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What about the house your parents sold—with a few beloved pets buried in the garden?
I had gerbils and a hamster in Somerset and I left them buried in the garden there. Otherwise the moving made pets impractical.

I won't pretend such a transient childhood was easy. It wasn't. I went to too many primary schools. Even in Somerset, they changed the education system while we lived there so I had to change schools!

I always had the wrong accent as the local dialect is very different in each area we moved to. I was bullied.

When I started at secondary school, my Mum insisted we stop moving and so I finally got proper friends and threw down roots.

It was when we moved to this house that I realised how much all the childhood moving had affected me. I really didn't want to leave the previous house in a nearby village. I was quite upset, even though my current home is much nicer and we were moving to get more space for us and Joe.

It was only when I worked out that I had actually lived in that house longer than I had lived anywhere, ever in my life, that I realised why I didn't want to leave it! We had been there 8 years. From that low point I could start to repair myself.

Now this house is the one I have lived in longest. We have been here nearly 20 years. If we had to move again, I really don't feel so bad about it. I have no family locally, the children have fledged, some kind person invented the internet making staying in touch much easier and I am confident that I could setup wherever we moved and deal with it :)
 

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Today is Shrove Tuesday. The day before Ash Wednesday which is the first day of the Christian Lent.

In the UK that means it is Pancake Day. A traditional way of using up rich ingredients before the Lent fast, it is now just a good excuse to make and eat pancakes.

My batter is made. We have sugar, lemon juice and dried fruit to go on them. We shall be starting to cook then in an hour.

The village of Olney, near where my in laws live, has a pancake race every Shrove Tuesday...

Take a look here
http://olneypancakerace.org/
 

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I had gerbils and a hamster in Somerset and I left them buried in the garden there. Otherwise the moving made pets impractical.

I won't pretend such a transient childhood was easy. It wasn't. I went to too many primary schools. Even in Somerset, they changed the education system while we lived there so I had to change schools!

I always had the wrong accent as the local dialect is very different in each area we moved to. I was bullied.

When I started at secondary school, my Mum insisted we stop moving and so I finally got proper friends and threw down roots.

It was when we moved to this house that I realised how much all the childhood moving had affected me. I really didn't want to leave the previous house in a nearby village. I was quite upset, even though my current home is much nicer and we were moving to get more space for us and Joe.

It was only when I worked out that I had actually lived in that house longer than I had lived anywhere, ever in my life, that I realised why I didn't want to leave it! We had been there 8 years. From that low point I could start to repair myself.

Now this house is the one I have lived in longest. We have been here nearly 20 years. If we had to move again, I really don't feel so bad about it. I have no family locally, the children have fledged, some kind person invented the internet making staying in touch much easier and I am confident that I could setup wherever we moved and deal with it :)
Interesting. :)
I was also at school in Somerset and had to change schools when they changed the system. :rolleyes:
 

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:eek: No wonder he was missing for a few days. Even Adam can’t eat that much in one sitting.
Unless he bartered some to the woolspider (if she exists) for that new wool underwear ;) ;)
I would never swap cheese for knickers.
Maybe my knickers for cheese if anyone's interested. :D
 

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Today is Shrove Tuesday. The day before Ash Wednesday which is the first day of the Christian Lent.

In the UK that means it is Pancake Day. A traditional way of using up rich ingredients before the Lent fast, it is now just a good excuse to make and eat pancakes.

My batter is made. We have sugar, lemon juice and dried fruit to go on them. We shall be starting to cook then in an hour.

The village of Olney, near where my in laws live, has a pancake race every Shrove Tuesday...

Take a look here
http://olneypancakerace.org/
wifey's considering doing pancakes.
Not too bothered myself.
 

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Interesting. :)
I was also at school in Somerset and had to change schools when they changed the system. :rolleyes:

Given we are nearly exactly the same age I am not surprised that the Middle School system affected you too. At least you stayed in Somerset. We moved to the new county of Avon as well... since abolished of course :D
 

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Given we are nearly exactly the same age I am not surprised that the Middle School system affected you too. At least you stayed in Somerset. We moved to the new county of Avon as well... since abolished of course :D
Yes, we were just inside the border of North Somerset, which actually moved a couple of times, I think.
 

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What about the house your parents sold—with a few beloved pets buried in the garden?
Okay, I moved one time: From the house of my parents to the house where I live now. It was 1993 when I bought my house.
The house of my parents was sold by them in 2010 and my parents moved to me. My mother died 2 years later in 2012 and my father was too lonely here and moved into a retirement home where he lives up to now. ( On Thursday is his 90. birthday btw )
The house with some of my/ our beloved pets got new owners. They don`t know that they have a little pet graveyard in their garden.:eek:
 

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Today is Shrove Tuesday. The day before Ash Wednesday which is the first day of the Christian Lent.

In the UK that means it is Pancake Day. A traditional way of using up rich ingredients before the Lent fast, it is now just a good excuse to make and eat pancakes.

My batter is made. We have sugar, lemon juice and dried fruit to go on them. We shall be starting to cook then in an hour.

The village of Olney, near where my in laws live, has a pancake race every Shrove Tuesday...

Take a look here
http://olneypancakerace.org/
Pancakerace ? I read it.:confused: Weird things .... LOL !:eek::D
 

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No, it's real, Russian's are excellent climbers and diggers.
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And turtles can be good as well.
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Oh my word. I would never have thought that was possible.
 

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