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I had to laugh when I read the part on the car dieing. There is no question the
British produced the best rock musicians but your cars...they break down more
than American cars!
posted by
Vermont01
on March 16, 2015 at 4:20 PM
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sounds like a mixture of emotions
posted by
Lanetay
on March 16, 2015 at 8:58 AM
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Yes Bro ,well it is the thought that counts .No use putting flowers out in the freezing weather. It is always so danged cold in cemeteries. Kabu is sweet thinking of Joycie.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 16, 2015 at 2:05 AM
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11 stone Jimmy that would be my ideal. Yes there is not much sentiment in the world today Jimmy, the contractors don't think a poor woman, or man might still be grieving over his loved one.Archie might recover a man has brought him some pallets to cut up for sale as firewood, he will need the money his cam-belt has broken and damaged the car's engine.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 16, 2015 at 2:01 AM
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ChiffChiff
I have to use plastic posies on my Joycies grave until spring. Kabu usually takes care of that as she's the flower person in this house, then we go together and install them Bro.
posted by
WileyJohn
on March 15, 2015 at 7:33 PM
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Interestingly, my wife went to visit the grave of her late niece recently, and the geniuses at the cemetery had 'trampled' her flowers building a grave site next to hers! No respect! And I'm glad Archie is still alive, albeit depressed. Tell him to think of positive things from now on! So, what's your ideal weight that you're striving for? Nine stone, or at least ten? 
posted by
JimmyA
on March 15, 2015 at 11:06 AM
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Re: Some days - sunny and bright - seem to mock the depressed soul.
I should be so lucky Pat seems like we both should have been psychiatrists.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 15, 2015 at 8:56 AM
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Some days - sunny and bright - seem to mock the depressed soul.
I hope everyone is buoyed up by a stretch of kind fortune in your neck of the woods, and your biggest job becomes smelling the roses, not cheering up the downspirited.
posted by
Pat_B
on March 15, 2015 at 7:49 AM
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Well Jean I always shudder when someone asked how I am. I know I shall have to listen to a host of their current complaints and provide suitable reassuring comments. By the way how are you? Only joking, hope you feel better soon, I am sure as it becomes warmer aches and pains do not trouble as much.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 15, 2015 at 1:41 AM
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Well Krisles as a boy leaving school at 14 I helped my father on a traveling shop and we visited villages with paraffin and an assortment of household goods Most folk seemed old, but I suppose most of the young men had been called up to fight and the girls worked in the Mills. In a way it was the beginning of the end of that era. Incidentally always criticize if possible, you have an interesting imagination.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 15, 2015 at 1:36 AM
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Yes graves tend to disintegrate if they are not tended to. I am afraid folk have short memories.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 15, 2015 at 1:26 AM
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Yes In am afraid I don't go as often as I should adnohr but if I could walk on air I could step out of this window and walk straight across to the hill that they are buried on. I do go in the summer when there are flowers available from the garden. Yes Archie can't even be bothered to annoy anyone lately. It was funny he was sitting in the Doctor's reception for therapy and the doctor called his surname which is quite a rare one up stood Archie and a colored man, The doctor looked in amazement.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 15, 2015 at 1:21 AM
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Gotcha Ciel .
posted by
C_C_T
on March 15, 2015 at 1:13 AM
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Funny really Naut at the time things seem normal it is only when one looks back that one realizes how things have changed.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 15, 2015 at 1:12 AM
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Yes but when it said I had the heart of a man of 95 and the same for Arthur it makes one wonder if if they are trying to frighten folk, it was Government sponsored.
posted by
C_C_T
on March 15, 2015 at 1:10 AM
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who cares about a few extra lbs...One needs to keep warm in the Winter. Archie will be alright. He just carries on so that you will pay his way for him every now and again.
posted by
Kabu
on March 14, 2015 at 7:53 PM
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CCT
Another touching journey into remembrance - childhood and war...There is a stillness about this poem... 
posted by
Nautikos
on March 14, 2015 at 6:10 PM
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posted by
Ciel
on March 14, 2015 at 4:57 PM
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Poor Archie - he's having a grumpy day. It's nice that you sister takes such good care of your parents' gravee. Lovely poem - nostalgic.
posted by
adnohr
on March 14, 2015 at 4:57 PM
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I know that the cemetary that my paternal grandmother's parents are buried at has areas that are falling apart...It can be tough when the remnants from our past float away.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on March 14, 2015 at 4:26 PM
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This is one of those poems of yours that is so interesting to me....and that I love to read not just because it is so very well crafted, but because it gives me such a realistic sense of a world so very different from mine...yet with a touch that I can easily relate to the feelings and personalities as though you were just down the street here in Texas.
posted by
Krisles
on March 14, 2015 at 2:23 PM
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cct
perhaps it is because i am not feeling my best but i wonder if when one is sick and tells others it is like a snowball effect. best to keep somethings to ourselves i might imagine. but then not very human like. hope archie is feeling better and that wileys bp is ok etc
posted by
jeansaw
on March 14, 2015 at 1:54 PM
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