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Thank you Monika. We will give it a try. Am somewhat relieved it wasn't our lime peel softening technique that was at fault but seems to be a general problem.

06:10 on the drive my car said -4c down the road in a sun - sheltered hollow it bottomed out at -5c and on the way home this evening it was -1c at around 19:00.

Good morning Peter, i think you will find the same sort of conditions out there this morning......when you finally get up, that is.

Minus 6 down in Woburn yesterday.

I have had some wonderful news, my lovely Niece has just been offered a place at Cambridge university, studying English literature.

We are all very proud of her indeed.

oldherbaceous wrote:I have had some wonderful news, my lovely Niece has just been offered a place at Cambridge university, studying English literature.

We are all very proud of her indeed.

Congratulations to your niece. Hope she has a very successful, and enjoyable, time at Cambridge.

She's bound to do well, she has such a versatile, early rising, uncle as one of her role models

oldherbaceous wrote:I have had some wonderful news, my lovely Niece has just been offered a place at Cambridge university, studying English literature.

We are all very proud of her indeed.

Congratulations Make sure she looks after herself... Its a bit of a shock is the sudden freedom and responsibility of going to university. I couldn't handle it, and I ended up having a mental breakdown, got through uni but didnt do my best. Actually, thats why I dont work these days, my mental health...

But seriously, not to fear monger, that is amazing I hope she achieves her absolute best just dont let her think that she has to do it alone

You and your family must be very proud, OH.
If your niece has a place at Cambridge she is certain to do very well and have a successful life ahead of her.
My dear wife was studying English Literature when I met her just over 54 years ago. She was having trouble with her subsidiary subject Italian and I was drafted in as a helper as I had been studying the language for a year and a half.
Your news has brought so many good memories back.

alan refail wrote:My dear wife was studying English Literature when I met her just over 54 years ago
...
Your news has brought so many good memories back.

Aww, thats lovely My mum and dad met at Sheffield hallam (or shef polytechnic) as it was then, both studying chemistry, and I met my wife at Sheffield hallam, doing a job for the university printing student cards an enrolling new students (we were students at the time, so any job for a bit of cash) its becoming a bit of a family tradition lol

Thank you all for your kind words, they do mean a lot. So pleased that they have stirred happy memories Alan.
She really has worked very hard, as she has been through some exceptionally hard times. I not sure what they will make of her very strong Chesire accent.

I suppose she will want to write my biography, for her first job....or maybe not, as no one would believe it.

OH

I suspect there is a clue in your name that would lead us to your biographical history, and this series of programmes from the late 1960's would probably help us deduce it



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0smlX2l9Fk

Congratulations to your niece.
OH have you forgotten your biography is already out there - now back in print.
Published around 1950 so that gives us an idea of just how old and wise you really are!
Its a great read and I thoroughly recommend it.
Maybe it is time for your niece to bring things up to date perhaps it could be 'OH - the Fork Awakens'.
John

All of you, never fail to make me smile.

John wrote:Congratulations to your niece.
OH have you forgotten your biography is already out there - now back in print.
Published around 1950
John

I had not realised anything about Mellors the Gamekeeper had been published in 1950's,
Is that what led to the unexpurgated version in 1960 and subsequent trial

Your secret is safe with us OH

Great news OH.

I've just spent ages messily removing label glue from recycled food jars with Polycleanse in preparation for our next batch of fund raising marmalade making. People are happy to save and recycle jars for us for this purpose but we always seem to end up with a large number of clean jars where the label attaching glue has absolutely defeated them!

Well done to your niece, OH! The upper sixth form is always nerve-wracking for pupils and parents and family alike. We have a granddaughter in her final UV year and her sister on a gap year before starting in October, so at least that hurdle is over for us for the moment.