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it was a great place to live me and my sisters went on the methodist chapel anniversary and was sad to see it close about 2007 and spent most of our chilhood in the fields and fishing in the gravel ponds and on what was called muckhills were morrisons was built and lnw terrace was there and i lived there after i was married in 1968 until i moved to arnold in 1976 we enjoyed our life there dispite the summer smell which if you go for a walk now you can still smell the maggot factory on a hot day the viaduct bridge is now filled in with concrete so you cant get but my brother and all his mates used to swing on that rope into the trent and at certain parts of the river the banks were very sandy and we used to paddle play thought we were at the sea side fond memories

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I posted this on another page a while ago and I was surprised at the reaction it got.   The railway bridge at Chandos Street; the scene has hardly changed although you won't see steam trains

I was born in Netherfield at No 124 curzon street in my grandparents ( Thomas & Mabel Barratt's) house. I was the first of eventually three children born to Nev & Jean Barratt. Shortly after m

Hi I remember trent fields, muck heaps, colwick loco,played in ouse dyke setting each other to jump across certain places and getting wet through. going under the bridge near the royal oak. Remember

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Hope this topic is still on the go!!! Does the name "Merrett" ring a bell to anyone? Positive or negative return no pbl :)

yes its still going but has been quiet for a while as i have said in other posts remember steve merrit well . ill have to start posting some of my trent field memories again and get this topic moving again. just been re reading the posts again to refresh my memory on what has allready been writen and its evoked lots of memories again but its getting a bit late tonight and i need some sleep but will get back on tomorrow and post again.

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Hi Bab's! :)

Well I will carry on to reply on this topic if you don't mind! Instead of putting a little bit of Fezz everywhere! ;)

He has mentioned the "Gay Cafe" which was a Youthclub? And reckon remembering "Pat"..said they were something like 3 in the Rocker band..??

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Hi Bab's! :)

Well I will carry on to reply on this topic if you don't mind! Instead of putting a little bit of Fezz everywhere! ;)

He has mentioned the "Gay Cafe" which was a Youthclub? And reckon remembering "Pat"..said they were something like 3 in the Rocker band..??

HI MARZIPAN

JUST LEFT YOU A THREAD ON CHANDOS BOYS SCHOOL YES THERE WERE A FEW PATS ABOUT WITH THE CARLTON ROCKERS PAT LIMB BEING ONE OF THEM. IS THE MICK FEZZ IS THINKING OF MICK FISHER ALSO A ROCKER MARRIED JANET THRAVES THEY ARE STILL TOGETHER LIVE ON CONINGWORTH RD CARLTON THERE WAS ALSO NOBBY AND LEON WHO ALSO PALLED ABOUT WITH CHARLIE AND ALL WENT IN THE CARLTON REGULARLY. ANOTHER PLACE THAT WAS A GREAT PLACE FOR ROCKERS AT THE TIME BUT NOT ONE I DID NOT GO IN TOO OFTEN AS TOO MANY PEOPLE IN HERE KNEW MY FAMILY AND WOULD GRASS ME UP IF I PUT A FOOT WRONG. MY ELDER BROTHER WHO CAME ACROSS AS ALL NICEY NICEY ON THE OUTSIDE WAS ALWAYS A REAL BULLY TO ME AND WOULD OFTEN HIT ME IF HE SAW ME DOING THING HE THOUGH I SHOULD NOT DO OR I GOT IN LATE UNTILL I LEARNED TO STAND UP TO HIM AND WAS NO LONGER SCARED OF HIM BUT I AS IN MY LATE TEENS BEFORE THIS HAPPEND. BUT KNEW A LOT OF THE CROWD FROM WHITEHART LENTON WERE I USED TO GO ON A REGULAR BASIS 3 OR 4 TIMES A WEEK AND STILL GOING IN THERE KNOW REGULAR BIKERS NIGHT ON A THURSDAY NIGHT HENCE SEEING LESLEY LAST NIGHT..

WELL I THINK ITS ABOUT TIME I LET YOU KNOW WHO I AM ALTHOUGH USSUALLY KNOWN AS BABS THESE DAYS MY NAME WAS BARBARA CLEMENTS AND I LIVED ON ETHEL GROVE TOP END DEBIL ST IN THE 50S EARLY 60S TILL I MOVED TO CAVENDISH ROAD NEXT DOOR TO CHARLIE. WENT TO ASHWELL STREET SCHOOL AND THEN TO CARLTON GIRLS.

