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Runners United - Conwy Cockwatch, a live birth and Alex "Rhet" Ferguson in one thread. What more could we ask for?

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fannybanjo · 18/11/2011 21:09

LET'S FUCKING DO IT....!

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rhetorician · 23/11/2011 22:12

youse liver birds robbed it from us (honorary) dubs...

rhetorician · 23/11/2011 22:12

yes, there is a runners need just down from Liverpool St

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fannybanjo · 23/11/2011 22:15

Yep, rhet the scouse accent derived from Lancs and Irish. I know this stuff and you may wonder why.... I did a talk on it for my Virgin Atlantic Wings. Blush

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rhetorician · 23/11/2011 22:17

interesting, though, isn't it?

stickyLFDTfingers · 23/11/2011 22:19

rhet why did you stop with the rhyming posts? I was enjoying that :)

monkeyLFDTwench · 23/11/2011 22:21

Well exactly Rhet I'm definitely healthier and happier than I was 10 years ago. Just more settled I think, and more certain of my priorities in life - I may not get exactly what I want, but at least I know what I want .

ibby DH ate four Bounty bars while I was in labour. Caused a bit of confusion after the birth when he was asked if we'd had our Bounty pack, and he said "yes I had four". criiiiinge!

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fannybanjo · 23/11/2011 22:23

It is very interesting, I also researched the Docklands and the slavery was horrifying. I love my heritage rhet. I'm proud to be a Liverpudlian and would love to move back there. DH more of a Liverpool working class lad than I was brought up and he hates it. He couldn't wait to leave. I found and still find having a scouse accent kind of endears you to a lot of folk although it's such a stereotypical county. Have you ever been to Liverpool?

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fannybanjo · 23/11/2011 22:24

monkey your DH (and you) make me laugh! Can I live with you?

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rhetorician · 23/11/2011 22:28

I have indeed been to Liverpool - a good while ago now. I drank a lot of whisky. I was young. I have a great fondness for English industrial cities - I love Birmingham and Sheffield - I like places that aren't too arsey, that have interesting histories.

Did you know that the 3 cities with the worst infant tooth decay in the UK are Bristol, Liverpool and Glasgow - all places where sugar was processed and made into sweets. Isn't that peculiar?

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fannybanjo · 23/11/2011 22:32

It's probably because we can't be arsed brushing our kids teeth rhet. Too busy bleaching our own. Grin seriously though, it is peculiar, it must be inbred into us. rhet you'd get on so well with my Dad. Another academic and ex head teacher who has such a similar sense of humour to you. I find it uncanny sometimes when i read your posts how similar you are. you're not him are you...!!?

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Wheelybug · 23/11/2011 22:32

Sorry didn't mean to offend re age. I just meant that was when I wanted to do the marathon by not that you can't do one if you are older than 40. If I was 56 I would be saying by 60. I just wanted a deadline for doing it rather than put it off forever and a big birthday seemed a good deadline.

Will off to bed before putting foot in it again.

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fannybanjo · 23/11/2011 22:34

Hahaha wheely you won't have offended anyone!!! It wasn't an insult, was an aim that you have. Rhet and Monkey have more wisdom than us 36 year olds. They realise that marathons are for crazy biatchs.

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monkeyLFDTwench · 23/11/2011 22:35

Honestly fanny you wouldn't want to, our house is chaos most all of the time, there's always someone running around with a pair of pants on their head or yelling "I dunna poo!" (and that's just DH Wink). I don't think anything chez monkey would be ironed to your exacting standards either and we eat a lot of ready mash. But you would be welcome to visit any time as long as you bring your iron and your own spuds.

rhetorician · 23/11/2011 22:35

wheely I think we were winding you up...and succeeding!! age is no barrier and the great thing about being a runner is that I think you (probably) feel less sensitive about it because you simply feel it less. Most of my contemporaries would struggle to run a mile, let alone 13 of them...

fanny no, I just checked, I am definitely still a middle-aged woman (alas)

ibbydibby · 23/11/2011 22:39

Rhet is that now or in the past? (ie tooth decay?)

A similar(ish) fact that always fascinates me is that when piped water was introduced to communities, appendicitis rates always went up. (think reduced exposure to water-borne bacteria was cause)

Re industry - there is fantastic museum in Gt Yarmouth (of all places) called the Time and Tide Museum, depicting in particular the rise and fall of the fishing industry. It's fascinating, it is tucked in a little known part of GY - but still seems to get plenty of visitors.

There's a mock up of a street scene (like in York museum) with little tableaux on display with sound tracks. There is a particular one which DCs and I love, of a shrimp fisherman "Me an the wife, we're a team....I catch 'em, she cook 'em" all said in a very long drawn out dialect.

Thanks for Liverpool St running shop info

monkeyLFDTwench · 23/11/2011 22:40

wheely no offence from this old gimmer. I run because it makes me feel good about myself and means my arse has marginally less chance of being viewable from outer space. Not to keep up with the young 'uns!

ibbydibby · 23/11/2011 22:42

Monkey love your DH bounty story.

backwardLFDTpossom · 23/11/2011 22:45

Can't keep up... waaaaah!

Exciting job opportunity has come up. Am stressed about applying for it already. Feel like crying, no idea why. Fuck fuck fuck...

rhetorician · 23/11/2011 22:47

ibby now - or at least recent(ish) - read it in some smartarse magazine. It might have been this book

Great Yarmouth - that's where my ancestors were from (on my dad's side)

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fannybanjo · 23/11/2011 22:54

rhet I give you kudos for educating yourself about sweets. I need to read far more than just Mumsnet.

possum if only you could hide my posts, you'd then have a better chance of catching up! Maybe we should summarise every evening the highlights of the day...

monkey I lie about ironing to make me look good. only ironed for 2 hours today Actually your house sounds just like mine but with more penes in it.

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MrsWednesday · 23/11/2011 22:58

I can't keep up with you all either but I'm lurking.

I'm also shredding. Got my DVD today and did Level 1 - overwhelmed at the thought of double-shredding and doing two levels in one go, I had to go for a lie-down after doing just the one. I watched the DVD on my laptop and half way through the cat jumped up, stood on the keyboard and in one paw-stroke turned the screen on its side which interrupted my rhythm slightly.

Just to say a big congrats to Peach - the photos are lovely and you sound so happy. The thought of the milk-drunk baby face made me feel all broody (only for a minute or two though).

Hat, your trip sounds amazing and the positive stuff about us middle-aged women is very heartening and inspiring.

DrNo and Fanny, fab match reports and amazing times.

Have accepted a friend request from one of you but I'm not sure who - my initials are SW.

Will try and keep up better in future...

ibbydibby · 23/11/2011 22:59

rhet both my parents were born there.....we could be related...

off to bed

rhetorician · 23/11/2011 23:00

well ibby if so, you got the running genes, and I got...something else

rhetorician · 23/11/2011 23:00

...oh, a completely inexplicable love of seafood in all its forms

ibbydibby · 23/11/2011 23:03

ummm did anyone else struggle with "penes" in fanny's post Blush? Thought you meant pennies. Then pens. Blush Blush

DH and I have just spent 5 minutes looking up location of Runners Need. Is on Strype Street. Had got idea into my head it was actually at (or next to) Lpool St station. Thanks all.

Off to bed now, really