**** NON ICMELER CHAT THREAD.****

[reesy1959]

Awww roll on Icmeler time 2009

[skilly]

We raised £412 for our local hospice last Friday at our Christmas fayre, it was hard work but well worth it

We also had a Christmas party last night for the people I look after at work and I sang 4 songs on the karaoke

I didn't rapidly empty the room, thank God, I just imagined I was singing in a bar in Icmeler and thoroughly enjoyed it!

The man who did the karaoke is our next Mayor where we live and he said he is booking me to sing in the Mayors parlour when he takes up office ( I don't think).

It shows what thinking of Icmeler can do.
X factor here I come !!

[Wimpy]

Hi Skilly

Well done on the amount raised

Wyn

[Colette]

ooo Skilly is it on you tube for us to see

[skilly]

Cheers Wyn

No Colette, I am sorry but I am not quite up to you tube standard yet, but you never know what the future holds

[Wimpy]

My husband has finally retired should have been September 2007 and as I am 66 tomorrow we will be going out for a meal,champagne in the cooler all ready for opening.Would have loved to have been in Icmeler though what better place to celebrate.

[skilly]

happy birthday Wyn

[Wimpy]

Thanks Skilly


Wyn

[Pauline]

Well hi everyone .... hope you all had a lovely Christmas tums full of enough food for a week no doubt

I worked all day Christmas day so ive had mine today, was lovely

Role on June till i go to Icmeler as it always seems so far away during the winter!!

Hope the New Year celebrations go well, buy just a bit of advice " drink water inbetween the alcoholic ones you will be free of a hangover! Trust me it has always worked

x Pauline x

[Colette]

So come on, who got what for Chrimble, who got drunk, who fell over and landed in the Chrimbo Tree ?

I was sick over Chrimbo so not had my Chrimbo drinkie yet,,,, till tonight

[redrhino12]

I was taken ill on Christmas Day afternoon,just after I had eaten Anns Christmas Dinner.
Now I am not saying it was that which made me ill but I have been laid up for two days with Dizzy spells and sickness in the pit of my tummy.
I am going out tonight though to flush my body out with fluids namely Fosters Lager so hope to be fighting fit for Sunday morning.
No one else has had any symptons so the dinner must have been ok.
I did eat a double Chocolate gateux though and half a trifle but obviously it couldnt have been that.

Gene

[Colette]

I am getting plenty of liquids tonight in the name of vodka, purely medicinal as well.

[Jozzyd]

I got a box of pot pourri and a photo of my parents in the 70's. Good job my dad has a sense of humour i told him with his long hair and dodgy moustache he looked like a p*** star

[KarenH]

merry xmas and happy new year......

we have been having computer problems, so havnt been about,

due to my neck injury, its the first xmas and new year i have had off, so i thank the NHS for that

i hope santa was good to you all, i got the winter man flu, and am now sick of a snotty nose, but enjoying my 4 days at home so much.

[peli]

Hi Jozzyd,
I take it you mean he looks like a "Pop star"
Peli

[Jozzyd]

Peli that's only two bleeps not 3 ha ha

[reesy1959]

Well folks, my shift is nearly over and I am going home to my Family and Friends to celebrate the New Year coming in. I have some friends up tonight and we intend to party, party, party.

Thanks again to everyone for all the help received through this forum over 2008 and I look forward to more help in 2009.

Thanks also to ICR for some fantastic holidays and smooth transfers.

Thanks also to our Turkish hosts for their wonderful hospitality through-out our holidays in 2008 and I am sure I speak for us all when I say we look forward to doing it all over again in 2009.

Happy Hogmanay

[KarenH]

i hope everyone has a happy and healthy new year.....

i am looking for a new job, after my injury at work, i am finding it a little to hard to do my job now.....but i do want to stay in the NHS........

so i am hoping 2009 is a good one for me

better still, i can start a proper countdown to my holiday

[Zog]

Happy New Year to everyone, and. Welcome to 2009, the International year of astronomy. During the year astronomers, both professional and amateur will be attempting to bring astronomy to the public. There are hundreds of events scheduled throughout the country and a thousand telescopes are being given to schools.
How many of you have been out in the country, with no light pollution, on a clear night, looked up and thought WOW. Probably not many. The trouble is that so many of us live in cities with their attendant light pollution and murky air, that we have lost our affinity with the night sky. On a good clear night, you don't need a scope or even binoculars to enjoy the display. I was out beside Otterburn in Northumberland on Boxing night with the new scope, it was pitch black and when I got out of the car and just looked up, it knocked my socks off. The Milky Way was a band of light running almost directly overhead, there were so many stars on show that at first, I couldn't pick out the main constellations, and things like the Andromeda galaxy were naked eye visible, albeit as a fuzzy blob and with a discernable core through 10x50 binos.
How many of you know that we have research class observatoies here in the UK, The closest one to me is at Kielder forest. The observatory will be holding a host of public events this year. You can find out about the observatory here,
http://www.kielderobservatory.org/
So to sum up, this is the year when astronomers around the world want to share their hobby and equipment with you. If you get a chance, go look through a telescope. The views that you get of objects like Andromeda, the Great Orion Nebula, and of course, Saturn, will stay with you forever.

[ochlynda]

Happy New Year to everyone at home and in Icmeler. Sorry it's just a little bit late but I have been working the last 3 nights so am only getting round to celebrating now.Only problem is no one wants to celebrate with me as they are all hung over.So here's to 2009 and really fab holidays in Paradise.

Lynda