Myself, my sister and our four cousins (all brothers, one pair twins) all have birthdays in March, and also our daughter born was born on my birthday.
So my late grandma had all 6 grandchildren and her first great grandchild with March birthdays. Two of her later grandchildren are March and early April (my son). Had she been here, her first great great grandchild (our first grandchild) was born 6th April this year, but due date was 28th March.

We don't have any March birthdays at all

I was a honeymoon baby - born almost exactly nine months after my parents got married.

I was born in February. My parents were aiming for a Christmas baby but it took a bit longer than hoped to get me started
I said to a friend once that I was supposed to be an Xmas baby and he said 'early or late?' and I said, oh, early, I was born a month before I was intended to be conceived

My siblings and I worked out once that 4 of us were the result of the annual seaside holiday and the other was probably my Dad's birthday present.
I also have a neice and a godchild who are the indirect product of my wedding reception.

Ooh, my nice new Sebo arrived today! I actually had fun trying it out - it's always good to play with a new toy, and when vacuum cleaners are new the air smells great when you're using them. The only snag is it cost me about 3 times as much as the Hoover, but then again the guarantee is 5 times as long!

I had a dream about someone whom I know a little but not particularly well..rather, it was about his womanising German lorry-driver of a father...



(I don't even know if this person has his father still, let alone him being all of the above...now where in heaven's name did all of THAT come from?????)

I wish I could talk to someone about this thing that I can't talk to anyone about because if I talk to someone about it it'll become more real and... *head explodes*

Are you okay, Floss?

I have a friend whose father is a lorry driver. Does that help?
(On second thoughts, he isn't German, and isn't a womaniser - so perhaps not.)

You'd think that if someone was taking a huge flag to wave they'd also go to the trouble of flying it the right way up1

suddenly feel like chips, so going to make some.

LOL JudithJ!

I sent this guy a message on facebook, saying that I'd dreamed that his father was a womanising German lorry-driver (in fact his latest conquest was Clint Eastwood's ex...). He replied a) that I was crazy and b) that his father is actually a Lithuanian transvestite tightrope walker.

That clears that up then!

Am at work today with one colleague and our manager.
Manager has gone off to the gym for lunchtime.
Colleague has disappeared while I was in the ladies! I know he brings a packed lunch, but there are at least three places he could be sitting to eat it, in addition to the sandwich bar and the main restaurant. Chances of me finding him are slim.
Still, me and my Kindle will go and enjoy lunch together, it just is quite amusing to come all this way for zero socialising

Organistin became 'unregistered' today.

I was doing a spot of research for my best username vote and couldn't 'search' her.

Yes, I just noticed that.

If you are still reading, Organistin, I'm very sorry you've gone. I enjoyed your posts very much.

Yes, I noticed earlier that a post dated this morning carried an 'unregistered' name.

Hope she's ok.


On a different note... one of my old school friends got engaged at the weekend. At someone else's wedding. Obviously I'm very happy for her, but I just find the setting a bit strange!

That's a shame.

Oh no, I shall miss her posts so much. Wishing you well, Organistin x

All the best, Organistin.

Has anyone else noticed that when you google a particular recipe the first hit is nearly always the BBC Good Food Guide version?

Tallest ever cat

See http://uk.news.yahoo.com/wacky-new-additio...ld-records.html

Or how about this violin?

Does it really play at violin pitch ??

Why do builders have to make so much noise and mess when they are working, when it would be so easy to do the job quietly and cleanly?

And why do they think it is such a great honour to put up with their noise and mess, and to have everything covered in dust and mud?

Why does everybody else have to work around builders, but builders are unable to work around anyone else?

Are they trying to prove their worth by making their presence felt to as many people as possible?

(Sorry for the rant, but we have just had a very noisy organ lesson.)

SB

off to the Bullring in Birmingham to see my friend - she has spent the last few days having a makeover for Gok Wan's fashion roadshow.

*jealous* I Gok Wan!

