Krystyna23040
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My Dad's Polish also. Vodka always reminds me of him. He did love a glass of Vodka.
My Dad's Polish also. Vodka always reminds me of him. He did love a glass of Vodka.Dr Zhivago I remember that film vividly and Fiddler on the Roof, always reminded me of Christmas, Vodka, grapes and cigars - my dads Polish treats! Some happy memories there.
Thank you @gennepher. Hopefully it will. It has got really good reviews on Amazon.Hopefully the med will work. I am sure it will @Krystyna23040
I agree with @Annb - Your stoicism and courage are so striking @gennepher. Actually, I was torn between offering you a hug for everything going on at the moment or a winner for your fortitude. In the end I opted for winner.Fbg 6.8
A friend of mine looked over the letter I had drafted to the Practice Manager yesterday. It needs neatening up and the anger taken out she said. I thought I had taken the anger out. An hour later I received the neatened up version. That was one sword of damacles lifted off my head.
The second sword of damacles was to arrive this morning. I was talking on Skype with my daughter from Oz. We had a good chat, then she was called for dinner, and had to sign off, she suddenly gave me a health problem of hers which is being currently investigated, and they cannot find an answer, she is very scared. I said don't worry, don't worry, we'll talk next week.
And I smiled and she smiled back, but inside I was saying oh s***, because I have what I am presuming at this point, the same health problem, but it has not killed me yet, but when I was told in the late 1990's, I was scared s***less every day for a few years. J was with me when I got told.
Together, J and I drafted a letter about it and the complications, and implications for my 3 children (in their 20's by then, and that they may need to consider whether they should have children). My 3 children refused to discuss it or even talk about it. It was a taboo subject.
Now, with what my Oz daughter said fleetingly as we were signing off, it is looking like the complications of it have been passed on to her from me.
Does she remember what I told them from over 20 years ago. I think it got blocked/erased out of their minds.
I lost the email address I wrote the original letter on, but I can remember the main points. I will see how much more I can remember on it today. But I will need to 'craft' my information to her, so she is not deathly scared as I was over 20 years ago, when I was told so bluntly and in great detail. My daughter needs enough information so she can relay that to her specialist, so he has the facts. My plan is to send this wed/thurs so she can have enough time to assimilate this information before we talk on Sunday.
That day over 20 years ago, is still etched in my mind, and I can still see the specialist talking to me now...
YouTube videos from my nighttime wildlife cameras.
Here we have:
Cat, Jade is on the swing (you can just see her in the beginning), and the friendly badger I call KissyKissy appears to have seen Jade for the first time on the wildlife nighttime camera.
Cat, Midnight, comes through from the bushes seconds after the badger has left up the garden path...
Creative is a painting of an autumn tree...
Don't forget, we are living on borrowed time. I have been, for a very very long time. I was talking about it to my daughter and the events of it a couple of weeks ago, so she knows the background story to an event long ago. I just now have to explain again to her about the information my 3 kids wouldn't listen to from 20 odd years ago.
I am going to make a cuppa and something nice to eat.
Find some inner soul time today...
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Oh wow, those are beautiful words from the Don McLean song. I'll look for it in YouTube in a minute...I agree with @Annb - Your stoicism and courage are so striking @gennepher. Actually, I was torn between offering you a hug for everything going on at the moment or a winner for your fortitude. In the end I opted for winner.
I am sure your daughter will get great comfort from the information that you tried to tell them all those years ago. As I typed this a phrase from Don McLean's song Vincent popped into my head
'They would not listen, they did not know how - Perhaps they'll listen now'
You definitely need to find some inner soul time today...
Isn't that the song about Vincent van Gogh, he was a tortured soul, poor guy.Oh wow, those are beautiful words from the Don McLean song. I'll look for it in YouTube in a minute...
That sentence is very true
'They would not listen...
they did not know how... (I can see that now)
Perhaps they'll listen now...(yes she will...my words to her are going round and round in my head...when I sleep tonight, my brain will order/rephrase them, I just need pen and paper or my phone next to me when I wake up to get them down).
I am enjoying sitting in the front room by the window going through my sd cards for the trail cams. I have fallen behind on that. I wish we had longer daylight hours... @Krystyna23040
EDIT: A beautiful song. Watched it in several vids on YouTube. And one with just words.
Beautiful words on several different levels.
It encapsulates what I tried to tell to my kids all those years ago.
But also feelings for my brother who passed from suicide 25 years ago...
I agree with @Annb - Your stoicism and courage are so striking @gennepher. Actually, I was torn between offering you a hug for everything going on at the or a winner for your fortitude. In the end I opted for winner.Fbg 6.8
A friend of mine looked over the letter I had drafted to the Practice Manager yesterday. It needs neatening up and the anger taken out she said. I thought I had taken the anger out. An hour later I received the neatened up version. That was one sword of damacles lifted off my head.
