Lunch with Bev!

"Marina" wrote in message
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"Yoj" wrote
I had a delightful time with Bev, her husband John and her cousin
Bea.

Glad to hear you had a good time. I'm so jealous! I hope you took We
Met
pictures.

--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki

I forgot to take my camera, but fortunately, Bev took some pictures.
She and John were quite overwhelmed with the size of the portions of
food served in restaurants, so Bev wanted John to take a picture of the
food on the table at lunch. When he was doing that, a young man sitting
nearby volunteered to take a picture of the four of us at the table, so
there is one photo of that.

Joy

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:40:10 GMT, "Yoj"
wrote:

I had a delightful time with Bev, her husband John and her cousin Bea.
The cousin is 84 years old, and I has a delightful sense of humor. It
is obvious that she is not content to sit around and be a little old
lady. She has a little trouble with her hearing, and won't drive on the
freeway, but she manages quite well. She lives in a very nice house
which is full of beautiful things her husband made. Many of them are
wood - chairs, tables, etc., but she also has a beautiful gold cross on
a chain. Her husband had several gold crowns, and when he had to have
his teeth out, he melted down the gold, made a mold, and made her that
beautiful cross. It reminded me of my father and his resourcefulness
and creativity. Her husband died about five years ago.

Bev gave me a little Maori doll and a lamb - well, not really a lamb,
but its baa. It's a little plastic box thingy. When you press on the
top of it, it cuts loose with a realistic baa. We had a nice lunch at a
coffee shop, and then went back to her cousin's house, and Bev and I
talked some more. John took a nap and Bea went off somewhere. I was
enjoying myself so much I forgot to look at the time. When I did look,
it was 4:00, and I knew I had to get home, a client had said she'd be
here "after 5:00." I thought the traffic would be really bad, but there
was only one spot for a couple of miles where it was terribly slow. The
rest of the time it moved along, and I was home before 5:00.

I have met a number of people from the various newsgroups I subscribe
to. Virtually every time it has been a sheer delight. Today certainly
hasn't changed that record.

Joy


Sounds like a lovely time :-) I've only been blessed to meet a few
people from the Internet, but I hope to meet more in the future!

Ginger-lyn

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:40:10 GMT, "Yoj"
wrote:

I had a delightful time with Bev, her husband John and her cousin Bea.
The cousin is 84 years old, and I has a delightful sense of humor. It
is obvious that she is not content to sit around and be a little old
lady. She has a little trouble with her hearing, and won't drive on the
freeway, but she manages quite well. She lives in a very nice house
which is full of beautiful things her husband made. Many of them are
wood - chairs, tables, etc., but she also has a beautiful gold cross on
a chain. Her husband had several gold crowns, and when he had to have
his teeth out, he melted down the gold, made a mold, and made her that
beautiful cross. It reminded me of my father and his resourcefulness
and creativity. Her husband died about five years ago.

Bev gave me a little Maori doll and a lamb - well, not really a lamb,
but its baa. It's a little plastic box thingy. When you press on the
top of it, it cuts loose with a realistic baa. We had a nice lunch at a
coffee shop, and then went back to her cousin's house, and Bev and I
talked some more. John took a nap and Bea went off somewhere. I was
enjoying myself so much I forgot to look at the time. When I did look,
it was 4:00, and I knew I had to get home, a client had said she'd be
here "after 5:00." I thought the traffic would be really bad, but there
was only one spot for a couple of miles where it was terribly slow. The
rest of the time it moved along, and I was home before 5:00.

I have met a number of people from the various newsgroups I subscribe
to. Virtually every time it has been a sheer delight. Today certainly
hasn't changed that record.

Joy


Sounds like a lovely time :-) I've only been blessed to meet a few
people from the Internet, but I hope to meet more in the future!

Ginger-lyn

"Ginger-lyn Summer" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:40:10 GMT, "Yoj"
wrote:

I had a delightful time with Bev, her husband John and her cousin Bea.
The cousin is 84 years old, and I has a delightful sense of humor. It
is obvious that she is not content to sit around and be a little old
lady. She has a little trouble with her hearing, and won't drive on the
freeway, but she manages quite well. She lives in a very nice house
which is full of beautiful things her husband made. Many of them are
wood - chairs, tables, etc., but she also has a beautiful gold cross on
a chain. Her husband had several gold crowns, and when he had to have
his teeth out, he melted down the gold, made a mold, and made her that
beautiful cross. It reminded me of my father and his resourcefulness
and creativity. Her husband died about five years ago.

Bev gave me a little Maori doll and a lamb - well, not really a lamb,
but its baa. It's a little plastic box thingy. When you press on the
top of it, it cuts loose with a realistic baa. We had a nice lunch at a
coffee shop, and then went back to her cousin's house, and Bev and I
talked some more. John took a nap and Bea went off somewhere. I was
enjoying myself so much I forgot to look at the time. When I did look,
it was 4:00, and I knew I had to get home, a client had said she'd be
here "after 5:00." I thought the traffic would be really bad, but there
was only one spot for a couple of miles where it was terribly slow. The
rest of the time it moved along, and I was home before 5:00.

I have met a number of people from the various newsgroups I subscribe
to. Virtually every time it has been a sheer delight. Today certainly
hasn't changed that record.

Joy


Sounds like a lovely time :-) I've only been blessed to meet a few
people from the Internet, but I hope to meet more in the future!

Ginger-lyn


I keep chickens; therefore I'm also on a chicken ng, which I joined after
having a computer for 3 weeks. Complete newbie, didn't even know how to
snip.
Not only did this wonderful German woman private mail me to tell me how to
do it so as not to embarrass me on the group, but we became emails friends.
I lost my (seemingly) fit and healthy mother suddenly last year and I was
distraught, we were very close, even though we didn't live together.
I was actually in the middle of composing an e-mail to this friend when I
got the awful phone call to say she had been found dead by my brother. So I
told her what had happened and said I had to go.

Although we had never met before, she came over to help me through it all.
Three months later, I asked her to come over to have a proper holiday and
she did. Last August I visited her in Germany, my first ever trip abroad.
She also came to help me when I had my most recent eye operation in May and
stayed 3 weeks, even though she really had too much to do at home.
That's my only experience of meeting someone I only knew from a newsgroup.
She was(and is) wonderful. Somehow she just knew how to help me with my
bereavement and was a great comfort.

I could tell from her mails over a period of time that we would have a lot
in common. We did and do.
I think Usenet is marvellous and all this new technology that lets us
"speak" to like minded people in other countries from our computers.. It's
AMAZING!!

Tweed

"Ginger-lyn Summer" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:40:10 GMT, "Yoj"
wrote:

I had a delightful time with Bev, her husband John and her cousin Bea.
The cousin is 84 years old, and I has a delightful sense of humor. It
is obvious that she is not content to sit around and be a little old
lady. She has a little trouble with her hearing, and won't drive on the
freeway, but she manages quite well. She lives in a very nice house
which is full of beautiful things her husband made. Many of them are
wood - chairs, tables, etc., but she also has a beautiful gold cross on
a chain. Her husband had several gold crowns, and when he had to have
his teeth out, he melted down the gold, made a mold, and made her that
beautiful cross. It reminded me of my father and his resourcefulness
and creativity. Her husband died about five years ago.

Bev gave me a little Maori doll and a lamb - well, not really a lamb,
but its baa. It's a little plastic box thingy. When you press on the
top of it, it cuts loose with a realistic baa. We had a nice lunch at a
coffee shop, and then went back to her cousin's house, and Bev and I
talked some more. John took a nap and Bea went off somewhere. I was
enjoying myself so much I forgot to look at the time. When I did look,
it was 4:00, and I knew I had to get home, a client had said she'd be
here "after 5:00." I thought the traffic would be really bad, but there
was only one spot for a couple of miles where it was terribly slow. The
rest of the time it moved along, and I was home before 5:00.

I have met a number of people from the various newsgroups I subscribe
to. Virtually every time it has been a sheer delight. Today certainly
hasn't changed that record.

Joy


Sounds like a lovely time :-) I've only been blessed to meet a few
people from the Internet, but I hope to meet more in the future!

Ginger-lyn


I keep chickens; therefore I'm also on a chicken ng, which I joined after
having a computer for 3 weeks. Complete newbie, didn't even know how to
snip.
Not only did this wonderful German woman private mail me to tell me how to
do it so as not to embarrass me on the group, but we became emails friends.
I lost my (seemingly) fit and healthy mother suddenly last year and I was
distraught, we were very close, even though we didn't live together.
I was actually in the middle of composing an e-mail to this friend when I
got the awful phone call to say she had been found dead by my brother. So I
told her what had happened and said I had to go.

Although we had never met before, she came over to help me through it all.
Three months later, I asked her to come over to have a proper holiday and
she did. Last August I visited her in Germany, my first ever trip abroad.
She also came to help me when I had my most recent eye operation in May and
stayed 3 weeks, even though she really had too much to do at home.
That's my only experience of meeting someone I only knew from a newsgroup.
She was(and is) wonderful. Somehow she just knew how to help me with my
bereavement and was a great comfort.

I could tell from her mails over a period of time that we would have a lot
in common. We did and do.
I think Usenet is marvellous and all this new technology that lets us
"speak" to like minded people in other countries from our computers.. It's
AMAZING!!

Tweed