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Bought hubby a cracking book for crimbo all about colwick loco! Its got some great pics in it of the old terraced houses that were down the bottom of netho! My sister lived on LNW terrace for quite a few years from about 1966. Also 2 of hubbys brothers worked at colwick loco. x

CAN YOU TELL US THE NAME OF THE BOOK AND WHO ITS BY PLEASE CHRISSIE WOULD BE REALLY INTERESTED IN THIS AS WE LIVED THAT END OF NETHERFIELD AND MY SISTERS LIVED ON TRAFFIC TERRACE AND LNW. TERRACE..THANKS BABS

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AS I SAID IN MY EARLIER POST I WOULD ADD SOME OF MY MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD IN NETHERFIELD AND TRENT PONDS SO MANY MEMORIES WERE DO I START AND NOT BORE YOU ALL TO DEATH AS I COULD GO ON AND ON AND DONT ALWAYS KNOW WHEN TO STOP.

WELL I DONT THINK THERE WAS EVER A TIME WHEN WE DID NOT GO DOWN TRENT FIELDS FIRST WITH MUM AND DAD THEN LATER DAD WOULD TAKE US WHEN HE WENT FISHING USUALLY NEAR THE VIDUCT BRIDGE . ON TRENT CONCRETE MAGGOTT FARM SIDE THERE USED TO BE A BIG SANDY BAY WERE WE USED TO PADDLE AND BUILD SAND CASTLES WHILE DAD FISHED SAME AGAIN ON RADCLIFF BEND WERE THE CARRAVAN PARK WAS ON THE OPPOSIT SIDE THESE BEUTIFUL BAYS HAVE LONG GON WHEN THEY REENFORCED ALLTHE BANKS WITH ROCKS IN WIRE CAGES .PARTLY TO STOP EROSION BUT PARTLY TO DISCOURAGE PEOPLE FROM SWIMMING IN THE RIVER. RADCLIFF BEND WAS WERE I FIRST LEARNED TO SWIM WITH MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND OF COURSE OUR BEUTIFUL BIG BLACK NEWFOUNDLAND DOG BLACKIE ,HE WOULD SWIMM BESIDE YOU AND IF YOU GOT INTO TROUBLE YOU WOULD JUST GRAB ONTO HIS COLLAR AND HE WOULD TAKE YOU

TO THE NEAREST BANK AND PULL YOU ONTO THE SAND AND HE KNEW YOUR WERE OK.

LATER AS WE GOT A LITTLE OLDER WE WOULD BE ALLOWWED TO GO WITH OLDER BROTHER AND SISTERS AND BY THE TIME I WAS ABOUT EIGHT I WOULD BE DOWN THERE WITH MY OWN FRIENDS OR EVEN GO FOR A LONG WALK ON MY OWN. NEVER WAS FRIEGHTEND DOWN THERE ON MY OWN. USED TO LOVE WALKING UP THE PATH THAT USED TO COME OUT ON EMERIES RD OFTEN YOU WOULD NOT MEET ANYONE ON THIS PATH SO WAS GOOD FOR WATCHING THE WILD LIFE KNEW WERE SEVERAL RABITT WARENS AND BADGER AND FOX DENS WERE ON THAT PATH. THINK THIS IS NOW PART OF THE OFFICIAL LAGOONS WALK NOW IS BUT HAVE NOT BEEN DOWN FOR ABOUT TWENTY YEARS.

BUT I THINK MY FAVORITE MEMORIES COME FROM THE BIT IN THE FIELD WERE THE BIG POND WITH THE ISLAND WAS A LITTLE STREAM ALSO RAN HERE WITH A LITTLE FOOT BRIGE OVE THIS PART OF THE OUSE DYKE AT THE SIDE OF THIS WAS A LOVELY GRASS BANK WITH A NICE FLAT BIT AT THERE BOTTOM WERE WE WOULD HAVE OUR PICNICS AND FISH FOR TIDLERS AND NEWTS AND TADPOLES FROGSPAWN.

I WILL LEAVE IT THERE FOR A WHITE AND MAYBE COME BACK TO THIS A BIT LATER IF PEOPLE WANT ME TOO.

