We or He is back.

WE ARE BACK

All Dusted Down

(sort of)

Gerry will be taking over and restarting this blog as from this weekend or earlier.

Its been a hectic few years and now he has time on his hands to publish some stuff.

So watch this sort of space.

Silent Sunday #7

Silent Sunday

Things To Do Before I’m …..

Got invited, well few days back now to have ago at a Meme by my lovely twitter friend Alison from her blog post HERE. I had a look and put it on the back burner. Now here I am going to sort of write my own. As I got quite a short memory span, going to re-read her post and write this post.

Reading Alison's post and the post she got invited to have a go from another blogger 'I May Not Be Your Mom But I'll Be Your Friend', the post is HERE. The idea seems to originate from a post by 'Two point Four Children' and it can be found HERE. The reasons for all the links, is to give you an idea of different ideas people have for the goals they wish to achieve. 

Now re-reading again the posts I have linked to, it seems you now need to reveal your age. This is where I will go a bit different now. As a married couple, Gerry and I. We try to keep everything on the Internet as a joint thing. It is very hard as Facebook, Google+ and a few others do not allow this. Everything has to be individual. This annoys us. Any I digress. But as I at 56 and Gerry at 48, we are going to say things we would like both to do in two years time from today.  This is a joint list.

So here goes.(Get to use bullet points too)

1. Try to complete 100% Burnout Paradise on the Xbox360, we stuck on 94%, plus the online achievements.
2. Visit Scotland, the Highlands for a long touring holiday.
3. Re-visit 'The Langdale' in Cumbria and have Cumberland sausage and red cabbage in the local pub.
4. Get our passports renewed.
5. Win, borrow, beg or steal enough money to visit Florida.
6. Get a 6 burner cooker (that's more Gerry's) but I will benefit in more lovely food.
7. Least get some of our respected families together for a day, will need a wedding for that (Sarah or Kayleigh)
8. Put a Christmas tree up.
9. Finish decorating this place, been two years and counting. If it carries on, will be like the Forth Rail Bridge, once we finish will have to start again.
10. Sit together and watch Lost season 1 and 2. Still on the shelf and still with shrink wrap around them.
11. Learn how to grow herbs, like Jamie etc have in their TV kitchens, I am sure they are just put there.
12. Take Grace to one of the Wednesday night summer firework displays on the beach.
13. Go to Great Yarmouth races, both lived here for years and never been. its a 15 minute bus ride.
14. Buy a banana tree. Not a real one, but to hang our bananas on.
15. Have a proper night sleep when Grace is sleeping over. She three but we both up every hour checking on her. Very silly. We worry to much.
16. Give cockles and mussels another go and try to like them. We live in a seaside town, they have the seafood stalls on the market with the little pots of them and toothpicks. Just at the moment don't like them.
17. De-clutter, this will never happen. Have tried it loads of times. Just move a load of cr*p from box to a new box.
18. Do not buy any more Goldfish, got five left, had eight. Bought for Grace. She really don't care. So when the last one goes to the great fish shop in the sky. That is it.
19. Be rich enough to put £1 coins in the 'Christmas' pig, just once.
20. See Kayleigh qualify as a nurse. Think that is about two years time. That one is up to her.

At the moment can't tag no one as I have to look around the blogs I read and blogger friends on twitter to see who has not been invited. Will update when I have some people.

If you feel the need to write a post like this please link it to Two Point Four Children's page

written by Phyllis and Gerry

Silent Sunday #5

Silent Sunday

Valentine

Jack Valentine

 

As tomorrow is Valentines Day for us lovers etc out there. You might not have heard of the old Norfolk tradition of Jack Valentine. I do not know if anyone else around the UK or the world celebrates this little known tradition. In our families, in our own way, we always do.

We know him as Jack Valentine but known by other people as Old Father Valentine or Old Mother Valentine. So what is it all about? This mystic figure or figures are for the children, children of Father Christmas and Easter Bunny believing age. The mystical Valentine appears mysteriously outside the door of children, leaves a little gift, gives a load knock on the door and then disappears into thin air. Unlike Father Christmas or the Easter Bunny, there is no pictures of him that we know of. No one knows what he looks like. He gives a gift of love to all the little children on February 14th. By past experiences, I would guess he will visit Grace's house just after breakfast. So I hope you might celebrate this Norfolk tradition in your house this year. It is great to make up stories and get your little ones excited on his visit.

It is an old tradition, this extract from the BBC Norfolk website and that link has much more about this tradition.

"In the 1800s, Norfolk children would set out before dawn to sing rhymes in exchange for sweets, cakes and pennies.

One favourite local verse was:
 

Good morrow, Valentine,
God bless the baker,
You'll be the giver,
And I'll be the taker.

Once it was light, their requests could be turned down because they were said to be sunburnt."

So hopefully you might start this little tradition in your area this year. The gifts do not have to be expensive, sweets etc.  

Written by Phyllis.

First Post

The First Post.

A Brief History of Time Waisted (or not)

There will be two people writing this blog. Me and the husband. We will place a note on the bottom of a post of who wrote it, so you know who to have a go at.

Best give a bit of in site of our history. As they say write what you know about first. We all have slightly tangled lives.

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A brief history of me.

Well I (Phyllis) have been married three times. Divorced first husband, second husband sadly passed away. Now with my third husband. I have one now really grown up son from my first marriage. Who I do not see as he is working away. My second husband sadly passed away, and from that marriage have a lovely daughter (now all grown up) but gladly lives locally. So get to see her a lot when her job permits.

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A brief history of him.

The husband (Gerry) is also on his third marriage, in his case divorced two times before. Now stuck with me. He has three children and one grandchild. The daughter and grandchild from his first marriage, and yes its his grandchild but she is mine also. Then two sons from the second marriage. They both in their late teens and sadly never hardly see them as they are in their late teens (you know what they are like, if you got teen boys).

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A brief history of us.

Well after all that we met and married in 2008. All our passed lives then interconnected to produce this one. Sadly both of our parents have passed on. So its just us and the children of varying ages and the grandchild, of which who know us on twitter is Grace.

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Post Script

This is version 1.5 of about us. As just learning how to work this blogger properly this time. Not going to rush in without a thought like last time. So most posts are going to be a work in progress until at least April 2012. Just getting the bones together, before I can put some meat on and then hopefully the skin.

Also this blog will NEVER be sponsored, by any company to promote their products with freebies etc. If anyone want us to review anything than that's fine. You must realise that any review might be good, indifferent, or bad. It is in your hands. So if you want to take a chance and get a real review. Well we are here......... 

Written by Phyllis and Gerry