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My day earlier thread with 3 things that went wrong, so i don't deserve a 4th thing, just had a phone call, son has chucked his job and is moving back home, tonight!!!! I'm sure i cut the elastic last time, so my nice peaceful tranquil life on my own is about to be descended on. MUM is definately a lifetime job. and to top it all i have male company tonight, and i was really looking forward to a romantic night. (putting it politely) lol sandra

Oh dear Sandra, don't know what to advise there!, looks like the romantic night will be cancelled tonight!. What is a mum to do?..

Oh Sandra - typical isn't it! Why did he quit his job today, and what makes him presume that it's up to you to support him when the whim takes him to quit his job? I'd be plotting revenge. Wait til he's 'out on the town' and turn up at the pub where you know he's trying to 'pull'. Then, when you know he's going to have a romantic evening in - invite yourself around!!! maggie

that has made me laugh, the romantic night is still on at 25years old he can have earplugs or pop down the road to his brothers. I may be mum and nanny but at 42 yrs i still have a life.i was just hoping after 8 years it might be a partner moving in not the kids. I'll get my own back one day!!! It just a pain he was in a live in job. Oh Well i have to be good to the kids, they are the ones that choose the nursing home lol sandra

Think you need to get those knitting needles out again Sandra, ha ha for all those evenings in! Are you still on for the Records Office visit tomorrow?..

hi christine the knitting needles are already back out new arrival is due in march (grandchild) yes martyn is coming down tonight and were off to the lewes record office tomorrow, i'm transcribing the east hoathly parish records for the online parish clerk site, and i shall be hunting my rellies at the same time.i have a missing daughter my gr grans sister so hopefully she'll turn up, i only found out through my gr gr grans obituary that she had 11 not 10 kids and they all survived her. lol sandra

Definitely sounds like a good day tomorrow for you, all very exciting, (Martin too!..).

What can I say? I have a houseful so I can only imagine how tranquil life must have been until this week! Enjoy your day in Lewes. Have you been before? They have a card index of baptisms which may help you to find your lost person. Have a lovely day.

HI GWYNETH NO I HAVEN'T BEEN TO LEWES BEFORE, SO IT'LL BE GOOD TO SEE HOW ITS LAID OUT LOL SANDRA

Oh dear, it's definatley an unconditional love us Mum's have is'nt it? None of us would dream of sending our children away however old they are. Jo.

Lynda and i thought you would have picked up on it at the maidstone fair, we just clicked but taking it slowly been out to dinner 5 times, ooh he spoils me.but sssssshhhh its a secret. can a fiver get you in the pics, or shall i just send him night fishing. lol sandra

Sandra, This all sounds very familiar! I have 3 daughters and they all seem to take it in turns "to come home for a while"! At the moment my eldest and her husband and 2yr old daughter are living with us until their new house is ready, hopefully when they move out next month we will have some time on our own. The house is going to feel awfully big!! Hope you enjoy your evening! Frances

Sandra Lewes is a very small place and the staff are really friendly and helpful. Infact you feel like you have gone back in time just walking through the door. The only problem I had was finding the place. It's perched on top of the hill near the castle ruins. Sheila

Sounds like the background from one of those old romantic films!.. Ooh sandra!..

Hi Sandra Glad things are going well with you and Martin - I thought there was more of a connection with you and Martin when we met at Maidstone than just the family tree bit :-) - just call me Mystic meg :-) Hope you managed to get rid of your son for the evening and have a brill time at Lewes, I've been there a couple of times, its really good there, most of their parish records have been transcribed and the staff are really helpful. Karen

Can someone tell me what you do on a romantic night. I've forgotten, if I ever knew. Anyway Sandra, hopefully you are not reading this right now. Jean x.

Don't know whether you'll get time to come on here this morning Sandra, but if you do, have a lovely time today, with Martyn and the researching!.. You can reveal all later ha ha !..

Hi everyone, Well the evening was great, didn't sleep till 5 am and up at 7am so you can draw your own conclusions,it was a very good night!!! and i think it may be a happy ever after, as the brick walls in past relationships on both sides seem to be breaking down. He said he could quite easily fall in love with me, so he's made the first move. Its strange that i may have found my soul mate through dead people, due to the ancestors marriages, so were 5th cousins.It may have been the best £7.50 i have ever spent. When we met all of you at the Maidstone fair it was only the 2nd time i had met martyn, so if some of you spotted something, maybe it is right. Today we went to the Lewes Records office and i have found alot of my baptisms and marriages and i even saw the original marriage document of my gr gr grandmother and found her missing daughter. We also found the marriage of of the family connectiion that joins both of us.to be cousins, as i have offered to be the online parish clerk for east hoathly i will be going back quite a few times, today i just transcribed my family interest so that i could confirm my gr gr gr gr grandfather. so i stuck to the carleys/turners/russells and trills today. So at this moment in time, i am a very happy hunter. and it is such a lovely friendly records office. I do have some not good news my 2nd ex hubby is seriously ill and i'm waiting for my son to come home after driving to reading to see him, it looks like he is having major organ failure, heart, lungs and kidneys. I feel for my 2 kids he fathered steven is 19 and stephanie is 16 at the moment they are both staying in there home in Crawley but i can see a bit of upheaval coming. I hope he pulls through they will be devastated if not. have a great evening sandra

Sandra, Sorry to hear about your ex husband. Very glad you had a good night and a really successful day at the Records Office. May you have many more of both. Jean x.

Lovely news there Sandra, Watch this space then!.. Sorry to hear about ex- husband.