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BY THE WAY BAZZER I AM SURE OUR PATHS MUST HAVE CROSSED AT SOME TIME I HAVE BEEN READING SOME OF YOUR OLD THREADS AGAIN RECENTLY AND THE PEOPLE AND PLACES YOU TALK ABOUT ARE PEOPLE WHO I REMEMBER WELL THE TROGGS AND THE NOMADS. FOR ONE . DID YOU GO IN THE CAVO ON A THURSDAY FOR THE DISCO I KNOW YOU ARE A LITTLE OLDER THAN I AM BUT BUT I STARTED GOING IN THERE WHEN I WAS 15 OR 16 MY FRIEND WAS 2 YEARS OLDER THAN ME 18 TO 19 AND MARY THE LANDLADY WOULD NEVER SERVE HER BUT I NEVER HAD A PROBLEM GETTING SERVED SO I ALWAYS HAD TO GO TO THE BAR TO GET OUR DRINKS.WE OFTEN LAUGH ABOUT IT NOW.

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Slightly off topic, but since Babs mentioned Trent Fields, to us on the south bank Trent Fields was the area between what is now Lady Bay Bridge and the then gavel pits, now the Water Sports Centre.

In the late 50s we would go down there trying to hit hares with sling shots, and later chasing them on old bikes. girder forked Ariels and Nortons etc. It was good practice for dodging cars and pedestrians when we got to 16 and could get a license.

On Sundays in Summer lots of Lady Bay folk would hear the speed boats racing and would go down Trent Fields to watch. The boats would come within inches of the large rocks which strengthened the banks.

Cattle grazed the fields then and their cow pats attracted lots of insects, these in turn fed the skylarks.

Pinders Pond hosted reed buntings, yellow wagtails, sedge and reed warblers, I went down there a few years ago and all the old wildlife was missing. I put that down to the farm closing.

Myself, Howard Stuckey, Keith Saunders and John King were the sling shotters, the bikers included Vic Moore, Dave Coburn, Bob Amphlett, Bob Foster, Baron, Tony Whiteman Bob Simkins and others.

Lady Bay had aot of Bikers in those days.

Are there any of you out there?

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Well, we were bikers too! but a different kind. Push bikes.

Built my own back in 1960 and joined the Sherwood Cycling club. I think they are still going. At that time they met in a building at the side of the Chesterfield Arms in Gedling. Also very handy for getting re-fills on club nights. At that time we used to do time trials from Lowdham up the bypass to Oxton and beyond. It was supposed to be ten miles. Seemed more like a 100 sometimes. Sunday club runs were out to Kinoulton and other villages. Sometimes into Derbyshire. You really knew when you'd been riding up there.

Great days. Wonder if any of the old guys are on this site?

Maybe I should just start a knew thread for that. Thoughts?

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Here are a few names i remember from Netherfield. Trevor Wheeldon, his brother Derek and his wife Ivy. They used to live at 125 Dunstan st. Elaine Blood, Sue Purdey. All aged 55 - 60.

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I think you are just so great Bab's! :) As much as you can go on and on, as you say, I can read and read without stop your full adventures!

Keep on going Mrs!

THANKS MARZIPAN ONE DAY I MIGHT EVEN WRITE A BOOK ABOUT MY LIFE NOT ALWAYS EASY BUT MOSTLY HAPPY HAD A LOT OF DIFERENT EXPERIENCES IN MY LIFE SOME NICE SOME NOT SO NICE BUT THAT WHATS MADE ME THE PERSON I AM TODAY .

SOMETIMES ITS HURT BUT IN THE END HAS MADE ME STRONGER AND ALTHOUGH UNDER 5FT TALL AND AS WIDE AS I AM LONG WELL ABLE TO STAND UP FOR MYSELF NOW. AND PUT DOWN THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IGNORANT AND HAVE A GO AT PUTTING ME DOWN. AND I DONT HAVE TO RESORT TO BEING FOWL MOUTHED AND RUDE AS MOST OF THEM ARE. JUST USE MY INTULECT AND WIT. AND CAN USSUALY GIVE BACK MUCH BETTER THAN I GET.

LOL BABS.

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Here are a few names i remember from Netherfield. Trevor Wheeldon, his brother Derek and his wife Ivy. They used to live at 125 Dunstan st. Elaine Blood, Sue Purdey. All aged 55 - 60.

KNEW ALL OF THESE BY NAME AND OUR PATHS WILL HAVE CROSSED AT SOME POINT OR OTHER BUT CARNT ALWAYS PUT THE NAME TO THE FACE.

