A very bright idea

[Badger]

... and your dad's family ended up north and down the pits by accident and shall I go on?

Yes!

These are like EO's stories which were great.

More please.

[RichardCranium]

More please.

Ask your parents / aunts / uncles / grandparents for theirs!

Because then they will be your stories too.

[suityou01]

Admittedly our generation don't have the stories our parents had, but if you don't tell the ones you have, they're lost forever and your children lose something that should belong to them: who they are and where they come from.

You're not kidding. My life is the sum total of working, the occasional holiday, DIY and family time. Pretty normal. It's not got the same ring to it

Hey remember that time I first filed a VAT return on line.
Hey remember when I built that garden wall.
Hey I know I remember when I first met you mum, we went to the cinema and the pub.

I am dull. Dull dull dull dull dull. And I suspect most on here are too.

Of course if the Bilderberg group get there way and America invades Iran then life could become quite technicolor.

[RichardCranium]

I am dull.

You only think that because that is how the media makes us think. But they are wrong.

You are your children's Daddy. When they are little, they know you are the most important man in the world. They want to know what you do and how you do it. They want to know your moral values and your prejudices. They want to know you love them and that you think they are good. They want you to spend time with them.

Am I right in thinking you are the Director of a Limited Company? Isn't that exciting?

Does Daddy work in the most famous city in the world? In the finance sector too? Wow! How special is that? Do you work near that big tower block that you can see from all round the South East? Do you cross the Thames to get to work? Do you see the boats?

How did you come to meet your wife? What did you see in her? Can you see those things in your kids? If so, how exciting must that be for them?

You built the garden wall? I can't do that; that kind of practical work seems to be beyond my abilities. But for computers I have no idea what I would be doing. Can you teach your children how to do practical things? How to make things from scrap? My dad can but never found the time to teach me.

You are underestimating yourself, what you can do and your value.

[suityou01]

You only think that because that is how the media makes us think. But they are wrong.

You are your children's Daddy. When they are little, they know you are the most important man in the world. They want to know what you do and how you do it. They want to know your moral values and your prejudices. They want to know you love them and that you think they are good. They want you to spend time with them.

Am I right in thinking you are the Director of a Limited Company? Isn't that exciting?

Does Daddy work in the most famous city in the world? In the finance sector too? Wow! How special is that? Do you work near that big tower block that you can see from all round the South East? Do you cross the Thames to get to work? Do you see the boats?

How did you come to meet your wife? What did you see in her? Can you see those things in your kids? If so, how exciting must that be for them?

You built the garden wall? I can't do that; that kind of practical work seems to be beyond my abilities. But for computers I have no idea what I would be doing. Can you teach your children how to do practical things? How to make things from scrap? My dad can but never found the time to teach me.

You are underestimating yourself, what you can do and your value.

Kind words RC. I think I need to buck up. It's been a tough year all in all. Birth of third child. moving house, "that project manager" episode. I can't remember the last time I took time off. Still, I have a lot to be thankful for.

And I have done stuff. Rebuilt the car engine when we had no money and it was still on finance and it blew up. Built chuffing huge garden retaining wall. Flown a plane on honeymoon with SY02 in the back.

And I hope to cycle from Lands End to John O'Groats. Lots of adventures to be had as well.

[RichardCranium]

Rebuilt the car engine
Built chuffing huge garden retaining wall
Flown a plane on honeymoon with SY02 in the back.
hope to cycle from Lands End to John O'Groats.

F***.

I'm a failure.

The biggest achievement in my life to date is setting up the security on a WiFi router. And then I lost its password.

[suityou01]

F***.

I'm a failure.

The biggest achievement in my life to date is setting up the security on a WiFi router. And then I lost its password.

Those wifi routers are tricky. Did I hear you say you were self teaching yourself VB.Net? Set up a forum. Don't really sound like much of a failure to me.

Lost the router password? DP nearly formatted the wrong HDD the other night.

For interest, take a look at the Certified Ethical Hacker course. Chuffing interesting I think. I have covered all of the topics but never sat the exam.

[TheFaQQer]

Kind words RC. I think I need to buck up. It's been a tough year all in all. Birth of third child. moving house, "that project manager" episode. I can't remember the last time I took time off. Still, I have a lot to be thankful for.

And I have done stuff. Rebuilt the car engine when we had no money and it was still on finance and it blew up. Built chuffing huge garden retaining wall. Flown a plane on honeymoon with SY02 in the back.

And I hope to cycle from Lands End to John O'Groats. Lots of adventures to be had as well.

Just bitch and moan about your in-laws. Get them trained young in sarcastic put downs and barbs. That's what I seem to have taught mine - DD1 (now 6) just rolls her eyes at me now. I think it's a trick she picked up from her mother.

[NickFitz]

I have to know if my "gadar" is working correctly as it never has. The number of times I have presumed someone was and they weren't

So, are you?

Ask Halo Jones

[NickFitz]

When I was little and we made long car journeys, my parents seemed to have loads of tricks like that...

"When I was your age, I would have run straight up to the top of that hill!"

Said in this layby on the Horseshoe Pass.

It got me and my brother out of their hair for half an hour