30/07/2008 by sue.

I am back again as promised for my last message this month.

Hope you had a fantastic 18th birthday yesterday Jack. (Sorry I am a day late and hopefully the card was on time).

Lots of love from us all.

Auntie Sue xxxxx

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28/07/2008 by Ted.

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26/07/2008 by Pat.

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23/07/2008 by sue.

Congratulations Mark and Carole on your Silver Wedding Anniversary. Twenty-five years of wedded bliss. Have a great day and see you in September to PARTY!!!!

Love to you both from all the family.

Sue xxxx

 PS Amanda and Andy celebrated their engagement 25 years ago today as well. Doesn’t time fly!

This isn’t the end I will be back next week. Told you all it was a busy month for our branch of the tree!

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22/07/2008 by sue.

Just want to say Happy Birthday to my baby brother John who celebrates his birthday today. Now if I was 26 last week John must be 20 today as he is 6 years younger than I am!

Have a good one John.

Lots of love from all the family.

Sue

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17/07/2008 by Ted.

Prayer is a conversation with God.

There are many reasons we should pray. One is because God wants to bless others as a result of your prayers. The Bible says in 2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV) “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and WILL HEAL THEIR LAND.” (emphasis added).

In addition, God wants to bless you personally and prayer can open the door to God’s working in your life. Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV) “I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

Abridged from www.prayeurope.com

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16/07/2008 by sue.

I am back again. July is a busy month for this branch of the family! Today is John and Janice’s silver wedding anniversary so I want to send them congratulations on 25 years of marriage from all the family. Something to be very proud of.

No party though. I am very disappointed! Any excuse for a family get-together! (Hope the card arrived on time)

Lots of love

Sue

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15/07/2008 by sue.

Sorry it has been so long since I have sent any messages to the big wide world of Tallys but I have been struggling to remember my password. Yes I know that is a sign of old age and of course I am a year older today. No, that’s not why I am here, to remind you all that you have forgotten to wish Gran’s first grandchild Happy Birthday (26 again!!!) but I was surprised that no-one posted a message on Gran’s birthday on Sunday.

It was a strange day for me as I really really missed her even though I didn’t always speak to her or spend time with her on her birthday. It was amazing how many lovely cards I saw in the shops too with Gran on them , when usually I struggle to find a nice one for my Gran. I wasn’t sure it would have been appropriate to buy a card and send it to Mrs P. Talbot, c/o St George’s Cemetery so I resisted the temptation to do it. Instead I wished her Happy Birthday when I was outside in the garden enjoying  the glorious sunshine, the first we have seen for many days and unbelievably we had no rain!! It being St Swithin’s day today and as we have had heavy showers inbetween the beautiful sunshine I guess we will have more rain for the next 40 days and 40 nights. Hopefully with sunnny breaks in between. So wear flip-flops and carry a brolly!

Last time I saw Gran at St. George’s she told me the story of the day I was born and how she had to swing me in a nappy to get me to breathe as I had been born with the cord wrapped around my neck and was blue. We used to joke that she might not be able to do it now but I think if we had had a nappy she would have loved to try. My Gran really helped me into the world and I am still very proud of her and all she achieved in her life. She loved her family no matter what they did. When I was doing my counselling training quite a few years ago now I remember someone saying ‘you can love the sinner but not the sin’ and that is what I learnt from Gran’s example. I know there are those who will say that is Christian teaching but aside from that I want to be like my Gran and like people, accepting that we are all different and it is that difference that makes us human. We may not agree with what others do or say but why get angry and ‘go off on one’ (as the youngsters say).

Gran used to send me little message cards on my birthday and I carry one with me every day. I want to share it with you.

A SMILE

A smile costs nothing but gives much.

It enriches those who receive, without making poorer those who give.

It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.

Noone is so rich or mighty that that he can get along without it, and noone is so poor but that he can be made rich by it.

A smile creates happiness in the home, fosters goodwill in business, and is the countersign of friendship.

It brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and it is nature’s best antidote for trouble.

Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away.

Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them on of yours, as no-one needs a smile as much as he who has no more to give.

Hope you all have a nice day and I know that you all wish me a Happy 26th Birthday really. (Wonder how many of you really remember how old I am. I am not telling so don’t ask.  Besides if you knew it would only make you  feel a little older so go with 26 I am. And no cheating by looking at the family geneology site.) You should never ask a lady how old she is and today I feel like a lady!! Probably won’t tomorrow so I will enjoy the moment while I can, as we all should.

Take care of yourselves. I will be back if I can remember that dratted password again.

Love Sue

PS Hi Andrew it is good to see that you are getting out from behind that computer occasionally!!

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15/07/2008 by Ted.

Hi. Thought I would cheer everyone up with a photo of a happy man!

Had a day out on the boat with Andrew last Sunday (13th July - little mum’s birthday!) - a lovely time. Bit of fishing, bit of sailing and plenty of being together - smashing.  Also had a brief dip in the briny - unwittingly!  Ahem!

And a call from Bob yesterday evening.  He was asking why no-one keeps in touch on the blog nowadays - but we seem to have plenty from “Fly on the wall”, whoever he is.  We chatted for quite while and then he said, “I rang to ask you for Clarice’s telephone number”.  Silly me ….  !  Anyway whatever the reason for his call it was nice to hear from him.

http://www.pilgrimtours.com/creation/index.htm

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08/07/2008 by Fly-on-the-wall.

Two seventh-grade boys were given detention and their classmates forced to miss their scheduled refreshment break when the pair refused to kneel and pray to Allah during a religious studies class.

Outraged parents called the punishment of the boys for not wanting to take part in the practical demonstration at Alsager High School near Stoke-on-Trent, UK, of how Muslims’ worship Allah a breach of their human rights.

“This isn’t right, it’s taking things too far,” parent Sharon Luinen told the London Daily Mail.

“I understand that they have to learn about other religions. I can live with that, but it is taking it a step too far to be punished because they wouldn’t join in Muslim prayer. Making them pray to Allah, who isn’t who they worship, is wrong and what got me is that they were told they were being disrespectful.

Last month, WND reported Principal Robin Lowe was reassigned after staging a mandatory lesson in Islamic religious beliefs for nearly 900 students at her Houston-area school.

The controversy erupted at Friendswood Junior High when students were diverted from a scheduled physical education class and taken to a special assembly.

In the 40-minute session, representatives of the Houston office of the controversial Council on American-Islamic Relations, an organization critics link to terrorist groups, presented a lesson in the religious beliefs and requirements of Islam.

The CAIR representatives instructed students that Adam, Noah and Jesus are prophets; announced “there is one god, his name is Allah”; taught the five pillars of Islam; told students how to pray five times a day; and gave instruction on Islamic religious requirements for dress.

The assembly had not been authorized by the district, officials confirmed.

In May, officials at a Minnesota charter school, housed in the same building as a mosque, attacked a television news crew investigating whether the publicly funded institution had complied with a state order to stop accommodating Islamic prayers and religious programs.

The investigation followed revelations by a substitute teacher who observed children being forced to participate in Islamic prayers.

In the Alsager School incident, the religion teacher, who was not named, made the class wear Muslim headgear and watch a short film. Afterward, she took prayer mats from her cupboard and said, “we are now going out to pray to Allah,” parents claimed.

“I am absolutely furious my daughter was made to take part in it and I don’t find it acceptable,” said parent Karen Williams.

“Not only was it forced upon them, my daughter was told off for not doing it right. They’d never done it before and they were supposed to do it in another language.”

“My child has been forced to pray to Allah in a school lesson,” the grandfather of one of the students said. “It’s absolutely disgusting, there’s no other way of putting it. My daughter and a lot of other mothers are furious about their children being made to kneel on the floor and pray to Islam. If they didn’t do it they were given detention.

“I am not racist, I’ve been friendly with an Indian for 30 years. I’ve also been to a Muslim wedding where it was explained to me that alcohol would not be served and I respected that. But if Muslims were asked to go to church on Sunday and take Holy Communion there would be war.”

Keith Plant, Alsager’s deputy headmaster, said with summer break, many of the staff was unavailable and he could not comment fully.

“I think that it is a shame that so many parents have got in touch with the press before coming to me. I have spoken to the teacher and she has articulately given me her version of events, but that is all I can give you at the moment.”

Cheshire County Council issued a statement telling parents “inquiries are being made into the circumstances as a matter of urgency.

“Educating children in the beliefs of different faith is part of the diversity curriculum on the basis that knowledge is essential to understanding. We accept that such teaching is to be conducted with some sense of sensitivity.”

Revelation of the incident follows this week’s pronouncement by the UK’s top judge, Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips, that Islamic sharia law should be used in the UK.

In a speech to an East London mosque, Phillips said, “Those entering into a contractual agreement can agree that the agreement shall be governed by a law other than English law.’

In February, WND reported Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, chief of the 70-million-strong worldwide Anglican Communion, advocated the establishment of Islamic law in Britain.

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04/07/2008 by Bob.

Greetings all. wow I actually managed to get on the famiy Blog, Hope everyone is well.  Its beautiful here in Bridlington wall to wall sunshine and very warm, Now Richard how did you come across singsnap and know the name Roboticus..?  hope all is well there, sounds like you have been having fun with builders like our brother Peter.

I will be posting some pics of my recent travels when i get my desktop back on line, i am on a laptop with vista and my scanner and printer are not being made compatable with vista, more money for the  makers of such things.  more later  bye for now  Bob

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01/07/2008 by Richard.

Hi Everone out there,

just a few lines to let you know that all is well with us down here.

We have finally got rid of all the workmen that have been here since the beginning of March and we are slowly

getting things back to normal(if there is such a thing).I have just a few (120)slabs to lay  and to create a new back entrance to the garden and then we will be done.

Nathan is really growing up now and really has a mind of his own,we think he is going to be a locksmith or a safecracker as he has a thing for keys and locks.At least I now have an excuse for losing my car keys.

Don’t swat the fly on the wall all he is saying is what everybody else is thinking

Belated congratulations  to Phillip and Allison on the birth of Edward Terrence. We will try and be earlier next time.

As for Bob? Have anybody logged on to www.singsnap.com   look up the name roboticus and you will find out what he does with his spare time.Go on Bob sock it to ‘em

well folks time for my bed some of us have to work for a living

loads of love from us down here

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