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Post by losty on Jun 28, 2013 10:50:27 GMT
Today, my elder son is back for a flying visit from his very first, and unexpected, job, as a journalist in London. He started the job straight after his final uni exam and before he even got his degree. This means that when he went back to Cornwall in early April, I expected to see him again much sooner. He's on the train now. My younger son was 20 last Monday, and is home for the summer, so I'm really excited. We are going out for a family meal tonight. I hope you chaps have just the same fun day  |
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Post by mags on Jun 28, 2013 12:19:30 GMT
aw that's fantastic Losty. my youngest is back from a school trip to france at MIDNIGHT lol so i need to keep myself awake late tonight. I also got a panic call from my mum last night so am waiting for her to ring me when she's home from work, she bought herself a nook but my dad "tried" to set it up for her and has done something wrong and now she can't get into the bloomin thing LOL so i have to go rescue her "again" haha it's so funny, my dad thinks he's helping but he more often than not causes probs with technology that i have to go fix *sigh* mags x |
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Post by hurricane on Jun 28, 2013 13:34:04 GMT
Just a haircut, grocery shopping and dropping one son off at a friend's house for me today. Although I did promise my older son I'd watch some Star Trek with him and play a game of Yu-Gi-Oh! So I'll most likely fit those things in too. And as always laundry and some knitting.
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Post by losty on Jun 28, 2013 15:14:02 GMT
Update alert - 'cos I know you are on the edge of your seats! Both sons piled in at midday, and treated me to various football chants, which you definitely won't want me to share. In turn they got a potted history of forums. As I couldn't wait, I gave the elder his graduation present of an all-singing all-dancing Swiss Army penknife. Not an everyday idea, but he laughed because they both wanted penknives when they were younger, and there was no way I would let them near one! He then neatly demonstrated WHY I wouldn't get one ......by cutting his finger.
hurricane - is Yu-Gi-Oh a craze like Pokemon was for my boys?
mags - is it the trip all the kids seem to do to the battlefields of WW1? They all seem to do that here, and the toughest teens come back very sombre after seeing how many young men died.
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Post by mags on Jun 28, 2013 16:29:41 GMT
yep they visited a few places in Normandy to do with both WW1 and WW2 they also went to a cheese farm and a few other places, just had a text to say she's back in the UK so we can expect them later tonight. She says she had a brilliant time but really wants to be home now bless her |
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Post by losty on Jun 28, 2013 16:46:44 GMT
That's lovely, Mags. I'm sure she has missed you. The minute my elder son got back, he produced a rusty bomb! Defused of course.
A couple of his friends located the headstones of family members, which set my son off on a trek to trace ancestry. The result was that my granny's youngest brother had flown planes in WW1, and at the end of that war, the RAF was formed, with said great-uncle's name bang on the first list of members. As the surname "Truss" is unusual it wasn't a hard search. We also "found" a still-living cousin of my Dad's whom he didn't know of (family scandal). Her daughter sent me a photo of herself, aged about 6 or 7. I immediately showed it around. We looked so similar at that age that all assumed it was me!
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Post by mags on Jun 28, 2013 16:51:52 GMT
oh wow that's awesome, i have a little claim to fame in my family as well, my great great grandad (i think or it could have been uncle) was on the very first postcard sent from the south pole. He was on one of the great expeditions there in the early 1900's  |
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Post by losty on Jun 28, 2013 17:16:42 GMT
Is that him in the picture? I love the look on the penguin's face. And how COLD was this chap?
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Post by mags on Jun 28, 2013 19:34:55 GMT
hehe yep thats the image from the very first postcard sent from the south pole, what you don't see is the rope that connects the penguin to his foot LOL
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Post by hurricane on Jun 28, 2013 20:09:43 GMT
Yes, I have one that is into Pokemon, one into Yu-GI-Oh! Hundreds of cards!
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Post by Tal on Jun 29, 2013 0:13:45 GMT
Ahaha, I went to sleep at about 1pm Friday and have just woken up at 1am on Saturday. Never let it be said that my sleep cycle was coherent!
It's so good to hear about your families. Losty, you must be so proud! Mags, sounds like a load of fun! Hurricane...if we figure out how to play cards over the internets, maybe I can share MY card collection! Ahaha. Oh dear.
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Post by hurricane on Jun 29, 2013 1:22:23 GMT
My son would be thrilled!
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Post by Tal on Jun 29, 2013 1:39:48 GMT
I keep wanting to learn YGO but YGO and MtG are too similar--have you ever tried to learn something that's so similar to something you learned when you were tiny, so you keep getting confused and wind up doing the old thing instead of the new thing?
I learned how to play MtG when I was 11. The rules are 95% (bullshit statistic alert) the same as the rules to YGO (that's YuGiOh), so every time I try to learn, I wind up using the MtG rules instead of the YGO rules and getting turned around and failing miserably cause of that 5% difference.
What somebody needs to do is invent a game where one person has a YGO deck and one person has a MTG deck and they fight it out anyway.
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Post by mags on Jun 29, 2013 2:50:39 GMT
Well it's 3.44am and I am just about to go to bed and try to get some sleep. My youngest sent me a message at five to midnight to let me know they wouldn't be home on time. They finally got back to school at 2.45AM.
So we're back home, pressies have been given, lots of hugs all round stinky cheese put ina ziploc bag in the fridge lmao and it's off to bed lol. Idk who was more happy to see her home, me or the dog lmao he went absolutely nuts when she walked in the door. Have to be up relatively early as we have to be at my mums by about 12 ish as they go out every Saturday at 2 and don't be back until really late. Why is it kids have to bring home stinky cheese from France? Lol I remember doing the exact same thing when I went when I was her age hahahaha. She got some for herself "cos it tastes like heaven" (her words lmao) and some for granny and grandad. Just thanking god she didn't get me any hahahaha She did get me a new eyebrow piercing tho hehe. |
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Post by Tal on Jun 29, 2013 2:54:42 GMT
Oh man, being a night owl is hell if you're not used to it! I'm glad everyone is home safe and happy though!
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