Can I just warn any lurkers out there...........

these pillows are a really good idea in the competitions section.

Might buy GS's one of those each. Comfier than headphones. Do you (anyone) think they'd be able to hear their stories ok?

I will ask Sil she got one as present from her DS last year but can remember her mentioning it since, will text her dont buy till I come back jingle she is at work so will be later as phone has to be turned off.

Thanks glass. That's great. Will look back later.

Talking of earphones - well, weren't we? - has anybody used the ones that let you listen to the TV without having the sound so loud the family complain?

Not yet. But I think I'm going to have to soon. Can't keep driving DH out to the other tv. Or - what I do sometimes - watch it on normal volume, and then go on i-player next day with the subtitles on. (Hate watching normally with sub-titles. Can't watch and read at the same time!)

DH does seem to have very tender lug 'oles!

How much easier it is now to access the OU I remember doing my degree by being up early at something stupid o'clock to get through my course on the BBC,how I wish we had access to the internet in those times.

That's true, glamma. When I did the French course, only 15 - 18 years ago, all the assignments went in by post and we had videos and broadcasts. My DS has been doing it this year and it's been almost all on line. We had more live tutorials for which I was very grateful.

I was amused when going through an old diary of my mother's, written when I was about eight, to find:

'Jean ( me) has managed to swim two strokes, I believe the first in her class to do so'.

I defy anyone to beat that.

Oh Pettalus That's Maternal pride for you! When are you doing the English Channel!

What a show off

Petallus - were both of them underwater?

Petallus that made me want to cry.

I was thinking, mum was only in her late twenties when she wrote that.

Suddenly I feel a bit tearful for what I had and haven't got any more.

I have my first school report framed. It says that April, me, is very good at skipping and jumping.

(that was to Grannyeggs)

grannyeggs when you changed your name I put my foot right in it and called you goldeneggs (dont know if you noticed)

Oh hang on I have lost my marbles that last post should be on another thread...thats what I get for DH talking to me for the last 30mins about something really technical he is doing at work (I lost the will to live) and and got confuddled

Now I cant find which thread it was

petallus no-one can ever replace your mum, can they?

My late mother would not have bothered to record anything so trivial in her view. Don't misunderstand me, I think it's lovely what your mum wrote, it just shows how proud she was of you petallus.
If I got a merit, in piano for example, it ought to have been a distinction. If I came 2nd in the year then that was not good enough and all praise was faint. My friends never met with her approval and she tried to push me into befriending the 'rich' girls instead. My father was bad mouthed behind his back and later to his face.
I envy you being tearful for a mum who isn't there any more. It showed you had a loving relationship. When my mother died, by her own hand, my over-riding emotion was relief.

glass I quite likeGoldeneggs

I like Grannyeggs best.

Oh nanadog