What tugs at your heartstrings?

[jedimaster]

Originally Posted by mobertol

Although I'm no expert, i think the secret lies in focusing on what you CAN do and not what you can't do any more. It will be a big shift but there may be some positives ..for example making new friends on accy web or finding new interests...

exactly what i've tried to do for the last 2 years but it don't pay the bills and it don't stop the debt collectors although i have been lucky enough to be a part of some wonderful voluntary projects along the way

[Wynonie Harris]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Steve he might not be watching it with you...but who is to say he isn't watching it?

He might be, Margaret, sometimes as I walk across the terraces I feel eerily like I'm following in his footsteps.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

Watching Stanley in the league and knowing my old fella never lived to see it happen.

Understand.

Felt a similar feeling the year Blackburn won the Premiership, the year after my Dad died.

Remebering all those seasons we'd stood in the drizzle, watching 'em stuggle at the bottom of the old Third Division. Never imagining they'd ever be succesful again, and now he wasn't here to see it.

[mobertol]

My youngest son got sent home on his first day from junior school with a note in his diary to say he'd thumped another boy on the nose and made it bleed. Turned out the boy was in top class and had been pushing another new-comer around! As Eddy had a brother that age and had always been a big boy (he was over 10 pounds as a newborn baby) he wasn't phased. Even the teacher told me it was fair enough ...the world is full of bullies...hug a hoodie if it will make you feel less guilty G!

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

He might be, Margaret, sometimes as I walk across the terraces I feel eerily like I'm following in his footsteps.

Then you should feel comforted to know that.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

You know that bit in all the Second World War documentaries? After the fall of Dunkirk, but before the Battle of Britain, when the Nazis were just across the channel and it was regarded as a definite given that they would now invade and the rest of the world had written us off. This is the bit where the commentator says: "...and now Britain stood quite alone" and you see footage of ordinary folk just like us going to work, getting on buses, housewives shopping, postmen delivering mail, quietly, calmly and with a look of unconcern. That always gets me right here and makes me realise what was once great about this country...now largely lost I fear, although you do still see flashes of it from time to time!

Totally, one hundred perecent agree.

Makes me proud.

But also ashamed, at the very same time.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by junetta

I was just watching Rolf Harris on the Piers Morgan talk show and the recording of ´Two Little Boys´ came on.

Around forty years ago I was sitting with my future husband in Jean Daniel´s pub just off Plantation Street listening to the same record. Andy died almost thirty years ago but it felt like yesterday. I could break my heart.

Oh June.

Come here, let me reach over to Tenerife and give you a hug. x

I'm sat here skriking.

Just as I was when I started this thread.

Posting, watching the same programme you were. Remembering people we love still. Despite them not being in the room with us.

[junetta]

It was Cashy. She was a lovely lady.

The years go by Rindy and voices fade but I felt really close to him tonight. Thanks for the hug xx

[cashman]

Originally Posted by junetta

It was Cashy. She was a lovely lady.

The years go by Rindy and voices fade but I felt really close to him tonight. Thanks for the hug xx

She was n Hubby Frank was a coal merchant,we used to get ours off him, his sons carried on wi the round in later days, think one of em runs Bold St Club now.

[junetta]

Jean was my mum´s best mate and I remember Frank too. Went to see him in hospital once. Memory lane yet again x

[Taggy]

Listening to how people describe my Dad!.......A Man i can never hope to be!..I love him & miss him so much!

Best Regards - Taggy

[cashman]

Originally Posted by junetta

Jean was my mum´s best mate and I remember Frank too. Went to see him in hospital once. Memory lane yet again x

June its a great thing memories of good people,summat to treasure.x

[Taggy]

Originally Posted by cashman

She was n Hubby Frank was a coal merchant,we used to get ours off him, his sons carried on wi the round in later days, think one of em runs Bold St Club now.

Didn't Frank have the Kings Arms in later years?....I think he lost both his legs eventually?..His lads are still around....a sound bloke was Frank!

Best Regards - Taggy

[garinda]

Originally Posted by jedimaster

it's more the fact that i am still trying to come to terms with a disability which screwed up my job, led me into financial meltdown and damn near destroyed my life, and I just wish I could go back to when everything was fine and I was doing the job I loved (even though the job was the cause of the problem)

That's a toughy, my little mucker.

Somethings, not all, we just have to grin, bear, and just accept 'em.

I was lucky. I followed, found, and enjoyed living my dream for a good twenty years, before having to accept something that changed my life.

Accept what you HAVE to, and if that affects what you THOUGHT your dreams were...get some new, different, better dreams.

I hate, pious platitudes, but these words always make sense to me.

"Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
-- Saint Francis of Assisi

I've no answers, but if you ever need a brew and a natter, message me.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Taggy

Listening to how people describe my Dad!.......A Man i can never hope to be!..I love him & miss him so much!

Best Regards - Taggy

Bloody hell.

It does make you appreciate things

People sharing, what makes 'em tick, and who shaped the person they are today.

Even if I'm sat blubbin', whilst smiling.