hallelujah."

Interesting that Dave. You have seemed to have lived an upside down back to front then killed. That sorted things then.


I got up,as a sprog, normal hours, washed teeth and face (hands got a polite hallo). Then down to a slice of bread. Delved


into the depths to the gravy in the bottom of the dripping jar. Spread on and bit of salt on the top. Cut the bread in half, oh


yes, we were a sophisticated lot. Munched on that with a tres hot cup of real brown tea. Delightful heaven. With out doubt


we lived in those days on the luxuries. A bonus we lived.


Laurei

 

[PaulTRose]

Luxury

and you tell that t'young uns today and they wont believe you

 

[Guest]

Laurie, python, man, python!

 

[Guest]

What we wouldve given to live in a corridor! Thatd be a palace to us!

 

[Guest]

Cardboard box? You were lucky....

 

[Guest]

We had to live in a lake!

 

[Guest]

We lived in an Anderson Shelter with a variety of fireworks for entertainment.


Laurie

 

[stona]

I'll content myself with a nice glass of chateau de chatelet. Better than a cold cup of tea without milk or sugar....or tea


Cheers


Steve

 

[Guest]

cup? You were lucky, we had to make do with drinking out of a rolled up newspaper!

 

[Guest]

NEWSPAPER????


Eeeee..... We 'ad t' read wot was written on't passin' buses.....


Roy.

 

[Guest]

CUP!!!!!!! we had to suck on a damp piece of sponge, there were 30 of us living in a shoe box int middle of road, every morning we"d have ta lick road clean wid tongue, then we"d work 30 hours down mine and father would thrash us ta sleep wi his belt