The second sword of damacles was to arrive this morning. I was talking on Skype with my daughter from Oz. We had a good chat, then she was called for dinner, and had to sign off, she suddenly gave me a health problem of hers which is being currently investigated, and they cannot find an answer, she is very scared. I said don't worry, don't worry, we'll talk next week.
And I smiled and she smiled back, but inside I was saying oh s***, because I have what I am presuming at this point, the same health problem, but it has not killed me yet, but when I was told in the late 1990's, I was scared s***less every day for a few years. J was with me when I got told.
Together, J and I drafted a letter about it and the complications, and implications for my 3 children (in their 20's by then, and that they may need to consider whether they should have children). My 3 children refused to discuss it or even talk about it. It was a taboo subject.
Now, with what my Oz daughter said fleetingly as we were signing off, it is looking like the complications of it have been passed on to her from me.
Does she remember what I told them from over 20 years ago. I think it got blocked/erased out of their minds.
I lost the email address I wrote the original letter on, but I can remember the main points. I will see how much more I can remember on it today. But I will need to 'craft' my information to her, so she is not deathly scared as I was over 20 years ago, when I was told so bluntly and in great detail. My daughter needs enough information so she can relay that to her specialist, so he has the facts. My plan is to send this wed/thurs so she can have enough time to assimilate this information before we talk on Sunday.
That day over 20 years ago, is still etched in my mind, and I can still see the specialist talking to me now...
YouTube videos from my nighttime wildlife cameras.
Here we have:
Cat, Jade is on the swing (you can just see her in the beginning), and the friendly badger I call KissyKissy appears to have seen Jade for the first time on the wildlife nighttime camera.
Cat, Midnight, comes through from the bushes seconds after the badger has left up the garden path...
Creative is a painting of an autumn tree...
Don't forget, we are living on borrowed time. I have been, for a very very long time. I was talking about it to my daughter and the events of it a couple of weeks ago, so she knows the background story to an event long ago. I just now have to explain again to her about the information my 3 kids wouldn't listen to from 20 odd years ago.
I am going to make a cuppa and something nice to eat.
Find some inner soul time today...
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Yes, your daughter will listen now and the fact that you are still very much alive will give her hope for the future.Oh wow, those are beautiful words from the Don McLean song. I'll look for it in YouTube in a minute...
That sentence is very true
'They would not listen...
they did not know how... (I can see that now)
Perhaps they'll listen now...(yes she will...my words to her are going round and round in my head...when I sleep tonight, my brain will order/rephrase them, I just need pen and paper or my phone next to me when I wake up to get them down).
I am enjoying sitting in the front room by the window going through my sd cards for the trail cams. I have fallen behind on that. I wish we had longer daylight hours... @Krystyna23040
Yes it is @lindisfel . Don McLean wrote it after reading about him. He seems to have felt a real connection with Van Gogh and his struggles.Isn't that the song about Vincent van Gogh, he was a tortured soul, poor guy?
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Good to see you here John and thanks for sharing those pictures.Hi all my fbg was 6.3 today.
I must admit it's been a while since I posted but I am trying to get back to the person I was before covid messed with my head.
A few things have happened in the last few months Adrian took his what you may call his final vows at Greyfriars Friary Oxford had a bit of a do.
He is now back at Ards friary in Ireland it is close to Creeslough where they had that awful explosion in fact he had been in that shop just a couple hours before it happened. He has been helping manage the friary's quite extensive wood lands and is now I think the only Capuchin friar with a European Chainsaw operators licence.
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Granson after gaining his degree took a position at East Midlands Airport as a data analyst got a bit disillusioned with that job applied for three other got offers from all three starts new job in January.
He went to Aberdeen the other week for a tattoo this is how it went that's the tattoo artist's hand in the shot.
Tattoo is on his forearm.
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That is a particularly beautiful version. I prefer it to the subtitles version I watched @Krystyna23040I agree with @Annb - Your stoicism and courage are so striking @gennepher. Actually, I was torn between offering you a hug for everything going on at the or a winner for your fortitude. In the end I opted for winner.
I am sure your daughter will get great comfort from the information that you tried to tell them all those years ago. As I typed this a phrase from Don McLean's song Vincent popped into my head
'They would not listen, they did not know how - Perhaps they'll listen now'
You definitely need to find some inner soul time today...
Yes, your daughter will listen now and the fact that you are still very much alive will give her hope for the future.
I really like this version with subtitles over Vincent Van Gogh paintings
Good to see you back @JohnEGreen and thank goodness that Adrian wasn't caught up in the explosion.Hi all my fbg was 6.3 today.