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WELL HERE A LITTLE MORE ABOUT LIFE IN NETHERFIELD AND I THINK I WILL START TODAY FROM THE BEGINING WERE I LIVED AND WAS BROUGHT UP FOR THE FIRST 12 YEARS OF MY LIVE THEY SAY THAT THE FIRST EIGHT YEARS YOU LEARN MORE THAN THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.

THE PLACE 14 ETHEL GROVE OFF DEBIL ST NETHERFIELD THESE WERE THE FIRST HOUSES IN NETHERFIELD TO BE DEMOLISHED IN THE MID SIXTIES. THIS BLOCK OF 18 TERRACE HOUSES WAS AT THE TOP END OF DEBIL ST WALKING DOWN FROM VICTORIA RD.

ON THIS SITE NOW STANDS A BLOCK OF NEW HOUSES BEEN THERE ABOUT 10 YEARS NOW BEFORE THIS IT WAS A CAR PARK AND FROM BEING DEMOLISED TO BECOMEING A CARPARK IF WAS A SMALL PARK WITH FLOWERS AND SEATS.

THESE HOUSES WERE TWO UP TWO DOWN NO BATHROOMS AND TOILETS AND COAL HOUSES AT THE END OF THE YARD I SURPOSE THESE YARDS WERE ABOUT 10FT BY 10FT WITH A PATHE SERVING THE WHOLE SIDE OFTHE TERACE BEFORE YOU GOT TO THE TIOLETS SMALL FENCES ABOUT 3FT HIGH BETWEEN THE YARDS SOME STILL HAD THE GATES OTHERS DID NOT AT THE FRONT WERE GARDENS ABOUT THE SAME SIZE AS THE YARDS MOST OF THESE HAD PRIVET HEDGESAGAIN SOME HAD GATES OTHERS DID NOT I KNOW WE HAD A GATE ON THE BACK BUT CARNT REMEMBER IF WE HAD ONE ON THE FRONT .

MY FAMILY

MUM DAD TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS I WAS NEXT TO YOUNGEST THE NEXT ONE UP FOR ME WAS KATH KP NUTS ON THIS SITE SHE IS 6 YEARS OLDER THAN ME AND MY BROTHER JOHN IS 2 YEARS YOUNGER THAN ME.

AND OF COURSE MUM ALWAYS LOOKED AFTER ROBERT RAVEN WHO ALTHOUGH HE LIVED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF DEBIL ST WAS LIKE AN EXTRA BROTHER TO US. ROBERT HAD DOWNS SYNDROME AND WAS TWO WEEKS OLDER THAN ME MUM LOOKED AFTER HIM EVERY WEEKDAY WHEN HIS MUM AND DAD WERE AT WORK. AS THERE WERE NO SPECIAL SCHOOLS IN THOSE DAYS AND ROBERT LIKE MANY DOWNS AND DISABLED CHILDREN IN THOSE DAYS WAY NOT CONCIDERED ABLE TO ATTENED SCHOOL ROBERT STAYED ALL DAY WITH MY MUM AND SHE TOUGHT HIM TO READ A LITTLE FROM OUR BOOKS HE USED TO LIKE COMICS . THIS WAS WITHOUT ALL OUR OTHER FRIENDS AND NIGHBOURS IN AND OUT OF THE HOUSE BACK DOOR NEVER LOCKED AND VERY FEW PEOPLE WOULD KNOCK JUST COME IN AND SHOUT ANYBODY THERE MUM WAS USUALLY IN THE BACK KITCHEN SMALL ROOM WITH A BIG BLACK RANGE COPPER BOILER IN THE CORNER. ON THE SIDE OF THE RANGE WAS A GAS COOKER BUT MUM USED THE RANGE MORE THAN THIS TO COOK IN,AND ON ALWAYS A BIG BLACK KETTLE ON TOP OF THE RANGE.SINK INFRONT OF THE WINSI BIG BELFAST SINK BUT ONLY COLD WATER NO HOT THIS CAME FROM THE KETTLE OR THE COPPER THE WASHING WAS ALSO DONE IN THIS AND THE DOLLY TUB AND PONCH KEPT OUTSIDE DONE OUTSIDE IN THE SUMMER BUT BROUGHT IN WHEN COLD AND WET.NEXT TO THE SINK WAS THE BACK DOOR AT THE SIDE OT THAT THE DOOR TO THE STAIRS WITH A PANTRY UNDER THESE. THE ONLY OTHER THING WAS A BIG KITCHEN TABLE AND SIX CHAIRS USED FOR ALL KINDS OF THINGS COOKING BAKING EATING ON AS WELL AS PAINTING DRAWING PLAYING GAMES CARD NIGHTS AND THE ODD BAR ON PARTY NIGHTS.

