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I am 40 years old, I left home at 18 to go to University, and have lived all around the country since that, even spent 5 years in Sweden......

 

So why did my mobile phone just give me the familiar chicken sound to let me know there is a text message, and when I looked at it, why did it say "If you go out, get wrapped up, you don't want to catch a chill" from my mum?!! How wonderful, it just made me smile....next she'll be saying "I don't know why those girls were those hipster jeans, they'll get a chill on their kidneys"...... :roll::wink:

 

SO, in a caring, sharing kinda way, I just wanted to advise all my fellow Omleteers "If you go out, get wrapped up, you don't want to catch a chill" :wink:

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Thanks for that...being only 49 I would probably not think about it :wink:

 

Sadly no mum to pass on that kind of advice any more :(

 

 

48 and ditto :(

 

Kitty

43 and ditto ...

Omletina, you can be our forum 'Mum', even if you are the youngest :wink::lol:

 

Oooh that sounds good!! I'm an old fusspot at heart and as I've never been blessed with the patter of little feet (other than cats and chickens :eh::wink: ) so I could be a virtual mum!!

 

I have to say though that long after my mum is gone, I'm sure I'll still hear her.... I remember when I was in Sweden and we were out in the snow and I bent over (not a pretty sight!) and my top rode up and I could actually hear her voice saying "tuck your top in, or you'll get a chill on your kidneys".......I turned around to pull a face at her, but then realised of course she wasn't there, she's in England!! I absolutely adore my mum and we talk and text several times a day, since we moved down to Northants I've really missed her being just 10 minutes away, and she (and dad) are the real reason why I wouldn't move to Sweden. Hubby lost both his parents in his 30s so he doesn't have the same ties to home that I have. Mum has always said that we must go wherever life takes us and not to stay around for them but I hate to be away from her. I can't begin to imagine life without her. I'm going to have to stop here as I'm getting all choked up!

 

Anyway, I reiterate as forum mum, if you go out, wrap up warm.....

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I am 40 years old, I left home at 18 to go to University, and have lived all around the country since that, even spent 5 years in Sweden......

 

So why did my mobile phone just give me the familiar chicken sound to let me know there is a text message, and when I looked at it, why did it say "If you go out, get wrapped up, you don't want to catch a chill" from my mum?!! How wonderful, it just made me smile....next she'll be saying "I don't know why those girls were those hipster jeans, they'll get a chill on their kidneys"...... :roll::wink:

 

SO, in a caring, sharing kinda way, I just wanted to advise all my fellow Omleteers "If you go out, get wrapped up, you don't want to catch a chill" :wink:

 

 

Aaah but did she make you wear your scarf crossed over your front and pinned at the back to go to school in case your chest got cold :shock::lol::lol:

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[Aaah but did she make you wear your scarf crossed over your front and pinned at the back to go to school in case your chest got cold :shock::lol::lol:

 

Oh no, it's far worse than that.....my mum's an ex motorbiker (sold her bike when she was 63 as she was worried the potholes around Huddersfield were getting a bit too bad and worried that she could hurt her back), so she used old biker techniques.....she used to stuff a newspaper down inside our coats against our fronts to block out the wind.......how embarassing was that when you got to school and had to take your anorak off? :oops::wink:

(It does work though.... ) :roll:

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[Aaah but did she make you wear your scarf crossed over your front and pinned at the back to go to school in case your chest got cold :shock::lol::lol:

 

Oh no, it's far worse than that.....my mum's an ex motorbiker (sold her bike when she was 63 as she was worried the potholes around Huddersfield were getting a bit too bad and worried that she could hurt her back), so she used old biker techniques.....she used to stuff a newspaper down inside our coats against our fronts to block out the wind.......how embarassing was that when you got to school and had to take your anorak off? :oops::wink:

(It does work though.... ) :roll:

 

Wicked !! A biker mum - fantastic. And jolly well good on her for biking up to the age she did. My DH has just bought his first bike at 45 - mid life crisis methinks !! (and it had to be the biggest bike didn't it !! :shock: ) :roll:

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With regard to mid life crises, with my family it's tractors....

 

Big brother went through the big bike stage in his late 30s but when he hit 41 he went out and bought a 1972 David 'Brown tractor which he's had fully restored....he goes to the pub on it and even commutes to work on it some days (the people of Huddersfield will love him!) - he lives in a semi detached bungalow on a housing estate and I think the neighbours all think he's mad. My sister in law has had to park her car on the drive for years because the garage leaks, but even the garage has been rebuilt to accommodate his tractor....

 

Then my hubby bought a 1971 David Brown tractor last year which is partway through its restoration. He tells me we will be using it for the supermarket run when he comes home :shock: - the best thing about hubby's tractor, though is that I said "if you get a tractor, I'm getting chickens" and true to my word, the day the tractor arrived, we ordered the Eglu and the Omletinas.....he hasn't worked out that now I have a cube and 6 more chickens, he really should have another tractor.....

 

Here is Erik.....part restored....

 

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and here is Helga checking him out....before his restoration....

 

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