I must admit it's been a while since I posted but I am trying to get back to the person I was before covid messed with my head.
A few things have happened in the last few months Adrian took his what you may call his final vows at Greyfriars Friary Oxford had a bit of a do.
He is now back at Ards friary in Ireland it is close to Creeslough where they had that awful explosion in fact he had been in that shop just a couple hours before it happened. He has been helping manage the friary's quite extensive wood lands and is now I think the only Capuchin friar with a European Chainsaw operators licence.
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Granson after gaining his degree took a position at East Midlands Airport as a data analyst got a bit disillusioned with that job applied for three other got offers from all three starts new job in January.
He went to Aberdeen the other week for a tattoo this is how it went that's the tattoo artist's hand in the shot.
Tattoo is on his forearm.
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Thank you @gennepher - I am so pleased that my words were helpful.That is a particularly beautiful version. I prefer it to the subtitles version I watched @Krystyna23040
Thank you for your words, they are helpful for my words to my daughter...
All the very best with that difficult conversation with your daughter and thank you so much for this wonderful autumn treeFbg 6.8
A friend of mine looked over the letter I had drafted to the Practice Manager yesterday. It needs neatening up and the anger taken out she said. I thought I had taken the anger out. An hour later I received the neatened up version. That was one sword of damacles lifted off my head.
The second sword of damacles was to arrive this morning. I was talking on Skype with my daughter from Oz. We had a good chat, then she was called for dinner, and had to sign off, she suddenly gave me a health problem of hers which is being currently investigated, and they cannot find an answer, she is very scared. I said don't worry, don't worry, we'll talk next week.
And I smiled and she smiled back, but inside I was saying oh s***, because I have what I am presuming at this point, the same health problem, but it has not killed me yet, but when I was told in the late 1990's, I was scared s***less every day for a few years. J was with me when I got told.
Together, J and I drafted a letter about it and the complications, and implications for my 3 children (in their 20's by then, and that they may need to consider whether they should have children). My 3 children refused to discuss it or even talk about it. It was a taboo subject.
Now, with what my Oz daughter said fleetingly as we were signing off, it is looking like the complications of it have been passed on to her from me.
Does she remember what I told them from over 20 years ago. I think it got blocked/erased out of their minds.
I lost the email address I wrote the original letter on, but I can remember the main points. I will see how much more I can remember on it today. But I will need to 'craft' my information to her, so she is not deathly scared as I was over 20 years ago, when I was told so bluntly and in great detail. My daughter needs enough information so she can relay that to her specialist, so he has the facts. My plan is to send this wed/thurs so she can have enough time to assimilate this information before we talk on Sunday.
That day over 20 years ago, is still etched in my mind, and I can still see the specialist talking to me now...
YouTube videos from my nighttime wildlife cameras.
Here we have:
Cat, Jade is on the swing (you can just see her in the beginning), and the friendly badger I call KissyKissy appears to have seen Jade for the first time on the wildlife nighttime camera.
Cat, Midnight, comes through from the bushes seconds after the badger has left up the garden path...
Creative is a painting of an autumn tree...
Don't forget, we are living on borrowed time. I have been, for a very very long time. I was talking about it to my daughter and the events of it a couple of weeks ago, so she knows the background story to an event long ago. I just now have to explain again to her about the information my 3 kids wouldn't listen to from 20 odd years ago.
I am going to make a cuppa and something nice to eat.
Find some inner soul time today...
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Good to see your post @JohnEGreen and thank you for the wonderful picturesHi all my fbg was 6.3 today.
I must admit it's been a while since I posted but I am trying to get back to the person I was before covid messed with my head.
A few things have happened in the last few months Adrian took his what you may call his final vows at Greyfriars Friary Oxford had a bit of a do.
He is now back at Ards friary in Ireland it is close to Creeslough where they had that awful explosion in fact he had been in that shop just a couple hours before it happened. He has been helping manage the friary's quite extensive wood lands and is now I think the only Capuchin friar with a European Chainsaw operators licence.
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Granson after gaining his degree took a position at East Midlands Airport as a data analyst got a bit disillusioned with that job applied for three other got offers from all three starts new job in January.
He went to Aberdeen the other week for a tattoo this is how it went that's the tattoo artist's hand in the shot.
Tattoo is on his forearm.
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Strong guys the Poles, When I was young I worked at the Gasworks in Lincoln as an Electrician. A Pole we called Tiny picked up a 14 stone Electrician by his overall lapels and put him down after moving him to a different place at forearm length.My Dad's Polish also. Vodka always reminds me of him. He did love a glass of Vodka.
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