SO OUR HOUSE COULD BE A BIT OF A MAD HOUSE AT TIMES IF WE WERE ALL IN ESPECIALLY WHEN COLD AND WETAND WE COULD NOT GO OUTSIDE TO PLAY HENCE WHY WE OFTEN GOT FIRES UPSTAIRS IN THE BEDROOMS BUT WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES AS DAD WORKED ALL HIS LIFE DOWN THE PIT SO WE ALWAYS HAD PLENTY OF COAL TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS.KNOW OF PLENTY WHO HAD TO GO AND PLAY IN BED ROOMS WITH OUT ANY HEATING TO KEEP THEM WARM.

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ETHEL GROVE THE PEOPLE

WELL AS I SAID THERE WERE 18 HOUSES ON THE TERRACE MANY OF THE FAMILIES LIVED THERE FOR AS LONG AS I COULD REMEMBER BUT A FEW OF THE HOUSES PEOPLE CAME AND WENT NOT STOPPING LONG.

NO 1 THE SMITHS DAUGHTER PAT WAS BIG FRIENDS WITH MY ELDEST SISTER PAULINE.

NO 2 THE SUTTLEWORTHS SUE AND JEFF SON AND DAUGHTER .JEFF HAD AN OWL FOUND AS A BABY DOWN TRENT FIELDS CALLED HIM OZZIE LIVED IN A CAGE IN THE BACK GARDEN.

NO 3 THE EVANS HAD A SON BRIAN WHO I AM TOLD STILL LIVES IN THIS AREA

NO 4. SUNNY WEBB RAILWAY MAN

NO 5 ONE OF THE HOUSES THAT PEOPLE NEVER SEEMED TO STAY LONG BUT I THINK LEWWIE DUNWORTH LIVED HERE AT SOME POINT LATER HAD A MOTORBIKE WITH BIG DUSBIN FEARRING. AND BECAME A TEACHER AT ASHWELL ST SCHOOL IN LATER LIFE

NO 6 I THINK WAS MRS TAYLOR SON JOHN DAUGHTER ENID

NO 7 WAS IDA AND JIMMY WEBB BROTHER OF SUNNY HAD TWO SONS ALAN AND JIMMY.

NO 8 MRS HOLT SON LES FOR A LONG WHILE THEY LIVED THERE ON THERE OWN BUT AT SOME STAGE NOT LONG BEFORE WE MOVED HER HUSBAND CAME BACK BRINGING 3 CHILDREN FROM HIS OTHER RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM CAUSED QUITE A STIR AT THE TIME BUT SHE TOOK HIM BACK AND HELPED RAISE THOSE CHILDREN AS HER OWN. NOT MANY WOULD HAVE DONE THAT. BUT THEY STAYED TOGETHER UNTIL THEY BOTH DIED.

NO 9 THE HOLMES FAMILY HAD A DAUGHTER JUDITH.

NO 10 MRS MOSEBY RAILWAY MANS WIDOW THE TRAIN DRIVERS AND FIRE MEN USED TO DROP A BUCKET OR TWO OF COAL OVER THE SLEEPERS FOR HER EVERY DAY.

NO 11 THE DEWBERRYS SON JIMMY ALSO RODE BIKES AT ONE POINT WENT IN THE NAVY NOW LIVES OZ.

NO 12 CARNT REMEMBER

NO 13 MR AND MRS REWAR POLISH EX CONCENTRATION CAMP VICTEMS THEIR CHILDREN HAD DIED IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMP.

NO 14 US.

NO 15 THE KINGS A NOTHER LARGE FAMILY BUT SOME BELONG TO HIM AND SOME BELONG TO HER AND I THINK THE YOUNGEST 2 WERE BOTH OF THEM BUT I DONT THINK THEY WERE EVER MARRIED.

NO 16 THE MORES DAUGHTER SYLVIA SON TOMMY NEAR YOUR AGE LOPPY GOOD FOOTBALLER. LIVED IN NETHERFIELD MOST OF HIS LIFE BUT SADLY DIED 2 YEARS AGO.

