Sheesh, I gave the correct answer first....why don' t you pick me?:^O Just for the record....the question is "how many esses in that?"...answer is there are no esses in the word that. The first part I saw..etc is just a smokescreen.:^O

It's funny isn't it - I had not heard that joke for a zillion years and yet still remembered the answer.. I must be going into old age where we remember the far past more easily than the near past 😞

Do you remember this one:

A man is looking in a mirror and is saying to himself "Brothers and sisters have I none, yet that man's father is my father's son"

Here's a norti one for the girls... who remembers when buttons became zips?

:^O

It's funny isn't it - I had not heard that joke for a zillion years and yet still remembered the answer.. I must be going into old age where we remember the far past more easily than the near past 😞 Do you remember this one: A man is looking in a mirror and is saying to himself "Brothers and sisters have I none, yet that man's father is my father's son"

I remember that one, my grandmother use to say it all the time.

HI darkie and everyone:)

The only reason I never came in before was because I dont make the cut...born decades apart...but I hope I am welcome anyway:)

I am sad that the cancer thread is gone, it was a very important thread for me, as Mum is not in remission anymore. There are now 7 tumors in her lungs.

But this thread is a good idea, as long as non-seniors are welcome too 🙂

Have a good weekend 🙂

Sheesh, I gave the correct answer first....why don' t you pick me?:^O   Just for the record....the question is "how many esses in that?"...answer is there are no esses in the word that. The first part I saw..etc is just a smokescreen.:^O

Because I've been saving the best for you .....A GOLD STAR!!!!!!!

Now be a good girl , wipe your eyes,  and give us all a big smile.  :^O:^O

HI darkie and everyone:) The only reason I never came in before was because I dont make the cut...born decades apart...but I hope I am welcome anyway:) I am sad that the cancer thread is gone, it was a very important thread for me, as Mum is not in remission anymore. There are now 7 tumors in her lungs. But this thread is a good idea, as long as non-seniors are welcome too 🙂 Have a good weekend 🙂

Beani you are always welcome and you can be counted among us because your mum would be nearer our age and she is having one hell of a time of it - so are you ((((hugs))))

I am so sorry there are more tumours and she must be having a rotten time with it all 😞

We will all give you whatever support we can I'm sure  xxxx

No one has answered my question(s) 😞

Oh well, good morning all, and happy Sunday.

I think my modem is working now.  It must have got a fright when it realised another one was on the way... now I will have two.

Might hang on to the second one until I am sure this one is really working.

Talking of Beani and her poor mother, how many here have experienced cancer in their lives?

Just a passing question, you don't have to answer, but it put me in mind of a very old woman I nursed in a retirement home. She was 92 at the time and must had had breast cancer years and years before, because she was missing both breasts, as I am now.

What I do wonder is how long ago did she go through that operation and I think back then it was something of a miracle that she survived to the old age that she did.

If I go back and recall I knew her in 1969 and she was 92 then, that means she was born in 1877.

So if we consider she might have had cancer when she was, say 50, then that would have been back in 1927!

My word that is a long time ago.  Her scars were old, not fresh ones of just a few years...  I never knew when I would bathe her that one day I would be the same 🙂

Just a personal memory of when I was a young 30 year old. 🙂

actually I think darki, that the man was looking at a photograph? of a man?

morning all.....

Just about to get off here and do some of my painting.

At art class last week I managed to paint one tree, instead of swathes of grass and some water, so it's on to another very large tree...I sketched it so now to try to remember what I was copying.. the tree i.e.  just an excercise to learn how to paint with acrylics, which I'd never done before....it dries so fast, which is good in a way, but not when you're as slow as me.

Darki, I used to know this one but it's sooo hot here and my brain is like glue  (that's my excuse anywaylol).  I think it's the grandson looking in the mirror?  Um no I don't think it's right. It's the son?   

 It's a good one ........ please put me out of my misery I'm gonna chew over it all day. 

Kengillard that's great you've started painting, I think you'll love it.  As far as acrylics go I think you can buy a retarder for them ..... it slows down the drying process.   Or you can just keep painting over the picture which you can't do so much with oils.  I've got a very big acrylic painting I did for the loungeroom and every time I get sick of it i just paint over it. lol.