Lexie's January Challenge

Great card Andrea love those colours

I love the shape and the colours ! x

Love the fancy shape Andrea
Really like that card

Oh Jacky, you really made me laugh with your answer
It is not many people that can give that one as an answer!

I remember one time, back home, we were having a BBQ and my son, who was in his final year at uni at the time, brought a lot of his uni friends
There was one particular shy young man whom I hadn't met and he seemed to be getting left out of the conversation a lot so trying to be the hostess with the mostest I struck up a conversation with him
He was really nice and polite and I later gave my son a right telling off for not making sure the 'wee laddie' was being included
My son asked for a description of the 'wee laddie' and burst into fits of laughter. It turned out that the 'wee laddie' had a doctorate in Nuclear Physics
Not to be outdone I quickly recovered my speech and replied that I didn't care if he was prime minister he should still have made sure the 'wee laddie' was included in things. I think that was the moment I realised I was starting to get old

Craftworker wrote:

Scotty wrote:
Jacky, are you trying to tell us that Martin is an astronaut in his spare time?

No he was a Rocket Scientist That's why we lived in Woomera on the rocket range

Met a guy who was a doctor at Woomera back in the 70s yesterday - he goes to our friends' church!

Oh Jane, you must give me his name as we were there in the 70s, Ian was born in Woomera hospital and we knew a few doctors as they came gliding with us

Oh ! Jacky drop that one in , went gliding with us ..... that must be either sooo exciting or totally scary ! Your etther very brave or stark raving bonkers ......so Jacky which one is it ????

Can see your card now Sadie, Great card,
Lovely card Andrea

lexiecraft wrote:Oh ! Jacky drop that one in , went gliding with us ..... that must be either sooo exciting or totally scary ! Your etther very brave or stark raving bonkers ......so Jacky which one is it ????

Martin used to go gliding and I watched for about 6 months with everyone saying I should have a go. Eventually in a mad moment I went up and quite enjoyed it I had lesson until the point when the instructor said I am about ready to go solo No way. I was still unsure of what I was doing on take-off - couldn't understand the talk about angles etc. and the instructor alway told me to pull back more or not so much. Martin went solo though and I headed for the swimming pool as I knew he wouldn't give it up then, but if I hadn't gone along with him every week at the beginning he would have felt guilty about leaving me every weekend and would have stopped going I prefer gliders to airplanes as there is no engine to go wrong

Thats confirmed then your raving bonkers , give me a lovely big 747 jumbo set with lots of engines any day of the week !! I once worked wih a girl who had , many years ago been on a jumbo which lost all 3 engines , over Jackata then after she'd written a leter to her mum saying she has;nt paid her cats bill at the vets ( ????) the engines one by one came back to life , apparently it was dust from a volcanoe that had caused it !x

Oh Jacky you sure do throw the odd comment in to surprise us all
I think there is still a lot more to come out
You sure do enjoy knitting that big cosy jumper with some interesting patterns

I used to be such a dare-devil and willing to try most things but I think it all stopped when I had the children. Now I am afraid of my own shadow I dont like planes or boats and was quite happy going on the train through the channel tunnel but not so sure after the fiasco this month

Wow Jacky that must have been brilliant I wish I had plucked up the courage to go when my ex used to go gliding when we lived in Kent. I just used to go with him each weekend and spend my time folding parachutes up for the jumpers he he

Have no regrets whatsoever about not get involved in that particular sport
With my particularly intense fear of heights there would be no way whatsoever I could do that no matter how good looking the instuctor
But..............boy do I take my hat off to you for trying Jacky, BIG TIME, for trying
RESPECT

Funny the way you get all sensible when you have kids and responibility , I used to have a go at most things but now ..... I'd like to but !!!!xx

Snap Lexie, I did one of the swing through the trees thingie about tens years back, not now arms wouldnt hold me

lady of kent wrote:Snap Lexie, I did one of the swing through the trees thingie about tens years back, not now arms wouldnt hold me

I would never have done that Janet I too have a fear of heights, that's why it took so long for me to go up

Trouble is I still think Iam young , then I look at youngsters and think I had that confidence once !!! now ..... xx

I have never had any confidence in any thing I have done Lexie, it could be size thing, I am only 5.2 and with 5.6 5.7/8 towering over you

Shame Janet , but your lovely and a kind heared person and thats very important

And the best smile ever

Arrr thank you so much girls

She sure has!
I love coming onto the Forum and seeing that smile
I know what you mean about the height issue
At 5' 3", and shrinking, I was never the most confident of people
Probably why I am not into competitions
Although I do think it was more down to the fact that I was brought up with by very strict parents who strongly believed that children should be seen and not heard
But I sometimes think that a lot of children, not all, today are far too confident and outspoken for their own good

Its the shrinking bit that worries me to Sadie when the grandchildren come and they tower over you, you think narrr this isnt right