Went out for half hour. Came back to work and went to carry on listening to my CD only to realise there was something wrong with the sound as I couldn't hear a thing anymore...spent a couple of minutes fiddling with the sound on my PC only to realise I'd forgotten to put the headphones back on!
It's been a long week...looking forward to a nice relaxing weekend....

Have just watched Top of the Pops 1976 on iPlayer.

Under no circumstances should Cliff Richard ever be allowed to sing falsetto...

Don't torture yourself Barry. I have to admit I saw it last night (what was I thinking of I should have gone straight to bed) and thought the same. There wasn't much of merit but then in many ways it was a pretty dreadful decade.

Manfred Mann's Earth Band were pretty good...

Just noticed it's getting late earlier.

Ah missed them.

Enjoying Last Night of the Proms - Scotland. from Dundee's Caird Hall. Playing spot the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra players that I know game... Not enjoying the guy from Travis who is playing just now though!

You must have been blinded by the light

Groan.

I just tried to vacuum my flat for the first time. I dug the vacuum cleaner out of the cupboard, rather impressed to find a Dyson. A rather old looking Dyson, in 4 pieces. Having used Dyson's before, and knowing how temperamental they can be, I decided I'd better try and track down an instruction manual. So I checked the model number. DC01.

Hmm... I thought. That's a very old one.

A few moments later on the Dyson website I found the instructions. Yay! Then I realised. This vacuum cleaner is the first ever Dyson. It is nearly as old as I am and, to my great astonishment it still works. Ish.

My flat comes with its own contemporary museum piece!

Anyway: I'll be buying a handheld vacuum cleaner asap. I wanted one for cleaning out my car, and this ancient suction monter is much to unweidy for such a small flat. It weighs a tonne, and has an irritating habit of depositing a big pile of dust when you switch it off.

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate renting.

I quite like renting, no need to worry about having to pay for stuff when it breaks

Saying that, I have good landlords. They are the inlaws... which also has a downside because we get a lot of grief for not cleaning enough . Maybe owning a house wouldn't be so bad....

I used to rent from my not-yet-in-laws, which was fine. Now, I'm renting an agency managed property, which is a bit of a disaster.


Definitely need an alternative to this though; the model is so old its pre-HEPA filters featuring in vacuum cleaners. I'm allergic to dust, and I think this monster might just kill me off. *Wheeze*

Had tremendous craving for something garlicky so chopped up half a garlic to go with olive oil and pasta. Stopped to stroke cat, and now cat smells slightly of garlic

Am slightly bemused by the growing trend of relatively new posters resurrecting old (and boy do I mean old) threads. Don't be afraid to start new ones.

I dunno. Every time someone starts a thread relating to finding an upgrade flute in the VivaWoodwind forum, the first comments tends to be "do a search, we've had this topic 1001 times, and can't really add much to the sound advice already written out at depth". Obviously, this is put more politely, and specific questions can be answered in a new thread; and newer forumites may well have new perspectives to add... but I'm inclined to think Newbies using the search function can be a good thing.

Right up, that is, til they resurrect a thread containing one of my embarassing posts from when I was 15, and first started using the forum!

I turned our gas boiler off in June. With the cost of gas being so high we thought we would see how long we could go without it. Now into the third week of September........... I wonder how much longer we can keep this up?

We are all getting used to living at a slightly lower temperature, and somehow it is nice being warm together in the kitchen or around the fire in the lounge, and the rest of the house being a bit cooler.

Many independent weather forecasters are predicting snow as early as October this year, (and they have been right for the past two winters), so our drive to save the planet may be short lived.

SB

I recall making some smoked salmon sandwiches, and shortly after stroked neighbours cat. She spent all day licking herself.

Reminds me of my parents dog, (a German Shepherd), who would guard the oven with her lfe whenever there was a chicken or turkey being roasted. Sometimes she would sit there drooling for hours.

SB

one of the Through The Night pieces on BBC Radio 3 IPlayer sounds like Baa Baa Black Sheep, for full orchestra