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Nah..cumon Mez...You've never been a TUMBLEFLUMP :eek: :eek:

Well 'av yer?

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I was Cutie Dancing Baubles.
Now a Cutie Berry Baubles.
Mick is Sneezy Berry Cracker.

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just looking at this thread & found this posting, some people are concerned about a close member of ours, loosing another member of his family mabe that person wishes it to remain quietly, undetected, i have spoken to the person & in my opinion silence is a virtue here , the person knows we feel for them & the family, i just found this posting by anne & thought it fitted everything that has happened recently , the earthquake, a sad loss for an accywebber, & the theft from our pal roys house, thank you anne i think your sentiments fit perfectly/

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this was a very interestin read guys. I got the engineers speak on christmas ages ago as an email. It was entitled 'how engineers ruin christmas : )

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How sad that Christmas brings such negative thoughts. Perhaps we can help by resolving not to let people like theives etc detract from how we feel about Christmas. There are some bad people in the world but thankfully I think they are still in a minority. Let's try to look for the positive. If we know of any sad lonely people we can do our bit to make their lives less lonely.

I'm in danger of sounding very corny but there's this "thing" for want of a better word which accidentally developed into a cult without the person who started it ever intending it to but its main aim is simply to do something nice once a week. It's not a bad idea. If I find the website I'll post a link.

Maybe we all do nice things for others more often than once a week but just think how great it would be if once a week everybody did an extra something nice for someone else without a thought of getting anything out of it themselves.

I'm trying to think of some positive resolutions for 2005 which aren't so selfish as they usually are. Maybe we can make the world a better place. At least I can live in hope.

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I think that is really nice idea willow. I think next year for christmas day that i really want to help out with the homeless. Find somewhere that dishes out Christmas dinner. But I don't know anywhere that does it.

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Salvation Army????

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but WHY ONLY CHRISTMAS there are 365 days in a year?

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Good point Mez! But I suppose we all have to start somewhere, and Christmas seems as good a place as any other.

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This is the website I mentioned in post 50

http://www.join-me.co.uk/index.html

I have never actually joined but read the book a while ago and was moved by the idea. I have to admit that I don't make a point of doing a nice thing for someone every Friday but on the other hand sometimes I do nice things for people on other days and I also must admit that some days I can be a downright nowty old ratbag but I do think it would be great if everyone tried to do something nice for others, no matter how small a thing.

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http://www.join-me.co.uk/index.html

Very interesting Willow but I would be slightly worried that to join, they require a passport photograph?????

With thousands of photo's flooding in, I wonder if they could be put to an illegal use such as fraudulent documents like passports? :rolleyes:

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My nom-de-plume, alter ego, call it what you will, is Scrummy Holly-Bum.

I 'm not quite sure what that interpretation of my name says about me. :confused: :D

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You can console yourself Sparky that it sounds better than Busman's "Squelchy Scrooge-bum. :p

And you ya pud'n (Busman) if people were making forged passports wouldn't they want their own photos on there not other people's?? :s_lol: