General Chat

Afternoon all, :-D :-D :-D

Sorry for late reply we had to join in a virtual meeting earlier and it turned out to be a complete waste of time. All it involved was going over information that we already knew and have agreed with :-|

No lady of leisure lol
I am catching up with chores and community stuff ,then I will be finding time for FH
once a week .
its been a breezy day but mainly bright its nice that the days are getting longer now

Afternoon Maz, well you will be a lady of leisure now then ;-) :-D :-D :-D. I have not long been back from the Belfry and going to sort some lunch out. I have just done a couple of outstanding emails hence my visit in here :-D :-D

Morning all
well I am now finished house was packed at the weekend ,and I am catching up with a house that has not seen a duster for far too long .
I am just doing the kitchen floor ,so stopped for a breather ,then I will do the downstairs loo .That's it til Friday probably
I see you have been trawling the across the channel to Ypres etc ,There is a tower in Rye called Ypres Tower

Bit late but night night anyway, sleep well you 2 too see you tomorrow <3 <3

Yes it is.
We are off to bed now as I am in the Archive tomorrow after the school run. Nite nite,sleep well both of you :-D <3

:-( Such an awful ailment. Not that there is a good one.

My Dad wasn't so lucky he died from Cancer

I was lucky in that my Dad died in 2011 when I was 58 and in his sleep.

Same here I loved him early but he passed when I was 17 :-(

Oh, my youngest sister had the sun shining out of her errs too, could do no wrong in my Mums eyes but I was my Dads favourite and was his shadow in my growing up years.

I don't think so as I had an older sister and the sun shone out of her rrrs

That is a good ending then thank goodness, I wonder how your so called Mum dealt with it, that might have been the cause of her bitterness to you, just guessing though.

He was part of a very close family thank goodness who supported him and his remaining daughter(my so called Mum). He remarried a couple of years later and had quite a large family

Oh my goodness that is a lot to have to deal with and on his own too.
How on earth did he cope with it all?

My Grandad was badly gassed at the 2nd battle of Ypres and got sent back here just before the whole of Ypres was destroyed. When he got back his daughter aged 7 died and just over a year later his wife died of the Spanish Flu. His brother was also missing and later was listed dead in France.

My Dad had said that Granddad had shrapnel in his but not which part and that at some point in Dads life he managed to squeeze it out when it became infected and the record said he was a casualty so that's good enough for me :-D.

We all wish that I am sure. I wish I had known what Grandad went through as I always thought he was just a miserable old git. My cousin had information of where he served and what he went through in the army and also personal tragedy bless him.

Well I have got as far as I'm going to get thanks to you for your help, its one of the situations where I wish I had asked my Dad more questions years ago.