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Cuckoo Estate Reunion 2012
We are looking to hold our 5th Reunion in Sept or October 2012.Watch this website for all the details as plans come available,
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10 comments:
Who make a New Years Resolution? and have you kept to it so far?
I have failed to give up smoking again but I'm still trying.
One resolution I will keep is to stay in touch with all the friends I have made in the last year.
Hi Jenny,
Please, please, please, try giving up the ciggies once more and I promise I will lose weight!
Anyone else interested in cutting something out or giving something up? We can do it together online!
I like the resolution 'bout friends!
Giving up the old fagettes is no problem. As I told my gorgeous GP, a couple of weeks ago, I give it up three or four times a day, no sweat.
Anyone on this site remember the St. Ann's school trip to Switzerland in 1957? The girls who went on the holiday were probably about 15 at the time.
Holiday to Switzerland, Joan? Wasn't that supposed to be an educational trip?
When I was teaching I used to get frustrated by the language department teachers who were always taking classes on cruises to exotic places. At one staff meeting I suggested that those tutors must be getting tired of all that traveling, so I was ready to volunteer my services. Months later I was asked if I was still willing to go on a trip? "I've cracked it,' I thought. 'Of course, where to?' I asked. "Stoke-on Trent,' was the reply. Story of my life.
I went to see my dentist the other day for the regular “scale and clean”.
As I tend to generate a lot of plaque, I casually asked the lady dental technician what sort of toothpaste she would recommend.
This was my big mistake!! After a half hour ear bashing lecture on the merits or otherwise of tooth pastes and mouth washes, she recommended I use an ELECTRICALLY OPERATED TOOTH BRUSH! NOT BATTERY OPERATED…ELECTRIC!!! Now I don’t know if you have researched these things but I certainly had not until recently,
These things come in a plethora of varieties, colours, speeds, actions shapes and prices.
The “Top of the Wassa” model comes with all the whistles and bells like oscillating, rotating, pulsating, gyrating and reciprocating heads that scrub, clean and polish and burnish your pearlies until people need to wear sunglasses just to talk to you, and would you believe it, they also come with a built in alarm/ timer to let you know when you have finished cleaning your teeth and you can take the thing out of your mouth.!!
The prices for these state of the art gadgets range from just over A$200.00 (Aussie dollars) to a mere A$45.00 and come with driving instructions, owners manuals, text books and goodness knows what else to justify the unbelievable prices.
Having wandered amongst the daunting arrays of these gadgets, with their dazzling shapes and colours, on the shelves at the local chemists for what seemed like an eternity, I ended up so totally confused by choice and claims like my “smile will bedazzle all and sundry” etc etc. that I decided that I would call it a day and buy the consumer magazine “CHOICE” and let THEM tell ME which one in their opinion was the best value for money.
So, having paid A$50.00 per year subsciption fee for this very comprehensive magazine and spending an hour reading the appropriate article, I still ended up equally as confused as I was before, so I thought that I would stay with the good old fashioned, manually operated toothbrush, which, hither to, came in just four colours and an option of “soft”, “medium” or “hard” bristles……………NOT ANY MORE!! You have a choice of every colour under the rainbow, cranked heads for a long reach, flexible heads, combinations of bristle grades, sizes and colours. ergonomic handle grips, food grade plastic heads and so on.
What ever happened to our little flat tins of “GIBBS DENTIFRICE” tooth paste and the simple, every day, ordinary, good quality tooth brush.?
Heaven protect us from the insane advertising and marketing gurus and their hell bent desire to lead us all by the nose into buying things that we do not need or want.
One grumpy old man…..
We have been using a Phillips Sonicare for a few years. I agree they are way too expensive & so are the replacement brush heads.But here, dental care costs the earth so prevention is the key.
When I worked in advertising there was a sign, above each desk, that read,"We know that the public doesn't need this product, your job is to persuade them that it does.'
As for electric toothbrushes, I stopped using mine when I realised that each time I switched it on in the evening, the street lights dimmed.
Here we are back in Yuma Arizona. Left for a couple of days and went to Tucson. The weather is bright and sunny in the 80's. We are having the motor home washed right now, they come right to your RV site to wash and wax it for thirty five dollars. Such a deal. Headed to San Diego on Thursday and meeting up with two old friends from the Granada days, Christine Sanders (from Northolt) and Elsie Cottrell (from Greenford) Should be lots of fun. Back home in Juneau they are having record snow fall so glad I am here in the sunshine.
Effo
The local news station was interviewing an 80-year-old lady because she had just got married for the fourth time.
The interviewer asked her questions about her life, about what it felt like to be marrying again at 80, and then about her new husband's occupation. "He's a funeral director," she answered.
"Interesting," the newsman thought.
He then asked her if she wouldn't mind telling him a little about her first three husbands and what they did for a living. She paused for a few moments, needing time to reflect on all those years.
After a short time, a smile came to her face and she answered proudly, explaining that she had first married a banker when she was in her early 20's, then a circus ringmaster when in her 40's, and a preacher when in her 60's, and now in her 80's, a funeral director.
The interviewer looked at her, quite astonished, and asked why she had married four men with such diverse careers.
She smiled and explained, "I married one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four to go."
(Oh, just shut-up and send this one on).
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