WWQP Bulletin Board Chat

surprise parties...

I'm pleased to hear that your experience of surprise parties is good Jane. I put one on for friends a few years ago and it back-fired badly. It was their Silver Wedding. We had said we would take them out to dinner as none of their children had made any plans for them. We invited all their friends (and their children), hired a hall, prepared food, picked them up and delivered them there... They burst into tears, eventually enjoying the party but I later heard that their day had been very miserable, thinking that no-one, not even their children, had remembered that it was their special day , and they would have loved the anticipation of the party...... sometimes you can't win !

Good to hear from you Beverley. I was very aware of the floods in England. They have been particularly bad in your area I think. Good to know that it was only your garden that suffered damage..

Congratulations Pat. What a huge effort on your part. You deserve to feel pleased with yourself. Well done.

Spent two hours this morning trying to track the visiting Beagle . She took off through the electric fence, obviously on the track of a hare or rabbit. It was her excited barking that caught my attention. She's a tiny little thing and not easy to see in the long grass of the irrigated paddocks... Her owners were due to collect her. When they arrived they seem very relaxed about the fact that she was missing ! They said she would come back when she was ready ! (it evidently took her 11hrs once...) We scanned the landscape and all walked off in different directions. Eventually she was spotted and, sure enough, she was heading for home. I was very relieved. That's the first time she has taken off from here. She's a regular visitor and is usually happy enough running around with our Beagle. They've got a couple of acres to run around on.

Here's a good one for those of us who are over 21...." Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter !"

Marion.

posted by Marion in NZ. @ 9:38 PM