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I've not been posting as regularly as in the past, from necessity not design.

 

I have a sister who was born with cerebral palsy and in October, she had a fall which fractured her skull in 3 places and caused some addional brain damage. My time has been spent commuting from Liverpool to Kent to help out in caring for Sue.

 

Praise the Higher Power that she is well and truly on the road to recovery.

 

It seems odd to say so, but there have been two clear positives arisen from this:

 

1) It has healed a toally unnecessary rift between my son and me, and we are talking and seeing each other regularly for the first time in over 2 years.

 

2) Bernadette and I have been a 'unit' for over 8 years, and having asked her earlier this year, and she having said yes at the time, we werent able to formalise the issue. I had a result at work, having done something to help a seriously distressed customer, she wrote to our senior management. I have been given £2000 in travel vouchers.

 

Today I took delivery of an engagement ring for her, and after she has come to this year's Wingham Fish-In, we are off to get married and honeymoon in France.

 

I want you to know I am a very, very lucky man.

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I've not been posting as regularly as in the past, from necessity not design.

 

I have a sister who was born with cerebral palsy and in October, she had a fall which fractured her skull in 3 places and caused some addional brain damage. My time has been spent commuting from Liverpool to Kent to help out in caring for Sue.

 

Praise the Higher Power that she is well and truly on the road to recovery.

 

It seems odd to say so, but there have been two clear positives arisen from this:

 

1) It has healed a toally unnecessary rift between my son and me, and we are talking and seeing each other regularly for the first time in over 2 years.

 

2) Bernadette and I have been a 'unit' for over 8 years, and having asked her earlier this year, and she having said yes at the time, we werent able to formalise the issue. I had a result at work, having done something to help a seriously distressed customer, she wrote to our senior management. I have been given £2000 in travel vouchers.

 

Today I took delivery of an engagement ring for her, and after she has come to this year's Wingham Fish-In, we are off to get married and honeymoon in France.

 

I want you to know I am a very, very lucky man.

 

 

:clap::clap::clap:

 

And all the very best wishes to you, what a fab post, apart from FRANCE, whatever possessed you. :lol:

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Free to choose apart from the ones where the trust poked their nose in. Common eel. tope. Bass and sea bream. All restricted.


New for 2016 TAT are the main instigators for the demise of the u k bass charter boat industry, where they went screaming off to parliament and for the first time assisting so called angling gurus set up bass take bans with the e u using rubbish exaggerated info collected by ices from anglers, they must be very proud.

Upgrade, the door has been closed with regards to anglers being linked to the e u superstate and the failed c f p. So TAT will no longer need to pay monies to the EAA anymore as that org is no longer relevant to the u k . Goodbye to the europeon anglers alliance and pathetic restrictions from the e u.

Angling is better than politics, ban politics from angling.

Consumer of bass. where is the evidence that the u k bass stock need angling trust protection. Why won't you work with your peers instead of castigating them. They have the answer.

Recipie's for mullet stew more than welcomed.

Angling sanitation trust and kent and sussex sea anglers org delete's and blocks rsa's alternative opinion on their face book site. Although they claim to rep all.

new for 2014. where is the evidence that the south coast bream stock need the angling trust? Your campaign has no evidence. Why won't you work with your peers, the inshore under tens? As opposed to alienating them? Angling trust failed big time re bait digging, even fish legal attempted to intervene and failed, all for what, nothing.

Looks like the sea angling reps have been coerced by the ifca's to compose sea angling strategy's that the ifca's at some stage will look at drafting into legislation to manage the rsa, because they like wasting tax payers money. That's without asking the rsa btw. You know who you are..

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Glad to hear it`s all working out ok esp the family rift thing ,They can get out of control and affect generations of a family .

Happy Christmas Steve.

We are not putting it back it is a lump now put that curry down and go and get the scales

have I told you abouit the cruise control on my Volvo ,,,,,,,bla bla bla Barder rod has it come yet?? and don`t even start me on Chris Lythe :bleh::icecream:

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:clap::clap::clap:

 

And all the very best wishes to you, what a fab post, apart from FRANCE, whatever possessed you. :lol:

 

 

Berni was talking to my mother and she said 'I speak fluent French...... I surrender!'

 

France isn't as bizarre a choice as it sounds, Barry. I lived in Paris for almost 3 years, Berni hasn't been abroad other than her native Dublin (a suburb of Birmingham!) though she loves French food, and Sarah is struggling with her French at school. Whilst I speak conversational French, teaching it escapes me.

 

It means I can take them to all the places in Paris they've been reading about in Sarah's French homework, I know my way around and we've only got a week, we can pack as much in as we can.... and I won't need to be like Pierre the celebrated French fighter pilot! I've had a brilliant 8 year honeymoon already.

 

It's all happening at once.... I collect my MBA in January, my son gets his MSc the week later (gotta rib him about that...even if he did get is 31 years before I got mine!) and my two closest friends in Liverpool both start new jobs after having been out of work for 6 months each. Please don't let the dark clouds back in!

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The sun always shines on the rightious Alan ... B)

 

 

So that's where you got the sun tan!!!!!!!!!

 

Have a great Christmas. A.

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These are no small announcements but they are great announcements and you have brightened my day even from 4K miles away.

 

Congratulations, well done, and Yippeee!!!

" My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!" - Harry Truman, 33rd US President

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These are no small announcements but they are great announcements and you have brightened my day even from 4K miles away.

 

Congratulations, well done, and Yippeee!!!

 

I am simply as excited as a chameleon in a bag of M&M's

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Blimey Alan,

 

That sounds like a whole lot of good stuff going on at once, apart from the bad stuff obviously.

 

Hope it all continues in a good mode, we all need cheering up & thats a good start :yahoo:

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Glad to hear it`s all working out ok esp the family rift thing ,They can get out of control and affect generations of a family .

Happy Christmas Steve.

 

The issue between my son and I was the result of an ex-friend (and favourite honorary uncle) losing his grip on reality, and at a time of great upheaval chose to spread lies and venom. We are now enjoying open dialogue, each other's compamy and a shared sense of the absurdity of what we allowed happen.

 

I learned that when a marriage fails, deliberately taking the blame for the failure upon yourself to ensure they have a less jaunduced viewpoint of the person they're staying with, is as dishonest as the person you're protecting declining to assme any responsibility.

 

I'm obviously overjoyed at being able to commit to a relationship with someone who cared for me from the moment I moved to Liverpool and just gets daily more vital to be with, but to have heard Sue say on her relaease from hospital 'I will not let this sh*t beat me!' means as much.

Sue and I are very close... I helped her learn to read after 49 years, and take great pleasure in hearing her read and give a critique on the books she's devouring. The local library, knowing of her situation, print her off a list each week of the books she's read for the year to date along with Sue's less acerbic critiques.

 

I can advise that an ideal present for an allegedly reformed alcoholic when evicted for a litany of offences against his ex-wife was to send him a large cardboard box and a bottle of meths. Petty, childish, potentially dangerouus..... but the leasure was immense.

 

Steve, I hope Santa brings good stuff!

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