Crying at work? Blame Radio 2!

Not entirely unexpected in the case of my old girl - was really just a matter of when, rather than if. You tend to go downhill pretty rapidly with small things at that kind of age. But, she had a good innings, certainly lived a life.

Finger crossed for yours - hope she makes 100!

 

Do you mean "womens' problems"? You know, "downstairs".

 

What book is this??

I've read many similar ones from both sides of the war

 

This one made me shed a tear whilst walking through the graveyard at Church cove near the Lizard written on a WW1 memorial stone ...tall with a long list of fallen Cornish men .
The names on the stone had fine cornish names like Tyacke ...Trerise ..Borlase . It read

No loved one stood around them,
To bid a fond farewell,
No words of comfort could they leave,
To those they loved so well.

Leaving the church i walked 200 or so yards to come to a beautiful cove ...this summer did give it a brilliance of beauty shining blue sea and cloudless sky , and sunlight blazing through the green foliage .
How could those poor men leave this to die in a place ..a stinking hell. God knows what they must have thought crouched down waiting and hoping .

 

Try having your alarm radio set with her on her own show. Takes me back to the 90s growling at Mrs P to turn THAT woman off! Ala Sarah Cox.

 

Wash your mouth out! Sarah cox is ace


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Is now, but 20 years ago...

 

yep! insipid to the point of extreme annoyance... as with richard madeley

 

Oh now I get it women’s problems downstairs, in the kitchen

 

I was crying at work yesterday, they sent me on a job all the way to Wych Cross garden Centre and it was a bloody no show grrrrr

 

Likewise. Although always enjoyed the tuneless kid singing the Xmas carol year after year after year

 

@Ermintrude
@Merlin Cat
@Sproggy4830
@scrooge95
@Pony ...
I feel you need some Feltsian Therapy.
This comes in two forms:

1) The "You can't have had it as bad as me"
2) The "Shardenfreude anecdote"

1)
Far worse than the optional listening in on R2 was my three years of forced association by virtue of being in the same 17 strong English Faculty group at our College at Uni in the 80's ..... Even back then I was describing her as a caricature of her own "Jewish grandmother" which says it all to those of you who are initiated!
She has since written about the other nickname that I gave her, with no credit to me
"Vanessa the Undresser"
based on the fact that she used to swan about the student hall in the lingerie that her Dad (who was in that line of business) used to send her red cross parcels of.
Absurdly rude, rediculously self assured and annoyingly brilliant, she was the worst thing about my Uni experience ....
There's a "moment" that captures the flavour:
While milling about waiting to go in for our very last paper she starts up.
"Oh god Mike what am I going to do?! I don't know what to write! It's an absolute nightmare!!"
The paper in question was the "Tragedy" paper, which is generally acknowledged to be the easy one for English students and is the one that students of other subjects choose as their non-core paper (we all had to do one ... for me it was a philosophy paper for example)
Anyhoo, since this paper required memorising lots of quotes to back up whatever highfalutin thesis one was scribbling down, and since I can't remember literary quotes to save my life, I achieved the impossible and failed this Tragedy paper .... she got the highest first on record
2)
This is a second hand anecdote, but too good to leave out of your therapy ...
A good friend of mine a year ahead at the same uni college was at school with our Nessie ...
One night after a party at which he had drunk more than his system was designed for, her then boyfriend offered him a lift home. David drove, Nessie in the front passenger seat, my mate Rog behind her in the back.
On arrival, Rog went to say thanks but threw up all over the back of her head instead
I hope you will now be able to cope a little better with that laugh

 

Yes, definitely a brigjt spark.
Talking was always her strong suit.
Went to her 21st at her parents' place and met her younger sister ......
POOR GIRL!
Now since I'm in name dropping mode ... the person I really wish I'd properly kept in touch with because she was clever and funny with it, was Tilda Swinton.
"Class!"

 

Is she any relation to "Fuzzy" Feltz?

 

THAT was NEVER a problem ... I expect her essays were the same.
Having an opinion and being able to back it up was at the core of Eng. Lit. .....