Vivenda

@Vivenda (583)

Portsmouth, England

Joined myLot 9 years ago

I am retired and have been happily married for 43 years. Interests include writing, current affairs, music, making friends on line, and Sims 3 - yes, really...

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Vivenda's Responses

He Lost His Bet, Thank Goodness.

Jabo @jaboUK (64362) • United Kingdom 15 May 18

Five years ago my husband and our son were having a drink together and the subject of my husband's longevity came up. At that time my husband was 82, and he said that he doubted that he would be around after the next couple of...

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Vivenda Certainly sounds like a good bet to lose - and I'm delighted that he did! How are you keeping? After a couple of horrible years, I'm hoping to get into the habit of writing again!

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At Home With My Grandparents

Jabo @jaboUK (64362) • United Kingdom 12 Jan 17

Life for my grandparents was very different from how things are today. When I was a child in the 1940s they had no electricity or indoor plumbing. The toilet was at the bottom of the garden and looked just like you see in the...

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Vivenda As I think I've mentioned before, until I was 6 I lived in a big household comprising my parents, my maternal grandparents and whichever of my mother's brothers was in England at the time. It was a few years post-WW2, and my mother was going out to work, so I...

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How Fun?? My Bad??

Jabo @jaboUK (64362) • United Kingdom 18 Sep 16

Whenever I see ''How fun'' or ''Very fun'' written on here I know that an American is the author. We Brits would say ''What fun'' or ''Such fun''. There are so many differences between the way the Americans use the English...

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Vivenda Two nations divided by a common language! I well remember standing in a shower room in a youth hostel at the top of a hill overlooking Bergen in Norway when an anxious-looking American girl came in and asked where the "bathroom" was. Since I was relatively...

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The Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40042) • Laguna Woods, California 18 Sep 16

One of the delights of being in Las Vegas is to see the dancing water fountains at the Bellagio Hotel. They play gorgeous music over the loudspeakers and the fountains move along with the beat of the music. On a beautiful, warm...

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Vivenda Sounds very much like Disneyworld, especially Epcot as I remember it back in 1992.

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We'll be away for a while

Judy Evans @JudyEv (325337) • Rockingham, Australia 19 Sep 16

Tomorrow morning early we head out in the bus/motor-home and will be gone for about ten days. I think it is lovely that friends here actually start to notice if people are 'missing' for too long so I'm giving due notice. I don't...

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Vivenda Have a great time - I hope all goes well!

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The Age has arrived too Soon!

Inlemay @Inlemay (17714) • South Africa 19 Sep 16

It was grandchildren's day yesterday and my hubby and I were exhausted when we bid them goodbye at the garden gate, and as I watched them drive away I thought . . . . "that was us a few decades ago, and look us now - we are the...

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Vivenda I never know whether I'm sad, or relieved, that I'm never likely to be a grandparent!

19 Sep 16

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Burkini Berks!

WorDazza @WorDazza (15833) • Manchester, England 19 Sep 16

An Australian Muslim woman has been forced to leave a beach on the French Riviera because other people didn't like the fact she was wearing a burkini. If you haven't seen a burkini it's basically a garment that covers the entire...

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Vivenda We were discussing this as a family, and the comparison withe wet suit was made by one of us, too. It really is stupid to object to someone wearing what you consider to be too much cover. Each to his/her own - and I hope the lady in question enjoys a swim...

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Kiwis have short beaks

Judy Evans @JudyEv (325337) • Rockingham, Australia 19 Sep 16

I've just read Val's (@valmnz) post, And Then There Was One, about the progress of her book. She refers to the fact that New Zealanders are often called 'Kiwis'. The 'real' kiwi is the national bird of New Zealand and can be seen...

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Vivenda Really enjoyed this, Judy! You had me completely confused about the beak for a moment!

19 Sep 16

A Song That Makes Me Sad - Never Dance With My Father Again by Luther Vandross

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (45002) • Preston, England 19 Sep 16

There are plenty of sad songs, The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan, about a woman attempting suicide, by Dr Hook and later Marianne Faithful, or Grocer Jack about a village green-grocer dying, by Keith West, but sad songs generally don’t...

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Vivenda It's certainly a beautiful song! I think it's the "missing" part that tugs at the heartstrings, though - in my case, it would be "laugh with my father" - he was no dancer! I'm afraid I always laugh at those wannabe tearjerkers, though, like "Leader of the...

19 Sep 16

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The Closet Dilemma

AnjaP @Rollo1 (16679) • Boston, Massachusetts 19 Sep 16

Closets are wonderful spots in a house. They exist solely to store and hide things that you want to keep, but don't want anyone to look at. Best of all, they usually have doors on them, so there's an air of mystery. What's...

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Vivenda In four words: too much of everything!

