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Messymascot's faith in humanity and ginger safe haven

Barnfred 55 said:
Pete. You are obviously a very clever and intelligent guy, but I don't know what sort of reaction you were expecting to get from your children. Of course they were going to be vehemently against it. How did you leave things with them mate? I appreciate it isn't my place to offer advice on such things, but if you've left things up in the air then I really think you need to sit down with the two of them again as they're bound to be anxious about your intentions. You need to put their mind at rest if nothing else.

As regards Mrs P, at least you're having the conversation with her regarding her preferences. Something I never got to do wth Cal.
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Thanks Fred. I’m sorry, if that’s the right way to express it, that you and Cal didn’t have a similar conversation. But tbh I may never have done so either without comments in here. We only ever think that we will live forever then life and death bites us on the arse. I honestly didn’t mean to raise sorrowful thoughts for you, Roydo and others the other week, but I have appreciated everyone’s feedback. I’m sure over the next week or so I will again be speaking with my kids again. My daughter of course knows she holds the ace because I am putty in the hands of my ten year old granddaughter…….
 
peteblue said:
Thanks Fred. I’m sorry, if that’s the right way to express it, that you and Cal didn’t have a similar conversation. But tbh I may never have done so either without comments in here. We only ever think that we will live forever then life and death bites us on the arse. I honestly didn’t mean to raise sorrowful thoughts for you, Roydo and others the other week, but I have appreciated everyone’s feedback. I’m sure over the next week or so I will again be speaking with my kids again. My daughter of course knows she holds the ace because I am putty in the hands of my ten year old granddaughter…….
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Which was always very obvious to those who read your posts during covid. And maybe why some of us were a little surprised when you expressed your intentions recently.
 
Barnfred 55 said:
I've become a bit obsessed with a new girl band called the Last dinner Party of late. They've been termed "baroque pop" which I suppose is similar. If you have time check out a session they did with BBC 6 live. Google it and you'll find it easily enough. It's only available for another 2 hours though.
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I checked them out Fred. Interesting but I wasn't greatly enamoured. A bit self indulgent in my opinion
 

Barnfred 55 said:
Oh very self indulgent. But most successful artists are I would argue. I like their stuff and love watching the early gigs you can get on YouTube. They clearly enjoy themselves and I think that's part of the attraction for me.
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Abigail Morris is the spitting image of one of our barmaids……I think the trick with this band is not to watch the video, just listen to the sounds…and it’s good….
 
peteblue said:
Abigail Morris is the spitting image of one of our barmaids……I think the trick with this band is not to watch the video, just listen to the sounds…and it’s good….
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So where’s your pub again Pete?😀

I think there's a big 80s influence in their songwriting which is probably why I like them. Think the lead guitarist is very talented even if she's smaller than the ivstrument she's playing. 😀
 
peteblue said:
Talking about my wife though I’ve had an ‘interesting’ week. I had listened to and gave a lot of thought to comments raised in here since I mentioned intentions for if my wife died before me. Anyway, I discussed this with her, as expected she couldn’t remember but gave me her current views anyway. I also discussed it with one of my sons and my daughter (the other two lads living abroad). The feedback was very similar to that given by the ladies on here but in more forthright language. My daughter said don’t be stupid, we know how much you love mum but we also know how much you love us and the grandchildren. My son took a more balanced view but said that when we made that promise to each other we hadn’t brought our children and hence our grandchildren into this world and that we both owed it to them to stick around for as long as possible. So that was the kids view. My wife also said that we were young when we made our promise, had never discussed it since and then pointed out that while I wished to be buried where we now live and close to the kids, she now wants to be cremated and her ashes spread across the hill/mountain of the Blorenge just above her home town. @roydo was probably right and I shouldn’t have discussed it…..
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A few months ago I kept reading these reviews that said something like “ The third episode of a series “ The Last of Us” was the most stunning thing people had seen on Tv for a long time”. So I watched it . SPOILER ALERT. It really was a stunning episode, particularly the ending and last words from Bill whose partner Frank is about to die “ This isn’t the tragic suicide at the end of a play . I’m old . I’m satisfied . And you were my purpose” Then they go off to die in each others arms.

When Mrs blueloon came home I tried to explain the episode to her but I was overcome with emotion, not as she first thought about the poignancy of two gay men, but the realisation of how much I felt those words applied to me and us: “ I’m old, I’m satisfied , you were my purpose” are lovely words of contentment, but I reflect on them differently now. Last week my friend if 40 odd years stayed with us , sadly his wife of 50 years died 3 years ago, and for 18 months he was lost but friends who live close to him snapped him out of it and he found purpose again. Everybody’s different , and we each chose our own path, but purpose can remain in our lives. Apologies for the overlong reply Pete.
 
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Barnfred 55 said:
I've become a bit obsessed with a new girl band called the Last dinner Party of late. They've been termed "baroque pop" which I suppose is similar. If you have time check out a session they did with BBC 6 live. Google it and you'll find it easily enough. It's only available for another 2 hours though.
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Had a look through Spotify and they only seem to have a couple of songs, one of which is rather explicit 😀.

I did enjoy though.
 

Morning all, been properly catching up on the conversations I’ve missed over the weekend during my Prosecco induced haze/recovery. I’ve never really felt Irish music tbh and put it down to my lack of heritage in that part of the world, but I’m certainly going to check out the recommendations on Spotify when I’ve got a minute.
Today is rescue dog walking and thanks to the change in weather, laundry and gardener’s assistant this afternoon.
have a great day everyone
 
I'm interested in the definition of Irish - or any other nationality. Does it mean country of birth or does it mean ethnicity. For example my Dad was the only one of his siblings who was born in England after his parents moved to Liverpool from Cork. Does that make him English when he had zero English heritage or ancestry. Also we lived in Nigeria for a couple of years when I was aged 4-6. My Mum found out that she was pregnant with my youngest brother while we were there. She came back to Liverpool to have him. However had he been born in Nigeria would that have made him Nigerian?
 

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