Spread your wings and fly away

Reading about the wedding that isadora attended yesterday on here reminded me of my own wedding many years ago.

Now I have to organise any events around the football calendar, and this was hindered slightly by it being world cup year as well, because obviously, marrying a football mad man is not going to bode well to get married on the day that England are going to play.

However I was not to know that when we got engaged and had 18 months to prepare for a wedding. Who knew that England would do well to play?

so the date was set. 7th July. End of football season and hopefully England would not have got so far to play in the world cup.

Well they didn't, they never got through to the finals, but they had to play Italy for third/fourth place.

And when did that take place?

Yes you guessed right 7th July!

So we were in the church getting married, had the photos done, got to reception, greeted guests and then the match started.

What were the men doing?

Yes that is right watching the match on the big screens kindly supplied by the club where we were holding our reception.

England didn't win, but it certainly was a wedding to remember

A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of the dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Broni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the shepherd... "If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?" The shepherd looked at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looked at his peacefully-grazing flock and calmly answered, "Sure." The yuppie parked his car, whipped out his IBM ThinkPad and connected it to a cell phone, then he surfed to a NASA page on the internet where he called up a GPS satellite navigation system, scanned the area, and then opened up a database and an Excel spreadsheet with complex formulas. He sent an email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, received a response. Finally, he prints out a 130 page report on his miniaturized printer then turns to the shepherd and says....... "You have exactly 1586 sheep." " That is correct; take one of the sheep." said the shepherd. He watches the young man select one of the animals and bundle it into his car. Then the shepherd says: "If I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my animal?" "OK, why not." answered the young man. "Clearly, you are a consultant." said the shepherd. "That's correct." says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?" "No guessing required." answers the shepherd. "You turned up here although nobody called you. You want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked, and you don't know crap about my business.... Now give me back my dog."

received this link (below) from a friend and confirm this lady's articles are well worth reading, particularly the religious article.

ROSE Hacker is the world’s oldest correspondent. The author,
campaigner, mother, sex therapist, artist, and most recently,

journalist, was born in East London in 1906 to Jewish parents. A

clothes designer by trade, she became a radical socialist in the 1930s

travelling to the Soviet Union on the same boat as Beatrice and Sydney

Webb.

Later she joined the Marriage Guidance Council and became one of

Britain’s first sex therapists and the author of several books on

teenage sexuality. In the 1970s she was an elected member of the

Greater London Council.

But it was the publication of Rose’s sparky, elegant column in the New

Journal last September made her an overnight sensation at the age of

100. So far, she has appeared in the Guardian, the Observer, the

Independent, Daily Mail, the Times, the Telegraph and Woman’s Hour.

Request s to interview her continue to pour in from all over the world.

If you want to read some very interesting articles, please see what Rose Hacker, the oldest journalist in the world, has to say. She is 101yrs old and incredible!!!!!

Go to www.thecnj.co.uk and scroll down to Camden and then Rose Hacker and read her wonderful articles on all the subjects that she knows so well.