19 Sep 16

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Care To Come With Me On Our Norwegian Cruise?

Jabo @jaboUK (64362) • United Kingdom 4 Sep 16

Norway is a beautiful country, and a wonderful way to see it is by cruising along the fjords. A couple of years ago my husband and I, together with our son and his wife, did just that. I've used several of the photos on my posts...

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Vivenda It's a fantastic country, isn't it? Rik and I hitchhiked and youth hosteled around the southern part before we were married, and while we were still students. (Many people did hitchhike in those days.) We went up the coast from Bergen to Alesund by the...

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Not The Same Spot!

hereandthere @hereandthere (45651) • Philippines 3 Sep 16

When you already have a small burn at the base of your right thumb while frying something and, two days later, bam! Hot oil popped and hit almost the same darn spot! Grr... Ever had that happen? Or accidentally bumping an injured...

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Vivenda Of course, the silliest thing I ever did was to put my finger into a pot on the stove to see if the water was nearly boiling. It was!

4 Sep 16

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Unusual Garden Installation

Judy Evans @JudyEv (325337) • Rockingham, Australia 1 Sep 16

I have been sorting through photos and came across this one of a garden installation. It is situated outside one of the buildings at the University of Western Australia. I'd like to say it was the engineering building but I'm not...

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Vivenda A very interesting installation - but, on the whole, I prefer the tree trunk!

4 Sep 16

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The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men

Judy Evans @JudyEv (325337) • Rockingham, Australia 4 Sep 16

We have had to revise our plans several times for the next few weeks. We volunteered to help at an endurance (horse) ride on the 10th September but, when it was cancelled because the arena had been double-booked, we decided to...

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Vivenda What a beautiful camellia! I'm so glad that folk were polite enough to RSVP, so that you could go back to your earlier plan.

4 Sep 16

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A 68th Wedding Anniversary

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40042) • Laguna Woods, California 3 Sep 16

Above is a photo of my parents on their wedding day. They are the couple in the middle. They only vaguely remember the other couple in the photo, even though they were their best man and maid of honor. However, they lost touch...

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Vivenda Unfortunately, my father died when he was younger than I am, so my mother has now been a widow for longer than she was married. They made a couple of years beyond their Silver. They married when my mum was 18 and my dad 26 - just after the outbreak of WW2!.

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This is a dog?

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29233) • Eugene, Oregon 2 Sep 16

I suppose so and she belongs to my daughter. She is a Chihuahua-Papillion mix and we finally met her last weekend. She weighs two+ pounds and may get to four. While she is not the dog I would have chosen, my daughter thinks she is...

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Vivenda Reminds me very much of Cookie, the chihuahua who belongs to my daughter's ex. My daughter says she misses Cookie much more than the ex! The picture shows Cookie with the first stick she found for herself. To give an indication of scale, it was all of 13in...

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We have a new puppy today, our 13 year old existing dog hates him. Any advice?

feralwoman @feralwoman (2199) • Australia 3 Dec 06

Today we got an 8 week old Border Collie puppy. He's lovely. We also have a Jack Russell, who's used to Border Collies as we had one previously - he passed away in April. We tried introducing them but the Jack Russell went for the...

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Vivenda I hope you've found a solution by now! I once knew someone who owned a Rottweiler and a Jack Russell. The Rottweiler (Monty) had a very healthy respect for the much older Jack Russell (Toby). When he was a puppy, Monty had trodden on Toby by accident, and...

3 Sep 16

Troubled Start of September

Anna @LadyDuck (457342) • Switzerland 2 Sep 16

If you have not seen me around yesterday, it's because I had a difficult start of the month. When I and opened a web page, the Avast antivirus blocked that page, warning about a virus, that it fixed. I opened a new tab, but I...

computer virus

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Vivenda Well, mine certainly hasn't been as bad as that! I'm in a complete muddle, not knowing where anything is as I pack for holidays - but it's a nice sort of muddle to be in.

3 Sep 16

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More Mylot Puzzles (14)

Jabo @jaboUK (64362) • United Kingdom 2 Sep 16

1. This lady's not in good health, But she doesn't pity herself. She lets us all know How she loves Coco, She'd rather have her than some wealth. 2. A Canadian lady of style, She walks, going many a mile, On 'B' she used to...

miscellaneous mylotters

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Vivenda I got the second one from serving my time in The Other Place!

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I Don't Fall For Fall. It's Autumn For Me.

M.-L. @MALUSE (69416) • Germany 27 Aug 16

Is it warm? Is it cool? Only a fool Will ask. It’s autumn for us, Fall for the Yanks. Whatever. Here and there the same: Leaves are turning, Days are shorter. More time indoors. Enjoying a hobby: Writing for...

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Vivenda So far, we haven't fallen for Fall over here - it's still too warm to be autumnal!

3 Sep 16