NO 17 ONE OF THOSE HOUSES PEOPLE MOVED IN AND OUT OFF BUT I THINK THE LAST PEOPLE TO LIVE IN THER WERE MARGRET AND TED PARKER AND THER 2 CHILDREN PAUL AND WENDY.

NO 18 THE BRIGGS FAMILY .

WELL HOWS THAT FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS SINCE I LEFT NETHERFIELD

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Well Bab's!

I think you are really good! Good deal would for you to write a book! Sure!!!

I think it's just amazing, and as I already said, I can just read and read all your stories without getting bored! :)

Stephen said to me, that all of this was up to now, like ghost dancing in his head...and everything just woke up!!...I just told him to keep in the memory his experience, it's part of life...good or bad...but made him what he is now! :)

Well, looking forward to further story! :)

Marzipan

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[TELL HIM WE CARNT DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE PAST EXCEPT TO APOLOGIZE IF ITS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO . BUT TO REMEMBER THEY GOOD TIMES AND MAKE THE BEST OF WHATS LEFT OF OUR LIVES AND NONE OF US IS GETTING ANY YOUNGER AND MAKE THE MOST OF OUR FUTURE WHAT EVER IT MY HAVE IN STORE FOR US . BUT NOT LET THE PAST RUIN IT FOR US . TELL HIM STAY STRONG AND HAVE A GREAT TIME WITH THE REST OF HIS LIFE.

I AM NOW DISABLED AND FIND MOTORBILITY A BIT DIFFICULT BUT NEED TO GET OUT THERE AND ENJOY WHAT LIFE HAS LEFT TO OFFER ME . NOT ALWAYS EASY BUT I HAVE GOT TO TRY .

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Yeah he knows all about that!

He has been very sick...and tends to take even more the best out of life...he does always say this to me :)

I did apology for bringing back difficult memories...that when he mentioned "the ghosts"...:) but it's exactly what I said, bad or good we cannot change the past, but take the best out of the future!

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SORRY TO HEAR THAT STEVE NOT BEEN WELL BUT IT WAS ME THAT GAVE YOU THE INFORMATION NOT KNOWING THE CIRCUMSTANCES JUST THOUGHT IT MIGHT EVOKE THE GOOD MEMORIES ASWELL AS THE BAD.

BABS

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[TELL HIM WE CARNT DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE PAST EXCEPT TO APOLOGIZE IF ITS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO . BUT TO REMEMBER THEY GOOD TIMES AND MAKE THE BEST OF WHATS LEFT OF OUR LIVES AND NONE OF US IS GETTING ANY YOUNGER AND MAKE THE MOST OF OUR FUTURE WHAT EVER IT MY HAVE IN STORE FOR US . BUT NOT LET THE PAST RUIN IT FOR US . TELL HIM STAY STRONG AND HAVE A GREAT TIME WITH THE REST OF HIS LIFE.

I AM NOW DISABLED AND FIND MOTORBILITY A BIT DIFFICULT BUT NEED TO GET OUT THERE AND ENJOY WHAT LIFE HAS LEFT TO OFFER ME . NOT ALWAYS EASY BUT I HAVE GOT TO TRY .

I tell you what Babs, that is a fine attitude towards life. Well done you, lass. :)

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I tell you what Babs, that is a fine attitude towards life. Well done you, lass. :)

WELL STU NO USE SITTING ABOUT AND CRYING ABOUT IT DONT DO NO GOOD. USED TO LET THINGS GET TO ME BUT NOT ANY MOOR. LIFE HAS DEALT ME SOME HARD KNOCKS IN THE PAST BUT I STILL KEEP GETTING BACK UP.

BUT ITS ALSO DEALT ME SOME GOOD ONES TOO MY HUBBY BEING ONE OF THEM WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET THROUGH SOME OF IT WITHOUT HIS STRONG SUPPORT.

BUT MY ATTITUDE TO LIFE NOW IS TAKE ME AS I AM . THOSE THAT DONT LIKE ME THEIR PROBLEM NOT MINE I AM A GOOD FRIEND TO THOSE I GET ON WITH BUT HEAVEN HELP THOSE THAT CROSS ME. AND I DONT LIKE PEOPLE WHO ARE FALSE IE NICE TO YOUR FACE BUT SLAG YOU OFF BEHIND YOUR BACK IF YOU DONT LIKE ME YOU DONT HAVE TO PRETEND I HAVE PLENTY OF GOOD REAL FRIENDS THANK YOU

LOL BABS

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