Need to stop being mardy crow!

I would bite your hand off for such a lovely time!

Smileless2012

Glad you're feeling better Narnia . We all have our 'mardy' moments and there's nothing wrong with that .

Exactly! However, when they’re voiced here there are always comments saying ‘you should count your blessings’ or words to that effect. Can we just ‘have a moan’ on this website occasionally, without being attacked by those who have suffered a loss of their partner? I’m sure, at this stage in our lives, most of us have seriously suffered a loss of someone very close. More empathy, please?

Babs03

I spent my birthday in a small grassy area outside a stroke ward with my DH in a wheelchair handing me a bunch of flowers one of my DDs had bought from a petrol station on the way. It was the best birthday ever because my DH was recovering though I knew he would never recover completely it was an improvement on a few weeks before when we thought we had lost him.
Hold those you love close and for goodness sake count your blessings.

Your post really brought tears to my eyes Babs. You know what really counts in life. You are a wise lady.

Best Wishes to you and your husband.
😻
Xxx

I’m a widow with no children. For my Birthday, I’ll get a card from my sister (whom I visit each Christmas - a four and a half hour train journey), and a couple of Cousins (one of whom lives in the USA).
So - I have invited two friends from Church to Afternoon Tea at a local Restaurant (I’ll pay). They are good people, and I’m pretty sure that I’ll get two extra Birthday cards this year (though that’s not why I invited them!)

Narnia

Thanks all appreciate all the replies, as i said I'm over it now, moved on.
I just needed a mardy moment.
Not sure why some member decided that i needed to be messaged privately to be told she's no idea what I'm on about!!
Some people should just scroll on!

Good to hear, glad you're back on form! We all have our moments 🥰 . I've been a right mardy crow too this week & it was also my birthday🙈 must be something in the air 😉🤣 .. belated HB to you

Mardy is also used in the East Midlands.

Used in Merseyside as well.

My mother was a Yorkshire woman, living in Lancashire and mardy was a word used by her.

It was used to describe a grizzly baby - mardy baby- when I lived in Lancashire. That was in the 1960s.

I used to say to my DC "I can't stand mardy children, especially if they're my own!"

Glad you're not mardy any more, Narnia!

nanna8

I haven’t heard the word ‘Mardy ’ for years and years since I lived in the UK so thanks for the blast from the past Narnia! Hope you are feeling better now.

Well, I keep wondering if it's meant to be mardy cow not crow.
I've heard the term mardy cow (never used it) but never mardy crow!

It's a Midlands term dalrymple23
Any sign of whingeing or moaning and my mother would tell me not to be mardy.

Mojack26

I'm a bit confused by your post,sorry.. Sounds like a lovely time. What actually is the upset?

Oh dear!

I'm a bit confused by your post,sorry.. Sounds like a lovely time. What actually is the upset?

Sadgrandma

Narnia
I get where you are coming from. After all the fuss made of your DH for his special birthday you, quite naturally expected a bit of a surprise for yours too so you were disappointed, I think I would have been as well. Do I assume that you played a big part in the organisation of your DH’s surprise? Unfortunately men are not good at such things and, as you’d already had a holiday perhaps your DH and family thought you’d be happy with that. Also sI assume that, as you’d all already been away, your DD and DS probably couldn’t afford or had time for another break. I ‘m sure none of them would have deliberately wanted to upset you. Therefore, try and put it out of your mind and move on. As other GN’s have said some people get nothing for their birthdays and spend them alone so try to focus on what you did have.

We all know that it’s not that men aren’t good at this sort of thing. They just can’t be bothered and know there will be no comeback.

BlueBelle

Dalrymple it’s a lovely old expression a ‘mardy cow’ is a moody, moany person

I guessed it meant that, but it was only a guess!😄

Cows aren't silly! Crows might well be.

Oh did he say Mardy Cow or Moody Crow???
I never reads things properly!
I'm actually a silly Cow!

Oh! I was just having a little scroll of Gransnet & saw this topic & immediately thought that MrIlovedogs22 had highjacked my account! Good to know that I'm not the last surviving Mardy Cow!
There's hope for our future! David Attenborough will be pleased.
Unless my DH decides to finally cull me .😉

Nice that you came back to update us about how you're feeling now.

Glad you're feeling better Narnia . We all have our 'mardy' moments and there's nothing wrong with that .

Thanks all appreciate all the replies, as i said I'm over it now, moved on.
I just needed a mardy moment.
Not sure why some member decided that i needed to be messaged privately to be told she's no idea what I'm on about!!
Some people should just scroll on!

Dalrymple it’s a lovely old expression a ‘mardy cow’ is a moody, moany person

Maybe plan your day yourself next year?
...and then tell the family your plans!

This, every time 👍🏻

Goodness, all that bother for birthdays. A card, a phone call, are fine for me. I do usually receive presents but flowers, extra special chocolates, a postal cream tea even and I am more than happy that I've been remembered. You need a bit of a rethink about birthdays.

I’m also not totally sure what the problem is….but then I don’t really celebrate birthdays. Perhaps try to let it all go and move on…there are surely more important things to worry about, with respect.