The clocks go forward in the UK tomorrow.

[Kevin53]

Hopefully by six months! Best wishes Kevin

[Spotty-ewe]

I wish it could be so Kevin!! It would be a good time to have a touch of the Rip Van Winkles! 😂

[stiff19]

Back by 50 would be good too 😂😂👍

[Kevin53 in reply to stiff19]

Yes 1969- 70 would be brilliant.

[stiff19 in reply to Kevin53]

69 😂 year I was born , too late for my liking and too early for ageing 😂

[Kevin53 in reply to stiff19]

Let’s try 2016😊

[stiff19 in reply to Kevin53]

Ummmmm?😂

[Spotty-ewe in reply to stiff19]

1981 was a good year for me when I started college as a mature student at the grand age of 26! 😂 How does that year suit you Stiff? I hope it is good for Kevin too. We could go back in time and have even more fun knowing what lies ahead of us! 👏🏻👏🏻 But given the choice I’d go forward so all this was behind mus🙏🏻🙏🏻

[Kevin53 in reply to Spotty-ewe]

1975 when I left Manchester University to work in Zambia for nine years 😁

[Spotty-ewe in reply to Kevin53]

Oh wow! 😃 That’s amazing. What were you doing in Zambia? Nine years is a long time with many experiences and memories to recall. 🥰😁

[Kevin53 in reply to Spotty-ewe]

A metallurgist involved in the extraction of cobalt and copper. Every year in Zambia was like the summer of 1976 in the UK. Every two years I would return to the UK for Christmas!

[Spotty-ewe in reply to Kevin53]

Very interesting work and a fabulous experience.👌 I studied Geology and Geography at Keele Uni from 1974 with the intention of doing something like you but this condition (undiagnosed at the time) resulted in kidney problems which on top of boyfriend problems led me to drop out after a year. ☹️ Never mind I trained to be a teacher at 26 after falling in love with a tiny 2 teacher school on Arran where a friend’s Mum was headteacher.💜 I eventually ended up on 2 Scottish islands myself in my 30s as sole teacher. Another fabulous experience but very different from what I’d started out to do. 😆

[stiff19 in reply to Spotty-ewe]

1981 is good for me👍 In secondary school, loved my school years, even if not always at the time👍 Best memory’s were junior school, remember it as such a good time 👍

I’m from the lower class I suspect many of you not ,so not so many grand experiences, and not so highly educated but personal level some memories to behold . My favourite job was 1987, I quit dental nurse job for factory work, making water pumps for cars 😂 not only did my wage jump from £25 per week to up in £80’s and more with bonuses but the working environment with colleagues and managers was great. My boss mr newton what a grand man 😍

Every Xmas we’d all get a huge turkey and two bottles of plonk with 2 weeks paid leave.

Yes take me back to 1987, some good music too 😂😂😂

Still envious of KK going to live aid and seeing Freddie so maybe go back to then and go to live aid 👍🙌🏻😂xx

[Spotty-ewe in reply to stiff19]

Wonderful memories Stiff and some interesting jobs. 👍🏻 Wow, what a hike in pay from dental nursing. 😮

I started in Scotland as a waitress in Butlin’s Ayr, then as a chambermaid in Aviemore at £18 per week, then as a castle guide at £25 per week but we had a flat in the castle rent free (so that was a definite step up) 2 years in an old folks home (as a domestic, not a resident!), a stint as a cleaner for MOD (Navy) in Kyle of Lochalsh and following 2 miscarriages and having my gall-bladder removed I went to train to be a teacher back in Ayr in 1981. They were happy years. 1987 I was teaching on the first of the 2 islands with a population of 15! It was really like being part of a family. I spent 6 mainly happy years there. So yes, I’d be happy with 1987 too.👍🏻👍🏻

[stiff19 in reply to Spotty-ewe]

Yes I thought I was a millionaire 😂😂😂 sadly reality set in 😂 I had various jobs but it was so easy in those days I could leave a job Friday and start a new one Monday 😂👍🙌🏻

My favourite was breaking in horses of course for minimal wage 👍

I was a bit of a rogue when young I got a job as receptionist at some big (then London firm) I loved the job , in a room on my tod typing and answering calls, I got on well with the posh staff in their offices it was great. The job was six months trial and then offered permanent if did a good job.. My six months were up, I’d had not one complaint, indeed the opposite with praise and thanks then the big boss called me to his office. Yes, pay rise I thought and permanent job offer.

He said well, we are very pleased with you, and would like to offer you a permanent position ...... if you will take elecution lessons , which we will pay for of course . I said you just said you were pleased with my work, yes he said we are but elecution will improve your speaking voice. I was young and I was angry , well no Thankyou I said you can keep your f......... job and elecution, I ‘m good enough to do the job but my voice is offensive?

With that I walked out.

OHHH growing up and hindsight. 🙈😂😂😂

Wish I’d had those lessons now 🙏

Still i got an apprenticeship dog grooming. 😍 the dogs didn’t care about my speech ...... aint it 😂😂😂😂

Yay 1987 it is 👍😂

Hope you are keeping well 🙏🙏🤗

[Spotty-ewe in reply to stiff19]

Haha. That’s the best thing about animals isn’t it, they love you the way you are no matter what you look like, sound like, dress like etc. 😘😘

I can empathise with the speech as I had a strong Australian accent when we returned to UK from Oz when I was 15 (still have a twang all these 50 years later!) and it has caused all sorts of comments over the years. ☹️ Nobody ever offered me elocution lessons though sadly. Never mind, you’ve had a very interesting and satisfying career so don’t regret anything.👍🏻

I’m keeping fairly well thanks Stiff. I hope you are keeping your head above water just now with all those awful symptoms you have to endure. 😩 You are a strong as well as talented lady! Time you were posting some of your lovely felted creatures again. 👌 Take care. 🤗😘

[stiff19 in reply to Spotty-ewe]

😂😂😂 yes no room for regrets, there will always be what ifs and buts 😂

You’ve had a great career too 🙌🏻

Now when I read your posts I’m going to hear that Izzy twang 👍 excellent 🙌🏻

Yes doing ok thanks,, in the scheme of things🙏 and glad to hear you’re fairing 🙏

You are too kind, I wouldn’t go as far to say talented but Thankyou. 🤛I might post the one I’m doing now on to cheer people when done as it’s quite amusing 👍

Take care spotty 😍 best wishes🙏🤗

[Spotty-ewe in reply to stiff19]

Yes, please do Stiff.👍🏻 We can all do with being cheered up. 😉

Hugs and best wishes 🤗😘

[stiff19 in reply to Spotty-ewe]

Will do 👍🤗😘

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Aren’t brighter evenings later awesome!! I love resetting the clocks for more light in our evenings. Enjoy it UK👏👏👏👏👏

[Nerdvana]

😂yep, would be great to skip this year entirely lol

[lowraind in reply to Nerdvana]

Northern Michigan’s Lake Superior State University, yearly, puts out a banned word list. My bet is that corona virus, Covid-19, and any other variation will be on that list this year.

[Nerdvana in reply to lowraind]

Probably, it’s already banned off YouTube. But I’m sure everyone will continue to say it anyway lol 😂

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